Global Warming or Class War?

I wonder how much of global warming can be ascribed to the lower classes. After all, emissions from older vehicles, the ones they can afford, are higher. The only thing these folks can do to lower their carbon footprint is recycle. How many recycling bins are in the older, cheaply built apartments on the lower east side?

Yeah, that's right. Blame the faceless working class for all the troubles of the world today! Yeah, do it!

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OK, Stop getting all in a lather. That was sarcasm, after all!

But it does seem to me that we are expecting an awful lot of folks whose main concerns are how to put food on the table and a roof over their heads. If you have those basic needs unmet, global warming seems like it isn't so important. "Yeah, it's hotter this year," or "yeah, it's colder this winter" - so what!

I need heat in winter to keep alive. I'm gonna use the most inexpensive heat source I can find. Well, maybe not always the cheapest - but certainly something I can afford - not some designer fuel that costs 3 times as much.

And I need water to keep alive during the hot months and to water my livestock and irrigate my fields. If the water isn't there, we may starve - my whole family! Maybe my whole tribe!

Sometimes I think that the only way to help this planet is to clear it off and start over. The inequalities are glaring. We expect much of those who have little and little of those who have much. It doesn't make sense.

Live with Intention

You know, what party you belong to doesn't make a difference if every one is in it for power or money. Our capitalist system is derailing our entire way of life!

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I heard a story about Vegas gambling and collegiate sports. That it's easy to corrupt our young people to change a point spread for the gambling as long as the player still gets to win his game. That's a corruption of values!

It's this kind of corruption that I'm against. The lost of veracity and truth and honor. Power and greed have taken over the government. This is where it starts. Our young people don't have a chance.

Adults - parents - please pay attention to what you teach your children. The values you live are what you teach. Go to church, learn some values and get a conscience. If you don't show it, the kids won't learn it. Even if you don't go to church or believe in God, that's up to you. But you need to listen to that still, small voice inside your head. The one that tells you right from wrong. If you aren't sure, don't do anything until you are sure. Living by default is the same as not living. Live with intention.

Gonzales Resignation -

from the "vote to impeach" webiste:

At the very moment that people from around the country are preparing to descend on Washington DC for a massive march for peace and impeachment, Alberto Gonzales announced today that he is joining Karl Rove in the mad dash to flee Bush's sinking ship.

Gonzales, like Rove, is under scrutiny for lying to Congress. Under direction from Bush and Cheney, Gonzales will be remembered in history as the infamous guardian and legal “justifier” for a regime of torture, massive secret spying of the American people and the suspension of Due Process and other cherished rights.

The crumbling of Bush’s inner circle is a sure sign that those who participated in the criminal acts of the administration are seeking to avoid the hard glare of a country that has turned against the Iraq war and the administration itself.

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I don't know that I agree with all the hoopla surrounding impeachment, but the case for impeachment is very strong. Perhaps if people would follow the law instead of their ministers, the country would be more christian and law-abiding at the same time.

I guess my biggest complaint is that people have had their blinders on for so long now. It's like the last 20 years have been sheep following a (not always ethical) sheepherder. Nobody questioning anything except for us out here in the wilderness.

I know that folks like Michael Moore have been pointing fingers and going around making a lot of noise - and there have been others - but that kind of noise and finger-pointing does no good. Every time you point a finger out, there are 3 pointing back at you...

So, if I point at the government for illegally manipulating laws and power grabbing, I have to look at myself and see where I allowed it to happen. For one, I didn't open my mouth sooner. I just yelled at the radio/tv until I was blue in the face!

That's the point of this blog, after all - to get it out in the open instead of behind closed doors. The Nazi party kept the people behind closed doors and even made them wary of discussing these issues behind closed doors lest their teenager (another easily led and manipulated mind) turn them in for not "going with the flow" of popular opinion.

Who makes opinion popular, anyway?? Isn't that supposed to be the majority? What if there is a very strong minority???

Our country is being torn apart because the minority is being ignored, and majority rules. We need to re-think that approach and negotiate a more fair outcome to disputed issues.

Compromise may not be a palatable idea, but it's certainly better than ignoring half the population. That behavior leads to coup. And impeachment of a sitting president and vice president is getting pretty close to a coup.

I've been very ill....

I've been fighting kidney issues and on antibiotics again. I'm a victim in this 60-40 split of health care - meaning that I don't have health insurance. So, I muddle along like the rest of us. I have to pay the doctor out of pocket, and I have to purchase my meds at full price. I keep fighting dehydration to avoid complications and seem to be losing. I've had tests that I'm still paying my 20% on, and the doctor couldn't tell me why I've got this condition and didn't really help me. He just ran up a lot of bills, and I quit going to him. Even with insurance paying 80% at the time, the bill was pretty high.

When I get dehydrated, the condition seems to get worse, and I need antibiotics to stop the bleeding and then I get better for a while. This has been going on for over 24 months, so now it's considered a "pre-existing condition" and no insurance company will help me with it for quite a while. My kidneys are weakened because of all the meds I take for another condition. I've been on them so long that my kidneys are just processing fluids without discernment.

So, this hot weather hit and the humidity climbed here in Tennessee, and I started having trouble keeping hydrated. I've had this trouble since I moved here just over 5 years ago. This summer seems worse than usual, and long-time residents say that it is worse. Anyway, I've been using lots of "-ade" type drinks, lots of water and still having trouble.

What this means is that I'm never feeling very good. I hurt all over, I have headaches, my digestion is messed up and I'm starting to get very grumpy. I have been eating when I'm thirsty, because I don't feel thirst, which is playing havoc with weight and blood-sugar levels. Even when I drink a lot of water, I'm still eating a lot. So, things are getting worse. My limbs are swelling a lot, even though I'm on water pills. My only hope is that the weather will break and we'll have rain. Then, maybe the temp will go down, too.

So, I'm too grumpy to pay attention to the news. I've been hearing stuff about a mine cave-in in Utah, and it sounds fishy. I'm glad the shuttle crew landing OK, but it was a nail-biter. And I've heard that Florida is getting cut out of the primary process because they want to be first instead of second for voting dates. Well, the rush to be first was won a long time ago because of a law passed in New Hampshire. Can't change another state's law, can they???

While I have my take and thoughts on all of this, I'm too short-tempered to deal with much right now. Maybe when the weather breaks, I'll be able to yell at the radio again. Meanwhile, I'm just turning it off.

Shuttle Repairs

Is NASA crazy!?! That whole crew depends on NASA engineers and the integrity of the hull to come back to earth - alive.

The "little gash" is enough to make a terrible fireball in the sky. REPAIR it, and we won't have highly trained corpses to mourn.

I'm sorry, but I don't trust them anymore - too many lives lost over bad decisions, I guess.