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Please vote for me!

DRRT — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 22:23:48 GMT

Please vote for me!

http://www.wgnamerica.com/contests/myamerica/vote/

There is only a little bit of time left to vote, it ends 5pm central time on wednesday (i think)

so please vote as many times as possible, you can vote multiple times if you keep clicking on the link! #7

thank you

Marcos A. Avila- anybody heard of this guy?

melinda_fish — Tue, 26 May 2009 23:31:10 GMT

Not pointing fingers or anything like that but www.aquahobby.com looked like an ok fish hobby website at first until I got loads of spams. Since then I had to close my email account. I simply do not appreciate weirdo-stuff emails and brazilian pornos.

Then when I browsed their website further, I discovered that they used some celebrities like Sean Connery and Gloria Estefan photos hinting some personal connection to Marcos A Avila website. I managed to get a reply from Ms Estefan management who said that they have no knowledge of Marcos A Avila website!

I just think it is better to keep our fish hobby honest and clean especially when there are so many kids involved in the hobby.

Cheers

Happy Birthday Chuck

argi — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 03:59:29 GMT

A Supplemental for my Comrades

charlesr1958 — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 23:05:09 GMT

Government run Health "Care" - A testimonial

So you are all for the government running or being part of your health care needs? If you have ever dealt with Medicare/Medicaid or the military retired benefit of Tricare, which is now emulating Medicare per its allowances and administration, then I don't need to say more, but for those of you who have not had such dealings, be warned.

During December of 2008 I suffered a heart attack while at my home in the Philippines to which I have retired to. I was then rushed to the nearest emergency room here in the Philippines with my understanding that my military health care would cover the costs and that the hospital would simply bill my insurance as is done in the U.S. Wrong assumption. I quickly found out that Tricare will not accept such claims and that I must pay all the costs up front and then submit my own claim for reinbursement. Okay, so how many of us have ten thousand dollars in cash laying around for such a purpose? Needless to say, I had to scramble to come up with such funds, all within the 30 days the hospital gave me before they imposed a 25% fee. Thankfully I was lucky enough to have enough family and friends to help me meet that deadline, had I not, I would still by trying to pay it in full and would of course miss the one year deadline to file a claim for reimbursement, a nice catch-22 for ya.

Okay, so a month after release from the hospital, I submit my claim and all of its required documentation, sent via FedEx as regular postal mail takes at least six weeks on a one way trip. For the next two months I checked the status of both my claims online, as I had to seperate in-hospital medications onto a seperate claim. During those two months, the claims showed a status of "in process". Shortely afterwards, I get a call from the hospital asking me what I want them to do with a letter from Tricare asking for my medical records, keep in mind that the hospital is fully paid and has no reason to be involved or get involved with my claim. I fetched the letter from them, gathered up the medical records and FedExed it all back to Tricare. I wait another few weeks noting that the claim status has yet to change, so I called them (long distance on my phone bill) only to find out that they had sent another letter to me asking for more records. So I wait another six weeks and recieve the letter, which stated "we are waiting for records from the hospital", with no mention of what exact records they require, as they have my claims now under "medical review". I gather up any and all records available to me and send them off via FedEx once again. During the four day transit of those records, my claims were suddenely listed as "denied". I of course called to find out what happened only to be told that my time to file the claim had expired, since you are given one full year to file the claim, not to include the time it takes to process the claims, but to first file it, I was at a loss since I had filed it within one month of my release from the hospital. A half hour of going back and forth with "customer service" it finaly dawned on them that they had their years mixed up? So two new claim numbers were issued and I thought that would be the end of it. I then get another letter asking for more records, nothing specific again, just a form letter with every possible catagory checked as being needed, including therapy records, which made no sense since I never had therapy nor claimed any costs for therapy. Just goes to show you how no one was taking any time to actualy review the claim. So once again, I gather any and all records from the hospital, which took a great effort as I had to have a clerk spend her time chasing down every possible record once again and have them time and date stamped as verification of their being true copies. So off to FedEx once again. Four days later, they are recieved by Tricare per FedEx tracking. That same day they recieved the records I check my claim status and they are both pegged as "Paid". Wow! That was really fast service! Well, when I noted that my claim for 3 thousands dollars worth of medications was paid out to me in the amount of 2 hundred dollars, I was extremely shocked and called once again only to be told that no one had yet looked at recently recieved records (that they requested). So why would you request records and keep the claims on hold only to recieve the records, not look at them, and then make a decision? I was assured they would review the claims again and make any adjustments, but they could not explain to me the vast difference in the amounts claimed and paid other than to tell me that maybe the hospital simply over charged me and that I should go to the hospital and ask for a refund? How do you refund something that was consumed as well as ordered by a doctor as well as accuse the hospital of such a thing. A futher explanation was that my military health care now falls under the same guide lines as medicaid as well as the fact that I have to co-pay 25% of everything now. To date, I am still waiting for the promised letter explaining the dollar differences in my claim. Which I then will have to submit a request for a further review. Some how I am not taking much comfort in there being any resolution to this, leaving my wife and I to repay personal loans for health care that was supposed to be due me.

And that folks is your government run health care in nutshell. Enjoy yours when the time comes!

Chuck

My Fellow Comrades

charlesr1958 — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 22:01:20 GMT

By creating a forum post, it is obvious that I am extremely worried and shocked at the direction the current administration and its congress wants to take our country. I am also disappointed in myself for not having researched and learned of Obama's history and thinking behind his "change", as well as those running against him for not bringing this to light during the campaign. Do a google search using the terms "obama and socialism" as well as look back at speeches made by Obama and his now chief of staff, Obama states that he is a Marxist !! Even in his book he idolizes his father's marxist ideals. That and his idea of creating a civilian "group" that equals the power and funding of the U.S. military in which all young peaple must serve a number of years in is also greatly disturbing. Lets see, a group of peaple living in your neighborhood working as part of a "social" team that answers to the white house, hmmm, what would be a good term to use? Maybe.... party members? Time for a cultural revolution? Where and when have we heard all of that before?

His speech about changing the Constitution is equaly as scary. His view is that the constitution only deals with what the states and the Feds can NOT do to you but should also include what the states and the Feds CAN do to you, (his words were "for you"), but come on peaple, we know that once a government does something "for you", they then own you. Might I remind those of military and government service that most of us, including the President took an oath to defend our constitution from all enemys, both foreign and domestic.

Has our nation become so out of touch with the realities of the world or so lazy as to wish someone else would do everything for us, to take care of us, to remove the risk of failure which by the way also removes the chance and hope for success. A free ride that removes our rights to freedom. Makes sense to me....NOT!

Seriously, is this the "change" most of you had in mind? If so, I can only weep at the loss of so many countless lives given up in the defense of what is at risk, yet again, except this time, we are doing it to ourselves.

I try to tell myself that I put my own butt on the line for 20 years in order to keep the freedom of choices and the ability to vote, yet I find little comfort in it now as it all seems such a waste, or could be. I only hope that America will wake up and take charge once again before too much damage is done and the worst of it will simply be that we spend the next few decades undoing the damage causing nothing more than a lot of wasted time and money. Just seems ironic that communists nations are moving towards free market systems while the best free market in the world is moving towards communism. What is even more amazing is that we have numerous examples of socialist and communist nations and yet the administration and some members of congress seem to believe that doing so is still a good idea? Am I missing something here or what? Governments are the WORST thing to happen to any nation, well, besides dictators and yet we want more of it? AHHHHHHHHH!!!!!

Chuck

Happy 4th of July

Noctiluca — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 06:34:03 GMT

Happy 4th of July to all. Let us celebrate this day for what it is. God Bless America I think we could use it right now.

Greetings from sunny Costa Rica.

RichardBlank — Wed, 27 May 2009 17:11:37 GMT

After reading a few threads,I wanted to introduce myself to this community and look forward to sharing ideas with other forum members.

I made sure to have a huge tank in my office. My employees really enjoy spending time with the fish. It calms nerves and gives them the ability to find their ZEN before getting back to work. Amazing right??

Best regards,

Richard

Doom and Gloom

charlesr1958 — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 06:02:32 GMT

Having been watching the so called debates on TV about gas prices and the need to drill more oil in the U.S. by lifting the so called ban on drilling, I have to admit I am not at all disappointed in the human race in their ongoing ability for self destruction. For awhile there with all the talk about global warming and doing something about it, I briefly thought there was hope afterall, but... alas, even if "we" actualy stopped the CO2 levels right where they are now, it wouldn't matter in the long run. With our populations now at plague proportions, how long will we be able to continue as a species with no end in sight to our explosive population levels? Instead of facing the fact that we have put locusts to shame and doing something about that, we instead try to find ways to fuel even more expansion.

The sky is actualy falling, with a lot of talk and hope for alternatives while we bicker about getting more oil out of the ground so we can go back to 1 dollar a gallon for gas, which is never going to happen anyways. Then you have republicans taking advantage of it all proposing the lifting of a ban. What ban? The democrats raised a very good question, and I usually never side with democrats or any party for that matter but common sense is common sense. Why aren't the oil companies drilling on the gazillion acres they have already leased? The oils there, they know it, but they want more leases? I have a feeling (conspiracy theory) that the U.S. is holding out knowing that the middle east will be oil dry in a matter of years now and then the U.S. will become the new middle east, able to sell 200 dollar barrels of oil to china, which is really cool if true, because then we can use those trillions of dollars to look for oil alternatives and save the planet while we continue to breed like rabbits. Makes perfect sense to me. Oh, almost forgot.... Good morning!

Chuck

Typing from my new Apple IMAC

Steven Pro — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 12:54:01 GMT

Got to say, I love this machine! Setup my 3 email accounts and didn't once have to contact tech support. It was so easy to install and navigate in comparison to every Windows unit I have ever used. Once I scrounge up some more money, my Dell laptop is getting the boot too!

Get with the Program

Noctiluca — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 13:45:16 GMT

I'm really confused as to why members don't want to reveal their general location on their profile. I'm not asking for your SS# or your bank account. I am on the forum everyday and think of everyone as not only a collogue but as a friend. It is a simple task and consumes very little time. Please consider revising your profile to include at least State, Province or Country wich ever is applicable to you. TIA

A plea for comradeship

Noctiluca — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 16:01:34 GMT

I recently relocated from San Diego Ca. to Ft. Worth Tx. and was not active on the forum for about a month. The first thing I did was to update my profile when I got back online. Webster defines a comrade as " A person who shares one's interests " I know this post doesn't apply to all, but to those of you who haven't at least updated your profile to include your general location, ie. state, province, or country, please consider doing so. If you have any questions on how to do so, I'm sure the administrator can help you out. After all we share the same interests. Any comments or concerns are welcome. Thanks

Thank You

charlesr1958 — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 17:07:20 GMT

Linda and I wish to express our deep appreciation to all those who have been so very supportive over the last few weeks, your generosity in its many forms has turned what could have been a horrible event into one of many blessings. We are happy to report that because of family and friends, we are able to avoid any penaltys and can now manage the rest of it on our own. Again, Thank you so very much.

Charles & Linda

summer camp nurses for 2009

Sharkbait 100 — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 15:43:35 GMT

Any nurses looking for summer camp should check out this website, it has 30 camp ads looking for nurses all around the country.
www. campnurse.info

HUGE PIKE - Rainy Lake - HUGE PIKE

acnphillips — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:03:39 GMT

WOW!

This is the new record in Canada. He caught it on Rainy Lake

Check this thing out.. The last picture is unbelievable!

Thiss guy (in the photos below), was fishing and caught a 36' Pike - as
he was reeling it in, a 56' Pike tried to eat it!!!!!

He brought them both in on the same net.

Awesome catch on a Lake in Canada - 55 lbs- 56 inch Northern Pike

Don

I'm Not Impressed With MarineDepot

Guyf — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 13:43:17 GMT

I am definitely not impressed with MarineDepot. I received a tank cleaning product almost two weeks ago and it did not work as advertised. I immediately contacted them and have been totally ignored. Maybe they're waiting for the return period to expire before contacting me. Totally unprofessional. It was my first order with them and is definitely my last.

I'm impressed with marinedepot.com

Mtav80 — Tue, 13 May 2008 11:32:23 GMT

So I'm one that can be hesitant to order from new places online. But after doing some research that all pointed to good things said about marinedepot.com, I went ahead and placed a pretty good size order this morning. About 5 hours later I get an email that my order has shipped.

You guys are on top of it! Ill be sure to give some feedback once all my new stuff gets here!

Personal Details/Location

Noctiluca — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 11:11:08 GMT

I would like to get some feedback on what individuals think about posting their location on the forum. I would propose that we at least post US/state, Canada/province, and other's /country. I don't feel that this would invade on anyones privacy or decrease their anonymity since their forum name and avitar will remain the same. I find it hard to narrow down location using the time reference and I think since we all share the same common interest in the hobby it would be nice to know what part of the world the person you are responding to is located. I feel that sometimes knowing the location better enables you to communicate your own ideas and be of assistance. I would like to hear your feedback be it positive or negative. If enough decide it is a good idea it could be made a required field in the application. Looking foward to your responses.

Some critter humor.

Telgian — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 17:40:55 GMT

You can find the rest here:
http://icanhascheezburger.com

Reef Podcast

120gallons — Tue, 06 May 2008 12:05:34 GMT

Come join us at for a great podcast on 120gallons on Sunday May 11th at 8pm EST. Steven Pro, Adam Blundell and Scott Fellman in a fun filled roundtable Live!. Call in and chat and ask them a question.

Tide pools

seipster — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:33:13 GMT

I just have a couple of ? about the best time time to go tide pooling in the san diego CA, area. As far as the tides go during This weekend low tide is .48 assumeing ft 4/27/2008. I guess what i am asking is for is this. do you think this enough of a tide to have a good time. Also if you have links of moons, tides, etc. would you please give have some need more . thanks seip.

USB Drives

90overflow — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 20:03:42 GMT

I was really upset when my 1gig USB drive came popping out of the dryer, sans cap Held my breath and hooked it to port, everything is there, nothing is damaged or missing. Went thru a long soak cycle, two 70 mph spins and then the dryer. Don't know when it came out of my pocket during the wash/dry.

Kudos

badiggity — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 10:54:33 GMT

I just wanted to state how great this site is. I am pretty new to the whole forum thing myself, never actually knew about these until a few months ago. Im not much of a computer guy, so i spend a lot of time in the dark, technologically speaking.

I parused many of these forums trying to locate one with good information that was also easily accesible. I didnt find that until i happened to follow Eric Boreman and Anthony Calfo from Reef Central to this site, after reading they had been doing more with another site. Reef central has a lot of information, but searching any of it is only possible at 1:30-5:00 am, lol.

This place is great, and I just wanted to thank all the people who took the time to create what i would call the best forum dedicated to marine fish anywhere online. Thanks, Thanks, Thanks to all.

Broken Tunze CO2 regulator

coqui1pr — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 10:12:28 GMT

Hi all i have been trying to reach Mr. Jose Fontao at his extension for over 2 weeks now leaving him messages with no reply and also i tried reachin Mr. Walter Floresguerra at his extension to no avail about 2 weeks ago i ordered the following item # TZ1111 and it came with one of the pressure gauges broken and i have been trying to reach the above two persons but no luck as i dont speak very well english and they are the two spanish speaking representatives that i know that work at MD but they wont respond to my messages at least Mr. Jose doesnt reply back to my messages im a customer who buys thousands of dollars worth of merchandise every year i think i deserve some type of good service but i usually bought my stuff online but since MD changed the website im forced to call in my orders due to the shipping since i live outside of the CONUS the system wont let me order the items i need thru the web site but since i havent got a hold on either of the two persons above i 've been forced to order all of my items at a different site since their website lets me order the items without calling in my order i wish that this could be resolved ASAP as i think i wont be ordering any other stuff from them anymore Oh i forgot to mention that i have been ordering from MD for years now but sadly i must find somewhere else i just want to resolve the CO2 regulator problem.

Thanks
Nestor Velez

calibration fluid

EdandSandy — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 10:33:28 GMT

has anyone heard of recycling the calibration, using it more than 1 time.

Looking for Summer Camp Nurse

Sharkbait 100 — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 13:45:43 GMT

Just thought I'd throw this link up for anyone looking for an LPN/RN summer camp nurse position for this summer. This link has 10 positions listed for Texas, Maine, PA, Maine and NY. Good luck.
http://www.campnurse.info/camp_jobs.html

Freakyreef still alive but beaten down

freakyreef — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 19:09:33 GMT

Well, an update on my life since I havent been here in quite some time.

Last post was about my daughter. She is still undergoing treatments and will for the foreseeable future. There is hope however. The doctors at Childrens hospital continue to work with her.

My wife was diagnosed with Cancer in May of this year. Thankfully in late September she was officially in remission!!

However, a week after that we had a housefire and are working on recovering from that. Pretty much a total loss of most all possesions in the fire. The reef tank and all in it are gone.

Undoubtedly there are many now who have never seen me here, but I hope some of the "ol' timers" are still around and may have wondered what ever happened to that "Freaky guy".

I will return, but my return will be in the future. I really enjoyed being a part of this forum and am grateful to MD for allowing me to be part of their team. Hopefully when I do return I can continue to help out as I did in the past.

Cheers and thank you!

Freaky

30 e-mails in the last 1/2 hour

JasonMcK — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 10:15:55 GMT

I think your mailer has gone nuts. I've received 30 e-mails of the same e-mail in the last 1/2 hour.

This is the e-mail

Hello Marine Depot Forum members,

First off we would like to wish you all Happy Holiday's. We hope you get all the items you have asked for for your aquarium and a prosperous 2008.

Now on to the business part of this email. We would like to thank everyone who participates on the Marine Depot Forums especially the members who contribute on a daily basis. Without you, the members of the forum, we wouldn't be where we are today. If you have not been to the forum in a while we would like to ask you to give us another try. If you have specific problems with the forum (programming, layout, etc.) and this is the reason for not retuning please let us know so we can help improve the site for everyone. You can email me at keithm@marinedepot.com with any issues and I will help in any way possible.

We have assembled one of the greatest team of experts found on any message board. These experts include Eric Borneman (Corals and Coral Reefs forum), Kelly Jedlicki (Disease, Health and Wellness forum), Dr. Ron Shimek (Invertebrates; Morphology, Ecology, and Behavior forum), Dr. Frank Marini (Marine Fish-Reproduction, Care and Husbandry forum), Anthony Calfo (Marine Systems and Husbandry forum along with an Aquarium Photography sub forum) and Steven Pro (Pulse on the Hobby forum). To complement their forums we have many other forums, so no matter what your question is we should be able to help you out.

We have some exciting plans for the upcoming year including a few contests coming up so we hope you will be there to join us for another great year. We have seen tremendous growth in membership on the forum in 2007 and hope to see the same in 2008.

Thank you for your time and I hope to see you on the message board soon.

Keith M. (aka argi)

Marine Depot Forums Administrator

Please Please make it stop

Scholarship Contest

DRRT — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:02:07 GMT

Because I am going away to Hawaii for College in August, I was/am in hunt for scholarship money. So, I found this place and submitted an entry to win $15k. I hope I win!

My essay is called "Aquaculture Industry." I know I got a lot of stuff wrong on it and H2O people like you will find them, but maybe the judges won't catch them. It's kind of hard to find amongst the other entries, so I'm giving a link to the website (so you can see my competition) and my entry.

This is the website:

http://www.thesca.org/contest

This is the link to my essay in Microsoft Word format:

http://www.thesca.org/components/com_contestform/uploads/137_Scholarship%20essay.doc

I hope you like it.

Live animal imports to the U.S.

charlesr1958 — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 06:53:00 GMT

Am hoping someone who is familiar with such regulations can answer a few questions. Having tried to FedEx a few live marine animals (synaptids) to the U.S. recently, I ran into a brick wall with all of the express delivery companys. I can easily get the export permits from the Philippines Customs/Fish & Game, but the delivery services have a thing against "perishables" and salt water. Having called FedEx's live animal desk in the U.S., I guess there is a little known (here) clause of being able to obtain a shipping waiver for such things if it is from a business to a business.

I am toying with the idea of getting an export and business license in order to get a few things moving to the states. Being that it would be somewhat of a rare event for me to actualy make a shipment, and being live animals, I would have to have a 2 or 3 day delivery company involved. My biggest concern is what road blocks or regulations would I run into with the U.S. Customs / Fish & Game departments? Would such animals have to be held in quarantine? Is there some sort of permit or license required from the state side of it?

I'm not attempting to do such a thing for any kind of a profit or actual business, but it drives me crazy that I can get a good many species of marine organisms that would be of benefit to our systems for those of us who have a disdain for "plugged in" aquariums and would rather have diversity of life fill the rolls of more mechanical methods. The above mentioned sand dwelling synaptids and sea cucumbers are a great example.

Chuck

Panel Members?

120gallons — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 14:50:08 GMT

Anyone interested in participating in a roundtable on my podcast? We do roundtable shows time to time and I'd like to vary the participants up occasionally.

Wines

MattTVI — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 18:02:55 GMT

i have three requirements of wine. it needs to be:

1. red
2. under $10.00
3. good

the chilean Casillero del Diablo fits all three. i can't speak for the merlot, but Diablo's Cab is fantastic! If you like wine, please give it a try. Smooth as silk.

Gonna be awhile

charlesr1958 — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 23:12:32 GMT

Looks like its going to be quite awhile longer before I can do anything in the ocean. We just had one typhoon pass with another right on the heels of it heading directly at us. Hopefully "my" reef is deep enough so as not to get ripped up. I may take a chance tomorrow and get in before I have to hunker down for another entire week again.

So what does one do when you can't go snorkeling or diving?....

Chuck

Grants

ReefWidow — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 14:07:49 GMT

Not sure if this is the right forum for this, but I'll ask anyways, and it can always get moved.

I am hoping to participate in a study abroad program this summer at the University of Queensland. It is a Great Barrier Reef program and I would get the chance to study at the Heron Island Research Station. Problem for me is, no financial aid is available, and I expect the cost of airfare alone to be around $3000. They do give us a place to stay and some meals, but the tuition cost is $4000 per session (there are 2) So I'm looking to raise around $7000-$10,000....any ideas?

Thank you
Jennifer

Tonight at 8pm est. Eric Borneman on 120 gallons live

120gallons — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 14:30:01 GMT

Do not miss the chance to call in and ask Eric Borneman a question.

Here are your option to ask a question:

Call 347-215-7988
Register on www.blogtalkradio.com and use the push to talk feature and your computer headset
Register on www.blogtalkradio.com and use the chat room
Use the 120 gallon forum on reefs.org and post your questions
Send them to live@120gallons.com

Please call in and participate. It will make for a much better show than me and Eric just talking.

To listen to the show go to http://www.blogtalkradio.com/120gallons

Coral Reef Pumpkin Carving Pattern

Steven Pro — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 16:11:37 GMT

Here is a pattern to carve a coral reef scene into a pumpkin.

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf-JAVA/actCtrImg/c01158445.pdf

My Question Submitted To the Republican Debate

salt-rookie — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 14:14:59 GMT

This is my question that I submitted to the CNN/YouTube Debate which aires on November 25, 2007! I'm concerned about our reefs and our environment as a whole. Please stop in and look. Aslo, please stop long enough to leave comments and rate the video. Perhaps it will get it aired! Thanks to all of you!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ul0OsVv1ANQ

Phil

Podcast Episode 9 - Eric Borneman Interview

120gallons — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 12:57:21 GMT

Episode 9 is available today. It's a interview with Eric Borneman on coral breeding.

On October 21st our premier 120 Gallons Radio Live will be broadcast.
Eric will be back on Sunday October 28th to do a live call in show.
On November 11th, Steven Pro will be doing the live show.

Info and shows are available at http://www.120gallons.com.

New Look

hans1976 — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 19:10:38 GMT

Marine Depot has a new look. Very modern. Good job !!

Global Warming is it a Farce??

huskerreef — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 21:15:51 GMT

I know that this topic can stir up a whirl wind of opinions but I am not convinced that we are the cause of global warming or that we can really control the direction our planet is heading. Over the history our planet has had fluxuations in its temperature and I believe it just part of the cycle our planet goes through. Do you remember the big buzz on the hole in our ozone? god forbid we use hairspray anymore, now its rarley mentioned because it filled back in and scientist proved that it was just part of the cycle. I do agree that we should be mindful of what we are pumping into the air we breathe and coming up with better ways to be more in harmony with our planet. The latest buzz words like "green" and "carbon nuetral" are great marketing stratagies. Take Al Gores movie (i am a republican to clarify) he has made millions off this and now corporations are tagging thing green and profiting all the way to the bank. Over the weekend they held all those concerts to save our planet all the while the entertainers logged 250,000+ air miles not to mention all the cars that were driven to these events, do you really think we can plant enought trees to make those events carbon nuetral? It hypocritical. I am sceptical of anything being so overly promoted where money is being made. In my opinion the whole global warming thing is a feel good cause that is now making many people wealthy.

Podcast Episode 8 - MACNA special

120gallons — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 17:38:27 GMT

Podcast with MACNA interviews is now online.