Global Warming - infographic on possibility of containment

http://www.mapsofworld.com/poll/can-global-warming-be-contained.html

"Enjoy" the prognosis...

Water water everywhere and not a drop to drink...

http://www.livescience.com/41381-11-billion-people-climate-change.html

A recent United Nations analysis of world population trends indicates global population growth shows no signs of slowing, with current projections estimating a staggering 11 billion people could inhabit the planet by the year 2100, faster growth than previously anticipated.

(Only validates our stance, live long and die out...)

 

Frish

The business owners aren't buying the contraceptives...it's none of their business literally!

http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-contraceptives-obamacare-20131103,0,3235496.story#axzz2jpBw4bGc

So effin' asinine.  It's a medical decision, nothing to do with their morals/values/prudishness...

Even the Supremes will rule against this one...(I can only hope...)

I also object to Religious Organizations having an objection, it is up to each parishioner to follow their own conscience...

Halloween is approaching, Sr. Muerto is stirring in his grave...

For 50 +/- years I've worn an ever improving outfit for Halloween.

I call him "Sr. Muerto" since it's MY DAY (of the dead that is!)

Sr. Muerto and Jack from Cookoo's Nest, 2010

Sr. Muerto takes a selfie, 2011

Pic was AFTER 6 hours at West Hollywood Halloween Carnival 

that happens three blocks from my house, how convenient!

2006 included this effort

A SueF Yelp!

This was from my mother's Yelp page that I accidentally got into tonight...

Kim's Nail Care  

Category: Nail Salons 
Neighborhoods: Mid-City West, West Hollywood

 6/1/2011

this is the best!!!!!! nail care shop in lalaland.  Kim is a genius who can create any pattern you can think of.  besides all that the shop is immaculate and the other folks who work there are courteous, kind and most helpful  i have been going there for the better part of 20 years
try it i know l'll love it!.

The bottom line is what it is, I've been told.

No accounting for taste...

This note got the attention of a $XXBN (particular industry not to be named) group that needs boxes...got an invite to visit next week, and while there is many a slip between the cup and the lip, especially for me, I don't drink coffee...but this might just be the top of the golden pyramid!

I sound so sincere...

From: Frish

Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2013 10:17 AM

To: Robert

Subject: Paperboard production - intro to Frish

Robert, I'm the lead sales/marketing person here at Supreme, I bring more fun…see attached!

We are Los Angeles County's newest paperboard provider, about 12 miles from your plant!  (Easy press checks for you, short drive for proofing for me!)

*We came from a high end commercial printing (marketing materials) heritage, and apply our outstanding ability to put dots on paper to packaging!

I understand you have a project with a near term deadline.

Some Philosophy:

We don't charge extra for plates or dies, we invest in you first, since we're confident you'll be back.

I only do business ethically, and, when you share schedule/pricing we won't take the job if we can't do it for that price in the time allotted.

We ONLY provide SUSTAINABLE PRICING – pricing we're happy to honor for the long term.

We're family owned and hit above our weight, thanks to our pre-media operation (we support Honda Motors and McDonald's ad agencies for consistent colors everywhere)

When your work is in the house it's all we are concentrating on.

One thing I know for sure, we won't be doing business unless we meet!

Samples?  Would I show you a bad one?  They are almost useless to evaluate a packaging provider!

If I don't hear from you first, I'll call you again later today.

Frish

Paperboard Packaging - Unit Container, Folding Carton, POP

131001 Another wildlife headline

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/10/131001115648.htm

The grand experiment Humans have unleashed upon the planet will be replete with observation, right to the end.

131001 Two of today's headlines, all is well, nothing to worry about...

• 10,000 walrus come ashore in northwest Alaska
• Wave of jellyfish shuts down Swedish nuke reactor

Glad I don't live near the Arctic.

The potential for human colonization of other planets...

We are quickly proving we can't even keep living on Planet Earth...yet some believe our future is among the stars!

I blame a common delusion on at least part of the problem: 

"We're "unlike" other creatures, and therefore not subject to the same rules."

Here's a nice wiki, with loads of depth for those interested in "trying to understand the effects and the impact long space travel has on the human body".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effect_of_spaceflight_on_the_human_body

We aren't going anywhere (even Mars) soon or fast.

If we knew enough to build a multi-generational starship (sustainable ecosystem included!) we'd know enough to keep ourselves alive right here on Earth, no need to leave!

The best discussion of Fractals in everyday life!

http://news.yahoo.com/earths-biggest-deep-earthquake-still-mystery-180428737.html

The mechanics of the Earth's mantle and that of a single crystal of mineral are similar.

Fart

	1. 1-man salute  2. 7.4 on the Rectum scale  3. Acid-rain maker  4. After the thunder comes the rain  5. Air bagel  6. Airbrush your boxers  7. Anal acoustics  8. Anal ahem  9. Anal audio  10. Anal salute  11. Anal volcano  12. Arse blast  13. Ass blaster  14. Ass-scented methane  15. Ass biscuit  16. Ass thunder  17. Ass whistle  18. A turd whistling for the right of way  19. Backdoor breeze  20. Backfire  21. Bad sprinkling  22. Baking brownies  23. Barking spiders  24. Bean blower  25. Beep your horn  26. Belch from behind  27. Better open a window  28. Blast off  29. Blast the chair  30. Blasting the ass trumpet  31. Blat  32. Blow ass  33. Blow mud  34. Blow the big brown horn  35. Blowing the butt bugle  36. Blowing you a kiss  37. Bomber  38. Bottom blast  39. Bottom burp  40. Break the sound barrier without a plane  41. Break wind  42. Breath of fresh air  43. Brown horn brass choir  44. Brown thunder  45. Bun shaker  46. Burnin' rubber  47. Buster  48. Busting ass  49. Butt bleat  50. Butt burp  51. Butt hair harmony  52. Butt percussion  53. Butt trauma  54. Butt trumpet  55. Butt tuba  56. Buttock bassoon  57. Cheek flapper  58. Cheesin'  59. Colonic calliope  60. Crack a rat  61. Crack one off  62. Crack splitters  63. Crimp off some breakfast biscuits  64. Crop dusting (surreptitiously farting while passing thru a cube farm, then enjoying the sounds of dismay and disgust)  65. Crowd splitter  66. Cut a stinker  67. Cut loose  68. Cut the cheese  69. Cut the wind  70. Death Breath  71. Deflate  72. Doing the one-cheek sneak  73. Doorknob  74. Drop a barking spider  75. Drop a bomb  76. Drop ass  77. Dropped a bomb  78. Eggy  79. Empty my tank  80. Exercising the meat nozzle (not sure if this one doesn't belong in a different category)  81. Exploding bottom  82. Explosion between the legs  83. Exterminate  84. Fart  85. Fire a stink torpedo  86. Fire the retro-rocket  87. Firing scud missiles  88. Fizzler  89. Flame thrower  90. Flamer  91. Flapper  92. Flatulate  93. Flatulence  94. Flatus  95. Flipper  96. Float an air biscuit  97. Floof  98. Fluffy  99. Fog slicer  100. Fowl howl  101. Fragrant fuzzy  102. Free-floating anal vapors  103. Free Jacuzi  104. Freep  105. Frequency Actuated Rectal Tremor  106. Fumigate  107. Funky rollers  108. Gas attack  109. Gas blaster  110. Gas from the ass  111. Gas master  112. Gaseous intestinal by-products  113. Ghost turd  114. Give a dirty look at the person next to you  115. Grandpa  116. Gravy pants  117. Great brown cloud  118. Hailing Emperor Crush  119. Hey, did you fart? Because you blew me away! (pick-up line)  120. Heinus anus  121. Hole flappage  122. Hole flapper  123. Honk  124. HUMrrhoids  125. Hydrogen bomb  126. I made a pootie  127. If you are that embarrassed about it, you can always blame it on me.  128. Ignition  129. Insane in the methane  130. Invert a burp  131. It's low tide  132. Jet propulsion  133. Jockey burner  134. Jumping guts  135. Just calling your name  136. Just keeping warm  137. Just the noise  138. Kaboom  139. K-Fart  140. Kill the canary  141. Lay a wind loaf  142. Lay an air biscuit  143. Leave a gas trap  144. Let a beefer  145. Let each little bean be heard  146. Let one fly  147. Let one go  148. Let the beans out  149. Lethal cloud  150. Letting one rip  151. Lingerer  152. Made a gas blast  153. Make a stink  154. Make a trumpet of one's ass (John Milton)  155. Mating call of the barking spider  156. Methane Bomb  157. Methane production experiment  158. Moon gas  159. Mud duck  160. Must be a sewer around  161. Nose death  162. Odor bubble  163. Odorama  164. One man jazz band  165. One-gun salute  166. Painting the elevator  167. Pant stainer  168. Panty burp  169. Parp  170. Party in your pants  171. Pass gas  172. Pass wind  173. Play the tuba  174. Playing the trouser tuba  175. Plotcher (aka a wet one ... bad form, points taken off for emmitting one of these)  176. Poof  177. Poop gas  178. Poot  179. Pop  180. Pop a fluffy  181. Preventing Spontaneous Human Combustion (South Park)  182. Prove it  183. Prupe (Norwegian--the E has two dots over it)  184. Puff, the Magic Dragon  185. Quack  186. Rebuild the ozone layer one poof at a time  187. Rectal honk  188. Rectal shout  189. Rectal tremor  190. Release a squeeker  191. Release an ass buscuit  192. Release gas  193. Rep  194. Rimshot  195. Rip ass  196. Rip one  197. Ripple fart  198. Roast the Jockeys  199. Rotting vegetation  200. Safety  201. Salute your shorts  202. SAS (silent and scentless)  203. SBD (silent but deadly)  204. Set off an SBD  205. Shit fumes  206. Shit honker  207. Shit vapor  208. Shoot the cannon  209. Shoppin' at Wal-Fart  210. Silent but deadly (SBD)  211. Singe the carpet  212. Singing the Anal Anthem  213. Skunk smells his own smell first!  214. Sounding the sphincter scale  215. Sounds like a barking spider  216. Sounds like a wompus cat  217. Sphincter song  218. Spit a brick  219. Squeak one out  220. Squeeker  221. Steamer  222. Step on a duck  223. Step on a frog  224. Stink bomb  225. Stink Burger  226. Strangling the stank monkey  227. Stress release  228. Tail wind  229. Telegraph from Ft. A-hole to Cmdr. Nostril announcing the arrival of Gen. Shat  230. That felt good  231. The closest you get to craping while standing up  232. The colonic calliope  233. The dog did it  234. The F bomb  235. The gluteal tuba  236. The Sound and the Fury  237. The stink's gone into the fabric  238. The third state of matter  239. The toothless one speaks  240. Thunder pants  241. Thunderspray  242. Toilet tune  243. Toot  244. Toot your own horn  245. Trelblow  246. Triple flutter blast  247. Trouser cough  248. Trouser trumpet  249. Turd honking  250. Turd hooties  251. Turn on the A/C in your large intestine  252. Uncorked symphony  253. Under burp  254. Venting one  255. Wet one  256. What smell?  257. What the dog did  258. Whoever smelt it dealt it  259. Wrong way burping  260. Your voice has changed, but your breath is still the same.  261. Zinger

Funky Fukushima

As of today, 130918, the plant is reported to be:  "generating 800 tons of contaminated water per day".

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/japan-pm-to-take-firsthand-look-at-fukushima-plant-to-quell-fear-over-radioactive-water-leak/2013/09/18/afeec678-20c7-11e3-ad1a-1a919f2ed890_story.html

This one said 300

http://www.policymic.com/articles/58433/fukushima-nuclear-plant-still-leaking-300-tons-of-waste-a-day

This one said on the order of 400

http://www.democracynow.org/2013/8/28/as_fukushima_raises_severity_level_nuclear

Perhaps the "truth will out" since it's so much worse than Chernobyl, they aren't even on the same scale. 

Thanks G.E. for the design...

"The storage pools are packed with radioactive uranium, rise several stories above ground and are always close to the reactor, thus facilitating easy transfer of the fuel rods. " from...

http://www.thenation.com/article/159234/fukushimas-spent-fuel-rods-pose-grave-danger#axzz2fJa9FDEt

Storage pools of intense radioactivity several stories UP (They Are Really HEAVY).

Tsunami AND earthquake country.  

Way to go General Electric and TEPCO, even Godzilla's warning didn't help!

100's of years...won't be enough to erase this stain...

To those pronatalists who think we can bend the environment to support any number of people

Recent editorials let us all know that HISTORICALLY technology saved our (collective) asses and so, the writers expect that will occur again, "we can shape the environment to suit our needs" I read somewhere...

Here's a little news:

http://news.yahoo.com/massive-underwater-mountains-churn-ocean-waters-172424446.html

My point is, we don't even know how the planet operates so, how can we possibly apply technology in a nuanced way, to do no more damage, and second, third, and fourth provide for our future on an ecologically "stable" planet?

The chaotic forces humans have unleashed will have their way with us.

Doomsday Preppers from the past!

http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/13/tech/social-media/apparently-this-matters-amazing-doomsday-bunker-for-sale/index.html?eref=mrss_igoogle_cnn

The road map for retirement success!

Thanks to an online planning tool, seems I only have to save 162% of my income to secure my retirement.

Problem solved!

Frish

File under: Hard to be believe fiile...

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/pregnant-women-selling-positive-pregnancy-tests-online-article-1.1443432

"Play a joke..." The joke is on those who ARE pregnant...and, unfortunately, on the rest of us...

The Darwin Awards Condom (Item is no longer available...)

This is our kind of URL...lol 

(Mentions Population Control Volunteers!)

Keep yourself out of the gene pool!

http://cgi.darwinawards.com/cgi/vote.pl?

Friends don't let friends reproduce!

The Darwin Awards are really great reading.

http://www.darwinawards.com/

Documenting the "limit" of Human Stupidity!

You are still connected to Verizon, I'm going to release the call...

The subject line was the signoff of the Verizon tech that recovered my contacts for my cell phone...She signed onto my phone(!) and fixed things from there, with a little help from my thumb.

It reminded me of the following "Pranks by Boys"* story.  *My brand name...

Circa 1987 - Some Telecommunication Association Trade Show

ISDN Integrated Services Digital Network  was all he rage, simultaneous voice, video, data, etc. over the same wire...

The telecoms were saying:  "ISDN  -  I see Dollars Now"

The customers were saying: "ISDN - I Still Don't kNow!"

I was walking the show floor beforehand, so I would know where every competitor and partner were located, and I happened upon the "Telco Equipment Provider TEP" booth.

They had a private ISDN network set up with a Phone and Data connection between their scenario real estate office and the mortgage banker.

The actual hardware setup, about which I inquired before they started, was a tractor trailer outside the hall, with cables like elephant trunks emanating along the periphery...looping onto the show floor and back...running some ridiculous speed with an ISDN wrapper, the two terminals were side by side... 

They did a fine demo, and then, when it was over, I said...

"So, the Real Estate Agent is seeing the Banker's screen with the loan offer, and then the phone call is over, since they hang up, but what hung up the data connection, won't the real estate agent still see what's on the Banker's screen???  

Like, when he pulls up some confidential transaction...

Not ONE of my clients will be impressed by your demo, au contraire (French being a language with which they were familiar...)"

They read my badge more closely

Frish

New Product Launch Manager

Communication Systems - IBM (Before there was Networking LOL )

Then they LITERALLY pulled the plug on the demo, showing it to exactly no one else the entire show...$300,000 fizzled in a flash and a whimper!

"Have a good show!" shared I while skipping down the aisle.

They actually thanked me.

It's the unintended messages that are the hardest to control.

Glad Verizon both recovered my contacts and knows how to end a voice/data call!

Climate and Human Violence...Science Mag abstract

Just the abstract, copied below, is enough.  no need to pay for the article...it's all here!

"A rapidly growing body of research examines whether human conflict can be affected by climatic changes. 

Drawing from archaeology, criminology, economics, geography, history, 

political science, and psychology, we assemble and analyze the 60 most rigorous quantitative studies 

and document, for the first time, a remarkable convergence of results. 

We find strong causal evidence linking climatic events to human conflict 

across a range of spatial and temporal scales and across all major regions of the world. 

The magnitude of climate's influence is substantial: 

for each 1 standard deviation (1σ) change in climate toward warmer temperatures or more extreme rainfall, 

median estimates indicate that the frequency of interpersonal violence rises 4% 

and the frequency of intergroup conflict rises 14%. 

Because locations throughout the inhabited world are expected to warm 2 to 4σ by 2050, 

amplified rates of human conflict could represent a large and critical impact of anthropogenic climate change."

From: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/early/2013/07/31/science.1235367

When a scientific peer reviewed article finds CAUSAL EVIDENCE of HUMAN CONFLICT there can't be many things more important... 

Wonder who is reading Science...

Fwd: Driving himself. Crazy!

http://news.yahoo.com/not-car-bicycle-blend-elf-vehicle-150201864.html

World Population,three scenarios

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:World-Population-1800-2100.png

That graph of UN estimates is not color blind.  Let's assume the green scenario is correct.

We'll still have at least 7 billion on the planet for the next 77 years or so...

Being that many doesn't mean we're "winning" somehow...

Frish - ChildFree and Loving It!

Have a pet, not a child (a new byline for we who are vehement)

http://www.kmbz.com/Dog-to-Owner-Relationships-Similar-to-That-of-Babi/16677169

'Shark Tank' Really Worth 5% Of Your Company? Business Owners Say 'Absolutely' - Forbes

To my clients who have already swum with Sharks, and other, potential Shark Tankers:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jjcolao/2013/06/13/is-shark-tank-really-worth-5-of-your-company-business-owners-say-absolutely/

The Problem of Republicans

Republicans have the following simple problem.

They LIE about everything, or say they believe in lies.

1. Evolution ? Never happened!
2. Human caused climate chaos? Not now, not ever.
3. More guns make us safer. (Huh?)
4. There is a 'debt crisis' (not.)
5. There is a 'deficit crisis' (not) (neither are a CRISIS. Both are manageable.)
6. Some people ought to have special rights under the Constitution (Married Man and Woman (only)).
7. Abortion is somehow worse than an elective war. Why don't my tax dollars NOT be spent on elective wars, but instead allow medical treatment for women without government interference? Where is the true outrage, from a moral perspective.
8. Rich people get tax breaks so there will be more jobs (what kind of disconnect are they experiencing? And, reinstating tax rates that were lowered "temporarily" is NOT a tax increase...)
9. We're in trouble with low numbers of Latino's liking the platform, so we'll pander to whatever we have to in order to gain their votes...

Can't wait for 2014 to get to a supermajority Democratic House and Senate.

For Gerontologists + those of us who aspire to be studied by them, for a long time...

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=how-to-gain-or-lose-30-minutes-of-life-everyday

To (Banana) Slug Fans everywhere (Forward to Quest...etc.)

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/giant-flourescent-pink-slugs-140528983.html

Inferno

"The book subscribes to no faith, but does contain a moral, from Dante himself: inaction during a time of crisis is a sin. Overpopulation, Brown says, is an issue so profound that all of us need to ask what should be done. The author himself has not decided."

http://www.stltoday.com/entertainment/dan-brown-s-inferno-links-dante-overpopulation/article_c5690821-4c65-53aa-bbea-3fc5c923c3d6.html

Frish says: Should be a fun read, and, having our issue be the focus of a well respected/read author, even if fiction, can't be a bad thing.

Survival? It's up to God!

http://www.rawstory .com/rs/2013/ 05/01/belief- in-end-times- stifling- climate-change- action-in- u-s-study/

About time...Scientists project extinction of humanity.

Here's the news:

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/end-team-experts-says-humanity-faces-extinction-233025693.html

Here the treatise:

"An existential risk is one that threatens the premature extinction of Earth-originating intelligent life or the permanent and drastic destruction of its potential for desirable future development"

http://www.existential-risk.org/concept.pdf

-- 

Frish

Why people reject VHE ...

"People seem to 'explain away' the presence of bad possibilities, thinking that they won't really occur," explains O'Brien. 

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/04/130415124713.htm

I believe it's all about having 'faith'... "The sun will come out tomorrow" etc. 

A-Hem

My GF lived in BA during this time.  She knows people who had their babies stolen, others who had babies returned in the night, and another arrested for carrying a bomb on the street...http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22064929.

If the Pope didn't know, he had his head firmly implanted where the sun never shines.

He absolutely knew, and did not do a thing, 

since he didn't want to ruffle the government's feathers, and so as to get the church playing both sides, a strategy favored by the Vatican, since goverhments lean right, lean left, but the CHURCH endures...and will work with whatever dirty creatures it must to maintain it's position.

If he even has deny-ability it's not credible. Period.

Pig News

"If a feral-hog sow produces a dozen piglets, 13 survive," goes an old joke, according to the Avalanche-Journal. 

I'm trying hard not to share this stuff, it's too easy to find end of the world scenarios playing out right in front of us...but couldn't resist with a line like that (and the overpopulating menace described herewith)...

https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?tab=wm#inbox/13defbcc9a7f3c45?compose=13df17788fe9e7d6

Frish

Emergency Management Meets Computer Human Interface

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2417265,00.asp

Slice and Dice, just that easy!

A crane vessel lifts the bow of the USS Guardian on Tuesday, March 26.

Unveiling Islam

G-Man, think you'll like this, quite a decent analysis of the weakness and foibles of Islam...

http://www.dailynewsegypt.com/2013/03/26/brotherhoods-attack-on-womens-bodes-ill/

Sustainable Development Goals Must Sustain People and Planet, Experts Say

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/03/130320155228.htm

"Mounting research shows we are now at the point that the stable functioning of Earth systems is a prerequisite for a thriving global society and future development."

Big Duh!  Now let me know the likelihood we'll actually plan for sustainability, having never done so in the past...

Frish

Child Free Motivations

I am prompted by several posts lately to return to a supposition I have re: VHEMT and our motivations.

It has been noted that 'ecological' reasons are well spelled out on the website, but, Les certainly knows there are loads of other reasons to deliberately be child-free.
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VHEMT MOTTO: Live long and die out! 
Subtitle to the Motto: What part of Voluntary did you not understand?

Began a list...no right answer (it's voluntary!). 
Did I manage to share your motivation? 
Do tell! 
or Don't! 
It's VOLUNTARY!

all edits welcome!  thanks for playing...

Child-Free Motivator Categories
Environmental - The catastrophic effects of human disruption in every habitat have gone beyond 'fixable', the planet will have her way with us.
Social - We can't change behaviors fast enough to avoid human population apocalypse
Physical - My condition (sterility) opened my eyes to life without kids
Life Centric -  Humans are killing too many species before we're gone - fewer people and sooner is better
Misanthropes - Humans are a plague
Political -  There are too many people since as yet there are staving infants
Nihilistic - Extinction is inevitable, why wait?
No "motherly instinct" ('fatherly')
Won't care for babies Birthing, Crying, Changing, Feeding
Won't care for kids - Teaching, Financing, Scheduling, Worrying(!)
Sex Schmex - Don't really care for it, with the possible consequences way out of proportion to whatever fun I'm supposed to be having
Noble Sacrifice - I'm being selfless to make as little environmental impact as possible
Selfish - finances, emotions, partnership, friends --- reality is better without kids
Some of the above
Don't Know
Submit your own here:                       

(Favorite choice/category of all time: Not Discussed in Class!)

*Mine was a political decision at age 9, and I kept another from procreating along the way, my single best achievement!

"Morality - The Play"

"Morality - The Play" is the working title for my proposed Hollywood Fringe Festival 2013 one person performance.

All concepts open to change at any time.

Intent is to combine and mix the tenents of

VHEMT.ORG

and

http://www.the-brights.net/

and the arch of technology. to provide a provocative look at the future.