Carbon Footprinting

If you haven't already checked this out, it's pretty interesting.... http://www.carbonfootprint.com/index.html

See an estimate of what your own Carbon Footprint is upon our world.

It states that the average footprint for people in United States is about 20.4 tonnes.

Ours is 2.354. We strive to do what we can to keep it low,

but were both somewhat surprised at how low it actually is.

Wow, 1/10 of what the average is!

Laughs--

there should be some incentive program for having it this low!

Peace

It is time to wake up!

It is so scary to look around at the people of this Nation becoming sheep, blind to what is happening to our country and the world around us. I just don't understand it anymore.

Where is the OUTRAGE?

Where is the desire to help others?

Where is the common sense that war does not bring Peace, only death and destruction.

All around us there is hunger, disease, war, yet everyone seems to be on the track of ignoring. It's either that or just plain ignorance. It's more important to the masses to hide behind their eye-rolling at those of us who THINK FOR OURSELVES and SPEAK UP that this world is on a fast track to becoming a sad, sad planet.

Why are these sheep following the wishes and desires of the men we VOTE into positions of power? Why are we allowing these evil doers to keep their government positions once their true colors and plains of world-demiseunfold?
Our Country has changed in the blink of an eye. With George Bush we have slid down a downward spiral so quickly, how can anyone deny that? We now live in a nation where our President has such supreme power that he resembles more of a King or Dictator, quickly loosing our Democrate ways with each new 'law' he shoves down our throats. He just has to mumble the words 'terrorist' and the majority are spooked and support anything he tries--tap our phones-sure why not, stop our peaceful gatherings-sure, gag order when we speak out on things he deems should be kept secretive-sure. Sure???? What the hell people!

Our leader declares War on false pretenses, breaks treaties with Nations when we should be coming together, Imprisions Citizens and foreigners with trials held in secret with unfounded or non-existing evidence. Our previous President, Clinton, was censured because of a consentual sexual indiscretion. People were in an uproar and wanted to Impeach him due to the Lewensky scandal. I find it hard to believe that these same citizens are not outraged and demanding Impeachment of G.W. Bush. Are the morals of our majority so backwards that we deem a sexual incounter more outraging than an unjust War? Perhaps the words 'oil' and 'money' play a big part there, and not just with the politicians. It seems that as years pass by, we find ourselves further and further from the foundations of our Consitution. Checks and Balances were put into place for just these reasons, to guard our Consitution and the ideals that the United States were formed and based upon. Ask yourself--what does a Patriot really stand for? Times do change, but they should be for the better and chosen by the majority.

I am hoping that more and more citizens will wake up and step out of the line of Sheep, and take the steps necessary for our Nation to come together and find Peace. Peace in helping one another, Peace in reaching out to help others outside our borders, and Peace in finding harmony with the Planet we live upon.

Peace to the Future!

Valentine's Day Silliness

A little treat my super wonderfully silly Husband made for me to enjoy with my morning coffee. I have to say....it's better than chocolates, roses, and diamonds!!!!

Last Night's LOST

TV is not something that we get to into all that much, tired of the crap labelled as "in" or "reality". We are faithful viewers to a few thou: LOST, Jericho, and The Amazing Race.
We both really love the aspect of LOST, a show that we can analyze and actually get our brains a-going on.
We started this years Season with our favorite characters being, Desmond and Charlie.
Now with Season 4 unfolding, his is Ben and hers is Sayid. It will be interesting
as things develop over the Season, to see how that may change.

Tonights Episode--
First off, we both KNEW that Sayid took a deal with Ben.
It just seemed like it was coming. It will be very interesting to see what exactly Ben promised him to get Sayid to work for him. Especially to the lengths of killing people on an ever-growing list.
The Widmore connection. Perhaps the pictures of Penelope & Desmond are with people coming to the island because her father is behind the "freighties"?
There has to be some connection there, and seeing her confusion when talking to Charlie (at the end of last season), it obviously isn't her.

The time. We caught that Daniel was not actually shocked about the difference, that he seemed to have been expecting it of sorts. Maybe he knows more about the Island than leading on? At first we considered him to be slightly wacko, but now he's obviously a genius with many things going on in his mind at once. Anyway.... 31 minutes slower on the island according to Daniel's experiment.
Would have to do the exact equation, time & distance of freighter & Island to figure that all out. So then this brings in the time continuum issues etc.
And with Daniel telling the helicopter pilot to be sure and take the same exact bearings back to the freighter that they came to the Island on. If they didn't would they just keep circling the island, or what would happen? They must have made a rip in the time continuum, maybe that would explain some of the trouble they had coming in. This could explain also Walt's growth/age etc.
We guess it's time to maybe watch Back to the Future for reference....hahaha.

Kind of wondering now about this and the draw of the Island to Ben, "the others", "the frieghties", etc. With the time issue, the aging issue....could the draw be along the lines of Immortality. They all seem to be using any means necessary to gain control.

Jacob's cabin and the Locke connection. Jacob obviously likes to play hide-n-seek. It made us laugh when Ben mocked Locke, haha mocklocke. Also remembered how Ben did tell Locke that Jacob is one who summons you, not vice versa. So evidently Jacob is not wishing to steer Locke right now, Locke must be on the course Jacob wants him to be on. Still questioning why Hurley isn't telling Locke that he did see the cabin. If it's a question of sanity, maybe Hurley is questioning his own and whether or not he really did see the cabin.
So then this leads us to reconsider and think that the man looking out of the
cabin window at Hurley was then maybe Mikhail, and not Locke as we first thought.

So who else thought of "stay away from the curtain!" (from Wizard of Oz) when
watching Sayid pull the bookcase back and enter Ben's secret room.
We can't wait to see how Ben is able to go back and forth from the Island.
Who is giving him the money, access, documents/passports, etc. Who is Ben working for?????

Read today that there will be 5 more episodes added to this Season! For a total of 13.



I have to insert that I am reallyyyyy liking how some of her favorite shows/books are weaving their way into Lost----Alice in Wonderland, The Wizard of Oz, Back to the Future, Lord of the Flies. --R


Some fun links about LOST--


Sawyer's Nickname Generator

LOST Personality Quiz--Which Character are you?

My Alice

Typically my pencil forms words....
Perhaps my mind was considering
whether or not
there really was
a caterpillar

Life is a Zoo

His sharp eyeZ and fabulous photo skills
found the Zoo
yet....
no arrow pointing to it's location
no "in da-da-da feet ahead"
nothing
just simply "Zoo"
right there
on the road
Life is definitely a Zoo!

We just had a near-life experience fellas! -Tyler Durden

We have been going through organizing our new MySpace page and spent this evening putting together our Favorites lists. As we were doing this, I remembered my favorite all-time movie, Fight Club. I have noticed that MySpace, along with its many benefits, allows us all to take these products of someone else's work and liken it to our personality. This song speaks to who I am, this TV show is just like my life. This person is my idol, I hate that person! So, here is my contribution to that ongoing cycle.
For those who have seen Fight Club and understood its meaning, I really don't have to explain the storyline. It's not about beating the crap out of each other for the pure enjoyment of bleeding. It is about beating the need to be a part of something out of ourselves. The story tells us that sometimes we need an inner voice to escape through the clutter and tell us,
"You're not your job. You're not how much money you have in the bank. You're not the car you drive. You're not the contents of your wallet. You're not your f****ng khakis. You're the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world."
Sometimes we have to reminded that we are only temporary tenants in our physical form, given a finite amount of time to get what we want out of the world around us. Do we really want to spend those good years we have taking our weekends at the local Home Depot or Sears? Do we really want to work fifty weeks out of the year to spend two with the other three million or so people who saw the same banner ad in Expedia?
Me, I want to someday see the Potala Palace and wonder what it was like for the Dalai Lama to live in such an amazing place. I want to find the most remote corner of the Silk Road and feel the isolation Marco must have felt centuries ago. I want see the places in Europe my wife has seen and share the emotions she felt when she went there the first time. I want to see where my ancestors came from and tell them, "I have done good."
J