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Saturday, February 6, 2010
1. One day an Englishman, Mr. Hill, was in Morocco on holiday. He met a woman named Jane who told him she was about to go to N'Djaména, a city in an unnamed African country to the East.
2. Mr. Hill went to N'Djaména with Jane and they sat in a pub, drinking.
3. They met with the twelve tribes of this unnamed country, who were arguing. "What are you arguing about?" said Mr. Hill.
4. One of the tribesmen, who spoke English, said that the twelve tribes had been discussing what to name their country for years. But, to no avail.
5. "I have an idea," said Mr. Hill, "name the country after me! My name is Chad." So that is how the African country Chad got its name.
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Friday, January 29, 2010
Osiris plays a key role and is a central figure in the Order Of The Morning Star. It was Osiris who was the beloved pharaoh of Egypt. It was Osiris who taught the people of the land of Egypt about civilization, ethics, and farming. Osiris was and is one of the first "Green Men", in that he was also the god of vegetation. Osiris became ruler over the land of Egypt and was worshiped in many other lands.Worship of Osiris declined after the birth of Christianity and Islam, but never completely. Many have faith that he will rule again.
Osiris is the husband of Isis. In that after thousands of years all female goddesses became merged as an aspect of Isis, she too is central to Egyptian symbolism. Most scholars know of the tragic story of the death of Osiris. He was murdered by his evil brother Seth. Seth is equated with Typhon-Apophis of the Greeks. Seth is the destructive aspect that the alchemical principal must undergo, and thus be reborn into a new and purified creation.
Osiris is part of the formula of all life. It is the alchemical formula of I.A.O., Isis, Apophis, Osiris, Birth, Death, resurrection. To the Adept this is a powerful process of transformation that unlocks the keys of magical power and of immortality.
For as Osiris died, through the power of Birth (Isis) under the authority and skill of Thoth (The Higher Genius) Osiris arose on the physical plane as the great avenging god Horus, his son. On the spiritual plane Osiris became the great god of the underworld. There he is the Judge of the Dead. But it is more important to understand that he is first the god of the living.
To the believer in him, one must become Osiris. In that no one can or could deliver the forty-two negative confessions in the hall of truth, because no one is perfect in earthly life. By identification with Osiris the candidate who stands in the Hall of Truth can indeed deliver the negative confession. The reason is clear, it is not him, but him in Osiris that is delivering the negative confession. The candidate in the Hall of Truth is redeemed by his unification with Osiris.This unification in the Morning Star system takes place in the grade of 5=6, Adeptus Minor.
"I am the only being in an abyss of Darkness. From an abyss of Darkness came I forth ere my birth, from the silence of a primal sleep. And the voice of ages said unto my soul, 'I am he who formulates in Darkness, the Light that shineth in the Darkness, yet the Darkness comprehendeth it not.' Let the mystical circumambulation (gathering near) take place onto the Path of Darkness that leadeth unto Light with the Lamp of Hidden Knowledge to guide the way."
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
1. Google Books Google as you know started out as a search engine and became an "empire" in the technology field. A happy megacorporation, it has acquired thousands of the best technology websites and made it part of their service. Google introduces about 50 new internet services a year, such as money management, literary research, personal health management, and website analysis. Their most interesting service is Google Books, a massive archive of books of every kind. There aren't many brand new or recent titles, but the reading enthusiast will find a lot to sort through. Some books are full length, and better ones offer the first four chapters for free. I have found many novels I want to buy from Google Books. I've also read books that there isn't one copy of in all of Milwaukee.
2. World Net Daily A political magazine, World Net Daily offers hardline-Republican rhetoric. In recent times a writer of WND sent over one million pink slips (which are memos saying "you're fired") to the White House. Our country is embroiled in three wars at the present (if you count Pakistan) and a civilian "Janet Porter" is attempting to monkeywrench the most important house of Government in the United States. At the very least, one million pink slips should be sent to her home.
3. LiveJournal LiveJournal offers a free personal journal, readable by the whole world, and you can have it printed and bound into a book if you want. It would be a wonderful thing to leave behind. LiveJournal.com offers free and paid accounts, the ones that are for a fee give you extra services and tools.
4. Thesaurus The world's best free thesaurus, the authors of this site made an impressive effort with the number of synonyms they offer. Some words give 100 synonyms (similar words). What's great is when you look up a word, click on a synonym, and browse words for two hours. Each word has a simple, easy to understand definition. People have been asking for Thesaurus.com t-shirts, hopefully they make some. I'd buy one!
5. Weather.com Weather.com, which is owned by The Weather Channel, has an informative ten day forecast for any location. Bookmark your town's ten day forecast on your browser, and you know the weather for the next ten days. It's going to be cold in Wisconsin, but you probably guessed.
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
1. I observe that digestion-aid vitamins are not advertised. Yet products like "Tums" and "Rolaids" are advertised perhaps on an hourly basis on TV. I want the United Nations to impose a world standard for proper digestion aid remedies. Tums and Rolaids treat the symptoms, while vitamins treat the underlying problem.
2. I observe that stores like Walgreens sell underpants, undershirts, and socks. I think this is a nice trend because some days you'd rather pay $5 for three days of clean clothes than do laundry. Male necessities should be sold in every kind of store.
3. I observe than in Japan, you can buy any kind of necessity item in a vending machine. And in America, vending machines are far behind. I would like to see the vending machine industry model America's system after the Japanese system.
4. I observe that pouring two shots of espresso in a large cup of coffee is unhealthy. I have stopped doing this, and I never will again.
5. I observe that vitamin B-12 can be an ingredient in all kinds of things. With extra mental clarity and energy, B-12 could be the fuel of America.
Monday, January 25, 2010
1. There are all kinds of things that have been invented that make life easier. They are inexpensive, they don't pollute the air or water, and they are so efficient that they could last hundreds of years. People have invented cars that run on seaweed, ocean water, even garbage. But corporations don't want their existing products to disappear. They paid the inventors a hefty sum and put the inventions on a shelf, never to be seen again. I believe it is the responsibility of the United Nations to demand that these inventions be handed over and put into production.
2. In the Canadian state of Manitoba, everybody knows that wheat is the number-one crop. In recent years, cannabis has outsold the wheat crop. Cannabis could make Canada ten times wealthier. It could make any country ten times wealthier, because the plant grows anywhere. I believe it is the responsibility of the United Nations to influence every country to become as wealthy as possible. Even a person who is against smoking the plant will benefit from the stronger economy. In poor countries in Latin America, Asia, and Africa, the native people could afford much better food if their very sought-after cannabis crop was a chief export.
3. The Amazon Rainforest grows millions of different herbs. Many of these herbs are the main components in medicines. For example, most of the medicines to treat cancer come from herbs that grow in the Amazon. I believe it is the responsibility of the United Nations to seize the entire rainforest. This would put an end to the rainforest being cut down to make room for cattle farms. It goes without saying that herb (and weed) cultivation will put more food on the table for people living there. The Amazon needs to be re-grown by tenfold. One good factor about global warming is that plants grow better (and are more potent.) The United Nations should rule the Amazon, which is the foundation of medicine and wealth.
4. I believe the United Nations should demand that Northern Ireland be restored to "Ireland Proper". The United Kingdom has no claim to it, in my opinion. I am a friend of the Irish, and I am looking forward to Londonderry (Northern Ireland's second largest city) being returned to the name "Derry".
5. I believe that smart children should be able to earn money with a business, if they have the ability. I believe the United Nations should impose a world standard for the minimum age of business ownership from 18 to 12. If a smart youth can earn more than his or her parents, it is wrong to forbid the idea.
Saturday, January 23, 2010
1. "Washington County is one of the most under rated counties in Wisconsin, I believe," said Father Rene as we drove. We were taking a break from our work at the Cathedral.
2. The sky had given us some reprieve. It has been a gloomy gray the whole month, but today it was bright blue and cloudy. Puffy, floaty clouds in a sea of energy-inspiring blue.
3. Father Theo drove the big Buick. "You know why we like big cars, Joe?" asked Father Theo. "Why?" I said. "Because they're safe. Every person I see with a small car gets a long speech from me," he said. "I agree," I said, "a train could hit this car and you might live." Father Theo laughed.
4. We drove to a small town between Hartford and West Bend, to a supper club and hotel. Walking inside our room, Father Rene picked up the phone and ordered a kettle of boiling water. He brought his own tall styrofoam cups to make tea. The kettle arrived and he brewed the peppermint clove tea, and he told Father Theo, Mr. Harris, and I to have a seat on the chairs. Standing, he said, "It says in the good book, 'Be ye angry, and sin not: let the sun go down upon your wrath: Neither give place to the devil.'" Then he said, "Of course you know that there are angry people in our cities, our towns, and our villages. Let's offer a prayer for them, so that the sun will set on their anger." And we did.
5. Thirty minutes later, we were outside, not far from the hotel. On this snowless day, we could see a meadow in a vast field. The four of us wandered into it.
6. "What a wonderful way to show appreciation for the Earth, four gentlemen making peace in this sleeping meadow," said Mr. Harris. The peppermint clove tea was warming and delicious. Then Mr. Harris asked Father Theo to offer a prayer.
7. "It says in the good book, 'Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath upon the children of disobedience.' Let's pray for the deceivers of the world." And we did.
8. In a lonely meadow that we gave some love, I chatted with Father Rene for a while and Father Theo and Mr. Harris chatted. We talked about our families. Soonafter we headed inside.
9. It was a splendid evening. The four of us met the owner of the hotel, and he is really a nice man.
10. At 10:30 P.M., in the spacious hotel room with four beds, we were all comfortably in bed and about to doze off to sleep. But before we did, Father Theo asked Mr. Harris if he would like to make a prayer. "I would!" he said. "It says in the good book, 'Charity shall cover the multitude of sins.' Tomorrow, let's take the opportunity to do something charitable, in honor of this passage." Father Theo, Father Rene and I thought it was a good idea.
Friday, January 22, 2010
1. I observe that the doorway to Starbucks is paltry. People walk in and out of coffee shops fast. Whenever I'm walking out I'm bumping into someone walking in. Don't have a doorway that's so small you have to look at it with a microscope. I want a great big doorway that can handle at least ten people at once. I want an apology and I want Starbucks to give consumers heavily "comped" coffee drinks. I mean that's the form of the apology. Then I want Starbucks to declare an investigation of any possible bad engineering, in any of their locations.
2. I observe that my feet feel better in black socks. My feet feel paltry in white socks. No one knows why, but that's how it is.
3. I observe that when I got a cable modem, I was given the 2004 model. This is 2010. Give me the 2010 model.
4. I observe that cranberry sauce is $4 for a tiny amount. There are 50,000 cranberry farms in Wisconsin, why can't I have it for 50 cents?
5. I have no further observations.
Thursday, January 21, 2010
1. I decided to write a journal on Twitter (which is like a man talking to you) called The Stargazer Inn
2. The RPG man who is the owner tells you about proverbs, people he knows, and philosophy.
3. It's a pseudo-realistic sort of theme.
4. My Twitter page is best enjoyed when you scroll down the posts and read upwards.
5. This is considered light reading. But, here I present my beliefs about important subjects. It is nice to have Twitter when you have a chain of thoughts and you want to write them all down.
6. I never thought I'd find a use for Twitter but now, this is my favorite writing project.
7. I always liked RPGs, now you can make your own on a website.
8. It would be cool if other people started tea houses or something else and we could have conversations.
9. This Livejournal blog has been on since 2003. It has been a great tool to relieve my former clinical depression. Livejournal gave me the chance to publish my beliefs on over 500 topics.
10. Please join me at The Stargazer Inn.
1. Country / Western - Any artists similar to Gordon Lightfoot? Any artists from Colorado?
2. Metal - Any new industrial-metal? Any Pagan black metal bands from Italy, Spain, or Germany? Any bands who sound like Arckanum or Bethlehem? Any good guitarists such as Alex Skolnick? Any freezing black metal like Immortal? Any original bands from France? Any historical death metal bands like Nile?
3. Drum N Bass - Anything similar to DJ Hidden or the best Squarepusher songs? Or other?
4. Ambient - Anything similar to Lull, Lustmord, or Raison D'Etre?
5. Drone - Tell me your favorite drone artists.
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
1. The Cathedral complex, which houses a convent, a monastery, guest wings, and quarters for dignitaries with private chapels, has been filled to capacity all winter long. Sister Marie has been extremely busy, she met with sixteen people yesterday. The Cathedral has a list that goes into the hundreds of volunteers, and that's how they keep the church orderly.
2. With our work done for the day, Mr. Harris and I found a sitting room that no one was using so we filled the kettle for tea and said "let's relax some". Mr. Harris lit some ocean breeze candles. We sat down and he held Sister Marie's Rosary in his hands, hoping that it would bring Sister Marie some peace in her busy days. I sat down and I knew that Mr. Harris, who is always saying something worth paying attention to, was about to say more.
3. "Let's talk about Charlie Parker," he said. My nose twitched. "Charlie Parker has been making a spectacle of himself," I said. "He's been shouting at people. Everywhere he goes, he shouts at somebody."
4. "Yes, he has," said Mr Harris, "and I called and asked him if I could come over for a visit. He was overjoyed and said that he hasn't had a visitor in over a year. So I stopped over and I invited him out for a cup of coffee. After chatting for twenty minutes, he started his shouting routine. But I wanted to find out why he was shouting. And, Joe, did I ever."
5. "What did Mr. Parker have to say?" I asked. Mr. Harris looked like he just had the biggest stroke of luck in his life. "Charlie was worried that City Hall's budget department is being run by people that don't know a thing about what they're doing. Basically, they wanted the jobs because it's a highly respected position. That doesn't make them experts at all the things you need to know to be a budget director." "Yes, that's true," I said, meaning please continue.
6. "Charlie walked right into the Budget Department of City Hall. He said it was his civic duty to watch you people for a while. He was convinced the people there were doing a paltry job, and sure enough they exceeded the budget for last year in August. That means from then to December 31st they were running on borrowed money."
7. "Did Mr. Parker straighten things out?" I asked. "No he didn't," said Mr. Harris. "Because he was shouting. But when I had coffee with him that afternoon he told me the story in detail. I went to City Hall myself and explained to an official what was going on, and those employees will be replaced within the month. Charlie Parker just saved the town possibly $20,000."
8. I couldn't find anything to say. I just smiled. Mr. Harris went on. "Let me tell you about Father Theo." I smiled again, I really like Father Theo. He moved here from Italy only one year ago, and English is not his first language, and he's like our Sherlock Holmes. He notices things fast. He also thinks in common sense, especially in a major situation. A lot of trouble has been avoided because of Father Theo. Mr. Harris continued, "Father has done a lot of good for this entire church, Joe. We figured out that his good judgment prevented Father Rene from being stolen from us. Another church wanted to pay him double and give him all kinds of bonuses. But this other church was planning on doing this in a very unfair way. Basically, they weren't going to give our church a chance to match the offer, or even do better. Now this is interesting, Joe. Father Theo acted by proxy. That means he had a host of other people do the talking for him, and he put the pieces together and solved the problem."
9 "That's wonderful!" I said. "Father Rene won't be leaving us, then?" Mr. Harris had the widest grin. "No, he won't. We in fact did better than the other church's offer. I made sure that Father Theo got a bonus of his own." I knew that had to be something excellent and smiled. "What did you do for Father Theo?"
10. "I'm sending him to Hawaii for a month. And I'm paying for his airfare when he goes home to Italy."
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
1. Piggy is the guitarist in Voivod. He passed away after fighting an illness.
2. Of anyone no longer with us, I can feel Denis' spirit the most.
3. He was a criminally under-rated musician. If you study all the things about his playing, you'll hear quite a lot. He had an imagination as big as Jupiter and a mastery of music theory as big as Saturn.
4. When I hear Denis today I think of Eddie Van Halen, who is one of the best living guitarists in the world.
5. Denis had the ability to play something joyful, and then on another song, something utterly frightening that made you think of a weird science fiction movie from the 1960s.
6. Voivod are loosely considered heavy metal, but Piggy played guitar harmonies that are new for this genre.
7. Voivod is a band with lofty ideas, such as three generations of a family repairing Earth's damaged atmosphere. It takes quite a guitarist to fulfill the music (for this), and Denis did it perfectly.
8. Piggy's greatest accomplishment is the song "Jack Luminous", in my opinion. It's a space opera set to metal. The guitar parts are wild!
9. Denis was a calm, placid individual and and he was a gentleman to his fans. His spirit will live in Voivod's music for hundreds of years or more.
10. I will pray for all of his bandmates. You should too, they need it. But, they will probably agree with me that Piggy is very alive in his music.
Monday, January 18, 2010
1. Phlebotomized - Skycontact (the most original metal album ever, they make death metal sound like easy-listening)
2. Fantomas - Suspended Animation (cartoon death metal with Faith No More, Mr. Bungle, Melvins, and Slayer members)
3a. Blut Aus Nord - any (Romantic and macabre Pagan black metal from France's best band)
3b. Voivod - Nothingface (sci-fi progressive metal with songs about robots and isolation chambers)
4. Slayer - Blood Painted World (their newest album has the same 'Reign in Blood' guitar sound & Lombardo)
5. Iron Maiden - Brave New World (the most melodic and the heaviest Maiden album)
6. The Melvins - The Maggot (as heavy as Slayer at their heaviest with southern rock guitars)
7. Therion - Symphony Masses (Dungeons & Dragons style fantasy death metal with 80s thrash guitars)
8. Necrophobic - any (brutal and technical death metal, well done)
9a. Cryptopsy - Blasphemy Made Flesh (technical and sarcastic and macabre brutal death metal with a good drummer, from Montreal)
9b. S.O.D. - Speak English or Die (some of the best thrash riffs ever written)
10. Megadeth - So Far So Good So What (angry, drunken, and atmospheric speed metal, there's no other album like it)
11. Arckanum - any (Arckanum is not Pagan black metal they are Chaos-Gnostic black metal)
12. Sepultura - Arise (first rate speed metal)
13. Death - Individual Thought Patterns (intensely musical death metal with guitar legends Shuldiner and La Rocque of King Diamond)
14. Life of Agony - River Runs Red (melodic thrash metal with hardcore riffs, a very dark concept album)
15. Nile - Among the Catacombs of Nephren-Ka (crushing fast death metal, all of their songs are about Ancient Egypt)
16. Hollenthon - any (the members of Pungent Stench turned around and created "classical death metal", as in classical music. They're from Austria, no less.)
17. Belphegor - any (Austria's best death metal band ever, brutal and insanely technical)
18. Mental Home - Black Art (very melodic Pagan metal from Russia inspired by Faith No More's synths)
19. Carcass - Symphonies of Sickness (the disgusting British horror metal album with intense blasting drums and sarcastic singing)
20. Nevermore - Dreaming Neon Black (melodic and technical speed metal from Seattle, people compare this album to Queensryche's 'Operation Mindcrime')
Sunday, January 17, 2010
1. I need to learn to describe characters. I think without some description, something is missing.
2. I need to learn how to describe buildings.
3. I need to learn how to express point-of-view, attitude, and stance.
4. I need to learn all of the many plot-devices. There are always new ones being invented.
5. I need to realize that the world isn't always a nice, happy place. There is treachery.
6. I need to learn how to put fifty characters in a book, major and minor, and do so in a memorable way.
7. I need to learn how to understand that, quite often, things don't turn out as they were conceived.
8. I need to learn about how to express that danger is relative. One with no identity or sanity is adrift in danger. These lost souls are who I want to write about.
9. I need to learn that, for some, life is a House of Mirth. That statement cannot be contradicted, within reason. They might get hit by a bus, but they probably won't.
10. I need to learn that not everybody survives the world. I want to express that with a new way of doing things, we can reduce the number of non-survivors. Then, we will have peace.
1. Last.fm records all the songs you listen to on your computer. It also keeps a list of all the bands and musicians you listen to.
2. The current model of the Last.fm website is above average, but it needs a lot of work. Most importantly, it needs an option to edit tags (user-created descriptions.)
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3. Last.fm, without an option to edit tags, is paltry. I created some tags that were invalid, and had to be deleted. The website made me delete ALL of my tags to delete the one.
4. I say that Last.fm should display the genre of each artist on the user page.
5. Every musician or band on Last.fm has a list of similar artists created by the website writers. I say that they should have a user-created list of related artists, which may be more up-to-date or precise. In the long run, it will increase album sales if you do it this way, and Last.fm will of course find this rewarding.
6. The 10,000 musicians and bands on the website Myspace should be given a form to fill out so they can be registered on Last.fm. When I say 10,000 it's actually more than that. But since approximately one-third of the bands and musicians on Myspace aren't very good, Last.fm would need to filter them out. After this is achieved the ranks of Last.fm would swell, resulting in album sales.
7. I say that if Last.fm are going to advertise that a full track is available for free, it should not be merely a thirty-second clip.
8. Last.fm has a built-in radio station for every artist, it plays your choice and similar artists. I say this couldn't be better.
9. I would like to be able to keep a list of friends I meet on Last.fm.
10. I have no other comments.
Friday, January 15, 2010
1. I make my call. Let it be heard far and wide.
Monday, January 11, 2010
1. Yerba Mate is an herb that comes from South America. It has a lot of caffeine in it. It comes in a tea bag. If you drink two tea bags of Yerba Mate in one sitting, it is the same as about 3 cups of coffee. Yerba Mate has a light Earthy taste and it comes in over 100 flavors. Probably the world's favorite is mint Mate. Yerba Mate's caffeine is "a different strain" of caffeine than what comes from coffee beans. There is no jittery feeling or need to take a nap if you've had many cups. In Argentina, the whole country drinks Mate from sunrise to bedtime. It is no wonder that Argentina is such a productive country. If you care for the Amazon, buying Yerba Mate is a good idea because it gives the people who live near it a way to make money OTHER than logging or raising cattle.
2. Since I became a believer in Osiris I have been given many fine gifts. One of them is an herbal tea that has: yerba mate, chamomile, eleuthero, peppermint, cinnamon, ginger, lemongrass, catnip, tilia, roasted chicory, and honey. This tea is called "Starlight". I named it that, hoping that Lord Osiris will approve. Of course the starlight, during his reign in Egypt, was phenomenal.
3. The weather has been foul. 18 degrees below zero. No one in town likes it.
4. But I am awake and alive and I am working hard in all of my projects. With Starlight Tea, I can pretend it's summer.
5. Lord Osiris has already cleansed away most of my unhappiness in this cold city that goes on as far as the eye can see.
Sunday, January 10, 2010
1. Now that you can buy CDs on the internet for $3 each you can easily buy all the albums by an artist or band or rapper and it's no big deal. Sometimes they are 99 cents. And if you buy 8 or 9 albums, the seller wants to make the sale so he might wave shipping costs. Do you want to know what I've been buying?
Drudkh - Romantic Ukrainian Pagan death metal with a lot of acoustic guitar parts and a lot of authentic Ukrainian folk music. This is very melodic death metal, which makes Drudkh extraordinary, because this is very relaxing death metal. It's pronounced "Droodk".
Bjork - I bought all of her albums and there are many of them now, she has kept busy. Of all the artists I listen to there is definitely the most variety in Bjork's music. And she blends genres so well it's hard to determine what they are.
Waylon Jennings - I've always wanted to hear every song he ever wrote, and I'm really happy. This man is a legend for the mix of country and deep-south folk music. By deep south I mean southern Mississippi, Louisiana, West Texas.
Henry Mancini - I was smiling ear-to-ear when someone sold me his whole catalogue. This is music I can play at a party and everyone likes it. It's romantic gangster music, I'd say. I mean old time gangster music.
Boards of Canada - Boards of Canada is like a drug. They play very mellow acoustic guitar kind of folk, with recorded samples of 1970s Canadian wildlife film music, new age, industrial, shoegaze, psychedelic, and children's music. If you are a socialist you will find BoC to be very relaxing.
The Melvins - The Melvins is a metal band by San Francisco people who are pretending to be hicks from Washington state. They play over 100 styles. Some of it is psychedelic noise, others are thrash metal, and others are death metal with jibberish lyrics, and the music makes the jibberish lyrics even weirder. And on some songs they will play metal for 2 minutes and the third minute is marching band music from the 1700s, I'm serious.
Blackmore's Night - Ritchie Blackmore still sounds like himself, but in this project he is playing alongside a beautiful woman with a beautiful voice. The theme is very "Rennaissance", in fact they sing about Rennaissance Fairs. It's really calming and happy music.
Van Halen - It's great to hear all the David Lee Roth albums again, I haven't done this since the 1980s
1. Germany happens to be full of airports. I mean there are a lot of them.
2. Because of the environmental malady caused by Global Warming, the weather around the world switches from much too hot to much too cold. In Germany there are hundreds of people stranded on the highway on their way to the airport. In the frozen abyss.
3. I am a friend of The People's Republic of China, but the world is wrecking the Earth's atmosphere with its toxic belching factories. And China has the most of them.
4. The United Nations must do something fast or Miami is going to have a blizzard every year. There are no blizzards in Miami!
5. And in the northern countries (England, Sweden, Ireland) they could see blizzards that shut down a whole country. If you think factory smoke is a joke you won't think it's funny when your whole city shuts down.
1. On the internet there's a service where you ask a question about politics or society and people answer. Your question can get over 200 answers. I've seen as many as 800.
2. I call this kind of service Civic Participation, which means ordinary citizens particpating in a very small-scale version of Government. The Founding Fathers of America believed in this very kind of self-Government.
3. About a year ago things were going well. But now the service has been over-run with morons. They are there to start trouble and jeopardize the work that's being done there.
4. The service, called Yahoo Answers, cannot maintain control. The inmates have seized the prison.
5. I don't go there anymore because it's such a mess. I urge you to write a letter to Yahoo Answers saying they need to manage the service better. Civic participation is being hijacked in our community.
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