I am working on a speech, planning to speak at a State Ag Concention and would like any consumer replies and opinions. thanks!
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I hope ya mean organic vs. inorganic?\nSpeaking for myself, I plant a garden twice a year, have been for the past ten years now. I can tell you that organic growing, I.E. no chemicals, tastes 110% better. Guarenteed better for you, and it even looks better. Cost is cheaper, simply because it's all natural. You dont thnk they had pesticides in the old days do ya?  Nope, they didnt. They just found other plants and things to drive the pests away.
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Here's a place to start. You can follow their links to find more.\n\nhttp://www.asafishing.org/asa/statistics/consumer_dem/
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http://www.mediaforum.org/states.cfm
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Read:\nhttp://www.klaasdevriesjr.nl/k-files/talentrock/instant_human_resources_instanthumanresources_usa_voice_usavoice_ask_america_askamerica_goodgradezone_goodgradesnow.htm
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Build closed circuit pollution free hydroelectric power\nBuild new electric powered roads for electric cars and trucks\n\nmillions of high wage jobs building power plants\nmillions more jobs building new electric powered roads\nthousands of jobs building electric cars and trucks NO batteries needed this way the road has the electricity built in it\n\noverabundant 100% clean electric power 1,000,000 mega watts from a single power plant \n1000 times more power than the largest nuke plant(930 mega watts plant Volgtel in Ga.) more than Fusion!\n\nThis power plant has been all over the gov Clinton, Gore, Newt, Sam Nun, DOE\nClinton said"I'm to busy moving the counrty forward"\nGore said" good luck, I'm glad to see someone else is working on our energy problem"\nNewt "promised his full support" if I sold out to Ga. power .01c on the dollar to invent and patent this\nSam was to busy with armed services\nI have letters from these crumbs saying these things\n\nMason Wiggins of the Science,Space, and Technolgy Subcommitty a guy who knows tech,Newts energy guy said" this appears to be the secret we've been looking for" and took it to friends at the DOE.  DOEmanagement found out this came in the back door and threw out pollution free power. Mailed it back to me in an open enevlope with pages missing.  Said send it to NIST.  NIST said 5 years to get back to the DOE 5 more to decide to fund this; only $40,000 available to any 1 applicant\n\nBush's people do not even return calls or answer emails during energy summit\n\nGa power wanted to buy me out for.01c on the dollar\nSouthern Cal. Edison wanted .01c on the dollar\nPower Industry Consultants said revise your figure to 2% of my investment; they offered the most! 2%?\n\nGa to Cal. all attempts for gov funding got nothing!\n$50,000 in DC trips 1000's of calls and emails\nAll the utility engineers and not a single hole in this to be found ever!\nPatented! made no difference!\n\n400 page tech manual showing how and what size to buld these anywhere; got my patent allowed on the spot after 45 minute phone cal with my patent attorney and patent office examiner because my patent attorney could answer every question examiner put to him from my 400 page tech manual.\n\nOnly utility patent of it's kind ever!\n\nUtilites spend millions to patent even small improvements in existing power plants.\nPatent rights should be worth many times what a small improvement is worth!\n\nA first generation baby plant of 1000 mega watts generates $1billion per year of power in Cal. market\nSecond generation plants can make over 1,000,000 mega watts\nOverabundant 100% clean electric power to end conservation and Arab oil\n.05c per kilo watt electric power super cheap power all the power anything anywhere could ever use\n\nCould export electric power to the world; clean US made electric power\n\nGov wants us poor and working so much we can't get in their hair for being screw ups\n\ndems and reps have all the power so they bear all the blame\nvote! vote for anyone thats not a dem or rep\n\n2 nations and a US state pay not tax thier residents\nKuwait pays $58,000 y no rent, utilities, phone, hospital, income tax, gas is cheap free for motorcycles\nDubia pays\nAlaska pays\nI know it's OIL! Oil is just 1 of thousands of commodities. With all the thousands of commodities in your state why aren't you paid? With all the feds resources why don't they pay 50 times what Alaska pays?\n\npollititions lie, cheat, steal, back stab. corkscrew, dirty deal, murder, run the debt to the moon, raise taxes, int rates, give our money to foreigners that hate us, allow foreign co to cheat us out taxes they owe, send our jobs overseas, waste our money like no tommorrow, on yahoo 1.4 bil in bogus hurricane claims, deny money to renewable energy, MORE??????????
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This is a cumbersome sentence. Not hard, but just very awkwardly written. Let's analyze it methodically:\n\nThe verb here is "originated", and the simple subject is "interest". So some interest originated - who is interested in what, and where did it originate from? That's what the rest of the sentence expresses.\n\n"EU" (European Union) and "in biofuels" (fuels from biologial products) modify interest, so it implies that the EU is interested in biofuels.\n\n"from agriculture" - agriculture is the business of farming.\n\nIn other words, "The European Union mainly got interested in biofuels because of the farming industry."
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Check with NORML. They will give you the latest info and tell you how you can help.
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Hi, see if you can get some ideas from the masters.\n\nOnline Speech Bank\n\nIndex to and growing database of 5000+ full text, audio and video (streaming) versions of public speeches, sermons, legal proceedings, lectures, debates, interviews, other recorded media events, and a declaration or two.\n\nhttp://www.americanrhetoric.com/\n\nhttp://www.americanrhetoric.com/speechbank.htm\n\nhttp://www.speech-topics-help.com/good-persuasive-speech-topics.html\n\nhttp://www.historyplace.com/speeches/previous.htm\n\nhttp://library.albany.edu/usered/dr/speech.html\n\nhttp://www.history.com/media.do\n\nhttp://yahooligans.yahoo.com/school_bell/social_studies/history/speeches/\n\nGood luck.\n\nKevin, Liverpool, England.
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Well, I am a high-school science teacher.  I have not seen the exhibit, but I've done some reading about it and I've seen pictures.  I'm not sure what to tell you, it seems to me you've got a good head.  I was raised on a hog farm, and I worked in a hog slaughterhouse.  Being raised on a rude farm, I've seen a lot of horrifying things, death, accidents, hog cannibalism, on and on.  I survived.  I think it really boils down to a few basic questions you need to come up with answers for yourself, such as:\n1) What do I reasonably expect my child to learn from this experience?\n2) Do I think there's a reasonable chance this may harder her perspective and desensitize her to human suffering?\n3)  Am I willing to deal with the fact that many of these humans did not donate their bodies, but in fact were Chinese prisoners and this was done to them?  Are you willing to participate in the exhibit in good conscience knowing that the Chinese government and participants are unwilling to discuss how the bodies were procured?\n4)  Will she think this is "neat"?\n\nLastly, I might wrestle with this myself, given the moral questions involved.  If it were not for the murky procurement of the bodies, if everything was above-board and donated, I'd go in a heartbeat.  But I'd definitely be asking myself some hard questions about taking a 4-year-old.  I wish you the best, and hope it all works out for you.  If it's any consolation, I understand that there isn't anything particularly scary about the way the bodies are displayed.  But you should definitely have a talk with the kid in advance and be prepared to leave immediately without question if she wants to get out of there.  Best of luck.
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Congratulations! We need more good public speakers. Wisconsin has always been a progressive state. \n\nI am originally from Wisconsin and took Forensics in college. My small high school didn't have such a class. Just basic Speech.
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My father manufactured the active ingredient in agent orange,(C-5,6), at Hooker Chemical's Montague Michigan plant for the duration of the Vietnam War. The process was so volatile and so toxic that it had to be manufactured on a seven story wall-less superstructure in the middle of a 160 acre field. All of the production was then loaded on railway tankcars for shippment to Dow Chemical of Midland Mi.for addition of solvents and packaging for shipment to the military. At the close of the war, the superstructure was dismantled, and it, and all associated equipment, tools etc. were buried in a huge clay lined disposal pit on the site. The site remains a Toxic hot spot to this day and all of the surrounding neighborhood has water piped into them as the groundwater is highly contaminated. From '82-'93 my father ran a chlorine plant's maintainence department on the persian gulf, about 25 kliks from Kuwait City in Saudi. In 1997 he fell ill with the small cell cancer that has become consistent, though unrecognized by our government, as due to exposure to AO or its components. I know this as I was a service officer for the Am Legion Post here in my  town, and have seen the wreckage that this stuff left in its wake. I am an Non Combatant, US Navy, Vietnam Era vet, ( Commonly refferred to as a "rear echelon puke" ), who salutes and thanks you for your service. Hope you are well, and look forward to your Photo posts as you are quite knowledgeable on the subject. God Bless, Jed
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That quote sounds like an AFL-CIO or UAW speech opposing robotization in the plants but I am unfamiliar with the source. You might query People's Tribune (Online Edition) -  Email: pt@noc.org. They might be able to pin it down for you. I hopoe this is helpful to you.
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Argumentative??? Sure my...my father in law\nLoL...sorry...he's really getting on my nerves right now\n\nYou could approach it from the standpoint of the good that comes out of it, i.e. lottery funded educational programs, how it boosts the local economy, and so forth\n\ngood luck--hope that helps
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Have you thought about Arbonne International? It's an excellent opportunity, but it's NOT a get-rich-quick scheme! It DOES take work. It's a European Health & Wellness company that's been around for 26 years, but is just now starting to take off. It's taking the country by storm!  The products are phenomenal...herbally and botanically based, never tested on animals or contain animal products or by-products (vegan approved), no mineral oil, and MANY more unique characteristics.  My team's marketing strategy does NOT include giving home parties (who has time?). It's worth your time to check it out. Check out the link and e-mail me if you’d like more information.  Good luck with whatever you choose!
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Market it to intellectuals. Some student at my school (chemists, I think) proposed that we use the excess grease from the dining halls to be converted to ethanol on campus in a lab they built and now all of the facilities vehicles are running partially on ethanol (I think it's a mix of ethanol and gasoline, but I could be wrong). \n\nThe layperson isn't going to be interested in ethanol until it becomes mainstream. The best bet is to start getting Universities and Hosiptals to run their vehicles (ambulances, security vehicles, construction vehicles). \n\nAlso, it would be sweet if the government supported ethanol usage by providing tax incentives for these companies (like you get if you buy a hybrid car). It's really very frustrating because ethanol production is so inexpensive. I feel your pain.
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I agree that you should be able to harvest fish and game on your privately owned land, and I see no problem if landowners are exempt from game licensing and seasons.  The land is yours and your farming analogy is compelling.\n\nI do believe, however, that there needs to be some limitation to your activity.  The minimal level of regulation that I would like to see is that endangered species be protected.  But I also think it would be reasonable to have bag limits or a restriction against commercial uses, i.e. harvests would be limited to personal use.
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nope\nbecause common sense to a farmer is not commom sense to a city slicker\nthe problem is, everyone should agree with me and they dont\nits so sad\n:-)\n\npeace