It may be considered a Bible war going on in the internet but ladies and gentlemen when someone markets teddy bears, t-shirts, with Psalms 109:8 on it in reference to President Barack Obama, it is time to turn up the serious valve and ask is this an American Jihad and where are the religious leaders when you need them to stand up and exhibit contentiousness against such a decree!
And what is the CIA, FBI and Secret Service doing about any of this?
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Please note the correct date for the William S. Hart School Board Forum is Wednesday, October 28, 2009. The Democratic Club of Santa Clarita Valley and the Democratic Alliance for Action and residents of the 37th and 38th Assembly District in the Santa Clarita Valley area will be hosting a joint candidate forum for the Hart School Board Race. We will be meeting at Vincenzo’s Pizza at 24504 ½ Lyons Avenue in Newhall on Lyons Avenue, please arrive early to socialize. Each candidate will be given an opportunity to talk about their campaign and priorities for the Hart School Board.
As of press time: Bob Jensen, Joe Messina, Suzan Solomon, and Linda Valdes confirmed that they will be present.
More importantly, you will have the opportunity to ask some of those burning questions, so you can decide who you want to “vote smart” for on Tuesday, November 3rd Election! We hope to see you there. For questions leave message at (661) 295-9318 or write: minwilli@gmail.com. All Polls open at 7AM and close at 8PM. Absentee ballots can be dropped off at the polls. You can bring your children with you when you vote. Question on where your polling site is call 800-481-8683 or visit: http://www.lavote.net
Saw this in yesterday's Business section of the L.A. Times, CVS and Walgreens promote free flu shots for the unemployed.
CVS will immunize 10,000 individuals that are jobless and Walgreen will give the shot to the uninsured. For a list of the vaccination locations visit www.cvs.com <http://www.cvs.com/> or call (888) FLU-SHOT. Walgreens will also give out vouchers to eligible people. Go to www.walgreens.com <http://www.walgreens.com/> or call (866) 484-TOUR for further information.
Peace out, Minerva
Hi viewers of AM and hosts:
I have never heard anything as stupid or ignorant as the "stay at home republican mom" altered on CNN. she said and I quote" The government has never run anything efficiently". The same dumb statement repeated over an over by the zombies on the republican side: 1-America is the greated country in the world, and the government has "run" it into becoming the best in the world.2-America has the best military in the world. And the Government as made it what it is. The privatization by bush brought us , abugraib, and all other scandals and mismanagement by private contractors.3-Most insurances are subsidized through legislation that allows them to tax you the premiums you pay every months. 4-All legislation that allow private business to operate in peace and healthy competition is managed by Government.5-Keeping peace, making roads, and other infrastructures are government programs that run well: we have the best infrastructures in the world, thanks to our government planners. 5-Embassies and foreign services that pave the way to private business in foreign land, protect our interests all over the world, negotiate our participation in the world are all government run.
I was shocked to see CNN give voice to a woman who was merely voicing her own and republicans ignorance or duplicity on the air.
All those who voted for Obama's agenda rather than his good looks, get out there and defend your votes. 53% voted for now Prez. Obama after comparing his program to all the republicans' and democrats'. After two years of campagning, we finaly settled to chose among democrats Obama, Edward, and Clinton essentially. Then we selected Obama's agenda to present to Americans. The choice was between the republican agenda of More of the Same, presented by Mcain, and the democrats agenda of Reform (Heathcare and other reforms) presented by Obama. We made that choice in nov. 2008. Those who are out there trying to undo the votes casted in nov. are plotting a coup in the open. They are the same who failled to convince us to vote for Mcain and his status quo agenda. We voted for a particular reform, that lead and presented by Obama. We should stop these people before they change our democratic process as we know it. Are we going to become the next congo or suddan? Because if elections can't settle our affairs, it simply means that the street has taken over.
Why are we still debating whether to reform or not to reform healthcare? I thought that was settled in the Nov. 2008 elections when we carefully selected the right causes, programs and agenda from more than 8 candidates in 2 years! Among the Democrats, we selected Candidate Obama's agenda to , among other things, reform health care. Then compared it to Mcain's and the majority of Americans (53%) voted for Democrats and specifically Obama's Healthcare. The president, democrats and all those who voted for this reform, or simply those who want democracy to survive, should be out there reminding everyone that the election was over in Nov. 2008. What is going on out in these townhall is a hitjack of our democratic process, a "coup" where by Republicans want to overthrow a duely elected agenda with a president, the decision Americans took to reform Healthcare in Nov. 2008, through Obama' agenda. Don't temper with our Votes!!!!!!!! We don't want a watered down version either. I know that the republicans are hoping at least, to water down the bill on healthcare reform by their protest and intimidations so much so that no one would be happy with it, and the majority being unhappy, would never vote again for Obama, or the democrats, because he hasn't, they couldn't delivered for those who voted for him (them), in a doomed effort to satisfy those who didn't want him (them) in office in the first place: The republicans.
I think I can call you Joe. You're an infinitely more affable fellow that your predecessor. You don't even wanna know what I called him. Anyway, Joe, RE: Solicitation for ideas to ensure recovery/bailout funds spent wisely, I have some suggestions.1. put the Cash Cow on the extinct species list & leave it there. Cash Cow benefit a very few while exploiting a great many. Hardly democratic.2. If a project is growth inducing or speculative in nature . . . it's a cash cow. Taxpayers don't need it. If a few speculators or casino operators put a pile of money into something betting on the come, too bad. If a project requires plan amendments, significant & irreversible cumulative impacts, taxpayers don't need it. If a project requires multiple plan & zoning amendments, it's speculative. Taxpayers don't need it. That money can be better spent elsewhere. If a project requires expansion of existing infrastructure, stretching development further into wildlife habitat & over burdening existing urban services, it's growth inducing, speculative. There is plenty of in-fill land for growth & development. There is a standing stock of commercial structures in which to house new or expanding businesses. Heaven knows, there are plenty of vacant residences in all manner of condition. We are overbuilt. It's speculative, growth inducing & there are better ways to spend tax payers dollars.3. If a project contributes to the sustainability of existing urban areas, fine & dandy. If a project relieves traffic congestion, makes roads safer & smarter, ensures the existing standard of living will continue, dandy. Bring it on. If a project contributes to viability of urban areas & reduces further encroachment into wildlife habitat. ducky. If a project sustains existing agricultural land or perhaps even reverts to ag land, fine & dandy. We need to start growing & producing our own food again. In fact, we need to return to the self-reliance & ingenuity that sustained us in the past.
We need some standard for comparison to figure out how well we are doing. We should have drawn urban limit lines around all urban areas 6 months ago. It's not too late to get started. Urban Limit Lines around the perimeter of all urban areas would provide a geographic area in which to assess resources & assets, raw materials & laborl. We've got nowhere to go but up from here.
Sincerely OpalK9 OTJ
Come on, Californians. Are we the Land of the Fruit & the Nuts or what? Are we gonna stand around swooning while Lawmakers & Politicians bicker & squabble, tinker & Twitter & hi-jack the Golden State back to the Stone Age?
Take a look @ this site: www.commonsense4ca.org. Tell them what you think. At least resolve to solve the budget crisis in a fair & sensible manner. Vote early & often.I, 4 1, am kinda tired of CA Apologists Inside the Beltway. CA is not just Hollywood Royalty & 90210, sun & silicone. We gotta lotta assets, resources & infrastructure to work with . . . if decision-makers could get beyond their own personal agenda & parochial bias.
I know what a mess bio-fuel manufacture made in other states. Saw that on my roadtrip last summer. CA's got an abundance of rooftops & sunshine. Put 'em together & whadda ya' got? A statewide solar array ready-made to take 1 state off the grid. No additional encroachment into wildlife habitat. No huge new infrastructure investment. Wind & solar farms are a redundancy we can't afford. Plus manufacture & sale of solar panels = Jobs. Jobs. Jobs. My. That was easy.
CA's gotta lotta car & a lotta outta work auto sales personnel. What with dealerships closing & all. They could be employed mining DMV databases, searching for the oldest cars in the fleet which are eons old & powered by old, old school technology. CA has car crush programs. Charities are begging for dontated cars. Those Old Smokers & Gross Polluters can be replaced with newer used cars or new cars from an inventory that must be given away anyway. Gear up fleet turnover. Create green jobs. Presently common wisdom is jobs, jobs, jobs, not location, location & location. If we can force the turnover of the TV fleet from analog to digital, we can facilitate the turnover of the truck & auto fleet.
USC (go Trojans) is developing a bionic eye to make the blind see again. Do you think the bionic eye will give lawmakers & decision makers new insight? Whatever. Maybe research could focus on battery operated residences. They said rock n rock was a fad. They said the PC was for geeks & gearheads. They said Who wants a Tweet from a Twitter? & yet Twitter is facilitating revolution in Iran. Stranger things than battery operated homes have happened if we just focus & concentrate.
Heretofore, I had taken as an article of faith that CA Curbside Recycling is indeed removing reuseable resources & materials from the wastestream. Given the many, many betrayals of public trust lately revealed, perhaps I shouldn't assume . . . If our junk is merely being shipped off to China or some 3rd World Banana Republic, we better reform recycling cause idea is fine. CA better work out reciprocal arrangements with industries in other states that do the heavy lifting in the recycling arena. Then all our resources, plastic & paper, metal & glass can be accounted for & we aren't wasting anything. Not rocket science.
CA has an emissions trading program developed to comply with federal clean air standards. Presently the program only address smog forming emissions. Wouldn't take much to tweak that model into a national Carbon Cap & Trade Program. CA's budget shortfall & crisis of credit are not derivative of environmental sensibilities. Global Climate Change is real. It's now. & it's expensive to fix. CA's got the model. It's not brain surgery.
I know . . . I'm just a dog. Oughta shut up & mind my own bidness. Oughta quit digging in Mymi's garden too. As long as there's a squirrel or a cat out there, that ain't gonna happen. Besides what's good for humans is good for dogs & other critters. What's good for GM is good for CA is good for the USA. OpalK9 OTJ
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by Harvey Wasserman
Bail out General Motors? The people who murdered our mass transit system?
First let them remake what they destroyed.
GM responded to the 1970s gas crisis by handing over the American market to energy-efficient Toyota and Honda.
GM met the rise of the hybrids with "light trucks."
GM built a small electric car, leased a pilot fleet to consumers who loved it, and then forcibly confiscated and trashed them all.
GM now wants to market a $40,000 electric Volt that looks like a cross between a Hummer and a Cadillac and will do nothing to meet the Solartopian needs of a green-powered Earth.
For this alone, GM's managers should never be allowed to make another car, let alone take our tax money to stay in business.
But there is also a trillion-dollar skeleton in GM's closet.
This is the company that murdered our mass transit system.
The assertion comes from Bradford Snell, a government researcher whose definitive report damning GM has been a vehicular lightening rod since its 1974 debut. Its attackers and defenders are legion. But some facts are irrefutable:
In a 1922 memo that will live in infamy, GM President Alfred P. Sloan established a unit aimed at dumping electrified mass transit in favor of gas-burning cars, trucks and buses.
Just one American family in 10 then owned an automobile. Instead, we loved our 44,000 miles of passenger rail routes managed by 1,200 companies employing 300,000 Americans who ran 15 billion annual trips generating an income of $1 billion. According to Snell, "virtually every city and town in America of more than 2,500 people had its own electric rail system."
But GM lost $65 million in 1921. So Sloan enlisted Standard Oil (now Exxon), Philips Petroleum, glass and rubber companies and an army of financiers and politicians to kill mass transit.
The campaigns varied, as did the economic and technical health of many of the systems themselves. Some now argue that buses would have transcended many of the rail lines anyway. More likely, they would have hybridized and complemented each other.
But with a varied arsenal of political and financial subterfuges, GM helped gut the core of America's train and trolley systems. It was the murder of our rail systems that made our "love affair" with the car a tragedy of necessity.
In 1949 a complex federal prosecution for related crimes resulted in an anti-trust fine against GM of a whopping $5000. For years thereafter GM continued to bury electric rail systems by "bustituting" gas-fired vehicles.
Then came the interstates. After driving his Allied forces into Berlin on Hitler's Autobahn, Dwight Eisenhower brought home a passion for America's biggest public works project. Some 40,000 miles of vital eco-systems were eventually paved under.
In habitat destruction, oil addiction, global warming, outright traffic deaths (some 40,000/year and more), ancillary ailments and wars for oil, the automobile embodies the worst ecological catastrophe in human history.
Should current General Motors management be made to pay for the ancient sins of Alfred Sloan?
Since the 1880s, American corporations have claimed human rights under the law. Tasking one now with human responsibilities could set a great precedent.
GM has certainly proved itself unable to make cars that can compete while healing a global-warmed planet.
So let's convert the company's infrastructure to churn out trolley cars, monorails, passenger trains, truly green buses.
FDR forced Detroit to manufacture the tanks, planes and guns that won World War 2 (try buying a 1944 Chevrolet!). Now let a reinvented GM make the "weapons" to win the climate war and energy independence.
It demands re-tooling and re-training. But GM's special role in history must now evolve into using its infrastructure to restore the mass transit system---and ecological balance---it has helped destroy.
Harvey Wasserman is co-author, with Bob Fitrakis, of four books on election protection which are available atwww.freepress.org, where this article first appeared. His HARVEY WASSERMAN's HISTORY OF THE US is atwww.harveywasserman.com
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Great talk tpday. Wish: I am looking for the PowerPoint Presentation, cannot one be put together to cover more learning modalities other than simply audio/ speech. This could be presented as a simultaneous web cast. Enjoy having the Call to Action from you always.
Would like a slide of each pillar you propose - especially renewable energy- the 3rd Pillar. Germany is on track to be 30% by 2050- see NOVA Saved by the Sun.
Pillar 4 - Health Care - focus on affordability is good. Regular access to wellness counselors are 50 - 75.00 and used for thousands of years in India and China and other countries.
' Everyone should pay what they owe'
Final Point- Cree Indian Saying - only when the last fish has died will man discover he cannot eat money.
The house upon the rock.
I like what I heard today because it was converging more with my economic hero, Ravi Batra. For which you can hear at this link to the audio cast.
http://a1135.g.akamai.net/f/1135/18227/1h/cchannel.download.akamai.com/18227/podcast/SANFRANCISCO-CA/KKGN-AM/Thom%20Hartmann%20040109%20H2.mp3?CPROG=PCAST&MARKET=SANFRANCISCO-CA&NG_FORMAT=progressivetalk&SITE_ID=5257&STATION_ID=KKGN-AM&PCAST_AUTHOR=Green_960_-_Thom_Hartmann&PCAST_CAT=Podcasts&PCAST_TITLE=Green_960_-_Thom_Hartmann
Greetings President Obama lovers and supporters: We do love him, do we not? What a ride that was, it's taken me nearly 4 months now, to come completly back to my senses, sort of.
It was a real out and out dog fight, but we prevailed. One for the good guys. So I felt I'd just give a couple of my thoughts on what has taken place so far. For my local hamlet here in Northern CA called
Redding, CA.
Unemployment here must be 20% by now. The figures, I'm told do not count those that have already
fallen from the unemployment rolls, or the nearly 30,000 GI's returning home nearly every month. I'm sort of happy about the winding down of the Iraqi war but the gearing up in Aftganistan concerns me, as war is not peace, is it.
I applaud President Obama and his crew. No president has done so much, so fast with so little. Of course locally he is under attack in the local Record Searchlight paper's opionion section, "he will spend us to death" they say. Well I have to continully remind them, so we each owe $45,000, but we owed $39,000 of it before Bush even got out of office, at least this time some money went for
health, welfare, transportation, education, conservation and renewable energy generation, Instead of some big black hole somewhere in the world.
Cheney is really pissing me off. Someone needs to tie a can to his tail and send him back to the
hole he crawled out of. I hope Joe keeps banging on him everytime he resurfaces.
As to the energy plan for America. I found a project, sent info to to Whitehouse, Sent info to the
Progress for America people, sent info of my renewable plan to the people spreading stimulus funds around in St. Louis County and then to the Democratic party in St. Louis...All communication
went unanswered, in spite of the fact, I, a 30 year pioneer in conservation and solar generation
actually had a plan, I'm sure could put thousands of Americans back to work...I get no answer from anyone. Not too impressed with that response. We did better by them, when they asked us to
respond to their needs...
Make sure you all check out my Energy Blog at <http://yeswecansolveit.blogspot.com> that's
YESWECANSOLVEIdotblogspotdotcom for the latest renewable energy news, training for eco-consultants, energy auditors, financing renewable energy projects, leasing commercial and
industrial projects, the California MDU, Multi-Family Unit Market and Google News Searches
Make sure to Google Down to Niel Young's new Video called FORK IN THE ROAD, where he sings
'there's a bailout coming, but it's not for you." Smile _Green Earl
keep the faith
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Redding, CA
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