I Didn't Write This, But Preventing Animal Cruelty Is Very Close to My Heart

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September 12, 2013 Dear Craig, You can call me "Andy." It's not my real name. But since I'm an undercover investigator for The Humane Society of the United States, I have to keep things anonymous. As for my work, that's a different story. My job is to bring the darkest cruelties against animals out into the light for all to see. Today I want to tell you about one mother pig at a factory farm in Wyoming. Watch her story, and then please make a gift for animals like her. When I found this sow one day last April, she was lying on the ground -- her legs were swollen and covered in deep gashes. She had sores all over her body. I tried to give her food but she wouldn't eat it. When I touched her legs she recoiled in pain. The people responsible for her care did not even leave her water. But, I caught a few drops of water from a nearby hose and brought my hand to her mouth. All of a sudden, she lifted her head and lapped up the water. With all the strength she had left, she inched her way toward water -- for what might have been her last drink. See this sow's story -- then please make a gift to help stop this kind of animal cruelty and many other forms of animal abuse. It pains me to think about how she came to be in this condition. She was just a number to the people running this facility, a unit that wasn't producing. There were many -- too many -- other horrors at this facility. Workers punching pregnant mother pigs, drop-kicking piglets like soccer balls and smashing them into concrete floors. My job is to document these abuses for one reason: to expose them. And it's working. As a result of this investigation, seven workers at this factory farm pleaded guilty or were convicted of animal cruelty. And, we've worked with more than 60 major companies -- including McDonald's, Burger King, Costco, and Target -- to announce that they will stop using small, metal cages in which breeding sows are confined for almost their entire lives. This is tremendous progress, but there's still so much work to be done. Craig, will you make a gift today of $35.00 -- or whatever you can afford -- and help us continue our work to create a better world for all animals? Together we will confront cruelty wherever it exists, taking on the individuals and industries that profit from animal suffering -- from people who mistreat dogs in puppy mills, to those who club baby seals to death in the name of fashion, to corporations that abuse animals in factory farms. Thank you for everything you do for animals. Sincerely, "Andy" Undercover Investigator The Humane Society of the United States

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Where Is Endgame In Syria?

If you have been following the situation in Syria, then you probably know that whether Assad is in power or the rebels are in power, neither is an ideal situation.  In fact, sitting back and thinking, perhaps the situation now is ideal.  We have the rebels taking up Assad’s attention, such that Syria’s hands are tied. 

We don’t like Syria because they say only Muslims should rule, or at least practically all of the people of Syria.  Personally, I don’t consider Islamic rule as ideal, such that I don’t see any sort of world advantage war in Syria will gain for the USA.

I can’t say that I agree with the use of chemical weapons, but I don’t see use of chemical weapons as a line of demarcation where it becomes paramount that the U.S. gets involved.  Please Congress, send a message to the President that we do not want another war.  If it is true that the Syrian’s are willing to use them on their own people speaks volumes for how low of a nation this country is.

Strangely, this is coming at a time where we are thinking of raising the debt ceiling again.  I am wondering if there was foul play and Assad didn’t use chemical weapons, but some other party used them, so that the President and Congress can gain the patriotic momentum that they will need to raise the debt ceiling through war.  We won’t be able to go to war in Syria if we don’t raise the debt ceiling. 

Remember, this was the time that the Republicans were going to put down their foot on the issue of the debt ceiling.  But, will they put down their foot at the risk of not having another war?  The Republicans have long been the party that is more trigger happy than the Democrats.  So, will we go to war?  The answer is yes, and only because someone has played the war card in Syria, throwing House Republicans in a tizzy.  They can’t be the world policeman if they vote against raising the debt ceiling!!!

So where should the endgame be?:  The endgame should be now! 9/2/2013

Using ECT Weight Loss Treatment

Today when I awoke after dreaming, I imagined I had invented a way to help folks that are desperate lose weight via electrically shocking them when they eat. Then, I thought it would be too hard to tell weather water or hard food was consumed, and if someone was really hungry they could just cheat and eat soda, but with enough persistence I was able to come up with a workable idea. It gave me the giggles though to think about electrically shocking folks.

By golly I've got it! I could electrically shock folks by degree based upon how much they displace at home when they use their toilet. So my thinking is that if the toilet is filled too much and too often, then they would have submit to a zap for that. Yeah!

Humorous CD Player Invention

The invention is running a cd walkman of rests on your face.  The disc itself would revolve around the tip of the clients nose.  This would require a very small stabilizer on the nose that does not revolve, and a part that does.

The apparatus would be for lying on one's back.   It could be used perhaps when napping.  Naturally, some effort would need to be made to keep it light.  For example, it would probably be a good idea not to have a cover that goes over the top of the spinning cd.  However, if there was a cover, it may be a good idea to put PV (photovoltaic cells) on the top of that cover, so that they could be used as a power source.  However, in my mind, the cd player was to be battery operated.

Really, at heart this is a gag gift.  Though it may make some money, it is not ment to be taken seriously.  I do think that there could be a small market for it.  The idea came to me by way of a dream.  Usually, my dreams crash and burn in nonsense.  However, this time I dreamed a possible dream.  I may even call it a gift from Hashem.

Is There Anything We Can Gain From The Cape and Islands Wind Farm?

Who would have thought that the wind turbine issue would be so great? Whatever the case, we need to get some hard data on how these turbines are affecting people before we shut them down. I don't think that we have seen the last of wind power. I do believe we need to move on with wind power once we figure out what has gone horribly wrong. Keep the hope that wind power is something good, and does have real and good applications. We just need to find out where we went wrong so that we can fix it. My own instinct as a science educated person is that what is giving people vertigo and dizziness via noise and pressure should somehow be collected and used as power, and that the problems of the wind turbines should be converted to useful energy.

As an outsider, without any data, this is my pathetic guess as to what is going wrong.  The reason people are probably suffering so much is from the centrifugal force that is exuded at the tips of the wind mills.  If there was a collector of that force that brought it back (parallel to the turbine aerodynamically, or within the wind turbines themselves), perhaps a tube of sorts, that energy could be collected, and converted to useful energy.

Ed Markey and Mike Sullivan for Senate 2013: Comment on Debate

After listening to Democrats and Republicans debating for Senator Kerry’s spot, I hope that either Ed Markey http://markey.house.gov/ or Mike Sullivan are elected for senate. Their competition is 2nd class for Senatorial positions.

I am mostly in favor of the democrat candidate, Markey, but would not be disappointed if Mike Sullivan won.

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Watching how Sullivan's Republican candidates, his competitors, didn't bat an eyelash at the subject of gay marriage had me worried. I am in favor of allowing gay marriage, but I don't believe I could discuss the issue with such a straight face. You know the type of straight face that makes people want to laugh.  When I initially wrote this as a post to Facebook, I was giggling at Sullivan's Republican opponents' candidate talk, and would like the chance to laugh in the face of his current competition.

If I had to describe the Republican debate on the subject of gay marriage, it reminded me of a scene in the movie Dirty Work (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120654/).

In one scene of the movie, Norm MacDonald gets even with a mean employer who runs a movie theater by playing (so called) gay porn in the theater.  The beginning of the scene is available here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tXQm9K9cjQ

I wouldn’t even know what gay porn is, as I have never seen it nor do I want to.  So, if you are gay and reading this, thank you for keeping the gay porn out of my search engine.

I'll never forget the tone of the words in Dirty Work, "Let's have sex with it," and thank goodness that they didn't show the porn. They just showed all the customers running out of the movie theater. That attitude of the gay porn tone of voice, which was so funny in Dirty Work is pretty much exactly the same voice these Republicans use in the debate.  It is worth a giggle.

The debate is available here: (the Democrats) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f41M6LUUils

And, (the Republicans),

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4VsKjzkBww

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Nicotene, Caffeine, Taurine, ect. Soda Pop

It is completely beyond me why I have yet to hear of a soda pop that uses nicotene.  One would think that this method for adminstering nicotene would not only be affective, but also save lives.  That is, I want to make beverages with nicotene in them.

Airplane flights would probably be much more pleasant for a good many of smokers. In fact, these drinks would probably help a good many of people quit smoking. Additionally, drinking beverages with nicotine in them would probably extend a good many of peoples lives. For example, they already know from research that people are more likely to live to be a 100 years old if they smoke, despite the fact that smoking should generally be thought of as a killer for the vast majority of people.