Worried about foreign attacks on our electric grid?
It is happening all too often, according to our Homeland Security experts. Why not become a SUNSHINE PATRIOT and provide your own power? Go Solar and wind. It is a matter of national security.
And you will save big bucks, too. Over the past 30 years I estimate savings of $58,000 dollars by installing Photo-voltaic panels, charge controllers, battery banks, inverters, refrigerator, washer, TV and entertainment center, computers, air conditioners (I do live in the desert) for a total of $12,000. It sounds like a lot of money but
compared to the $65,000 the power company wanted to charge me for the privilege of paying them $150 a month for the rest of my life, it is not much. Total estimated saving over 30 years – more than $100,000! And I did not even cash in on the many government rebates.
Many of you watch the Green Channel and see all of these Hollywood celebs showing off their multi-million arrays and wind machines. You have also seen the rooftop investments many forward looking businesses and government office buildings have installed. Truly impressive. You can do it, too! Start slowly, like we did if you have too, but start!
Plug-in electric cars are coming off the lines now, too. And congratulations to that new Florida city, Sunshine City, going up in Lee County!!! The largest solar array in the world to serve 45,000 people with power for their homes, businesses and cars!
Join up now in the Sunshine Uprising! Shine some light on our future! Become a SUNSHINE PATRIOT! Go solar! It is a matter of national security. Copy the logo, join the future and spread the word!
April 11th, 2009
Art Review | Jenny Holzer
Sounding the Alarm, in Words and Light
Ozier Muhammad/The New York Times
Jenny Holzer: Protect Protect, including “Red Yellow Looming,” and other Holzer works from the past 15 years, is at the Whitney Museum of American Art through May 31. More Photos >
Published: March 12, 2009
Basically, Jenny Holzer has spent the last three decades pelting us with unsettling and increasingly relevant portents of things to come.
In tones alternately poetic or oracular, inflamed or numb, Big-Brotherly or tender, Ms. Holzer’s terse snippets of prose have warned of evolving threats to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. She has tracked the inner thoughts of bereft lovers or shellshocked survivors and articulated the baser instincts unleashed by social chaos.
To do this, she has turned various user-friendly, pop-culture modes of public address into early warning systems, including posters, T-shirts, billboards, broadsheets, plaques, giant projections and incised marble benches. Electronic LED signs are her best-known, most spectacular method; they also reflect the military-commercial-entertainment complex that, bit by bit, her art exposes.
Sounding the alarm at the Ides of March – more …
March 14th, 2009
Any day is just fine for promoting women and children. Their contribution, especially in the arts and music has been the hallmark of every great culture since the beginning of the agricultural revolution. Today that contribution extends to science, medicine and beyond. Let’s make today special, but also link it to Mother’s Day and Earth Day and as many others as we can. Society honors men and patriarchal religious principles almost every day of the year, ignoring the fact that without women’s creative force, none of us would exist.
Balance in our understanding of culture is sadly lacking in many parts of the world. Balance, Buddhists say, is the key to understanding life.
IWD is a global day celebrating the economic, political and social achievements of women past, present and future. In some countries like China, Russia, Vietnam and Bulgaria, IWD is a national holiday. The first IWD was run in 1911.
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March 8th, 2009
"A Visual Verse"
February 27th, 2009
Judith Hoffberg (1934-2009)
January 29th, 2009
“Language matters because whoever controls the words controls the conversation, because whoever controls the conversation controls the outcome, because whoever frames the debate has already won it; because telling the truth has become harder and harder to achieve in an America drowning in Orwellian Newspeak.” Erica Jong Seducing the Demon
January 29th, 2009
Prolific US author John Updike dead at 76
41 mins ago AFP/File – Pulitzer Prize-winning author
NEW YORK (AFP) – Prolific Pulitzer Prize-winning US novelist John Updike, whose books and short stories chronicled small-town American life, has died at age 76, his publisher Knopf said.
“It is with great sadness that I report that John Updike died this morning at the age of 76, after a battle with lung cancer,” Knopf publicity director Nicholas Latimer said in a statement.
Over a career spanning more than half a century, Updike published at least a dozen short story collections and 25 novels.
His most famous books were in the Rabbit series, including “Rabbit, Run” and “Rabbit Redux.” He also wrote hundreds of short stories, poetry, literary criticism and reviews in The New Yorker magazine.
“He was one of our greatest writers and he will be sorely missed,” Latimer said.
The Washington-based Academy of Achievement described Updike as “one of America’s premier men of letters.”
Updike recounted how a sickly childhood on a farm in Pennsylvania prepared him for a cerebral life.
“He suffered from psoriasis and a stammer, ailments that set him apart from his peers. He found solace in writing, and won a scholarship to Harvard,” the Academy of Achievement noted.
Updike went on to edit the famous Lampoon humor magazine at Harvard and then published a poem and fiction in the New Yorker soon after graduating.
“My mother had dreams of being a writer and I used to see her type in the front room. The front room is also where I would go when I was sick so I would sit there and watch her,” Updike said.
January 27th, 2009
“Hope” 1886 by George Frederic Watts (1817-1904)
“Hope” is one of a series of visionary paintings hastening peace and justice. A pluck of her harp string sends a quavering vibration throughout the Earth, and a tremor into the Universe.
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January 26th, 2009
American painter Andrew Wyeth dies at 91
By PATRICK WALTERS, Associated Press Writer Patrick Walters, Associated Press Writer –
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January 16th, 2009
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