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Ethanol Cars Is STOOPID!
David Pimental, a leading Cornell University agricultural expert, has
calculated that powering the average U.S. automobile for one year on ethanol
(blended with gasoline) derived from corn would require 11 acres of farmland,
the same space needed to grow a year's supply of food for seven people. Adding
up the energy costs of corn production and its conversion into ethanol, 131,000
BTUs are needed to make one gallon of ethanol. One gallon of ethanol has an
energy value of only 77,000 BTUS. Thus, 70 percent more energy is required to
produce ethanol than the energy that actually is in it. Every time you make one
gallon of ethanol, there is a net energy loss of 54,000 BTUs.Mr. Pimentel concluded that "abusing our precious croplands to grow corn for
an energy-inefficient process that yields low-grade automobile fuels amounts to
unsustainable subsidized food burning".Neither increases in government subsidies to corn-based ethanol fuel nor
hikes in the price of petroleum can overcome what Cornell University
agricultural scientist, David Pimentel, calls a fundamental input-yield problem:
It takes more energy to make ethanol from grain than the combustion of ethanol
produces.At a time when ethanol-gasoline mixtures (gasohol) are touted as the American
answer to fossil fuel shortages by corn producers, food processors and some
lawmakers, Cornell’s David Pimentel, one of the world’s leading experts in
issues relating to energy and agriculture, takes a longer range view."Abusing our precious croplands to grow corn for an energy-inefficient
process that yields low-grade automobile fuel amounts to unsustainable,
subsidized food burning", says the Cornell professor in the College of
Agriculture and Life Sciences. Pimentel, who chaired a U.S. Department of Energy
panel that investigated the energetics, economics and environmental aspects of
ethanol production several years ago, subsequently conducted a detailed analysis
of the corn-to-car fuel process. His findings are published in the September,
2001 issue of the Encyclopedia of Physical Sciences and Technology .More Here.
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May I See Your Receipt ? Fuck NO!
Stores like walmart or best buys often stop customers on their way out to "verify" their purchases, but let me tell you right now that this verification stop is purely voluntary. Merchants basically have
two rights covering people entering and exiting their stores. They can
refuse to let you enter the premises and/or to sell you anything, and they
can place you under citizens arrest for attempting to leave the premises
with any property that you haven't paid for. But the second you hand over
the appropriate amount of cash, they lose all rights to the items. They
can't legally impair you from leaving the store with your property.By the way, there is a term for this if you refuse and they detain you, it's called false imprisonment/arrest.
You can even call the police and say that because you have been held against your will you would like the store security arrested. -
Nail Coughs Up Man - Or Vice Versa?
In 1970, a bizarre gardening accident embedded a small nail deep inside Guy "Bud" Hart's body.if (LinkCount>0){
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}More than 35 years later, the nail made an unexpected return, much to Hart's surprise.
The
Placerville, California man was stunned earlier this month when a
coughing fit expelled the inch-long sliver of metal, completing its
decades-long trek inside the 84-year-old's body."I didn't think something like that could happen," Hart said.
The
story of Hart and his unexpected passenger began in Minnesota back in
1970. While mowing grass one day, Hart felt a slight pain in his throat
and saw a small trickle of blood."It was like a bee sting," Hart said. "But I didn't think much of it."
Hart wasn't overly alarmed, but just hours later, the discomfort began.
"The next day, when I coughed, it was like I had a hot knife in there, cutting me," Hart said.
His
family rushing him to the hospital with a 105-degree temperature.
There, doctors found the culprit, a small nail that had dropped down
inside Hart's body cavity and nestled inside his ribcage.Doses
of penicillin helped Hart heal, but since removing the metal would
require major surgery and doctors suspected the nail would seal itself
off in Hart's body, the foreign object was forgotten for years."If it ain't broke, don't fix it," Hart said.
Years later, the nail turned up again on a doctor's x-ray, but again, the unobtrusive item was left alone.
Then,
three weeks ago, an internal camera captured an image of the nail
during a routine doctor's office visit. But it wasn't in Hart's ribcage
area as he'd always thought -- the object was actually in Hart's lung.
As Hart and his doctors made plans to remove the nail once and for all,
natural physiology took over.Hart was in the bathroom, brushing his teeth last week when the 35-year partnership finally came to an end.
"I'd been having this tickle in my throat," Hart said. "Pretty soon, I started coughing. And it plopped right out."
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An Old Classic - Sort of!
Stay Tuned
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Tolerance & Religion
It seems...Any Excuse Will Do:
QALAT, Afghanistan - Police killed four people Wednesday as Afghans enraged over drawings of the Prophet Muhammad marched on a U.S. military base in a volatile southern province, directing their anger not against Europe but America.
The U.S. base was targeted because the United States "is the leader of Europe and the leading infidel in the world," said Sher Mohammed, a 40-year-old farmer who suffered a gunshot wound while taking part in the demonstration in the city of Qalat.
"They are all the enemy of Islam. They are occupiers in our country and must be driven out," Mohammed said.
A Screw & A Nut....
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Lesbian Leaving, We Gotta Go Homo.
Except from Rev. Willie Wilson’s sermon on July 3:“… We live in a time when our brothers have been so put down,
can’t get a job, lot of the sisters making more money than brothers. And it’s creating problems in families. That’s one of the reasons our families’ breaking up. And that’s one of the reasons many of our women are becoming lesbians.
You got to be careful when you say you don’t need no man. I can make it by myself. Well, if you don’t need a man, what’s left? Lesbianism is about to take over our community. I’m talking about young girls. My son in high school last year, trying to go to the prom, he said, ‘Dad, I ain’t got nobody to take to the prom because all the girls in my class are gay. There ain’t but two of them straight and both of them are ugly. I ain’t got nobody to take to the prom.’
Now, can I talk here? I ain’t homophobic, because everybody in here got something wrong with him. Whoever you point at, you can point at your own self. You got something wrong with your life. But when you get down to this thing, women falling down on another woman, strapping yourself up with something, it ain’t real. That thing ain’t got no feeling in it. It ain’t natural. Any time somebody got to slap some grease on your behind, and stick something in you, it’s something wrong with that. Your butt ain’t made for that. [Audience shouts and yells its approval in the background.] You got blood vessels and membranes in your behind. And if you put something unnatural in there, it breaks them all up. No wonder your behind is bleeding.
It’s destroying us. Can’t make no connection with a screw and another screw. The Bible says God made them male and female. The Hebrew word "neged," which means complementary nature — there is something unique to man and unique to woman and it takes those two things to complement each other.
You can’t make a connection with two screws. It takes a screw and a nut! (shouting).”
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...Then The Grizzly Ate Them For Lunch
EXPEDITION 2003
Timothy Treadwell
The Grizzly Maze, Alaska
Sunday, September 14, 2003Roland...
Hello! I am writing you a last letter for the journey. My last food delivery is scheduled for late today.My transformation complete—a fully accepted wild animal—brother to these bears. I run free among them—with absolute love and respect for all the animals. I am kind and viciously tough.
People—especially the bear experts of Alaska—believe this cannot be done. Some even bet on my death. They are sure you must have some sort of weapon for defense—pepper spray at the least, an electric fence a must. And you cannot hope to make it in a flimsy tent under thick cover among one of Earth's largest gatherings of giant brown grizzly bears.
People who knowingly enter bear habitat with pepper spray, guns, and electric fences are committing a crime to the animals. They begin with the accepted idea of bringing instruments of pain to the animals. If they are that fearful, then they have no place in the land of this perfect animal.
Could I look at Dixon, Lilly, and their mother, Melissa, and tell them that I love them, that I will care for them, with a can of mace in my pocket? Does the fox or vole get zapped by the wicked sting of an electric fence for being curious?This wilderness—the Grizzly Maze—had big problems not too many years ago. People who came to kill the animals. I was threatened with death. One group promising to stuff me alive in a crab pot and submerge it in the icy sea.
They are gone now. The Maze returned to the animals.
You made this possible. I am a miserable fundraiser. Without you these animals would have been left without any care. Care that I can offer them without any displacement or disrespect. I even erase my footprints.
. . . You got me here for so many years. I will always remember and be thankful. . . . I will tell [the bears] of your kindness and generosity. Animals alive because of you. Myself included.
Sincerely,
Timothy TreadwellSource: Here
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Goodbye Grandpa Al... 
Actor-comedian Al Lewis, who played Grandpa on the famed 1960s sitcom "The Munsters," died Friday night, friends said yesterday.
Lewis was widely reported to have been born in 1910, but his son Ted said yesterday that his father was born in 1923 and was 82. With an unforgettable face and an ever-present cigar, in his later years "Grandpa Al" became a popular New York restaurant owner who was active in politics and even ran for governor.
Lewis was born Albert Meister in upstate New York and was raised in Brooklyn. He worked as a salesman, waiter, poolroom owner, store detective, circus clown and vaudeville performer, and along the way he earned a Ph.D. in child psychology from Columbia University.
Then television made him famous, first in the role of Officer Leo Schnauser on the police sitcom "Car 54, Where Are You?" - which ran from 1961 to 1963 - and then as the vampire Grandpa Munster on "The Munsters" from 1964 to 1966.
"The Munsters" especially has enjoyed an extended life in reruns worldwide.
"You have no idea of the love I get from total strangers because of 'The Munsters,' " Lewis once told the Daily News.
Later, he ran a brokerage firm in Los Angeles for a time and made cameo appearances in a number of Hollywood films, including "They Shoot Horses, Don't They?" and "Married to the Mob."
Moving back to New York in the '90s, Lewis opened Grandpa's restaurant in Greenwich Village and got into politics. In 1998, he ran for governor and got 50,000 votes as the Green Party candidate.
"Some people thought his antics were over the top, such as when he remarked at a Capitol press conference that the way to get rid of PCBs in the Hudson was to get a big spoon and feed it to the CEOs of GE," recalled Mark Dulea, the party's campaign manager at the time. "He told me later, 'You have to act a little crazy to get the media to write about you. But the real people, the people on the streets, they understand what you are saying when they hear the joke.' "
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I will admit, I DID NOT watch ANY of the superbowl... and I'm proud of it.
What a Car Wreck.800 pound Aretha Franklin, Bloated Stevie Wonder's Whining, and the Rolling
Friggin Faggots... Just the site of 60something year old Mick
Jagger showing his belly and arm flaps is enough to make me puke.How ANYONE likes this shit is beyond me.
Sure The Stones were kewel... 30 years ago.
Let's face it, Sunday sucked and football is an embarASSment.
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