Category: Computers/Internet

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Businesses Options

These are terrifying times for so many folks today, Obama certainly has his work cut out for him all the way around, it is good to see him so active so early on, he has been busy during this time before his swearing in that is coming up in just a couple of weeks.

Winter months are trying times for farmers and we are dwindling in numbers each and every year, so it is good to know that getting assistance is still an option if and when needed. The Internet certainly comes into play with today’s business decisions, so much easier to surf on the WWW then venturing out and going town to town looking for the better deals, too much wasted time and gas for my scheduling and gas issues. One can do business online, quicker, easier, less paperwork and nice and secure like.

I found at Onlinecheck.com that they have several options for today’s businesses that are looking for financial assistance with merchant cash advances, business loans, franchise financing, medical and healthcare funding and of course I can’t forget the Credit Card Factoring that has become so necessary for all businesses in today’s world of plastic finances. A good site to bookmark indeed.

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Mexican toxic waste to be burned here in the USA?????

I was reading an article on the Internet about how Mexico is trying to bring toxic PCB waste that was produced in Mexico to Texas to be burned.  The burning of the waste would fill the air with toxic fumes that could affect the health of the people in the surrounding communities.   This business about polluting the planet in general with toxic waste has got to stop!  And letting other countries use our country as their dumping grounds just boggles my mind!  We have enough garbage of our own, we don’t need to import it!  And we certainly don’t need to import garbage that is going to risk the health of our citizens!

I sure hope that someone in authority stops that plan in its tracks!

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The deforestation of the Amazon jungles in the name of the environment

I was reading the Internet version of the April 7 2008 issue of Time Magazine, the article titled “The Clean Energy Myth” about how the big rush to grow corn to use for biofuel is actually worsening the global warming problem and raising the cost of food. Apparently the demand for corn for producing biofuel is so high that the farmers are selling their corn to the companies that will be turning it into fuel instead of selling it to the companies that will be using it to make food. So much of the world depends on corn as a staple; this is causing hardships for them. And the profit for growing corn for fuel is so high that the Amazon jungle, which has already been in jeopardy from deforestation for years now, is being destroyed even faster than ever so that it can be used to grow corn.
I think that this is a shame on so many levels. There are other, better and cheaper plants that could be used for creating fuel than corn. So many farmers are paid subsidies to NOT grow crops, I think that those subsidies should be stopped so that the farmers will actually farm their land, or lease it to someone who will farm it. The Amazon forest needs to be protected, I don’t understand how the ownership of that works, who actually owns that property and why is he/she allowing it to be destroyed? Can’t the government of the country it is in buy it with some kind of eminent domain power and protect it from destruction?

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Snow making at Yellowstone Park

I was really surprised to read today on the LATimes website that Yellowstone Park is going to be using snow machines to make snow in the park this winter.  I guess I never thought about why in the world a National Park would even think about doing something like that?  Seems to me that the Park is supposed to be all about nature, and if it snows then fine, if it doesn’t snow, well that’s fine too!  But the article was talking about how making snow in the park would allow snow coaches and snowmobiles to use the park in the winter.  To be honest, I’m not so sure that is a great idea or not!  I don’t have anything against snow coaches or snowmobiles, its’ just something I never really thought about in the context of them being in Yellowstone!  What do YOU think?  I’d like your opinion!

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Hurricane Ike – a really big one

Watching the news, and reading about Hurricane Ike making its way towards land, I see that it has hit Cuba.  Cuba has never seen a hurricane this bad, and the residents are making way towards safer ground as best they can.  This storm is a really scary one – I am worried about what will happen when it reaches the United States.  From what I understand it WON’T hit New Orleans, which is good news, but wherever it DOES land, it is going to do a huge amount of damage!  I think that this is just one more example of what global warming is doing to our world.  I don’t understand why the “administration” keeps insisting that global warming has nothing to do with this type of thing.  I think it has EVERYTHING to do with this kind of thing!

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Sinkhole in New York?

I’ve heard of sinkholes in Florida because the water table has been so badly abused by the rapid development of the state, but I was very surprised to read on the news that there is a sinkhole in New York City!  Apparently the sinkhole is in the middle of a street and is one that has been developing slowly over the past ten years, and has finally reached the stage where it would really be a danger for a car to try to drive over.  The street has been closed while the city tries to repair the sinkhole and the road.  Seems to me that “we” as a society ought to be taking better care of good old Mother Earth to prevent these sinkholes from happening!

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Bigfoot discovery?

I was hearing on the news (and reading on the Internet) a story about how a couple of guys in Georgia have claimed to find a Bigfoot, and that they have the corpse in their freezer.  Now I think that is just a hoax, Bigfoot has never been sighted that far south, and the so-called corpse looks like a cheap gorilla costume!  I will be interested to see how this story pans out!  I wonder if there will be any kind of prosecution if it IS determined to be a hoax?  I hope so, these kinds of things need to be nipped in the bud!

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Drilling for oil

I was reading an article on the Sierra Club’s website about offshore drilling. The article I was reading was discussing how on Monday President Bush lifted the moratorium on offshore oil drilling. This moratorium was imposed 18 years ago by his father when HE was President. Up until this point there were two moratoriums against offshore drilling, one by the President, and one by Congress.

Congress is expected to maintain its moratorium against the drilling, so offshore drilling is not expected to take place. Congress is expected to maintain its moratorium because they have been advised that offshore drilling will NOT bring the short term relief to the skyrocketing cost of gasoline. According to the article I was reading, oil companies already have a lot of unexplored resources that they can access and don’t need to drill for oil offshore. The article did not detail what those unexplored resources are, so I was a little disappointed in that; I’d like to know what those resources are!

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Afghan villagers kill two Taliban

I was surprised to read on the Time website that some Afghan villagers actually stood up to the Taliban and killed a few of them.  According to the story, the villagers had invited some aid workers to come to their village to dig a well.  While the aid workers were in the process of digging the well, some Taliban militants came along and tried to abduct the aid workers.  According to the culture of the people, you cannot invite guests to your village to help you with something and then allow the Taliban to come along and abduct and behead them, so the villagers defended the workers. 

The skirmish resulted in two of the Taliban being killed and the rest of the militants ran off into the countryside.  The government has sent additional security forces to the village to protect the village from retaliation from the Taliban.  I wonder how long those security forces will be there.  Seems to me that they’ll have to be there forever and a day because as soon as they leave, the Taliban will be right there slaughtering the entire village!