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Wood and dung are renewable, but not without controls. Many places in India and many other developing or wishing to be developing countries are turned into virtual deserts, even with lots of rainfall, because the housewives are forced to hunt for anything that will burn, many averaging 3 hours a day hunting and hauling wood, denuding the landscape. They are using the traditional 3 stone fire which wastes at least 75% of the fuel. The landscape can not renew the energy because there is nothing growing, it has all been harvested for an hours walk away from the village. No trees, no seeds for new trees, no-one planting trees, no hope.

If you search information about rocket stoves and other alternatives to traditional self destructive native practices, you will find slightly conflicting data about the results of the traditional uses of biomass, but the conflicts appear to be mostly incidental. The differences are in exactly how inefficient fires are, precisely how many die from the smoke and burns, etc. The basics of poverty and little hope for improvement seem to agree.

But even with more efficient stoves, reasonably usable water hauling containers, village wells or whatever, if there is no coordination, no rule of law, if there is no person or entity keeping the impoverished masses from acting like locusts and turning the surrounding area into a wasteland, there is still no fuel nearby , no renewing actually occurring.

This also describes problems with trying to upgrade lives with water or electricity or transportation. You have to set a new paradigm to keep the young bucks from hacking into the water pipes when they are thirsty, or keep everyone from taking the saplings for fuel when trying to set up an orchard or renewable hedgerow for fuel. It is a huge leap going from striving for today day after day to having a plan and hope for tomorrow and next year and the grandchildren.

BUT... Does this actually have anything to do with global warming? Nah.

“I’d like to know what Israel in the time of Judges was like to live in. Kinda appeals to me.”

no running water or even pipes, not enough metal to hollow out logs for pipes like was done in Philladelphia way back when..., hauling water in skins or worse, washing clothes in running water or wood barrels if you were lucky, little or no real soap, cooking over open fires in vessels made from poorly fired clay or worse, metal so rare and expensive that little or nothing is made from it, cloth so expensive and time consuming that you own one or possibly 2 changes of clothes and that one suit took your mother years to manufacture, you probably never travel more than 45 miles from where you were born.

Add to these irritations the lack of the rule of law, tribal warfare, raiding parties, wild animals, and most of the “horrors” of any 3rd world country today.

Some people talk about how hard it is to homestead today with water and metals and plastics and washing machines and medicines and improved crops and animals... Most of us would not live past our 20’s.

The problem is not that open = empty, the problem is that the only end of a liberal mind that can be opened is the bottom end.

First, by driving past a schoolbus and endangering kids, she pretty well demeaned herself already.

Second, this is a rather poorly written story. Is the driver claiming that there were 2 stopped semi trailers and she whizzed past them without seeing what was the holdup, endangering all in the area?

Or... were there 2 other vehicles at least, the semis, that were also flying past the stopped schoolbus, and where are their tickets?

How many lanes did this road have anyway, and how far from the bus was she?

Was she travelling in the same direction as the bus, or passing on the other side, and which way were the semis going? I obviously do not have a good mental picture of what was happening to know if I have any sympathy for her or not. Lots of questions left open by this news report.

The recurring theme of having a house AND a bomb shelter has always left me shaking my head. Why spend money on 2 houses - both suffering from a lack of proper funding to make either one of them all they should be? Why not simply build an underground dome or some such that will be all the home and shelter you will ever need? God forbid something happens while you sleep and you be burned or irradiated or shot or poisoned while traveling between the home and the shelter. Seems the goal would not be to talk about the successful transition last night, but rather to wake up and wonder what was all that fuss your dead neighbors went through.

“Under a normal US leadership, the government would be working to expand the equipment and staff needed to save as many Americans as humanly possible. But with Marxists, we must discuss who to kill with our shortage of ventilators and health care facilities.”

So what you are saying is that the “lifeboat scenario” where we brainwash kids into accepting relativistic morality and deciding who to kill is a communist philosophy, whereas the American philosophy is to simply build a bigger boat and stock it appropriately.

Unfortunately they do not make up for the zero growth people. All western societies are below replacement birthrates and are declining, and will be replaced by immigrant societies. France will be muslim in 20 years. Britain is not far behind. America is not going to be “America” very much longer without a stunning and historically unprecidented turnaround in the direction of birthrate. Western culture is committing suicide.

“T-Mobile Casts Whoopi in myTouch Spots”

You have got to be joking!! The woman who is in favor of older older men drugging our 13 year old daughters and sticking their sexual members up their butts is ...
appearing in ...
“myTouch Spots”

It it were not totally disgusting this would be totally priceless....

“T-Mobile Casts Whoopi in myTouch Spots”

You have got to be joking!! The woman who is in favor of older older men drugging our 13 year old daughters and sticking their sexual members up their butts is ...
appearing in ...
“myTouch Spots”

It it were not totally disgusting this would be totally priceless....

colleges were primarily a collection of books. The students gathered there because the books were there. Not because of professors, directly. the leadership of the college may have collected the books and made it possible to be a college, but the reason for the students’ gathering was the library, not the teachers. let alone the football team...

Today, we can have those same and multitudes more books anyplace there is internet or a hard drive.

“I wonder if I could vote in New Jersy even though I don’t live there.”

“Sure you can if you vote democrat!!!!!!!!!!”

Actually, it seems that they wanted people to vote republican to make sure that Cristie was the one to oppose corzine. twice as many repub votes were cast as were democrats. Definitely feels like the dems were ballot stuffing the repub primary.

there has to be a line somewhere. When a company decides to follow the indiginous guidelines for dress and servitude, how far should they go? No matter how far you are willing to go, there have been civilizations that have demanded more, or grosser, or baser or barer or dead or whatever.

“Do these idiots know that Barack Obama gave the same answer as Miss California. “

I hope the secret service is taking note of this. people that have expressed the same opinion that Obama has expressed are being threatened. I can only assume that Obama himself is also being threatened by these parties for expressing this opinion. This is exactly the type of threat that the SS is supposed to investigate and protect against.

“I hate the PETA branch of animal rights activists who say breeding is morally wrong.”

The problem is not that PETA thinks breeding animals is wrong, they think that man should not be involved with any species of animals.

PETA believes that only “natural animals” should exist. PETA believes that if an animal has been raised by humans, rescued by humans, would have died without human intervention, is habituated to humans, is a breed “created” by humans, or is domesticated than it is not a natural animal and should not only be destroyed, but the domestic breeds should become extinct. PETA would rather kill stray domestic breeds than adopt them out, and would if they could get away with it. This is one reason the adoption rate at PETA shelters is rather low.

...”Can’t we just put a line on tax forms wherein these people could simply write in how much additional tax that THEY would like to pay, and leave the rest of us alone?”

Sorry, no. That would be a violation of the primary tenet of liberalism. This foundational concept can be summed up in the common philosophy as: “We have a problem, and You have to pay for it”

I have heard, but do not know for sure, that the main cause of the growing area of immense swelling and then necrotic or dead flesh resulting from the recluse’s bite is not from the venom that the spider injects, but is actualy an infection of the anerobic bacteria living on the fangs.

This country has truly lost it’s freedom when we have to protect the life of a deadly predator instead of taking out the trash.

“Worse is the fact that Obama is black...”

Nope, but maybe worse is the fact that he is 1/8 black, 3/8 arab and half white, but he is totally embraced as black by those bigoted voters with melanin.

How can it be a hate crime since it was perpetrated against christians who, while not a minority so they can not be allowed any minority protections, are also not the majority, because America is NOT a Christian nation, don’t you know....

Christians, the only group it is legal to hate in America. Well, them and white males.

All this hoopla over “19 to 45% reduction” and the vitamin b6 crowd is reporting 76% reduction. Wonder what you get if you take both?

there are 3 omega3 molecules. Our body needs some of each for health. one is the uniquely plant derived one found in flax, walnuts, purslane, etc. The other 2 are from animal sources, not plants. The plant one can be used by the body to manufacture the second, and the second can be converted to the third, but many people are very poor converters. We need all 3. The plant one has been hyped by some as being awesomely good with cancer, as much as 94% cure rate on prostate cancer. I have to assume we would be better off to take all 3, not focus on one and ignore the others.