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Go Green; Launder Your Money | Cash For Appliances Program Begins in November. Get $200 Per Appliance By Purchasing New Energy Star Appliances
COMING SOON
The Cash for Appliances Program begins this month (11/30/2009) so we've put some resources together to help everyone learn more. We are looking for new and interesting companies/causes or small businesses who are doing great things in their communities to help their neighbors and/or the environment, please feel free to get in touch with us if you have a great story to share.
RESOURCES
Cash for Appliances funding by State at the following link [.pdf Doc]: http://tr.im/EznZ 
Search for partner rebates and opportunities by zipcode via Energy Stars website: http://tr.im/Ezta
Reduce your energy bills and save money by becoming energy efficient. See Consumers Energy's site for rebates and instant savings on energy efficient products as well as tips and tricks that can reduce your Home's utility bills year after year. http://tr.im/Ezvy
For Small Business: Consumers Energy's Tips & Resources: http://tr.im/EzCB
ARE YOU INVOLVED?
Feel free to share additional resources in your response below. We are looking forward to hearing from our friends who are making a difference.
Halloween & Things That Go Bump In The Middle Of The Day
Halloween in Australia is not to be compared with the United States, and you certainly need to be in the States to really appreciate the experience.
While I enjoyed trick or treat hospitality of Mein Host Artie Isaac (Founder of SpeakerSite http://www.speakersite.com) I'm hesitant to post any pics of his home, or the neighbourhood children who trekked a well worn path to the Isaacs door.
As well children from Ohio State Health Day Care were out in full force, photos which are delightful, buuuuuut... I have a child free photo policy.
Notwithstanding, this fine pic of which I'm very proud echos my sentiments.
Dressing up as goblins and witches is just not my cuppa' tea ( or I should say coffee )
Congratulation, Mr.President! (A Madiba mosaic portrait of President Barack Obama)
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A mosaic portrait of President Barack Obama. This work is inspired by the African pattern tradition.
President Obama: The Stars and Stripes mosaic portrait
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A mosaic portrait of President Barack Obama. This work is inspired by my studies of African patterns.
Barack Obama: A colorful (almost African) portrait
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A mosaic portrait of President Barack Obama. This work is inspired by my studies of African patterns but this time I have tried to be more universal and more simple.
How Long Do We Have?
How Long Do We Have?
About the time our original thirteen states adopted their new constitution in 1787, Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the University of Edinburgh, had this to say about the fall of the Athenian Republic some 2,000 years earlier:
- A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government.
- A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury.
- From that moment on, the majority always vote for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship.
- The average age of the world's greatest civilizations from the beginning of history, has been about 200 years.
- During those 200 years, those nations always progressed through the following sequence:
1. from bondage to spiritual faith;
2. from spiritual faith to great courage;
3. from courage to liberty;
4. from liberty to abundance;
5. from abundance to complacency;
6. from complacency to apathy;
7. from apathy to dependence;
8. from dependence back into bondage
Professor Joseph Olson of Hemline University School of Law, St. Paul , Minnesota points out some interesting facts concerning the 2008 Presidential election:
Number of States won by:
Democrats: 19
Republicans: 29
Square miles of land won by:
Democrats: 580,000
Republicans: 2,427,000
Democrats: 580,000
Republicans: 2,427,000
Population of counties won by:
Democrats: 127 million
Republicans: 143 million
Democrats: 127 million
Republicans: 143 million
Murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by:
Democrats: 13.2
Republicans: 2.1
Democrats: 13.2
Republicans: 2.1
Professor Olson adds: "In aggregate, the map of the territory Republican won was mostly the land owned by the taxpaying citizens of this great country. Democrat territory mostly encompassed those citizens living in government-owned tenements and living off various forms of government welfare..." Olson believes the United States is somewhere between the 'complacency and apathy' phase of Professor Tyler's definition of democracy, with some forty percent of the nation's population already having reached the 'governmental dependency' phase.
If Congress grants amnesty and citizenship to twenty million criminal invaders called illegal's and they vote, then we can say goodbye to the USA in fewer than five years.
If you are in favor of this, then by all means, delete this message. If you are not, then pass this along to help everyone realize just how much is at stake, knowing that apathy is the greatest danger to our freedom.
