People should look at the simple Radiant Barrier, which is aluminum foil with a paper or plastic backing and a reinforcing scrim. It is stapled to the rafters inside the attic and reflects 97% of all radiant heat energy back out. Its quite inexpensive and works both in winter and summer, radiating heat back in as well, though to a lesser degree.
I'm surprised its not standard for all new houses, but builders will only put what is required by code. My new house didn't even have proper attic ventilation so it was like an indian sweat hut up there in the summer.
Rich people still invest in gold. The reason they don't want money on the gold standard is that it would take gold out of their hands. Inside huge gold storage facilities there are piles of gold marked with labels of country ownership. WHen one country buys gold from another, a robotic machine comes and grabs a few bars and takes them from one pile to another.
Now if moving a few blocks of gold 30 feet to a new pile is that important, then gold is a very valuable thing.
Whats truly killing our democracy is this obsession with the "winner take all" mentality. Our electoral college will not split votes in the states (I think only one does it), so if you win the majority of a states electoral votes, you win all. Even in the primaries many states have the winner take all for delegates.
It skews elections and effectively locks other parties out from having any sort of influence at all.
Other nations have multiple political parties and have to wheel and deal to make coalitions to get things done. There's always give & take in the process. Thats how it should be for the USA
McCain can't be so bad, the religious jesus head fundies hate him. Thats always a positive in my book. GOP fanatics hate McCain because he sponsored bipartisan bills that would enforce morality and ethics among the GOP, something sorely lacking.
I wonder if they prefer Sen. Larry Craig as president, a man who has a wide stance on the issues, or perhaps Congressman Mark Foley, a man who really wants to reach out and touch the youth of America...literally.
Actually, media manipulation of candidate coverage has affected most of the candidates except for the initial pre-chosen "frontrunners" who were Romney, Guliani, and McCain. Quite honestly did you ever see any decent coverage of all 11 Republican candidates? Did you even know there WERE 11 candidates? I had to visit a mexican website to find out all the names of the GOP presidential candidates, as all the american sites have an obsession with paring down the list to 3-5.
On the Democratic side its the same deal....Clinton, Obama, and no mention of anybody else. Maybe a few articles about Kucinich or Gravel but in snide tones calling them crackpots.
This 2008 campaign has shown how powerful the corporate run media is at picking the candidates for us. The Orwellian tactic of making a candidate an un-person seems to work quite well and they know it.
Whats keeping any reform minded party from succeeding is any anti-war message. Let's get something straight. AMERICANS LOVE WAR. Sure the iraqi war isn't popular, but not because of a philosophical opposition to war in general...its just that we are losing and Americans hate to lose wars, so we get stubborn and dig our heels in until it becomes so huge a disaster we finally have to give up, but not before blaming hippies, liberals, dancing peace activists, PETA, and treehuggers for it all.
Ron Paul will never win because of his anti-war stance, same reason why Dennis Kucinich will never win.
Iranians are shiite, and their sect of islam has no special laws against "graven images". They are proud to have pictures of their imams plastered everywhere in public places, as well as their religious leaders , president, etc. Its interesting to note however that sunnis think that shiites are devil worshippers and cultists, because of the belief in the 12 imams, the hidden imam, certain aspects of islamic mysticism that aren't in the sunni religion and whatnot.
The hardcore hasidic jew also is easily offended by graven images. They don't even allow their kids to play with toys that look like humans, and they get around that by making their kids dolls look vaguely like animal human hybrids and give them 3-4 fingers on each hand, that makes it "kashrut". They won't even write the word god, they always list it as g_d. Gotta love them fanatics and their wierd ways! Whoooooooo!
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People should look at the simple Radiant Barrier, which is aluminum foil with a paper or plastic backing and a reinforcing scrim. It is stapled to the rafters inside the attic and reflects 97% of all radiant heat energy back out. Its quite inexpensive and works both in winter and summer, radiating heat back in as well, though to a lesser degree. I'm surprised its not standard for all new houses, but builders will only put what is required by code. My new house didn't even have proper attic ventilation so it was like an indian sweat hut up there in the summer.
Rich people still invest in gold. The reason they don't want money on the gold standard is that it would take gold out of their hands. Inside huge gold storage facilities there are piles of gold marked with labels of country ownership. WHen one country buys gold from another, a robotic machine comes and grabs a few bars and takes them from one pile to another. Now if moving a few blocks of gold 30 feet to a new pile is that important, then gold is a very valuable thing.
Whats truly killing our democracy is this obsession with the "winner take all" mentality. Our electoral college will not split votes in the states (I think only one does it), so if you win the majority of a states electoral votes, you win all. Even in the primaries many states have the winner take all for delegates. It skews elections and effectively locks other parties out from having any sort of influence at all. Other nations have multiple political parties and have to wheel and deal to make coalitions to get things done. There's always give & take in the process. Thats how it should be for the USA
McCain can't be so bad, the religious jesus head fundies hate him. Thats always a positive in my book. GOP fanatics hate McCain because he sponsored bipartisan bills that would enforce morality and ethics among the GOP, something sorely lacking. I wonder if they prefer Sen. Larry Craig as president, a man who has a wide stance on the issues, or perhaps Congressman Mark Foley, a man who really wants to reach out and touch the youth of America...literally.
Actually, media manipulation of candidate coverage has affected most of the candidates except for the initial pre-chosen "frontrunners" who were Romney, Guliani, and McCain. Quite honestly did you ever see any decent coverage of all 11 Republican candidates? Did you even know there WERE 11 candidates? I had to visit a mexican website to find out all the names of the GOP presidential candidates, as all the american sites have an obsession with paring down the list to 3-5. On the Democratic side its the same deal....Clinton, Obama, and no mention of anybody else. Maybe a few articles about Kucinich or Gravel but in snide tones calling them crackpots. This 2008 campaign has shown how powerful the corporate run media is at picking the candidates for us. The Orwellian tactic of making a candidate an un-person seems to work quite well and they know it.
Whats keeping any reform minded party from succeeding is any anti-war message. Let's get something straight. AMERICANS LOVE WAR. Sure the iraqi war isn't popular, but not because of a philosophical opposition to war in general...its just that we are losing and Americans hate to lose wars, so we get stubborn and dig our heels in until it becomes so huge a disaster we finally have to give up, but not before blaming hippies, liberals, dancing peace activists, PETA, and treehuggers for it all. Ron Paul will never win because of his anti-war stance, same reason why Dennis Kucinich will never win.
Iranians are shiite, and their sect of islam has no special laws against "graven images". They are proud to have pictures of their imams plastered everywhere in public places, as well as their religious leaders , president, etc.
Its interesting to note however that sunnis think that shiites are devil worshippers and cultists, because of the belief in the 12 imams, the hidden imam, certain aspects of islamic mysticism that aren't in the sunni religion and whatnot.
The hardcore hasidic jew also is easily offended by graven images. They don't even allow their kids to play with toys that look like humans, and they get around that by making their kids dolls look vaguely like animal human hybrids and give them 3-4 fingers on each hand, that makes it "kashrut". They won't even write the word god, they always list it as g_d. Gotta love them fanatics and their wierd ways! Whoooooooo!