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the reason why

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2008-08-10T22:55:00.000-07:00

testing...

i couldn't agree more...

2008-01-06T13:58:00.000-08:00

January 6, 2008
McGovern: Time to impeach Bush
Posted: 03:05 PM ET

McGovern is calling for Bush and Cheney to be impeached.
WASHINGTON (CNN) – George McGovern, the Democratic Party's 1972 nominee for president, is calling on Congress to impeach President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney.
And in an editorial in Sunday's Washington Post, McGovern writes the case for impeaching the current president is "far stronger" than the case made against former President Richard Nixon — the man who soundly defeated McGovern in the general election match up.
"Bush and Cheney are clearly guilty of numerous impeachable offenses," McGovern writes. "They have repeatedly violated the Constitution. They have transgressed national and international law. They have lied to the American people time after time.
"Their conduct and their barbaric policies have reduced our beloved country to a historic low in the eyes of people around the world," he continued.
McGovern, a former three-term senator who ran for president on a fiercely anti-war platform, also called the administration's policy in Iraq a "a murderous, illegal, nonsensical war" in violation of international law.
"This reckless disregard for life and property, as well as constitutional law, has been accompanied by the abuse of prisoners, including systematic torture, in direct violation of the Geneva Conventions of 1949," he added.
But McGovern acknowledged there is little bipartisan support for an impeachment effort, blaming "superficial partisanship" among Republicans, and a "a lack of courage and statesmanship on the part of too many Democratic politicians."
– CNN Ticker Producer Alexander Mooney

Help stop summer gas price gouging

2007-05-22T20:59:00.000-07:00

Can you face another summer where a day trip to the lake or the beach costs you an arm and a leg? It's shaping up to be just that if we don't ask Congress to stand up to Big Oil now.

But there is a bill in the House this week that could make gas price gouging a federal crime, so we don't pay more while the oil companies rake in record profits.

I signed a petition to urge my representative to pass this bill this week -- can you join me at the link below?
http://pol.moveon.org/stoppricegouging/

Thanks!

Blair, Arnie 'global warming pact'

2006-07-31T15:55:00.000-07:00

With an inept president and a do-nothing congress, it takes the State of California to enter into an International treaty with Britian - to begin a Global Warming Pact. Read full article here - or just summary below:
A main target of the agreement between Britain and California is the carbon from cars, trucks and other modes of transportation. Transportation accounts for an estimated 41 percent of California's greenhouse gas emissions and 28 percent of Britain's.
Schwarzenegger has called on California to cut its greenhouse gas emissions to 2000 levels by 2010. California was the 12th largest source of greenhouse gases in the world last year, bigger than most nations.
Blair has called on Britain to reduce carbon emissions to 60 percent of its 1990 levels by 2050. Britain also has been looking at imposing individual limits on carbon pollution. People who accumulate unused carbon allowances -- for example, by driving less, or switching to less polluting vehicles -- could sell them to people who exceed their allowances -- for example by driving more.
Bush has resisted Blair's efforts to make carbon reduction a top international priority. After taking office, Bush reversed a 2000 campaign pledge to regulate carbon dioxide emissions, then withdrew U.S. support from the Kyoto treaty requiring industrialized nations to cut their greenhouse gases to below 1990 levels.
The United States is responsible for a quarter of the world's global warming pollution. Bush administration officials argue that requiring cuts in greenhouse gases would cost the U.S. economy 5 million jobs.

Right On from Andrew Sullivan's Blog

2006-06-07T19:47:00.000-07:00

An Iranian Dissident's Credo
07 Jun 2006 05:11 pm
Akbar Ganji was jailed by the mullahs in Tehran for six years for his political beliefs, and demonstrated his commitment by hunger strikes. What are those beliefs? Here is a new translation of a speech he once gave. It's really a statement of classical liberalism, what Neil Tennant called "dear old, dreary liberal rights." By "liberal" I do not mean the infantilization of people under a cloying and growing welfare state. I mean the liberalism of the founding fathers, of John Locke, of the American Constitution. And part of that liberalism, according to Ganji, is as follows:
Liberals always accept religion in the private sphere. They protested the unity of the institutions of religion and government and still do. They are not anti-religion. Freedom of religion is a basic principle of liberalism. Contrary to orthodox Marxists who completely reject religion, even from the private sphere of individuals (since they considered it the opium of the masses), liberals believe that everyone must have the right to set up his life according to his religious beliefs. But the civic code must not be based on any particular religious teachings. It should guarantee the freedom of religion in the personal life and morality. Incidentally, a law based on the teachings of a particular religion is unable to guarantee the freedom of all religions.
Sometimes it takes a man living in an actual theocracy to remind us to be on guard against it, even with the blessing of the First Amendment. It gives me great hope to realize that for years, in some vile Iranian jail, someone knew his John Locke. Even while too many Americans have found it so easy to forget him.

Read this...

2006-04-04T13:54:00.000-07:00

and look at the beautiful pictures.
something to think about. If we were to drill in ANWR, it would only provide enough oil to power the US for 90 days - yep, only 90 days! is it worth the destruction of pristine habitat for hundreds of species, to power us up for such a short time?

Take a Tour

2006-04-04T13:48:00.000-07:00

of the Arctic Wildlife Refuge

Oak Trees

2006-03-31T13:24:00.000-08:00

like a hunched-back old lady walking with a cane

like wicked old wizards whispering ancient spells

guarding the golden liquid that comes from these vines

I Love Oak Trees

2006-03-31T12:58:00.000-08:00

they dot the landscape and remind me of so many different things...
like a skinny teenager with an afro
like an army of soldiers approaching your fort (where you ride great single-track in their shade)

Words to Inspire

2005-11-04T17:08:00.000-08:00

"The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it
must turn over to the next generation increased, and not impaired, in value."

- Theodore Roosevelt

Stop Global Warming!

2005-10-22T14:58:00.000-07:00

Please join me in this virtual march on Washington - or just sign up so I can have more peeps after my name - check it out!

http://www.savebiogems.org/arctic/

2005-10-22T14:54:00.000-07:00

Protect Mother Earth

Love Mother Earth

2005-10-21T20:56:00.000-07:00