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They aren't dropping that many bombs, rockets yes, guns YIKES!!
They all do give off heat, but put it in perspective>
We had one or two volcanos blow this summer they put off more BTUs than all the fire power being used in the war. We live on a thin crust on top of a molting iron core and our galaxy has at it's center an inferno that bakes us to over 100 from millions of miles away. Our core, the sun, and volcanic erupions dwarf the heat given off by the bombs, rockets. and guns being uses in the war.
This will also kill new trees. Nurseries that guarantee their trees for one year are going to get hit hard. This dry summer was hard on all plants, not just trees. This winter will finish off many plants and they will not bud out in the spring.
We had plenty of rain down here in Florida, Texas had flood after flood, Atlanta is hurting from lack of rain.
Wierd year, weather wise.
Hi Chevy56, how goes it? Please elaborate. How are war bomb's connected to changes in the home, other than their varying effect on an individual's disposition?
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For much of the north, after the tree's buds opened in the spring, they had a very late hard freeze...top that off with an extra dry summer and bingo, you have lackluster fall color. Sad, but the tree's tuff year will kill many trees. They are in a weakened state and this winter will further damage them. So the late hard freeze and extremely dry summer is to blame....not the dreaded GLOBAL WARMING<imo
Life's free legato blessings have no competition. If you want to know who runs this world you will not find it in that book, they might try but they never will. Greed and power have a price....the best things in life are free.
It's 79°F and sunny, my cooler's packed and by the door.
Got'a go, legato blessings are calling:)
Have a great weekend all>:)+:)+:)+:)+:)+:)+:)...
For you, Mary>>>today's dose of good news
Clean Cities Program Saves 375 Million Gallons Of Gas In 2006
Clean Cities coalitions around the nation saved the equivalent of 375 million gallons of gasoline in 2006 -- 50 percent more than the 250 million gallons in 2005 -- by transforming government and private vehicle fleets into more energy efficient, cleaner burning forms of transportation.
FDA to examine claim that lipstick lead levels unsafe
By The Associated Press and The (Minneapolis) Star Tribune
Full report: www.SafeCosmetics.org
WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said Friday it would look into claims from an advocacy group that certain lipsticks contain potentially dangerous levels of lead.
Similar past claims have not been confirmed, the agency said.
The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics said one-third of the 33 red lipsticks examined by an independent lab contained a level of lead exceeding 0.1 parts per million (ppm), the FDA's limit for lead in candy. None listed lead as an ingredient. Thirty-nine percent of the lipsticks tested had no detectable levels of lead.
The FDA does not set a limit for lead in lipstick.
The FDA said concerns about lead in lipstick have been raised occasionally in the print media and on the Internet.
"These concerns have not generally been supported by FDA's own analysis of products on the market. In the present case, we are looking into the specific details of the issues raised," said FDA spokeswoman Stephanie Kwisnek.
The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics describes itself as a coalition of women's, public-health, labor, environmental-health and consumer-rights groups whose goal is to pressure companies to remove toxic chemicals from their products and replace them with safer alternatives.
The lead tests were conducted by the Bodycote Testing Group last month on lipsticks bought in Boston, San Francisco, Minneapolis and Hartford, Conn., the organization said. Bodycote Testing Group, of Sante Fe Springs, Calif., operates nearly 300 facilities around the world.
Among the top brands testing positive for lead were:
• L'Oréal Colour Riche "True Red": 0.65 ppm
• L'Oréal Colour Riche "Classic Wine": 0.58 ppm
• Cover Girl Incredifull Lipcolor "Maximum Red": 0.56 ppm
• Dior Addict "Positive Red": 0.21 ppm
L'Oréal challenged that its products contain harmful ingredients, saying in an e-mail that its products have been thoroughly reviewed and tested by the company's toxicologists, clinicians, pharmacists and physicians and are in compliance with federal regulations.
The trade association representing the cosmetic industry acknowledged "negligible" levels of lead in some lipsticks but said it is not intentionally added.
"Consumers are exposed daily to lead when they eat, drink water and breathe," said John Bailey, an executive vice president at the Cosmetic, Toiletry and Fragrance Association.
"The average amount of lead a woman would be exposed to when using cosmetics is 1,000 times less than the amount she would get from eating, breathing and drinking water that meets Environmental Protection Agency drinking-water standards."
Also
ConAgra Foods recalled all of its Banquet line of frozen potpies and those sold under eight store brands because of salmonella poisoning that sickened at least 165 people in 31 states, including Washington. The store brands include Western Family, Kirkwood, those at Albertsons, Wal-Mart Stores' Great Value and Kroger labels, ConAgra said.
Material from Bloomberg News is included in this report.
I disagree 100%, Afghanistan and Iraq and now Pakistan see their problem is THEIR Islamic militants. Their governments are their only hope to overpower radicals who want to force their ways with fear and gruesome acts of violence. Anbar in Iraq has turned on al-Qaeda as are other parts of Iraq. I just want them to help the Coalition and NATO go after the Taliban and al-Qaeda, Democrasy is 2nd in my book.
Grass root movements in Iraq and Afghanistan are starting to stand up and help their police and government get the real bad guys....and it's not the US troops...our guys and NATO are helping the people of Iraq and Afghanistan and NOW they don't want the US to go. Devided you fall....the bad Muslims are forcing the split the West needs to be made. We now have the Muslim help in finding those militants. We need for this war to NOT be Islam ~vs~ the West. It's the only way we can stop it...if we can...it's not going to be easy.
We can't just sit back and do nothing.
Hi Mary:)
Clinton IS a very intelligent man, but being smart doesn't mean you can be trusted, he was one of only 3 presidents to be impeached. Google Clinton and: Filegate, Vince Foster, obstructing justice, witness tampering, Monica Lewinsky, or Paula Jones.
Him and his wife can't be trusted.
Why would Hillary take dirty money?
Check out those who Bill pardoned>>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Clinton_pardons_controversy
Up 140% HA! Dispite the bid still being at .25 it's nice to see. That .25 close yesterday was the funk.
Was that 2nd trade(162 @ .60) a buy?
It's blue on Scottrade( between the bid and the ask)
What's L2 look like?
btw>Thanks for posting L2 for us.
Good luck.
Goods from China are being pulled right and left and it's in the news all the time....bad as it is, it's in the light now and that's a good thing. I need to split>>> have a great weekend Chevy56:)+:)+:)+:)+:)+:)
Coffee cheers: Have a great weekend!
Looks like another s-----l-----o----w day.
HEY KEN!!! HOWS'BOUT YOU WORKING ON YOUR WEB PAGE TODAY!
Do you trust China? How about the Dem front runner?
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-donors19oct19,0,4231217.story?coll=la-home-center
Send 'em some John Edwards bumper stickers!
This is all over the news>>>Former Pakistani premier Benazir Bhutto Friday condemned bomb attacks on her homecoming parade in Karachi that killed 133 people, saying the victims made the "ultimate sacrifice" for democracy.
Look out Osama!
http://atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/IJ19Df01.html
Of those 50, how many are harmful? How many can you avoid? Do you? Like harmones in chicken, do you avoid chicken?
I'd like to see that list of *over fifty chemicals in our bodies right now that did not exist when our grandparents were alive*, post them if you can.
Coffee cheers:have a great weekend!
With all the buyers yesterday at .80, why not bump it up .05 more......ZZzzzZZZzzzz
If the MMs would make it .50 X .55 they'd see some action.
Why this???
Hey they should patch those pipelines with John Edward's bumper stickers.
I tell people, go to the poor areas of town, look at yards with no sprinkler systems, look for plants you like, that's what you need to plant in your yard. Check and see if asian jasmine grows in your area, sturdy stuff. Make the beds around your house bigger....plant ground covers in big beds under trees, shrink the size of your grass area as much as you can.
As is Turkey going into Iraq.....I think that has more to do with this last spike.
Oil ministers, what to do...what to do? Go down on the price of oil or PARTY???? Hmmmmmm, that's a hard one.
Grass not only takes too much water but the cost(or time) of lawn maintinance is unnecessary, as is the pest controle and fertilization. $$$$$$,$$$$$$, and more $$$$$. Not to mention the ongoing frustration. It's not worth it. Now if you have a green yard everybody knows you are a cheater on watering. Fines are high too. I'm taking out lawns and putting in ground covers.
We have plenty of oil, it's refineries we need more of.
Blowing up a pipeline in Mexico isn't going to have that big of an effect.
What I want to know is with oil costing 30%+ more than it was, why isn't gas over $3 a gal. like it was at $60 a bbl.
Oil ministers are getting together next month to discuss what to do.....that's the problem not a blown up pipeline in Mexico.
They literally have us over a barrel.
We need to get our oil from anyplace other than the Arabs that want to bring the US down.
And find other ways to provide energy.
I live on an Island in Tampa bay, the sea grass is growing on a once barren bottom. The return of pelicans here is another indication of the bay's comeback. I grew up on the Ohio river, PU it was ultra bad. It's shocking how clear and blue it is now. When I was a kid you never saw eagles, now you see many.
Still, much needs to be done to stop pollution.
We have water restrictions here. You can only water your yard one day a week and not from 8AM till 6PM. Water fountains are a no no. I'm a gardener, we are so so lucky we are getting rains. Once a week doesn't get it. With everybody watering on one of two days, the water pressure sucks and the spacing of sprinkler heads on old systems makes them inadequate. I preach to people to give up on grass and go with ground covers that can make it on cosiderably less water and almost no insecticides that end up in the bay.
You will not see this kind of good news on TV>>>
Title: 72-YEAR-OLD CONCERNED CITIZEN TAKES DOWN SUICIDE BOMBER
Release Date: 10/18/2007
Release Number: 07-01-03P
Description: FORWARD OPERATING BASE KALSU, Iraq – A 72-year-old man stopped a suspected suicide bomber from detonating himself at a checkpoint in Arab Jabour Oct. 14.
The man approached a checkpoint where Mudhehr Fayadh Baresh was standing guard, but did not make it very far.
Baresh, a tribal commissioner and member of the Arab Jabour Concerned Citizens program, said he ordered the man to lift his shirt - using training received from Coalition Forces - when he did not recognize him as a local villager.
The suspect refused to lift his shirt. Baresh repeated the command again, and the suspect exposed his suicide vest, running toward the checkpoint.
Baresh opened fire which caused the vest to detonate, killing the suspect.
“I did it for the honor of my family and the honor of my country,” said Baresh, when he met with Col. Terry Ferrell, commander of the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division.
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more of the same>>>this is a great link to news unfiltered and twisted by loonie libs.
http://www.centcom.mil/sites/uscentcom2/Lists/Current%20Press%20Releases/DispForm.aspx?ID=5718&S...
Mission of the Commission>great US minds work on a much needed fix.
Bush, Commission Urge Congress to Fix Troop Health Care
By John J. Kruzel
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Oct. 17, 2007 – President Bush urged Congress today to pass legislation that will realize recommendations made by a bipartisan commission tasked to fix problems with wounded servicemembers’ care. Meanwhile, the group’s leaders are slated to testify on the matter before lawmakers.
At a White House news conference today, Bush urged Congress promptly to consider a legislation package he submitted yesterday “so that those injured while defending our freedom can get the quality care they deserve.”
In the wake of reports that troops at Walter Reed Army Medical Center here were receiving sub-par treatment, the president created the nine-member panel in March, citing a “moral obligation” to provide the best possible care to men and women in uniform. Joined yesterday by commission co-chairs Donna Shalala, a former secretary of health and human services, and former Kansas Sen. Bob Dole, Bush endorsed the group’s comprehensive findings.
“My administration strongly supports the commission's recommendations,” Bush said during a news conference at the White House Rose Garden. “We've taken steps to implement them where we can through administrative action, and today we're sending Congress legislation to implement the recommendations that require legislative action.”
The Bush administration has implemented 90 percent of the recommendations outlined last summer in a 29-page proposal; the remaining 10 percent require congressional approval. According to a fact sheet published by the White House yesterday, the administration is working with lawmakers to fully implement suggestions from six categories:
-- Modernizing and improving the disability and compensation systems;
-- Aggressively preventing and treating post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury;
-- Significantly strengthening support for families;
-- Immediately creating comprehensive recovery plans to provide the right care and support at the right time in the right place;
-- Rapidly transferring patient information between the departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs; and
-- Strongly supporting Walter Reed by recruiting and retaining first-rate professionals through 2011.
Shalala and Dole today are expected to testify before Congress and implore lawmakers to further implement their panel’s recommendations beyond the limits of administrative action.
“More than anything else, Congress now … must modernize the disability system,” Shalala said during yesterday’s news conference. “It is old-fashioned; it doesn't reflect modern medicine; it's too slow; it's too confusing. We need a system in which any soldier, any sailor, any Marine, any member of their family understand it and can make it work.”
The former health and human services secretary said she shares Bush’s optimism that Congress will wholly endorse the panel’s recommendations. “Our commission members believe we can do it; the young Americans who have been injured, many of them severely, believe we can do it. And we must do it,” she said.
Dole said the mission of the commission -- which boasts four members who themselves are injured veterans -- transcends partisanship or political biases.
“Whatever your views may be on the war, we have one common view on taking care of those who are wounded or injured: whatever it takes,” he said.
Great American Minds working on Crisis Response>>
Exercises Test Crisis Response Coordination
By Donna Miles
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Oct. 17, 2007 – As some 15,000 federal, state and local officials test their ability to respond to terrorist attacks in Oregon, Arizona and Guam during the largest-yet “TOPOFF” exercise, U.S. Northern Command is fine-tuning its own procedures for supporting a civilian-led response to a potential threat or crisis.
Servicemembers and civilians from U.S. Army North kicked off Vigilant Shield 2008 on Oct. 15. The weeklong national-level exercise involves federal, state and local agencies across the United States and Guam.
Vigilant Shield is running concurrently with TOPOFF 4, the fourth in a series of congressionally mandated Department of Homeland Security exercises that involves top officials at all government levels, as well as representatives from the international community and the private sector. TOPOFF, short for “top officials,” tests their effectiveness in working together as they respond to a simulated crisis.
The TOPOFF scenario began yesterday with mock coordinated “dirty bomb” attacks in Oregon, Arizona and Guam, with massive casualties and widespread contamination. Some 15,000 participants, including members of the National Guard, responded.
As Portland, Ore., officials were responding to the “blast site” -- a mockup of a major city bridge, complete with demolished cars, piles of rubble and actors posing as blast victims -- 22 members of the Oregon National Guard’s 102nd Civil Support Team lent hazardous materials expertise to the effort.
"We will work together with first responders to see what the risk to the public is and what the dangers are," said Army Lt. Col. Steven Ferrell, team commander. "We do this in support of the first responders; we never take charge but instead take a supportive role."
Ferrell said the National Guard is helping ensure first responders in Oregon are as trained as possible for a large-scale disaster.
Meanwhile, about 200 Oregon Guardsmen who make up a joint task force are providing local authorities any supplemental resources they might need. “That could include anything from coordinating troop movements to assist evacuation efforts to providing logistical support, such as power generators or transporting water and supplies," said Army Lt. Col. Robert Mouw, deputy commander of 82nd Brigade Troop Command.
Mouw said the task force is “ready to respond to any mission the governor may give us."
As the scenario unfolded in Portland, officials in Guam were confronted not just with a radioactive bomb detonation at Cabras Island, but also an aircraft needing to make an emergency landing because it had hydraulic problems and an engine fire.
Guam’s homeland security advisor, Dennis J. Santo Tomas, activated the Guam National Guard’s 94th Civil Support Team along with the fire department, police, Department of Public Health and Social Services, Guam Homeland Security and the Office of Civil Defense.
Gov. Felix P. Camacho said Guam’s geographic isolation and proximity to many international trouble spots make it critical that the territory be prepared to respond to threats to the safety of its people. "We will test our response capabilities, strengthen preparedness and learn what needs to be improved by simulating an actual situation,” he said. “This exercise will be very valuable to responding to a real-life situation."
Meanwhile, Arizona is the first state to conduct a functional TOPOFF exercise – essentially a tabletop exercise focusing on coordinating decision making and communications during a simulated disaster. State officials said the exercise will serve as a model for future TOPPFF exercises.
As TOPOFF 4 runs its course through Oct. 19, U.S. Army North is conducting Vigilant Shield at its Fort Sam Houston, Texas, headquarters and in Portland and Mesa, Ariz. Using various homeland defense and civil support scenarios, the command is testing its own procedures for working with other participants in responding to a potential threat or crisis.
Brig. Gen. Francis Mahon, Army North deputy commander, explained that local and state governments would be the first responders to an emergency situation, followed by federal agencies. Army North, NORTHCOM’s Army component, would support capability gaps, when asked by agencies leading the response.
Mahon called the exercise important to building national preparedness that lay groundwork for coordinated disaster responses. It’s “a great opportunity for all of us to work together now, prior to a crisis,” he said.
Adams and doinit>>>>>>>OT Poste by: adams
In reply to: doinit on the BWNR(oil and gold) board.
Very well said! Spellbound is posting news the media won't post or persue. There are going to be reprocussion for what the media and government have done.
Look at Atlanta's water problem. We should have heard about that long before now. That's an emergancy waiting to happen.
They only have a three month supply of water left.
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For the most part, the media isn't in the business of reporting doom and gloom predictions(not counting CNN+CNBC). Can't you guys look for solutions? Any and all problems we face, we have many great minds working on. To think our demise is eminent is alarmist and jumping to conclusions....and overlooking great mind's abilities to solve big problems.
The drought in Atlanta wasn't as much bad planning and urban sprawl as it is a drought from a la Nina(http://www.elnino.noaa.gov/). It runs way North, I have family in Indiana singing the same *no rain* blues. Friends in Ohio with their boat docks on dry land. I'm in Florida and we have had plenty of rain.
Good luck with this board! Please show some respect to the vote to only talk about oil and gold...and try add a post about BWNR from time to time.
TIA, if you do.
Oh brother, Spellbound groupies. Oil and gold OK? Not Atlanta's drought. Why, if you 2(doinit and adams) like Spelbound's post, do I not see one post by you two on the other board? NONE! WHY? Again, this is the link>>>
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/board.asp?board_id=6811
Show some respect to your hero and the vote(OIL AND GOLD), plese stay on topic.
Still the rivers and bays in the US are way better than they were 20 years ago.
Don't get me wrong, I think Al Gore is a gas guZZling CO2 emitting slime ball....
The National Center for Public Policy Research, founded in 1982, is a self-described conservative think tank in the United States. Its president since its founding has been Amy Ridenour.
NCPPR is a member organization of the Cooler Heads Coalition which claims to "dispel the myths" of global warming. In 25 years of operation, NCPPR has received about $280,000 from Exxon Mobil, and presently receives about one half of one percent of its funding from the company.
Disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff was a member of NCPPR's Board of Directors; he resigned in October 2004 after NCPPR's Board of Directors concluded he had violated the organization's conflict of interest policy.
In October 2002, Abramoff directed the Mississippi Band of Choctaws to give $1 million to NCPPR, and then told Amy Ridenour to distribute the funds to Capital Athletic Foundation ($450,000), Capital Campaign Strategies ($500,000) and Nurnberger and Associates ($50,000). In June 2003, Greenberg Traurig, the firm that employed Abramoff, sent $1.5 million to NCPPR, of which Ridenour distributed $250,000 to Capital Athletic Foundation and the remainder to Kay Gold LLC, both controlled by Abramoff. Ridenour said in testimony that she believed Abramoff co-conspirator Michael Scanlon was the owner of Kay Gold.
I agree, i saw a Spellbound post that was pulled about dry weather effecting marijuana crops....it's a lack of respect for the vote of what is on topic and the mods time. He's just being an ass now.
No buys or sells today, PPS didn't move.....nor did those working on the web page....so lame.
Al-Qaeda is getting their butts kicked. A win in Iraq and moderate tolerant views, will help keep the price of oil down. A loss in Iraq and the resulting backlash will cost more than the war we are in now.
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=47821
How about if we all posted 6 or 7 OT posts every day?
How about the vote to only talk about oil and gold?
What's fair is fair, Spellbound needed to respect that vote. Thanks to Mary for her help in this matter.
I'm glad Spellbound has a place to post so those that like his posts can see them. Chevy and doinit, lets see you two visiting!!!
Wow zip for trades, I bet if the MMs made the bid and ask .50 X .52 they'd see some action. .25 X .80 is a joke. .80 is too high and .25 is too low.
Hey Chevy56,
I'd think your best bet to getting cheap shares is with GTC orders....get in line. A buy set at .25 just might get filled if a few sellers come along at the same time. MMs might fill a small .51 buy now, just to do a trade.
Big trades today:)
Don't buy much over $100 worth at a time or the MMs will bump the offer.
.25 X .80 what a spread.
Nope, we are in the dark, we know nothing other than a name change and a R/S. Did Brownstone Resources Inc. buy MGMX....merge with....did MGMX buy Brownstone Resources Inc? Do we now have 2 Brownstone Resources Inc.s?
I don't think it's low float as much as refusal to take the big loss and walk away with so little. Why not let it ride?
"Get what you can under a buck", IF you can take the risk, you don't know we'll be fine.
We can see by the PPS and the info we have Ken is not a success story, nor does he seem to care about his shareholders.
What makes you so sure, million?
No sellers, that's kinda shocking isn't it?
Unreal how much the bid and the ask move on so little volume.
News and this will rock....no news and we drop like a rock.
Like the PPS, Ken's track record sucks.
Is that CC the week of the 22nd this month or next?
Why can't a CC be set up so we can all hear it?
What is Brownstone and who is Brownstone....
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That's what I want to know....along with what did MGMX do this year...it stinks we need to force the co. into giving us the info we deserve. This large PPS drop after the R/S would not have taken place if we knew they were doing business. They seem to have a tuff time just making a phone call.
Web page "About US" is still blank.
What a rip!
I don't like to invest in companies that mine in Columbia?
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You don't say. No more "trust me", "turn change into bucks", etc etc.?? If now you say>I don't like to invest in companies that mine in Columbia<<again I ask, why did you pick this R/S to buy?