GOP's PLAGUE ON AMERICA . . . click here

BUSH FOCUSED ON IRAQ FROM DAY ONE . . . click here

MUST-SEE INTERVIEW WITH OBAMA'S FORMER CAMPAIGN MANAGER.

BIG MONEY SPECIAL INTERESTS

300 TOP ECONOMISTS WARN POLITICAL LEADERS: DON'T KILL GROWTH IN NAME OF DEFICIT REDUCTION -- CLICK HERE FOR PDF

 

NOOZ IN TOONZ

 
 
 
 

THE ORANGE MAN

THE EFFECTS OF INEQUALITY

If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long. There are two problems for our species' survival - nuclear war and environmental catastrophe - and we're hurtling towards them. Knowingly. This hypothetical Martian would probably conclude that human beings were an evolutionary error. --- Noam Chomsky

I HOPE THIS WORKS

 

HAPPY LABOR DAY

Too much and too long, we seem to have surrendered community excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material things. Our gross national product ... if we should judge America by that - counts air pollution and cigarette advertising, and ambulances to clear our highways of carnage. It counts special locks for our doors and the jails for those who break them. It counts the destruction of our redwoods and the loss of our natural wonder in chaotic sprawl. It counts napalm and the cost of a nuclear warhead, and armored cars for police who fight riots in our streets. It counts Whitman's rifle and Speck's knife, and the television programs which glorify violence in order to sell toys to our children.

"Yet the gross national product does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education, or the joy of their play. It does not include the beauty of our poetry or the strength of our marriages; the intelligence of our public debate or the integrity of our public officials. It measures neither our wit nor our courage; neither our wisdom nor our learning; neither our compassion nor our devotion to our country; it measures everything, in short, except that which makes life worthwhile. And it tells us everything about America except why we are proud that we are Americans."

--- Robert Kennedy . . . 1968 unemployment was 3.7%

PLANET CHECK

* Greenland Ice Sheet loses 100 square miles, biggest loss since 1962 (Aug. 2010)

* Russia's drought-driven halt to wheat exports panics world grain markets (Aug. 2010)

* Pakistan's worst flood in recorded history claims some 1,100 lives (July, 2010)

* International study confirms accelerating warming trend (July, 2010)

* Rapid decline in phytoplankton population stuns scientists (July, 2010)

* Flash floods seen increasing as Milwaukee gets eight inches in two hours (July, 2010)

* Senate climate bill collapses (July, 2010)

* Coral reef deaths soar in record ocean heat (July, 2010)

* First half of 2010 was hottest such period on record (July, 2010)

* Carbon lobby launches "CO2 is Green" campaign (July, 2010)

* Massive Greenland glacier retreats one mile in one night (July, 2010)

* Military declares climate change "a catalyst for conflict" (June, 2010)

* Malaria soars with small rainforest reductions (June, 2010)

* Oceans have stored more heat than they released since 1993 (May, 2010)

* Climate change is causing "irreversible" destruction of ocean life systems (June, 2010)

* Himalayan glacier melt puts 60 million people at risk of food shortages (June, 2010)

* Warming pushes many small mammal species to the brink (June, 2010)

DANNY TREJO . . . JAN BREWER . . . SIBLINGS? they certainly look alike

 
 

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