- Did you know that bacteria are too heavy to float in the air? They will fall down to the surface in still air. I'd expect the same thing happens with particulate matter in the atmosphere.
- Did you know that most bacteria cannot survive dessication? They dry, they die.
- Did you know that "constant humidity salts" will maintain a constant humidity in a closed container? Great for humidors. Just make a saturated solution of the salt, add more of the salt so some undissolved salt remains. This mixture will suck enough moisture out of the air in the container to keep the humidity in the container constant. A saturated solution of table salt will maintain a constant humidity of around 72%. See Table on link. These salts can be ordered through a chemical supply site.
- Did you know that Legionnaire's disease has been found in hot water tanks set at 120F? The only way to make sure you don't get Legionnaire's disease is to set you hot water heater's temperature to 130F. See CDC and the survival temperature table on Wikipedia under Prevention. Notice the 5km range survival of these bacteria. Humid conditions.. i.e. not dry.
Saturday, June 30, 2012
Did You Know....
I Declare Copyright for "Starve The Beast"©
As the title says, I declare ownership of the phrase "Starve The Beast"© .
"Starve The Beast" Copyright© 2012, Eric J. Miller. All rights reserved.
So what does "Starve the Beast"© mean?
"Starve The Beast"© means to deny sustenance to any evil activity, organization, or individual.
It describes a process whereby any support for an evil practice of any kind is eliminated.
From my point of view, it is a way to make it harder for commies (any liberals here?) to infiltrate our government, to brainwash our children, to mislead anyone, to put a biased spin on something, to tell half-truths, and any other activity or process that unfairly hurts mankind.
As you can tell from some of my other posts, that I do not like to be controlled, I do not like to be told what to do or what to think, I do not like being scammed, I do not like too much power in concentrated in one place, and I do not like stupidity. (Seems I hate myself with this comment. Oh well.)
One strategy can be to boycott any store that promotes or takes advantage of a liberal agenda.
I spoke of this before. If it's free from a liberal source, get it and burn it. (BC Magazine... Broadcasting and Cable Magazine is an expensive publication and it has to cost the liberal provider of this free magazine a lot of money. I get at least three copies a week! This magazine is rife with liberal opinions, tons of distractions, and time wasting nonsense. I don't care to spend my time reading about Charlie Sheen or a new sitcom called "Anger Management" or Emmy nominations. Most of the entertainment these days is full of leftist propaganda.)
So, starving the beast means... don't improve their ratings by watching them. Boycott anyone who advertises on these liberal channels as best you can, get as much free stuff from these propagandists and burn it. Don't waste your valuable time reading or watching this stuff.. they are trying to brainwash you into a mislead "believer" and follower. The agenda is destructive, will hurt you in the end, and could bring down our country. ( On the other side... I advise you to get sucked into this if you enjoy living in a sewage and disease infested shanty town, because that is where this line of thinking will bring you.)
I hope you get my drift..
Wasps and Hornets
Thought I'd pass this on.... (Think I made a post on this before... too lazy to look today.)
I was listening to a gardening show on the radio today, and a caller wanted help on controlling wasp nests that were invading the north side of his home.
For years, I had the same problem with hornets. I got stung a couple of times trying to spray their nests with Wasp & Hornet killer, and it seemed to work temporarily, but the hornets would come back to the same nesting area.
I then found out I could get diatomaceous earth which is an FDA approved insecticide. Diatoms, those tiny little critters floating around in our oceans are made of silica, an extremely hard substance. The diatoms protect themselves by growing sharp silica spikes on their bodies.
I watched a research project investigating the insecticidal properties of diatomaceous earth (electron micrographs of these critters are cool!) and found out hard shelled bugs get these tiny diatom carcases in their joints. The diatomaceous earth grinds at their joints to the point where they die of dehydration.
I got some of this stuff and in the evening when it's cool and the hornets aren't active, I sprayed some of this diatomaceous earth into their nests. It took a few days, but the hornets either left, or died off. In any event, since I did this, the hornets have disappeared and never came back. (Two years running.)
Thought you'd like to know.
P.S. Don't kill any beneficial bugs. (I let "pet" spiders build webs around my house, keeps the moth population down.)
My "pet toads" keep the bugs off of my tomato plants.
I was listening to a gardening show on the radio today, and a caller wanted help on controlling wasp nests that were invading the north side of his home.
For years, I had the same problem with hornets. I got stung a couple of times trying to spray their nests with Wasp & Hornet killer, and it seemed to work temporarily, but the hornets would come back to the same nesting area.
I then found out I could get diatomaceous earth which is an FDA approved insecticide. Diatoms, those tiny little critters floating around in our oceans are made of silica, an extremely hard substance. The diatoms protect themselves by growing sharp silica spikes on their bodies.
I watched a research project investigating the insecticidal properties of diatomaceous earth (electron micrographs of these critters are cool!) and found out hard shelled bugs get these tiny diatom carcases in their joints. The diatomaceous earth grinds at their joints to the point where they die of dehydration.
I got some of this stuff and in the evening when it's cool and the hornets aren't active, I sprayed some of this diatomaceous earth into their nests. It took a few days, but the hornets either left, or died off. In any event, since I did this, the hornets have disappeared and never came back. (Two years running.)
Thought you'd like to know.
P.S. Don't kill any beneficial bugs. (I let "pet" spiders build webs around my house, keeps the moth population down.)
My "pet toads" keep the bugs off of my tomato plants.
Wednesday, June 27, 2012
Constructive Interference
There is not much in nature that is flat and shiny.
So what?
This is why so what.
We humans like to build things and stretch the limits on what we do with stuff.
So, we build things like metal buildings with flat surfaces that act like mirrors that reflect heat, light, radio waves and reflections of ourself.
(Guess where I'm going here.)
We use cell phones, TV's, radios, garage door openers, microwave ovens and transmission towers for heating food or for communication; even megaphones so we can be heard. We use electricity that we get from high voltage wires, transformers on poles, and wiring in our house. We then sit in front of TV's and computer screens and X-boxes for hours in an environment where we are bombarded with electromagnetic waves of all frequencies.
The electromagnetic radiation we expose ourselves to is much, much higher than natural.
You say... So what? I don't feel anything.
This is why so what......
Electromagnetic radiation of the right frequency and intensity can break chemical bonds. You know, the bonds that hold us together.
Now the radiation we are exposed to from a TV, for example, is not much. The intensity isn't strong enough to do much damage to our tissue.
Now, here is my BUT........ (not BUTT or anterior sit down pad like me.)
We have all kinds of other low intensity emitters all around us... which are bombarding use from all directions.
This can be a problem. Here's why. Waves cross each other and there are points where they cancel each other out and others points where they augment each other. (Drop three stones into a smooth as glass pond and watch the ripples. Where the ripples intersect, there are bumps, higher points in the water... = constructive interference.) Then there are troughs = destructive interference.
Where the lines cross, the intensity of the electromotive force at the same frequency (or multiples of the frequency) is either augmented or diminished. If the frequencies are high enough and augmented, these points can break chemical bonds or cause a chemical reaction to take place. Sunlight's UV = Skin cancer, another frequency = Vitamin D.
I picture these spots of constructive interference as "Sparklies".
If we consider our human made electromagnetic waves come from above at all angles, are reflected from all angles and sides... I can visualize some pretty hot hot spots.
If these hot spots cause an unnatural chemical reaction in our body, or splits a molecule apart, two scenarios can exist. Our immune system can recognize the new molecule as unfriendly and deal with it accordingly, or not recognize it because it mimics something that is supposed to be in our body. It is these unrecognized molecules that can wreak havoc on our bodily processes.
So, there is no telling what can be manifested out of the billions of simultaneous reactions going on at one time, especially when we continue to increase the amount of electromagnetic disturbances into our environment. All it would take is one or two genes to be modified slightly where they are now the blueprint for a new/different gene to be replicated in our body. Tumors, modified hormones, modified enzymes, learning disabilities, ... NO TELLING, anything can happen (Maybe that's why I am the way I am). There is an equal chance that these changes are beneficial.
I've always distrusted studies that did not consider side effects. For instance, a study could be to determine if microwaves cause cancer. So rats are exposed to microwaves and no cancer occurs and it is declared that microwaves don't cause cancer. Based on these incomplete studies, the FCC or other regulating agency will give the go-ahead for a new electronic communication device (Smart Meters?) without any concern that we will get cancer, but nothing is said about our future children having three legs and one arm due to the extra radiation, because it wasn't looked for. (Thalidomide was not studied for birth defects, the intelligence of the rats was not studied after fed aspartame. Aspartame was approved because the rats didn't die.) Dogs love antifreeze, tastes good, but it gives them an agonizing death. Search term: aspartame conspiracy
I get poo-pooed by those telling me what I'm saying here is B.S. (Bachelor of Science?).
I get references that are statements made by major medical researchers or government agencies, of just plain opinions without any specific reasons. They say there is no data that links, let's say aspartame, to any of the claims made by people. However, there is no real science to explain the physics, chemistry (same thing as physics, to me.) behind their statements. They talk about "population studies" that just use statistics which can only describe the effects of the variables studied. Statistics do not cover all possibilities, physics cannot predict three legs and one arm, but it can show that there can be an almost infinite number of possibilities that something can go wrong. Busting molecules apart is real, what the molecules will do cannot be determined except in the simplest systems. The main active ingredients are wonderful for your health, but the preservative will kill you. (And Surprise! The placebo effect is about as good as the treatment.)
So what?
This is why so what.
We humans like to build things and stretch the limits on what we do with stuff.
So, we build things like metal buildings with flat surfaces that act like mirrors that reflect heat, light, radio waves and reflections of ourself.
(Guess where I'm going here.)
We also make things that emit waves: sound waves, electromagnetic waves
and hand waves.
We use cell phones, TV's, radios, garage door openers, microwave ovens and transmission towers for heating food or for communication; even megaphones so we can be heard. We use electricity that we get from high voltage wires, transformers on poles, and wiring in our house. We then sit in front of TV's and computer screens and X-boxes for hours in an environment where we are bombarded with electromagnetic waves of all frequencies.
The electromagnetic radiation we expose ourselves to is much, much higher than natural.
You say... So what? I don't feel anything.
This is why so what......
Electromagnetic radiation of the right frequency and intensity can break chemical bonds. You know, the bonds that hold us together.
Now the radiation we are exposed to from a TV, for example, is not much. The intensity isn't strong enough to do much damage to our tissue.
Now, here is my BUT........ (not BUTT or anterior sit down pad like me.)
We have all kinds of other low intensity emitters all around us... which are bombarding use from all directions.
This can be a problem. Here's why. Waves cross each other and there are points where they cancel each other out and others points where they augment each other. (Drop three stones into a smooth as glass pond and watch the ripples. Where the ripples intersect, there are bumps, higher points in the water... = constructive interference.) Then there are troughs = destructive interference.
Note: Not the best illustration on purpose.
Where the lines cross, the intensity of the electromotive force at the same frequency (or multiples of the frequency) is either augmented or diminished. If the frequencies are high enough and augmented, these points can break chemical bonds or cause a chemical reaction to take place. Sunlight's UV = Skin cancer, another frequency = Vitamin D.
I picture these spots of constructive interference as "Sparklies".
If we consider our human made electromagnetic waves come from above at all angles, are reflected from all angles and sides... I can visualize some pretty hot hot spots.
If these hot spots cause an unnatural chemical reaction in our body, or splits a molecule apart, two scenarios can exist. Our immune system can recognize the new molecule as unfriendly and deal with it accordingly, or not recognize it because it mimics something that is supposed to be in our body. It is these unrecognized molecules that can wreak havoc on our bodily processes.
So, there is no telling what can be manifested out of the billions of simultaneous reactions going on at one time, especially when we continue to increase the amount of electromagnetic disturbances into our environment. All it would take is one or two genes to be modified slightly where they are now the blueprint for a new/different gene to be replicated in our body. Tumors, modified hormones, modified enzymes, learning disabilities, ... NO TELLING, anything can happen (Maybe that's why I am the way I am). There is an equal chance that these changes are beneficial.
I've always distrusted studies that did not consider side effects. For instance, a study could be to determine if microwaves cause cancer. So rats are exposed to microwaves and no cancer occurs and it is declared that microwaves don't cause cancer. Based on these incomplete studies, the FCC or other regulating agency will give the go-ahead for a new electronic communication device (Smart Meters?) without any concern that we will get cancer, but nothing is said about our future children having three legs and one arm due to the extra radiation, because it wasn't looked for. (Thalidomide was not studied for birth defects, the intelligence of the rats was not studied after fed aspartame. Aspartame was approved because the rats didn't die.) Dogs love antifreeze, tastes good, but it gives them an agonizing death. Search term: aspartame conspiracy
I get poo-pooed by those telling me what I'm saying here is B.S. (Bachelor of Science?).
I get references that are statements made by major medical researchers or government agencies, of just plain opinions without any specific reasons. They say there is no data that links, let's say aspartame, to any of the claims made by people. However, there is no real science to explain the physics, chemistry (same thing as physics, to me.) behind their statements. They talk about "population studies" that just use statistics which can only describe the effects of the variables studied. Statistics do not cover all possibilities, physics cannot predict three legs and one arm, but it can show that there can be an almost infinite number of possibilities that something can go wrong. Busting molecules apart is real, what the molecules will do cannot be determined except in the simplest systems. The main active ingredients are wonderful for your health, but the preservative will kill you. (And Surprise! The placebo effect is about as good as the treatment.)
We've got a lot to learn.!
Tuesday, June 26, 2012
Paid Up Credit Cards
What would happen if we all paid off our credit card debt?
(Starve The Beast Strategy)
1) We'd end up with more money to spend on stuff we want instead of interest.
(Great for the economy and jobs.)
2) The credit card companies would make less profit.
(Bad for them and for anyone who invested in them.)
I would expect, if the credit card companies lost interest income, they would go to Washington and try to get money from the taxpayers because they are too big to fail.
BEEN THERE-DONE THAT.
(I think another bailout would tick off voters enough to default on their credit card debt. Credit card debt is unsecured, isn't it?)
If the banks (credit card companies) started to fail, there would be a big sell off of thier stock because their stock would be a bad investment. Retirement funds would be impacted for those not paying attention.
The only recourse the credit card companies would have is to raise their interest rates on any of the customers (suckers) they have left.. but you know where that leads to... fewer customers, less income for them. Jobs will be lost in the financial sector. (But who really feels good about working for a company that sucks as much money as they can from their customers?)
Some of the credit card companies just might try to suck customers from their competitors to survive by offering lower interest rates. There could be a feeding frenzy as bank after bank fed upon themselves by lowering interest rates? They'd almost have to lower interest rates because the momentum towards paid off credit cards would already be in place.
I would expect the biggest credit card companies would be most affected by this loss of interest revenue.
As more and more people paid off their credit card debt, they would have more money and could actually start a savings account!
WOW! This would be GREAT for the banks because they could loan more money and make a profit that way. They could loan money for mortgages, new businesses, and to help certain industries survive seasonal money crunches until their profits come in to pay off their loans.. (Inventors, Christmas gift companies, farmers, fireworks companies.)
As more mortgage money becomes available, more homes and businesses would be built... MORE JOBS!,
More Homes would be built to provide a better quality of life for more people. Banks would get rich in a good way and working for them would be honorable.
If I look at our currency, one side of the bill seems reserved for good and the other side for evil?
Hmm, I only have $20's in my wallet...
Hey, it has "In God We Trust" on one side over a picture of the White House. Hmm, seems the designer wanted God there. Was Andrew Jackson considered a bad guy?
Monday, June 25, 2012
Radioactivity
I've been getting emails suggesting that I am confused between radioactive radiation versus electromagnetic radiation.
So, here goes.... radioactivity has basically three components to it...
Alpha Particles: Positively Charged Particles (Example: He++ like Helium with two electrons stripped off of it.)
Beta Particles: electrons
Gamma Radiation: PART OF THE ELECTROMAGNETIC SPECTRUM... just a higher frequency of electromagnetic radiation ... above X-Rays. POWERFUL STUFF!
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cf/EM_Spectrum_Properties_edit.svg
P.S.
Just to let you know.. "CAT SCANS" X-RAYS..... FROM WIKIPEDIA...
"It is estimated that 0.4% of current cancers in the United States are due to CTs performed in the past and that this may increase to as high as 1.5-2% with 2007 rates of CT usage;[5] however, this estimate is disputed.[6]' --- REALLY?
P.S.S. Isn't it curious that if we think of the frequency of sound waves... the LOWER FREQUENCIES travel farther than the higher frequencies... EXACTLY THE OPPOSITE OF ELECTROMAGNETIC FREQUENCIES... That's why Drum Fish use low frequency sound and whales use low frequency sound to communicate long distances.. One for a good time, the other for who knows what?
So, here goes.... radioactivity has basically three components to it...
Alpha Particles: Positively Charged Particles (Example: He++ like Helium with two electrons stripped off of it.)
Beta Particles: electrons
Gamma Radiation: PART OF THE ELECTROMAGNETIC SPECTRUM... just a higher frequency of electromagnetic radiation ... above X-Rays. POWERFUL STUFF!
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cf/EM_Spectrum_Properties_edit.svg
P.S.
Just to let you know.. "CAT SCANS" X-RAYS..... FROM WIKIPEDIA...
"It is estimated that 0.4% of current cancers in the United States are due to CTs performed in the past and that this may increase to as high as 1.5-2% with 2007 rates of CT usage;[5] however, this estimate is disputed.[6]' --- REALLY?
P.S.S. Isn't it curious that if we think of the frequency of sound waves... the LOWER FREQUENCIES travel farther than the higher frequencies... EXACTLY THE OPPOSITE OF ELECTROMAGNETIC FREQUENCIES... That's why Drum Fish use low frequency sound and whales use low frequency sound to communicate long distances.. One for a good time, the other for who knows what?
Saturday, June 23, 2012
A Story I Wrote
The Death of the Power Grid
A fictional story on how our country collapsed and the
dawn of a new era began.
Politics have always been
controversial and it is hard not to pay attention to some of it.
Jake
started listening to the news after 9/11 and ended up listening to what was happening
in Iraq. It wasn’t long before he ended up listening to the U.S. news. He
became addicted to the soap opera of the day and began to form opinions on who
was right and who was wrong.
The news was always negative and
it never told the whole story, just the scary parts and a cliff-hanger to get
him to watch for the next breaking news on the subject.
As time went on, the economy
crashed, jobs were lost and people started to lose their life savings due to
inflation and drop in home prices. To survive the day, they had to rely
on credit cards to buy food and it didn’t take long for the cards to be maxed
out and couldn’t pay anymore.
In response to the number of
people going broke, the credit card companies began raising interest rates to
keep their profit margins up and increased the rate of the number of people
defaulting on their payments. Now the survival of the banks was
threatened, and many banks failed. Those that survived did so by getting
bailouts from the government.
The government did not get the
tax revenue it needed to function at the status quo because of job loss and had
to borrow from foreign countries in order to pay its bills. This caused
the value of the dollar to fall which caused the price of oil to
increase. The higher cost of oil impacted the price of everything in the
country. Food prices went up. Social Security benefits lagged way
behind the increased cost of living and more and more people fell into poverty
causing the national debt to climb to dangerous heights. The value of
retirement funds fell precipitously in terms of purchasing power.
Meanwhile, the legislators in
Washington, insulated from many of the problems faced by their constituents,
continued their job of writing new laws which further hampered the ability of
job creators to hire people. This snowball of destruction continued
without any stops as the country continued to go deeper in debt without any
hope of stopping the train to destruction. Laws started to show up that
criminalized such things as sharing surplus squashes from your garden with your
neighbor. The consequence of sharing the squash was $5000.00.
Another revenue source for our government.
Companies tried everything to
improve efficiencies and cut corners wherever they could. They laid off
people, reduced the quality or quantity of the products they sold which put
their customers deeper in debt.
Jake was watching this happen and
felt helpless to stop it. Politicians lied all the time, twisted
facts to gain an unfair advantage and promised the moon to anyone interested in
listening to them. Pandering was rampant and promises were made which
could never be implemented. Special interest groups donated vast sums of
money behind their candidate of choice with the expectation of having a better chance
of survival than their counterparts. Laws were not enforced uniformly and only
enforced for a political advantage. The normal taxpaying citizen be
damned.
Then one day, Jake noticed that
his electric meter was changed. No more dials! Just an LED display that
blinked several times a minute. He didn’t pay attention to it, everything
seemed normal until he accidently came across a website that showed the same
meter that was installed on his home.
In big, bold letters, the site said
“Say No to the Smart Meter”. This caught Jake’s attention and read
on. What was presented on the site were videos of dangerous radiation
being pulsed from the meters, and complaints on how these meters invade privacy
and break privacy laws. There were people talking about how their health
has been impacted the moment their Smart Meters were installed and the lawsuits
that were won against the electric companies that installed these meters.
Jake’s curiosity kept him looking
at this issue and soon found out that there were many ways this smart meter
system could be abused. Jake knew then why his electric bill came within
two days of the reading of it. The bill mailed from the main office, no more meter readers.
During this time, Jake’s
financial situation was also getting worse. He depended on credit cards
to manage his finances, but as the interest rates climbed, he found himself in
a financial bind. He tried everything he could to reduce his
expenses and soon this endeavor became an adventure, a passion to reduce as
many expenses as he could to see how far he could go without losing the
comforts and freedoms he was used to. He discovered how “Lower Cost”
anything raised rates and fees slowly until he paid much more than he should
for a service. Jake also found out that what he believed was necessary to
be comfortable was a lie. His experiments to reduce costs had him place
Styrofoam on his south facing windows to keep the heat out, how to manage heat
by using a fan and a wet T-Shirt. He was pleased with the newly found
ways to stay comfortable without spending a ton on heating or cooling with
almost no effort. 5 minutes a day max.
One day, Jake scraped enough
money to pay off his electric bill and used his banking service to pay his
electric company through it. He paid the bank in plenty of time for the
bill to get to the electric company, but noticed a day later that the money was
going to be delivered to the electric company one day past the due date.
Jake decided to call his electric company to forewarn them of the day late and
to not be concerned about his bill being paid… the money was in the mail.
However, what the electric
company person told him was that if the bill was not paid on the due date, they
would shut off the electricity. Which they could do immediately from the
main office now with the flick of a switch. That comment sparked a lot of
questions in Jake’s mind so he asked, “Do you mean that you will cut off the
electricity of people who depend on it for survival like those in his area that
depended on iron lungs and oxygen machines? The answer he got gave him
chills down his spine, “If the bill is not paid on time, we cut off the
electricity?” Jake asked again thinking he was misunderstood and he got the
same answer! Then Jake asked to talk with her supervisor to confirm what
he was just told. He got the same answer from the supervisor. He
asked to speak again to her supervisor and when he asked the same question, he
got the same answer. Jake asked, “Do you mean you will turn off
electricity to a home knowing that you will kill someone? The answer he
got was “We will turn off the electricity if the bill is not paid on time.”
Anger rose up inside Jake that
changed his life forever!!!
He now had a civic duty to let as
many people as he could know what he heard. He called his
lawyer to see if there were any laws that would protect people from being
murdered by their electric company and she dutifully and professionally perused
the law and tried to find any prior cases related to this new SMART
METER. She found only two instances where the courts ruled in favor
of the citizens and only two laws that provided any control over this new Smart
Meter technology. There were many legal reviews on the situation by law
professors at various universities, but the fact of the matter was there were no laws that
made the citizen safe from all of the dangers of the Smart Meter and or any
valid studies that showed the radiation coming from the Smart Meter was safe.
One woman in Maine was told she
had to get rid of her refrigerator and buy a new one because her old
refrigerator did not have a chip in it for the Smart Meter to read.
One day Jake decided to put in
any keyword he could think of and decided to put in the part number listed on
the meter as a search term. He didn’t expect to find anything, but he
did! It was a Security and Exchange Commission Form 8-K dated June 3,
2010 which gave approval to the company that has installed 100’s of millions of
these meters around the world to present at a Credit Suisse “Future of Energy
Conference” June 23, 2010 to prospective investors about the capabilities of
the new Smart Meter. The Powerpoint presentation was attached for
reference.
In that presentation, Jake found
out that this new Smart Meter technology has been installed in 7 million homes
in the U.S. and had 100’s of millions of these meters installed around the
world. They had meters for electricity, natural gas, and water. Each
capable of being turned on or off with the flick of a switch from a main office
or the companies main office. In other words, the whole world’s electric, water,
and natural gas could be shut off from one place!
This system could control
thermostats, water heaters, air conditioners, and on the company’s main website
there were other items that could be controlled by their “technology”.
Cars could be shut off, toasters, the new florescent light bulbs, almost any
device that uses electricity. Data can be collected about when you watch
TV, when you go to bed, when you get up, what devices you use during the day,
and when you are not home. Jake hated the idea that his every move was
monitored… for ANY REASON.
Plans were presented showing the
expected and planned installation of the Smart Grid all over the world to get
the people at the Credit Suisse conference in Washington, DC to invest in the
construction of the Smart Grid with promises of excellent returns.
Jake didn’t stop, he continually
searched for any hope of a backup plan to get himself and his loved ones out
from under this controlling and threatening situation.
Then one day, he had an idea that
could bring this whole system down. And that was to get off the
grid. He knew he could stay cool with a wet T-shirt and a fan, and he
knew he could stay warm in the winter with a simple infra-red heat lamp, and
stay warm in bed with a 5 watt heating pad. He also knew he could keep
his pipes from freezing with simple pipe heating cable available at any
hardware store, and knew he could change out his lightbulbs to a twelve volt
system that was already available at camper retailers.
Jake also knew that he could live
without hot water, but could heat it with a simple solar water heater or camp fire. Jake
could cook outside with wood picket up from his yard using a modified 55 gallon drum.
Jake also knew he could get enough electrical power from a charged up car
battery to run his well long enough to get a day’s supply of water. Jake
also knew that, once done, he could live pretty much the same lifestyle he was
used to with little expense or effort.
Jake knew that if he passed on
what he knew on how to get off the grid, he could share this information. If he
passed his knowledge to enough people who would go off the grid immediately, he
could affect an immediate and devastating impact on the bottom line of the
electric companies equipped with this technology to the point where they would
have to increase rates in order to satisfy investors. This cannot last
for long, because as they lose customers because of increasing rates, their source
of money would disappear. Investors would drop them like a rock as
a bad risk and the company would go down. In other words, he could
manifest the same problems the big banks have with their consumer killing
interest rates, he could stop this insidious technology in its tracks.
Jake managed to get enough people
to share what he learned. Thousands of people had a new way to live and
they started inventing even more efficient ways to get the comforts they
wanted.
People learned that what they
thought was important to them was not important at all. Money was no
longer a symbol of success. Nor were big homes with all the expense and
work involved with keeping them up.
More people could live in their
own home and not be at the mercy of their landlords. More people realized
that the only thing left that gave the government dictatorial control over them
were property taxes and eminent domain laws. They found their total
freedom after they voted in those “politicians” who got rid of these tyrannical
laws. School systems were no longer needed and home schooling courses were
selling like hot cakes. No longer could the government decide what your
children are taught. You had control over the destiny of your child who
would one day take care of you.
And, these newly efficient
technologies sold like hotcakes all over the world which raised the standard of
living of every person on the planet.
Life was good.
Not Afraid to Look the Fool!
NOTE: See followup after this article.......
I called Dr. Electric on WTN today and asked if I could talk about the smart meter, and if not, that's OK.
His response was that he wasn't familiar with them. (HUH?) and I mentioned Sen. Alexander's allowing EPA regulations to stay in place meaning we'll all have to pay up to 27% more for our electricity., I remember if he installed LED systems to keep electrical cost down.. couldn't remember what he said..
Then!! I shared my wet T-shirt way to keep cool... and I was surprised at how comfortable I was. I told him that I had not had my air conditioner on yet this summer and have been surprisingly comfortable... I was my own swamp cooler....
Dr. Electric said something on the order of "Hey, you're going to put me out of business."
And as I was going to say it was a great opportunity for him... WTN hung up on me, and I heard them LAUGHING at me!!! HA HA HA HA WET T-SHIRT....
Here's my take on this.... He doesn't see the opportunity for himself, and he will ridicule anyone who might impact his profits.
Here he is giving absolutely, wonderfully expensive and labor intensive solutions where there are much easier and cheaper ways for listeners to solve their problems.
Why is it people cannot see solutions beyond what might be the consequence of a change in the way we do things?
I am not afraid of being called a fool... Turns out, Dr. Electric made a fool of himself. A lot of his listeners were talking about reducing expenses... and they heard me.
And to promote Christ Jesus after the end of the show seems sorta out of place, doesn't it?
Update: June 28, 2012.. Still comfortable, learning some more tricks, saving a ton of money. Highest outdoor thermometer reading 105.8 F.
I sent a thank you email with some more comments and Dr. Electric professionally and kindly responded to my email. He also followed up with more information regarding cooling off with a fan blowing over container of ice. This is true professionalism!!!
I called Dr. Electric on WTN today and asked if I could talk about the smart meter, and if not, that's OK.
His response was that he wasn't familiar with them. (HUH?) and I mentioned Sen. Alexander's allowing EPA regulations to stay in place meaning we'll all have to pay up to 27% more for our electricity., I remember if he installed LED systems to keep electrical cost down.. couldn't remember what he said..
Then!! I shared my wet T-shirt way to keep cool... and I was surprised at how comfortable I was. I told him that I had not had my air conditioner on yet this summer and have been surprisingly comfortable... I was my own swamp cooler....
Dr. Electric said something on the order of "Hey, you're going to put me out of business."
And as I was going to say it was a great opportunity for him... WTN hung up on me, and I heard them LAUGHING at me!!! HA HA HA HA WET T-SHIRT....
Here's my take on this.... He doesn't see the opportunity for himself, and he will ridicule anyone who might impact his profits.
Here he is giving absolutely, wonderfully expensive and labor intensive solutions where there are much easier and cheaper ways for listeners to solve their problems.
Why is it people cannot see solutions beyond what might be the consequence of a change in the way we do things?
I am not afraid of being called a fool... Turns out, Dr. Electric made a fool of himself. A lot of his listeners were talking about reducing expenses... and they heard me.
And to promote Christ Jesus after the end of the show seems sorta out of place, doesn't it?
Update: June 28, 2012.. Still comfortable, learning some more tricks, saving a ton of money. Highest outdoor thermometer reading 105.8 F.
Update: June 30, 2012
I listened to the Dr. Electric show today, and they read my email response to the "ridicule" I perceived. Not a word was edited out.... THIS IS A GOOD THING and this tells me these guys are OK.I sent a thank you email with some more comments and Dr. Electric professionally and kindly responded to my email. He also followed up with more information regarding cooling off with a fan blowing over container of ice. This is true professionalism!!!
NO MORE LAWS!!! Laws Create Lawbreakers
Washington thinks its job is to pass laws. NOT!!!
It's job should be to SIMPLIFY our laws and improve efficiency in everything they get involved in.
Every day, it seems there's a hundred new laws passed that cannot be enforced due to the massive oversight needed to enforce them.
The complexity caused by this process increases exponentially and us poor citizens have to obey every one of them "or else".
Each new tax, each new reporting requirement, each new law has threats with it to anyone who doesn't comply. Do we pay taxes to get threatened?
I want our government to ONLY PASS LAWS THAT THEY CAN UNIFORMLY AND COMPLETELY ENFORCE. If the government cannot afford to enforce all the laws they pass, the ones we cannot afford to enforce uniformly and completely should not be on the books.
I'd like to see Washington, and our states revamp our legal system so that the laws on the books are all enforced uniformly to everyone, and any law that cannot be enforced in such a way be taken down.
This would mean, Washington needs to reduce the complexities they introduce with each law and concentrate on the most important laws that will best provide the rights and freedoms of us citizens.
Three laws should cover it.....
1) Jail to anyone who lies, cheats, steals, hurts, or murders anyone.
2) Citizens have a right to protect themselves from harm (guns included) and to report liars, cheaters, and crooks.
3) Taxes ONLY for National Defense and enforcement of laws 1 and 2.
These three should cost us no more than 1/20th of our GDP...
Government employees will cringe at this thought.. "What about MY JOB!". If laws are simplified, I'll lose my job!
My comeback: "Then get another, productive job."
If we hired people with expectations reduced, there would be no assumption that a job will last forever and do two things:
1) Keep employees on their toes. ("Why work hard if I don't have to, my job is secure, they can't fire me." I saw this working in a union shop.)
2) Draw those individuals who understand the expectations and adjust accordingly. (i.e. understanding that a job isn't permanent means there will be no surprises or disappointments if it ends. Much like a Day Job. You don't see those working day jobs whining and complaining that the job only lasted a day. That was expected.)
Stupid spew, I know, but we've got to get off this lawmaking bandwagon and simplify them to where us citizens and job creators can breath!! GEESH!!!
Thursday, June 21, 2012
Brainwashing Our Children
It just occurred to me how insidious the
Do you remember my April 15th Post?
A student in the Erin, TN school system told me that she saw "The Story of Stuff" twice!
This video trashes "Capitalists" and is another production from the same company that made the video on my April 15th Post.
Now, I realize that they are teaching this trash to children who are at an age where they are just beginning to develop that part of the brain (Cerebral Cortex) that can handle analytical thinking. (Previous Post: Useful Idiots... hmm... Stalin or Levin?)
They are brainwashing our children at the most gullible time in their lives!
No wonder we cannot explain Capitalism or the agenda of the "commies" of choice.
Maybe it's not mercury. (Addendum to my getting into trouble post.)
Marxist's are in trying to overthrow our government.
Do you remember my April 15th Post?
A student in the Erin, TN school system told me that she saw "The Story of Stuff" twice!
This video trashes "Capitalists" and is another production from the same company that made the video on my April 15th Post.
Now, I realize that they are teaching this trash to children who are at an age where they are just beginning to develop that part of the brain (Cerebral Cortex) that can handle analytical thinking. (Previous Post: Useful Idiots... hmm... Stalin or Levin?)
They are brainwashing our children at the most gullible time in their lives!
No wonder we cannot explain Capitalism or the agenda of the "commies" of choice.
Maybe it's not mercury. (Addendum to my getting into trouble post.)
Our Fantastic Representatives
I sent this email to Congressman
Stephen Fincher via his web portal..
Let's see if I get a response that makes sense.
Message Subject: THE RIGHT TO MURDER
Message Text:
I had a conversation with my electric company about a month ago when I was in financial trouble. I called them to expect full payment for my electric bill one day after the due date because of the "PayBill" service at my bank said it would take 5 business days for my payment to get to the electric company. The due date was four business days away. I was told that if they did not get their payment ON THE DUE DATE THEY WOULD CUT OFF MY ELECTRICITY. (With the flick of a switch with their new SMART METER system.) I told them if you shut off my electricity, you'll kill me because I will have no water and the nearest water source was a fetid creek five miles away. I am a heart patient, and at the time, my car was not working. They told me, regardless of my condition, they will shut off my electricity. I asked to talk with someone else and got the same answer from 3 separate departments. They will shut off my electricity. I asked them about people in iron lungs or oxygen machines... if you shut off electricity to them, you'll kill them... They said to me that if they do not pay by the due date, they will shut off the electricity. THIS IS WRONG!!!! THEY HAVE THE RIGHT TO MURDER SOMEONE WITHOUT ANY CONSEQUENCE!!! I suggest that there be a law that requires a public utility to check on the condition of anyone before they shut off their electrical service. No one in this country has the right to murder (let alone threaten someone's life). Yet it seems Dickson Electric thinks it can. Eric
Message Text:
I had a conversation with my electric company about a month ago when I was in financial trouble. I called them to expect full payment for my electric bill one day after the due date because of the "PayBill" service at my bank said it would take 5 business days for my payment to get to the electric company. The due date was four business days away. I was told that if they did not get their payment ON THE DUE DATE THEY WOULD CUT OFF MY ELECTRICITY. (With the flick of a switch with their new SMART METER system.) I told them if you shut off my electricity, you'll kill me because I will have no water and the nearest water source was a fetid creek five miles away. I am a heart patient, and at the time, my car was not working. They told me, regardless of my condition, they will shut off my electricity. I asked to talk with someone else and got the same answer from 3 separate departments. They will shut off my electricity. I asked them about people in iron lungs or oxygen machines... if you shut off electricity to them, you'll kill them... They said to me that if they do not pay by the due date, they will shut off the electricity. THIS IS WRONG!!!! THEY HAVE THE RIGHT TO MURDER SOMEONE WITHOUT ANY CONSEQUENCE!!! I suggest that there be a law that requires a public utility to check on the condition of anyone before they shut off their electrical service. No one in this country has the right to murder (let alone threaten someone's life). Yet it seems Dickson Electric thinks it can. Eric
I've sent similar letters to my senator with absolutely no response except an automated email talking about the issues of the day. If I call, I get..."Sorry, we can't help you."
The ONLY TIME I HEAR FROM MY REPRESENTATIVES is when they are asking for campaign donations!
How to Save BIG on Electric Bills.
I ran into an insidious run of "Bad Luck" starting in late 2009. The "bad luck" was the result of two unexpected computer crashes as my backups were slowly corrupted. I could not trust the numbers saved in my books, lost a lot of records (so slow, I didn't notice the files were being corrupted.) and I spent a good part of my waking hours for almost a year recovering my books for tax purposes.
Thank goodness I could pull this off!
In any event, last winter was tight. I needed to save money any way I could and I thought I'd share with you how I managed to save $100's of dollars (closer to $1000) in my electric bill by doing some simple things.
I had a stack of 1/2 inch aluminum faced styrofoam sitting in a shed in back. (Cheap stuff.)
I decided to insulate my windows with it to keep heat in and not lose heat through radiation through the windows. I'd judiciously take the styrofoam off of the windows on the south facing wall when the sun shined, and replaced it when the net amount of heat coming in was not enough to overcome radiant heat loss. (This was a judgement call based on the temperature I felt between the window and the styrofoam.)
I put on warm clothes to keep warm, and only turned on the heat when I felt the pipes might freeze under the house. (Which was surprisingly not that often.)
It got to an "uncomfortable 48 degrees in the house, and if I was just sitting, my body didn't generate enough heat to feel warm. (I'm an old fart.)
So, I overcame this discomfort by sitting under an infra-red heat lamp screwed into a chicken coop receptacle (you know, the kind with the porcelain bulb holder.), and sat comfortably warm while the rest of the house was cold. The furnace was rarely on, and my electric bill would hang around $58-$68 the whole winter. The year before had bills in the range of $125 - $250+/mo.
When I went to bed, I slept with a heating pad.. kept me cozy warm between the covers.
Fall and Spring are no problem, the weather is great and the house stays relatively comfortable 24/7.
This summer, it has been in the high 80's to almost 100F. (The last I looked, 98.7F today.) at 1PM which is not the hottest part of the day here. With daylight savings time, the heat on the hill I live on is highest around 3:30-4:30 PM. I have not turned on my air conditioner, yet this year.
So here I sit, it's 98.7F outside and I'm comfortably cool. How? By wetting my T-shirt and sitting in the air flow coming from a window fan in the next room. Yes, I have windows OPEN on this 98 Degree day. Why, because it helps cool the hot ceiling.
On these hot days, my T-shirt stays wet for about an hour. Then I have to go back to the kitchen sink (UGH), rinse out my T-shirt, and put it back on with a fresh supply of water. Keeps me cool and comfortable all day long doing this.
I'm my own SWAMP COOLER!!!
Two other benefits besides feeling cool is, I stay cleaner with the hourly rinse, and my T-shirt stays cleaner, longer.
I always wondered how early Americans survived the tropical heat before air conditioning (let alone electricity) existed in New Orleans. It is fascinating to ponder this while I look at the architecture of the mansions built during that era. High Ceilings, Ivy covered walls, and covered porches and windows.. Big windows to let the breeze in... a lot of ingenious schemes can be seen in the design of the buildings built then.
We all know that there are millions of people on this planet who survive intense tropical, desert, and arctic conditions without electricity. How do they do it? Some practices defy logic, like black gurkhas in the Saudi Desert. I thought black absorbed heat? Yet, these people survive.
We have a lot to learn about how we define comfort and not pay too much attention to temperature. Our bodies can adapt to almost any temperature given the right circumstances. (For instance the woman who swam from the US to Russia in arctic water. Normal people would die from hypothermia in minutes, but this lady spent months conditioning her body to withstand the frigid arctic waters. In other words, her body adapted to such an extreme temperature condition.
We can also take advantage of how our body adapts to temperature throughout the year.
(My experience is, I gain weight in the fall, and lose weight in the summer. The last few years I watched what I ate during the Thanksgiving and Christmas season to avoid the usual 10-15 pounds I gain during that time frame. Although my caloric intake was drastically reduced, I still gained 10 pounds. Was the 10 pounds just my bodies natural way of getting ready for winter? Don't know, but it sounds reasonable to me.
I wanted to share this with you because it may be useful to know if you ever run into a budget crunch.
June 30, 2012 -- I BLEW IT!!
Yesterday I turned on my air conditioner for the first time. The day before it was starting to get uncomfortable after several days of 100+ F temperatures. I read 107.8F that day and noticed that the main reason I had problems was because the overnight low temperature was not getting into the high 60's anymore. Conditions now are such that the lows are above 78F (which I feel is the cutoff point for my own healthy living.)
Yesterday, around 11AM I finally decided to change strategy when the outside shade temperature was 104F. I realized that the ceiling fan was cooling the ceiling which was getting quite warm. This cooling of the ceiling meant that the heat conducted through my ceiling was sped up. (Heat conducts faster when there is a larger temperature difference is what I was taught.) So a hotter ceiling would emit more heat into the room through infra-red radiation.)
Steven Harris (a cool guy) teaches to reduce the temperature on the roof by devising a way to keep it cooler by watering it. (Interesting to see infra-red light (electromagnetic spectrum) cause molecules to move faster = hotter; then the moving molecules cause other molecules in their surroundings to wiggle. This wiggling of the molecules cascades through the roof, only to find no more roof, so the excess energy is turned back into infra-red light.) So, light can get through solids, in a round about way.
To slow down the conduction of the heat from the hot roof to my ceiling, I decided to turn off the ceiling fan to keep the air at the ceiling hotter. My thought was hot air rises. If I did not disturb the air flow at the ceiling, the ceiling would stay hotter and there would be less heat conducted from the roof to the ceiling. (More infra-red heat radiating around the room, but the total heat coming into the house would be slower.)
The other thought I had was that the cooler air would stay towards the bottom of the room. I've seen this stratification before and it not only happens in the air, but is very evident in water. There was a definite thermocline in the swimming holes I enjoyed in the summer when I was a kid. We hear the weatherman talk about this all the time.. so it's not rocket science.
Another thought is that water vapor (related to humidity) is also lighter than air, and "humidity" stratifies also which might reduce the humidity towards the floor. (For those scientists out there, my own studies on air flows and air exchanges in the home led me to believe that air has a "yield value" that means air will not move until there is enough energy available to overcome the attractive forces between air molecules. ---- poorly said :{ )
So now my air conditioner is on and I'm slowly ramping up the temperature until I get uncomfortable. At this point, I will try to balance my comfort using my wet T-shirt/fan technique to stay cool for the day. I may decide to keep the Air conditioner set as high as I can to keep my electric bills as low as possible by balancing these two ways to stay comfortable.
THIS IS FUN! (Yup, I'm a crazy guy who thinks he knows everything but knows nothing!)
Thank goodness I could pull this off!
In any event, last winter was tight. I needed to save money any way I could and I thought I'd share with you how I managed to save $100's of dollars (closer to $1000) in my electric bill by doing some simple things.
I had a stack of 1/2 inch aluminum faced styrofoam sitting in a shed in back. (Cheap stuff.)
I decided to insulate my windows with it to keep heat in and not lose heat through radiation through the windows. I'd judiciously take the styrofoam off of the windows on the south facing wall when the sun shined, and replaced it when the net amount of heat coming in was not enough to overcome radiant heat loss. (This was a judgement call based on the temperature I felt between the window and the styrofoam.)
I put on warm clothes to keep warm, and only turned on the heat when I felt the pipes might freeze under the house. (Which was surprisingly not that often.)
It got to an "uncomfortable 48 degrees in the house, and if I was just sitting, my body didn't generate enough heat to feel warm. (I'm an old fart.)
So, I overcame this discomfort by sitting under an infra-red heat lamp screwed into a chicken coop receptacle (you know, the kind with the porcelain bulb holder.), and sat comfortably warm while the rest of the house was cold. The furnace was rarely on, and my electric bill would hang around $58-$68 the whole winter. The year before had bills in the range of $125 - $250+/mo.
When I went to bed, I slept with a heating pad.. kept me cozy warm between the covers.
Fall and Spring are no problem, the weather is great and the house stays relatively comfortable 24/7.
This summer, it has been in the high 80's to almost 100F. (The last I looked, 98.7F today.) at 1PM which is not the hottest part of the day here. With daylight savings time, the heat on the hill I live on is highest around 3:30-4:30 PM. I have not turned on my air conditioner, yet this year.
So here I sit, it's 98.7F outside and I'm comfortably cool. How? By wetting my T-shirt and sitting in the air flow coming from a window fan in the next room. Yes, I have windows OPEN on this 98 Degree day. Why, because it helps cool the hot ceiling.
On these hot days, my T-shirt stays wet for about an hour. Then I have to go back to the kitchen sink (UGH), rinse out my T-shirt, and put it back on with a fresh supply of water. Keeps me cool and comfortable all day long doing this.
I'm my own SWAMP COOLER!!!
Two other benefits besides feeling cool is, I stay cleaner with the hourly rinse, and my T-shirt stays cleaner, longer.
I always wondered how early Americans survived the tropical heat before air conditioning (let alone electricity) existed in New Orleans. It is fascinating to ponder this while I look at the architecture of the mansions built during that era. High Ceilings, Ivy covered walls, and covered porches and windows.. Big windows to let the breeze in... a lot of ingenious schemes can be seen in the design of the buildings built then.
We all know that there are millions of people on this planet who survive intense tropical, desert, and arctic conditions without electricity. How do they do it? Some practices defy logic, like black gurkhas in the Saudi Desert. I thought black absorbed heat? Yet, these people survive.
We have a lot to learn about how we define comfort and not pay too much attention to temperature. Our bodies can adapt to almost any temperature given the right circumstances. (For instance the woman who swam from the US to Russia in arctic water. Normal people would die from hypothermia in minutes, but this lady spent months conditioning her body to withstand the frigid arctic waters. In other words, her body adapted to such an extreme temperature condition.
We can also take advantage of how our body adapts to temperature throughout the year.
(My experience is, I gain weight in the fall, and lose weight in the summer. The last few years I watched what I ate during the Thanksgiving and Christmas season to avoid the usual 10-15 pounds I gain during that time frame. Although my caloric intake was drastically reduced, I still gained 10 pounds. Was the 10 pounds just my bodies natural way of getting ready for winter? Don't know, but it sounds reasonable to me.
I wanted to share this with you because it may be useful to know if you ever run into a budget crunch.
June 30, 2012 -- I BLEW IT!!
Yesterday I turned on my air conditioner for the first time. The day before it was starting to get uncomfortable after several days of 100+ F temperatures. I read 107.8F that day and noticed that the main reason I had problems was because the overnight low temperature was not getting into the high 60's anymore. Conditions now are such that the lows are above 78F (which I feel is the cutoff point for my own healthy living.)
Yesterday, around 11AM I finally decided to change strategy when the outside shade temperature was 104F. I realized that the ceiling fan was cooling the ceiling which was getting quite warm. This cooling of the ceiling meant that the heat conducted through my ceiling was sped up. (Heat conducts faster when there is a larger temperature difference is what I was taught.) So a hotter ceiling would emit more heat into the room through infra-red radiation.)
Steven Harris (a cool guy) teaches to reduce the temperature on the roof by devising a way to keep it cooler by watering it. (Interesting to see infra-red light (electromagnetic spectrum) cause molecules to move faster = hotter; then the moving molecules cause other molecules in their surroundings to wiggle. This wiggling of the molecules cascades through the roof, only to find no more roof, so the excess energy is turned back into infra-red light.) So, light can get through solids, in a round about way.
To slow down the conduction of the heat from the hot roof to my ceiling, I decided to turn off the ceiling fan to keep the air at the ceiling hotter. My thought was hot air rises. If I did not disturb the air flow at the ceiling, the ceiling would stay hotter and there would be less heat conducted from the roof to the ceiling. (More infra-red heat radiating around the room, but the total heat coming into the house would be slower.)
The other thought I had was that the cooler air would stay towards the bottom of the room. I've seen this stratification before and it not only happens in the air, but is very evident in water. There was a definite thermocline in the swimming holes I enjoyed in the summer when I was a kid. We hear the weatherman talk about this all the time.. so it's not rocket science.
Another thought is that water vapor (related to humidity) is also lighter than air, and "humidity" stratifies also which might reduce the humidity towards the floor. (For those scientists out there, my own studies on air flows and air exchanges in the home led me to believe that air has a "yield value" that means air will not move until there is enough energy available to overcome the attractive forces between air molecules. ---- poorly said :{ )
So now my air conditioner is on and I'm slowly ramping up the temperature until I get uncomfortable. At this point, I will try to balance my comfort using my wet T-shirt/fan technique to stay cool for the day. I may decide to keep the Air conditioner set as high as I can to keep my electric bills as low as possible by balancing these two ways to stay comfortable.
THIS IS FUN! (Yup, I'm a crazy guy who thinks he knows everything but knows nothing!)
Wednesday, June 20, 2012
SMART METER QUESTION
I just sent an email to my sheriff's office.
I suggest you do the same.
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Dear Sheriff .......
A SMART METER was installed on my property and found out
through conversations with my electric company that they can cut off my electricity
with the flick of a switch from their main office.
This means they have the power to cut off all electricity to
all of the customers they service.
It also means that a terrorist group can storm the main office and shut down all electricity in the same way... flick a switch.
To me, this is too much power in the hands of one company,
at one place where electricity can be taken down.
So I have some questions…
- Is
the security of the main office at my electric company sufficient to stop
terrorists from flicking the switches.
- Does the Sherriff’s Department have a system in place to have backup electricity so that they can function normally if the power grid goes down? i.e. Is there a plan, electricity backup in place to handle a situation like this?
My discussions with my electric company has me very concerned
about the safety of the people in our county and would like to have some
re-assurance that steps are taken to avoid a total power shutdown.
Thank you for all of your hard work in this county.
Keep it up.
With Respect,
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Monday, June 18, 2012
Let's Get This Right
Thought I'd share this message I got in an email......
This is spot-on.
PLEASE, READ THIS TO THE END. IT IS VERY INTERESTING!!!
Wal-Mart vs. The Morons
1. Americans spend $36,000,000 at Wal-Mart Every hour of every day.
2. This works out to $20,928 profit every minute!
3. Wal-Mart will sell more from January 1 to St. Patrick's Day (March 17th) than Target sells all year.
4. Wal-Mart is bigger than Home Depot + Kroger + Target +Sears + Costco + K-Mart combined.
5. Wal-Mart employs 1.6 million people, is the world's largest private employer, and most speak English.
6. Wal-Mart is the largest company in the history of the world.
7. Wal-Mart now sells more food than Kroger and Safeway combined, and keep in mind they did this
in only fifteen years.
8. During this same period, 31 big supermarket chains sought bankruptcy.
9. Wal-Mart now sells more food than any other store in the world.
10. Wal-Mart has approx 3,900 stores in the USA of which 1,906 are Super Centers; this is 1,000 more than it had five years ago.
11. This year 7.2 billion different purchasing experiences will occur at Wal-Mart stores. (Earth's population is approximately 6.5 Billion.)
12. 90% of all Americans live within fifteen miles of a Wal-Mart.
You may think that I am complaining, but I am really laying the ground work for suggesting that MAYBE we should hire the guys who run Wal-Mart to fix the economy.
This should be read and understood by all Americans… Democrats, Republicans, EVERYONE!!
To President Obama and all 535 voting members of the Legislature
It is now official that the majority of you are corrupt morons:
a.. The U.S. Postal Service was established in 1775. You have had 234 years
to get it right and it is broke.
b.. Social Security was established in 1935. You have had 74 years to get it
right and it is broke.
c.. Fannie Mae was established in 1938. You have had 71 years to get it right
and it is broke.
d.. War on Poverty started in 1964. You have had 45 years to get it right;
$1 trillion of our money is confiscated each year and transferred to "the
poor" and they only want more..
e.. Medicare and Medicaid were established in 1965. You have had 44 years
to get it right and they are broke.
f.. Freddie Mac was established in 1970. You have had 39 years to get it right
and it is broke.
g.. The Department of Energy was created in 1977 to lessen our dependence
on foreign oil. It has ballooned to 16,000 employees with a budget of $24 billion
a year and we import more oil than ever before. You had 32 years to get it right
and it is an abysmal failure.
You have FAILED in every "government service" you have shoved down our
throats while overspending our tax dollars.
AND YOU WANT AMERICANS TO BELIEVE YOU CAN BE TRUSTED
WITH A GOVERNMENT-RUN HEALTH CARE SYSTEM ??
Folks, keep this circulating.. It is very well stated. Maybe it will end up in the e-mails of some of our "duly elected' (they never read anything) and their staff will clue them in on how Americans feel.
AND
I know what's wrong. We have lost our minds to "Political Correctness" !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Someone please tell me what the HELL's wrong with all the people that run this country!!!!!!
We're "broke" & can't help our own Seniors, Veterans, Orphans, Homeless etc.,???????????
In the last months we have provided aid to Haiti , Chile , and Turkey .. And now Pakistan ........previous home of bin Laden. Literally, BILLIONS of DOLLARS!!!
Our retired seniors living on a 'fixed income' receive no aid nor do they get any breaks…
AMERICA: a country where we have homeless without shelter, children going to bed hungry, elderly going without 'needed' meds, and mentally ill without treatment -etc,etc.
Imagine if the *GOVERNMENT* gave 'US' the same support they give to other countries. Sad isn't it
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