Here to Happy New Year to everyone.
May 2009 bring joy and happiness to all.
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
Nice Job TVA
Will we ever know the real damage of the coal ash dam burst in Tennessee? If the TVA, the Clean Coal groups and the EPA has its way we won't. The EPA has not mandated how coal ash should be disposed of if the power plant in not on an actual mining site. This is despite the fact that coal ash is the nations largest industrial waste product. One would think that with all the amount of metals and chemicals left over in coal ash that we would at the very least require this to be in some type of spill proof encasement. Because the energy industry has enough power and money they have lobbied the government and stalled any progress on stricter regulations. This has to stop. This is not the first of these to burst and will not be the last. There are massive impoundments in West Virginia that have had problems for years. Some of these hold up to 9 billion gallons of waste. Time to clean this crap up and dispel the "clean coal" myth.
Maybe this dam burst is a good thing.
Maybe this dam burst is a good thing.
Monday, December 29, 2008
Things are quiet
Seems that for me things are quiet for the most part these days. Outside of work the only thing I have been really doing is taking roadtrips on the weekends and taking tons of photos. With gas being cheap again i can get out there and build up some work for Flickr and for the my website www.fadingamerica.com. The website was a gift from a friend and fellow photojunkie and Flickr member, Tom Sabo aka http://www.flickr.com/photos/damgaard/. Check out his photostream and you will be pleased with what you see.
I hope the website will be the beginning of some good things in some type of career in photography. It is something that is well suited to my temperament and personality.
I hope the website will be the beginning of some good things in some type of career in photography. It is something that is well suited to my temperament and personality.
Sunday, December 28, 2008
Events
On Christmas Eve I cashed that $50.00 dollar check I wrote about a few days ago. I fifty brand new one dollar bills and then went to downtown Tampa and gave 5 homeless people $10.00 each. Three of then very very happy and grateful while two seemed somewhat indifferent.
Anyhow I was happy to bring them some joy.
Christmas was good, however not being with family this year made it seem like any other day for the most part. This was only the 3rd time in the 19 years I have lived in Florida that I have not been with family. Seems weird.
Over in the middle east things are getting heated again. The moronic leaders of Hamas having been launching rockets into Israel on a daily basis for a long time and there had been no retaliation. This week Israel said stop or we will attack and it will be brutal. Well Israel stuck to it word and has been bombing the Gaza strip. How do the Palestian leaders fail to understand the history of Jewish people? How do they fail to realize that continued attacks on Israel will ultimately mean the end of any chance they have of getting a homeland. I agree with a lot of the Palestian demands however Israel has every right to exist and they are not going anyplace.
Israel has the military power to make you "go away" and you would be much better off if you worked with them if you want your own country. I'm just sayin........
Anyhow I was happy to bring them some joy.
Christmas was good, however not being with family this year made it seem like any other day for the most part. This was only the 3rd time in the 19 years I have lived in Florida that I have not been with family. Seems weird.
Over in the middle east things are getting heated again. The moronic leaders of Hamas having been launching rockets into Israel on a daily basis for a long time and there had been no retaliation. This week Israel said stop or we will attack and it will be brutal. Well Israel stuck to it word and has been bombing the Gaza strip. How do the Palestian leaders fail to understand the history of Jewish people? How do they fail to realize that continued attacks on Israel will ultimately mean the end of any chance they have of getting a homeland. I agree with a lot of the Palestian demands however Israel has every right to exist and they are not going anyplace.
Israel has the military power to make you "go away" and you would be much better off if you worked with them if you want your own country. I'm just sayin........
Thursday, December 25, 2008
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