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Manufacturing

We need to make things in the USA so that we can buy products that are “made in the USA”.  Most people credit War with ending the “Great Depression”, I think it was the manufacturing that boomed because of the war, not the war itself. We need to make stuff and lots of it to turn around this economy.

Windmills

• American Windmills is dedicated to the preservation, restoration and sale of the Old Farm Style Water Pumping Windmill and Hand Pump systems.
• Aermotor Windmill Company Inc.- Economical Energy Wind Water Pump.
• Windmills A Museum for the American Style Water Pumping Windmill and Related Exhibits on Wind Electric.
• Vintage Windmills On Line Magazine - dedicated to the history, preservation, and restoration of the American Style Windmill.

Fuel Cells

United States Fuel Cell Council - USFCC
The US Fuel Cell Council is an industry association dedicated to fostering the commercialization of fuel cells in the United States. Our membership includes producers of all types of fuel cells, major suppliers, automakers and their suppliers.
http://www.usfcc.com/

What is a fuel cell?
A fuel cell is an electrochemical device that combines hydrogen and oxygen to produce electricity, with water and heat as its by-product.
Source: Fuel Cells 2000 - a non-profit project which provides educational information on fuel cells to the public, the media, and policy makers.

2008 Presidential Election

Predictions

• Democrats will take control of the Whitehouse, the Congress & the Senate.
• John Edwards / Joe Biden most likely democratic winners.
• Mike Huckabee / Mitt Romney most likely republican losers.
• Democratic candidates will win by a huge margin.

The republicans only real hope of victory would be a John McCain / Ron Paul ticket. But this seems very unlikely since the republican party today is so much more about “religion” than anything else. This over focus on religion will cause the republican party to implode. Religion should be a personal matter not a public policy or party platform.

change.gov The Obama-Biden Transition Team

Optimism is contagious

Optimism Versus Pessimism
By: Gary M. Miller, Tue Nov 13th, 2007
In this fast changing, struggle-filled world, there are two kinds of people; those who see only the bad and those who see a whole lot more. Which person are you? It’s easy to see the bad and you don’t have to be a rocket scientist to know there are problems out there. It’s harder to see beyond the bad and into a world of promise and a better life. What it basically boils down to is, are you a pessimist or an optimist? You can be one or the other but you can’t be both.

The Power Of Optimism
By: Gary M. Miller, Tue Nov 13th, 2007
Most people don’t believe that their lives are the result of their own actions. They see themselves as victims, having been accidentally thrown into a life that they didn’t choose. They didn’t “choose” their parents or the country they were born in. They didn’t “choose” to be born without money or without the prettiest face on the block. Life seems unfair to them and full of bad people who are always looking to cheat and take advantage of everyone else. Does this attitude sound familiar to you? It should sound familiar because it is an extremely common attitude and probably makes up the majority of the way people think. For you, however, it doesn’t have to be this way. There is another way to think and it is called optimism.

Optimism
By: Anna White, Tue Jul 25th, 2006
How many times have you heard someone say, “Hey, cheer up!” or “Turn that frown upside-down!”? Unconsciously we all seem to know that optimism is a virtue and that a negative outlook is something to be concerned about. And did you know that there are actually a host of concrete reasons why this is so?