Bob Marley: Anti Religion Crusader: Get Up, Stand Up!

Get up, stand up: stand up for your rights!

Get up, stand up: stand up for your rights!

Get up, stand up: stand up for your rights!

Get up, stand up: dont give up the fight!

Preacherman, dont tell me,

Heaven is under the earth.

I know you dont know

What life is really worth.

Its not all that glitters is gold;

alf the story has never been told:

So now you see the light, eh!

Stand up for your rights. come on!

Get up, stand up: stand up for your rights!

Get up, stand up: dont give up the fight!

Get up, stand up: stand up for your rights!

Get up, stand up: dont give up the fight!

Most people think,

Great God will come from the skies,

Take away everything

And make everybody feel high.

But if you know what life is worth,

You will look for yours on earth:

And now you see the light,

You stand up for your rights. jah!

Get up, stand up! (jah, jah!)

Stand up for your rights! (oh-hoo!)

Get up, stand up! (get up, stand up!)

Dont give up the fight! (life is your right!)

Get up, stand up! (so we cant give up the fight!)

Stand up for your rights! (lord, lord!)

Get up, stand up! (keep on struggling on!)

Dont give up the fight! (yeah!)

We sick an tired of-a your ism-skism game -

Dyin n goin to heaven in-a jesus name, lord.

We know when we understand:

Almighty God is a living man.

You can fool some people sometimes,

But you cant fool all the people all the time.

So now we see the light (what you gonna do? ),

We gonna stand up for our rights! (yeah, yeah, yeah!)

So you better:

Get up, stand up! (in the morning! git it up!)

Stand up for your rights! (stand up for our rights!)

Get up, stand up!

Dont give up the fight! (dont give it up, dont give it up!)

Get up, stand up! (get up, stand up!)

Stand up for your rights! (get up, stand up!)

Get up, stand up! ( ... )

Dont give up the fight! (get up, stand up!)

Get up, stand up! ( ... )

Stand up for your rights!

Get up, stand up!

Dont give up the fight! /fadeout/

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News Flash: Jmaximus Institute of Freedom Proven Correct!

For the last couple years, I, as founder of the Jmaximus Institute of Freedom, have been trying to promote the idea that there is a great untapped potential in using the Great Lakes for Wind [Power] Farms. When I contatced the state and federal authorities, none of them would provide any help and in fact told me "my idea was not realistic". Now it appears that others have either read some of my articles or came to similar conclusions long after I did, because now according to MSN:

Government and industry officials are set to meet in Madison and Toledo, Ohio, this month to talk about the prospects for installing giant electricity-generating windmills out in the Great Lakes.

Read more about it here. You see one of my old posts on this subject here. Am I bitter? No, I just wish I would have not listened to the naysayers and followed up on this...

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Crooked and Crookeder

New Orleans Mayor is running against Mitch Landrieu, whose family is like a who's who in political coruption in N.O. Read about it here.

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Energy Break through: Clean Coal

New Energy Break through! Experiments Examine Hydrogen-Production Benefits Of Clean Coal Imagine the economic impact on our economy if all of the sudden we could get all or part of our energy needs from right here in the United States. [The US imports 10,088,000 barrels/day of crude oil.] There is massive untapped coal deposits in the Appalachian Mountains and out west, just waiting to be used. Clean, non-polluting Platinum Fuel Cells use hydrogen [H] for fuel. The cheapest source of hydrogen is: COAL.

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Hospitals: Is the Price Right?

President Bush is pushing a "Medical Savings Account" as a subsitute for regular health insurance, but according to a report on 60 Minutes "Hospitals: Is the Price Right? - CBS News", hospitals charge you up to 10 times as much if don't have insurance. Several weeks ago, I mentioned this fact in a previous post. In it I discuss how Bush's plan is bad. Medical Savings Accounts are rip-off's to begin with. The cheapest one I found has a deductable of $10,000 dollars, and then covers next to nothing, and still costs $200/month. Then you have the fact that people don't have the knowledge that the insurance companies do on the real fair market value of medical services.

Doctors simply won't give you this information ahead of time.

Can you image if you went to Walmart and they charged you $50/pound for Catfish if you paid cash or $5/pound if you paid with a credit card? This kind of price gouging should be banned, and health care providers should have to publish prices that apply to everyone equally.

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Exec's Big $lice Of American Pie - CBS News

For years now, real wages for America's middle class have been declining, yet somehow America's excutives pay has skyrocketed, according a CBS report "Exec's Big $lice Of American Pie - CBS News" based on a study done by Harvard Law School grad. It says that the Top 5 excutives at a company are paid nearly 10% of that companies gross earnings. When you subtract expenses, in some cases, a single exec might be paid half of the companies profit. These are same people who then turn around and claim $15/hr is out of line for a factory worker. What's really sad is these guys are usually only there for a few years, and even the ones who destroy companies still get paid as if they single handedly invented the wheel. Kmart is a perfect example of this.

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The Anti-Progress Progressive Group

They are called "the Fund for Public Interest Research" [PIRGIM], and claim to be "progressive", they are anything but that. The Fund is advertising on "Craigslist" for people to "work on a campaign for a better energy future for Michigan". What they really are is legal obstructionists with no solutions of their own. Take for example this protest email campaign of theirs:

Dear Representative, The Animal Factory Polluter Bills in the House Agriculture Committee would exempt polluting animal factories from regulatory oversight. Please oppose these bills, work to kill them in committee, and take up legislation that would truly help family farmers and better regulate polluting animal factories. Sincerely, Gullable College Student Radical

First off, I don't know who they think these "family farmers" are, but farming is a business, not a hobby. Long gone are the days are when the whole family worked on some "mythical" farm setting, today farmers use GPS guided Tractors and Computers. Second, instead of trying to drive agro-business out of business, they should be promoting "Dryfermentation" to turn this waste into clean burning bio-gas. This would help the farmers and would also boost our [Michigan's] energy independence with this clean "renewable" form of energy.

They claim renewable energy is one of their goals, but clearly in this case, "It isn't".

If PIRGIM were really concerned about "factory farm pollution" they would be running an information and technical assistance program like the actual "Do-ers" at Dryfermentation.com do. PIRGIM is nothing more than bunch silver spoon college students and 1960's professors running around, being a nuisance, and accomplishing absolutely nothing positive for human, environmental, and our countries "progress". Resources: Funding On-Farm Biogas Recovery Systems A Manual for Developing Biogas Systems at Commercial Farms in the United States FarmWare: A pre-feasibility software package that accompanies the AgSTAR Handbook. Renewable Resources Biogas Fuel Cell As a byproduct of the sewage treatment process, the plant produces biogas. A fuel cell at the plant uses biogass to generate electricity. USAID Telling Our Story: Sri Lanka - Generating Biogas from Wastewater Dr. Chad Kanagachandran holds a bag of biogas from the pilot plant.

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Breakthrough: New Solar Heating and Cooling System!

Breakthrough: New Solar Heating and Cooling System! For General Release: Subject: Solar Thermal Energy Storage System The Jmaximus Institute of Freedom is releasing today the Open Source Solar Heating System. The system is a breakthrough in it's use of thermal energy storage in asphalt paved surfaces. It is well known among climatologists that these roads, driveways, and parking lots absorb so much heat they cause what is known as “the heat island effect”. Any person who ever walked barefoot on a blacktop parking lot or driveway in the summer knows how hot it can get. Everybody knows the cliché about “frying an egg on the sidewalk”. Asphalt is almost a perfect solar heat battery, it heats up easy because it rich in carbon black, and because it has a high level of thermal mass to store the heat for long periods. Until now, nobody has ever thought of using this massive cheap energy resource. The system would function in this basic fashion: 1.Underneath the Blacktop, a pipe [steel, copper, or plastic] would run [option: threw a small diameter concrete protective pipe] crisscross from end to end. 2.Cold water [from well water] would be pumped in the pipe at one end. 3.Hot water [heated from going through the pipe] would be pumped out the other end. 4.The Hot water would be pumped to heat-exchanger. 5.The heat-exchanger could then either use this for heating or generating electricity. 6.A compact version of an Ammonia-based refrigerant generator could generate electricity using the lower [than traditional power plants] temperatures of blacktop heat battery. The major power plants that run our cities, rely on using ammonia instead of water to power there turbines. Ammonia boils at a lower temperature than water, thus less heat is needed to turn it too steam. Currently, these types of power plant generators would fill a factory building. Just like the ancient IBM computers of the past were huge and now are downsized to pocket size, so can these power plant generators. The hot water needs to run through a heat exchanger where it boils the ammonia. The ammonia then powers a closed-cell, steam turbine generator. Once this water left the generator, the now cold water, would be pumped back into the ground, starting the cycle over.

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What's draining two Great Lakes?

The Detroit News recently ran this story: What's draining two Great Lakes? - 03/12/06 - The Detroit News, about how the Army Corp of Engineers dredging of the St. Clair River in Port Huron is causing water levels in Lakes Huron and Michigan to drop. According to the story lake levels have dropped 32 inches since the 1880's. The following is the letter I sent to them in response to this important story:

The solution to declining lake levels and an economic boost to Michigan and the Great Lakes region may be the Damming of them. In Port Huron, at the mouth of the Saint Clair River, a dam and a lock system could be built. This would regulate the amount of water-flow out of the lakes and generate pure green: environmentally and financially. This would have a three-fold effect on Michigan and Ontario: 1.,Generate a lot of construction jobs 2.,Make Michigan and Ontario world leaders in Green Water-Power and attract people back to the region 3., Solve the Lakes continual water-level problems. Port Huron is of immediate concern because of harmful dredging done for commercial shipping purposes, but other areas like the St. Mary's river or the Saint Laurence Seaway may be target locations also. The Great Lakes are an enormous and vital resource that we should be exploiting for the betterment of our state economy and the environment.

I agree with the Detroit News that this is an important bit of News that everybody living in the Great lakes region should know about. Now we need some serious talk about the Great Lakes! future.

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Lou Dobbs under attack for Supporting America

veteran CNN.com news anchor, Lou Dobbs, is under attack by the U.A.E., Mexican President Vincetey Fox, and the National Manufactures Association for caring about the rapidly vanishing Middle-Class. And now, Thomas Friedman a writer for the New York Times, who says outsourcing American jobs is good for us, doesn't like him either. He was quoted as saying

"We can't protect our way to prosperity"

Well Mr. Friedman, not every American be a Steve Jobs or Bill Gates, some of us have to work for a living. Note to New York Times Human Resource Dept: Look here for Indian reporters and writers willing to work for much less than Mr. Friedman, and that will undoubtedly do it better.

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Walmart Welfare?

A website called "Goodjobsfirst.org" has just released an interesting report about Walmart. It seems that despite being the largest company on the planet, and the largest private employer in the USA, they recieve billions in government corporate welfare. Thats right, Walmart, the company that's putting thousands of businesses out of business is on the dole for over a billion dollars a year. This corporate welfare comes mostly from cities and states via tax abatements and tax credits. My question is why the hell does Walmart need any welfare when they are the largest company in the world? It is the smaller startups and high-tech companies that should be getting it, not the company responsible for sending more jobs to China than any other company. If anything they should have to pay higher taxes.

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Senator Debbie Stabenow Responds to Letter

I recently, well a month or two ago, wrote one of Michigan's US Senator's, Debbie Stabenow(D) about Judge Alito's nomination for Supreme Court Justice, and here is what she wrote back:

Thank you . . . . for contacting me to express your opposition to the confirmation of Judge Samuel Alito as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. I share your concerns about Justice Alito, and I voted against confirming him. Judge Alito's record is clear. His writings and his court opinions from over 15 years on the Third Circuit Court of Appeals show a clear and consistent record of siding with the government and big corporations at the expense of average Americans. In case after case -- a family losing their dairy farm, women making reproductive health decisions, workers losing their pensions, a mentally-disabled young man who was the victim of vicious sexual harassment in the workplace, an unarmed 15-year-old boy shot dead in the back of the head by police, the strip search of a 10-year-old girl -- Judge Alito spent 15 years tipping the scales of justice against the little guy. Judge Alito takes the bench at a time when we face new constitutional controversies over the government's intrusion into people's private lives, from secret wiretaps that the government conducted without a warrant, to attempts to subpoena millions of internet searches at random from companies like Google. In light of where we are today and the issues that this Court will face, it is even more important to have a Justice who will stand up for Americans. Because of his extreme record and after much deliberation, I have concluded that Judge Alito is the wrong choice to replace Sandra Day O'Connor on the United States Supreme Court, where he could be making decisions impacting the rights of our children and grandchildren for the next 30 years. In an effort to let the public hear additional concerns about Judge Alito's record, I supported further debate on this nomination. Unfortunately, this effort was unsuccessful. Judge Alito was confirmed by the Senate by a vote of 58-42 on January 31, 2006. Thank you again for contacting me. Please continue to keep me informed of issues that are important to you and your family. Sincerely, Debbie Stabenow United States Senator DS:jn

Thank you for your continuing support for America's rapidly vanishing middle class. Senator Stabenow, always responds whenever I write her, and so does Carl Levin(D). Candice Miller(R) on the other hand hasn't once responded in any way. I guess she's too high and mighty to be bothered with an average citizen.

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