Getting rid of expensive petroleum.

From a historical perspective, oil as Fuel used to be cheaper than coal.


The old ways of heating your home still work quite well in fact.

The wood burning stove is taunted as making a come back as heating oil and natural gas prices reach new record levels.

At present, there a number of ways to use coal more cleanly. A process of turning it into natural gas as well as scrubbing the stack at the cogeneration plant spring to mind. If it's greenhouse gasses your concerned about; burning fuel at a central location is both more efficient and less costly to the consumer and the environment.

Trading energy futures with it's inherent parade of middlemen is not the most cost effective way to bring energy to market. This holds fuel off of the market until a favorable number for it's sale (pick a number) arrizes.

When the wages of working people no longer command such necessary resources, it's time to retool the means of conditioning the living space.

Geothermal is not only for places like Iceland. The Earth is like a solar energy battery as well as a heat generator. It simply depends where you look and how deep. Preheating or precooling conditioning mediums - according to seasonal imperatives saves on the cost of conditioning without these resources.

These kinds of savings rely on the proper building codes to implement them in energy conscious designs.

Like solar strategies for energy conservation, geothermal strategies produce no greenhouse gasses.

Complaining about failed wealth redistribution social programs won't build any such imperatives of energy conservation into current and future architecture.

Let's eliminate Legislating under the Influence (LUI)!

Have you ever run across a bad law, ordinance or policy in your state, municipality or country at large?

Since everyone from the bank teller to the hospital worker to the cab driver gets yearly drug screens as a condition of employment, why not apply the same standard to ALL our federal and state workers? Is sobriety any less important in the legislature? If me and my cohorts can't carry on torn down or hopped up, neither can our representatives in ANY legislature.

The time has come for Annual drug screening in ALL legislative bodies rank and file with treatment or job jeopardy if treatment is refused for ALL offenders!

Loss of productive capacity in drug manufacturing.

Loss of productive capacity in manufacturing
drugs is a valid medical crisis . I can see why the
legislators would require the notification they are now seeking.
It is also apparent that hospitals are
consolidating resources for patient care . How
they can avoid medical practices which reflect
this loss of staff and facilities would be found in
an increase in billable services beyond patients
needs . Look for medical services outside the
rhelm of any therapeutic context for those more
costly proceedures .

What does god need with a starship- concept.mpg

DECLINE of EMPIRES: The Signs of Decay

Chapter 27

I found out about and watched this attempt to paraphrase the deranged mental condition of Mark David Chapman that allowed him to do what he will always be known for instead of what he "thought" he could accomplish by the unforgivable & insane attack on Mr. John Lennon which caused Mr. Lennon's untimely and tragic death. It seems the prism of media fed an aspect of the polarized message filtering down to the masses who are for the most part sane. That Mr Lennon was a parent of a young child never figured into the calculus of the murderer. Most people in society can digest rationally the likes of Rolling Stone and Vanity Fair well enough. Most never act out like the insane folks who go postal after conflating what they read in fictionalized novels ("Catcher in the Rye"- for instance) with "entertainment media" about recording artists, actors and musicians. It's the few lunatics among us that are killing the artists, producers and TV sitcom personalities (murdered "My Sister Sam" star Rebecca Schaeffer comes to mind). This goads the wrest of us to live in gated communities. In this sense we are now learning about the security imperatives politicians and religious icons the world over have learned about and put into practice since these tragedies have begun to proliferate in modern times.

What Congress is supposed to be doing

The lawyers, the bankers and the politicians and some fascist business persons have been carving an empire for themselves while the wrest of us have been following non-apportioned tax law and code.

The good news is the Constitution states Representation and Direct Tax shall be Apportioned.



Congress is supposed to take a census, determine how many people there are in a state, set up a federal budget and divide it equally amongst the people there. THIS is what apportionment means IN A LAW DICTIONARY. You can't have an apportioned census for representation and then implement a non-apportioned method of taxing everyone. Unless, you are operating the wreaking ball with a crane!



700 foreign military bases run by the United States is not apportionment in taxation.



The key to this SUBJECT is seeing the Federal Reserve System as alien to our Constitution which is based on the Apportionment of BOTH REPRESENTATION AND TAXATION.



So, Presidents, Congress Persons, Lawyers, Bankers and fascist business persons are running things into the ground around here by a lopsided application of the Constitutional mandate of apportionment.

GET IT?

In restoring apportionment, the danger is, calling it a Fair Tax or a retrograde tax or some thing other than apportioned leaves the door open for riders on the bill before it's ratified and even radical changes, which are an anathema to Constitutionally prescribed apportionment. If apportionment is being restored, it should be called that, plainly.



Need funds? Pass a balanced budget amendment and eliminate entitlements.