By: Karen Maxwell,
on 4/10/2012
I have very little patience for people who think that disagreement = bigotry.—
Kevin Eder (@keder) April 01, 2012
Amen, brother. A.M.E.N.
By: Karen Maxwell,
on 3/31/2012
Sure, candles release more heat/CO2 than bulbs, but it makes progressives feel better about themselves & that's what's important. #EarthHour—
Jon Gabriel (@ExJon) March 31, 2012
Earth Hour ………………….. *snort* HAHAHAHHAHAHA …
How about this – how about retraining yourself to conserve energy every day of the year? I know that Earth Hour is a day to remind people of that fact, but geez louise, people – sit in the dark for an hour?
Consider these …
Light brings safety. There are safer ways to make a statement and raise awareness than to create a controlled time when thieves and rapists know they will be harder to spot.
The energy spent raising awareness about Earth Hour just might cancel out the energy saved that hour.
It is perversely amusing to see thousands of Earth Hour adherents generate illumination during Earth Hour by lighting candles and making bonfires. Isn’t the very premise behind Earth Hour to REDUCE carbon emissions? Where is the logic in eschewing clean-burning electricity – and by the way, 96% of the electricity in the province of Ontario IS clean-generated – in favour of illumination obtained from a power source (i.e., open fire) that generates completely unfiltered CO2 emissions?
Indeed, most of the candles sold in Canada are made from paraffin, a petroleum byproduct. Thus, illuminating one’s house with paraffin candles is equivalent to letting a diesel engine idle.
Oh, and how’s this for an inconvenient goof? Turning off the lights in a skyscraper only to reactivate those lights an hour later actually consumes MORE power than letting those lights remain on for the duration of that hour. Oh sure, it makes for a nifty photo op – but what, pray tell, is the point? Is Earth Hour simply about feel-good optics rather than tangible solutions?
Source: Huffington Post of all things
But hey, if participating makes you feel good, knock yourself out.
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By: Karen Maxwell,
on 1/31/2012
The difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid. ~ Harlan Miller—
Alisa Bowman (@AlisaBowman) January 21, 2012
By: Karen Maxwell,
on 3/12/2012
Back up to two cups o' coffee per day. *sigh*—
Karen M (@writefromkaren) March 10, 2012
I’ve been trying to be good, but OY, this job … it just requires too much mental energy too early in the morning. In fact, that’s our busiest time – from about 9:00 to 2:00, we’re non-stop patients. Then, from 2:00 to 5:00, we’re scrambling to complete everything we need to complete for the patients we helped that day, sending referrals to other doctors, answering voicemails, answering flags from the nurses and trying to precertify tests for patients that are scheduled for that week.
In other words, it’s non-stop activity. And though I’ve tried to hold off on my caffeine intake for later in the morning, I find myself stuttering, stumbling and just having a lot of trouble focusing on the task at hand without it.
So yeah. I’m back up to two cups of coffee per day. And I’m having more caffeine-withdrawal headaches and I’m taking way more migraine medicine that I would like, but sometimes, ya gotta do what ya gotta do to make it through the day, you know?
By: Karen Maxwell,
on 3/13/2012
A liberal mind is a mind that is able to imagine itself believing anything. -Max Eastman—
Karen M (@writefromkaren) March 11, 2012
Do YOU believe everything you hear/read?
I sincerely hope not. Because you’re being lied to every day.
Take everything with a grain of salt – everything.
Find out for yourself if what you hear/read is true.
Separate yourself from the “sheeple.”
By: Karen Maxwell,
on 3/19/2012
What I learned today from leftists on Twitter: Presidents can't control gas prices. Unless they are GOP presidents.—
Ken Gardner (@kesgardner) March 17, 2012
By: Karen Maxwell,
on 8/14/2011
@writefromkarenThis is the second time I’ve taught someone how to drive. The first time was my first son, this second time is my second son.
I’m way more nervous with my second son.
Dude, my first born, was, is, a cautious driver. He takes his time. He pays attention to what’s happening around him. He’s probably too cautious, which is a problem by itself, but Jazz, my second son, is reckless, impatient, slams on the breaks, followed by the accelerator and is not detail oriented. In other words, he doesn’t pay attention to the small stuff, or the big stuff, like that cherry red dual-wheel monster truck coming right at us.
One of Jazz’s friends called him up today. He wanted him to come over and hang out for a few hours. Even though I was thrilled that he wanted to get out of the house and hang with an actual human (as opposed to the virtual humans in his computer), it meant that I had to drive him over there.
Or more accurately, that he had to drive himself over there with me hanging on for dear life.
It’s not that he’s a BAD driver, per se, he’s just a NEW driver.
He backed out of the driveway for the first time today. Reverse is always the most challenging; it’s also the most nerve wracking. The car feels different in reverse, it handles different in reverse and it’s much harder to anticipate what could go wrong in reverse.
The biggest lesson I taught Jazz today was that it’s not always necessary to press on the accelerator. There are times that a nice, SLOW
By: Karen Maxwell,
on 8/31/2011
The stories behind some of the tweets I posted this past week:
@writefromkaren@writefromkaren
By: Karen Maxwell,
on 11/23/2011
@writefromkaren@writefromkaren
By: Karen Maxwell,
on 12/12/2011
Lemme get this straight. A bank lent you $100k that you handed to a college for a worthless degree, and now you're mad at… the bank?—
David Burge (@iowahawkblog) October 11, 2011
Makes TOTAL sense, doesn’t it.
Exactly.
By: Karen Maxwell,
on 1/24/2012
The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money. — Margaret Thatcher—
Karen M (@writefromkaren) January 14, 2012
