Running Gore.
Wednesday, February 28, 2007
Monday, February 26, 2007
Here comes THE JOLLY GREEN GIANT!
1. OSCAR: CHECK! 2. NOBEL PEACE PRIZE: ______
3. GLOBAL WARMING CONCERTS: _____
4. DEMOCRAT PARTY NOMINATION: ______
1 DOWN, 3 TO GO!
The former vice president will be in the spotlight again with three major events in the next five months: --On March 21, he’ll star at global-warming hearings in both the House and Senate, testifying before a committee he once served on. He will be the sole witness before the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works. On the House side, he will testify at a Joint Subcommittee Hearing on Climate Change, held by the Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality, and the Science and Technology Subcommittee on Energy and Environment.
It's going to be Jolly Green Giant 24-7
Tuesday, February 20, 2007
Friday, February 16, 2007
Oh God, I'm laughing so hard I might hurt myself!
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Environmental activists led by former U.S. Vice President Al Gore announced plans on Thursday for a worldwide string of pop concerts in July featuring Sheryl Crow, Red Hot Chili Peppers and scores of others to mobilize action to stop global warming.
Can these idiots get any more ridiculous?
Weren't these the same clowns that put together LIVE -AID to stop African hunger? Ya been to Africa lately?
If an idiot Liberal has a problem..............Throw a concert!
You want to help farmers (like they need it) have FARM-AID
Africans are starving. Have a concert and call it LIVE-AID.
A hurricane hits New Orleans. Have a concert!
Earth gets a little hot. Have a concert!
A meteorite is heading to Earth! We better have a concert...... and quick!
What a bunch of phonies!
BTW: Al Gore baby sure is staying busy busy busy.
An Oscar here. A Nobel Peace Prize there. Throw in a couple of hip concerts and this guy may lock-up the Dem. nomination. WHAT A GUY!
Can these idiots get any more ridiculous?
Weren't these the same clowns that put together LIVE -AID to stop African hunger? Ya been to Africa lately?
If an idiot Liberal has a problem..............Throw a concert!
You want to help farmers (like they need it) have FARM-AID
Africans are starving. Have a concert and call it LIVE-AID.
A hurricane hits New Orleans. Have a concert!
Earth gets a little hot. Have a concert!
A meteorite is heading to Earth! We better have a concert...... and quick!
What a bunch of phonies!
BTW: Al Gore baby sure is staying busy busy busy.
An Oscar here. A Nobel Peace Prize there. Throw in a couple of hip concerts and this guy may lock-up the Dem. nomination. WHAT A GUY!
Wednesday, February 14, 2007
THE PEOPLE'S PARADISE
Carlos swung his legs over the sea wall bordering one side of Havana's famous Malecon seafront promenade and looked on curiously as a 1957 Chevrolet with an open top slowed to allow its passengers to photograph the faded facade of a colonial building.
"They watch us and we watch them," he said with a resigned laugh as the tourists turned their cameras to capture the image of a young boy optimistically fishing in the oily waters.
A tourist horse and trap pass infront of a Che Guevara mural
"It's a little like being in a zoo," sighed Carlos, a 24-year-old literature student. "But that is the reality of life here. We are caged while the world looks on."
In the hushed tones that all Cubans adopt when they talk about their ailing leader Fidel Castro, who six months ago was forced to hand over the reins of power to his younger brother Raul. Carlos explained the continuing frustration of a nation still firmly under Communist rule.
"Fidel has starved us," he whispered. "Yes, there is a lack of food but it is more than that. We are starving for information, for opportunity, for freedom. We want to enjoy the same things as those people over there," he said as a fresh batch of tourists spilled out of the doors of a tour bus.
Cubans struggle to survive on an average wage of less than £10 a month to supplement the state rations which provide them with basics such as rice and beans and either one small bar of soap or tube of toothpaste a month.
Visiting foreigners can spend almost double that on a taxi ride to the airport or a meal in one of Old Havana's state-run restaurants.
"It sticks in the throat," says Oscar Espinosa, an independent economist and dissident who was jailed in 2003 for criticizing the regime's economic strategy and is now confined to his home on conditional release.
"Such obvious inequality in a country where for decades the people have labored in the mistaken belief that they are creating a classless society. The truth is we have created a paradise for tourists and those that live off them, but for the rest of us, daily life gets worse," he said
Cuba's society has been split into those with access to the CUC, the convertible currency used by tourists and sent in remittances from those abroad, and the majority of the population who must rely solely on their salary paid in Cuban pesos.
Castro introduced the dual currency in the 1990s as a means of the boosting the economy after the collapse of the Soviet Union when Cuba threw open its doors to foreign tourists. Last year almost 2.5 million foreign travelerss, mainly from Canada, Britain, Italy, Spain and Mexico, visited the Caribbean island.
The changes are credited with keeping the economy afloat but also created a vast and troublesome gap between the population of 11 million dividing those who have the convertible currency and those who don't.
"You can't buy anything with Cuban pesos," said Mr Espinosa. "Anything worth buying, soap, cooking oil, shoes, must all be purchased convertibles.
"We are in a situation where a bell hop or a chambermaid can earn many times the salary of a doctor or civil engineer. What incentive is there now to train to be such a thing?"
Mr Espinosa and many others hope that Castro's younger brother will be less inclined to rhetoric and more likely to address the main sources of complaints from Cubans: high food prices, the lack of transport and dilapidated housing.
Nowhere is the divide more noticeable than in the historic quarter of Old Havana where crumbling edifices are being carefully restored and converted into boutique hotels and high-price restaurants.
The cobbled streets and palm shaded squares, formerly the haunt of Ernest Hemingway and Graham Greene, are once again frequented by wealthy foreigners eager to sip Mojitos in pavement cafes.
But two blocks from Obispo Street with its newly opened designer shoe shops, Cuban children play barefoot in the shadow of crumbling tenement houses where a family of seven might share one room.
"They are doing a wonderful job making this place nice," said Susana Cruz sarcastically as she waited to collect her weekly ration of rice and beans.
"My sister used to live in a place that was falling down. Last year the government came and rebuilt the whole place top to bottom," she explained.
"My sister and her two young children live with me now in my place which is falling down. But you should go and visit her old place," she laughed. "It's a hotel now and I hear it has a lovely bar on the terrace where she used to hang out her clothes."
FROM: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/
"They watch us and we watch them," he said with a resigned laugh as the tourists turned their cameras to capture the image of a young boy optimistically fishing in the oily waters.
A tourist horse and trap pass infront of a Che Guevara mural
"It's a little like being in a zoo," sighed Carlos, a 24-year-old literature student. "But that is the reality of life here. We are caged while the world looks on."
In the hushed tones that all Cubans adopt when they talk about their ailing leader Fidel Castro, who six months ago was forced to hand over the reins of power to his younger brother Raul. Carlos explained the continuing frustration of a nation still firmly under Communist rule.
"Fidel has starved us," he whispered. "Yes, there is a lack of food but it is more than that. We are starving for information, for opportunity, for freedom. We want to enjoy the same things as those people over there," he said as a fresh batch of tourists spilled out of the doors of a tour bus.
Cubans struggle to survive on an average wage of less than £10 a month to supplement the state rations which provide them with basics such as rice and beans and either one small bar of soap or tube of toothpaste a month.
Visiting foreigners can spend almost double that on a taxi ride to the airport or a meal in one of Old Havana's state-run restaurants.
"It sticks in the throat," says Oscar Espinosa, an independent economist and dissident who was jailed in 2003 for criticizing the regime's economic strategy and is now confined to his home on conditional release.
"Such obvious inequality in a country where for decades the people have labored in the mistaken belief that they are creating a classless society. The truth is we have created a paradise for tourists and those that live off them, but for the rest of us, daily life gets worse," he said
Cuba's society has been split into those with access to the CUC, the convertible currency used by tourists and sent in remittances from those abroad, and the majority of the population who must rely solely on their salary paid in Cuban pesos.
Castro introduced the dual currency in the 1990s as a means of the boosting the economy after the collapse of the Soviet Union when Cuba threw open its doors to foreign tourists. Last year almost 2.5 million foreign travelerss, mainly from Canada, Britain, Italy, Spain and Mexico, visited the Caribbean island.
The changes are credited with keeping the economy afloat but also created a vast and troublesome gap between the population of 11 million dividing those who have the convertible currency and those who don't.
"You can't buy anything with Cuban pesos," said Mr Espinosa. "Anything worth buying, soap, cooking oil, shoes, must all be purchased convertibles.
"We are in a situation where a bell hop or a chambermaid can earn many times the salary of a doctor or civil engineer. What incentive is there now to train to be such a thing?"
Mr Espinosa and many others hope that Castro's younger brother will be less inclined to rhetoric and more likely to address the main sources of complaints from Cubans: high food prices, the lack of transport and dilapidated housing.
Nowhere is the divide more noticeable than in the historic quarter of Old Havana where crumbling edifices are being carefully restored and converted into boutique hotels and high-price restaurants.
The cobbled streets and palm shaded squares, formerly the haunt of Ernest Hemingway and Graham Greene, are once again frequented by wealthy foreigners eager to sip Mojitos in pavement cafes.
But two blocks from Obispo Street with its newly opened designer shoe shops, Cuban children play barefoot in the shadow of crumbling tenement houses where a family of seven might share one room.
"They are doing a wonderful job making this place nice," said Susana Cruz sarcastically as she waited to collect her weekly ration of rice and beans.
"My sister used to live in a place that was falling down. Last year the government came and rebuilt the whole place top to bottom," she explained.
"My sister and her two young children live with me now in my place which is falling down. But you should go and visit her old place," she laughed. "It's a hotel now and I hear it has a lovely bar on the terrace where she used to hang out her clothes."
FROM: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/
Tuesday, February 13, 2007
Playing With State Employee Pensions?
The latest fool to jump on the 'global warming' scare tactics is none other than our State Treasurer Richard Moore.
A group of US investors with more than $200bn in assets have accused 10 companies, including the oil giant ExxonMobil, the financial services group Wells Fargo and the utility TXU, of not doing enough to respond to global warming and climate change, in a sign of increasing shareholder activism on environmental issues.
The publication of the black list by Ceres, a coalition of state pension funds, institutional investors and environmental groups, coincided with the filing of shareholder motions at more than 35 companies, demanding action on a number of climate issues.
Mindy S. Lubber, president of Ceres, said: "Many US companies are confronting the risks and opportunities from climate change, but others are not responding adequately – and they may be compromising their long-term competitiveness and shareholder value as a result. We want all companies to understand the business impacts of climate change – and plan for it accordingly. It's what any corporate director would expect of their CEO."
"Those companies that are ignoring the serious risks posed by climate change do so at their own peril," said North Carolina State Treasurer Richard Moore, whose office manages more than $70bn in pension funds. "Acknowledging the business risks posed by climate change is just good business, and shareholders demand it."
Is Treasurer Moore theatening companies?
Is this fool willing to jeapordize state employees pension returns by investing 'green'?
A group of US investors with more than $200bn in assets have accused 10 companies, including the oil giant ExxonMobil, the financial services group Wells Fargo and the utility TXU, of not doing enough to respond to global warming and climate change, in a sign of increasing shareholder activism on environmental issues.
The publication of the black list by Ceres, a coalition of state pension funds, institutional investors and environmental groups, coincided with the filing of shareholder motions at more than 35 companies, demanding action on a number of climate issues.
Mindy S. Lubber, president of Ceres, said: "Many US companies are confronting the risks and opportunities from climate change, but others are not responding adequately – and they may be compromising their long-term competitiveness and shareholder value as a result. We want all companies to understand the business impacts of climate change – and plan for it accordingly. It's what any corporate director would expect of their CEO."
"Those companies that are ignoring the serious risks posed by climate change do so at their own peril," said North Carolina State Treasurer Richard Moore, whose office manages more than $70bn in pension funds. "Acknowledging the business risks posed by climate change is just good business, and shareholders demand it."
Is Treasurer Moore theatening companies?
Is this fool willing to jeapordize state employees pension returns by investing 'green'?
Thank God!
The San Diego Charges have fired Head Coach Marty Schottenheimer and I'm all for it!
From 1963 to the late 80's the Raiders dominated the division.
From the late 80's through 90's, Marty enters the AFC West and we go on the skids.
In the late 90's Marty leaves the AFC West and the Raiders again dominate.
Marty returns in the mid 2000's and we again go on the skids.
In 2007 Marty leaves the AFC West.
WE'RE BACK!
Friday, February 09, 2007
A.N.S. R.I.P.
Celebrity model and human train-wreck extraordinaire, Anna Nicole Smith, followed the footstep of her idol, Marilyn Monroe......... to the very end.
From Guess? jeans, to Playboy, to reality TV, anyone that wanted to watch got a peek into her life, and at times, she was extremely easy on the eye.
Thursday, February 08, 2007
Wow! Somebody is talking tax cuts!
In a key policy speech in Detroit yesterday, Romney said it is absolutely critical to renew President Bushs tax cuts, set to expire in 2010, to help spur economic growth. It is a stance he has repeated in recent days.
"Which course is better for America?" Romney said. "A European model of high taxes and regulations? Or, low taxes and free trade: the Ronald Reagan model? Some are already fighting to implement a massive tax increase. Instead, we should make the tax cuts permanent."
It's nice to see a Republican talk about permanent tax cuts. Now if he would start talking about Federal Government waste and a reduction in the size of government, he just might 'make some noise'
Monday, February 05, 2007
What is it about this guys???
This guy has no solutions for anything without raising taxes!
The economy is rolling along. Federal coffers are bursting with new money due to a great economy and tax cuts. The debt has been slashed, we are at less than 5% unemployment, and this clown just can't stand it!
On Meet the Press, John Boy had this to say:
"Yes, we'll have to raise taxes. The only way you can pay for a health care plan that costs anywhere from $90 (billion) to $120 billion is there has to be a revenue source," the former North Carolina senator said.
Edwards said he would free up money for health care coverage by abolishing
President Bush's tax cuts for people who make more than $200,000 a year and by having the government collect more back taxes.
So, let's not just repeal the tax cuts that have fueled this econmy, but let's make them retroactive. Is anyone listening to the economic poison this clown is proposing?
Friday, February 02, 2007
A TRUE RENAISSANCE MAN!
Nominated for the 2007 Noble Peace Prize
and an Oscar!
This man is truly a giant of our times.
Can the Democratic Presidential nomination be far behind?
Are we worthy?
and an Oscar! This man is truly a giant of our times.
Can the Democratic Presidential nomination be far behind?
Are we worthy?
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