“Stinks to High Heaven” Jibber Jabber

January 27th, 2010 by stacyherbert

Stacy Summary:  Oh yeah, Geithner stinks.  But we all knew that.  How long do you give him to walk the plank?

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  • California Doctor
    Jan 27, 2010 at 10:53 pm

    @ marietta –
    I’m considering running the hydroponics on solar yes.
    It depends on the electrical power required to power the lights.

    Roughly 1 KW of solar energy falls on each square meter of land. Due to the very poor efficiency of photovoltaics, you will only get about 100 watts of the 1000 watts which hits the panel. So, to run a 1 square meter set of lights all night, you would likely need to have 10 square meters of PV collector space.

    Therefore, you would need a much more efficient way of collecting, storing, and then using the solar energy incident to that same square meter.

    I am developing the idea that the plants likely grow best with longer light. So, night time use of the lighting system would be good, but energy consumptive.

    Mylar is a good idea to reflect the light and focus it.

    I’m looking at this very carefully and think Mylar is out of vogue at Home Depot and Lowe’s. Neither store stocks mylar rolls at all. Yet, the mylar is the most reflective and lightest source of highly reflective metallic covering.

  • jon
    Jan 27, 2010 at 10:54 pm

    marietta , thats the seed company I bought from last year. Good seeds. I bought some seeds from them for this year as well. But also bought this year from gernericseeds.com. Cause they had plants my sister likes.

  • Sherri Young
    Jan 27, 2010 at 10:54 pm

    Someone posted this in the comments on wepollock’s latest YouTube video:

    “This released after our State of Confusion:

    The European Central Bank said Wednesday it has decided, along with other central banks, to stop providing liquidity to banks in dollars through swap agreements with the U.S. Federal Reserve.”

  • Howard Beale
    Jan 27, 2010 at 10:59 pm

    Re: Plants in the basement

    We’ve been having a hell of a time with our coca crops with all this radical variation in rainfall and temperature. It used to be rather easy to maintain humidity and temp in the ‘under” 40…

  • marietta
    Jan 27, 2010 at 11:05 pm

    Great info everyone! Good night.

  • California Doctor
    Jan 27, 2010 at 11:12 pm

    @jon – did you get pretty good yield from the seeds?

  • The Underfundedmentalist
    Jan 27, 2010 at 11:12 pm

    @ jon
    you have done well by your namesake,
    I come from a long line of magistrates, preachers and sheriffs,
    i am fascinated by the natural tendency of humans to submit to the preceived social mores of their community, one may only wander so far before they lose the safety of the group.

  • Sherri Young
    Jan 27, 2010 at 11:14 pm

    I bought my seeds here:

    http://www.organicaseed.com/

    Bought my solar system for the well pump and greenhouse on Ebay. Should be arriving in a few days. Mylar is available on Ebay too.

  • California Doctor
    Jan 27, 2010 at 11:16 pm

    @underfunded –

    That’s the “herd mentality”.

    It’s been studied well by the sociologists and psychologists.
    There is a wierd thing that we do as people.
    In big cities, people can end up ignoring warning signs because they have the erroneous belief that the neighbor will fix it for them by default.

    So, you can have a car alarm sounding on the street with a burglar busting the window in broad daylight and nobody intervenes to even call the police.

    I think that is how the crooks are getting away with the big bailout scandals. They figure if they do the crowd control correctly, and then insert calm into the population’s mind, that they’ll continue to run off with the goods.

    Unfortunately, there’s enough bloggers who are shouting “crook!”.

  • Giuseppe Bagodonutti
    Jan 27, 2010 at 11:16 pm

    @CaliDoc

    What crops are you growing?
    Different plants have different flower/fruit times to harvest…
    Also, from my experience, I would recommend you research DWC (Deep Water Culture)…
    I found it to be the easiest to set-up, least expensive and easiest to maintain…
    Hydro using drip or water-tables (with rockwool or coconut fiber) is difficult, and aeroponics is by far the most problematic (the damn sprayers need regular checking and maintenance)

    I also found DWC to be the most PRODUCTIVE as well…
    Perhaps the K.I.S.S. principle applies…
    Make sure you have a good pH and ppm meter…
    be careful about what chemicals you use for food, go with organic teas as much as possible…

    You can battle mold issues by having good ventilation (which is critical anyway)… keep air moving…
    really, you can probably find out all the basic info from a Marijuana site, and then apply the theories to whatever types of crops you grow…

    Also, learn to CLONE…
    again, there is a cheap and easy method that’s part DWC/ part Aeroponics which I found to be ULTRA-Successful at cloning… don’t even need rooting hormones…
    The reason cloning is useful, is that once you find some good genetics, then you might as well keep growing them since you already know the food requirements etc…
    when you start mucking around with different seeds, you are going to screw around with different Genotypes, which inevitably leads to different Phenotypes (i.e. environmental requirements)

  • Giuseppe Bagodonutti
    Jan 27, 2010 at 11:22 pm

    @Underfunded

    Yes, I am down with 4th Generation Modular Nuclear Reactors…
    and Socialized Electricity…
    It worked well in BC until the gov’t privatized it…

    Thorium? I thought that was used to deplete spent Uranium?
    and also as a welding alloy (2% I believe) in reactor pipe-fitting…

  • Marc Authier
    Jan 27, 2010 at 11:26 pm

    Québec Gold is the best !

  • The Underfundedmentalist
    Jan 27, 2010 at 11:35 pm

    @ bag
    stoked u r into socializing natural monopolies like nrg, me to if they would stop privatizing public investment,
    but hey what is 4th gen mod?
    enlighten me
    what about left overs?
    radiation, to me, has always seemed a half baked method to boil water to spin generators, in a perfect world why not spend 30 trill on solar

  • Marc Authier
    Jan 27, 2010 at 11:37 pm

    Québec Gold is the best ! Personnally I don’t smoke, I use self hypnosis. Does the trick. You have a fantastic guy in California that teaches self hypnosis. Gil Boyne.

    You cannot imagine how all our brains all the drugs needed. He is not particularly hot on the stuff. He is right. But still. The stuff should be legalized. That we could ruin the crooks running the CIA and the arm’s business financed by hard drugs lile the opium in Afghanistan.

    Did you know than with hypnosis or accupuncture you can generate natural opiates. I think they call them endorphines. Accupuncture really gives you one fantastic feeling too if you have for one reason or another problem hypnotizing yourself. It’s quite easy and soo fantastic.

    TRY THIS INSTEAD. Natural and generated DIRECTLY by your own brain. It works. Better that you dutch poison. And hypnosis doesn’t finance the arm’s business.

    http://westwoodpublishingco.com/

  • Sherri Young
    Jan 27, 2010 at 11:41 pm

    List of AIG derivative transactions in AIG bailout. Marked “Confidential Treatment”.

    http://www.scribd.com/doc/25937003/List-of-Derivative-Transactions-in-A-I-G-Bailout

  • Marc Authier
    Jan 27, 2010 at 11:48 pm

    Because solar is its infancy and has the same problem as the wind. It’s intermittent, very diffuse, dispersed, NOPE. The 30 trillions would better invested in nuclear fusion et surgenerators that can burn 100% of all uranium and all the plutonium. Presently the actual nucleat plants only burn 3% of the fissible matter, A shame and an horrible waste of 97% ! I know it’s risky. But no energy is rikless, solar included. Yes solar included. And the effecciency of solar wil never be good because you cannot concentrate it. The atom is where the real potential is. Almost no CO2. But we have to find a way of burning 100% of the fissible matter. That’s where the 30 trillion shoulb be put. Nuclear and supraconductivity.

  • The Underfundedmentalist
    Jan 27, 2010 at 11:53 pm

    drugs are another natural monopoly that is being exploited by the system, yet drugs only trigger what is already present in the mind, if we are not careful monsanto will copyright our endorphines
    @ quebec gold
    i’m still not sold
    i prefer local produce.
    one farmer at a time,
    we can achive victory
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ne9UF-pFhJY

  • The Underfundedmentalist
    Jan 28, 2010 at 12:01 am

    why not go with what diesel and ford had originally planned
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemp#Fuel

  • Giuseppe Bagodonutti
    Jan 28, 2010 at 12:07 am

    @Underfunded

    Check this out…
    http://www.21stcenturysciencetech.com/Articles%202008/F-W_2008/HTRpackage.pdf

    and here’s a Wiki page I haven’t seen before…
    it’s pretty basic, though
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_IV_reactor

  • Youri Carma
    Jan 28, 2010 at 12:43 am

    @Sherri Young

    Very, very Interesting list you’ve got there. List of Derivative Transactions in A.I.G. Bailout http://www.scribd.com/doc/25937003/List-of-Derivative-Transactions-in-A-I-G-Bailout

    Check also out:

    German and French banks got $36 billion from AIG Bailout, Posted by: Michael Mandel on March 15 http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/economicsunbound/archives/2009/03/german_and_fren.html

  • The Underfundedmentalist
    Jan 28, 2010 at 12:50 am

    @bag
    wiki says the technology may be here by 2030

    anyway all nrg costs are pegged to oil, at least in the states,
    if you get power from nuke or wind you pay the same price as if you were using oil, it’s the same nrg cartel, just the non oil players, hemp oil has worked for 100′s of years, why wait for and keep subzidizing ‘safe’ nuke

  • norcalkid
    Jan 28, 2010 at 12:58 am

    @CalDoc: I am slowly installing a medicinal (non-pot) herb garden- plants like lavender, rosemary, aloe, etc. I figure there are already plenty of “growers” around the area. The raised beds are doing fine, I have great-looking winter vegies that survived the freeze here. And I have 11 fruit trees planted so far. Expensive, high-tech stuff is out of my budget, but I can manage with the old-fashioned farming techniques. I would invest in food plants that are hardy and need little input.

  • Phil /Germany
    Jan 28, 2010 at 1:00 am

    “Fear the Boom and Bust” a Hayek vs. Keynes Rap Anthem

    Econstories.tv is a place to learn about the economic way of thinking through the eyes of creative director John Papola and creative economist Russ Roberts.

    In Fear the Boom and Bust, John Maynard Keynes and F. A. Hayek, two of the great economists of the 20th century, come back to life to attend an economics conference on the economic crisis. Before the conference begins, and at the insistence of Lord Keynes, they go out for a night on the town and sing about why there’s a “boom and bust” cycle in modern economies and good reason to fear it.

    Get the full lyrics, story and free download of the song in high quality MP3 and AAC files at:

    http://www.econstories.tv

    Plus, to see and hear more from the stars of Fear the Boom and Bust, Billy Scafuri and Adam Lustick, visit their site: http://www.billyandadam.com

    Music was produced by Jack Bradley at Blackboard3 Music and Sound Design. It was composed and performed by Richard Royston Jacobs.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0nERTFo-Sk

  • Youri Carma
    Jan 28, 2010 at 1:14 am

    @Marc Authier

    Self Hypnoses: That’s something that could be very, very useful.

    @Sherri Young

    solar system, very good idea. Could use that to power my batteries. Was thinking buying a Electric set for my bike. You can make any bike electric. Ultimate hybrid electric bicycle http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKKvP9wWrlY

    @The Underfundedmentalist

    That’s why Hemp is forbidden in the U.S.A., it’s too useful.

    @Y’all

    Godamn you guys are profoundly busy in a positive way! Good thing we got some thinking people here on this blog.

  • Youri Carma
    Jan 28, 2010 at 1:20 am

    @norcalkid

    Don’t forget about chive. Like it in my minced meat. Got lavender in a pot in front of my house. Very strong plant and it survived sub zero.

  • Mep
    Jan 28, 2010 at 1:29 am

    @ California Doctor – Here is a seed bank in California that you might want to check out.

  • Youri Carma
    Jan 28, 2010 at 1:31 am

    @Phil /Germany

    The big mistake people make is in believing that Bernanke used Keynes. He didn’t cause putting a lot of money in banks to make up for snake eye bets and to sit on it has nothing to do with Keynes and the real economy.

    If all that money really had been spend in the real economy we wouldn’t have this crises anymore and have much more inflation.

    That’s the “beauty” of this banking heist by these shysters cause if people believe that they can pull even more money from the real economy under the disguise of preventing inflation ahahahahaaaah!

  • Youri Carma
    Jan 28, 2010 at 1:36 am

    Love this – NEW 52V Lithium Hi-Power Electric bike 24 speed MTB http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JI7mURSJWC4

  • Marc Authier
    Jan 28, 2010 at 1:37 am

    @Youri

    Hey ! Got to get active before they put you in reeducation FEMA camp. Haven’t taken a flight to the USA in 10 years since Al-Mossad/CIA attacked. Probably on a no fly list ? Fuck them. I don’t know how you can tolerate what’s going in the USA. Does somebody has a new list of people banned from flying because they are a enemy of the state and “potential” terrorist ?

    ObbaaaammananBushbananatalbabedladennamamamamia
    will soon be installing naked body scanners in all Wal Mart stores and at McDonald’s. ENJOY Cocaine-Cola.

    Better enjoy your freedom of internet expression. They will soon be closing it. Soon you will need a pemit to open your freakin mouth or have a good piss. No kidding. No credit cabon units no piss allowed. And no good Quebec beerr, Yeah it’s very black humor.

  • Youri Carma
    Jan 28, 2010 at 2:11 am

    @Marc Authier

    Well yourright but I am in the Netherlands which could be even worse cause they already planned for a black box in every car!!!! And the MTFs don’t even mind to get exterminated. Their retarded here.

    Asterix & Obelix – La Maison Qui Rend Fou
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4xrbJe1RHM

  • Josh Fulton
    Jan 28, 2010 at 8:04 am

    Hey, you know what I think, Stacy and Max? I think that you guys should interview some Libertarians, like Thomas E. Woods. Talk about subsidies, and kind of the history of this whole thing. Maybe Glenn Greenwald too, some civil libertarian.

    Thanks.

  • California Doctor
    Jan 28, 2010 at 8:43 am

    @norcalkid -
    How do you protect citrus from the freeze?
    I have two dwarf citrus planted last year but are not doing that great… I think it may be the colder than usual weather and inconsistent watering.

  • Sherri Young
    Jan 28, 2010 at 11:36 am

    @ Youri

    My 2007 Prius has a black box. I think if I get pulled over for a bogus speeding ticket I might go to court and insist that the jurisdiction prove the case by tapping the black box. I’d also insist that they absorb the cost. I’m innocent until proven guilty, so they should have to evaluate the proof, right?

  • California Doctor
    Jan 28, 2010 at 1:33 pm

    @Sherri –

    Actually, some Prius drivers have inserted their own “black box” micro-PC device to gather that data instantaneously.

    This way if the idiot CHP pulls you over, you can replay for him BEFORE he writes the ticket and tries to f’you over.

    CHP officers and County yokels need to think twice before pulling hybrid drivers over BECAUSE of the black box and our own monitoring data that can trump the false accusation in court.

  • California Doctor
    Jan 28, 2010 at 1:41 pm

    @Sherri –
    Check out this guy who pushes electricity INTO his house FROM his Prius during Ice Storms in Vermont.
    http://www.priups.com/riddle/answer-1.htm

    Got a question about the Plug-In Hybrid?
    http://priuschat.com/forums/prius-phev-plug-in-modifications/

    These guys have been doing work on various PHEV solutions. The least costly and most rigged solution appears to be around $6000.

    It appears that your car can travel up to 40 miles in a single charge with an 8-10 KWHr charge capacity installed after-market.

    The Prius car is a huge breakthrough for people wanting to tell the Gas Corp’s and Sempra to screw off.

    By cross circuiting your car to the house, you can literally run the house in an emergency. By cross circuiting the house to the car, you can literally drive the car.

    The only other step for total energy independence would be to install a combo of PV, solar thermal, and Wind or other generation sources.

    I even started looking at water wheels. Based upon a combination of all of those things, you should be energy independent within about 5-7 years… just in time for the doubling in the gas prices to $7.00 a gallon.

  • Sherri Young
    Jan 28, 2010 at 1:54 pm

    I like this:

    http://scienceshareware.com/bike_gen.htm

    Seems like a way to redistribute calories.

    matter>>>energy>>>energy

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