The New Leaded Gasoline?

Just what is 'Nitrogen enriched gasoline? Is it the 2009 leaded gasoline? Well, we all know how well that one worked out and how long it took to prove that it was bad for life as we know it on this planet. So how much better has the testing of the 'nitrogen enriched gasoline been? Several things concern me; the selling of the new wonder fuel does not mention any byproducts, just how much more N2O (at 300 times more dangerous as a greenhouse gas than CO2) will be pumped in to the air, will the N2O emissions lead to 'nitric acid rain' ( the sulfuric acid rains were such fun), will cyanide or cyanide compounds be produced directly or with environmental reactions. And then since it is a 'sludge and gunk cleaner/remover' where does the sludge/gunk or the compounds formed cleaning the sludge/gunk go? What are the gunk/sludge removal byproducts? Do these byproducts go directly into the air or do they drool out of the exhaust pipe? If they go directly into the air; what are the health risks of these compounds as released or what they turn into when combined in the atmosphere with water, sunlight, or other atmospheric components or conditions? If they just drool out of the tailpipe do they just evaporate into the air, if so at what risk in a now concentrated form? Do they drool out onto the pavement to sit and dry as a solid or do they react with the pavement? What are the results of pavement interaction, carcinogenic particulates, toxic particulates, cement or asphalt dust, accelerated road deterioration? If the drool just dries into particulates kicked up with traffic what are the health and environmental dangers of the particulates, or what they become with interaction with the environment? What effects on the water supply, us, life in the rivers, lakes, and oceans if the drool just washes off the road or the particulates are moved from the air to the ground or water by precipitation? Why all of this concerns me so much is that all of the research or lack thereof and all of the government regulation and oversight or lack thereof would have been done/not done during the two G. W. Bush regimes; And Bush has always been consistent in his eager willingness to kill the planet for corporate profits, particularly the oil and chemical industries. Just look to his record as the Governor of Texas and the yearly or nearly yearly increases in dioxin amount allowed to be released into the air and water by Dow Chemical et al. Not to mention blocking EPA studies and regulation of auto emissions and smog. Bush, Cheney and their corporate sychophant administrations were Class A Enviromental Terrorists.

Alternative energy!

Pull Head from Ass Now!; alternative energy will never become viable or readily available in the U.S. or the rest of the world until the current energy production and distribution cartels are in control of the production, distribution, and use of the technologies. And you can bet the price for alternative energy will be as high as necessary to maintain or increase the current profits enjoyed by the energy corporations. Why else do you think they have been so active in funding research and development partnership programs, well actually buying the programs as they have provisions that give them ownership of any patents and the research data that their monies help discover or refine at American Colleges and Universities? They have no intention of giving up the cash cow! I for one have no trouble believing that there will be no mainstream alternative energy sources until the manufacturing of alternative energy equipment, the power generation and distribution are all controlled by the current energy cartels. You can bet that with patent and manufacturing control in the hands of the energy corporations; alternative energy production equipment will be leased or rented, the customer paying for corporate installation, maintenance, and repair and the lease/rent to be priced on a time plus amount produced (amount produced will be justified on the basis of the more produced the more wear and greater the decrease in the resale value of the equipment) and of coarse the consumer will be charged for the installation, maintenance and repair of the connection to the grid as an out side energy production company. Even now in places, such as Montana I have been told, a local power company charges you to sell your excess energy from solar or wind to them at an economically disincentive rate; great for the power company several ways, they get a profit charging people to generate power that they have no investment in, they sell it for nearly pure profit, and the return on investment is so low and drawn out that people are unwilling or unable to make the investment. Slick, right, make alternative energy unappealing and punish those who do it anyway! We can all hope I am wrong, but you can expect your new alternative energy bill payments to go to the same corporation that your current power bill payments go to now! They may have new names but they will be wholly owned subsidiaries of the present energy cartels, with no loss of profit and the same tax breaks and subsidies from the government that Exxon and all the rest get now.

Breeding without Brains

Nadya Suliman is the newest poster fertility freak for 'Breeder without Brains'; the not so new fad on the news, The Discovery Channel, Discovery Health, The Learning Channel, and the rest. What is the point to the glorification of having more children than you can have naturally or afford to raise, house, clothe, feed, or medically provide for, let alone educate through high school? Why the celebrity status for people who are either to stupid to figure out what causes pregnancy, in the rare where they are breeding like rats naturally, or are so intentionally ignorant, emotionally mentally dysfunctional, or addicted to the whole process of artificial fecundity that they just can not stop until they are overwhelmed, physically incapable of continuing, or dead? Then they put the cost of their fertility addiction off onto state and federal programs, us. At what point does the rest of society get to say, "Enough! We will not pay to support your inability or unwillingness to control yourselves in bed or the fertility lab!"? I believe in a woman's absolute right to control her own body and life, but society has no responsibility ( it is not like we have so few children right now that no child goes hungry, without a home, without proper medical treatment or education; Damn! we have and enforce laws that ensure animals get better treatment) nor do the over breeders have the right to expect society to pick up the bill for totally irresponsible reproduction either natural or artificial, when they do not stop at the limit of their personal ability to provide and care for their children. There are natural multiple births but to continue to have children, either naturally or artificially, because you want to have one or more of a different sex than you all ready have or because you just want to is acceptable only if you yourself have the means to raise all of them. 'Pull Head from Ass Now!' Just because you can do something does not mean you should! And just where is the much vaunted 'self-regulation' of the medical profession? This is just another example of a special interest group with money and political clout getting little or no enforced government regulation! Be honest the 'self-regulation' of the medical profession is now and always has been a dark deadly joke. Doctors of all kinds have a great record of closing ranks to protect their own, professional interest, privileges, and profits; but the self-policing always waits for the body count and/or public outrage to force it. In particular you may have noticed that the fertility doctor, who by means of experimental procedures got Nadya pregnant twice, was in violation of the 'self-regulatory' standards of that particular speciality, but there is no enforcement or consequence, at least that has made it out of the closed ranks of the medical profession. So why should the fertility demi-god curtail experimental potentially very profitable procedures? So you get a woman , that appears to me to be, of very questionable mental and emotional stability, who already had six( and just how many of those have disabilities) children she does not have the means to properly raise or care for from one experimental procedure, having a second experimental procedure with the goal of having eight more babies that she has absolutely no reasonable expectations of being able to raise or care for let alone have any hope of being able to cover the multi-million dollar price of the delivery or the neo-natal care for eight premature babies nor is there any indication of just how she managed to afford the procedures; is it possible the doctor have done it gratis to further his research or professional standing. Nadya has in part or whole reportedly bankrupt her parents, who realty deserve major credit for doing their best to deal with a situation that is the product of a 'self-regulating' profession, an unethical doctor and an unbalanced woman, and cost them their house, so now neither her parents, nor the liter of 14 children , nor Nadya have a place to live. How did she manage to finance the two procedures and convince anyone with the IQ of a newly salted slug to perform the second? Also there is no reason the state of federal governments or her parents should by any tortured stretch of the law be held accountable to pay for any of her medical bills. Why is the doctor, who quite literally the father of all 14 children, he is the one who got her pregnant both times, not being held accountable for the medical bills, care and raising of the children; the genetic male donor as far as I know is only guilty of making what is usually an anonymous deposit at a sperm bank or fertility clinic? Be honest, we all know the best way of regulating or stopping future unethical, unnecessary and just plain stupid acts like this is financial accountability of the doctor and patient only with no recourse to state of federal funding! And just where is the outrage of the Christian Taliban, who always think every fertility choice is theirs to make? Does the soul enter the egg/embryo with the needle, does it go to sleep with cryogenic storage, does it wither and die or just leave with improper or to long storage? I do know that neither the writers of the bible nor the editors, who choose at various times what stayed in the bible and what did not, could have had even the most remote concept of totally unnatural conception; well except for the fable of divine parthenogenesis. Just where in the many man made rules of their biblical fables does their god say that it is acceptable and holy 'for a woman to lay with a lab procedure as with a man'? Is the 'go forth be fruitful and multiply' myth more important than the brainless, unnatural, experimental, and completely synthetic fecundity; even in the bible the parents are responsible for the raising of their children, whether from wife 1 or 2 or 3 or concubine or servant; but then again in the Christian Taliban's must be taken literally myths you could sell or sacrifice your children. Oh! Sorry those are some of the Christian Taliban's pick and choose to suit their agenda at the time, that they have had to be given up along with women as property and slavery!

War on Drugs vs Drug Ads on TV

When it comes to conventional drugs, most Americans make an unfounded, completely wrong distinction between drugs and alcohol, Alcohol is a drug! It enjoys more social acceptability and political correctness; much to the profit of the brewers, vintners, and distilleries, and is taxed far less than cigarettes; but it is just as physically and psychologically addictive if not more so than the pills you swallow, the stuff you smoke and the ones you inject. And is as physically dangerous in the 'second hand' form just more acceptable as drunk drivers, violent drunks, abusive partners, alcohol poisonings, suicides, and fetal alcohol syndrome; and is more fatal to withdraw from than any of the others including the opiates, as I was told 14 years ago while in detox and in the emergency of the local hospital, I have been dry for 14 years now.
Now there is this amazed "Oh! My god how?" reaction as to how and why prescription drugs have become the drugs of choice for America's young. One hook I heard recently for an investigative report was "the Internet is the 21st century drug pusher to America's children", what a steaming pile of corporate profiteering crap! Yes, yes there are drug ads and availability, with a credit card I might add, but the 21st century drug pushers to American children and Americans in general are the profit hungry pharmaceutical corporations, more like cartels, who, with their day in and day out drug ads, allowed for some stupid more likely monetary reason by the government, on television push their drugs, normalize and legitimize drug use. Everyday, the channels of broadcast, cable, satellite,etc run a steady stream of ads for drugs and their use, both over the counter (and just when and why did 'over the counter' originally meaning over the counter from a pharmacist you had given a prescription to, and off the shelf meant self-prescribed, self-medicating and self-served) and prescription drugs not to mention all the unregulated 'not-quite' drugs, that fit all the definitions except some hair splitting legal ones. These ads say and imply the same things: 'our drug will make your life better',"our drug will make you a better person', 'our drug will make you a better parent or spouse','our drug will cure or alleviate your ills', 'our drug will cure your problem','our drug has instant results or nearly instant results or gratification','our drug is proven/tested safe and effective','our drug has minimal or ignorable side effects and if they are major, you as an untrained medial non-professional will notice them and seek medical treatment in a timely manner' and there is my personal favorite for completely true and completely meaningless 'our drug has been granted a patent by the US Government as if a patent is some kind of statement of proven effectiveness and safety. A real Pull Head from Ass Now! All a patent means is that no one else currently has the exact same patented formula or process. And the patent holder has exclusive rights to make this exact product exactly this way and has legal protection from duplication by any and all not authorized by the patent holder; a patent has absolutely nothing to do with either safety or efficacy of the drug or anything else granted a patent! Now it is true that true narcotics etc prescription drugs are not advertised on television or magazines etc. I assume that ads aimed at getting people to push for specific brands of painkillers, opiates, behavior and mood modifying drugs, muscle relaxant drugs just proved to expensive even for the 'legal' drug cartels, conglomerates, or corporations (call them what you will) to get passed our mostly sleepy always hungry public watchdogs and onto television.But the ads do promote and condone drug use as a legitimate, socially acceptable method of dealing with life and personal problems. These ads are designed to encourage people to pressure their doctors for a specific brand name drug, never a far more affordable generic, that they may or may not have any real need for, that may or may not actually be safe for them and may or may not have sever long term consequences; I mean it is not like there is an ever growing list of 'FDA' approved as safe drugs that are not safe long term or short term either as to the amount of time it is safe to take the drug but also as to how long after you take the drug; days, months, years,when your baby is born the consequences show up. So if you want to know why the "War on Drugs" is such a miserable expensive failure or why America's young are turning to prescription drugs you need look no further than the nearest television. Where the 24/7 inundation of America with drug ads normalizing and encouraging the use of drugs, prescription, alcohol and OTC and by association the 'street drugs, to cure life's problems fast, fast, fast from feeling sad, fat, ugly, not being 'in', or not being sexy and on and on and on. Drugs are shown to be helpful, acceptable,safe, patented, doctor per scribed or pharmacist recommended, clinically proven( not like the drug companies have ever been caught burring negative clinical or medical research along with customers). Drug ads have, and are designed to, put equally hazardous and dangerous prescription and OTC drugs, found and easily accessible in family medicine cabinets, bedside tables, kitchen drawers, glove boxes, and purses on a pedestal made of safe to use, socially acceptable, politically correct, medically approved, and perhaps worst of all 'it's advertised on TV how dangerous cab it be?' above the common 'street' drugs. Do not consider just the very carefully legally crafted scripts of the ads (seen any ads back-peddling to meet the 'truth in advertising' laws, I know I have) but also consider the happy, normal, well adjusted family and individual lives shown as a result of using the drug, of the endorsing of drugs as acceptable to cure problems, make you feel better or younger,look better or younger, make you sexier or sex better or easier, by the situations and conversations used to promote the drug, not just the portrait of the problem and its cure but the portrait of the people who use the drugs, the drugs, and the effect drug use has overall; the problem is negative but everything else is positive, drugs can cure anything and whether or not the drug is actually prescribed for you is barely part of it. Just consider the growing number of medical problems/emergencies from minor to major to Death caused by responsible adults sharing their prescription drugs not just with each other but also giving them to their children or grandchildren or to those of friends or relatives, always with the best of intentions but seldom with the best results. Once again I say 'Pull Head from Ass Now!' America we (actually our "elected public servants') are allowing corporate greed to create a socially acceptable culture of drug use to abuse to addiction ( and do not forget that this most definitely includes alcohol) with the so legally pushed/advertised drugs that have all the exact same effects and consequences as the 'illegal street' drugs! And while your head is out take a look around and wake up to the fact that the state of America's economy is almost if not entirely the result of corporate and individual greed unfettered by the intentional lack of governmental responsibility to the American citizen and the health of the planet we live on!

Now when it comes to Gay rights, why the hell do we pay taxes? We do not have equal protection under the law; not federal law not state laws, and you need to check which state you are in to have any idea just what you are protected from and what you can be arrested and prosecuted for. Now under a new Obama executive order gays can be openly gay cannon fodder; if you choose to put tour life on the line for a country that often treats you like a third class citizen, often without the same rights granted to illegal immigrants, although still better than some countries it is still just not acceptable! Gays are allowed to have some of the same rights as heterosexuals, depending on the state you are in and whether or not the Justice Department of the administration in power at the time feels like giving you protection under federal law. But even if you find a church that will marry you, it is only valid in that state and may be rescinded at the next state election. Sound a lot like, no exactly like the old 'Some of my best friends and family are but none of them people are going to marry any of my children' from the endomy laws, banning black/white marriage, that were not declared unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court until 1967. Now if that religious endorsed bigotry had survived President Obama would not be President; as his parents could only been legally married in a hand full of states and could have been arrested and convicted of a crime if they crossed the wrong state line and their marriage would have had no legal federal standing, President Obama seem to believe that gays should have equal rights but is unwilling to oppose his friend Rick Warren. As to the defence of marriage crap, marriage does need defending not from gays, but from itself. If marriage was a school kid it would have grown old and died still in the second grade! Anything that fails 49+% of the time is a complete failure, you have a better chance of winning multiple coin tosses than of having a successful marriage!
This brings me to the swirling contents of a flushed toilet known a California's Prop 8. Why have none of the churches, the Mormon Church and Rick Warrens Saddleback Church et al been stripped of their tax exempt status; to my knowledge they are not even under investigation for their flagrant criminal violation of federal laws explicitly prohibiting politicking from the pulpit and the use of church property, monies or resources for political purposes? We, American citizens, should be outraged by the ability and easy with which The Christian Taliban of America continually its Christian Sharia into federal, state, and local laws with no legal consequences! So far the Christian Taliban, who have froth at the mouth fits about Islamic Sharia being imposed anywhere in the world, but continually tries to impose their Christian Sharia on the United States of America, has failed to get Roe v. Wade over turned; but with the help of George W. Bush's 'Right of Conscience' rule they have managed to circumvent it. The rule is 144 pages of Christian Sharia enabling that gives any employee, be they janitor, cashier, pharmacist, doctor, parking attendant, or receptionist, on the sole grounds of their personal religious or moral beliefs, the right and legal ability to prevent/deny any patient/customer from receiving any product, service or procedure, without any prior notification of the employer or any attempt to accommodate the rights or medical needs of the patient/customer; to be applied to any business or facility where any monies of federal origin are involved, be it Medicare, Medicaid, VA or other military benefits, or research grants of any kind. It was intended to circumvent Roe v. Wade by making it impossible to exorcise rights to abortion and contraception, but is so broadly and poorly written as to also allow the denial of surgery, transfusions, antibiotics, inoculations or literally anything objectionable to any religious or personal moral code. Nice! Say hello to the newest form of death by religious intolerance, a Little less messy than a suicide bombing but the same thing in the end results. On an almost positive note as I work to finish editing this post, it was announced the Obama administration wants to nullify Bush's Christian Taliban 'Right of Conscience' rule; better if they just announced that they had nullified it! This must not ameliorate America's disgust and outrage at Bush's action or the criminality of the, one hopes, failed attempt. Unfortunately this is not new tactic for the Christian Taliban, for years now various cities and counties have been enacting web of codes, standards and regulations designed specifically to make it impossible to open new or run existing clinics or Planned Parenthood offices etc; they can not outright deny the rights inherent in the Roe v. Wade decision but they have found ways to make exercising those rights impossible.