So here it is.  What’s really important?

What set of beliefs, goals, or anything else is it that people really want?  Is it to live out a life peacefully?  To have a home?  A family?  Mabe food?  The right to terminate a pregnancy if your daughter that was a product of rape from your father was raped by your father (dad rapes his daughter, daughter gets pregnant, then father rapes his daughter he had with his daghter)?  The right to practice sodomy with your loved one?  [Here's a hint -- sodomy is oral sex too!]  Maybe people only want to breathe?

I’ve been saying for years that the only thing people can do for free these days is breathe, but only until they find a way of cleaning the air — apparently in Canada they’ve recently created some CO2 scrubber for the environment.  Know what that means?  Yep, as soon as it’s used, you’ll have to pay money to breath too.

More and more people seem to be diagnosed with depression these days.  People seem to be diagnosed with some disease constantly.  Think for a few moments and see how many people you know that have no diseases.  I’m talking about any diagnosed thing from migraines to cancer.  How many people do you know?  Any?

Everything’s getting to the point of businesses are deciding who gets elected to make sure they get money whenever they want – and laws passed to keep them in business.  Then the businesses create things that make it so you either have to pay them for their services, or risk losing your kids, house, or just being thrown in jail (some places have a “you must have city water and sewer or else”, not saying that it in itself is bad….).  Now while a number of these business services (food, water, etc) are useful and basically required for life — we could live without them (albeit at a drastically reduced population and potentially more health problems).

The main problem with a lot of things is that you have no choice in it.  Want water?  You’ve got to pay.  Think you can take it from a river?  Well…. depends on who owns the river in the area.  Even if you don’t get arrested, you might be breaking the law by drinking it – or even risking your life if some corporation’s dumping in it.  Think you can grow your own food?  Yeah, but you’ve got to own the land.  Own land?  OK… but you’ve still got to pay taxes.  Need money?  Well then you’ve got to work for a business, or just of had a good inheritance.

So what is important to you?  If you want freedom to live in peace, don’t vote for the democrats or republicans.  They’re the candidates for the corporations.

This is another post regarding the fall festival that took place October 4, 2008

One of the biggest complaints I had about the fall festival around me was the waste of gas.  And no, I don’t mean because there were more cars, trucks and SUV’s than you could shake a stick at in the parade either.  What I’m talking about is a local construction company that for some reason decided to put his entire fleet of Semis, Back hoes (large construction digging vehicles), etc in the parade.  We’re talking large black smoke puffing loud vehicles.  They weren’t throwing candy, weren’t handing out anything (or if they were, they ran out long before where I was at) — they were there for the purpose of advertising their company.

Now don’t get me wrong, that in itself isn’t a bad thing — but they didn’t need their fleet of vehicles in the parade wasting gas to do it.  They could’ve walked, or had, I don’t know, a float in the parade made by them?  Think of it, it’s a construction company that builds houses and lays concrete!  I doubt making a float would be difficult — they could’ve even used spare parts from their projects to save money.

But it wasn’t just me thinking this.  I heard a number of people commenting about the wasting of gas, and how they were practically bragging about their money when most of the people they were parading in front of have been conserving gas just to survive.  I was actually surprised that I heard people commenting about it — even more so that I saw some people shaking their heads in obvious disbelief that they even thought of doing it.

One of the so-called “hot” topics this year seems to be the offshore drilling to fix our problems.  While it may seem to many that it’s a great idea, or just really useful, there’s a number of things to consider.

Based on numerous shows involving oil drilling rigs (see any Discovery/Science based channel shows), take years to build and deploy.  Rigs can be moved from one location to another, but that in itself has two things against it — it takes time, and you are no longer drilling for oil where the rig was originally.

But let’s say you get a rig up in a year.  It’ll only start to help then, not now.  Prices now won’t be lower, if anything they’d be a bit higher as the companies will be offsetting their costs for the new (or moved) rig. Want a cut in our gas prices now?  Stop driving as much.  As we start to deplete our oil reserves it becomes more and more important to save what we have left for everything we use it for other than gas.  No oil, no civilization.  Low gas prices, and people will start driving places more — which will cause us to use oil even faster.

All things considered, there’s no good reason to want offshore drilling.  It won’t help now, won’t really help in the future (unless we completely deplete all current reserves).

Sad to think it might just cause one candidate to win the presidency.

With all the flooding going on now, and even a death being reported in Indiana from it, it just makes me wonder how much of this is just the normal life cycle of the planet in it’s position within the universe, and how much is caused by human error.

The one sad thing is, the flooding is around where the windmills (wind turbines) are located (well, more north I believe).  It makes me hope that the windmills were built with flooding in mind — I’d hate for there to be problems while they’re still putting some up as it might kill any other towns from using them.

Since it’s almost time for fall (or is it already?) I always wonder what types of environmental based things can be done to try and get ready for winter, spring and the following summer.  Is it a good time to try and push riding bicycles so places have more time to pay for things?

Or is it better to try and make sure there’s places where those in need of heat can find it?  Short term, or long term… Of course it always seems that the short term things are always available as someone’s trying to get in the papers.  If anyone has any ideas, pleace contact us.

Just a small back-dated post so it doesn’t seem as empty (hey, we’re honest here after all).

‘Tis the season for messed up seasons.  One day we’re freezing our butt’s off, the next, wearing shorts and avoiding the heat wave, and sprinkled around that?  Fall or Spring like temps and weather.  I keep on watching the trees and wonder if they’re as confused as the people.  Some are turning (did about a month ago), or are they dieing…. Some are still green and seem to be growing.  Others are just actually turning.  So apparently it’s messing with them too.

Now all we need to do is find out if we’re to blame, or if it’s just the natural processes that happen every so often that create a life-ending event on the planet.

In my town there’s even more trees dying out.  Just the other day as I was out walking I found large trees that were healthy-looking and green not even a month ago that have branches with brown and dried out leaves ready to come falling down on houses and cars.

It seems a tad bit quick in a way — for a green tree to have half die in a month — but in a sense it’s not.  All the same it still seems curious.

This is something I happened to stumble upon, that is not so much shocking as it is frightening:  “Coastal Dead Zones are Growing“, with things such as agriculture runoff being listed as to blame (partially).  These areas are considered coastal regions where the seabed is depleted of so much oxygen that nothing can live there.

It’s just another case of things like pullies and ropes… you can’t move something one place without having something happen someplace else.  Cause and effect. With all the problems we’re starting to notice it makes one wonder how long it’ll be before things are done to help take care of the problem.  All cost money, but when things are finally done…… it’s all seeming like it’ll be too little, too late.

Yes, this is just an extension of the prior post about the windmills.  In all honesty it could’ve just been added to the last one — but as I’m wanting a post every single day it was stuck in it’s own post.

So, here’s a few pictures of them!

Sadly…. things such as these aren’t found anywhere near my town.  We do have a coal-based power plant or two I believe.  Gotta “love” that pollution right?

But on the plus side, it’s always a good thing to see towns actually consider alternative power sources, almost no matter what the reason.

I hope that they have a huge success, as when I drove by on business only some were turning, for it’ll help pave the way for these to be put up many places throughout the United States.

While driving the other day, I actually found a town that has tons of windmills all over the farmland! It’s surprising to say the least, but it’s a good sign for future power needs. I’d be bringing it up in my town, but considering the bicycle thing I’m going to have to start small.