Bruce’s Poor Man Survival Bulletin
A Digest of Urban Survival Resources
For Independent Minded People!
ISSN 2161-5543
In This Issue:
1.
Obesity in America; my solution
2.
Your right to privacy
3.
Free plans for your bird flock
4.
Make your own vanilla
5.
Stop SOPA Now!
The United States has a system of taxation by
confession."
-- Justice Hugo L. Black
(1886-1971) US Supreme Court Justice
-- Justice Hugo L. Black
(1886-1971) US Supreme Court Justice
The buzz on the next big thing: products and services that claim to make you
smarter. Forbes says it is the next trillion-dollar industry. Get-smart video
games are hitting the markets. Websites and apps that promise fast results are
booming…Our nation could use a dose of getting smarter. (TV programming crap sure isn’t
helping). Americans aren’t eating any
smarter either…
Study Suggests 86 Percent of Americans Could be Overweight or Obese by
2030
Most adults in the U.S. will be overweight or obese by 2030, with
related health care spending projected to be as much as $956.9 billion,
according to researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public
Health, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and the University of
Pennsylvania School of Medicine. Their results are published in the July 2008 online
issue of Obesity.
PM’s
Compendium of Useful Resources
Your
Unalienable Rights To Privacy And How To Protect Them
In the United States
citizens are presumed to have unalienable rights which are supposed to be
protected by laws and these civil liberties and the right to privacy are rooted in the Declaration of Independence and
some are enumerated in the Bill of Rights. Unfortunately, many Americans are
not aware of their own civil liberties. You do not want to become so complacent
that you let your expectation of privacy be taken from you. We need to be aware
of our unalienable rights so that we can stand up for and maintain them.
Free Plans for
Your Flock, Click on the Folder:
>Build a Duck Nest Box
>Raising Ducks in Small Flocks
>Raising Ducks
>How to Raise Ducks for Food
>Mammy’s 1895 DIY Chicken House Plans
>Chicken Coop Pen Layout
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Make your own vanilla and give them as gifts…
Vanilla Bean Pods – I found mine at Costco around Christmastime
for about $11 for 10 bean pods
Bottle of Vodka – The price will depend on the type of vodka you want to use
Glass jars - I found glass jars at the Dollar Tree that were for olive oil or
vinegar, which were perfect.
Instructions on making homemade Vanilla Extract:
Slice two vanilla bean pods down the center and then place them in the
glass jar.
Next I filled the jar with vodka. –simple as that!
Then let it sit in a dark cupboard for 2 months
Shake it every once in a while.
After two months, it is ready to use. The best part is periodically you
can just keep filling it with vodka and it will last forever! (well, maybe not
forever, but years!)
At work. One of the best ways to
make the most of your time at work is to make sure that you’re Twitter and
Facebook is not up and running all day, which can seriously be distracting.
Another thing that can help is to email less–sometimes a quick phone call from
your desk to have a conversation is much more efficient than 10 emails going
back and forth throughout the day.
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Under a provision buried in the 600-page transportation bill recently passed by the Senate, truckers large and small would be required to buy and maintain “electronic on-board recorders” (EOBRs) that would document their travel time and distance. The annual cost to truckers and trucking firms: $2 billion
The Parting Thought – STOP SOPA!
CISPA is being pitched as yet another harmless cybersecurity bill that "encourages" private corporations to "voluntarily" share information with government agencies.
Interestingly, CISPA didn't pass the House of Representatives until
eleven last-minute amendments were tacked on. Hawes says, "If a bill
needs to be changed that much, it's pretty obvious it should go back to the
drawing board instead of on to the Senate... With so many amendments being
adopted just before the rushed vote on final passage, it was not possible for
representatives to get a full picture of what the bill will do until after they
passed it."
Sounds like another case of the "we have to pass it to find out
what's in it," as Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) famously said about Obamacare.
Even with the eleven amendments, privacy organizations such as the
Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) point out CISPA language appears ripe for
abuse.
One clause the EFF highlights is:
"[Private information may be shared] notwithstanding any other
provision of law."
Mozilla, the maker to the Firefox web browser, was the first technology
company to publicly announce their opposition to CISPA. More recently,
Microsoft has come aboard announcing its concern about the lack of privacy for
its customers
You Can Help Stop CISPA from Passing the Senate
Now that it's in the hands of the Senate, you can go to EFF's unique
CISPA page and follow the simple steps to contact your own state's U.S.
senators and petition them to vote NO on this and related bills.
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1 comment:
Amen brother and most of the sheep in this country are asleep at the wheel...they'll vote the same blood suckers into office again, still believing the two parties work for them!
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