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Tuesday, February 14, 2006

Tue, 14 Feb 2006 17:38:02 GMT

I know driving is evil but sometimes we must do it so here is a website that tells you the best gass price in your area

http://autos.msn.com/everyday/gasstations.aspx?zip=&src=Netx

Sunday, February 05, 2006

Sun, 05 Feb 2006 16:08:02 GMT

so word on the street is uncle joey was the inspired the album jagged little pill ... so here is what one of the songs really says

HEAD OVER FEET ... whats really being said
I had no choice but to hear uncle joey
Joey Gladstone stated his case time and again
I thought about it Dave Coulier

Joseph treats me like I'm a princess
I'm not used to liking that Uncle Joey
Mr. Gladstone asks how my day was

Uncle Joey already won me over in spite of me
And don't be alarmed if I fall head over feet for Dave Coulier
Don't be surprised if I love Joey Gladstone for all that Dave Coulier is
I couldn't help it Uncle Joey
It's all your fault ... DAVE!

Uncle Joey's love is thick and it swallowed me whole
Mr. Gladstone is so much braver than I gave Dave credit for
That's not lip service

Dave is the bearer of unconditional things
Uncle Joey held his breath and the door for me
Thanks for your patience Dave
Joseph is the best listener that I’ve ever met
Dave is my best friend
Best friend with benefits
What took me so long

I've never felt this healthy before
I've never wanted something rational
I am aware now
I am aware now

Thursday, January 26, 2006

Thu, 26 Jan 2006 14:07:29 GMT

Ohhh you beautiful people of Georgetown law school ... on jan 24 a group of students at georgetown university held a protest during Attorney General Alberto Gonzales' defense of the wire tapping ... as he was talking students began to stand up and turn and face the back ... most noticably a row of them in the front ... then a group of hooded students came in holding a sign saying ...

Georgetown law school you hold a special place in my heart now

here are some videos of it ... i dont know if the 2nd one works i dont use real player

http://www.canofun.com/blog/videos/2006/ProtestatGeorgetownUTorturePimp.asx

rtsp://video.c-span.org/project/ter/ter012406_gonzales.rm

Sunday, January 08, 2006

Sun, 08 Jan 2006 05:13:39 GMT

My Dad and dick cheney ... if you look over dick cheney's left sholder there is my Dad's face

yeah he came dropped by fort leavenworth after going to the harley davidson factory ... it blows my mind that he can stand in front of those soldiers and pretend he is leading them ... when he just sits in a protective bubble where there is always people looking out for him ... those people that are behind him go off and die ... while he goes and looks at motorcycles

Friday, December 30, 2005

Fri, 30 Dec 2005 20:35:07 GMT

Check This Out ...

and this also ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch.php?v=zLElfJ9YCh0

Tuesday, December 27, 2005

Tue, 27 Dec 2005 23:39:50 GMT

I recieved a record player for christmas and here was my 1st 3 record i bought ...

Sunday, December 18, 2005

Sun, 18 Dec 2005 01:41:08 GMT

back to leavenworth ... and there is SNOW

Tuesday, November 29, 2005

Tue, 29 Nov 2005 17:58:07 GMT

Thursday, November 17, 2005

Thu, 17 Nov 2005 19:52:00 GMT

soo here is my are project ...

Wednesday, November 16, 2005

Wed, 16 Nov 2005 16:57:40 GMT

Here is my vegetarianism propaganda.... its all from wikapedia ... there is links to other pages in there ... i dont mean to force this on anyone and am not trying to convince anyone but i know some people were interested in my reasons for becoming a vegetarian this summer or "going to the dark side" as some have called it ... plus i just watched a video by peta on how animals are treated in the factories and about 1/3 the way through i was crying and had to turn it off it was so disturbing ... this is not all pro vegetarian stuff there is some counter arguments in there ... so feel free to read away

Environmental vegetarianism

Water resources

Water is becoming an increasingly scarce resource in many parts of the world. Overuse by humans is damaging to rivers and ecosystems and leads to salinity and desertification. A vegetarian diet uses considerably less water than a meat based diet. This is because to produce meat, water must be used in the production of feed for animals, which must be fed to the animals during their entire life. The loss of water (and energy) between trophic levels is very large. When the grains go directly to humans this inefficiency is avoided. As an illustration, the water needed to produce a pound of wheat in the USA is 14 gallons whereas the water needed to produce a pound of beef is 441 gallons. More than half of the water use for all purposes in the USA is used for livestock production. ^[2]

However, this is not necessarily reflected in other areas of the world. The USA is particularly wasteful with it's pastoral care. Successful husbandry of cattle can mean a very low waste, low water uptake. The best examples of this come from some of the European Organic farms, where a balance can be achieved.

Emissions

For reasons of inefficiency similar to that of water consumption, animal protein demands far greater expenditures of fossil fuel energy — eight times as much for a comparable amount of plant protein. ^[3] This is wasteful of non-renewable fossil fuels and produces carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas.

In the United States, livestock account for nearly 20% of total methane emissions. [4] One ton of methane has the global warming potential of 23 tons of carbon dioxide. Substituting meat products with protein containing alternatives such as soy or beans is believed to greatly reduce the amount of land, water and energy needed to feed a population. However, in most parts of the world, like Asia, which has the majority of rice eating countries, paddy cultivation is seen as the main culprit behind methane emissions. [5]

http://www.epa.gov/methane/sources.html

Grazing and land use

Factory farm animal production, while having a smaller land-use footprint, still requires large quantities of feed that must be grown over large areas of land. Mass free-range animal production requires land for grazing, which has prompted encroachment on undeveloped lands and clear cutting. The move into wild lands has increased the rate of species extinction and damaged the services offered by nature, such as the natural processing of pollutants. Over-grazed lands, especially in semi-arid regions lose their ability to support animal production due to rapid topsoil erosion and desertification because of the trampling hoofs of animals at unusual concentrations on the land. [6] This makes further agricultural expansion necessary. According to the United Nations, ranching-induced deforestation is one of the main reasons for the loss of plant and animal species in tropical rainforests. ^[7]

http://www.flex.com/~jai/articles/101.html#Land

Trawling

Trawling is similarly destructive to sea ecosystems, removing around 5-25% of an area's seabed life on a single run, although if conducted only at low levels and well managed it can be a sustainable practice. [8] Overfishing has been widely reported because of increases in the volume of fishing hauls to feed a quickly growing number of consumers. This has lead to the breakdown of some sea ecosystems and several fishing industries whose catch has been greatly diminished. [[9]] [[10]] The extinction of many species has also been reported. [[11]] According to a Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) estimate, over 70% of the world’s fish species are either fully exploited or depleted. [12]

“Overfishing cannot continue, the depletion of fisheries poses a major threat to the food supply of millions of people.” - Nitin Desai, Secretary General of the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development

http://www.deh.gov.au/soe/2001/coasts/coasts05-6.html#changestobenthic

http://www.seafoodwatch.org/cr/cr_seafoodwatch/sfw_of.asp

http://www.greenpeace.org/international/campaigns/save-our-seas-2/don-t-waste-our-oceans

http://seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov/OCEAN_PLANET/HTML/peril_overfishing.html

http://www.un.org/events/tenstories/story.asp?storyID=800

Petroleum

Petroleum is thought to be one of the resources freed up for other usage by a vegetarian diet: Within the Pulitzer-winning book by John Robbins, "Diet for a New America," which uses data primarily sourced from the world's largest body of scientists, AAAS, Robbins explains how the petroleum used in the transportation of farm-animals, the later processing of them, and the raising and harvesting of the vast amount of crops fed to farm-animals (which is much greater than the amount of crops people would need if we were to eat the crops directly, rather than feeding them to animals, then eating the animals), adds up to greatly increase the amount of petroleum used. So, if more people adopt a vegan diet, not only is more food available, but more petroleum to deliver that food is.

This thinking does not take into account the fact that in many countries in Asia and Africa, the feed for farm animals is seldom transported using internal combustion engines. In the case of sheep/goat as they graze on farmlands, it requires no fuel, while bales of hay for Bovines are still transported mainly using bullock carts or similar cheap contraptions. Furthermore little to no meat processing takes place in a vast majority of the developing world. They are often herded to the place of slaughter (with the exception of poultry) resulting in minimal use of fossil fuel.

World hunger

Many believe that if everyone followed a vegetarian diet, thus freeing up resources that would be used in meat production, we would be many steps closer to eliminating world hunger. A popular saying is that even with more food, the problem is transporting all of that food to the starving people. The petroleum freed up by a vegetarian diet as shown above may answer that dilemma.

Critics of this view may observe that the root causes of world hunger are often traceable to harmful political structures rather than genuine resource shortages. Moreover in developing countries where hunger is more common, animals bred for meat are seldom fed food that is consumed by human beings; instead they are often free ranging cattle or goats or chicken that simply eat grass and other food stuff that is thrown away by people.