the planet bag by Katharine

save the planet....use a bag, instead of all that plastic...

A word on those "cloth" bags that are at every grocery store now.
Have you noticed that most every grocery store now has fancy cloth looking bags with their name on them? Most are 99 cents to $2.49, and invite shoppers to become "green" by buying and using one of these reusable bags.
The problem is...they're plastic!
Polypropylene to be exact...which is made from ethylene, a byproduct of oil, like any other plastic.
Also, while the stores say they'll last 2 years or so, they more than likely will tear long before then. Many are made cheaply, and won't stand up to sharp corners, heavy weights, and washing machines for long.
But they're recyclable, right?
Technically, yes. Yet, we've scoured the Internet looking for places in the US that will actually take Post Consumer Polypropylene and have not found one yet.
Not one.
There are places that will buy misprints and scraps, and post industrial polypropylene, but not the bags that are flying off the shelves at the grocery stores. Wegmans out of NY reportedly sold some 300 000 of them in their first week's launch alone.
So what happens in a year or so when all these bags fall apart?
They'll end up as garbage.
Essentially, they've taken the plastic bags you get for free, put some together and pressed them to look like cloth, and sold them to you. It's kind of like delaying when the garbage will hit the dump, and getting you to pay for it.
The real answer is to use cotton bags. Sturdy ones that are large and will stand up to regular use and washing.
We really don't mind if you use other brands...honestly. Just please, use cotton bags!
Some brands we've found that are great are EcoBags, Port and Company, Oprah's GrOceries bag (which is organic), and Enviro-Tote. They are all well made and will last you for your money.
With the Planet Bag, we tried to make the perfect answer to "if not paper or plastic, then what?"
-The Planet Bag is affordable, around $5 when purchased in the 3 pack or set of 6, and $5.95 when purchased singly.
-The Planet Bag is large. Many of the cotton bags out there are small and have short handles. The Planet Bag is 15" x 16" x 3", with 28" finished handles. Each one will hold about as much as 3 plastic bags would. "Finished" handles means that they are sewn on both sides, and double X stitched to the bag. They are really long, so that you can carry your groceries on your shoulder and be hands-free when going from your car to your front door. Have you ever tried to fumble with your keys while holding plastic or paper bags? No fun! The 3" floor of the bag means that you can put wider items in it, and also it won't fall over when you put it in the car.
-The Planet Bag is what we feel to be the perfect thickness. A thin bag is useless, but a bag too thick is bulky and not really convenient to keep anywhere. The Planet Bag is the perfect balance between sturdy yet lightweight. It will hold up yet not take up too much space when not in use.
So there you have it. Honestly, it's so sad to see so many people going out and buying what they think is so much better for the environment. We wish there was a way to communicate on a huge level that these "green" grocery store bags are not good. Please do tell people and thank you again for using The Planet Bag...or any other good quality cotton bag.
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AMERICA

Mr.Al Gore....

Chances are.....if Al Gore had been elected President of the USA, America would not be involved in Iraq to the degree that it is now ......wasting billions of dollars and thousands of human lives in a situation the current administration has the nerve to call war...just a colossal waste of energy, and human beings that could be put to good use at home or elsewhere in the world...is it too late...can we draft Gore?

If not Hillary or this Obama fellow....why not

Al Gore for President...?

AMERICA

BLACK FOLKS OF AMERICA:-
Wake up, look at what's going on in Africa...your ancestral land. These horrors have been committed for years...I remember Biafra and the Mau Mau in the fifties. Enough, it is time to take action.
Just totally forget this stupid slavery excuse. Realise fully that none of you would have been born if not by the shear accident of somehow bringing your grandfather and grandmother together...
Enough whining...get over it already.
There must be more to life than hip hop, basketball and chasing blonds.
A local story on the metro news here tells all:
The Metropolitan Housing Authority is being sued for 5 million Dollars....Single mother of four...young son..8 and a nice kid I'm sure was shot in the leg with a pistol a year ago...he now has trouble walking.
Two black kids, about 16 were arrested and later released because of insufficient evidence.Gun play.
The Housing Authority tha is the local tapayers have provided thousands of homes for mostly immigrant families. Many from Jamaica. Some of these areas have turned into slums or ghettos. Not unusual.Lack of area supervision it is claimed. There should be more guards to patrol the developments the suit claims.
Now the taxpayers are sued and expected to pay for this mess.That's the thanks for helping the poor...I guess.
Get involved, do something positive...

America Africa

I am not anti American....so, please do not get the idea that I want to stand on my soap-box and hurl insults at my sort of fellow citizens for no good reasons whatsoever.
I would like the USA to take more care and support the ideas and ideals of the UN. After all, the USA is a founding member and the property host of the UN realestate/ headoffices etc,.
Not to take action in the horrible Darfur scene is a crime. But this current decider of the government has his head in the sand. His inaction to speak out is as much of a crime as the brothers in arms Churchill and Truman commited.
As well....Black folks of America....here is your obligation and opportunity to act. Get it together. Do something.
Now.
The two highest paid individuals in the USA today are Oprah and Tiger..golf guy. Some of the top cabinet members have been and are people of colour. Why are they not speaking out? They should be apolled of what's going on in Africa....or are they too ashamed to believe that this sort of thing is going on in the year 2007.
The Darfur conflict is an ongoing armed conflict between the Janjaweed militia group and the mostly land-tilling tribes of the region.This is a controversial conflict as the media portrays the conflict to be between Muslims and non-Muslims. Although this specific conflict in Darfur has occurred already in 2003, the mentality behind the conflict stems from the 1960s and 1970s. The ideology of Arab supremacism grew in northern Africa. In the countries of North Africa, as well as many Arab nations, a secret group called “Tajamu al Arabi”, or the Arab Gathering, formed and would emerge in the Darfur region in the 1980s. The Sudanese government became involved in the 1990s, funding militia groups who were carrying out the attacks. It was not until early 2003 that the Non-Arab Africans began to combine their forces to protect themselves against the militia groups. Two of the main groups—the Sudan Liberation Army and the Justice and Equality Movement—combined to create the National Redemption Front. The Sudanese government, however, saw this uprising of Non-Arab Africans as a threat against the nation of Sudan and, thus began funding a group known as the Janjaweed to quell the rebellion of the National Redemption Front. However, due to the prospects of peace, a fraction of the Sudanese Liberation Army broke away from the National Redemption Front in order to come to a peace agreement with the Sudanese government—this prospect of peace would turn out to be an empty promise from the Sudanese government. An analysis in late 2006 concluded that "It is likely that the number of deaths for this conflict in Greater Darfur is higher than 200,000 individuals, and it is possible that the death toll is much higher."[2] The conflict began in February 2003, when rebel groups began attacking government targets. The government retaliated by launching a military and police campaign. The government has been accused of encouraging a group of Arab nomads called the Janjaweed to rape, murder and loot the African farmers[3]. Because of this, more than 3,500,000 people have fled their homes. Unlike the Second Sudanese Civil War, which was fought between the primarily Muslim north and Christian and Animist south, in Darfur most of the residents are Muslim, as are the Janjaweed.
Attempts at mediation by the African Union led to a peace accord between the Sudanese government and the largest rebel group in the Darfur region, signed May 5, 2006[4], but the United Nations says that there has actually been a dramatic increase in violence and displacement since the deal was signed [5].
Those who fled the Janjaweed now live in refugee camps across Darfur, as well as in neighboring Chad. About 2.5 million refugees have crossed the border into neighboring Chad.
Many Darfurian children, even in the refugee camps, are malnourished and starving to death. Aid workers and U.N. representatives in Darfur have been denied access to some of the camps[6][7]. The Sudanese government has opposed the introduction of United Nations forces in Sudan[8], but conceded to a small UN delegation of 3000 in April 2007. [9]
The United Nations has threatened military intervention[citation needed], but the Sudanese government argues that it is caught in a continuing civil war and that no outside powers should seek to meddle in its internal affairs[citation needed].
In January 2007, President Omar al-Bashir agreed to a cease-fire whereby the Sudanese "government and rebel groups will cease hostilities for a period of 60 days while they work towards a lasting peace" [10], however, according to the Save Darfur Coalition, this cease-fire was broken weeks later when military aircraft bombed civilians in Darfur[11].
The International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants for the State Minister for Humanitarian Affairs, Ahmed Haroun, and alleged Janjaweed militia leader Ali Mohammed Ali aka Ali Kosheib, in relation to the atrocities in the region. Ahmed Haroun belongs to the Fur tribe one of the non Arab tribes of Darfur and is alleged to have incited attacks on specific ethnic groups. Ali Kosheib is an ex soldier and a leader of the popular defense forces and is assumed to be one of the key leaders responsible for attacks on villages in West Darfur.
On May 29, 2007, U.S. President George W. Bush imposed economic sanctions against the Sudanese government.

AMERICA.....Dear Hillary:-

back to this for a moment.....
As I said I will briefly comment on the 4 mass murderers involved in ww2 and the aftermath of their actions with which we are stuck to this day.

Hitler: Schickelgruber was his real name. Austrian by birth, not even German. Wrote book mein Kampf (my Battle?) while in jail for 4 years. Gained power...34%. Rearmed the country. Took over some german or part german speaking regions. Connected Austria...Anschluss. Gradually reduced any opposition or people he disliked from his idea of an arean population. Mass murder in my view.

Many disappeared in places called

Konzentrazionslager ( after the model of the British concentration camps in South Africa). After sending old men and children into battle ( Volkssturm)...this coward killed himself just before the Russians took Berlin.

world earth thing...

.......interesting concept...green..reduce garbage etc.
I found this concert thing to be an earsplitting horrible rockband mess...worthless, the exception being the chinese contribution, a full classical orchestra with a singer, well done...the funniest was the australian contribution which looked more like a bunch of flatfooted englishmen trying to imitate natives or aboriginal people...worth a laugh.Sorry.

Dear Hillary:

....the picture shows a four leaf clover....Diana finds one almost every day....as long as the grass is green....I've never ever spotted one....

I was under the impression that I had created a new post, the title was "Dear Hillary"....an open letter to the front runner ,Democratic candidate and my personal observation re : Hitler, Churchill, Stalin and Truman.
I consider all 4 of them mass murderers. Can we learn from the past? Probably not much.

But I do prefer an intelligent, educated intellectually and mentally fit individual to be the leader of the USA rather than a senile populist or crackerjack right wing screwball.

I had some interesting enough comments on these four individuals but somehow they magically disappeared....computerglitch freeze up. I will again try to recall these details and republish. As a point of interest "wikipedia" the most widely known and much respected encyclopedia considers these fellows war criminals....it's not just my idea.



comments by jk:

sorry I took so long to respond but I have been bombarded as of late and I am sure you will understand...I always appreciate your outlook and outside view of mankind..as an observer rather than a follower...only a select few from any hamlet are able to differentiate hear say from text book fluff (which is the stepping stone of propoganda) and think for themselves...the only thing I disagree on is 1929 and America's economy burgeoning because of the war...in 1913 Woodrow Wilson signed in The Federal Reserve during Christmas while Congress was away and later said "I have unwittingly ruined my Country"..and as Thomas Jefferson said "Banker's are more of a threat to our republic than any standing army"...anyway...Section 8 of the constitution states "debts may only be paid in Gold and Silver"...also..."No State can print paper money"....but since the Reserve the "District" of Columbia (not a state) is above the constitution...so paper money is now a credit card to a privatized European bank...Reaganomic's states clearly that the Fed's do not see one dime of Income tax...Transportation infrastructure is paid through gas tax...Military through Industry...development through Commercial etc....anyway...what I am saying is...the depression was a Usurping of America...then Roosevelt took all of American's gold in WWII for war bonds...biggest hiest in history since states only accept gold and silver as currency the rest is IOU's...now yank's are brainwashed into thinking that a war will boost economy while europe reap's the reward's of thier bank notes....bank notes where started....dont hafta tell ya...you know the green back....I will finish later...I have company...it's all a scam...getting played like fiddles....the NSA is equivalent to the Gestapo....no rules when it comes to National Security...I will finish cause I have tonne's of proof and can even name names.....most people argue crap but don't even know who I'm talkin about due to ignorance and it drives me mad...but I see your game and like it..ttyl