BURZYNSKI, the movie

Posted on July 4, 2011 by Brian Gallimore

What if there were a cure for many forms of cancer and the government went to great lengths to supress this discovery?

http://www.burzynskimovie.com/

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His truth is marching on

Posted on July 3, 2011 by Brian Gallimore

YouTube – ‪CC’s Battle Hymn of the Republic – video by Lubbock Independent School District‬‏.

Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord:
He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored;
He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword:
His truth is marching on.

Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
His truth is marching on.

In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea,
With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me:
As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free,
While God is marching on.

Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
While God is marching on.

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Mercedes W123 300 Fuel Sender

Posted on July 3, 2011 by Brian Gallimore

The list price of a sender unit is $340, so when my fuel level gauge stopped working, I was not very happy. I bought a portable 2 gallon tank and kept it full of fuel in the trunk of the car in case I ran out unexpectedly and I figured I would just leave it broke. That wasn’t good enough. I like gauges that work, what can I say! Luckily, the German designers of this car made taking the sender out possible without too much trouble. They positioned the box that houses the first-aid kit directly above the sender. It is a simple matter of unscrewing it and sliding it up. When I finally scraped enough gunk off of the bottom of it, I found a funny little nut to remove the inerads out of the protective tube. (looks like the tube also serves to dampen the fluid movement) I cleaned it up and installed it again, and now I have a working fuel gauge again! I think I’ll go ahead and keep that extra 2 gallons of fuel in the trunk though.
A note about what caused this:  I left the car sit for about a year without driving it.  Diesel fuel is often contaminated with microbes that grow and form nasty dark crystals on all the surfaces.  You can buy biocide treatments, but they are not sold in all stores, and are a little hard to find.  NAPA had a bottle that I used and hopefully cured my problems.  Some diesel owners refuse to fill up at smaller stations because that is where the contaminated fuels usually come from:  stations that don’t turn over their fuel supplies quickly.

Access hole above the Fuel Tank

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Oikophobia

Posted on July 3, 2011 by Brian Gallimore

Latest video from Bill Whittle:

via YouTube – ‪WALKING INTO MORDOR‬‏.

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Thomas Paine’s Solution

Posted on July 3, 2011 by Brian Gallimore

GOOOH can be part of the solution of fixing the mess we are in. Transparency of our government is a good thing. Check out this new video from Thomas Paine and GOOOH.com.

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The Foreclosure of America

Posted on July 3, 2011 by Brian Gallimore

I’ve been on an interesting journey over the past few years. I’ve learned more about the history of the USA than I did in the previous 30 years of life, which included some really nice and expensive formal college education. While my pride of being an American citizen and fourth-generation Texan has strengthened, I’m saddened and discouraged by the people around me that are still in the same narrow-minded and restrictive reality that I was just a few years ago. All of the benefits we have enjoyed since casting off the oppressive rule of a monarchy are now once again at risk. Common sense says we can’t live our personal lives living paycheck to paycheck and relying on large credit card balances to get us through, but as a nation, that is exactly the path we’ve decided to take. The majority of the people recognize the problem, but each person is not willing to sever the unsustainable benefit they receive from the system. Everyone, seemingly wants something for nothing, and they are willing to keep voting for that. I now understand how fragile and rare liberty and freedom are. I’m embarrassed that I’ve gone on as long as I’ve have and not understood the importance of the life I am so privileged to live at this point in time.

Now I’m left wondering if celebrating our Independence is smart.  We have changed course as a nation.  I’m wondering if we are really about Independence, Liberty, and Freedom.

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Find The Cost Of Freedom

Posted on July 2, 2011 by Brian Gallimore

What is the point of our celebrations this weekend, July 4th?  INDEPENDENCE.  LIBERTY.  FREEDOM.  What is the price of freedom?

YouTube – ‪Find The Cost Of Freedom. Gilmour, Crosby , Nash‬‏.

Find the cost of freedom,
Buried in the ground.
Mother earth will swallow you,
Lay your body down.

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Dirty Dozen and Clean Fifteen

Posted on July 1, 2011 by Brian Gallimore

It is a topic so important that two posts were made about it on the same blog today!

EWG’s Shopper’s Guide to Pesticides in Produce (click for original article)  The graphic below the result of their findings:

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Actions Speak Louder Than Words, Mr. President‬‏

Posted on July 1, 2011 by Brian Gallimore

YouTube – ‪Actions Speak Louder Than Words, Mr. President‬‏.

And now, a few words from our Vacationer-in-Chief…

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Best of RODNEY DANGERFIELD’S ONE-LINERS

Posted on June 30, 2011 by Brian Gallimore
  • I was so poor growing up … if I wasn’t a boy… I’d have had nothing to play with.
  • A girl phoned me the other day and said, “Come on over; nobody’s home. I went over. Nobody was home.
  • During sex, my girlfriend always wants to talk to me. Just the other night she called me from a hotel .
  • One day I came home early from work … I saw a guy jogging naked. I said to the guy, “Hey buddy, why are you doing that?”  He said “Because you came home early.”
  • It’s been a rough day. I got up this morning … put a shirt on and a button fell off. I picked up my briefcase, and the handle came off. I’m afraid to go to the bathroom.
  • I was such an ugly kid…When I played in the sandbox, the cat kept covering me up.
  • I could tell my parents hated me. My bath toys were a toaster and radio.
  • I was such an ugly baby…My mother never breast fed me. She told me that she only liked me as a friend.
  • I’m so ugly…My father carried around a picture of the kid who came with his wallet.
  • When I was born, the doctor came into the waiting room and said to my father, “I’m sorry. We did everything we could, but he pulled through.”
  • I’m so ugly…My mother had morning sickness…AFTER I was born.
  • I remember the time that I was kidnapped and they sent a piece of my finger to my father. He said he wanted more proof.
  • Once when I was lost, I saw a policeman, and asked him to help me find my parents. I said to him, “Do you think we’ll ever find them?” He said, “I don’t know kid. There’s so many places they can hide.”
  • My wife made me join a bridge club. I jump off next Tuesday.
  • I’m so ugly…I worked in a pet shop, and people kept asking how big I’d get.
  • I went to see my doctor. “Doctor, every morning when I get up and I look in the mirror…I feel like throwing up; What’s wrong with me?” He said…”I don’t know but your eyesight is perfect.”
  • I went to the doctor because I’d swallowed a bottle of sleeping pills. My doctor told me to have a few drinks and get some rest.
  • With my old man I got no respect. I asked him, “How can I get my kite in the air?” He told me to run off a cliff.
  • Some dog I got. We call him Egypt because in every room he leaves a pyramid. His favorite bone is in my arm. Last night he went on the paper four times – three of those times I was reading it.
  • One year they wanted to make me poster boy for birth control.
  • I’m so ugly, when I was born the doctor slapped my mother!
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