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writings below include information, recommendations,
and the opinions of Zenzibar owner, Royce Carlson.
Don't blindly believe anything you read or hear. Use
your own mind and heart to determine what is true or
false. Question authority. Think for yourself.
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Biofuels vs. Food -
4/18/2008 | |
Money and political energy are being put into the promotion of biofuels like ethanol and bio-diesel as a solution to rising oil prices and potentially diminishing supplies of oil. For the most part, the effort to produce biofuels has centered around converting food crops like corn, soybeans, and sugar cane to the production of ethanol.
Now I am hearing in the news that global food prices are rising and people are complaining. It seemed obvious to me that using food crops to create energy would force food prices up. How did the powers that be not see this? Well, maybe I am wrong about this and ethanol is the way to get off oil. I did a little research to see what was what.
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Health Care not Health Insurance -
2/24/2008 | |
I find it interesting and disappointing that both
of the Democratic candidates for president are promoting their ideas for some form of nearly universal health insurance for Americans. The problem is that people don't need health insurance, they need health care. Why is
insurance involved? Insurance is partly why health care is so expensive. The government has handed health care over to the insurance industry. The health insurance industry is unnecessary if the government mandates health care for all. The costs would be far less than they are now. Of course, if it's "free" to the public, we actually have to pay for it via taxes, etc. But we wouldn't have to pay the insurance industry, too.
Many people call the universal health care programs, like the ones in Europe, socialized medicine. They equate this with socialism or even communism. They want us to think it's bad. But the police department, fire department, libraries, and public schools work exactly
this way. They are public services run by the government and paid for by taxes. Would these same people want to privatize the police department and then buy insurance to allow them to call private cops if they are in trouble? I think that would cost a lot more than taxes.
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We are selling our land -
2/4/2008 |
We are putting our beautiful 10+ acres of land on the market. We need to sell it so we can make a big move to a new place. The land is about 18 miles north of Prescott, Arizona. It's just under 5,000 feet in elevation and is covered in pinon pines, manzanita and has some cool granite outcrops to climb on. We are sorry to see it go, but it's time for us to move on to different things in a different place. One of the especially cool things about this property is it's in an area populated by many healers and artists. It's almost like a ready-made alternative community. It's a rare place
that has such great neighbors. We are selling it ourselves (without a realtor) and are asking $189,000. More
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Ten Flaws in America's Election System -
1/7/2008 |
For a country that claims to be the world's greatest democracy, the election process of the United States of America is deeply flawed. Here are ten flaws and my humble opinion on what could be done to improve things- Read
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