I could see "Who did kill th electric car" being the new "Clue"…yes? yes?? …maybe not.

My one post for today (GAH! treehugger is too image heavy to load! I thought *thats* where i’d be getting my one post…seeing as I plan on them all being around environmentalism. So if there is anything interesting on there…lemme know! lol…) will be from Pandagon, because I love Amanda…

This post is about the Documentary "Who Killed The Electric Car". I myself havn’t seen it, but the post is really good. I don’t really blame auto companies for creating a market that is completely driven (hehe) by oil consumption. It would have been pretty hard for an everyday-joe trying to make some money to predict the case for oil in this age. I also recognize that hybrid/electric cars aren’t the answer to our problems.

Sustainable energy sources need some hardcore development. There are a lot that are in some minor stages right now - but nothing that is going to …you know, save the planet. (I’d post some of these but a) all the links are on my laptop and I’m on the best friend’s mom’s computer and b) i cant just go googling and looking around for them because it will take me AGES! So, I promise a post on sustainable energy sources once I’m out of hicksville and back into the city…that i miss so very *very* much right now.) This isn’t to say I don’t support electric cars. If I were to get a car, it would be an electric one.

(My friend’s echo is more fuel efficient than the Smart Car…just…as a side note.)

Anyway, good post, looks like a good movie. I’ll have more to say on it after I see it. (Much like the case when I saw an Inconvienent Truth…I didnt have much to say pre-movie, but could have talked for days and days post-movie.)

That is all.

…but I hate Bothwell.

So this week I am visiting my bestest friend in the whole wide world, Shaneka. She’s pretty much my sister… we have nothing in common, but we love each other anyway. I love her family. Her dad is Chuck, and he is probably one of my favorite people in the entire world. Everyone else is pretty much afraid of him…but I think he’s swell. He only pretends to be mean. He’s really like a giant teddy bear that looks all grumpy but he’s actually really soft.

Her mom, Barb, has had one of the biggest influences on my life. She’s been my mom when my real mom wasn’t being one. She’s taught me about things in life, and always been wtih with pickles. Mm mm, i looove pickles.

Anyway, the one downside about visiting my bestest is that there seems to be a horrible lack of….well…everything…in Bothwell, or as The Punk calls it - the third world. Bothwell is the town I grew up in and it’s still sort of living like it was 20 years ago. I was told that there was available wireless web but my laptop seems to dissagree - personally, I’m going to trust my laptop.

So I’m on dail up. Yes. Dial up.This is making it sort of difficult to study seeing as all of my courses are online. …Also, being the 1/2-tech geek that I am I like to have about…a million different windows up doing about a million differnet things. So right now, instead of blogging and checking the daily blogs (I really have to be selective on teh daily blog bit…considering it takes 40 hours to load a page) while I check my school confrences, while I check all 4 e-mails, while I do a few other random things…I am just typing. Lame. Buuuut at least there is something.

So this week there will probably be a lack of posting, and next week I have exams… sooo it’ll be slow around here for a bit… But I’ll try to get something up every day… ALSO shaneka has surround sound, but I can’t make it work. So I’ve been watching tv wtih subtitles all day. ha ha, im a loser. But I did buy some wine. So I’m going to go and drink the entire bottle to try and forget about the circumstances.

Oh, and Bothwell is filled with weirdos. Not the good kind of weirdos…like the old men sitting on the back of trailers staring at you and your breasts as you walk past…and their pigs stare too. Not nice.

If you were to ask me about my thoughts on the events happening with Isreal and all those lovely people my response you probably simply be "It breaks my heart". As I’ve said before I don’t blame either side for the crisis, and I blame the entire human race for developing into what it is today. It’s an incredibly sad situation, and I usually cry when I see it on the news. Partly because I’m a sucky baby like that and I cry when I see… basically anything and partly because it envokes to many different emotions in me.

I’m so sad for all the people that are there, and embarassingly happy that I live in Canada where the most we deal with are a few shootings, which happen very rarely. Then I get kind of sad again that I don’t have anyone to thank for my life, nothing to believe in. But then I remember that that problem is peanuts in comparison to their issues, *and* I remember all the insane things that have arisen in the world are because of religion… the wars, the fights, the bigotry…all of it spawned because of religion.

Anyway, I just managed to take a post that I was going to gear towards the environment take a mini anti-religion rant spin. The one thing I will vocalize that will have a bit of…side taking…. in it is this. I’m super pissed at Isreal for bombing the power plant in Lebanon.

Lebanon’s Environment Ministry says the oil flooded into the sea when
Israeli jets hit storage tanks at the Jiyyeh plant south of Beirut on
July 13 and 15, creating an ecological crisis that Lebanon’s government
has neither the money nor the expertise to deal with.

"We have never seen a spill like this in the history of
Lebanon. It is a major catastrophe," Environment Minister Yacoub
al-Sarraf told Reuters.

"The equipment we have is for minor spills. We use it once in
a blue moon to clean a small spill of 50 tonnes or so. To clean this
whole thing up we would need an armada … The cost of a full clean-up
could run as high as $40-50 million."

In other words, it’s never going to get cleaned up. The Mediterranean Sea accounts for apx 1% of the worlds oceans, but contains nearly 90% of all the worlds marine life. In the particular area of the spill the Chelonia mydas or the green turtle is an endangered species, now facing an ever bigger problem than just the normal pollution and fishing industry that it faced prior to the crisis.

Also there is a significant amount of seagrass meadows that have been effected. These are vital breeding and feeding grounds for fish and other marines speices. The seagrass meadows help regulate the water quality and literally breath life into the water as they are mass producers of oxygen.

I don’t want to take a lot of emphasis of the fact that kids and innocent people are dying and that there is a huge international crisis going on over there … but I don’t think all of that completely out-does the environmental distruction that is happening at all. It just adds yet another reason for me to frown when I think about all of it. I feel like I need to keep typing and keep trying to rationalize all of this - but I know it’s not going to happen. …So i’m just going to stop.

(edit: I see now…i forgot to put a source in there… ooops. click here for more.)

I love this song, and this band. M.I.A fucking rocks me.

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At pandagon there is comment thread right now talking about abortion. …I am all for abortions, but I can’t debate about it. Why? Well, partly because I get to emotional on the subject and partly because… this is one area that just pisses me off when people go all ape-shit and try to tell me that a baby = fetus.

But there is one comment by ACG made today at 9:06 am that made me laugh unreasonably hard.

Not so with a fetus. A fetus imposes itself on and takes nourishment
from a woman’s body, and if she doesn’t want it there anymore, there’s
nowhere else for it to go. Maybe, someday, medical technology will
create a fetal incubator so that a woman who doesn’t want to be
pregnant can pop that sucker into a jar and appease the religious
right, but until that time, she has every right to not be pregnant if
she doesn’t want to be. The fact that, without her body as a host, the
fetus has nowhere to go, is not her problem. Just like you’re under no
obligation to house the beggar who comes to your door, she’s under no
obligation to house a fetus against her will.

"Uh, whats so funnyabout that?" …Hellooo?? "pop that sucker into a jar" aaaah ha ha ha ha ha. I nearly died laughing.
Also, another comment links to this discussion which is pretty interesting and worth a skim.