Once upon a time, long, long ago and far, far away, working class
families lived pretty well on a single income. In those forgotten
times it was mostly men who headed off to work each day, while most
women stayed home to do all those things women in the olden days knew
how to do in order to have a smooth running home. In our house,
Mother truly earned the title of Home Maker. She waited until my
sisters and I were entering our teens before taking employment outside
the home. Mother rousted us each morning, had hot cereal waiting on
the back of the stove, built the fire in the old coal furnace, kissed
Dad off to work, shooed us off to school and went about dusting and
cleaning up the mess we'd made. Sitting in the corner of our dining
room was something we don't often see today. A sewing machine. It
was always piled high with pants needing patching, shirts with buttons
missing, hems needing to be let out, and half finished PJ's for each
of us.
And when Mother found a garment too worn to be of any further use, it
went into the rag bag. From time to time, Mother would pull out some
of these cast offs and cut large squares from them. From these she
sewed cloth shopping bags. These bags would go into her two wheel
shopping cart and off she would go to the nearest grocery store.
While some of our friends had second cars, Mother never drove. She
walked most places and took the bus if the distance was too far.
Mother kept a small vegetable garden out back, and roses around the
front of the yard where passerby's could enjoy them, too. She washed
clothes and hung them out to dry on the clothes lines in the back
yard.
For us it was a pleasant life. We could walk to Green Lake or head in
the other direction and walk to Golden Gardens on Puget Sound. The
water was pure. People came from long distances to fish for Salmon in
Puget Sound. We could faintly smell the pulp mill in Everett, when
the wind blew just right, but we always believed that we had pure air,
blown in from the Pacific ocean. Even as the three huge smoke stacks
near down town Seattle at the steam plant blew huge black clouds of
smoke into the air. Why, we believed the sky was so vast that it
could easily take care of any smoke from those old chimneys. Of
course we children all walked or rode bikes.
It was not so many years ago, maybe 65 or so, but it was worlds away
from today.
Carl Jarvis
On 1/14/16, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Dick,
ABout 97% of the scientific world disagrees with you, at least so I've
read.
I've also read that the big oil companies did research 40 years ago which
shoed that global warming is due to the increase in greenhouse gases, and
that they then did precisely what the tobacco industry did when it found
out
that Nicotine caused cancer. They paid scientists to diesseminate
disinformation.
Miriam .
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From: blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of R. E. Driscoll
Sr
Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2016 11:59 AM
To: blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: FW: Thanks for signing my petition to the
DNC. Now can you share it?
All:
After nearly 50 years of practice as a Chemical Engineer I have concluded
that no one knows with a high degree of certainty just what is occurring to
cause the apparent change in climatic conditions. There are a goodly
number
of proposals that seem to indicate that an increase in Carbon Dioxide is
the
primary factor, the primary source being the products of combustion. My
own
opinion is that water vapor is the primary causative factor since about two
volumes of water vapor are created for each carbon dioxide created.
R. E. (Dick) Driscoll, Sr.
On 1/14/2016 8:22 AM, Miriam Vieni wrote:
I suppose that if the true causes of climate change were tackled,
there'd be
less concern about plastic bags. But then there's that huge island
of
plastic floating in our oceans. It's like every solution leads to
another
problem.
Miriam
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[mailto:blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Charles
Krugman
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Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2016 3:52 AM
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The issue is that for people that don't have the luxury of driving
to the
store having to bring reusable bags is an added inconvenience and
many of
the canvas bags are difficult to carry and don't seem to hold as
much. I am
old enough to remember that at one time plastic bags were considered
a
panacea because people weren't using as many trees by not using
paper bags.
The problem with the California law in addition is that stores can
charge up
to .10 for each bag and there are concerns about how this will
impact low
income people.
Chuck
-----Original Message-----
From: Martian.Lady
Sent: Sunday, January 10, 2016 9:15 PM
To: blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: FW: Thanks for signing my petition to
the
DNC. Now can you share it?
Hi
While I agree in theory with banning plastic bags I have a
problem. Where
we live, I have a trash shoot for all trash. I reuse all the
plastic bags I
get from the stores. Usually I use cloth bags for groceries but
just get
enough plastic bags for trash. If they outlaw plastic bags, we will
need to
buy bags at the store. reusing bags makes more sense than buying
them.
Perhaps a lot of people don't do this though.
Marsha
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