Blizzard of 2005
I just added The Blizzard of 2005 story to the positive change section of the main site. Comment on it here.
Update
So it seems Menezes was shot seven times in the head and one in the shoulder. What in the hell is wrong with people and why are the police who did this not in jail for murder, or at the very least forced to retire. I can’t even imagine why you would need to shoot anyone in the head more than one time to kill them. The idea that he was held down and shot seven times simply makes me sick.
Don’t be Different or They Will Kill You
So what if you could be chased down and killed just because you didn’t look like everyone else? Well that is exactly what happened to Jean Charles de Menezes. He was using the tube in London, was chased down by plain cloths cops, held down and shot five times in the back. What is the reason for this brutality? Was he about to kill someone, no. Was he about to blow something up, no. Was he doing anything wrong at all, no. He was tackled, held down and executed like a dog, because he “looked like a terrorist”. Honestly I expected better from the British. My stomach drops and I feel sick when I read about this. 
Read the rest of Don’t be Different or They Will Kill You
End Junk Mail Forever
With each trip to the mail box you become more and more buried in tons of junk mail. Well no longer will you fall victim to the sneaky junk mail peddlers. Learn how to regain your mail box. Learn how to end junk mail forever.
What would you do if I sent you a bill for several dollars each month, for a service you didn’t want, and had not ordered? What if there was no way to dodge paying this bill and no matter what you tried the bill just kept coming? Well this is basically what happens when you get junk mail. (click on pictures for full sized images)
Most people don’t think about it but all that junk mail that gets sent to you has to go someplace. Most of us throw it away, some of us recycle it, but either way we are paying to dispose of it. Some communities pay to have their trash taken away, others use a tax system, and still others require that you pay for the right to use a dump. Even if you recycle the junk mail, you are still paying. Recycling in most communities is paid for the same way trash collection is.
Besides all the money it costs you, companies that make junk mail are wasting paper, wasting ink, wasting power to create the junk mail, wasting gas to send the mail to you, and wasting your time when you have to sort it out of the mail. So how can we make this madness stop? How can we stop junk mail?
It’s simple. We make it so expensive to send us junk mail that companies stop doing it. We use junk mail against itself. So about now you should be fired up, “Yea lets stick it to the man!” What we need to do is cost the junk mail people a lot of money. The way we do this is by moving the cost of disposal back into the hands of the junk mailers.
When you get some junk mail the first thing you should do is open it and look for the reply envelope. This little guy is amazing. Not only is it already filled out with the address of the bastards that sent you the mail; they have also foolishly paid return postage. Set this gem aside for the moment.
Now take the rest of the crap that came in the junk mail, (including the envelope it came in) and tear it up. This is the most fun part.
Once the mail is in nice bite size scraps place it in the return envelope. Place this little darling into your mailbox and flip up the flag.
You have just forwarded all the cost of disposal onto the junk mailer. They will have to pay someone (or run some machine) to open your mail, and then pay to dispose of the confetti that falls out. They also have to pay the postage on this garbage. Not only is this a fun game, the more junk mail you get the fatter you can stuff the little return envelopes. I have stuffed entire catalogs into credit card return envelopes. Use some tape to keep it shut, the fatter the envelope the more the post office will charge the junk mailer.
There is also no reason you cant send the junk mail that didn’t come with a return envelope back to the junk mailer that did send you one. In this way you can send the Pottery Barn catalog back to Visa, and the coupon book back to MasterCard. If each and every one of us moves the cost of junk mail back to the junk mailers we can impose millions of dollars in “fines” on them each year. Imagine how much it is going to cost them to dispose of millions of pounds of scrap paper each year.
The only reason they have not had to pay any of this cost so far is because we have been doing all the disposal or recycling for them. Brothers, sisters, join with me and help me stick it to the junk mailers where it will hurt them most, their wallets.
Welcome To the Dark Side Myspace
Well I always knew there had to be some good reason why I never went and got a myspace account. Read the rest of Welcome To the Dark Side Myspace
The Amazing Human Machine
The human body is a wonderful machine. But a machine nonetheless. I think that people who try to convince you that there is something other than the physical meaty parts of your body are trying to take away from the wonder that is the human machine. When you start to explore how amazingly intricate each part of the human body is, and how it has evolved, you really get a sense that nature has put a lot of trial and error work into us. Evolution has produced something that is incredible. Read the rest of The Amazing Human Machine
Dolphin Rescue
I just added a new update to the positive change section of the site. Just added the story of how several Sietch members helped to rescue six Atlantic white-sided dolphins. This was one of the most grueling, yet rewarding things I have ever done.
Site Update
I just added a major update to the site what do you think? The positive change section is up and running and I will be working hard to enter the huge backlog of positive change stories into the database
Too Much Rain Over Paradise
So it seems as if every tropical storm is going to turn into a hurricane this year. This is not good for the residents of coastal cities and states. But it may be good for the earth. Read the rest of Too Much Rain Over Paradise
Sleep to live
I am so tired right now, for the last couple days I have been getting up early working all day and night and going to bed late. I am working on a big old addition to The Sietch. So stop back in a couple days for a lot of really cool positive change stories and pictures sent in by members. I am going to work hard to have them up soon. I am also thinking about adding a picture gallery section that members can send in cool pictures. Right now however I am goin to go pass out. I have to get up early tommarow and help teach a teacher workshop about renewable energy. Wish me luck.
ps. Tell me what you think about the picture gallery thing? Would you be interested in difference sections, I could make the pictures public domain, or only available to the members…
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