When the dinosaurs passed, and sunk into the earth, and became a wonder to archaeologists, historians and catholics: it was a natural cycle of the earth. It was a respectful burial, designed to allow their age to pass, and a new age of man to rise from the ashes and inherit the earth.
For thousands of years, man has enacted the same right of passage on its own people at the time of their death. Returning the body to the earth and allowing it to be at peace in its final state of rest. The spiritual aside, there was another important reason why the dead should be buried below the earth. So that the natural process of reclamation, which is an ugly process, and disease ridden, would not affect the rest of the lives that were still living on the surface of the earth. It was a basic measure for maintaining the public health.
So when we decided to remove dead dinosaurs from the ground, burn them into the atmosphere and make food containers out of them, shouldn’t it have occurred to us that perhaps resurrecting the dead for our own ends might be a bad idea?
Does anyone remember watching TV on Sunday mornings seeing ads for plastics and how they are going to save man kind?
Well, apparently plastic is a new enemy. Environment California’s web site has an informative posting about the effects of #7 plastics on not only a child’s developmental process, but the increased risks of cancer in adults who use #7 plastics.
So it makes me wonder… How long have we been using plastics? Think about it, plastic was the wonder material that would allow the world to be free from the confines of aluminum and steal. Remember your Star Wars action figures and your Barbie Dolls. It is a primary mechanism of the modern economy and its marketing.
It only makes sense that the incidents of ADD and the incidents of cancer in the populations are rising at alarming rates that correlate the uses of plastics in our everyday lives.
But hey, it’s new, its wonderful, its assumed to be great for us… right? Think about what its made of? petroleum by-products. Doesn’t this start to make you shiver when you see the kind of ill effects the petroleum industry has had on us, and how entrenched they are in our everyday lives.
CU’s annual 4:20 celebration went off without a hitch, and proved that democracy truly does rule in the public sphere:
There’s no way our 12 to 15 officers are going to be able to deal with a crowd of 10,000. We just can’t do strong enforcement when we’re outnumbered 700 or 800 to one.
Well, not really. CO/CO2 emissions are bad in large volume, and cars definitely create them, but Wired online has an interesting article about industrial CO/CO2 emissions:
The etymology of the word “Politician” refers back to the word “Politic”, which means “of citizens or the state, civil, civic”. Interpreting this statement, we can see that the TRUE nature of an American politician is to defend the constitutional philosophy that states “OF the people, FOR the people, and BY the people”.
In this day an age, the word “politician” has been smeared by the greedy, power-hungry and immoral people of this country who seek not to represent, but to feed off of the people like lifeless zombies. You wouldn’t let you kids go near someone you knew that was like this, yet when a “politician” comes around you press your cheeks out in the hopes of getting some recognition. These “politicians” don’t deserve the moniker, they should be called what they are, SCUM.
We need to take back the word politician. We need to make this word stand for something … we need to throw down anyone who seeks to claim it without upholding it, we need to make this word stand for us, the people … this is our word.
And this is what I’m talking about, a TRUE politician, who looks, acts, walks and talks like us, because they are one of us:
Okay, I’ve updated the tutorial again. I’ve added a section on configuring MySql. It’s short, and I need to add more about managing users, but it should get you moving.
Researchers at Cal-tech are working on ways to generate fusion energy. Wired reports that the “scientists hope that by studying it in the lab, they may understand the sun’s fusion energy, which would provide limitless, clean power for the planet.”
I’m not much for politicians, but every now and again they come up with something good, educated and important to say. Please watch this, as it’s important to the future of our world:
I was put on to this by the Dandelion Salad blog post… Thanks for posting this and the other videos of Congress speaking out.
This perhaps is another rudimentary observation about life, but in this day and age of market driven economics, and media saturated lifestyles, it has to be brought to the surface.
There are certain things we NEED in this world and the rest is all just WANTS.
Basically, if you’re fed, clean, warm and healthy, your NEEDS are taken care of. The rest of the things that you spend money on fall into the category of WANTS.
That’s simple, but you have to understand that there is a multi-billion dollar industry out there whose sole mission in life is to confuse your needs with your wants, so that you go out and buy, buy, buy, so that their stock (and their clients stock) can go up, up, up, and you are forever removed from your money achieving its greatest good in your own hands.
We don’t need 2000 channels of cable TV (read a book or newspaper), we don’t need a Playstation (go outside and play tag), we don’t need an H2 (ride a bike), we don’t need bling (be beautiful yourself), and we don’t need subscriptions to Vogue, Elle, GQ or Maxim (talk to your friends instead).
Now I’m not on a mission to make you jump off the grid and live in a cave, but if your struggling with money, and not saving something every month, your failing at the game. And believe me, if you have money problems, you’re part of the game, and the only one making you fail is yourself.
If you’ve got debt collectors calling you about your Lexus, get rid of it, buy a 12 year old Volvo for $2000, save some gas, and have pride in knowing that you aren’t going broke just to impress people you don’t know.
The sanity you will gain from living a financially humble life will be worth far more than the Lexus ever will.
Oh and FYI – There are some HOT granola minded guys/girls out there that will love the hell out of you for owning a 10 year old $2000 Volvo. Remember, Green is the new Black.
Your media sources have officially been hijacked (conglomerated)… Microsoft and News Corp (Fox News) are teaming up to try and buy Yahoo out from underneath AOL.
You know, either way it goes, this can’t be good… I’m just glad Google’s got buying power.
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