What we have to put up with also........

http://tapestry.usgs.gov/features/09michigan.htmlI wish people would start to realize that people in Michigan, especially Northern Michigan are suffering also from the Niagaran oil wells, Antrim fracking gas wells and the Hydrofracking wells.  We are talking thousands of wells.  

WAKE UP, LOOK WHAT PENNSYLVANIA AND NEW YORK HAVE DONE TO HELP THEIR STATE, IS MICHIGAN THINKING????
jaime
Northern Michigan

Legalize Marijauna

Medical Marijuana Laws Shown to Reduce Traffic Fatalities

Well, that settles that

By Clay Dillow Posted 11.30.2011 at 2:59 pm 50 Comments

A U.S. Government Medical Crop at the University of Mississippi

Any attempt to segue into this post with a clever lead is likely to fall flat, so in the interest of skipping the cliches: a new study out of University of Colorado Denver and Montana State University shows that legalizing medical marijuana sales in various states over the past two decades has led to a nearly 10 percent drop in traffic fatalities. What the study really shows--by way of causal chain--is a five percent drop in beer sales, and that has in turn led to fewer fatalities on the road. Put that in your pipe and smoke it (couldn’t resist just one).
This is the kind of study that’s going to be attacked from all sides, by those with agendas and those who will simply point out that establishing that causal link between legalized pot and the decrease in alcohol sales (and in turn the reduced traffic deaths) is difficult with all the variables out there. But it is an interesting study for no other reason than it actually attempts to measure the effects of legalizing pot by linking it to some kind of hard data rather than some hard-to-quantify metric.

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That, of course, is traffic data, of which we have plenty. Traffic data is bountiful and generally pretty good because incidents on the road--particularly those that involve injury or fatality--very rarely go unnoticed by authorities, who are required to dutifully record them in the public record. So Daniel Rees of UC Denver and D. Mark Anderson of MSU started looking at the traffic data both nationwide and more particularly in the 13 states that legalized marijuana for medical use between 1990 and 2009. They found several connections and trends that seemingly stem from the legalization laws, but most notably they found evidence that alcohol consumption by 20- to 29-year-olds decreased, and that translated into fewer deaths on the road. Previous simulator studies have shown that drinkers tend to drive more aggressively and take more risks, while marijuana users tilt toward risk-averse behaviors. Notably, they also found that in the states that legalized marijuana there was no evidence of an uptick in use among minors, which is a major concern for the medical marijuana opposition.
To be fair, establishing these kinds of links is still difficult as variable abound and the data is sometimes difficult to trust. Common sense (experience?) tells us that kids smoking pot generally don’t go around telling adults about it, including those conducting academic research. So establishing whether or not more or fewer kids are getting high is more or less an exercise in guesswork. And Rees and Anderson point out that while alcohol is often consumed in public places marijuana is consumed privately, often in the home. So making marijuana use a publicly acceptable activity for all people--not just those with a medical necessity--might diminish the reduction in traffic fatalities as more stoney drivers get behind the wheel.
But things being what they are, medical marijuana laws appear to be trending toward safer roadways, and that’s all this study purports to demonstrate. Place whatever value on that you will. PopSci would like to point out that this post does not constitute an opinion either for or against the legalization of medical marijuana, and Rees’s and Anderson’s findings are just, like, their opinions, man.
[Eurekalert]

Had a good laugh and confusing ex's.

     Thought I might blog about what I started this for, life and ex's or anything else that pops into my head LOL.  
     Had a good laugh yesterday when I was at a friends office and we were talking about ex's.  My friend mentioned I was writing about "all my ex's are not from texas" and then she added a small line under that title "and I don't have a clue what is going on." LOL.  I guess you had to be there.  
     I'm resolved to the fact that my ex's are in my life and that ain't such a bad thing.  I like having them as friends.  We get along so much better.  Forgiveness can be hard but why carry so much emotional baggage when we don't have to.  
    Okay, as women we always have some baggage somewhere and it isn't all bad.  It might have been way back but I'm cool with it.  Where did that come from? "I'm cool with it?"  LOL  Now all my Joe would need would be an ex's reunion.  LOL 
Don't worry anyone, it WON'T happen. LOL  
     I learned a lesson from ex husband #3 today.  Forgiveness.  Yeah, it is possible.  No matter how resentful, hurt, mad or whatever feeling I have I can forgive.  If only others held that same philosophy.  Humph, their loss. 
      My dad died today, 10 years ago, I think it was today.  My heart knows and it made me so sad.  My cousin put flowers on my parents grave in Missouri because I can't get there.  What a nice thing to do.  This week in July is always hard for me.  I have to deal with feelings I shove away the rest of the year.  
    I wasn't there when my dad died. I was in England with boyfriend #2.  I tried and tried but I could not get a flight out that I could afford.  We were flying back to the States in a couple days anyway but my dad was dying.  This was a sad moment to realize the date, I had so many feelings both happy and hurt. 
    All my dad, who yes could be difficult, wanted from us after he passed on was to remember him and laugh about him.  If anyone knows my family knows we didn't do that when he was alive how did he think it would happen when he was gone? There is no family anymore......
    So back again to forgiveness.  I have forgiven myself for letting my dad down.  I'll never forget though at 4 am British time when that phone rang.....I knew what it was for, my dad had passed on.  Boyfriend #2 just took me in his arms and let me sob uncontrollably.  
     For that, I will forever be thankful.  Thanks.  Now I will try and stuff all that stuff back in my brain until next year and it pops out again.
       
      
 

Floods are bad news

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvDbB3HqNcA&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL



It is a few minutes long but wow, well worth watching.  It has main stream media news streams on it towards the end so it is happening.  I wonder how gas and oil wells are not under water just spewing away?  Ever wondered about it?  Those in that area God be with you, and all of us.
jaime
Northern Michigan

UK AND US SO SIMILIAR IN THIS

Just feel the need to share the news, take it as you wish.  jaime
--- On Wed, 6/1/11, Thomas McKenzie wrote:

From: Thomas McKenzie
Subject: Re: [NADR] UK suspends fracking after earthquakes
To: "na4dr@googlegroups.com"
Date: Wednesday, June 1, 2011, 9:44 PM

poo poo is going to hit the fan when they contaminate a spring feeding a high priced whisky distillery in Scotland. Especially if it belongs to one of the big companies, they will be able to make enough noise to get something done. could be a good thing, as bad as it sounds. Last time I checked whisky is Scotlands largest export.

 

Thomas Mckenzie

From: TXsharon
To: na4dr@googlegroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, June 1, 2011 10:52 AM
Subject: Re: [NADR] UK suspends fracking after earthquakes
Great quoted from the British Geological Society!  

Sharon Wilson
Blog http://txsharon.blogspot.com/ 
In North Texas on top of the Barnett Shale


On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 9:49 AM, Mall, Amy <amall@nrdc.org> wrote:

Holy smokes, just a week ago UK said there were no problems!  At least they admit it!!!

 

From: na4dr@googlegroups.com [mailto:na4dr@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of TXsharon
Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2011 10:43 AM
To: na4dr
Subject: [NADR] UK suspends fracking after earthquakes

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/jun/01/blackpool-earthquake-tremors-gas-drilling?CMP=EMCGT_010611&

Michigan now has ER booklet out for disasters, by the STATE

Michigan has now put out an emergency preparedness booklet from chemical and biological emergency to earthquakes and floods etc.  Wierd.  Tells you what you should have in your as we call a "bug out bag".  They way 3 days of food and water, people, we've been told a year's worth of anything you might need.  Strange.  http://www.michigan.gov/emd

song for pain

Her Diamonds by Matchbox 20 is my song for those days when all I can cry from the pain.  So fitting for so many others also.

Rob Thomas - Her Diamonds (lyrics in Discription)

Scared but have to be prepared

Yes, another break from Emilys, thought important.......
I've been sitting here looking at these maps...I know my daughter will probably be ok in NC and me and joe are in trouble in the upper part of the lower part of michigan and my son and his family may be ok towards the middle of the state.  I just think my sister and her family will be gone and my step mother is right on the edge. I have no idea where my brothers are but I wish I hadn't seen these maps.  But, we have to be prepared (as psa commercials on main stream media is telling us. If they are running commercials on being prepared for disasters something must be amiss) If the fault lines go as the seismo guys think there will be major change in this country.  My heart aches when I know my family in St. Louis MO will be in harms way also.  
I'm not a "doomer" but these maps make me scared and sad because my family is fractured, as will be all those gas and oil wells will be when these earthquakes happen.  
PSA's are telling us to be prepared and know where to go?  
Do you? Would you be prepared if something bizarre were to happen as these maps show?  Enough food for months, water also.  This is what these commercials are trying to tell us.  
Sad.....
Look at where the majority of wells are and think of what one of these maps will do to the infrastructure of the oil and gas industry.  I hope never in my lifetime or my children's...I fear that is not the saying people will be saying anymore...in our lifetime........jaime

Another map fyi, haven't done world wide

http://lh6.ggpht.com/_R_TzdFhcMRE/SGFKQlJ2cuI/AAAAAAAAC20/H0BBCslDTEY/100_7385.JPG

Radiation map, FYI interesting

http://www.radiationnetwork.com/

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A growing number of Radiation Monitoring Stations across the country, using various models of GeigerCounters, upload their Radiation Count data in real time to their computer using a Data Cable, and then over the Internet to this web site, all of this accomplished through GeigerGraph for Networks software.  This system is completely automated - there is no manual posting of data required.
How to Read the Map:
Referring to the Map Legend at the bottom left corner of the map, locate Monitoring Stations around the country that are contributing radiation data to this map as you read this, and watch the numbers on those monitoring stations update as frequently as every minute (your browser will automatically refresh).  The numbers represent radiation Counts per Minute, abbreviated CPM, and under normal conditions, quantify the level of background radiation, i.e. environmental radiation from outer space as well as from the earth's crust and air.  Depending on your location within the US, your elevation or altitude, and your model of Geiger counter, this background radiation level might average anywhere from 5 to 60 CPM, and while background radiation levels are random, it would be unusual for those levels to exceed 100 CPM.  Thus, the "Alert Level" for the National Radiation Map is 100 CPM, so if you see any Monitoring Stations with CPM value above 100, further indicated by an Alert symbol over those stations, it probably means that some radioactive source above and beyond background radiation is responsible.
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Follow Radiation map! Get prepared!

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Check out this link for the radiation that is coming our way; it is in a different language but the pictures show what you need. 

I'm back to All My X's Aren't From Texas

Took a while but I'm back with All my ex's aren't from texas. 
       Took a minor gas and oil detour. I am good getting off the main subject.  
        Now, you know it'd wierd when your present husband (I love you honey-kiss up points LOL) and your ex husband are in the same room.  That was wierd enough, I know!  To turn to husband #3 and ask him about something in our marriage that was pertinent to the convesation with my present (and last) husband is just wierd.  None of that made sense but you just had to be there. LOL  It ended up a friend that was visiting said to me and husband #3, we sounded like an old married couple.  I couldn't stop laughing, it was so wierd.  
       My children may not understand but I chose to put things that happened between husband #3 and me in the past.  My kids know some of it and are wondering what I am doing.  It's my choice to forgive but a harder time with the forgetting part. I'm working on it.  I would rather have had an ex as a friend than not.  Yes, there was one in all this story who refused to have that thought process but it was his loss and I had to respect that.  I always tried to be a loyal friend even when our time was over. I'll try to leave it at that, try I said LOL.  I have the up most respect for my friends.
     Anyway, we had gotten used to and in the habit, even look forward to our weekly Wednesday visits with husband #3 or now known as my friend John.  Other friends come around and we just shoot the bull, as we americans say.  We laughed, we argued-hmmmm debated, and had a good cup of coffee.  I do not make coffee (a request made by others LOL.)
       There is only one Ex I haven't talked about, boyfriend or husband.  I don't know that I could.  I would just leave it at that for the moment. 
Oh, jeez there was a mouse that ran across the top of the computer table, gotta go......Jooooeeeeeeeeee!

THE PHONE IS RINGING!

OH my, the day I have been looking forward to since starting our oil and gas fight has arrived.  The door has been opened for me to EDUCATE people on the health affects of this industry. Networking is paying off as well as knowing people or putting that editorial in the local paper has my phone ringing.   It is exciting but overwhelming. 
    Here is the lowdown for the last few days.  Josh who made Gasland has asked me to the Traverse City Movie Festival to tell my story of what the industry has done to me and my family.  I am getting the movie "Split Estate" which is similiar to Gasland but put together by the Mass. Institute of Techn (MIT).  Also met up with a woman who was at the recent citizens meeting about the new drilling and she wants me to contact other organizations since I know my stuff about gas and oil-she says.  Also 2 contacts from the class reunion we went to last weekend.  Oh, yeah, that one lady I met at the grocery store.   
    The door has been opened to educate people on the affects of this industry.  I hope I can do it all.  Joe (husband #4) is behind me so we'll see how it goes.  I always told husband #3 I would end up on a morning show talking about this subject.  He  has no doubt.   
All for now.