Some Unknown Geography

How many of you knew this already? If you did, I bet you didn't get this schooling in the Socialist Public School System.

Alaska

More than half of the coastline of the entire United States is in Alaska .





Amazon

The Amazon rainforest produces more than 20% the world's oxygen supply.
The Amazon River pushes so much water into the Atlantic Ocean that, more than one hundred miles at sea off the mouth of the river, one can dip fresh water out of the ocean. The volume of water in the Amazon river is greater than the next eight largest rivers in the world combined and three times the flow of all rivers in the United States.



Antarctica

Antarctica is the only land on our planet that is not owned by any country.

Ninety percent of the world's ice covers Antarctica . This ice also represents seventy percent of all the fresh water in the world. As strange as it sounds, however, Antarctica is essentially a desert. The average yearly total precipitation is about two inches Although covered with ice (all but 0.4% of it, ice.), Antarctica is the driest place on the planet, with an absolute humidity lower than the Gobi desert.



Brazil

Brazil got its name from the nut, not the other way around.


Canada

Canada has more lakes than the rest of the world combined. Canada is an Indian word meaning 'Big Village.'



Chicago

Next to Warsaw , Chicago has the largest Polish population in the world.


Detroit

Woodward Avenue in Detroit, Michigan, carries the designation M-1, so named because it was the first paved road anywhere.


Damascus, Syria

Damascus, Syria, was flourishing a couple of thousand years before Rome was founded in 753 BC, making it the oldest continuously inhabited city in existence.


Istanbul, Turkey

Istanbul, Turkey, is the only city in the world located on two continents.



Los Angeles

Los Angele's full name is El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de Los Angeles de Porciuncula -- and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size: L.A.


New York City

The term 'The Big Apple' was coined by touring jazz musicians of the 1930's who used the slang expression 'apple' for any town or city. Therefore, to play New York City is to play the big time - The Big Apple.

There are more Irish in New York City than in Dublin , Ireland ; more Italians in New York City than in Rome, Italy ; and more Jews in New York City than in Tel Aviv, Israel .



Ohio

There are no natural lakes in the state of Ohio , everyone is manmade.


Pitcairn Island

The smallest island with country status is Pitcairn in Polynesia, at just 1.75 sq. miles/4,53 sq. km.

Rome

The first city to reach a population of 1 million people was Rome, Italy in 133 B.C. There is a city called Rome on every continent.

Siberia

Siberia contains more than 25% of the world's forests.


S.M.O.M .

The actual smallest sovereign entity in the world is the Sovereign Military Order of Malta (S.M.O.M). It is located in the city of Rome, Italy, has an area of two tennis courts, and as of 2001 has a population of 80, 20 less people than the Vatican. It is a sovereign entity under international law, just as the Vatican is.


Sahara Desert

In the Sahara Desert , there is a town named Tidikelt, Algeria, which did not receive a drop of rain for ten years.

Technically though, the driest place on Earth is in the valleys of the Antarctic near Ross Island. There has been no rainfall there for two million years.

Spain

Spain literally means 'the land of rabbits.'




St. Paul , Minnesota

St. Paul, Minnesota , was originally called Pig's Eye after a man named Pierre 'Pig's Eye' Parrant who set up the first business there.


Roads

Chances that a road is unpaved in the U.S.A : 1%, in Canada : 75%

Russia

The deepest hole ever drilled by man is the Kola Superdeep Borehole, in Russia. It reached a depth of 12,261 meters (about 40,226 feet or 7.62 miles). It was drilled for scientific research and gave up some unexpected discoveries, one of which was a huge deposit of hydrogen - so massive that the mud coming from the hole was “boiling” with it.



United States

The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one-mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.




Waterfalls

The water of Angel Falls (the World's highest) in Venezuela drops 3,212 feet (979 meters). They are 15 times higher than Niagara Falls.


I have always said , you should learn something new every day.

Unfortunately, many of us are at that age where what we learn today, we forget tomorrow.

Cow Poo Gas

With gas and diesel reaching and pushing past five dollars a gallon, Washington DC Staffers are saying ‘there’s no quick fix to our addiction to foreign oil’.

They’re saying that it took us a long time to get where we are today with our love for gasoline driven vehicles, and it’s going to take a long time to get unaddicted to gasoline.

To me, the way they’re talking about gasoline, it’s like we’re all addicted to drugs and not fossil fuel.

I remember two local gas stations stating that they were changing oil companies because it would be cheaper, but their prices certainly don’t reflect that.

Of course, this oil problem could be fixed tomorrow if we would use our own natural resources instead of relying on foreign governments, and kissing their derrieres.

This problem, however, doesn’t stop with just our politician’s greediness, but it also includes the prostituting of themselves out to the Lobbyist “Haters of America.”

The last time that I visited the White House in Washington D.C., I don’t remember any red lights brightly shining on the front porch.

Even when I climbed to the top of the Washington Monument and looked down on the White House, I still didn’t see any red lights shining.

I remember that the last administration seemed to have had a secret red light shining in the darkness, but only certain people could enjoy the secret pleasures thereof.

Needless to say, it’s just a club house for a marginal group of people who flaunt their agenda in our faces, and dare us to say or do anything about it.

To me these people are out of control, and they do not have the interest of the American people at heart; only their greed for power and money.

But that’s just the beginning of why we are paying such high gas prices, thanks to our great idiotic band of fools whom we have governing our great and prosperous nation.

Nobody is thinking about the oil thirsty countries of the world, like China and India who are now coming into their own ‘Industrial Revolution’ period, thanks to our outsourcing.

With both of these nations becoming more capitalistic, they need more oil to compete with the rest of the industrialized world.

I understand that China is moving its farmers into the city in order to fill the overflow of industrial jobs that’s being outsourced to them.

India is right behind China in being an outsource recipient of American jobs, thus more oil is needed to run their nation, too.

Both countries, therefore, will need more cars and trucks for transportation which in turn means more oil, which means higher world oil prices.

So what’s the answer to lowering our gas prices, you ask?

Some years ago, a friend of mine had told me about a person, whom he knew personally, who had created a device for the car’s carburetor that used water to propel the vehicle.

However, this device didn’t make it to market because the big automakers of the time purchased the patent rights and shelved the idea, because it threatened their agenda.

I have seen TV ads recently for a car that emits water vapor instead of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, an idea that sounds all too familiar to me.

Another example of controlling high gas prices from what I have heard is that Buenos Aires uses bio-fuel made from their corn fields to power all of their vehicles.

So my question is why can’t we, the greatest nation on earth, do something like this and quit supplying world terrorist with our oil monies?

Well, guess what?

The US may just have something better.

I understand that agricultural researcher and CEO J.C. Bell of Bell Bio-Energy, Inc. has found out how to process gas from cows.

The best part about this specific gas is that we don’t have to wait out in the clover fields for the gas to be pooped into our vehicles by cows.

This gas will be supplied as usual from the local gas stations, with the only difference being is that it’s home grown.

Bell is talking about doing what others are just speculating about with their preschool mentality; he’s making fuel with grass, cornstalks, and other field debris.

It’s said that Bell wanted to know what digestive process enabled the common cow to change food into methane.

It’s not like we can go out and coax the cow into giving us a few gallons of methane on command, so naturally Bell wanted to see if he could speed up this process.

Bell states that he has isolated this specific bacterium that can produce hydrocarbons to make gasoline for cars and diesel for trucks.

And just like a magician pulling a rabbit out of a hat, Bell through genetic manipulation changed the naturally occurring bacteria, so they would eat and consume the biomass a little more efficiently.

It’s been reported that this process has the support from the Departments of Defense, Energy, and Agriculture plus both chambers of Congress.

Bell has stated that within two years his bio-energy plant will be large enough to prove whether it will work as he has professed.

Bell states that he will be able to produce about five billion barrels of oil per year, and that would be about two-thirds of what we use now.

I understand from a CNN report that Canada and Spain will be drilling next to the US oil preserves 49 miles off the Florida Coast.

However, if that’s not bad enough, CNN also reports that China, India, and Cuba have been seen drilling in the same proximity of this US oil preserve, already.

This oil preserve has estimates of 4.6 billion to 9.3 billion barrels of oil, much like that believed to be beneath the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge.

Wake up America, for you have been ‘duped’ again (to say it nicely) by your moronic politicians and their lackeys, your loving environmentalist (kiss, kiss).

These people want you to walk or bicycle around, like a donkey following a carrot, while they drive around in their fulsome SUVs and jet hither and yon in their private planes.

America is a self-sustaining country, except for when it’s run by those who hate America, and their idiotic friends; therefore, I stand offended and demand an apology.

Green Means Stupid

I’m tired of hearing the lies about global warming, so I decided to check it out for myself, and I found that I was right in my thinking and my observation of the facts.

And my findings indicate that the polar ice is BACK, all five million square miles.

So when it comes to global warming who am I to believe, credible scientists and climatologists or an idiot like Al ‘Mr. Eco’ Gore and his nonscientific ideology.

I think that Gore really believes that the polar bears are drowning (becoming extinct) and the penguins are flying away, but then that’s my observation of this looney-tooner.

It’s amazing that Al ‘Eco’ Gore refused to take the ‘Personal Energy Ethics Pledge’ at the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee hearing on March 21, 2007.

Why would Mr. ‘Eco’ refuse to take this essential Eco Pledge?

This whacked-out hypocrite can’t even follow his own eco-religion correctly let alone tell others how they should eco-live it.

I can cite authority after authority with PhD’s and other scientific geniuses on this subject, but unless you check for yourself you won’t believe me no matter what I say.

Amazingly there’s global warming in the universe and specifically on the planet Mars with its ‘increased temperatures despite lack of humankind.’

I found another interesting fact, and that is an ‘advance and retreat of polar ice’ on the planet Mars, much like that of Earth.

Yes, ‘Mars might be just coming out of an ice age’.

When the Earth came out of its past ice ages and supposed global warming periods, I find that life was not hampered nor destroyed, but it thrived. Why?

Also, Jupiter is in the midst of global climate change that will alter temperatures by as much as 10 degrees Celsius, getting warmer near the equator and cooler near the South Pole.

It’s also noted that “Pluto’s atmospheric pressure has tripled over the past 14 years, indicating a stark temperature rise.”
It’s proposed that ‘the change is likely a seasonal event, much as seasons on Earth change as the hemispheres alter their inclination to the Sun during the planet’s annual orbit.’

What? Global warming may not be due to us stupid non-eco-idiots emitting CO2 gases from our vehicles or coal-fired plants…amazing.

Fact, Dr. Fred Singer, professor emeritus of environmental sciences at the University of Virginia, maintains that there has been LITTLE or NO warming since about 1940.

Another interesting fact that I’ve always wondered about is why global warming seems to change daily.

It’s stated that water vapor (H2O) is Earth’s primary greenhouse gas, which leads to global warming.

This source go as far as stating that “water vapor contributes to the natural greenhouse warming process by approximately 60%.”

Also the rain and snow systems control how warm or how cold temperatures get on Earth.

It’s stated that ‘these weather systems directly limit how much of our main greenhouse gas, water vapor, is allowed to accumulate in the Earth's atmosphere.’

Furthermore, our biased eco-nuts continually misdiagnose the positive feedback regarding the temperature changes, because their equipment is not up to specs.

Some thermometers measuring temperature changes are placed outside by their air conditioning units, thus measuring the heat changes of the air conditioning unit.

On another front, Andrei Illarionov, an adviser of former President Putin, states that Kyoto is a ‘smokescreen of propaganda, like those ideologies of human hatred’.
Czech President Vaclav Klaus even states, “the biggest threat to freedom, democracy, the market economy and prosperity…is not communism or its various softer variants."
Klaus continues, "Communism was replaced by the threat of ambitious environmentalism."

Senior Fellow Dennis Avery of the Hudson Institute said that “300 scientists have refuted at least one element of the global warming SCARE.”

Avery said that they have found evidence that a natural moderate 1,500-year climate cycle has produced more than a dozen global warmings similar to our current one.

Furthermore, Avery said “that since the last ice age such warmings are linked to variations in the sun’s irradiance.”

Still further, ‘these scientists make a mockery of recent claims that a scientific consensus blames humans as the primary cause of global temperature increases since 1850.’

More than 31,000 scientists across the U.S. (including more than 9,000 Ph.D.s in fields such as atmospheric science, climatology, Earth science, environment and dozens of other specialties) have signed a petition rejecting “global warming”.

“There is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide, methane, or other greenhouse gases is causing or will, in the foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth's atmosphere and disruption of the Earth's climate”.

I knew that these eco-morons weren’t telling us the truth and that all of these readings that they’re reporting were false.

Of course you can read the US Senate Report on Global Warming to see who is looney and who’s not.

Here’s looney; a man in Denver was trying to go green with his new house construction project until he was told by the city he would be penalized $9,000 for doing so.

Ken Oakes told reporters, "We want to build our house as green as possible, and that includes solar panels on the roof."

When the workers from the solar system company arrived at Oakes’ home, they brought with them some bad news.

There was a large Honeylocust tree that towered over the southwest corner of the house that would block the sunlight to the solar panel system.

So, Oakes then decided to cut the huge tree down for his house to be green.

However, Douglas Schoch, of the city's forestry division, said that there will be a $9,000 penalty, because that's what the city has decided the tree is worth.

The city arborist had e-mailed Oakes two options: protect the tree and move the solar panels somewhere else, or remove the tree and pay the penalty.

What a decision; cut it down and you pay, because there's no appeal process in eco-land.

The city told Oakes, however, that he could plant upwards of 45 other trees in the yard, at the estimated cost of $200 per tree credit which would wipe out the penalty.

This makes me want to just eco-puke.

Carbon Footprint Hoax

I was watching this program the other day about the carbon footprint that we all are leaving behind everyday that we live.

As the program continued, the host showed the viewers all sorts of things that we use every day, thus subliminally intimidating the viewer to stop living in the 21st Century.

With this line of subliminal torture, the weak minded person would follow after this Pavlovian conditioning and end up starving to death because of an invisible footprint.

To me, this program was so obnoxious that I was tempted to turn the channel to some programming that was more intelligent, like TV Land or the Soap Channel.

I did, however, change the channel and left the host babbling about some stupid, non-existent carbon footprint that some idiot had dreamed up to make a fast buck on.

But to be more specific, the subliminal message was being instilled into some unsuspecting child’s mind that being an American pig would pollute the whole world.

It was at this point that the emcee should have shown some zombie with a yellow happy painted face playing on some wind powered generator or solar collector chanting I’m one less.

Anyway, the hidden lie is that with all of this waste we are polluting the earth; but maybe these perfect ones should live in a third world country for a year then talk to me.

Being stressed is that all of these by-products came from all of those trees that you all killed which then contributes to the carbon footprint, which in turn contributes to global warming.

As the usual propaganda goes, the program showed the hundreds of empty cartons from the pints of milk that we devoured needlessly and sinned by using paper base containers.

It makes me wonder if we all should have had our own cow for our milk consumption, and if so, then we’d be right at home in the Stone Age.

If that’s the case, I won’t be in to work tomorrow, because it will be the ‘Day After Tomorrow’, and the wheel probably wouldn’t have been invented to drive to work and pollute the atmosphere.

Here’s my update on this; trees are a renewable resource, and both paper and cardboard are recyclable, you morons.

I was surprised that they didn’t break the illustrations down into smaller portions like half pints or smaller to show more empty milk cartons cluttering and destroying the earth.

That’s how these carbon footprint propagandist intimidate John and Jane Q. Public, by breaking things down into minute particles and making them feel guilty.

On the other hand, if these opportunist want to make you feel guilty in reverse, they go to the opposite extreme and talk in thousands of dollars, millions of units, or tons of poison.

Therefore, you’re stuck, as many southerners say, like a ‘pig in a poke.’

If what they said wasn’t so stupid, I’d believe it and become a disciple, but I’m not that naïve to believe what other people tell me unless I can verify the truth of the matter.

Clinging to this axiom is how I was taught at home, in school, and in the military, and I have never been disappointed from following it, ever.

However, I do believe that I did miss all of the college propaganda from ‘Red Square’ by a few years.

It seems that I was born on the skirts of a generational gap, and all through life I was always part of the latter and at the beginning of the next.

When I left high school, the teachers were still highly educated and the students hung on to the truths of the lessons, thus graduating as an educated generation of people.

In college, my professors were not radical raving idiots preaching and proclaiming that hating America was the ultimate high, much as they do today.

Quite a few people, however, have latched onto this radical, raving, idiotic style of teaching and have become intellectual prostitutes of America.

But let’s get back to this carbon footprint special.

I along with many others understand that we are all stewards of the earth, but to let the alarmist blame everybody for what they can’t do anything about is ludicrous.

I believe that Mother Earth is alive and that she’s combating the changes that she’s going through just like we do as we combat our ailments or ills and then move on.

Of course I don’t expect most of you to believe me on these issues, but that’s your right; however, remember that after you’re dead and gone, your carbon footprint still exists.

But if you’re just going to sit there dozing off and doing nothing, don’t say that I didn’t tell you so.