Myself i moved to a farm and i am helping two elderly people a couple get their farm back together. They are older and needed help real bad. Things are looking up here and soon they will be producing more with less. Its been about making sure they are not wasting or ruining machinery just to keep going. I have been able to help guide them in many things and do a lot of the hard work that is needed that was being put off due to their age. This summer will be a bountiful yr and will produce so much more with less work. I had to do some major weeding and organizing and now this place is really looking up. Many farmers do need help. Many are elderly and their kids have left and well they don't have funds to pay but the benefits are great if a person is willing to help them.
PS: Some pics of my horse buddy and my buggy = http://www.eons.com/images/members/2008/11/13/8/9/89609562219117541829_610w.jpeg and http://www.eons.com/images/members/2008/11/13/4/7/47019562215413541829_610w.jpeg
http://www.eons.com/groups/topic/1296571-BUDDY-THE-HORSE-WENT-BUGGY-FOR-OBAMA-IN-PA?page=1#replies
In the past few days, we have seen Senator McCain try and use Senator Hillary Clinton against us. We have to remind voters that this election is not about Senator Obama and Senator Clinton. This is about Change. This is about the American people. We can not let them fall into John McCain's trap of Deception.
When we come across Sen. Clinton's supporters, please be respectful to them and deliver the message that this election is about Change and not about Sen. Obama and Sen. Clinton.
When going out there, please remind voters that McCain will deliver a 3rd term of the Bush Administration. Remind them that Obama will bring in a new adminstration that will care about the people and not big business and oil.
DO NOT LET McCAIN CONTROL THE MESSAGE!!!!!!!!!!
As we are heading into the last three months of the Campaign with the DNC Convention around the corner, we need to make sure those we know (especially outside CA) are supporting Obama.
We cannot let the McCain campaign set the message for the media. We need to reach out to the voters across the country and encourage them to support the Obama-Biden ticket. Lets get the change that our children deserve.
Lets commit to talking to our friends and family around us and across the nation. Encourage them to join the campaign. Invite your friends and family to the website and have them sign up. Encourage them to get their friends to sign up as well. Lets not rely on the media advertising to get our message to the American people. Lets take control of the message and get it out there. We can do it.
-Varun Mitra
Being Poor
Being poor is knowing exactly how much everything costs.
Being poor is getting angry at your kids for asking for all the crap they see on TV.
Being poor is having to keep buying $800 cars because they're what you can afford, and then having the cars break down on you, because there's not an $800 car in America that's worth a damn.
Being poor is hoping the toothache goes away.Being poor is knowing your kid goes to friends' houses but never has friends over to yours.
Being poor is going to the restroom before you get in the school lunch line so your friends will be ahead of you and won't hear you say "I get free lunch" when you get to the cashier.
Being poor is living next to the freeway.
Being poor is coming back to the car with your children in the back seat, clutching that box of Raisin Bran you just bought and trying to think of a way to make the kids understand that the box has to last.
Being poor is wondering if your well-off sibling is lying when he says he doesn't mind when you ask for help.
Being poor is off-brand toys.Being poor is a heater in only one room of the house.
Being poor is knowing you can't leave $5 on the coffee table when your friends are around.Being poor is hoping your kids don't have a growth spurt.
Being poor is stealing meat from the store, frying it up before your mom gets home and then telling her she doesn't have make dinner tonight because you're not hungry anyway.
Being poor is Goodwill underwear.
Being poor is not enough space for everyone who lives with you.
Being poor is feeling the glued soles tear off your supermarket shoes when you run around the playground.
Being poor is your kid's school being the one with the 15-year-old textbooks and no air conditioning.
Being poor is thinking $8 an hour is a really good deal.
Being poor is relying on people who don't give a damn about you.
Being poor is an overnight shift under florescent lights.
Being poor is finding the letter your mom wrote to your dad, begging him for the child support.
Being poor is a bathtub you have to empty into the toilet.
Being poor is stopping the car to take a lamp from a stranger's trash.
Being poor is making lunch for your kid when a cockroach skitters over the bread, and you looking over to see if your kid saw.
Being poor is believing a GED actually makes a goddamned difference.
Being poor is people angry at you just for walking around in the mall.
Being poor is not taking the job because you can't find someone you trust to watch your kids.
Being poor is the police busting into the apartment right next to yours.
Being poor is not talking to that girl because she'll probably just laugh at your clothes.
Being poor is hoping you'll be invited for dinner.
Being poor is a sidewalk with lots of brown glass on it.
Being poor is people thinking they know something about you by the way you talk.
Being poor is needing that 35-cent raise. Being poor is your kid's teacher assuming you don't have any books in your home.
Being poor is six dollars short on the utility bill and no way to close the gap.Being poor is crying when you drop the mac and cheese on the floor.
Being poor is knowing you work as hard as anyone, anywhere.
Being poor is people surprised to discover you're not actually stupid. Being poor is people surprised to discover you're not actually lazy.
Being poor is a six-hour wait in an emergency room with a sick child asleep on your lap.
Being poor is never buying anything someone else hasn't bought first.
Being poor is picking the 10 cent ramen instead of the 12 cent ramen because that's two extra packages for every dollar.
Being poor is having to live with choices you didn't know you made when you were 14 years old.
Being poor is getting tired of people wanting you to be grateful.
Being poor is knowing you're being judged.
Being poor is a box of crayons and a $1 coloring book from a community center Santa.
Being poor is checking the coin return slot of every soda machine you go by.
Being poor is deciding that it's all right to base a relationship on shelter.
Being poor is knowing you really shouldn't spend that buck on a Lotto ticket.
Being poor is hoping the register lady will spot you the dime.
Being poor is feeling helpless when your child makes the same mistakes you did, and won't listen to you beg them against doing so.
Being poor is a cough that doesn't go away.
Being poor is making sure you don't spill on the couch, just in case you have to give it back before the lease is up.
Being poor is a $200 paycheck advance from a company that takes $250 when the paycheck comes in.
Being poor is four years of night classes for an Associates of Art degree.
Being poor is a lumpy futon bed.
Being poor is knowing where the shelter is.
Being poor is people who have never been poor wondering why you choose to be so.
Being poor is knowing how hard it is to stop being poor.
Being poor is seeing how few options you have.
Being poor is running in place. Being poor is people wondering why you didn't leave.
Being poor is buying a horse and buggy know that you won't have to pay gas and the horse can eat grass along the highways for free Oh yea that's me i just bought one a halflinger austrian breed and the carriage is a enclosed box which is 8ft long with enough room to lay down and carry hay in dry times.
Yesterday i was training my horse by walking behind him a 2yr old gelding and getting him to turn and stop with the reins. Monday i will break the horse and ride him oh my aching butt when i fall off lol no one has ever rode him yet YIKES
I get my buggy July 1st when i get my next check. then i will have a home and no longer have to resort to staying with others as their servant for a place to stay.
Hugs Danielle
Keen observers have noticed their cars getting somewhat lower gas mileage over the past year. Some have attributed this to a normal side-effect of ageing vehicles, others with new cars didn’t notice it at all and thought it was the normal state of affairs. However, I have some news, and most of you aren’t going to like it.
Last year, the Bush administration introduced the Renewable Fuel Standards program under the Environmental Protection Agency. This was part of the Energy Policy Act of 2005, which was one of the last vestiges of a Republican-controlled Congress that allowed most Republican backed legislation to be enacted with little or no input by the Democrats. What this RFS program does is require that American refineries use a minimum amount of renewable fuel between 2007 and 2012. This “renewable fuel” is ethanol, and most states are now using a minimum of E10 in all their gasoline products, which is 10% ethanol.
Some people see this as A Good Thing, since ethanol is supposed to give us some freedom from imported oil and give us cleaner air, but as I’m going to show you, it ain’t necessarily so.
Going back to my opening statement, some drivers have noticed their automobiles getting lower gas mileage. One particularly keen observer noticed that his gas mileage went from an average of 32 miles per gallon to 29 miles per gallon. This person is very keen on vehicle maintenance and performance, and since he lives very close to the Wisconsin/Minnesota border, he was able to verify his results by recording his average fuel consumption with E10 from Minnesota, and comparing it to straight gasoline (E0) from Wisconsin. His findings showed that the E10 gasoline affected his gas mileage by 10%.
I’m sure that many are thinking the difference between 29MPG and 32MPG really isn’t that much of a difference, but let’s take a theoretical 320 mile trip. Using straight gasoline, that trip would require 10 gallons of fuel. Using E10, that same trip requires 11 gallons of fuel. Now pay attention, because here’s where the numbers start to do interesting things. Since E10 is 10% ethanol, the remaining 90% is gasoline, so this theoretical 320 mile trip still takes 9.9 gallons of gasoline! That means whether we use E10 or E0, we still use nearly the exact same amount of gasoline – the extra ethanol didn’t really do anything for us. And here’s the kicker: E10 costs almost exactly the same as regular gasoline!
Now this is just one example, and one might be inclined to think this might be an anomalous observation, unique to only one person. Luckily, the US Department of Transportation keeps records on the number of miles driven and fuel burned in all 50 states (http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/policy/ohim/hs06/motor_fuel.htm) and these numbers say quite a bit.
Using 2005 data (the latest numbers available), drivers in Minnesota drove 56.6 billion miles and consumed 2.7 billion gallons of fuel, making their fuel average 20.6MPG. Drivers in Wisconsin drove 60.3 billion miles and consumed 2.6 billion gallons of fuel, making their rating 23.3MPG. In other words the E10 state (Minnesota) got 12% less fuel efficiency than the E0 state (Wisconsin).
Wow.
The bottom line here is that ethanol as a fuel additive is a losing game. It doesn’t remove our dependence on foreign oil because we use only a fraction less gasoline to achieve the exact same results.
Today, 46% of all gasoline in the USA is at least a 10% ethanol blend, with that number reaching 100% by 2012 under current guidelines. The problem is that the ethanol is coming from corn; 98% of domestic ethanol is from domestic corn crops. There are currently 158 ethanol refineries online, 51 under construction, and hundreds more pending air quality permits from the various state Environmental Protection Agencies. With that kind of growth, ethanol from corn is likely to be our source of ethanol for many years to come because these plants can only convert corn into ethanol. Not cellulosic ethanol, or algae-bearing ethanol – these plants are essentially huge stills, designed to ferment corn and turn it into alcohol.
The problem of ethanol from corn isn’t that the corn we eat is being used to make fuel – it isn’t. The problem is that farmers are growing less of the food crops we use to make more of the ethanol-producing dent corn. Farmers are planting less sweet corn, wheat, soybeans, rice, and even cotton to make room for the new cash crop: dent corn. When you combine a shortage of feed crops with an all-time high cost for fuel necessary to grow, harvest, and process those crops, you get a huge spike in food prices just like we’re seeing today, and the really bad news is that it’s only going to get worse.
Ethanol is a lie. There are other, more effective methods for turning vegetable matter into fuel. As an example, there is a technology called “thermal depolymerization”, which mimics the way mother earth converts decaying plant and animal matter into crude oil, except on a radically faster timeline. Think about that – we can take our grass clippings and chicken guts and make a light, sweet crude suitable for refining. I’ll bet you didn’t know about that. Most people don’t. Of course that won’t solve our energy crisis, no single solution will. But a common-sense approach to energy production that combines the best of all available and emerging technologies will certainly get us where we need to be.
It is my sincere hope that President Obama has a full understanding of the emergency situation the current ethanol policy has on the domestic economy, as well as the humanitarian crisis it is causing abroad. Whatever happens, the insane energy policy of the Bush Administration needs to be corrected in the next administration.
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1723302,00.html?iid=sphere-inline-sidebar
Click on link below to read the McCall article entitled "Obama keeps his faith despite criticism of pastor."
http://www.mcall.com/news/opinion/anotherview/all-right_col-a.6317486mar18,0,4493401.story
Obama Camp Fires Back on Iraq (click on link below to read article)
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video_log/2008/03/obama_camp_fires_back_on_iraq.html
Hello Team,
Barack has given us Hope - Now it is time to give something back!
Barack Obama has hundreds of thousands of people that have contributed to his campaign thus far. Imagine if 100,000 of them all contributed on one day - or even more than that.. What if we could raise 5 or 10 million dollars in one day?
Imagine if on November 15th Barack has an amazing showing in the next debate. With all of the news stations covering his performance, then we raise this unprecedented amount - making all the headlines around the country.
With a good debate and an unprecedented raising of funds all in one day, it could be enough to propel Barack to the presidency. We could begin the process of restoring unity in our country. Most of all, we can restore Hope.
On November 16th, 2007, or what now is known as "Barack's Friday" contribute every dollar you can. More importantly, forward this information to all of your friends and relatives. Make your voice heard!
I know it is a stretch goal for most of us.
Not an impossible one, but certainly audacious.
Grassroots at Work
write your editors of local newspapers using ==> YOU CALL THIS PROGRESS -- Dear Editor, ---> http://my.barackobama.com/page/speakout/bushindenial
Dear Editor, First of all i am a Vietnam veteran, who volunteered with the USMC. During that war, I was trained to make the air President Nixon would breathe when flying above 20k feet. During the Vietnam War we at least had plenty of soldiers to give others a break. Today our soldiers are at the breaking point. I am writing to express my dismay over President Bush's reaction to the recent threat assessment from U.S. counter-terrorism analysts. The assessment found that al-Qaeda has regained strength in a safe haven along the Afghan-Pakistani border. Despite this evaluation, the White House issued a statement claiming that we are making security progress in the war on terror. George Bush only knows what war to start and who to attack but he doesn't have the ability to ask how to complete a war and why to start one, other than because he just wants too. Now we have an almost broken military. During the Clinton administration our defict was low, but that was because Bill Clinton closed bases and reduced troop levels. So Clinton knew when and where to close bases and reduce troop levels, however, he also didn't know to ask why he should do it and how it would affect our military.. This administration is also in denial, and its failure to acknowledge the facts is putting the United States in danger. The report found that al Qaeda has regrouped to an extent not seen since 2001, the year our nation was rocked by a devastating attack. During the vietnam war we had a draft. We at least had enough troops. Today's military / soldiers will never be able to resolve any future wars due to George Bush and Bill Clinton. The thought of another attack of that magnitude on U.S. soil is very upsetting to me, and I am seriously concerned that our president continues to disregard this information. George Bush only knows to ask who and what and The clintons only understand to ask when and where. Those without mirror neurons, who can't ask how and why are like robots, which is a form of artificial intellegence. A robot only knows to ask what and who and when and where but doesn't have the foresight to ask how and why. Personally i am throwing my support to Barack Obama, who i feel, has the best understanding and ability to know how and why to go to war. He understood "why" we shouldn't have gotten into this stupid war and "how" this would affect our troop level and safety. I can only hope and pray that you post my letter in hopes that our country and our military soldiers are not totally destroyed with this war in Iraq. If George Bush and his republican congress can't give our troops a break, and stop breaking our military, then i ask them to at the least propose a draft or get us out of Iraq now! Thank you for your time.
to write your own letter to the editor use the link below.
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Speaking of OPEN BOOKS Obama Will Reveal His Earmarks, Challenges Other Prez Hopefuls To Follow SuitLink ""An Obama progressive"" = an open book - anything else is a place to hide by DANIELLE CLARKE
Link in Case my links don't work read the first comment
THE Blind of the USA who see President Carter as a fool
My response to their blindness:
YOUR WORDS QUOTED:
America''s worst President ever speaks again, with his usual blend of arrogance, naivte, and meddlesome pot-stirring. The man who helped usher in the Islamic Revolution, who helped North Korea achieve the potential of nuclear weaponry, who gave away the Panama Canal, and who was rewarded with a highly politicized Nobel "Prize," has shown once more that he is grossly out-of-touch with reality and carries a basic animus against US interests. His blind bitterness against any and all Conservatives in government prevents him from grasping the simple reality that Hamas is a proxy terror arm of Iran. Ah...Iran...that old Carter bugaboo.
America''s worst President ever speaks again, with his usual blend of arrogance, naivte, and meddlesome pot-stirring. The man who helped usher in the Islamic Revolution, who helped North Korea achieve the potential of nuclear weaponry, who gave away the Panama Canal, and who was rewarded with a highly politicized Nobel "Prize," has shown once more that he is grossly out-of-touch with reality and carries a basic animus against US interests.
His blind bitterness against any and all Conservatives in government prevents him from grasping the simple reality that Hamas is a proxy terror arm of Iran. Ah...Iran...that old Carter bugaboo.
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START OF MY WORDS, some in quotes:Personally i appreciate that carter is for allowing other countries to have their freedom and self control through the good and caring work he tries to do.
Its been american imperialism that has put us in the position we are in today. Carter was brought in after nixon by the group BILDERBERG.
to qualm the masses after so many died in that stupid vietnam war which made so many super rich even more rich and powerful) (Many so called activist then spent the rest of their lives getting stoned.
Then when they/bilderberg found out he/carter wouldn't go along with them they set him up with the Iran hostage crisis. Then Bilderberg set up Reagan by setting the hostages free the next day after he was elected.
Maybe you have a desire for american imperialism but i don't. Personally i am glad Korea has the freedom to build nuclear weapons and so should Iran. Who are we to tell the world what to do as we have been doing (under the guide of bilderberg) since 1954?
If you think about it, if we americans were on the same footing as other countries and all countries had equal footing, we wouldn't have the wars we have that are created by bilderberg, to keep the war machine running and stealing from the simple people of the world (and we who are not super rich in america are some of the simple people).
America uses so much energy that we would need 3 planet earths to support the rest of the world to have what we have.
Giving people like the middle east their rights to control their own natural resources is the right thing to do.
if perchance one of these countries did attack another we could with the rest of the (we should be equal countries) equal countires would deal with them as a equal group.
So lets look at where we are at. Bilderberg wants to kill off 3 billion people through one way or another to reduce energy use so the rich can have it, as they see it dwindling.
Then bilderberg patiently waits while the rest of us simple people resolve how to make all the robots needed to build everything needed.
then bilderberg is free to drop a birdflu on us and wipe us out.
Or we could all be equal and try to educate with our resources and try to reduce the world population by limiting the number of children we have and we could all learn to use less and thereby share with others who don't have as much in 3rd world countries.
But alas many see that because they are born in the deveoped countries that they have the right to steal other poorer 3rd world countries resouces
while they think they are doing it with many false ideologies such as helping the people of iraq from a tyrant
for example while we silently sit by and allow china to buy oil from sudan, darfur while we turn a blind eye because we are being supported by china with their money to fight the Iraq war. And in the mean time the super rich are buying places where they can with gated communities to lock out the simple people and so they raise the value and thusly will have the ability to target specific simple people areas the world soon with the bird flu.
Yes so many see their own selfish personal family oriented views over the reality that we are all human equal spirits. However, many simple people only see the material world and they can't see the bigger picture of how for eons the powers to be, have kept the masses under their control by having wars and conflicts, while those super rich have sat idly by and have used the simple people and kept them confused, as to what is the truth.
There is no republicans or democrats there are only the powers to be and they decide, who they want in elections. They know that either way, whoever wins they will have someone in power, who will do their bidding.
unless of course a spiritual figure/Barack Obama ?.. can change the mess that bilderberg has created
its a shame when a person Like Jimmy carter is seen as someone, who doesn't facilitate the simple people, because he is trying to help the very very poor people have eqaulity, that these simple people become so blind to the long term truth, that they end up being eventually replaced by robots and in the mean time replaced by immigrants.
Shame shame shame on us simple people for not looking out for the poor and for us not caring to bring equality in the world, as we are fooled by the super rich, as they set up locations around the world like they are doing now in london and other over priced areas, where those super rich will have separate locations safe from where the bird flu will be dropped.
Shame on us simple people for not doing what a person like Jimmy Carter has tried to do for the poor.
oh well many of the simple people along with many many many of the 3rd world poor will be wiped out and the imigrants (enough to keep the super rich happy) will survive while we are removed next after the 3 billion
they are letting die now by famine and by wars and by diseases spread and by drugs allowed to enter countries.
Shame shame shame on us simple people, who only seek immediate gratification, at the sake of the children, who will be ours, who will soon die to lack of us simple people / parents working to make changes in the world.
I can only hope and pray that a leader like Barack Obama with a heart and a soul and an ability to see the long distance future
who is willing to put his life on the line and try to change the direction of the group bilderberg
while bilderberg is probably saying to him, "Ok Barack you have one chance to try to save the simple people and the 3rd world super poor people and save the energy that we the super rich will need for the future before we end up destroying you all."
So what do we do, us the simple people? We better become visionaries and stop seeking our own self gratification, because we will be removed by immigrants willing to do the work and then later by robots or by a combination of both by the powers to be, who don't see the future or the spirits of every human and only see us as a ends to their means.
respectively yours danielle clarke vietnam veteran who listens to the spirits above, who guide me and direct my life.
"life here on earth is but a dream of the true spiritual world from whence we came and to where we will return"
For as you have done for my brothers and sisters so have you done for me. Jesus
I know we really don't die we only shed our shells. I pray all can see past the outer shell to the inner spirit and we as a whole human population can make changes and as GOD says we have free choice to change the direction and save the world.
And even after most are killed off by the powers to be would you want to live in a world like that?
