It’s the end of 2016 and Americans are reassured we are still continuing to recover very well from the longest and worst recession in the history of the world! This is an incredible story by itself, but when you consider it was caused by one man, George W. Bush, it’s truly amazing and yet so very sad.
The policies of the Bush administration forced President Obama to embark on a historic borrowing plan that has added another $24 trillion dollars to the national debt. Had the President only been able to borrow more in his first four years in office the recession would be long over and he would not have had to borrow the additional $18 trillion in the last 4 years.
Unfortunately, the Bush policies carried over by republicans and their Wall Street pals have deliberatedly frustrated every opportunity for the poor and middle-class to be lifted out of abject poverty.
The only thing that stands between Obama’s valiant and determined effort to build a strong society is the Bush family, the Skull and Bones Club, the Illuminati, the Bildibergers, the Rothschild’s, the Elders of Zion, the Freemasons, the trilateralists, the globalists and the Walt Disney corporation. They’re all part of an insidious New World Order and they’re all out to destroy the Democratic Party and keep the poor in check and this nation in recession.
But, we have hope and we know change is coming! The one thing they all fear is our new green B.O. society! This is where America shines bright! This is where it shall redeem herself from past transgressions (see the apology list! at WWW,whitehouse.gov) Given just a little more time Americans will once again have good paying jobs. Already 6 million of us are employed installing solar panels on government buildings and another 2.5 million are employed cleaning up polluted waters caused by great gulf oil spill back in 2010. Its working too, today unemployment is barely above 33% and last year it was a whopping 33.4%! We’re on the right track folks.
The really good news in 2012 is, the last surviving auto manufacturer in America has just become the world’s leader in subsidized green technology, thanks to the President’s green funding and wise leadership. He has led us away from the awful dependence on fossil fuels to a new beginning and a near reversal of global warming. The new Bendover Rover is a true people’s car. Its a triumph of American engineering and know-how and it sets a new standard for the world! The car averages 78 mpg, without passengers, and weighs in at only 435 lbs; it has a range of over 60 miles and can travel at an average speed well over 27.5 mph! And it gets better: Its tires are interchangeable with most bicycles too! This is what American families have been needing for years and it will soon be in every garage and sold around the world. However, for now, our government agencies are so eager to buy up the existing production… none are left for the public. An expansion of (GM) Government Motors will be needed to force, er to fill…that need.
It makes me mad to think of the awful truth, but if we only began saving America thru green technology way back during the Bush years it would not have been necessary to sell California and Nevada to the Mexican drug cartels. Although, even President Obama has said this was regrettable. Once again it was the Bush policies that made this sale absolutely necessary to keep the lights on.
Yes, its a fact that President Bush had the power to save California and Nevada from the auction block, but he didn’t do it. Why not? Because he didn’t have President Obama’s green vision! But, like President O has said many times, “How many states do we really need? We’ve got more than I count anyway!” Oh, well…life moves on, we still got 55, right?
Keep on voting democrat and keep America recovering from this awful Bush recession. Oh and when you’re at the government store, save me a little of that delicious government cheese – Y’all keep those victory gardens going too! Beats starving, huh?
I should not laugh at that but I can not help myself. Bendover Rover, lol.
Ahhhh ahhh ahhh….still wiping my eyes!
Laughter is the best medicine…You just added a few years to my life, Jack, thanks!
I feel your pain Jack … but the world you grew up in, the world of unlimited resources … it is gone. It is just gone.
Paper grocery bags were premised on the unlimited availablity of cellulose pulp, and there is no such thing. Plastic grocery bags were premised on the unlimited availability of petrochemicals (and landfill acreage), and there is no such thing.
You are going to suck it up, use the canvas, and when the canvas gets holes, you are going to stitch them up. It won’t be that bad.
Thank you Libs, and you might like to know I actually use a canvas grocery bag most of the time. The other bags are too weak and it’s really hard for me to ride my bicycle and hold paper or plastic bags. But, you know what? Nothing is forever, not even the sun, so don’t worry so much about every little thing Libby! We’re basically fine, we just gotta get your man outta the White House before he does anymore damage.
Libby: “Paper grocery bags were premised on the unlimited availablity of cellulose pulp, and there is no such thing.”
Trees, like cattle, are a renewable commodity…the assertion that cellulos pulp is a “limited” commodity is only true insofar as the green lobby has limited the industry through political and social pressure.
Libby’s idea of settling for great grandma’s reality is prejudiced and based on faulty science and political hype…at least until the sun burns out.
We should be good stewards of the earth; we don’t all have to ride bicycles and wear earth shoes to accomplish it, although we can if we wish.
By the way, Jack, is the bike riding helping with your weight loss?
“Trees, like cattle, are a renewable commodity ….”
But not unlimited … especially when the Chinese come online. And if we’re going to be equitable, and I hope we are, paper grocery bags are not an option. Tina is having trouble … still.
Cattle?
Again, as a matter of the equitable distribution of food resources, cattle are not an option.
You will get the hang of it, Tina … eventually, you will.
Jack I’m glad you are using your imagination for good instead of evil!
Here’s a silly question: Why are people so down on plastic shopping bags? I’ve seen the same people wrap their produce in plastic produce bags, purchase items in plastic containers, buy plastic bags to bag their garbage and buy plastic bags to bag their leftovers and lunchables.
What’s the difference between a bread bag and a plastic shopping bag?
My family has a big collection of reusable bags, including the “cold sack” we bought at Safeway for $1.99. We get very nice canvas bags from our artist friend Brent Clark, who oftentimes has a booth at the Thursday night market. We also purchase the re-usable WalMart bags – they are only 25 cents or something like that, and they last forever.
But, we like having the shopping bags to wrap our trash, and they make a great tent for your rising bread dough. They’re nice for bagging up your old goods to take to Salvation Army. And, they are indispensable for picking up trash when you go to public areas – sheesh!
And let me tell ya, WalMart has BIG bags, and they’re good for wrapping your winter clothes – you cut a little hole in the bottom and stick the hanger through there, and then your winter sweater doesn’t get all dusty over the summer.
So, when I look in the bag drawer and there’s no plastic bags, I leave my reusable bags at home and stock up. I admit – I always feel guilt walking out with those bags, so a lot of times, I hide them inside my cold bag, so everybody thinks I’m all groovy and stuff. As they smuggle out all their plastic products in their canvas bags.
Let me also take this opportunity to say that the Mangrove Ave Safeway checkers ROCK!
Libby: “But not unlimited … especially when the Chinese come online.”
The Chinese can grow and harvest their own renewable supply of timber! “Limited” is only in the eyes of the very narrow minded! We have more trees now in the Pacific North West than we had when FDR roamed the earth…and we will have plenty in the future.
“Again, as a matter of the equitable distribution of food resources, cattle are not an option.”
Equitable distribution of food resources? Geesh Libby you sound like a robot! Cattle too are a renewable source of food!
“You will get the hang of it, Tina … eventually, you will.”
More drama from the dictator robot.
Sorry sweetie, I, and a few hundred million others, will go on growing and enjoying the red meat we get from this wonderful renewable source.
And you can take your “oh sh*t we’re all gonna die” fear and anxiety, pop it in a pipe, and smoke it. People and the earth, adapt; always have, and always will.
Good question Juanita, I dunno because plastic is a renewable resource. Good comments!
Thanks for asking Tina, I don’t think I’ve lost much weight, but I’ve rearranged it! lol
Between bike riding and going to the gym I have packed on a lot more muscle, so that will burn up more calories and I should eventually accomplish my goal. Figure another 4-5 months.
No. But it doesn’t really matter until harvest time, so why the question?
In case our readers are curious:
Formula for measuring board feet in a single tree.
1. Measure the height of the tree.
2. Measure the diameter of the tree.
3. Remember the formula to find the area of a circle is (A=r2 x p). Area = radius squared times 3.14). Since a tree is almost circular, use this formula to find the area of your tree at DBH (diameter at breast height). Since the formula requires the radius of the tree and you just measured the diameter, divide the diameter by 2. Dividing the radius by 12 converts inches to feet.
4. Now use this number to calculate the area of your tree.
5.Don’t relax now! We are only beginning! Use the formula in step 5 of the data sheet to find out how many cubic feet of lumber are in your tree. Cubic Feet = Area (ft) X Height (ft) / 4 (note: 4 is used to account for the taper of the tree)
6. There are 12 board feet of lumber for every one cubic foot, so multiply cubic feet by 12. You have calculated how many board feet of lumber your tree has.
There are various formulas for calculating (estimating) the board feet in large tracts of land.
Quentin, don’t worry, people who actually need this information have these formulas.
This is a pathetically negative and defeatist viewpoint. The only thing stopping us from properly utilizing our renewable resources is the negative defeatism in our own government!
We have plenty of trees to harvest and regrow right here in California, if our government and the enviro-extremists would let us. Instead, they prefer to see it burn and pollute our skies and water supplies with black ashes.
America can continue to feed the world, and help the rest of the world learn to feed itself, but this defeatist attitude that it’s all gone and nothing is left is brainwashing from those who want to use this defeatism to hold people down. When government controls all the resources, only those in government will have access to the spoils. The rest of will suffer in socialist equality.
Truly that is Libby and Quentin’s vision of paradise.
Quentin: “I asked the question to see if you knew or if you would obfuscate, though I kinda figured what you would do.”
I kinda figured your question was a trick question. It seems to be a challenge for you to just engage in conversation.
“just about enough lumber for 300,000 pencils.”
Now there’s a diminishing product. Computers have made them a lot less necessary. This is how the world works. It has a way of balancing out, miraculously at times, even in the affairs of man. When we notice something is happening we create solutions, new methods, new products, and life goes on.
“In truth, there is about 3% of the lumber in America that was here when it was discovered by Columbus.”
A partial truth, Q?
You betcha!
“When I was building houses in the late 80s, we imported our lumber from Asia.”
I’m not surprised, the idiopts trhying to save that little owl just about shuit down all logging in the West around that time. We didn’t have to get it from Asia but the enviros made sure those jobs were sent offshore…and the trees/lumber was probably harvested with a lot less conservation and care!
“Libby is correct–again.”
Bu** s**t! You two are progressive hacks pitching the same old progressive JOB KILLING line.
“To keep the world’s supply of lumber sustainable, we will have to use other materials in place of trees for our lumber needs.”
Like I said we adapt…but the need for lumber will continue. And as long as the subject is the environment suddenly, HOW MUCH ENERGY DO THOSE “OTHER MATERIALS” REQUIRE TO MAKE AND HOW POLLUTING ARE THEY? Please don’t try to convince me that wind or solar will be in enough supply any time soon to supply it either.
“To determine the board feet of lumber in a tree, one uses a log rule.”
See, I knew it was a trick question.
After reading the many comments of this blog post I noticed a definite line of demarcation.
Who preaches doom and gloom?
Who has the optimism?
By the way, plastic shopping bags capture and make solid a byproduct of natural gas that would otherwise be vented to the atmosphere. So, of course, the usual Luddites get their teats in a tangle over plastic shopping bags.
Ethylene (the principle component of plastic shopping bags and produce bags) is a separated byproduct of natural gas. Rather than simply venting ethylene to the atmosphere and add it to the so called “greenhouse” gasses it is captured and transformed into a plastic solid.
So, the next time some liberal eco-nazi jackass waxes cretin on plastic bags, pop one over his or her head.
Figuratively of course. 😉
“Sorry sweetie, I, and a few hundred million others, will go on growing and enjoying the red meat we get from this wonderful renewable source.”
Spoken like a real American … and don’t ever wonder why we ain’t very popular, globally speaking.
“This is a pathetically negative and defeatist viewpoint.”
Only if you take the viewpoint of a three-year-old who’s just been told that he must share the cookies: that there are three for each, and so three is all he gets.
We’re not quite there yet, but it’s time to start thinking about it: when it comes to a choice between pulp for TP or pulp for grocery bags, I’m going with the TP … and I am really, quite willing to give up the paper bags right now.
Libby: “Spoken like a real American…”
Da*n straight!
“…and don’t ever wonder why we ain’t very popular, globally speaking.”
Depends on who you ask…there are still plenty of people willing to risk life and limb to get to this “unpopular” country. I believe it’s mostly well-off white progressives that hate American.
“Only if you take the viewpoint of a three-year-old who’s just been told that he must share the cookies: that there are three for each, and so three is all he gets.”
Thankfully those critters know how to procreate…and we have learned how to manage our forrests well!
Learn about abundance and plenty…they don’t come from negative attitudes like yours and those our green friends have adopted.
Shortages, shortages everywhere as far as the eye can see…oh nooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
Balance…seek balance.