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A yard of receipt

Went to the supermarket the other day just to do some “in between” shopping. Considering we have 4 cats “in between” shopping  usually means picking up around 25 to 30 items, a good potion of which are cans of cat food.
Now if we bought these same items a few years ago the receipt for said [...]

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Bush Buying Time for Big Oil?

This has got to be the most transparent move that the current Administration has pulled yet.

The Bush administration has put a two-year stop to solar energy projects on federal lands in Arizona and other Western states while it studies their environmental impact.
Source: Bush administration halts solar energy projects on federal lands: Phoenix Business Journal

Yeah right. [...]

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Tags and Categories-Tagged Again! Part II

Required reading: Tags and Categories-Tagged Again! Part I
Many thanks to Grandad. This absolutely horrendous, disjointed post is all his fault but he’ll probably blame it on K8.
And here we go….
I seem to be getting older these days. Not only am I getting older but it seems to be becoming a habit, a perpetual thing if [...]

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Blog Action Day: It’s Our Children’s World.

I wrote the original version of this post back in July of this year and try as I might I couldn’t come up with something that said the message I was trying to get across better than that post did. Now, with the fabled Northwest Passage open for the first time, what I was trying [...]

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Writers Block. Am I depressed or what?

There are times when I find that when searching for something to write about, my mind (such as it is) often refuses to give up the goods. This surprises me since I’ve always excelled at such worthwhile pursuits as daydreaming and letting my mind wander off on imaginative adventures, usually when I’m supposed to be [...]

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Pain at the Pump

I came to decision the other day that I’ll never let my tank get below a half again. That is not unless I win the lottery or something, then I wouldn’t care and most likely I’d go find a rig around the same size but more fuel efficient. If it didn’t exist then I [...]

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Excellent Info on Oil From Algae

While perusing through my stats over the past few days, I noticed several searches leading here that led folks to my original Oil from Algae post back in March. It finally got through my thick skull that I had received a comment from Narsi, one of the coordinators of www.oilgae.com that let me know [...]

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Solar Cells-Yet Another New Breakthrough

In an effort to bring out information to a wider audience about new technology that works towards a better environment and a healthier world than the one we live in presently (all thanks to us), I’m making it a point to post about anything that I might actually see hit the streets some time before [...]

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