Tamster's Spot

Get ready for this inspirational video by Jill Bolte Taylor, an amazing neuroanatomist telling about her experiences of what happened when she had a stroke…absolutely brilliant!

Hmmmm….I can hear it now…the kids of the future using the term “round up ready” to talk about any and all trees, just the way we use the terms Xerox or Kleenex. Mega-corporate owned forests! John Muir we need you now!

What would happen if the $2.00 hugger wanted a hug from the free hugger? Would $2.00 man demand payment?

Bad Patents, Evil Corporations and the Rise of Intellectual Imperialism

• By Mike Adams
  NaturalNews. com, March 1, 2008
  Straight to the Source

It is a defining characteristic of Western civilization that power-hungry men seek to declare ownership over all things they discover. For most of human history, such ownership efforts were focused on usable land. Owning land that could grow food, after all, was a valuable strategy for staying alive. As mechanized farming methods spread, power-hungry white men sought to own and control a labor force—and so human slavery was pursued…

Monarch Melissa emerged on October 30, royal and enchanting, blessing the world with her classy style and innumerable mysteries. My only complaint is that, even after I carried her chrysalis and some lovely nectar flowers carefully in a basket around Tierrasanta the day before, eating lunch at a sandwich shop and shopping for sweets for my grandma with her, she chose a moment to emerge the following day when mine eyes were absent from the scene.

Yesterday at work my co-worker kept rapping her scissors on the side of the green waste barrel and saying, “Get back in there!” I, myself, was busy dividing mints and spanish tarragon and took little interest in her trash can talk. After repeated episodes of her antics I finally decided to take a look at what she was fussing about. I casually walked over to her work area and took a peek in the barrel. Instantly my casual attitude turned to excitement as I saw the caterpillar crawling up out of the rosemary cuttings. It was a monarch caterpillar!

Check out http://www.freerice.com/

The United Nations World Food Program gets rice donated to them for every correct answer you give on a variety of subjects!

Dear Mayor Morris B Vance,

I am writing to ask you, as the Mayor of my city, to declare Vista an official participant in next year’s Earth Hour event. Earth Hour, the switching of all non-essential lighting to off for one hour, will occur in cities all over the world on March 28, 2009 at 8:30pm. Started two years ago in Sydney, Australia, it has grown into a global collaborative effort with 50 million people in over 370 cities participating last year…

What Can Be Patented taken from the United states Patent and Trademark Office website http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/doc/general/index.html#whatpat

“The patent law specifies the general field of subject matter that can be patented and the conditions under which a patent may be obtained…

By John R. Lamb

The Union-Tribune sure thinks Mayor Jerry Sanders has the Midas touch. On the city’s financial quandary, Sanders is “changing [the] pension footprint.” Sanders mentions water conservation a few times and—voila!—San Diegans obey, the U-T tells us, despite water officials’ suggestions that rainy weather probably played a bigger role in recent reduced water use…

My name is Tammy and I am here to inspire San Diego County to be a part of Earth Hour 2009, the global lights out movement. For info go to http://earthhour.org

Endosulfan, like DDT, is an organochlorine and persists in the environment long after it has killed the target pests, leaving a deadly legacy for people and wildlife…The Organic Consumers Association is joining with Pesticide Action Network and other allies in gathering tens of thousands of petition signatures to ban this toxic pesticide off the market now.

I am an interior plant maintenance technician who has a severe case of plant killing phobia.