Comments Cacaoatl has made

While the message was garbled and they pulled a real boner attributing the ad to the WWF, I think it does point to a certain truth. Natural disasters do kill more people than all the terrorists put together but we do very little to prepare for them while pouring trillions into a bogus war on terror. We have our priorities ass backwards. Finding ways to limit death and destruction due to natural disasters is of far greater importance than hunting for the bogey man Osama bin Laden.

The temp is being set up as the scapegoat for this. I can almost guarantee that no executives of Bonner & Associates will see the inside of a prison cell or even a court room. The executives will probably go to a nice comfy board room with their attorneys, make a deposition that they had no "prior knowledge" of the forgery. They'll go home to their mansions and the lowly temp will be sent to prison for 10 years and the whole thing will be forgotten.

What's the point of working, when your work is poisoning the next generation? What's wrong with Horton? Is it impossible for him to think ahead or does he just refuse to do so? I know our country is going through rough times economically but sometimes it is necessary to look beyond the next pay check to the impact of one's work on the next generation. Or would he rather have his paycheck today and nothing for his children and grandchildren tomorrow? It's thick headed folks like Horton and the loggers of the Pacific Northwest who only think about the present who are holding the US back from real environmental progress. If Horton had any foresight, he wouldn't work to save coal mining, he would put his energy into creating better jobs for the people currently engaged in mining.

I live in the San Francisco Bay Area. One of our major concerns is that NUMMI (New United Motor Manufacturing, Inc.) the last auto factory in California is about to close. Like Horton and his coal mining, everyone involved is trying to save the plant. They are not thinking of what the closure could be...only that in the immediate future it is a problem. However, while it may be the end of the manufacture of gasoline powered cars in California, if our government and labor leaders work through it, it could be the birth of a new manufacturing base in California -- zero emissions vehicles. Of course they probably don't have the foresight.

For the kids living in poverty, the free breakfasts and lunches provided at school are often the only meals available. For anyone, especially a member of Congress, to mock these programs is just deplorable. Instead denouncing them, Congress needs to improve the quality of food provided. It is shameful that anyone goes hungry in the richest nation on Earth.

I live in Hayward. If I was a home owner I would gladly trade up to this development. I am not sure he can find 950 families to do this in our blue-collar burg but I wish Mr. Lewis the best of luck.

It's customary to waive entrance fees to events to members of the media who show the proper creditianals -- the so-called Press Pass. Heartland Institute wants to be part of the debate but they seem to only want people who agree with them and are willing to pay the fees to participate in their events. Also it seems they don't consider Grist or Bloggers legitimate media, which is insulting to Grist and to bloggers. (Not the "Oh my life is so miserable/awesome/interesting" sort but the "We're reporting a story that the other news outlets are ignoring" sort.)

I wish we had some of the transit options shown here where I live in the SF Bay Area.  Getting to different cities is a breeze on BART except it doesn't go to San Jose in spite of San Jose being a major city in the Bay Area. Transportation in San Francisco and San Jose is awesome but in Almameda County where I live, AC Transit is a mess. We don't have light rail, AC Transit is constantly cutting service, insanity seems like a prerequisite to drive on some routes, buses are constantly late as if schedules were a suggestion, they don't get traffic light priority or bus only lanes, and they keep jacking up the fares while offering less and less service.

I'll be more excited about electric cars when we phase out electricity generated at fossil fuel fired power plants. I much prefer the cars from India that are powered by compressed air. Personally, I'd rather take the bus or the train than own anykind of car.

If Hell exists, Perdition's flames are powered by coal.

I don't believe in  Hell but if I did, the executives of the coal industry and the congressmen they hold in thrall would be roasting in coal powered fire for the rest of eternity. We need to ban coal period. It pollutes the air, ruins the landscape, and destroys the lives of the miners.  To Hell with Coal.

There would be a huge market for blue-grey copy paper. I used to tutor school children and college students. There are a lot of dyslexics out there, a surprising number actually.  And printing homework assignments on other than white paper is actually an accomodation for dyslexia. For some reason dyslexics have a hard time reading things printed on white (something to do with the white light reflecting into the eyes) but they do fine with blue, grey, and blue-grey.  I wouldn't want pink-grey paper either but I don't need white.

What's this right kind nonsense? We're talking about paper here, not plastic where different kinds of plastic have different chemical reactions.  Is there some rule that paper has to be white? Why not mix all those brightly colored papers together? So what if it comes out some weird color from all the different dyes? I don't know about anyone else but it would be great for arts and crafts such as papier mache which is going to get painted over anyway. It could even marketed as such. There's a huge market out there for craft paper.

The compelling thing about King of the Hill was that Hank Hill usually ended up doing the stereotypically "liberal" thing because it was the most practical thing to do. He joined the organic food co-op because he liked the taste of organic food, especially beef. He took Yoga classes because Yoga actually helped his bad back. He went green because it helped save Strickland Propane from bad press. Hank Hill represented a realistic view of the average, lower middle class, middle-American: conservative in the voting booth but downright progressive when it came to doing the "right thing" and giving his fellow American a helping hand regardless of race, religion, or sexual orientation. There is nothing Limbaugh-ish about Hank Hill or the America he represents.

No. Not only is there no right to drive a gas hog, there is no right to drive a car period. Read the opening page in any driver's manual issued by the DMV and what does it say? Driving is a privilege not a right. That's why states issue licenses. Americans act like it is a right and need to get beyond that.

Watching Palin Was Like Watching A Nuremberg Rally

I watched part of her speech at the RNC. It was disgusting to watch thousands of people applauding war, red necks, and her lies about the the millions in earmarked spending she has accepted for Alaska. On Note to media: Pork queen Palin is an earmark expert, not an energy expert posted 1 year, 2 months ago 15 Responses

The Problem With EVs...

Isn't range or efficiency or power but that the US still gets too much electricity from coal, natural gas, and oil fired power plants. When we phase out fossil fuels from our power supply I will be a lot happier with electric vehicles.  On Showcase offers electric vehicle test-drives at DNC; review of an eBox posted 1 year, 3 months ago 9 Responses

What A Load Of...

What a load of right wing nonsense. What a waste of film. It should be recycled into ukulele picks for the poor. Sure Michael Moore is an arrogant prick but at least he has the guts to ask the tough questions, unlike Bill O'Reilly who just parrots what the Republicans tell him to say. On An American Carol, failing to make it to a theater near you posted 1 year, 3 months ago 2 Responses

Don't Eat Beef, Eat Wild Game

1.Australia has the same problem with kangaroos that the US has with deer: they hunted the kangaroos natural predators to extinction to protect domesticated animals such as sheep. However, that allowed a giant surge in kangaroo population leading to overpopulation. Overpopulation means that kangaroos are destined to starve. The only humane thing to do is to hunt some kangaroos so that others may live. Eating such as kangaroos in Australia and deer in the United States is a healthier way to consume meat as game animals are higher in protein and lower in fat in cholesterol. Kangaroos aren't ungulates so they don't produce methane gas the way cows do.  

2.Eating wild game is the most ecologically friendly way to eat meat. Game animals are adapted to their environment, usually use up less water than cattle, and can subsist on native plant species rather than nonnative feeds such as alfalfa.  

3.Animal husbandry uses up too much land, produces air, water, and land pollution. It also puts too much control in the hands of major corporations that own most farms and ranches. On Aussies should fight climate change by eating kangaroo, says study posted 1 year, 3 months ago 8 Responses

Bad For The Earth, Bad For The Workers

Not only is coal terrible for the environment it is also terrible for the men who've mined it. The song Sixteen Tons is quite possibly the best description ever written about the coal industry's exploitation of the workers. Everyday the coalminers faced life shortening, dangerous conditions for shit pay which they ended up owing to company owned store and the company landlord.On Umbra on clean coal posted 1 year, 4 months ago 17 Responses

Here's An Idea...

We could stop being so damned dependent on so much technology. Most of it is bad for the environment, a  lot of it is actually impeding our evolution as a species. Think about it for a moment: If we don't use a trait -- say our brains, natural selection will select against big brains. When's the last time you did a math problem without a calculator? Well maybe you should. On Chemical in flat-screen TVs is worsening climate change posted 1 year, 4 months ago 15 Responses

Uhh...

Uhhh...We could just stop using coal. On Hm, oversold by who? posted 1 year, 5 months ago 1 Response

Go Fuck Yourself, Mr. Cheney

i agree with this point but I think that our politicians hold the responsibility of being good examples by living green lifestyles themselves. This is one area where the Aztecs had it right. If a member of the Aztec nobility committed a crime he was punished harsher than a commoner would be for the same crime. For their crimes against nature and humanity the oil owned Bush Administration needs to give up their limos and take the bus to work, give up their plastic bags for cloth shopping bags, and switch over cfls. On Cheney: 'Drill, drill, drill' posted 1 year, 5 months ago 12 Responses

Or Better Yet...Give Up On Suburbs

Suburbs have given us nothing but trouble. They use up land that could have been set aside as wilderness preserve or farming, cause traffic congestion, and breed a false sense of entitlement. People should move back to cities, live near where they work, make use of public transportation, and rebuild the tax base in the inner city. On Commuting can drive you crazy -- no, literally posted 1 year, 5 months ago 9 Responses

Don't Knock Matt

Besides his electric car, Matt Damon contributes to and promotes many worthy causes including but not limited to: ONE an effort to end AIDS and poverty in Africa; GreenDimes.com an effort to end junk mail; Not On Our Watch an effort to end atrocities such as  those continuing in Darfur; and H20 Africa an effort create awareness of clean water initiatives in Africa.

Electric vehicles such as the Tesla often obtain 90% energy conversion efficiency; can be combined with regenerative braking; and cause less air pollution and less noise pollution than internal combustion engines.  In the documentary Who Killed the Electric Car? it further explains that it takes several hundred electric cars to equal the pollution of one standard combustion engine. That's even with plugging into the electrical grid based on coal.  Furthermore, as a Hollywood celebratory, Damon probably does most of his driving in California which is phasing out coal. On Oceans of love for the Tesla-driving Matt Damon posted 1 year, 5 months ago 11 Responses

Oklahoma is an Oil State

He's from Oklahoma, a state built on oil profits, so of course he's in denial. His record on many other issues from gay rights to human rights abuses at Abu Ghraib is just appalling. Check him out at Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_InhofeOn Inhofe: Gore wrong 100 percent of the time posted 1 year, 5 months ago 10 Responses

Vikings Drank Mead Not Wine

I have read another theory that Vinland can also mean Meadowland or Grassland or something like that depending on where you put the accent. The "Vikings" (they never called themselves that) often carried cattle with them on long voyages and would have been more likely to be looking for grass for their cattle and not grapes for wine. Besides, the Scandinavian drink of choice was mead made from honey not wine made from grapes. On 'Vineland was full of grapes'--Or was it an early advertising campaign? posted 1 year, 6 months ago 4 Responses