Genuine Hype

Well I’m about to get sick
From watchin’ my TV
Been checkin’ out the news
Until my eyeballs fail to see
I mean to say that every day
Is just another rotten mess
And when it’s gonna change, my friend
Is anybody’s guess

So I’m watchin’ and I’m waitin’
Hopin’ for the best
Even think I’ll go to prayin’
Every time I hear ‘em sayin’
That there’s no way to delay
That trouble comin’ every day
No way to delay
That trouble comin’ every day

Wednesday I watched the riot . . .
Seen the cops out on the street
Watched ‘em throwin’ rocks and stuff
And chokin’ in the heat
Listened to reports
About the whisky passin’ ’round
Seen the smoke and fire
And the market burnin’ down
Watched while everybody
On his street would take a turn
To stomp and smash and bash and crash
And slash and bust and burn

And I’m watchin’ and I’m waitin’
Hopin’ for the best
Even think I’ll go to prayin’
Every time I hear ‘em sayin’
That there’s no way to delay
That trouble comin’ every day
No way to delay
That trouble comin’ every day

Well, you can cool it,
You can heat it . . .
‘Cause, baby, I don’t need it . . .
Take your TV tube and eat it
‘N all that phony stuff on sports
‘N all the unconfirmed reports
You know I watched that rotten box
Until my head begin to hurt
From checkin’ out the way
The newsman say they get the dirt
Before the guys on channel so-and-so

And further they assert
That any show they’ll interrupt
To bring you news if it comes up
They say that if the place blows up
They will be the first to tell,
Because the boys they got downtown
Are workin’ hard and doin’ swell,
And if anybody gets the news
Before it hits the street,
They say that no one blabs it faster
Their coverage can’t be beat

And if another woman driver
Gets machine-gunned from her seat
They’ll send some joker with a brownie
And you’ll see it all complete

So I’m watchin’ and I’m waitin’
Hopin’ for the best
Even think I’ll go to prayin’
Every time I hear ‘em sayin’
That there’s no way to delay
That trouble comin’ every day
No way to delay
That trouble comin’ every day

Hey, you know something people?
I’m not black
But there’s a whole lots a times
I wish I could say I’m not white

Well, I seen the fires burnin’
And the local people turnin’
On the merchants and the shops
Who used to sell their brooms and mops
And every other household item
Watched the mob just turn and bite ‘em
And they say it served ‘em right
Because a few of them are white,
And it’s the same across the nation
Black and white discrimination
Yellin’ “You can’t understand me!”
‘N all that other jazz they hand me
In the papers and TV and
All that mass stupidity
That seems to grow more every day
Each time you hear some nitwit say
He wants to go and do you in
Because the color of your skin
Just don’t appeal to him
(No matter if it’s black or white)
Because he’s out for blood tonight

You know we got to sit around at home
And watch this thing begin
But I bet there won’t be many live
To see it really end
‘Cause the fire in the street
Ain’t like the fire in the heart
And in the eyes of all these people
Don’t you know that this could start
On any street in any town
In any state if any clown
Decides that now’s the time to fight
For some ideal he thinks is right
And if a million more agree
There ain’t no Great Society
As it applies to you and me
Our country isn’t free
And the law refuses to see
If all that you can ever be
Is just a lousy janitor
Unless your uncle owns a store
You know that five in every four
Just won’t amount to nothin’ more
Gonna watch the rats go across the floor
And make up songs about being poor.

Frank Zappa

BostonWoodPellets.com and the advantages of Wood Pellets

Advantages that Wood Pellets have over more common sources of heat:

• Reduces our dependence on oil and gas.
• Pellet fuel cost is not dictated by world events; therefore cost is more affordable and predictable.
• Since pellet stove emissions are so low, they can be burned in most areas, even those with burning restrictions.
• Pellet fuel has been proven to provide the cleanest burn of any solid fuel. 
• Only minimal clearance is needed for appliance installation. Because of the near total combustion (around 98.5%) pellet stoves produce virtually no creosote. This also allows installation of a pellet stove by direct vent… without a chimney!
• Sustainable source of fuel.
• Reduces waste destined for landfills and the cost of disposing waste is greatly reduced.
• One ton of wood pellets has the heat value of about one and a half cords of wood and stacks easily in one third the space! This makes it possible to easily store fuel for the entire season.
• A 40-pound bag of Boston Wood Pellets produces on average approximately 3 ounces of ash.
• An environmentally superior source of heat, CO₂ neutral both in combustion and storage (see information below).
• Wood pellets are a clean, environmentally friendly, natural, renewable fuel resource.

CO2 Emissions

How many lbs. of carbon emissions can be saved by burning one ton of wood pellets

• if you heat with electricity you will save 3323 lbs.
• if you heat with oil you will save 943 lbs.
• if you heat with LPG you will save 709 lbs.
• if you heat with natural gas you will save 549 lbs.

The average household would use 2.67 tons of pellets per heating season, saving 8872 lbs. of carbon emissions if you heat with electricity, 2518 lbs. if you heat with oil, 1893 lbs. if you heat with LPG, and 1466 lbs. if you heat with natural gas.

If every household converted to wood pellet fuel (or equivalent renewable source) for heating, the total carbon emissions of the United States would drop by more than 8%.

WebPageAdvisor.com is a venture of JBS Partners founder Jim Spencer. Jim built his career in web design and Internet consulting. You can find Jim on twitter most hours of the day dispensing sage advice and pithy insight on social media.

I have worked with Jim in many capacities, both as an advisor and advised. What really rocked me was our conversation this week on Word press and plug ins. Jim helped me crystallize a salient Internet solution to a problem that has been nagging at me for months now.

After modifying a script and noodling with the plug-in for a couple of hours I hit the jackpot. I am not talking about saving hours of work here. We are looking at weeks and weeks of work boiled down to a few hours. The espresso of page building. Tight, compact, elegant and a totally migration ready solution.

So it is with this post that I laud Jim and heap as much good karma towards him as possible. As I mentioned you can find him on twitter @fairminder and his site WebPageAdvisor.com is worthwhile checking out as is Jims advice. Jim has always understood the old axiom that we rise or fall together and has made teamwork with others job number one.

I could continue on with more glowing accounts of Jim Spencer, but will instead simply say that I really do think the world of him and respect him greatly.