Word of Mouth blog

by Care Leah
I think it curious, in light of PHEE’S expressed desire to encourage others to personally and creatively participate in this website, that responding with an immediate host’s critique appears to pre-empt just that very opportunity. As I mentioned, the host sets the tone and then influences which way visitors are inclined to follow. [...]

by phee
I have coined a name for another Hornby disorder. (Schuyler, we lost that post in the blog crash… Would you re-submit it? The one about the Hornby disorders? Thanks!)
"Pre-Post-Summer-Stress-Syndrome”.
That’s the stress of being way too busy trying to make a living for the whole year and trying to cram too much into the last [...]

by Care Leah
"Is the nice man with the big knife here to butter our toast for us?" OR More Than One Issue Is At Issue HereIn many remote isolated settings there is a certain well documented pattern which seems to recur over and over again, be it on native reservations, that reminder of our collective abiding shame, [...]

For what it is worth, the Gore movie mentions this site:
http://www.climatecrisis.net
and then there is this.  both scenarios are possible in that the last ice age happened overnight after a period of warming….wooly mamouths found with daisies in their mouths
http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/science/recordtemp2005.html
submitted by Care Leah
Tags: global warming, climate change

by Care Leah
It looks a bit like I may have struck a a match and then lit a fire under the fire ban regulations question, while trying to bring a little light to the entire question of island safety. 
Anyone out there happen to remember the terrifying Helliwell fire a few years back, started by one [...]

This is to give you a heads-up that we will be continuing the community process begun in the Spring to take a proactive approach to tourism on Hornby.
Usually at the end of the summer we breathe a sigh of relief and carry on with our lives one way or another.
This year, HICEEC is suggsting we [...]

Here are some of the posts submitted while I was gone… I’m way behind so I’m going to post them as links and you can go out to the original websites to read the articles. These are all from the same submitter, Care Leah (thanks, Care).
First, about Morgellons Disease: Modern global plague? ADHD? All [...]

I’ve been following the Aids is a hoax thing since Dr. Usher gave me a copy of Peter Duesberg’s paper in 1988. Numerous groups like HEAL have arisen in that time, but the funding to keep the deadly charade going just increases. This video is a great intro for people who don’t have the time [...]

If the money we give to developing countries as ‘aid’ has to be funneled back into our own economy, then how does it help their economies? It’s just a band-aid to make us look generous while making sure we get most of it back in the end. What a crock.- Phee
from ipsnews.net
by Thalif Deen
UNITED NATIONS, [...]

Gold for thought.- Care Leah
from Rense.com
By Richard RussellThe Russell Report8-23-6
"By any traditional valuation, housing prices at the end of 2005 were 30% to 50% too high. Others have pointed this out, but few had the nerve to state the obvious. Even if wages and GDP grow, the national median price of housing will probably fall [...]