WMRA: One Summer’s Soul-mate (2009-07-10)

WMRA: One Summer’s Soul-mate (2009-07-10)

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shut up already

i have this crazy idea.

let’s just have the federal government recognize “civil unions” between who-the-fuck-ever (for tax purposes mostly i presume). i mean, “marriage” in the eyes of the state is just a contract between a governing body and 2 separate entities anyway. that’s why the state owns your kids until their 18 and you parents have little real rights to them, but i digress.

so civil unions for all! then everybody can shut up about it. ’cause i for one am sick of hearing it….from both sides.

you could civilly unite with an elephant for all i care. just don’t shove it in my face. stop parading. stop protesting. save your activism for something more worthwhile than what you want to or don’t want others to fuck. please.

time flies when…

…you’re not having fun! or rather, when you are insanely busy, your significant other of nearly 8 years decides to go to college (finally) but now lives near there and not with you, and you are doing the looking for a job thing when it’s a little tough to be doing that….but then you get a new job and now, after living with the responsibilities of 2 people while essentially single, you are continually exhausted and have practically forgotten you even had a blog…

so my question has always been: does absence make the heart grow fonder…or forgetful?

PROUD TO BE PART OF THE 1%

of the popular vote….you can guess who i wrote in!!!

the reason we have an electoral college, really, is so that NOT EVERYBODY chooses who will be president. the founders didn’t trust everyone. i don’t either. HOWEVER, i also don’t trust this 2-party system that is so horribly entrenched in the psyche of this country and it’s people.

we shouldn’t choose someone based on popularity….we should choose them on what they stand for, and i’m sorry, dems & reps are the same same thing (2 sides of the same coin)…it won’t really matter which one wins. unless it had been Ron Paul as he is truly Libertarian….if i hadn’t have written him in, i think i would have gone Constitutional party or Nader….the Libertarian candidate this time voted yes for the FASCIST ACT (RE: “PATRIOT act”)…

hey dems & reps…demons & reptiles…teehee

Bottled Water As Bad As Tap Water – well duh!

i already knew this….didn’t you? plus think about the leaching of the plastic from the bottle into the water (there was a bit of a snafu with nalgene bottles not too long ago…), and the price, and the extreme amount of waste from all those plastic bottles. Some people buy all their drinking water in these tiny little bottles, come on! a little ridiculous don’t you think?

i have some 1 gallon glass jars (i don’t like to keep things in plastic…) that i fill with (cheaply purchased) water processed through a whole slew of things but always with reverse osmosis in this mix. and then a lot of the time i send it through a carbon filter again at home…unless i can get my hands on some fresh spring/well water (that i KNOW is good). i have to have the fluoride (and chlorine for that matter) out, which is why reverse osmosis or distillation would be my only water purchasing choices. don’t need any illnesses or brain deterioration from those poisons. (and on a side note, who said that ANY amount of pollutants, poisons, chemicals can be considered safe? what if you (have to) drink more water than the average person? what if you’re an infant or an animal or an invalid or the elderly? why is somebody else deciding what i should be taking into my body….isn’t that my right, my choice? i am not an idiot…i know when something is bad. and poisonous waste chemicals/other people’s pharmaceuticals/etc are not healthy choices in any amount….)

there was a time i got all my water from a little tiny spring that came out of this wall of rocks a few miles from me. sometimes i’d filter that through one of those kanadyne portablbe/camping/survival filtration devices, and sometimes i didn’t. it was good tasting water.

i don’t mind a taste to water as long as it’s a good taste. tap water is gross. bottled water is gross. bleck. don’t offer me any, i’d rather be thirsty.

here’s some snippets from the AP article:

Bottled water has contaminants too, study finds

By JEFF DONN, AP National Writer

Wed Oct 15, 12:17 AM ET

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The study’s lab tests on 10 brands of bottled water detected 38 chemicals including bacteria, caffeine, the pain reliever acetaminophen, fertilizer, solvents, plastic-making chemicals and the radioactive element strontium. Though some probably came from tap water that some companies use for their bottled water, other contaminants probably leached from plastic bottles, the researchers said.

“In some cases, it appears bottled water is no less polluted than tap water and, at 1,900 times the cost, consumers should expect better,” said Jane Houlihan, an environmental engineer who co-authored the study. …

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In the Wal-Mart and Giant Food bottled water, the highest concentration of chlorine byproducts, known as trihalomethanes, was over 35 parts per billion. California’s limit is 10 parts per billion or less, and the industry’s International Bottled Water Association makes 10 its voluntary guideline. The federal limit is 80. …

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The researchers also said the Wal-Mart brand was five times California’s limit for one particular chlorine byproduct, bromodichloromethane. The environmental group wants Wal-Mart to label its bottles in California with a warning because the chlorine-based contaminants have been linked with cancer. It has filed a notice of intent to sue. …

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