Show Notes 09/26/2013

Show Notes Thursday 09/26/13

Air Force's new F-16 Drone makes debut

The U.S. Air Force and Boeing have sent their first unmanned F-16 jet plane into the air — a drone craft test that promises to change the shape of battlefield missions in years to come.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/sep/26/air-forces-new-f16-drone-makes-debut-air/

Lawmakers raise alarm after radio failures during Navy Yard shooting

Lawmakers are calling on federal investigators to track down why cops, firefighters and medics -- for the third time in the last year -- suffered from faulty equipment and busted communication lines during a crisis.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/09/26/lawmakers-renew-calls-for-investigations-into-faulty-emergency-response-tools/

PA Representative Mike Fitzpatrick says Obamacare is hurting Sesame Street

U.S. Rep. Mike Fitzpatrick penned a letter to President Obama last week saying the president’s Affordable Care Act had caused Sesame Place, an important tourist attraction, to terminate health benefits for its part-time staff, Philly.com reported.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/sep/26/pa-rep-mike-fitzpatrick-obamacare-hurting-sesame-p/#ixzz2g2M9zPpX

Young Adults' Obamacare Awareness Low Ahead Of Rollout, Survey Says

Young adults, especially those with low incomes who will qualify for financial assistance, have poor awareness of health insurance options that will be available under President Barack Obama's health care reform law, according to survey findings published Wednesday that underscore the challenges facing Obamacare.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/21/young-adults-obamacare_n_3786805.html

EPA admits new coal regulations won't reduce global warming

An Environmental Protection Agency proposal designed to reduce CO2 emissions and reduce global warming will actually have no “notable CO2 emission changes.”

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/09/26/epa-admits-new-coal-regulations-wont-reduce-global-warming/

Timber industry suffers as loggers blame Federal regulations for lost jobs

The Rough and Ready Sawmill was an institution in southern Oregon for 91 years. Its lumber helped fuel the post-World War II building boom and settle the rural West. Now, it sits empty, the last of 22 mills in Josephine County to shut down for good, signaling the end of an era. http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/09/26/timber-industry-suffers-as-loggers-blame-federal-regs-for-lost-jobs/

North Carolina Students Granted Right to Attorney at Campus Courts

I had no idea there were such things as college courts. Do you?

From The Freebeacon:

North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory signed a law granting college students the right to an attorney in campus courts, Friday, that had previously been denied to students facing disciplinary charges.

It took me seven years to get my Bachelors in Nursing in 1994 because I had to work and put myself through school. I attended a Community college as well as the State University of New York and there were no frigging college courts. What the hell is going on with our kids, folks. Its about time we stop this stupid notion that every child in the United States MUST go to college. Colleges are cesspools nowadays. Well maybe not Hillsdale College. But they don't get government money. I wonder if they have a college court? 

"Students across America are regularly tried in campus courts for serious offenses like theft, harassment, and even rape,” he said. “Being labeled a felon and kicked out by your college carries serious, life-altering consequences.”

“Because the stakes are so high, students should have the benefit of an attorney to ensure the hearing is conducted fairly and by the rules,” Shibley said.

Number of Long-Term Unemployed ‘Unprecedented’ Under Obama

From The Freebeacon:

The economy has seen an “unprecedented” number of long-term unemployed under the Obama administration, according to a liberal think tank, and economists say plans pursued by Democrats in Washington are unlikely to curb the problem.

Nearly 5 million workers are classified as long-term unemployed, while 900,000 more have stopped looking for work altogether, according to a new series of reports issued by the Urban Institute.

Three percent of the labor force has been out of work for more than six months, an improvement of only one percentage point since unemployment spiked in October 2009, according to the study.

This is one of the articles that Brian was talking about that we did not get to on our show. Just trying to keep you folk's informed! Enjoy!

15 things everyone would know if there were a liberal media

Brian sent this to me to use on the show, but I am posting it instead. First, this guy did a lot of work to tell a lot of lies. Kudos to him. Second I hate people that have hyphenated names or only go by one name. What the hell? Also when you see the nice colorful graphs he presents, make sure you read the fine print to see where he got them from. Oh, and don't forget to take a shower, it is the Daily Kos after all.

From: The Daily Kos         

Prince Riebus (and apparently many others) still thinks there's a liberal media.

While I share Prince's frustration with the media, as a liberal, I'd like to go on record and state that the media isn't focusing on issues I care about. They seem to be far more focused on entertainment and making money.

Show Notes 05/30/2013

Uncooperative Radio Show Notes: Thursday 05/30/2013

Hawaiian Monk Seal Management

NMFS is proposing to remove a limited number of Galapagos sharks from French Frigate Shoals (FFS) because the sharks are annually killing up to 30% of the Hawaiian monk seal pups that are born there.

http://www.pifsc.noaa.gov/hawaiian_monk_seal/french_frigate_shoals_shark_predation_mitigation_faqs.php

Hawaii Filmmakers Investigate 'Honor Killings' in US

Hawaii-based Smart Lips Productions is in the final stages of making their new film documentary, The Price of Honor, set to release in March 2014. The Price of Honor reveals details never before seen or heard about the murders of Sarah and Amina Said, two teenage sisters from Texas who were killed in a premeditated “Honor Killing” planned and executed by their father Yaser Said back in 2008, who is still at large and remains on the FBI’s Most Wanted list.

http://www.hawaiifreepress.com/ArticlesMain/tabid/56/ID/9707/Hawaii-Filmmakers-Investigate-Honor-Killings-in-US.aspx
utm_source=May+26%2C+2013+News+From+Hawaii+Free+Press&utm_campaign=May+26%2C+2013+Email&utm_medium=email 

Olive Oil 101: How to choose oils with most health benefits

It is well known that extra virgin olive oil is good for the body – boosting heart health and even lowering the risk of certain kinds of cancer. But not all olive oils are created equal.

http://www.foxnews.com/health/2013/05/19/olive-oil-101-how-to-choose-oils-with-most-health-benefits/?intcmp=HPBucket#ixzz2UolDE9Fw

Student loans to subsidize Obamacare

Recent speeches by Tennessee Republican Sen. Lamar Alexander highlight a connection that has yet to be reported in the media and is yet to be understood by the young people struggling with high interest rates in the hopes of financing their college education.

http://thehill.com/opinion/columnists/dick-morris/302247-loans-subsidize-obamacare#ixzz2UolyVEFm

Britain wants its guns back

Last Friday the Daily Telegraph, Britain's most widely read broadsheet newspaper, issued an online poll asking members of the public which proposal they would like to see introduced as a Private Members' Bill in the UK's Parliament.Private Members' Bills are introduced by Members of Parliament or Peers who are not government ministers.

http://www.thecommentator.com/article/3644/britain_wants_its_guns_back

Genetically modified wheat mysteriously discovered in Oregon Field

Genetically modified wheat was mysteriously discovered this spring on an Oregon farm – and no one knows where it came from.

http://smallbusiness.foxbusiness.com/entrepreneurs/2013/05/30/genetically-modified-wheat-mysteriously-discovered-in-oregon-field/#ixzz2UoytMjzt

Obama transforms mission as Military struggles to remake itself

In two major speeches, President Obama sent strong signaled last week about what he envisions for the military in a post-Sept. 11 era, a new path which can be described in a word: downsized.

http://nbcpolitics.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/05/24/18471459-obama-transforms-mission-as-military-struggles-to-remake-itself?lite 

Has your County or City signed The U.N. Agenda 21 Agreement?

ICLEI Update: 138 ICLEI Members Quit ICLEI in 18 Months! We Got ‘Em on the Run!

The War on ICLEI and Agenda 21 – the One World Group of United Nations Globalists who want to decide everything you think, do and say is progressing well! In the past 18 months, 138 Cities and Counties have seen the light and that number will likely grow by 19 more to 157 as laws in Tennessee, Arizona and Alabama go into effect outlawing Agenda 21 / ICLEI in those states.

Find out if your city/county is listed! 

Has your County or City signed The U.N. Agenda 21 Agreement?

I CLEI Update: 138 ICLEI Members Quit ICLEI in 18 Months! We Got ‘Em on the Run!

The War on ICLEI and Agenda 21 – the One World Group of United Nations Globalists who want to decide everything you think, do and say is progressing well! In the past 18 months, 138 Cities and Counties have seen the light and that number will likely grow by 19 more to 157 as laws in Tennessee, Arizona and Alabama go into effect outlawing Agenda 21 / ICLEI in those states.

Find out if your city/county is listed! 

Show Notes: 05-27-2012

Uncooperative Radio Show Notes: Sunday 5/27/12

A Soldiers prayer for Memorial Day
God our Father, Help me to remain true to my ideals during my service to my country.
Help me be what is in America, the land of the free.
May I realize that I represent what our country stands for.
http://www.saintsandheroes.com/prayer/

Greece says public finances face collapse
Greece’s public finances could collapse as early as next month, leaving salaries and pensions unpaid unless a stable government emerges from the June 17 election, according to Lucas Papademos, the technocrat prime minister who left office after this month’s inconclusive vote.
http://kurtiswelch.com/drudge/redirect.aspx?DestinationURL=http%3a%2
%2fwww.ft.com%2fcms%2fs%2f0%2ffec2a4e2-a817-11e1-b8a9-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1w70wlqxN

Democrats play down Wisconsin recall election
Recent polls have pointed toward a victory for Republican Gov. Scott Walker in Wisconsin’s June 5 recall election. But here’s the clearest evidence to date that national Democratic party officials believe their side is losing: Democratic officials are playing down the potential impact.
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-democrats-play-down-wisconsin-recall-election-20120526,0,2760222.story

Teen says she was punished for trying to stop bullying of girl with mental disabilities
A Florida high school student who complained to officials about the bullying she witnessed on a school bus is now being labeled a bully herself.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/05/27/teen-says-was-punished-for-trying-to-stop-bullying-girl-with-mental/?test=latestnews

Lady Gaga cancels Indonesian show over security issues
Lady Gaga canceled her sold-out show in Indonesia after Islamist hard-liners threatened violence, claiming her sexy clothes and provocative dance moves would corrupt the youth.
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/05/27/lady-gaga-cancels-indonesian-show-over-security441650/?test=latestnews

Fleet Week kicks off parade of tall ships as city hosts thousands in town to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the War of 1812
Wind filling their sails, a flotilla of elegant tall ships that once ruled the seas swept out of the past and into New York Harbor on Wednesday to mark the start of OpSail 2012 and Fleet Week New York.
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/fleet-week-kicks-parade-tall-ships-city-hosts-thousands-town-celebrate-200th-anniversary-war-1812-article-1.1083319

War of 1812 Bicentennial
The War of 1812 Bicentennial is a series of planned events to commemorate the War of 1812 in the United States and Canada during the war's bicentenary, 2012-2015.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_1812_Bicentennial

What was the War of 1812?
The War of 1812 was a war between the United States and the United Kingdom. The countries at war included the United States, the United Kingdom, and some of the United Kingdom's colonies: Upper and Lower Canada (now Ontario and Quebec, respectively), Nova Scotia, and Bermuda. During this war, 2260 American and 1600 British troops died.
http://www.wisegeek.com/what-was-the-war-of-1812.htm

What is a Nautical Mile?
A nautical mile is based on the circumference of the planet Earth. If you were to cut the Earth in half at the equator, you could pick up one of the halves and look at the equator as a circle. http://science.howstuffworks.com/innovation/science-questions/question79.htm

Hillary Clinton: Opposition to Sea Treaty Based on 'Mythology '
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee began the latest round in a decades-long fight to ratify the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), known as the Law of the Sea Treaty, http://cnsnews.com/news/article/hillary-clinton-opposition-sea-treaty-based-mythology

Obama takes women's issues from campaign trail to international stage

I am so sick and tired of this President and his commie administration touting "women's issues", that includes Mama Michelle Obama, (and that is not a term of endearment I give to her, folks). We are not footballs to be thrown around from political player to political player or piles of play-doh to be molded to fit anyone's agenda at any given moment!!

From Fox News:

President Obama brought women's issues – a major topic in the 2012 presidential campaign -- into world politics Saturday, when he said world leaders at the G-8 summit assembled to discuss Afghanistan, the European debt crisis and other international issues, but also talked about "female empowerment."

"We had a brief discussion around the issue of women's empowerment, where we agreed that both, when it comes to economic development and when it comes to peace and security issues, empowering women to have a seat at the table and get more engaged and more involved in these processes can be extraordinarily fruitful," Obama said at the Camp David presidential retreat, located about 90 minutes from the White House, in western Maryland.

I could talk to three different women and get ten different answers on what our "issues" are. So how in the hell do these people know what our issue's are? And on top of that, these people are mostly MEN!!! Look I blame us "we the women" for this problem. We have let ourselves be used for centuries. It's time to tell the world we are not victims, we are not idiots and no one can tell us what issues we care about. If I want to work, I will find a way to work. If I want to stay home and raise my family, I will find a way to do so. If I want to sell my body or start a business, I will make it happen. I can't stand the feminist movement, we did not need it then and we don't need it now. And we certainly do not need these pin head politicians telling us anything. They work for us, we need to be telling them what to do!!!!

Show Notes: 05-17-2012

Links for Uncooperative Radio Show: Thursday 05/17/12

There were three volumes of Emmerich de Vattel's The Law of Nations at The Philadelphia/Constitutional Convention of 1787.
*§ 212. Citizens and natives.*
The citizens are the members of the civil society; bound to this society by certain duties, and subject to its authority, they equally participate in its advantages.
http://www.lonang.com/exlibris/vattel/vatt-119.htm

The Vetting Barack of Obama Breitbart
News has obtained a promotional booklet produced in 1991 by Barack Obama's then-literary agency, Acton & Dystel, which touts Obama as "born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii.
"http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/05/17/The-Vetting-Barack-Obama-Literary-Agent-1991-Born-in-Kenya-Raised-Indonesia-Hawaii

Guest; Bob Shcultz from Give Me Liberty.org, a Constitutional lobby. http://www.givemeliberty.org/

Quote from Alexander Hamilton
"The interpretation of the laws is the proper and peculiar province of the courts. A constitution is in fact, and must be, regarded by the judges as a fundamental law.
http://liberty.quotes@centre.telemanage.ca

Dream act students sue to stop Senate filibuster
Illegal immigrant students and members of the House sued the Senate this week to try to overturn the upper chamber’s filibuster rule, arguing that the 60-vote supermajority requirement violates the Constitution and is blocking important legislation such as legalization for illegal immigrants. http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/may/15/dream-act-students-sue-stop-senate-filibuster/

LameStreamMedia Not Telling You About EuroSocialism Meltdown

  Headlines from The Telegraph:


European Central Bank cuts-off Access to 4 Geek Banks http://soc.li/Wf05Mgh • Fitch downgrades Greece, warns on elections
• Moody's to announce action on 21 Spanish banks
• US factory activity unexpectedly contracts in May
• Spain sees borrowing costs rise sharply at auction
• Cameron: it's "make or break" for the euro
• FTSE 100 on course for fourth day of losses
• €1bn pulled from Spanish bank Bankia: reports

Show Notes: 05-10-2012

Links for Uncooperative Radio Show: Thursday 05/10/12

Smithsonian Touts Jefferson’s ‘Genius’ in Editing Gospels--And Removing Resurrection
An exhibition that runs through May at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, Founding Father and U.S. President Thomas Jefferson is described as a “genius” and “revolutionary” who created his own Bible by cutting and pasting the verses he preferred into a separate compilation.
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/smithsonian-touts-jefferson-s-genius-editing-gospels-and-removing-resurrection

Obama's Sneaky Treaties
President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton are entering negotiations over — or seeking ratification of — five treaties that could radically limit our national sovereignty and the reach of our democratic institutions.
http://www.dickmorris.com/obamas-sneaky-treaties/
US House oversight committee makes case for contempt of Congress in Fast and Furious investigation
Back in February, U.S. Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) promised to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress if Holder didn't hand over Justice Department documents that had been subpoenaed as part of an ongoing investigation into the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives' now-infamous"Operation Fast and Furious" gun-walking operation. http://www.nraila.org/news-issues/articles/2012/us-house-oversight-committee-makes-case-for-contempt-of-congress-in-fast-and-furious-investigation.aspx

Currency Debasement and Social Collapse
In a recent debate between Ron Paul and Paul Krugman, Dr. Paul said, "Professor Krugman indicates we just want to go back 100 years or so. That's not exactly true. We want to improve on what life was like back then. But he wants to go back 1,000 years or 2,000 years, just as the Romans and the Greeks … debased their currency."
http://mises.org/daily/6034/Currency-Debasement-and-Social-Collapse

Show Notes: 04-29-2012

Links for Uncooperative Radio Show: Sunday 04/29/12

We start with a prayer God Is Our Hope
http://www.godweb.org/prayer/prayersforhelp.htm

Largest donor of Obama's super PAC calls Mormonism a cult
Maher has given the president's super PAC a cool one million dollars. "The biggest individual donor revealed Friday was hedge fund billionaire James H. Simons, who cut a $1 million check to Majority PAC at the end of last month," Politico reported.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/largest-donor-obama-super-pac-calls-mormonism-cult_642210.html

Gun sales skyrocket during recession
The economic impact of the firearms industry is up 66 percent since the beginning of the Great Recession, providing an unexpected shot in the arm for the economy, according to a new study.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/apr/19/gun-sales-skyrocket-during-recession/print/

Nugent says he's insulted by concert cancellation
Ted Nugent said he was insulted by the cancellation of his planned concert at an Army post over his comments about President Barack Obama.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gRaGew4STcBde0O2iirg7sa1U5fA?docId=642c380482634975b279995957d9a330

Foster kids connected
De'Jerica Michaels became pregnant at age 15, but friction at home became so tense that she left. She wound up in foster care, placed with a Noblesville family.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/story/2012-04-29/foster-kids-connected/54618514/1

Candidate Kens attitude to Jews may be key in battle to run London
Is London about to elect a mayor who has been accused of anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism? Until last week, former mayor Ken Livingstone was trailing the incumbent Boris Johnson in opinion polls by as much as six points. But now, only days before the election on Thursday, May 3, the two are neck-and-neck, separated by just two percentage points, according to pollster YouGov.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/candidate-kens-attitude-to-jews-may-be-key-in-battle-to-run-london/

Self-defense: What are you prepared to do? Part Two
Part of being prepared in your self-defense is thinking about your daily routine and what you can do to be ready to defend yourself. What's more, it's also useful to think about how you'd respond given a variety of events.
http://selfreliantinfo.blogspot.com

The Midnight Ride Of ...Sybil Ludington
Wait a minute. Isn't Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's famous poem titled, "The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere"? Don't the rousing stanzas recite the story of Paul's daring nighttime gallop through the Massachusetts countryside to warn Minutemen about a British invasion?
http://www.jcs-group.com/military/war1775fought/ludington.html

Antibullying speaker curses and mocks Christian teens
As many as 100 high school students walked out of a national journalism conference after an anti-bullying speaker began cursing, attacked the Bible and reportedly called those who refused to listen to his rant “pansy assed.”
http://radio.foxnews.com/toddstarnes/top-stories/anti-bullying-speaker-curses-mocks-christian-teens.html

Obama advocates student-loan plan offering class in Disney's women and girls
President Obama this week advocated his plans for federally subsidized student loans and his desire to keep college costs down at the University of Colorado, a school whose Women and Gender Studies program includes a course on “Disney’s Women and Girls,” and where the full cost for an on-campus in-state student this year was $26,877.
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/obama-advocates-student-loan-plan-u-offering-class-disney-s-women-and-girls

Show Notes: 04-26-2012

Links for Uncooperative Radio Show: Thursday 04/26/12

Trayvon Martin case: sparks of racial violence appear
Recent isolated incidents of violence against whites by blacks, in which Trayvon Martin's name has been reportedly invoked as a justification, indicate that anger and frustration over the case within the African-American community are boiling over in rare instances.
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2012/0426/Trayvon-Martin-case-sparks-of racial-violence-appear

Special guest; Barbara Woodall; author of Its Not My Mountain Anymore.
BarbaraTaylor Woodall was born and raised in the Appalachian Mountains of North Georgia. She graduated from Rabun Gap-Nacoochee School in 1973 and was active in the Foxfire programs. http://itsnotmymountainanymore.com/

Chevrolet pickup honors fallen hero
Bruce Hays kept his promise. To everyone who knew him, that’s hardly a surprise. Inspired by Hays’ character and sacrifice, hundreds of volunteers offered their time and money to help the fallen soldier deliver one final gift to his bride, Terry – a completely restored 1959 Chevrolet Apache pickup truck like the one her family owned when she was a child. http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2012/04/21/vintage-15-chevrolet-pickup-honors-fallen-hero/?intcmp=features

Man in Afghanistan uniform kills US service member
A man wearing an Afghan army uniform fatally shot an American service member in southern Afghanistan, officials said Thursday, the latest in a string of attacks against American and other foreign forces by their Afghan partners or insurgents in disguise.
http://www.military.com/news/article/man-in-afghan-uniform-kills
usservicemember.html?col=1186032310810

Self-defense: What are you prepared to do? Long-time readers may recall our post on seeing the world through apocalypse eyes. In that article, we discussed how it can help your preparedness to consider how you'd respond to a disasters that happen at all the various places you find yourself in a typical day. http://selfreliantinfo.blogspot.com/2012/04/self-defense-what-are-you-prepared-to.html

We have got to take our States back NOW!!

I just got off the phone with my Montana State Transportation Dept. Why was I calling them? Well, in my state, citizens that use gas for "off road" use are entitled to a refund from the state tax we paid on that gas. My state is primarily an agricultural state so there is a large majority of farms and ranches that use gas for their farm equipment, which never see pavement, among other things that use gas. But the refund is for anyone that uses gas not intended for vehicles that drive on the roads and highways of Montana. (boats, ATV's, snowmobiles and jet skiis are exempt, I know how stupid is that, they never see pavement either)

I apply for the refund every year because I use gas to run our generator for our electrical use. And since I am not a business or a farm/ranch I never had to submit my gas receipts unless something did not jive and they asked me for them. Until now.

I was told today by the helpful man who handles these refunds that I must submit every gas receipt for the year that I was requesting a refund. Each receipt must have my name and address on it. When I asked him why I had to do that this year and not all the other years I had been requesting a refund, he told me that the federal government ie; the IRS had come to the State of Montana and told the State they were changing the rules surrounding the State gas refund.

The first thing I said to this helpful man was that we need to take our State back from the federal government. He said "I agree one hundred percent". This from a state employee!! He told me that the IRS was also requiring businesses, farms and ranches fill out IRS forms so that the federal government can tax the gas refund. Yeppers folks, the federal government wants to tax a State refund. It's a wonderful life huh?

Anyway, I was also told by this helpful man that his boss was so afraid they would loose their job that they told the IRS agent that they would do anything to accommodate the federal government. So what was the response from the IRS agent to this submission? We'll be back in four months. (Don't want to loose those federal highway funds, nope nope nope)

How many other sneaky policies are being instituted across this great Republic against the States? How many State bureaucrats are folding like cheap lawn chairs to the will of the federal government?

I keep all of my receipts so this is just going to be an inconvenience for me. But it should be an inconvenience brandished upon me because of my States' decision, not some pencil pushing federal dope located somewhere in Washington DC. We better wake up people, things are getting dicey.

By Susan Frances Bonner

Firm uses mushrooms to make eco-friendly packaging

This will make all the eco-nuts feel warm and fuzzy.

From usatoday.com

Turns out that mushrooms — great in soups and salads — also make decent packaging material. Mushrooms are a key ingredient in pale, soft blocks produced by the thousands in an upstate New York plant. The blocks are used to cushion products ranging from Dell servers to furniture for Crate and Barrel.

More precisely, the packaging blocks are made with mycelium — the hidden "roots" of the mushroom that usually thread beneath soil or wood. Two former mechanical engineering and design students in their 20s, Eben Bayer and Gavin McIntyre, figured out how to grow those cottony filaments in a way that binds together seed husks or other agricultural byproducts into packaging shapes.

Look, capitalism works if government gets the hell out of the way. Manufacturers will go green if they can make a buck. "We the people" know what is best for us, we are not children and our Founding Fathers knew that. So back off and let us live free!!

Swiss to launch a space 'janitor'

Really, absolutely everyone but the USA is going into space. Oh how the mighty have fallen!!!

From the:independent.co.uk

The tidy Swiss want to clean up space. Scientists from the Alpine nation said yesterday they plan to launch a "janitor satellite" designed to get rid of orbiting debris known as space junk.

Sorsha the Dog

“Sorsha the dog”, our dog, passed away on Saturday July 2^nd 2011, the day that the Declaration of Independence was written in 1776. She went to sleep peacefully in the grass looking out over the mountains of our remote property and was buried in a shady spot underneath a mighty Fir tree surrounded by many Aspens. She was fourteen years old and a beautiful fluffy Golden Retriever-Chow mix. She traveled the entire North American continent with us, when I was a Travel Nurse.

Our furry child led an incredible life. She has ridden in elevators in five star hotels, she swam on the shores of the Great Lakes; she has slept in a tent with on every mountain in the United States. Sorsha was very protective and loyal. She was gentle but quick to leap into action to protect her home and her family. She was known by many names; My personal favorite, “Misses Sorsha Fluffy Butt”, her Native American name “always in the way dog”, and her four wheeling companion name, “Sorsha the four paw drive doggie.” We loved her dearly and she is much missed. Thank you, God, for her presence in our life. May God grant everyone as special a pet that we were blessed with for fourteen wonderful years.  And always remember, God spelled backwards is: DOG. 

Technorati Tags: God, heaven, Declaration of Independence, Montana, North America, Great Lakes, Travel Nurse, dog, death, news

Minnesota Government Shuts Down

From online.wsj.com

Minnesota encountered its second government shutdown in six years on Friday as Democratic Gov. Mark Dayton and Republican lawmakers failed to reach a compromise on closing the state's $5 billion budget gap.

Meanwhile, lawmakers in Iowa averted a shutdown Thursday, and several other states waited for governors to finalize their budgets.

Without a two-year budget agreement in place, state parks and the Minnesota Zoo will be shut for the July 4 holiday weekend, nonemergency road construction will halt and thousands of state workers will be furloughed.Minnesota's battle has been echoed in budget fights across the U.S. States had to close a collective $86 billion budget gap for their new fiscal year, which began Friday for most states, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.

Is your state next? Scary times folks. Are you and your family prepared? It's time to think about self-reliance.Technorati Tags: financial news, Minnesota, state governments, state parks, politics

On Bravo, Kathy Griffin Mocks Bristol Palin's 'Leno' Chin, Mangles Bachmann Speech

From newsbusters.org

KATHY GRIFFIN: Okay, so, Bristol Palin has this brand new chin, and I swear to god, she looks like Jay Leno. Your very own Jay Leno from Andover. Right, Andover- all right. But it's like she took a picture of Jay Leno, went to the dentist and said, "can I have this?" It's really- I-I, I'm just saying-it's, like, out there. But the comedy comes in, in her statement. So, may I read you her statement, directly? Okay. I got my little notes - okay. So, uh, Bristol Palin said, "I had corrective jaw surgery." Let's just-let's just take a minute. Not a chin implant, corrective jaw surgery. "Yes, it improved the way I look, but the surgery was necessary for medical reasons." No, that-that's true. Like, when I had my first face lift, it was 'cause I was fighting scurvy. And when I had my eye job, it was 'cause I had rickets. And for - "it was for medical reasons, so my jaw and teeth could properly realign."Who did she blow last night

I am sooo, sooo freakin pissed about this stupid bitch. I had to have "reconstructive jaw surgery" for medical reasons. All my siblings and I, except for one had "buck teeth" (two of them still do). That condition, (and I am putting my RN with a BSN hat on), deteriorates the gum line due to mis-alignment of the teeth. I had two gum operations and was told that without "reconstruction" I would loose most of my teeth and if I had an infection in my gums it could affect my heart. It took two years and I had to have my jaw wired shut for six months to get the job done. It started in 1992, with the surgeons cracking open my upper jaw. My husband had to turn a key to a lock that was surgically implanted in my upper jaw that stretched my jaw to the point that there was a one to two inch space between my two front teeth, every night. The pain was bad and constant. I was going to Nursing school for my BSN during the whole ordeal. So screw you, you sick crazy commie bitch, Kathy Griffin, just shut the hell up. You are not funny and need to go.
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