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Edible Wild Plants A northwest field guide, by thomas s. elias and peter a. dykeman

Now I will be the first to admit I did not read this book cover to cover, and honestly I doubt that's the design of it anyway. I found the information in this book solid, educational, and yet it made me realize I need more than just this book. Of course the authors themselves would agree with me.

"Since it is impossible to distinguish among the 20,000 North American species in this or any other book, you may also want to refer to identification guides devoted to your own region or state."

After the above statment the authors list some good regional resources. So lets get down to what I liked and didn't like about this book.

Likes: Easy to follow, color photos, key makes it easy to identify uses for the plants. They even tell you how to best use the plant as well as how it can be used in survival in some cases. I also like that they seperated the plants by season. They also have an index where you can look the little guy up by name.

Dislikes (or they could have added this): They have a small picture of the region the plant grows on each photo. This is OK but I would also liked to have had a regional index. This way you could look up plants by their season in your region. Then all you have to do is turn directly to the specific page. This would have made more sense to me. I also have to agree with another reviewer that stated the pictures were TOO close up. This is nice but doesn't give you a clear visual how the plant will look in relation to the landscape. Sure, they give you a description of it's size in the text, but I would have like to have two smaller photos for each plant (they did this in some cases but not as frequently as I would have liked.

All in all I give this book a solid 4 stars. It's worth it's money and in my opinion is worth more than some three star reviewers are giving it credit for. However, I do believe (as do the authors) that you will probably need to supplement it with another text.

This is a good purchase.

DVD: Demographic Winter The premise of this documentary is that population in the civilized world is in decline. Population is expanding because were getting older (not dying) not because of births. This of course is going to bite us on our rear end. Why? Here are some points the documentary to illustrate this:


1. Japans economy fell as their population aged. The older people retired and didn't spend as much. Consumer spending drives an economy.

2. Europe is having serious population depletion right now. There are countries giving out subsidies to encourage people to breed. It's a huge problem.

3. Russia's population is declining by 700,000 a year and they too are encouraging people to breed.

4. The least populated areas of the world are the ones that are some of the least environmentally friendly.

5. The world economy will be drastically impacted by western population decline. Where China and other countries will be impacted at first they will have the population to recover. We won't.

6. The baby boomers are going to retire soon. Then you will have more people collecting benefits like social security and medicare then supporting it (a reverse pyramid). This will crush our economy... So you can look forward to: 1. Increase of age limits to retire, 2. increase taxes on those still working, 3. a decrease in benefits...

7. One of the biggest problems is the destruction of the family. Our children are being raised in broken homes. I can't begin to do this part of the movie justice. You really have to see it to appreciate it. In the end this is about the world we are leaving our children. Many movements (environmental, exc.) have stated increasing population as one of the evils of the world (and against their movement). This documentary (if looked at honestly) will challenge many of these assumptions and force them to come up with a more honest platform. It's not that some of these issues are not real; it's just that the resources are being misused to blame things that are in truth NOT THE PROBLEM... Without young people new technology won't be made, new ideas won't be as plentifull. These are serious issues one should take a look at. Please watch this documentary. You may not agree with them but it will challenge some of your beliefs.

Lastly, do watch all the way through the ending credits. There's a little something at the end.

Below is a e-mail my friend Eric Moore sent me.

"Back in 1990, the Government seized the Mustang Ranch brothel in Nevada for income tax evasion and, as required by law, the Feds tried to run the brothel for eventual resale in order to compensate the taxpayers for the unpaid tax amounts. The Feds miserably failed and the Mustang Ranch was subsequently closed. So, we are now trusting the economy of our country to a pack of nit-wits who couldn't make money by running a whore house and selling booze? We're in deep trouble .."

How true is this??? Not only that but they had a monopoly on it in sin city and couldn't make money at it..... Ya, I'm a strong advocate of national healthcare :()

The Second Amendment, By David Barton

I read this excellent and very brief pamphlet about 4 months ago. Since that time I have debated just what style I should use for this review.

David Barton has given us a small course on the right to self protection. After all this is what were really talking about. I could go on at length with all the quotes from our founding fathers he uses to make his point, or laws that were on the books in at least one state that required it's citizens to own a gun. After reading this there should be no doubt in the readers mind that the right to self protection is an inalienable right, and that was the intention of our founders. Don't hesitate to purchase this fine fine little book. Seriously, don't walk, RUN to purchase it now....

I would also like to recommend Boston T. Party's Gun Bible. A truly profound look at guns and an amazing resource for experienced and novice gun owners alike. Plus any man who defines federal reserve notes (commonly called the U.S. dollar) as a zero with a slash through it can't be bad.

The election, socialists of Oregon

Well over a week past the election of Karl Marx (Barack Obama to most of you) and I figured I would share some thoughts.

I looked at the Oregonian late last week and the senate race for Oregon went like this. Jeff Merkley (socialist running as a demoncrat) pulled away with over 300,000 votes. Gordon Smith (the fascist running as a repugnican) was just shy of Merkley. Then there was this guy Mr. Brownlow the Constitution Party Candidate. The media didn't want to talk about him, and NO ONE wanted to mention his name from the two major parties. He pulled in over 51,000 votes in the state of Oregon (over six percent). This perplexed me when I saw that Chuck Baldwin (constitution party candidate for President) only pulled in 4,000 votes or so. I mean :() !!!!! Did these people vote for McCain? If so Why????

My point here is a simple one. The State of Oregon has voted for Demacrat Govenors for OVER 30 years straight. Not even the current dead beat Kulungoski (the most worthless D of all of them) could be unseated. As a matter of fact even a local Demacrat supporting pundits talked about how weak of a candidate he was and how his campaign was basicly, "I'm a D vote for me." It has become quite obvious to this Washingtonian that Oregon has drifted from madness to self suicide. Nope it can't be called liberalism anymore, just suicide. Which gets me back to my original point, Brownlow 51,000 votes, balwin 4,000 votes.... Same party, same principles. My point is that some of the people who voted for Brownlow had to vote for McCain. If they believed in the constitutional values of the Constitution party how could you vote for McCain??? Plus Oregon has always gone "D" so McCain isn't going to get the state anyway.... Seriously, you have to go back to the Reagan vs. Mondale election to find the last time Oregon voted anything other than "D." Ya know the election where Mondale got his ass handed to him (even then Mondale almost took Oregon).... I think people were voting McCain as the lesser of two evils.

Let me talk to the people of Oregon for a minute here, "Idiot conservatives of Oregon, you might as well vote your heart because the psychopathic child molesters that run Portland will always vote "D." .......... Seriously, if Portland Oregon got any sicker or more demented we should rename it Sodom and Gomorrah (some of the people are that sick here, i'm not kidding). Yep, we have great stats for being the pervert/child molestation capital of the U.S.

McCain supporters are you that dumb???? I actually think those who voted Obama were more honest. At least they are blatantly voting for a socialist. They not pretending to be conservatives and constitutionalists. After all McCains support for the bail out is fascism, which of course IS SOCIALISM..... Just ask Moussolini.

If this was a state McCain had a chance in (which he didn't) I might cut you a little slack (Actually I wouldn't because Mccain is a socialist and no better or worse than Obama). But the point is that McCain had no chance in Oregon. So why follow the lesser of two evils approach? Why not vote your heart. I'm speaking to the over 40,000 of you who obviously voted for McCain and Brownlow. The two platforms don't match up. Your trying to eat a n apple and a pile of s**t at the same time, it's insane.....

As for my election results. One person voted Baldwin in my pole (that's me), one voted for Ron Paul (my guess Stephen). Therefore, I will act as the government and change the votes through electronic voting to reflect Karl Marx as the winner. Thanks for playing please head to the nearest DMV for your RFID chip.

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Where do Barack Obama and John McCain look for guidance? Karl Marx of course. Listen to what economist Thomas DiLorenzo says... ”Americans will decide next week whether the next president will be a socialist or a national socialist. Lest you think I exaggerate, consider McCain’ campaign theme of “country first” before everything else – your private life, your job, your children, your education, your marriage, everything. Ask yourself how this differs from the philosophy of German fascism, which preached “the common good comes before the private good” (see Paul Lensch, Three Years of World Revolution). Or consider the fact that McCain supported the Wall Street Plutocrat Bailout Bill. A defining characteristic of fascism was that all profits were private, but losses were socialized. And oh yes, military imperialism (a.k.a., “national greatness conservatism”) and a dictatorial executive were also key features of European fascism. Recall that McCain promised that if elected (paraphrasing), “I will order the Secretary of the Treasury to buy up all of the foreclosed mortgages.” Is that really a part of the delegated powers in Article I, Section 8 of the U.S.Constitution?

Then there is Comrade Obama, who has announced that he wants to “change the world” by “spreading the wealth.” Didn’t Marx and Engels say the same thing in 1848? As is well known, Obama has long had a close association with ACORN, the far-left political organization that employed him as its legal counsel in Chicago. It is ACORN-style “community organizing” that Obama claims is his political forte and qualification for running for president. He boasts of having worked with ACORN to register tens of thousands of new voters and has defended the organization against all critics. It is safe to assume that there must be a congruence of interests between Obama and ACORN.”Phil Hensley Jr. sums it up best here...“Every four years we hear the same crap from the two major party candidates. But the reality is if McCain wins, government is going to get bigger and more powerful. If Obama wins, government is going to get bigger and more powerful. “Conservative” radio hosts are going crazy over Obama’s “redistribution of wealth” comments, and showing concern for Obama’s supposed disrespect for the Constitution. So what if Obama wants to redistribute wealth. Republicans have been doing it for decades, just to different groups. Republicans aren’t really opposed to redistribution of wealth, they just want it redistributed to people that vote for Republicans. Look at all the wealth that has been redistributed to senior citizens, car manufacturers, and wall street banks over the past eight years, six of which happened under a Republican President that had a Republican-controlled Congress.Where were all the defenders of the Constitution hiding then?”Americans are up in arms fighting amongst themselves. Democrats vs.Republicans - did it ever occur to anyone that Democrats and Republicans are on the same team?

Source: http://www. chuckypita. com/barack-obamas-redistribution-of-wealth-how-is-john-mccain-any-different-socialist-or-national-socialist/Stop supporting evil, unjust war, and socialism!CHUCK BALDWIN FOR PRESIDENT!!!WWW. BALDWIN08. COM