nov 2011

soquotes from my call to Rep Scott's office about the card we got today "For paul scott,fixing our schools is about putting our students first" yup. that's what it says.
here's what the british accent scott office worker told me: 1) this is the first year the schools have done any cutting or consolidating (yes she said this year is the 1st year) 2) the state has to reallocate money 3) schools have not trimmed overhead 4) schools need to do the best they can w/the money they get 5) they must consolidate 6) we can't hold schools harmless I got lost in her explanation about how the state did not give tax breaks to corporations--actually she jumped over my question about taking the surplus out of ed -- nearly 1 million -- and giving this 1.7 billion to corporations. scott's # 866 989 5151 if you are out of his district, direct your concerns to the ed committee where he is chairman. investigate all the new bills that committee has concocted to fix the state's schools. (nov 2 2011)

flea problems:i just came across a note i saved from a magazine about using salt. sprinkle on carpet. "it doesn't take a lot but even distribution is important. the critters start popping up and jumping out of the fibers as soon as the salt gets on them, and it will desiccate them just as salt does to slugs. leave it on as long as it takes to kill them all, including the unhatched ones, then vacuum the carpet and reapply as necessary." don't know if it works

scott recalled--great i think

wonderful fun site : amazingclubs.com variety of gift ideas

saw michael moore at the whiting tues night. very enjoyable and not what i expected. good stories about st john's and davison. read comments made to the trash flint journal--bunch of idiots as usual. most must be very unhappy people (main comment seemed to be moore is fat--they probably weren't at the event anyway). really think the quality of the journal is far below bad; that's what happens when you cut people/cut talent/cut delivery days. the dumbing of america

privatize libraries? newest discussion. money to be made no doubt

cleaners -- mix equal parts white vinegar and peroxide. add touch tea tree oil. cleans and disinfects all bathroom and kitchen surfaces except granite
scouring powder -- use baking soda
glass -- few drops of pure lemon juice to water
vinegar for soap scum
vinegar on sink, letting it sit for a while. add soda and water and let that sit if needed
drain: 1/2 c soda followed by 1 c vinegar. let bubble for 15 mins and follow w/hot water
toilet: cup borax and let sit overnight. scrub and flush. for extra strength, add 1/4 c vinegar to borax
floor: diluted vinegar followed by water rinse

new site for me = bargainist.com. use retailmenot.com/ebates.com/shopathome.com

outofprintclothing.com

ben set up a home air purifier following directions from the michigan alumnus fall 2011 magazine. 20 x 20 fan w/ 20 inch hepa filter w/merv rating of at least 13 attached on front. video www.uofmhealth.org/News/sinus-hepa-0630

outlawed lightbulbs? right wing claimed that the light bulb was banned, requiring incandescent ones be replaced by the fluorescent ones. REALITY check: no ban on incandescents--just a new standard for all bulbs to consume less energy. new standard set by 2007 law signed by bush. duh. only 4 yrs after the law, phillips, ge and sylvania are ready to market incandescents that meet the higher standards. maybe koch brothers need more $? connection?

new dvd to view: the last mountain, a documentary about the mountaintop coal mining of
wv

oxymorons: gentlemen's club (lots of those seen in georgia area near tybee island)
quality rock (music)

Right to work laws -- only indiana has a law that applies only to teachers; 21 other states have right to work laws eliminating the law requiring school employees to belong to unions

book OCEANA our endangered oceans and what we can do to save them by ted danson and michael d'orso

cube w/photos 2 x 2 blocks. print digital photos on iron on transfer paper, iron on each side of cube, wait and peal. article suggests coat of varnish but my experience has been it turns dark

loving hands adult and senior care services on linden contact reagan for more info
810 820 6188

bcbsm.com = online health resources
1 800 775 2583 = 24 hr nurse

medicare regs prohibit enrollment in a medicare advantage plan and an individual D plan. if you purchase your own individual drug plan you will be dis enrolled from the retirement system's MA plan and your coverage will be original medicare

catalystrx.com / 1 866 288 5209

How terrorism ends: 43% politics, 40% policing, military force 7%, terrorists win 10% (rand corp study for 1968-2006) sojourners june 2011 p 20

"What a lot of people don't understand, says jeff spitzer-resnick managing attorney for disability rights wisconsin, is that disabled students who take advantage of special ed vouchers forfeit their rights under the fed individuals w/disabilities education act". p 16 sept 2011 progressive
The GOP attack on special ed--interesting way to reinstate segregation of disabled students

software - anti virus = grisoft's AVG
spyBot search and destroy www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html
spy sweeper www.webroot.com
firefox as web browser www.mozilla.com/en-US/
getting rid of windows? experiment ubuntuguide.org/Dapper. download to cd and try that first

P15 michigan farmer oct 30 2011: "the APHIS (usda's animal and plant health inspection service) has preliminarily concluded that RR (round up ready) sugar beets pose no significant environmental impact. as a result, the agency has indicated its preference to grant non-regulated status."

picasa.google.com (free program that searches hard drive for all photo files finds them as thumbnails and you can upload them for free to picasa or other photo sharing sites like=), shutterfly.com, photobucket.com
picaboo.com, blurb.com, mypublisher.com

naughty not nice people from town and country dec 2011
crassus--maybe richest man ever, when killed in battle rumor that the parthians poured molten gold down his throat 53 BC
pamela churchill harriman--courtesan ed r. murrow, jock whitney,prince ali khan, gianni agnelli, stavros niarchos, elie de rothschild
pope leo X
john hancock, l ron hubbard, j p morgan, jacob from bible, lloyd blankfein (goldman sachs), thomas edison (tesla worked for him)
hancock has warehouses w/expensive dutch tea so works to get british tea thrown out
morgan buys obsolete guys from fed arsenal and resells to gen fremont making 17.5 on each gun/also pd 300 to get civil war sub for himself