Peace People .....

Interesting Facts:
Between 1993-1997 we sold or gave $190 billion in weapons to every nation on earth ....

Non-democratic Eritrea and Ethiopia fought each other using U.S. arms and training .....

Opponents Greece and Turkey are two of America’s biggest arms customers .....

U.S. military support was provided to 168 nations in 1998 .....

U.S. arms sales doubled during Clinton’s first year in office ......

Five nations received over $1 billion in U.S. military support in 1997: Taiwan, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Turkey and Egypt ........

Sixteen nations received over $100 million in military support .....

Of the 53 armed forces in Africa, 41 received U.S. military training ......

Of the eleven nations intervening in the civil war in the Congo in 1998, nine received U.S. arms and training in 1997 ......

Since 1990 the government has given away more than $8 billion worth of surplus equipment from U.S. military stocks including 4,000 tanks, 500 bombers and 200,000 light arms to Bahrain, Colombia, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Mexico, Peru and Turkey ......

Lockheed Martin, the world’s largest arms maker, is selling sophisticated fighter airplanes and air defense systems to at least 21 nations[14]
The United States spends more on arms annually than the rest of the Security Council combined
The U.S. has more nuclear bombs, chemical and biological weapons, aircraft, rockets and delivery systems than the rest of the combined world ......

We have troops stationed at over 395 major military bases in over 35 countries ......

“The last five times U.S. troops were sent into conflict, they found themselves facing adversaries who had previously received U.S. weapons, military technology, or training.”

! Give it a chance ?

rumsfeld $5,000,000, tamiflu

http://www.mercola.com/2006/apr/4/donald_rumsfeld_rakes_in_5_million_for_tamiflu.htm

http://www.mercola.com/2006/apr/4/donald_rumsfeld_rakes_in_5_million_for_tamiflu.htm

trawling troll

For fun I posted the question to an online panel of "experts";
"what is the difference between trolling and trawling ?"
....And the official response is;

"a troll is someone who posts rude or offensive messages on a discussion group with the intent of disrupting the discussion or just p***ing everyone off. Trawling, in internet jargon, is sifting through large volumes of data looking for something interesting".

Now I'm confused ? !

pure garbage

In the U.S. - some 2.7 million tons of plastic are used to bottle water each year.
Once emptied, the bottle must be dumped. According to the Container Recycling Institute, 86 percent of plastic water bottles used in the United States become garbage or litter. Incinerating used bottles produces toxic byproducts such as chlorine gas and ash containing heavy metals tied to a host of human and animal health problems. Buried water bottles can take up to 1,000 years to biodegrade.

haven't mentioned fossil fuels used in getting water from source to shelf yet....

Flouride

As a small sample, In our society where asbestos, lead, silica, beryllium and many other carcinogens have found their way into the marketplace and then been recalled, one has to wonder why fluoride, so toxic it is used as a rat poison and pesticide, is embraced so thoroughly and so blindly. And still ??

testing testing -

This morning's Seattle PI lists an article of your famous American Medical Association testing the effects of PESTICIDES on "unsuspecting" pregnant women... signed into agreement with the stroke of George W's pen....
. . . wasn't yesterday's topic on Big Brother watching you ? - spyhopping !

Terrestrial Ecosystem

U.N. Food & Agriculture 2002 reports production of;
pork 95 million tons,
poultry 72 million tons,
beef 60 million tons,
goat 11 million tons,
fish & seafood 100 million tons...
(how do ya feed em all......)?

U.S. Dept of Agriculture says the average American eats per year;
48.5 punds of pork,
57.5 pounds of chicken,
62 pounds of beef,
15.9 pounds of fishe & seafood
2.2 pounds of salmon

PCB content;
butter 70 ppb,
chicken breast 32 ppb,
beef steak 22 ppb,
salmon 15 ppb.

and in an "average" lifetime the heart beats more than two and a half billion times - that's about 100,000 beats per day... feed it.

* In September, District of Columbia Superior Court judge Judith Retchin ordered Jonathan Magbie, 27, to jail for 10 days for first-offense marijuana possession (a virtually unheard-of sentence in D.C.), despite the fact that Magbie was a quadriplegic with permanent tracheal, urinary, and stomach tubes and was often ventilator-dependent, in addition to having various other infirmities. (Magbie died four days later, after what the D.C. Health Department concluded in December was severely
inadequate care in jail and in an emergency room.)

Vacilando....

Is it better to travel than to arrive ?
It is hence traveling is constant arrival.
While arrival that precludes further traveling,
is most easily attained by going to sleep or dying.
John Dewey
. . . .thanx to L St C. for the journey to this thought
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I read the news today ho boy.....

Yeah I liked most everything beatles . .
might be where they got song material eh ?

....Here's a congressional candidate used his campaign funds to purchase a home, might be the republican way... even plead "guilty" !
....and then the kid who lost both legs to a land mine.. vows to leave the pledge that maims him, as he might've been amoung the 20,000 killed each year by such... now he's a professor of International relations... (big $$)
....how bout the mentally Ill Facility that forced it's very residents to work nude and perform sex acts... (commit me)
... Ya all know the CPR resuscitation method we all learned from the American Heart Association is bunk - throw your card away and sign up for the "new" refresher courses being offered....
...letsee, A barge w/1,000,000 gallons o asphalt ran aground and "only" spills 8,400 gallons.. into the James river... (sip sip)
...and I didn't even know there was a drinking water warning out due to crap spilled upstream... hmmmm..... untreated wastewater actually "bypassed" the treatment facility and we're drinkin the stuff...... (yum)
......nice friend that pushes his buddy onto the train tracks to see him die in New York City.... (been watchin too much tv methinks)
.....Bush is trying to make old policy make new news at his "get tough" program at the borders..... (what war)?
....we were FOOLED says the democratic party as they continue to substitute "whine for spine" where it comes to Iraq. (ha)
...... a man gets $500,000 to buy farmland to plant human corpses to study decomposition... not the first in this country either, just yet another.. these are my tax dollars.... and yours.
.....president Jimmy Carters son is running for Nevada US senate seat.... admittedly an ex-user of marijuana and LSD .. . well, okay.
......Hey didja read about that near-miss of marble falling from the entrance to the Supreme Court ? yep, it's crumbling.
.....bird flu.... bird flu..... oh soooo much I could get into here.... what a mess, and what a bunch of political BS associated with it.... nuf said.
.......and here's a note bout underpriveledged "poor" kids getting enrolled into upstanding quality schools - thanks to hurrycane Katrina..... (let's make sure ya'all can read by the time 12th grade is over okay)?
.......here's another congressman and Vietnam hero found guilty of taking 2.4 million in bribes.... why do they hide this stuff deep inside ?
.... an article describing details of placebos and testing effects of other destined chemical or substances knowingly producing pain to instead study brain effects and such..... whew ! I'll resort to prayer...
......CIA sercet jails.
..... a 15 year old with a peanut allergy dies after kissing her boyfriend who had just eaten a peanut snack.....
..... U.S once again refuses to sign Kyoto Protocol.... it's about greenhouse gasses if you don't know.... Bush says that "greenhouse-gas emmisions has DECLINED eight-tenths of 1 percent under his administration" so (why) sign ???
.....more on Middle East guns and the way they vote.
....Sadam Hussein trial... I could bring up several discussions on this current event.... reminds me of the way they handled 7th grade at Blatchley for a comparison... "you must ORDER them to fix that elevator judge" ! not to "tell em not to let it happen again". . . ya know... SH just might be onto something there..... much more relevant than a non-working elevator.
......Keep the STEM CELL reseach off the ballot is and will be news for a long time to come.....
......hey soldier... get your little brother or best friend to sign up and Unkle Sam will give you an extra $2,000 . . . good for business there isn't that ?
......okay okay they say ANYBODY can buy a flu shot now..... all this ado about flu ? who's invested in it this year do ya even know ?? you should.
not withstanding that all the fuss over "bird Flu" and there's NO protection from that ??? hey get on down for your injection anyway.....
.....actually enjoyed reading a defiance to "intelligent design creationism" editorial.... blows my mind there's no scientific evidence for any hypothesis and it's such a big deal.... geee Darwin agrees with both sides... niether agrees. - challenge me... throw some rocks okay ?
.... double indemnity on racism article of note.... (still don't get why 2 wrongs will never make a right) ?
...... only 116 homicides in this neighborhood this year.... (only)?
...... Right on Ted Turner ! delivering the 141st Landon Lecture (to an empty chamber) comments that "Iraq is NO better off than before" the invasion, and the seriousness of Nuclear Arms still on a "hair trigger" and none seem too concerned today.... we could all be wiped clean off the face of this planet in less than an "afternoon" - not just "us" but "everything on the planet".
...... anybody get this far ? anybody care ??
there's more.... lots more... money greed thing forever.
Isolationist attitude ?
go vote .
even if it doesn't change a damn thing.
Thanks for that wooden nickel Peggy, I know what it's not worth now.
think I'll turn on a little TV now...
see ya later......
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yesterday's tomorrow.....

The to go becomes the has been.. ..
and then needs to be described differently now doesn't it ?

another trial run to see if this is what we need. . . .
maybe it's all just junk ?
whatever is.... was.