Earth Hour Saturday

I received the following email from the Center for American Progress Fund:

This Saturday [29 March 2008], a global "lights out" event called Earth Hour is being held to call for immediate action on climate change. Nearly 200 cities and millions of people worldwide are expected to participate by turning off home and building lights from 8:00 pm - 9:00 pm local time. Chicago, Atlanta, San Francisco and Phoenix are hosting city-wide events, and landmarks including the Golden Gate Bridge, Niagara Falls, the Sears Tower and Wrigley Field will turn off nonessential lights for the hour. Our friends at the World Wildlife Fund, who are organizing this event, expect it to be "among the largest global calls for climate change action ever."

(Via Center for American Progress Fund.)

Click the emblem to go to a cool website. Being in the dark can be enlightening and it's easy to do! Tell your friends.

37 minutes

Barack Obama, gave a speech today that was supposed to deal with the comments made by Reverend Wright. And it did. And more. It was one of the most important speeches in American history, because it opened the door for dialog about race, between races. Not only that, it was about more than race.

My biggest concern is that people will only hear the short cuts that news programs decide to air based on their bias and POV. Do yourself a favor and go over to Watergate Summer and click on the title. Enigma4Ever has a link to the entire 37 minutes of history.

Moving to strike Iran

From Radio Free Europe

Commentary: Why Fallon Resigned: "The White House has formally denied that U.S. President George W. Bush forced the premature retirement this week of Admiral William Fallon as head of Central Command, after the publication of a magazine article which depicted the admiral as a lone voice against a U.S. military strike on Iran."

Doesn't this sound vaguely familiar? Doesn't it remind you of General Eric Shinseki who argued against invading Iraq?

Meanwhile, if you think the right wing has learned anything, you'd be in for a surprise. A small clip from Michael Barone at the U.S. News & World Report, suggests that Fallon is guilty of insubordination. What does that make the adminstration guilty of?

Clinton destroying Democrats

Apparently, I'm not the only one who feels that Clinton's campaign behavior is divisive and could destroy the Democratic Party. She started with the Rove-like response on 60 Minutes to feed fear:



And from Caffeinated Politics:

When the New York Senator did not denounce the ‘religion issue’ on “60 Minutes” this past weekend concerning Obama when offered the chance to do so, she chose her path. Last week when Clinton said that both she and John McCain were qualified to lead the country, but that Obama only knew how to make speeches, she not only gave an endorsement to the GOP nominee, but also bloodied Obama who will most likely be the eventual nominee. It was a shameful move on her part.

Enigma4Ever has a suggestion that we contact the Democratic Party, and let them know that we think Clinton is busting up the party, and that may explain the decrease in donations.

testing YouTube

Does this work?

open letter

Michael Moore has written an open letter to the Treasury Secretary in response to an investigation into him about a trip to Cuba as part of a documentary he is doing on health care in the United States.

real serious

I should know better.

How could I base my opinion on anything from television reporting. It wasn't until I actually read the story today that I found out that they were, indeed, pretty serious about causing harm/death. If all that is reported is true, then my thanks and gratitude goes to the government.

how serious?

Is it just me, or does anyone else see this most recent terrorists discovery as a little overwrought? I mean how serious could these people have been, if they had to take the video tape to a store to have it put on a DVD? How serious could they be, if they were playing "war games" with paintballs?

I just want to know, how serious was this threat?