My husband and I have developed a way to produce a type of trade show/festival with the idea of it being completely powered by and promoting green technology in practical applications. In effect these events will use wind turbines, solar arrays, and in specific cases tidal action, to power, propel and display the following:• Various types of “green” demonstrations (presented by youth groups)• On-Site Concert Venues (proceeds donated to arts education)• Local Arts & Crafts Fairs (In Tandem)• Green Powered Displays of Household Products• Commercial Demonstration Areas• Performance Art Venues• Art Show
This concept can be simultaneously launched in multiple locations around the country or the events can travel in two sections. Activities will promote an appreciation for our natural resources, and will promote local artists. Festival-goers will experience a world’s fair type atmosphere. These activities include:• Camping Areas for RV & Tents• Nature Hikes (perhaps pony rides & animal shows)• Kiddie Balloon Park• “Waterslide” Ride powered by tidal action made of recycled plastic• Balloon Rides • Farmers Markets• Green Themed Miniature Golf Course & other outdoor athletic events• Hay Rides (proceeds donated to animal charities)• “Ninja Warrior” type Area with paintball• “X-Games” type Area (Engines powered by renewable products)• A Cornfield Maze (proceeds will be donated to flood & fire relief charities)• Digital Arcades powered by solar arrays
While the plan is for this to begin as a traveling festival, our long-term goal is to create an amusement park based on this model.
We are at the beginning of planning and need your help. These are simple ideas based on things that we like and already know how to do. We, like you, are inspired by the election of Barack Obama and want to do our part to bring about change in America. We were originally planning to pitch this idea to investors, but in taking on the Obama method of change, we feel this idea would best be launched as a grassroots campaign.
We are sharing this idea with you and asking for your support. We have assembled the R & D team, plus the AV providers needed to produce a prototype event. If you or anyone you know would like to help us get this idea of the ground, just let us know.
My husband and I have strong ideas about the stimulus package and how it can affect change. Before the whole financial crises started, it was about the lack of savings, a bunch of strange financial instruments like “junk bonds” and foreigners buying up our debt…that’s just remembering the recent past. So we think giving the stimulus package in cash by itself doesn't get the car out of the driveway. How about something equivalent to the bonds of circa World War II? In effect, fix an interest rate of 10% or more with a government guarantee. Coupled with an incentive to all businesses large and small, for hiring and capital development, if the stimulus package that you give to the citizens is invested in a simple bank deposit, municipal bonds, state bonds, or Treasury bills, or some small business for the next 2 - 5 years. The banks still get the money, it trains people to save, we buy our debts and to having the Chinese buy our debt, it is not exposed to the corrosiveness of greed at the top, it buys the government time to re-insert proper regulation and oversight and at worst, if spent, it stimulates the economy in the short term. This establishes consumer confidence and a clear example of a new age of governance. Like the World War II bonds, it should be prompted by celebrities and introduced into basic educational systems and marketed on TV & cable networks as prudent and moral behavior.
Any thoughts? We're curious about your ideas?
http://www.blackcommentator.com/295/295_cover_obama_electoral_path_2_kilson_ed_bd.html
Even Republicans are nervous about it. Here's the link to the video:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/09/report-mccain-exploded-wi_n_133242.html
Be careful of what you do at the polls. Voters can wear campaign wear & merchandice to the polls if they are there to vote, but if you are at the polls for any other reason, it is against the law to wear campaign materials within a certain distance, which varies by state, to the front door of the polling station. Please research election laws in your state and be mindful of the fact that the McCain capaign is banking on us being excited and not being aware of the laws that will be strictly enforced this year. Below is an example:
A voter may wear campaign paraphernalia (buttons, t-shirts, or stickers) into the polling place while he or she is there to vote (the voter may not linger in the polling place after voting). However, an election judge, challenger and watcher, or other person stationed inside the polling place or within 100 feet of the polling place may not wear or display campaign materials.
Even though this law specifically addresses Maryland voters, it is a pretty common law nationwide. To insure an Obama victory, we must all educate ourselves about election laws to prevent another stolen election.
Happy Voting...Go Obama/Biden!!!
CJ
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Hello All:
I received this email today and am passing it on to you. Please share this with your Obama community. The truth is that there are angry Americans out here and Obama, as usual, it quite in touch with their reality.
CJ for Obama
This poignant post from someone who lives in Rural Pennsylvania was sent to me today. Please read and share with others if so moved.
Maybe there aren't Bubbas driving around in pickup trucks with the classic bumpersticker "God, Guns and Guts Made America Free" where Obama's detractors live, but here in rural Pennsylvania that line may as well replace "e pluribus unum" as the motto on the national currency. I live in western Pennsylvania, and I can tell you, people here are bitter and angry. Poverty is prevalent. People hunt squirrels and eat them, along with racoon stew. People also hunt deer here, not for sport, but so they can put meat in their freezer so they can feed their families. They cut wood in the forests and heat their homes with wood stoves because they can't afford to pay the gas bill. I know a guy who goes to old landfills to dig up old milk and beer bottles to sell on eBay. He uses the proceeds t o buy clothes for his family at the Salvation Army (and to pay for his dial-up connection). Racism and prejudice are ever-present here. A friend of mine is part-owner of bar in a small rural town south of where I live. I meet up with him there occasionally and watch as down-and-out people come in with their disability and welfare check money and drink it away. It's a pretty depressing place, but it does serve as the social center for a town that has seen its few industries shut down and the local people's jobs eliminated or shipped off elsewhere. I hear the usual rants there, that it's all the fault of gays and minorities and immigrants (although those aren't the terms used, but rather the usual, virulent slurs). A black man walked in the last time I was there, and a guy near me at the bar muttered in a not-so-quiet way, "What's he think he's doing in here?" When I brought up the presidential race and Obama with an other man at the bar, his response was, "there ain't no way America is ever going to vote for a black guy." Later on my bar-owner friend told me about his experience talking about Obama with another woman at the bar, and her angry response was that "it's because of half-breed n*****s like him that America is in such bad shape today."Prejudice, racism and fear do run rampant in areas like this. People are poor. They are in bad health, overweight from a deep-fried diet, and toothless from the lack of dental care. They are unemployed. They are uneducated. They do cling to their hunting rifles and to their religious beliefs. For many, it is about all that they have. The towns around here are full of decaying, boarded up buildings. People live in rundown old trailers with abandoned cars in the front yard. I have seen people using an old car as a stable, with their goat tied to and living in it. I could drive you by a least three old houses that have Condera te flags in the windows.So go ahead and discount Obama's talk of how bitter and angry that some of the people of rural Pennsylvania are. Call him elitist for taking the time to pass through areas such as this to listen to what the people have to say, and to then relate what he has heard to people in more prosperous parts of the country when he is asked about it. I have lived in San Francisco, and let me tell you, there is a marked difference between the general attitude there and the attitude here in the "rust belt". Go ahead and dismiss everything that Obama said as political posturing. Let Hillary and McCain "pick him apart" and parse his words. But please keep in mind that when Obama said:"it's not surprising then that they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."that he is 100% accurate in his assessment.& nbsp;I know, because I live here, my family and my friends' families have lived here for generations, and we see it every day, all around this region. There is a very fine line between poverty and prosperity here, where making above $20,000 a year puts you in the realm of the "haves", but also knowing that you're one contract termination away from joining the ranks of the "have-nots". I come from a family of dairy farmers. I know what it's like to spend up to 12-16 hours a day sitting on a tractor for three dollars an hour, which I did through high school and every summer until I was fortunate enough to head off to college. Many of my friends were also fortunate and went to school, and then relocated to other parts of the country. Some of us were able to come back under better circumstances, but the large majority of people here are not as fortunate. Thirty years worth of the right wing dismantling our public education system has t aken its toll. Thirty years worth of mismanagement of the economy, of shutting down factories and shipping jobs out of the country, of subsidizing corporate farms and taxing family farms out of business, has taken its toll. Yes, people are angry, and bitter, but Obama never said that they aren't resilient, opitmistic or hard-working. Those are Hillary and McCain's twisted words, and for them to stand up and suggest that rural Pennsylvanians aren't fed up with the way things are, only reveals how out of touch they really are with at least this part of the country. Of course, all McCain has to do is suggest to poor rural folk that the party of gun-control, gay marriage, and NAFTA is going to take away what little they have left, and rural conservatives will vote for him, just as they did for Reagan, Bush I and Bush II. As for Hillary, the more she "takes apart" Obama's message, the more she does the GOP's work for free. If Hillary can't see that the p eople of rural Pennsylvania are bitter, and angry, and mad as hell about the way things are, then she needs to step down from that one hundred million dollar platform of hers and take a real look around. In western Pennsylvania I hear two things: the "God, Guns and Guts" crowd see John McCain as the heir-apparent to the mantle of rural conservative values; and the people who hope for some kind of change see Barack Obama as the person who understands the situation that we are in, and maybe is the one who can lead us in a new direction. What I don't hear is anyone talking about whatever and whomever it is that Hillary claims to stand for.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/20/us/politics/20memo.html?_r=1&th&emc=th&oref=slogin
Moree commentary via BlackAmericaWeb.com: http://www.blackamericaweb.com/site.aspx/sayitloud/phillips318
The Clinton surrogates are at it again. Read details about the Ferraro statement about Obama:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080311/pl_afp/usvote
This is an interesting article I received today:
http://www.blackamericaweb.com/site.aspx/sayitloud/dmathis310
Can someone please explain why the election pundits seem biased and angry? I watch MSNBC and I'm getting really upset with Chris Matthews and Joe Scarborough. Their views seem slanted and they seem to frolic in their ability to publicly beat up on people. I'm not just talking about Barack Obama, but all of the candidates and the guests that appear on their individual shows as well. Maybe I'm too sensitive, but their need to draw first blood is a turn off. I was watching the election coverage last night and Chris Matthews grilled this congressman from Texas about the specifics on Barack Obama's record in a disrespectful way. I think there is a difference between hard hitting questions and badgering. Can anyone shed some light on this? By the way I'm seeing this type of behavior more and more on all of the cable news channels...not just MSNBC. I appreciate feedback anyone has to offer. Thanks.
