Hmmm, this keeps coming up? I WONDER WHY?!!

So, all I've heard today is how crappy this new health bill and how Obama doesn't know what the hell he is doing. And frankly it kinda pisses me off!! Look what the poor guy was handed!! Seriously, do you think he's going to be able to fix the horrendous mess that was left behind by idiot-boy in only 2 years?!! really, people, COME ON, use your heads for something besides a hat rack and read, investigate, quit believing the propaganda bullcrap that someone is feeding you. jeez!!! okay, i'm better now, enough of that tirade. So, like I've said, I was reading a great book, Hot Flat and Crowded, and something was mentioned in there about Bush Jr's idea that deficit's don't matter. Read the book, as well as The Pittsburgh Post Gazzette, they mentioned it in there, too. Anyway, it's the reason our country is in the trouble it is in today. Every other time we have gone to war, the American people have been taxed to pay for it. NOT THIS TIME, we've been in Iraq (for no reason) and Afghanastan for over 5 years, and our taxes have never gone up. Whos' paying for this? um, no one it seems, cause we are going further and further into debt to pay for it. Which would indicate to me, maybe we should leave. hmmm. (Now don't get me wrong, i love my service men & women and pray daily that they return safely. I just don't think they should have been sent over there in the frist place.) anyway. So, I found another place where the same thing is being said. "It's our OWN DAMN FAULT"!!!! (emphasis added by me, of course) Read this article and be enlightened. The great thing is, it's written by a financial guy, not an environmental freak, like me :) So, it's not just us environmentalists who think there is a serious problem. check it out.
www.dailyfinance.com The article is "OPEC's Business Model: Sit Back and Let the Money Flow In" by John Lazzaro. I tried to link it, but blogger won't let me today for some reason. I'll see what I can do later.

Packaging

One of the things I hate about ordering something on-line is the packaging. That actually goes with anything you get in the mail. They seem to have no rhyme nor reason as to why they package things the way they do. The UNITED STATES has one of the worst policies about recylcing packaging. Germany has one of the strictest. most of the European Union has some form of law that prevents wasteful packaging. Most of the packaging as well as the product in the box must be able to be returned or recylced. At least when it comes to major appliances, like TV's, refridgeratros, stoves, you get my drift. So from nike, I ordered the following, 2 shirts and 4 pairs of socks.

These are the items, rather thin little things, I think. Here are the two boxes that they came in. The picture doesn't do it justice. Just to see what would happen, I put EVERYTHING in the little box, including all the plastic that it was wrapped in, and the paperwork. It all fit rather well. There was even an inch or two on the top. So WHY did they have to back the blue shirt in the bigger box? That is my question! What a waste of resources! That huge box killed a couple hundred trees and for what?! ONE BLASTED shirt?!!! Give me a friggin' break people! This would be yet one more strike against Nike, in there already tarnished reputation. At least with me. Can't really stand anything they make. Anyway, I personally was able to reuse the box to pack away soem stuff that I needed to put in the attic, so the box didn't get wasted. But our town is famous for not recycling corrigated board (cardboard to all you non-recyclers). so that huge, UNNECESSARY box would have ended up in a landfill somewhere, if I hadn't reused it. Does anyone get this? jeez. maybe I should put this on my facebook page. who knows if a friend of a friend might see it, and be able to do something about it. hmm.

Interesting quotes

As I mentioned in the last post, I've been reading Thomas Friedman;s book "Hot, Flat & Crowded." I still maintain that this is an awesome book. As well as, a book that makes you actually think and go, "really? seriously? this is not good!" At least I would hope that someone reading it would actually think about what they are reading and maybe try to do something about it. Anyway, so the point of this post is that I have found several really great quotes in the book. These are quotes by big time people, that know what they are talking about when it comes to climate change. 1: By Ted Turner, founder of CNN; "We're too many people- that's why we have global warming. Too many people using TOO MUCH STUFF!" (emphasis is all mine, but he said that exact sentence) 2: From Peter Gleick, president of the Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment, and Security, in Oakland, CA; "There are degrees of screwed. And no matter how bad it is, it could be worse or less worse. There is a huge difference between a two-foot sea level rise and a ten-foot. There is a big difference between a two-degree temperature rise and a five-degree temperature rise - and that is why thinking about manageable and unmanageable comes into play, becuase one scenario might kill ten million and one might kill a hundred million." love it, there are degrees of screwed, bet you didn't know that didja? And the best part it, there are people that don't believe ANY of this is going. Boy are they going to be surprised. Sometimes I wonder why I bother? Does anyone even care that we are slowly killing the only planet we have to live on? Oh, and that brings me to quote 3: from Bill Collins, one of the top climate modelers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California; "We're running an uncontrolled experiment on the only home we have." When I find more, I'll be sure to post them. I'm only a 1/4 of the way through the book. I do have a thesis to work on, ya know.

Great Book

I've been reading this awesome book lately. I saw it at work and got it out from the library. It totally contects the government mess, the economy and the environment. I've read enough other material to totally agree with this guy. Well, I guess totally is a little exteme. But a LARGE amount of what he says makes me want to yell, "Hell ya!!!" The book is "Hot, Flat, and Crowded" by Thomas L Friedman. Awesome book, I'd recommend it to anyone who is interested in what's REALLY going on. The first chapter is kinda hard to follow in parts, but totally worth the struggle through . Love it!