Look at some pictures of hurricane destruction and you'll find at least a couple of homes that look like they are untouched.
Those are ICF buildings
ICF buildings are virtually indestructible. Virtually? Well yes, since anything can be destroyed given the right conditions or effort.
Note- I do not work in the ICF industry... although, I have helped build a few many years ago.
ICF buildings can withstand fire, earthquake, tornado, hurricane, and even floods.
ICF buildings are also the most quiet and energy efficient buildings to live or work in.
Additionally they are cheaper to build and are built more quickly than other forms of construction.
So why don't builders use ICF construction systems? Most often heard excuses are they don't understand it (translated as their telling me 'its more expensive') and they don't need to learn anything new... they are doing just fine without changing their 'proven' systems. I've also heard the excuse that the consumer doesn't want it.
Really? They don't want to live in a fireproof, tornado proof, quiet, cut their energy bills by 75% home??? Really?
Therefore they keep building these pine boxes and the cycle of needless death continues.
Why doesn't Government or Insurance or even Fire departments champion the use of ICF? My cynical guess would be that the use of ICF would greatly decrease the need for their services. I say that with great sadness since it also bodes ill for the future of our country.
There are way too many things in this country that are needless but keep people employed when it shouldn't... but I digress.
Every time I see an apartment burn down or a house get hit with lightening or hurricane/tornado damage... I get angry. Even angrier when there is needles loss of life.
When is America going to wake up and do the right thing?
Uprooted and transplanted which leads to my view of the world being, sometimes, a bit different than most. Not always right, not always wrong. I just think too much and had to find a way to get it all out of my head.
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Obama loves spending
From athousandnations.com They should give a prize for whoever can count how many times he says "spending"!
Sunday, October 30, 2011
Newt Gingrich by Noah Green
Great video created by Noah Green - talented Film Editor & Newt Gingrich volunteer!
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Newt yesterday's Man?
On Fox News, Brit Hume pontificating upon Newt Gingrich says: Newt is seen as yesterdays man while people are looking at the future.
What does that mean? That we start each day without remembering the day before and that is the key to our success? Really?
Forget yesterday, that was so um, yesterday! Tomorrow is the future don'tcha know and the future is um, tomorrow. We need new ideas for new solutions to, um.... solve OLD problems. And thats the dirty little secret, the problems we have today come from yesterday. Why? Because we might dress better, travel faster, live longer, eat more but we are still Human. Human Nature has not changed which means neither have our problems or how we solve them.
Make no mistake about it. Those who tell you that our problems are new therefore more complicated are those who have a vested interested in making or keeping it that way.
Some are simply arrogant. They know better than the billions that came before them. But some use this as a technique to control.
Consider these passages:
I think that yesterday's man is quite suited to take on our not so unique or futuristic problems. I think that yesterdays man needs to remind those with poor memories that he beat all those problems and will do so again. This time permanently which actually means until we are seduced away from it again by those with their shiny new babbles promising a new life, one suited for the Future & beyond! All the while carrying our not so new Human Nature with us wherever we tread.
What does that mean? That we start each day without remembering the day before and that is the key to our success? Really?
Forget yesterday, that was so um, yesterday! Tomorrow is the future don'tcha know and the future is um, tomorrow. We need new ideas for new solutions to, um.... solve OLD problems. And thats the dirty little secret, the problems we have today come from yesterday. Why? Because we might dress better, travel faster, live longer, eat more but we are still Human. Human Nature has not changed which means neither have our problems or how we solve them.
Make no mistake about it. Those who tell you that our problems are new therefore more complicated are those who have a vested interested in making or keeping it that way.
Some are simply arrogant. They know better than the billions that came before them. But some use this as a technique to control.
Consider these passages:
A civilization without memory ceases to be civilized. A civilization without history ceases to have identity. Without identity there is no purpose; without purpose civilization will wither ~ Michael Kammen
“We are like dwarfs seated on the shoulders of giants; we see more things than the ancients and things more distant, but this is due neither to the sharpness of our own sight, nor to the greatness of our own stature, but because we are raised and borne aloft on that giant mass" ~ Bernard of Chartres
I think that yesterday's man is quite suited to take on our not so unique or futuristic problems. I think that yesterdays man needs to remind those with poor memories that he beat all those problems and will do so again. This time permanently which actually means until we are seduced away from it again by those with their shiny new babbles promising a new life, one suited for the Future & beyond! All the while carrying our not so new Human Nature with us wherever we tread.
Give the GOP a gun...
... and it will promptly point straight down and pull the trigger as fast as it can til the foot is evenly riddled with holes.
Its not enough that we've had to suffer through the Dole & then McCain fiasco's but now this election cycle might top them all.
Why is the GOP having debates on CNN or PMSNBC or CNBC??? No Republican watches any of these Leftist media outlets. Aren't these debates supposed to be for a "Republican" primary? Who cares about the 400 unwashed commies who watch CNN??? In the general election throw some ad's on CNN and then be done with them! Why does the GOP give the Leftists so much control over its process of election??? These debates have had horrible formats that have been horrible on purpose - to make Republicans look stupid and to discourage primary voters. And they've been very successful with it. To be fair, Chris Wallace & Fox News have been no better which begs the question, why Fox, why? Its as if they are desperate for the love of the Leftist media that they copy those who hate them and who will never stop hating them. Then again that would describe most of the GOP as well. They so desperately want to be liked & never will... get over it GOP! (and Fox)
Perry announces an Economic plan that is an absolute rip-off of Newt Gingrich & Herman Cain. Worse, its being reported as if he were the first with Newt & Herman joining Perry's lead. Typical behavior by the Leftist media but also now by Conservative media outlets??? Really??? Again, give the GOP a gun...blah blah blah.
The choices we are being given are polished talking heads, bobble-heads, a corporate head, a gargoyles head, and an academic head. So far, the GOP is too busy admiring the holes in their foot to look up and see that they need an academic head versus the other puffed up heads. But I digress.
What makes me truly angry is not that we are headed for another election where the DNC chooses our candidate but that this candidate might win. I say "might" since all the candidates,with the exception of Newt Gingrich, would fail terribly in a debate against the master of lies, Obama. If a GOP candidate actually won, they would fail... again, with the exception of Newt Gingrich. And when they fail, so does the legitimacy of any Conservative movement which will plunge the country futher into the putrid swamp of Socialism.
It is our fault that this country has fallen as far as it has, now is the time to correct our mistakes and make America a truly Exceptional nation again. Not just for our sakes but for those who need to escape the tyrannies of Socialism in this World. This World needs a shining example of something better than the man-made religion of Socialism... America used to be that example.
Its not enough that we've had to suffer through the Dole & then McCain fiasco's but now this election cycle might top them all.
Why is the GOP having debates on CNN or PMSNBC or CNBC??? No Republican watches any of these Leftist media outlets. Aren't these debates supposed to be for a "Republican" primary? Who cares about the 400 unwashed commies who watch CNN??? In the general election throw some ad's on CNN and then be done with them! Why does the GOP give the Leftists so much control over its process of election??? These debates have had horrible formats that have been horrible on purpose - to make Republicans look stupid and to discourage primary voters. And they've been very successful with it. To be fair, Chris Wallace & Fox News have been no better which begs the question, why Fox, why? Its as if they are desperate for the love of the Leftist media that they copy those who hate them and who will never stop hating them. Then again that would describe most of the GOP as well. They so desperately want to be liked & never will... get over it GOP! (and Fox)
Perry announces an Economic plan that is an absolute rip-off of Newt Gingrich & Herman Cain. Worse, its being reported as if he were the first with Newt & Herman joining Perry's lead. Typical behavior by the Leftist media but also now by Conservative media outlets??? Really??? Again, give the GOP a gun...blah blah blah.
The choices we are being given are polished talking heads, bobble-heads, a corporate head, a gargoyles head, and an academic head. So far, the GOP is too busy admiring the holes in their foot to look up and see that they need an academic head versus the other puffed up heads. But I digress.
What makes me truly angry is not that we are headed for another election where the DNC chooses our candidate but that this candidate might win. I say "might" since all the candidates,with the exception of Newt Gingrich, would fail terribly in a debate against the master of lies, Obama. If a GOP candidate actually won, they would fail... again, with the exception of Newt Gingrich. And when they fail, so does the legitimacy of any Conservative movement which will plunge the country futher into the putrid swamp of Socialism.
It is our fault that this country has fallen as far as it has, now is the time to correct our mistakes and make America a truly Exceptional nation again. Not just for our sakes but for those who need to escape the tyrannies of Socialism in this World. This World needs a shining example of something better than the man-made religion of Socialism... America used to be that example.
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Cartoons from 1994
Tell me again how times have changed?
Its the same ole stuff only much worse today.
How much longer are we going to live like this?
Here are a few cartoons that tickled my funny bone from 1994 with the last picture being the answer to this insane merry-go-round that America has been on since then:
Its the same ole stuff only much worse today.
How much longer are we going to live like this?
Here are a few cartoons that tickled my funny bone from 1994 with the last picture being the answer to this insane merry-go-round that America has been on since then:
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