This email chain came to me from a friend. I thought I would get more exposure by posting it here rather than sending it to a few friends.
You stay up for 16 hours
He stays up for days on end.

You take a warm shower to help you wake up.
He goes days or weeks without running water.

You complain of a ‘headache’, and call in sick..
He gets shot at as others are hit, and keeps moving forward.

You put on your anti war/don’t support the troops shirt, and go meet up with your friends.
He still fights for your right to wear that shirt.

You make sure you’re cell phone is in your pocket.
He clutches the cross hanging on his chain next to his dog tags.

You talk trash about your ‘buddies’ that aren’t with you.
He knows he may not see some of his buddies again.

You walk down the beach, staring at all the pretty girls.
He patrols the streets, searching for insurgents and terrorists.

You complain about how hot it is.
He wears his heavy gear, not daring to take off his helmet to wipe his brow.

You go out to lunch, and complain because the restaurant got your order wrong.
He doesn’t get to eat today.

Your maid makes your bed and washes your clothes.
He wears the same things for weeks, but makes sure his weapons are clean.

You go to the mall and get your hair redone.
He doesn’t have time to brush his teeth today.

You’re angry because your class ran 5 minutes over.
He’s told he will be held over an extra 2 months.

You call your girlfriend and set a date for tonight.
He waits for the mail to see if there is a letter from home.

You hug and kiss your girlfriend, like you do everyday.
He holds his letter close and smells his love’s perfume.

You roll your eyes as a baby cries.
He gets a letter with pictures of his new child, and wonders if they’ll ever meet.

You criticize your government, and say that war never solves anything.
He sees the innocent tortured and killed by their own people and remembers why he is fighting.

You hear the jokes about the war, and make fun of men like him.
He hears the gunfire, bombs and screams of the wounded.

You see only what the media wants you to see.
He sees the broken bodies lying around him.

You are asked to go to the store by your parents. You don’t.
He does exactly what he is told even if it puts his life in danger.

You stay at home and watch TV.
He takes whatever time he is given to call, write home, sleep, and eat.

You crawl into your soft bed, with down pillows, and get comfortable.
He tries to sleep but gets woken by mortars and helicopters all night long.

If you support your troops, tell other people about this post.
If you don’t support your troops well, then don’t worry about it. You won’t die, your love life won’t be affected, and you won’t have the worst day ever.
You don’t have to tell others about this. It’s not like you know the men and women that are dying to preserve your rights. I do, and my respect and love for them knows no bounds.

REMEMBER our Troops, and do not forget them LATER
Lest we forget.

It was Thomas Edison, the great American inventor that invented modern inventing. Before, an invention could lie unused for years, until someone discovered a need for it, usually after the inventor died penniless.
So, it was determined that you have to tell people they have a need that they didn’t know that they had. And, you just so happened to have something that will fill that need.
I just saw an ad that is trying to sell us alternative fuel cars. You know, electric, ethanol and fuel cell.
All of these “alternative” cars don’t do anything but move the carbon emissions around without really saving the planet.
Let’s take them one at a time.
ELECTRIC. Instead of exhausting from gasoline, electric uses power generated by electric plants, which are most likely powered by, coal, oil and natural gas. Nuclear power, hydroelectric and wind power, the true non emissions power sources, consist of less than 7 percent of electricity produced in the US.
Now comes the inefficient part. Batteries take an average of twice the power to charge than they produce. In other words, for every watt-hour that the batteries give, it takes about two watt-hours to charge the battery back.
So, you have an inefficient method of charging, and you still have a carbon footprint because you’re still using fossil fuels.
ETHANOL. This is a worse idea, simply because there is so many unintended consequences. First of all, using corn is a bad idea. It takes almost a gallon and a half of diesel just to produce a gallon of ethanol. Then, you have to ship ethanol entirely by tanker truck, costing more diesel. No pipelines, because it evaporates too easily. Now comes the unintended consequences part. Everything on the farm eats corn as a primary part of their diet. And for every bushel that goes to ethanol, that is one less bushel that goes to feeding the animals. Thus, the cost of feeding the animals goes up. And so goes up the cost of food. Eggs, chicken, beef, pork. All more expensive. And we are supposedly saving fuel? At what cost?
FUEL CELL. This is the worst of the bunch. Not only do you have the drawbacks of electric, but it is even more inefficient because you have to electrolyze the water to get the hydrogen. Then, because of the gaseous properties of hydrogen means they cannot be kept under high pressure for very long. Because the molecule is so small, it has a tendency to leak on the molecular level through the vessel. So, you need to fill up on hydrogen on a regular basis no matter if you use it or not.
So, even these “green” cars still have a carbon footprint, even though you are being sold on the opposite.
It just irks me that these cars are being sold as not having a carbon footprint, when actually they have one.