But the cancer care centers will gladly mortgage your home to pay for your stay and for the expensive rounds of radiation and chemotherapy that eventually kills you.
Refined petroleum products is what gave us the gasoline we now use for fuel in the first place. A budding oil industry was overburdened with a highly explosive waste product (gasoline) and convinced Henry Ford and other automakers to use this fuel for their new horseless carriages, instead of batteries or steam power. (It did offer a better range than batteries and less complexity than operating a steam engine.)
Also, the Great Chicago Fire was likely accelerated because the kerosene used for lighting lamps at the time had been laced with gasoline in an attempt to get rid of the dangerous waste product from the refineries.
Mrs O'Leary's cow was framed as a cover-up for the fact that all those lanterns exploded as the fire raged across the city.
And I should learn to control the tone of my own posts better when I am in disagreement with a really dumb opinion. Mea culpa.
You, too, should learn to control the tone of your posts, if only to support our fading rights to free speech. For all the readers of these comments know, you yourself may not know what you are talking about. No one speaks for everyone who is commenting here. Therefore let the fly the comments of disagreement: Demanding someone to shut up only reveals your own closed mindset.
I agree, aepevirus, show me where in the US Constitution that the Executive Branch is disallowed prosecutorial discretion! Any more than the US Constitution gives the 2 major parties the right to exert Majority-Minority control over the arcane rules of the House and Senate.
Yes, each house of Congress can write it's own rules (and they supposedly agree to a new set of rules at the beginning of each newly-elected Congressional session) but where does it say that POLITICAL PARTIES have any say in what those rules should be?
In fact, it is only the long-time corruption of the self-written rules of each house that allows this perversion of the idea the each of the States should send representatives to speak for us at the Federal Government level. The roles of Majority and Minority leader, whips, etc, are all an invention of past corruptions of the US Constitution that have been extremely convenient for lazy politicians to feather their positions of corruption and power, and to give them political cover for avoiding their responsibilities for truly representing the interests of their direct constituencies in their own States.
This is what has allowed the perversion of the Electoral College system to allow a strong political party (which is an unconstitutional function of humanity's natural greed and corruption) to gerrymander the electoral districts as a means of securing a political PARTY's chokehold on power.
This is what comes from dumbing down the civic education of the US voter, as a result of the long-time pervasive neoconservative attack on public education in the States, which is essentially due to the desire of property owners to avoid paying property taxes on their rental properties, which, after all, is what pays for the poor's "free public education". This breakdown of the requirement of a democracy to have an educated and informed electorate is a key to how we have "evolved" politically into this swamp of corruption and graft at most, if not all, levels of government today.
An uneducated, uninformed electorate can not expect to control a democracy, and our politicians take full advantage of this fact. Property tax payers in the States are getting exactly the government that they've paid for!
being a billionaire doesn't automatically make you an expert in political science.
/irony on
Except for a billionaire idiot reality show host, screwer of contractors and students, and generally every man, woman, and child in the USA, like the orange man, asshole-mouthed, POTUS impersonator that currently is squatting in the nation's White House? You mean THAT billionaire?
Big projects, new untested technologies, new infrastructure all require more time to show a profit than the usual pop-up garbage that passes for new businesses these days.
What he is sying is that governments most probably WILL stifle competition in order to gain superiority and their own AIs will turn on each other in pre-emptive strikes, causing WWIII (aka, the end of all life as we know it)
Anthracite coal has also been mostly mined out in most countries, especially in Europe. I believe China uses mostly bituminous coal, which also produces more ash waste. Neither variety can be considered particularly "clean", even after modern "scrubbing" technology has been applied, not to mention the problems with disposing of the copious amounts of waste produced, nor the still quite prevalent incidence of black lung disease in areas where coal of all types is mined.
Manufacturers must always do something to keep selling, or their whole business model collapses! That's what keeps the whole Ponzi scheme of capitalism from failing completely, even if it means that humans must eventually completely trash the only planet known to sustain life.
Somehow I doubt that enough humans will ever wise up to their suicidal behaviors. It's probably why we've never found any direct evidence of other intelligent life in the universe: the really smart species avoid us like a plague, while any species who followed our demented path have killed themselves off, as we are very likely to do in the not-so-distant future.
Fruit juices do not have the fiber of the whole fruit. They should not replace water as a primary drink for kids or adults. Plain water is best to drink to keep enough hydration, but drinking too much water can dilute the body's electrolyte balance.
A splash of a pure, unsweetened fruit juice can provide plenty of flavor to a glass of water and does not overload the body with sugars. If you want to make your oatmeal sweeter, add some whole fruit, not refined sugar.
I've found that Dave's Killer 21-Grain bread is pretty good. It has never gone mouldy on me, even if it takes me a month to eat the whole loaf. It has a lot of fibre and one slice with real peanut butter (just ground peanuts and sea salt) and some no sugar added preserves makes a filling breakfast of lunch. You must chew it well though: it's not like cake.
Oh, make sure you eat plenty of high fiber whole foods: it's what the biota in your intestines eat, and they are what power and protect your digestive system.
Don't eat food-like food substitutes that use a lot of chemicals to provide the flavor. If it says enriched or bleached, it's poison to your body & the food company has robbed you of good nutrition in order to make the food cheaper.
The short version: Buy good fresh food and eat it. Better still, grow your own food and share/exchange your garden harvest with your neighbors.
The gritty details:
If you only eat whole fresh vegetables, fruits, and meats, you won't need to eat as much.
Stay away from all processed white foods: Fats, Sugars, Flours.
If it tastes or looks like hospital food, don't eat it.
Do not eat anything with an unpronounceable word in the ingredient list.
High Fructose Corn Syrup causes increased stress on your pancreas. Don't eat anything that uses it.
Diet drinks only cause you to eat more. Stop drinking all sweetened drinks. Drink water instead. a splash of a pure, unsweetened fruit juice will give plain water plenty of flavor. Don't substitute fruit juices for water.
If you want a sweeter taste, add some blueberries or other fruit instead of sugar.
Avoid eating at restaurants that don't cook food from scratch. Make eating out a real, memorable treat, not a convenience.
"I wonder why this hasn't been done before? Besides being a national park, are there any logistical concerns people haven't mentioned?"
It hasn't been done because the people who make their money from petroleum NEED to sell the gas and oil byproducts leftover from petrochemical production, or they'd be left with huge stockpiles of highly flammable, explosive chemicals we know as gasoline, jet fuel and heating oil. Plus, much of the infrastructure they've built over the last 100 years would become just so much junk. Big hit in the loss and liabilities columns in their profit/loss statements, and a legal quagmire when those stockpiles begin polluting what's left of our fragile ecosphere.
The only solution is to stop extracting petroleum in the first place and force those companies to scale back in the use of petrochemicals. This will cause huge changes to the world's economic basis, which the financiers could not handle since they only know how to manipulate money and precious little else about the way the Earth really works.
Too bad for the human race. They had a good run but blew it when they let their obsession with the accumulation worthless bits of imaginary value to cloud their instincts for survival.
Broadcast TV has degenerated into a full-time advertising and propaganda vessel for disseminating and promoting sales to the wealthiest 20%. It is used to keep the population fearful of one another, and especially to promote fear of "the other". News is propaganda, of thinly veiled free publicity for favored local businesses.
In other words, its sole purpose is to manipulate the population to do the bidding of the status quo, to maintain sales of an unsustainable lifestyle of waste and constant impoverishment, all while dangling an unattainable vision of an impossible lifestyle of the hope that everyone could live like kings.
The purpose is to leave the masses in a state of quivering, easily herded non-thinkers, ready to be slaughtered by a deadly diet of fast foods, enormous quantities of cheap food-like substances, and killer sodas, after being driven into poverty by a predatory pharmacological and medical system that extorts compliance under the duress of finding a so-called "cure" for the diseases caused by the Standard American Diet.
Already done! It's called a GOP Congress. They breathe in air, but they can not expel any noticeable gas of any kind since all human activities by definition have absolutely no effect on the climate. They also own all those CAFO GMO-bred cows that don't emit ANY methane!
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To listen to some of the tin foil hatted people on the internet, the guvmint is ALREADY doing this shit!
I just wonder what all those sulfides in the atmosphere are going to do to affect the acid rain situation...
It's been awhile since I've studied chemistry, but don't sulfates mixed with water create sulfuric acid?
Doesn't sound like something I'd like dripping into MY water cycle!
I think my imaginary rabbit has better ideas than this one!
Sorry, it only got the N and the i of El Niño... the rest was garbage.
While the temperature graphs over the same periods show that is gradually increasing.
But the cancer care centers will gladly mortgage your home to pay for your stay and for the expensive rounds of radiation and chemotherapy that eventually kills you.
You forgot the /s
Or you are a bald-faced liar.
If you're looking for the money, it's in the oil industry.
Not that much money for research in Climatology.
Refined petroleum products is what gave us the gasoline we now use for fuel in the first place. A budding oil industry was overburdened with a highly explosive waste product (gasoline) and convinced Henry Ford and other automakers to use this fuel for their new horseless carriages, instead of batteries or steam power. (It did offer a better range than batteries and less complexity than operating a steam engine.)
Also, the Great Chicago Fire was likely accelerated because the kerosene used for lighting lamps at the time had been laced with gasoline in an attempt to get rid of the dangerous waste product from the refineries.
Mrs O'Leary's cow was framed as a cover-up for the fact that all those lanterns exploded as the fire raged across the city.
... bring down the cashless economy? Internet commerce? Commercialism?
This last comment is actually accurate, IMO.
And I should learn to control the tone of my own posts better when I am in disagreement with a really dumb opinion. Mea culpa.
You, too, should learn to control the tone of your posts, if only to support our fading rights to free speech. For all the readers of these comments know, you yourself may not know what you are talking about. No one speaks for everyone who is commenting here. Therefore let the fly the comments of disagreement: Demanding someone to shut up only reveals your own closed mindset.
I agree, aepevirus, show me where in the US Constitution that the Executive Branch is disallowed prosecutorial discretion! Any more than the US Constitution gives the 2 major parties the right to exert Majority-Minority control over the arcane rules of the House and Senate.
Yes, each house of Congress can write it's own rules (and they supposedly agree to a new set of rules at the beginning of each newly-elected Congressional session) but where does it say that POLITICAL PARTIES have any say in what those rules should be?
In fact, it is only the long-time corruption of the self-written rules of each house that allows this perversion of the idea the each of the States should send representatives to speak for us at the Federal Government level. The roles of Majority and Minority leader, whips, etc, are all an invention of past corruptions of the US Constitution that have been extremely convenient for lazy politicians to feather their positions of corruption and power, and to give them political cover for avoiding their responsibilities for truly representing the interests of their direct constituencies in their own States.
This is what has allowed the perversion of the Electoral College system to allow a strong political party (which is an unconstitutional function of humanity's natural greed and corruption) to gerrymander the electoral districts as a means of securing a political PARTY's chokehold on power.
This is what comes from dumbing down the civic education of the US voter, as a result of the long-time pervasive neoconservative attack on public education in the States, which is essentially due to the desire of property owners to avoid paying property taxes on their rental properties, which, after all, is what pays for the poor's "free public education". This breakdown of the requirement of a democracy to have an educated and informed electorate is a key to how we have "evolved" politically into this swamp of corruption and graft at most, if not all, levels of government today.
An uneducated, uninformed electorate can not expect to control a democracy, and our politicians take full advantage of this fact. Property tax payers in the States are getting exactly the government that they've paid for!
being a billionaire doesn't automatically make you an expert in political science.
Except for a billionaire idiot reality show host, screwer of contractors and students, and generally every man, woman, and child in the USA, like the orange man, asshole-mouthed, POTUS impersonator that currently is squatting in the nation's White House? You mean THAT billionaire?
VeryFluffyBunny ( 5037285 ), STFU yourself!
Re: Evtim ( 1022085 ) If I had mod points left today, I would mod this up to +5.
Sour grapes, fozzy1015?
Big projects, new untested technologies, new infrastructure all require more time to show a profit than the usual pop-up garbage that passes for new businesses these days.
STFU, Sour grapes, fozzy1015!
What he is saying is that governments most probably WILL...
(should have checked spelling better before hitting send...)
What he is sying is that governments most probably WILL stifle competition in order to gain superiority and their own AIs will turn on each other in pre-emptive strikes, causing WWIII (aka, the end of all life as we know it)
Once death and taxes
summed the certainties of life
Add Cutting Corners
Anthracite coal has also been mostly mined out in most countries, especially in Europe. I believe China uses mostly bituminous coal, which also produces more ash waste. Neither variety can be considered particularly "clean", even after modern "scrubbing" technology has been applied, not to mention the problems with disposing of the copious amounts of waste produced, nor the still quite prevalent incidence of black lung disease in areas where coal of all types is mined.
AC (#55132923) you are an offensive, bigoted racist!
Manufacturers must always do something to keep selling, or their whole business model collapses! That's what keeps the whole Ponzi scheme of capitalism from failing completely, even if it means that humans must eventually completely trash the only planet known to sustain life.
Somehow I doubt that enough humans will ever wise up to their suicidal behaviors. It's probably why we've never found any direct evidence of other intelligent life in the universe: the really smart species avoid us like a plague, while any species who followed our demented path have killed themselves off, as we are very likely to do in the not-so-distant future.
Happy consuming, fools!
A splash of a pure, unsweetened fruit juice can provide plenty of flavor to a glass of water and does not overload the body with sugars. If you want to make your oatmeal sweeter, add some whole fruit, not refined sugar.
I've found that Dave's Killer 21-Grain bread is pretty good. It has never gone mouldy on me, even if it takes me a month to eat the whole loaf. It has a lot of fibre and one slice with real peanut butter (just ground peanuts and sea salt) and some no sugar added preserves makes a filling breakfast of lunch. You must chew it well though: it's not like cake.
Oh, make sure you eat plenty of high fiber whole foods: it's what the biota in your intestines eat, and they are what power and protect your digestive system.
Don't eat food-like food substitutes that use a lot of chemicals to provide the flavor. If it says enriched or bleached, it's poison to your body & the food company has robbed you of good nutrition in order to make the food cheaper.
My food motto is simple:
The short version: Buy good fresh food and eat it. Better still, grow your own food and share/exchange your garden harvest with your neighbors.
The gritty details:
If you only eat whole fresh vegetables, fruits, and meats, you won't need to eat as much.
Stay away from all processed white foods: Fats, Sugars, Flours.
If it tastes or looks like hospital food, don't eat it.
Do not eat anything with an unpronounceable word in the ingredient list.
High Fructose Corn Syrup causes increased stress on your pancreas. Don't eat anything that uses it.
Diet drinks only cause you to eat more. Stop drinking all sweetened drinks. Drink water instead. a splash of a pure, unsweetened fruit juice will give plain water plenty of flavor. Don't substitute fruit juices for water.
If you want a sweeter taste, add some blueberries or other fruit instead of sugar.
Avoid eating at restaurants that don't cook food from scratch. Make eating out a real, memorable treat, not a convenience.
"I wonder why this hasn't been done before? Besides being a national park, are there any logistical concerns people haven't mentioned?" It hasn't been done because the people who make their money from petroleum NEED to sell the gas and oil byproducts leftover from petrochemical production, or they'd be left with huge stockpiles of highly flammable, explosive chemicals we know as gasoline, jet fuel and heating oil. Plus, much of the infrastructure they've built over the last 100 years would become just so much junk. Big hit in the loss and liabilities columns in their profit/loss statements, and a legal quagmire when those stockpiles begin polluting what's left of our fragile ecosphere.
The only solution is to stop extracting petroleum in the first place and force those companies to scale back in the use of petrochemicals. This will cause huge changes to the world's economic basis, which the financiers could not handle since they only know how to manipulate money and precious little else about the way the Earth really works.
Too bad for the human race. They had a good run but blew it when they let their obsession with the accumulation worthless bits of imaginary value to cloud their instincts for survival.
A prime example of true Darwinism in action!
Broadcast TV has degenerated into a full-time advertising and propaganda vessel for disseminating and promoting sales to the wealthiest 20%. It is used to keep the population fearful of one another, and especially to promote fear of "the other". News is propaganda, of thinly veiled free publicity for favored local businesses.
In other words, its sole purpose is to manipulate the population to do the bidding of the status quo, to maintain sales of an unsustainable lifestyle of waste and constant impoverishment, all while dangling an unattainable vision of an impossible lifestyle of the hope that everyone could live like kings.
The purpose is to leave the masses in a state of quivering, easily herded non-thinkers, ready to be slaughtered by a deadly diet of fast foods, enormous quantities of cheap food-like substances, and killer sodas, after being driven into poverty by a predatory pharmacological and medical system that extorts compliance under the duress of finding a so-called "cure" for the diseases caused by the Standard American Diet.
Already done! It's called a GOP Congress. They breathe in air, but they can not expel any noticeable gas of any kind since all human activities by definition have absolutely no effect on the climate. They also own all those CAFO GMO-bred cows that don't emit ANY methane!