I can run again. I can breathe. My voice is loud and I don’t have to clear my throat 800 times a day. One interesting fact is I can smell a person who’s smoked, and esp a lit cigarette from a long way off.

I wanted to share two #’s that I think about often, if nothing else…

1. If you smoke a pack of Marlboro’s per day, at $6 a pack, you are spending $2,190 a year killing yourself.

2. 20 cigarettes come in a pack. That’s 7,300 cigarettes per year, which is absolutely disgusting.

I realize this may come across hypocritical, being a former long time smoker and all, but I don’t think one can truly understand how good you’ll feel until you stop for a long period of time. I haven’t had one in a long long time and I won’t have another.Best of luck to the new quitters out there.

The first law of thermodynamics says that energy can be transformed, but not created or destroyed.  Assuming the law as fact, I begin looking for energy that was already created, only waiting to be harnessed, but not from the usual methods such as the wind, tides, sun, etc. The earth moving around the sun is an object in motion. Something’s energy put the earth into motion and if that object were to cease motion, we would see a dramatic event. We also know the earth rotates, there is a slight “wobble” known has the Chandler wobble. The following is from Wikipedia.

“Richard Gross (2001) of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California, used computer simulations to discover the source of the Chandler Wobble. Gross found that two thirds of the ‘wobble’ was caused by fluctuating pressure on the sea bottom due to temperature and salinity changes and wind-driven changes in the circulation of the oceans. The remaining third is due to atmospheric fluctuations”

I then became very interested by energy we could use based on the earths rotation, polarity, and magnetism.  The following video is of Coral Castle in Homestead, Florida. As a lifelong Floridian, I’d heard about it as a teenager, but didn’t appreciate the idea at the time. It came across as more of a tourist Ripley’s type of place and not a possible scientific mecca. Check out the following videos and decide for yourself. I’m a firm believer that Edward Leedskalnin discovered the secrets of the pyramids and Stonehenge. You have a man who kept to himself, was very secretive, and had all the tools that many modern day theories use to attempt to prove the Atlantis Power Grid to be true.

Notice where Stonehenge and the pyramids are in relation to the points. Also notice that Florida, would be just on the edge of the mid-Atlantic point.  If anyone has experience with the above topics or would like to add an opinion, please feel free to share a comment.

I’ve been reading a lot of political books lately as well as many on the economic collapse. Keep in mind, the previous years books were read by a different person. I make it a point to read at least 30 minutes each night before bed.

2011 Book List:

• The Big Short – Michael Lewis
• Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America – Matt Taibbi
• Pitchforks and Torches – Keith Olbermann
• It Takes a Pillage: An Epic Tale of Power, Deceit, and Untold Trillions – Nomi Prins
• Twitter Power – Joel Comm
• The Most Dangerous Place: Pakistan’s Lawless Frontier – Imtiaz Gul
• The Lies of Sarah Palin: The Untold Story Behind Her Relentless Quest for Power – Geoffrey Dunn

I’ve started 2 others and will add those as I completed.

In New York’s East Village graffiti has made one couple very happy. Jeff Gurwin, 28, proposed to his girlfriend Caitlin Fitzsimons, 27, by having a mural painted on Avenue A and 2nd Street. The mural will be up for a month so if you’re in NYC you should definitely go see it and remind yourself that romance isn’t dead. Did she say yes? Find out in the video below.

I’m alone because the other divers with me wouldn’t get in the water without Hazmat suits on, and with my mask oiled over and the water already dark, I don’t dive deep. It’s quiet, and to be honest scary, with extremely low visibility. I spend just 10 minutes swimming around taking pictures, taking video. I want people to see the spill in a new way, a way they haven’t yet. I also want to get out of the water. Badly. I make my way to the back of the boat unaware of just how covered I am. To be honest, I probably look a little like one of those poor pelicans we’ve all been seeing for days now. The oil is thick and sticky, almost like a cake batter. It does not wipe off. You have to scrape it off, in layers, until you finally get close to the skin. Then you pour on some Dawn dishwashing soap and scrub. I think to myself: No fish, no bird, no turtle would ever be able to clean this off itself. If any animal were to end up in this same puddle, there is almost no way it could escape. The cleaning process goes on for half an hour before the captain will even think about letting me back in the boat. I’m clean, so I stand up. But the bottoms of my feet still had oil, and I fall back in the water. The process starts again. Another 30 minutes of cleaning, and finally I’m ready to step into the boat.

http://www2.tbo.com/content/2010/jun/09/ap-journalist-dives-gulf-can-only-see-oil/news-breaking/

http://www.ifitwasmyhome.com/

Enter you home city and you’ll see how large the spill is in relation to where you live. It pretty amazing that it would cover the entire state of Florida and them some…already. Check it out, its a neat tool for a horrible situation.

The Senate just voted, 96-0, to audit the Federal Reserve. Soon, we will know what the Federal Reserve did with the trillions of dollars that it handed out during the financial crisis.

A few months ago, such a vote would have been unthinkable. One senior Treasury official claimed he would fight to stop an audit ‘at all costs’. Senator Chris Dodd predicted that an audit would spell economic doom, while Senator Judd Gregg attacked accountability for the Fed as “pandering populism”.

Today, both the Treasury Department and Senator Dodd support this amendment. As for Judd Gregg, he was just on the floor of the Senate discussing — of all people — 19th century populist Presidential candidate William Jennings Bryan.

What happened?

• Alan Grayson’s diary