I am going down to the City Hall in Santa Cruz Monday to submit a proposal instituting a holiday recognizing 'Me'! Why not? We are living in a very 'Me' oriented culture, it only makes sense. Wouldn't it be nice to take that nationally recognized day off, to go wherever you would like to go by yourself? Paid 'me' vacation? We consume more in this country than any other country on Earth. We consume and recklessly pollute so much that we are disrupting the balance of life on this planet. For our 3 hundred million residents, we consume 25 % of all resources! Because of this, is there any wonder that other countries view Americans as spoiled, fat, lazy, gullible and now..because of greenhouse emmissions, and Bush's bible, 'the dummies guide to tyranny', dangerous! Since when does being rich, plentiful, easily led and Empirically driven automatically qualify one as foolish, fat, lazy and ignorant? It's not what you have but what you do with it. Or what you allow others to do with it. We have great potential with our food industry yet we enable our GMO companies to experiment on us with technology that is untested and without labeling. We allow our corporate food companies to subject millions of animals to extremely abusive conditions. We allow our medical companies to run roughshod over people both by over medicating them, while undercutting their medical coverage for life threatening conditions. Now we are enabling the mass starvation of hundreds of millions of people around the world, not because of a lack of food but because multi-national food companies can make even more of a profit raising prices within the false promise of bio-fuel production. We could produce other products such as switchgrass for bio-fuel, but using corn and other food commoditites will reap greater profits and that is the only thing that matters to a corporation. We could lead the world in green technology but choose to engage in searching for other equally polluting, higher profit technology. We know that there is a tremendous amount of fraud and corruption in our political and electoral process but most of us do nothing to protest. The American public is showing signs of intelligence by giving Bush the lowest approval rating of any President in the history of this country, but we are still enabling this rape of the people and the land to continue. We feel a helplessness! We hear this from everybody. Helpless with our families, communities, with our politics and within ourselves. How many of us feel we are living the lives we would like to live? We compromise ourselves every time we take a drug, turn on a t.v. to just forget about it all. We have become addicted to our helplessness! We are becoming everything that our big brother state would hope for us to be. Easily led by fear, addicted to drugs and numbed by the cathode God television. We all are being corporatized for our protection. It's nothing new. Fear, drugs and distraction has been the basic 101 class for power politics since the dawn of civilization. With chaos comes more state control. This is a path we can no longer afford to take. If we hope to change our politics and the world, to bring upon a more peaceful and bountiful future with the little time there is to do it, we need to begin to with ourselves. Be active! Mean what you say and know what you mean. The truth shall set you free especially when you become sick of your own hypocrisy. Learn to maintain a healthy lifestyle and project this with others. Get to know the real news. Know the facts then make a difference in your community and then the world. Take the time to look within your 'Me' and be a possitive force, then 'We' can all get together and more effectively change this planet. To do this all you need to do is help to institute that 'Me' holiday that can and will someday change this planet in a direction that will let us all work together at last. I'm finished now...

There have recently been sightings of 'Creatures of the night' in the Santa Cruz area. The City officials have requested that the citizens of Santa Cruz County be on the lookout for the tell tale signs of people that exhibit Vampire like tendencies. This includes overly greasd and slicked back hair, long teeth and displays a tendency to peer longingly down your neck. If you live in or around the city of Santa Cruz and would like to help kill blood sucking Vampire scum on a new T.V. show, leave your contact # in my mail box. We are also looking for Vampire types who have always wanted to be staked but have been to shy to ask or just haven't had the opportunity to be with a partner that kinky, here is your chance! Stay tuned for more updates. This T.V. show will appear primarily online. T.L.Martin

Many happy oinks going out to all of those piggies fighting the moth spraying (Human experimental spraying). A judge postponed the spraying until more tests can be done. Also, the state has failed to prove it is indeed an emergency. To date no damage has been done to warrant an emergncy status spraying except for the unknown health hazards of the spray itself. They say that the spray dosn't hurt humans but no tests have been conclusive to this end. Much like GMO's, no real testing has been done, just lip service repeating over and over the mantra don't worry, trust us and consume. Corporate industry seems so eager to make guinea pigs of people while making their millions. Another development, in the Santa Cruz weekly paper The 'Good Times', they have classified the tree sitters protesting U.C.S.C. expansion as the "worst protest". Their basic reasoning for this is that the public is already aware of the issue and it's now overkill. Seems not a stretch to imagine that if we held this attitude for everything we could protest that the powers that are being protested would find it much easier to get their way. Especially when considering that the attention span of the American public is about 30 seconds. What is the value of a few thousand redwood trees, not to mention a town that can't adequately accomodate the student increase. What would be the point of treesitters in a tree for a week? A protest is most effective and is only effective when a point is being driven home again and again. Would the moth spraying have been halted if we stopped protesting after a week because the public had become aware of it? Activism is only effective when applying continued pressure. We need activism now more than ever! To label the Treesitters as a 'Worst' protest is not only being ignorant of the finer ethics of protesting but is also playing up to the corporate interests that are needing to be held accountable! Research the issues, become active and be respective of yourself, others and Mother Earth.

Good morning fellow piggies! Here's the latest 'Piggie confessions'!. The other day while rolling in mudd and sipping a 'slop on the beach' margarita double, I realized my slop level light was coming on. When looking for good slop, you don't need to go to any of those fancy 5 star slop palaces. Just find an alley that has some pizza joints throwing their trash into them. Pizza crusts and wilted ranch dressing drenched lettuce!...Yummmm! Remember not to go rolling in mudd right after frolicking in slop. Mudd and slop mixed together can lead to a heidtened state of nirvana for a pig and can cause never ending squeeling. Very sad! My favorite place for rooting in the Santa Cruz area is any vacation home that belongs to any state of Calif. Dept. of Agriculture employee. They usually have the Moth spraying planes go around their property so you don't have to be worried about rootin in soil tainted with various questionable phermones. Which brings me to the point this morning. Since the moth spraying began in this area, the piggies and all of the other wildlife both on the land and in the ocean say 'No' to the spraying going on. We are already awash in your chemicals and pesticides. The other day I was being stalked by a Peacock. If you've never had a Peacock throw open it's love feathers and come running toward you like a love struck wild Banshee, believe me you don't want to go through that! That's what this moth spray does with the funny phermone cocktail in it. It's meant to confuse moths sexually so they won't know who to do the 'happy' with but it also has any number of untold effects on nature. The state has not done adequate testing and that is mostly what all of the fuss is about. If any of you piggies are not aware of this issue go to lbam.com and get involved. That is all for now. Next on 'Pig confessions', how to get Peacock feathers out of your -------!

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