Superman wears Al Gore pajamas!

Howard and Al share first today!!!

AG ENERGY ENVIRONMENT

WE SUPPORT:

1. Efforts to emerge from the global warming crisis including embracing innovation, bringing family farming back to life, and creating new jobs.

1. Comprehensive enforcement of the Clean Air and Clean Water Acts, oppose using studies for delay, and viewing clean air, water, and uncontaminated soil as a basic right.

1. Protecting resources; conservation provisions in the farm bill; full funding of the REAP Program; and adequate funding for restoring Iowa's polluted, rivers, streams, and lakes.

1. A cap-and-trade on emissions of greenhouse gases and reductions of 20% by 2012 and 80% by 2050.

1. A moratorium on the construction of all new coal-fired power plants.

1. Requiring all existing coal-fired power plants to capture and sequester carbon dioxide and mercury as soon as the technology becomes available.

1. The US pursuing vigorously only renewable power sources including, but not limited to solar, tidal, hydrogen, biomass, and wind energy.

1. Phasing out consumption of fossil fuels as alternative energy production becomes increasingly feasible, increased CAFE standards, promotion of LEED carbon neutral buildings, registration fees that reward fuel efficiency, maximum efficiency in government owned vehicles, elimination of subsidies for fossil fuels, protecting wilderness areas from drilling, and protecting endangered species and their habitat.

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FRED from Ashland OR
Tue, 04/08/08

….common citizens do not have the resources to protect us from the countless toxins and dangers modern technology and media brainwash can throw at us, with short-term profit as the prime motivator, at the expense of society.
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Warmer, lol.

Simplifying your logic a little we now can get to the following:

People themselves produce “countless dangers” to…themselves and then hiring third entity (the government) for “protection” from those dangers INSTEAD of...NOT PRODUCING these dangers on first place!

Can’t everyone see the IDIOCY of such state of affair?

Bill Clinton and the Colombian Trade Deal. Does this ever end?

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/4...

Tom Daschle too.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/con...

I don't think this a huge deal, and I don't think it deserves a lot of press, but I disagree with the Obama campaign on this one.  I don't think this woman intended to be offensive with her comment.

 She just might have a small empathy problem like Geraldine.

Speaking of Geraldine,  2/3 of voters in PA who say that race matters are voting for Clinton. So, Ferraro's theory that being Black is the best thing that can happen to a pres candidate is indeed flawed.

Before enacting the agreement, though, lawmakers should require that the Colombians meet several benchmarks regarding, among other things, human rights conditions. Colombia is the most dangerous country in the world in which to be a labor unionist, and more labor activists are killed there every year than are killed in all other countries combined, according to the AFL-CIO. We should insist that such killings are investigated and that investigations are followed with prosecutions. These murders, which have been carried out with impunity, should stop.

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by all means reward them with free trade (idiots)

1. Children’s right to a safe, stable environment; adequately staffed/funded family preservation programs; appropriate interventions and out-of-home placement of children in danger; family reunification whenever indicated; and timely permanency planning.

1. Public/private partnership for construction, renovation, and adequate supply of affordable family housing.

1. Public transportation meeting community needs, funded through public/private partnership.

1. Prison reform strengthening families and considering best interests of children of incarcerated parents.

1. Alternative correctional options for mentally ill or addicted individuals committing crimes.

1. Lifting the ban on TANF for children of legal immigrants.

1. Adequately funded community based programs preventing child abuse and neglect and providing domestic violence and elder abuse victims protective services.

1. Increased Older Americans Act program funding to enable senior independent living.

1. Expanded stem cell research.

1. Domestic violence programs including victims’ counseling and shelter care for victims, and remediation and treatment for offenders.

1. Restoration and local, state and federal enforcement of the ADA.

1. Increased funding for Iowa’s Emergency Assistance Program.

1. Focus on crimes against children

1. National child protective database.

1. Health care as a basic right.

1. National health care system providing without discrimination: provider choice; comprehensive, high-quality, affordable, and sustainable health care; prevention; early diagnosis; chronic disease management; improved methods, and increased cost efficiency.

By Sebastian Mallaby

WE SUPPORT:

1. Patriot Act repeal and legislation protecting Americans while guaranteeing civil liberties.

1. Full restoration of Habeas Corpus.

1. INS Policy upholding fundamental Human Rights of ALL detainees:

   1. Prohibiting extended detainee shackling

   2. Providing right to attorney

   3. Providing prompt adjudication.

   4. Providing for medical needs

   5. Barring indefinite administrative detention pending deportation.

1. Individual’s right to privacy in thoughts and beliefs, and Constitutional protection from intrusion in all sensitive personal matters.

scroll my platform work or help edit it, it is hours from a printer

Your number 11 about civil liberties is right on Mr. Phil.

PA I agree about the 'monkeys' comment -- I don't think it was racial.

Seashell and LindaNM nice to see you both.

Phil I'm not real sure I comprehend the Bubble Trouble article or what Spain did that was prudent. I do wonder who the people are behind the curtain at the IMF http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMF and why they're selling 'their' gold and where they got it and where they keep it.

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FRED from Ashland OR
Tue, 04/08/08


The progressive belief is that we are the government, therefore it is not a "third-party entity."
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That's what we have now. A government that protects the money makers from the great majority of people who give them the money they make.
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Right!

We, the People, (ourselves) are protecting "the money makers from the great majority of people who give them the money they make" (from ourselves).

Wow, THE logic!

More on Bill and Colombia. With pic.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/4...

He took in 800MM in speaking fees from Colombia.

Thank you Linda.

Annilow

the Fed is creating a bigger problem than the one they are trying to solve by expanding the money supply and encouraging people to borrow while the dollar sinks;that makes a product for sale out of our productive capacity to foreign buyers, and speeds the day we are a third world colony, or it precipitates a bigger crash later 

worst President ever and watch out next President because the medicine is bad but the disease worse

Correct! We can’t control corporations BECAUSE Government ARE corporations.

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Wrong!  Those two WERE controlled by an elected government, acting responsibly and responsively.  

 

The Republicans and Libertarians should get their wish:  Give em a state or two, banish them there, and see if they like it. . . .   Caveat: they won't be able to house their families in some other state that abides by the clean water, clean air, clean food acts.  Or get their medicine from places where the government polices big pharma. 

Ron Paul is NOT gonna cut it.  Nor Lyndon Larouche. . . .

former, the framers *knew* that power corrupts.  And put every protection in they knew how to.  Worked for over two hundred years before a handful of chickensh*ts, getting very lucky, managed to begin to dismantle it.  

 It needs fixin' right now.  But it doesn't make the concept wrong.  

Hoffa Backtracks After Questioning Obama Adviser’s NAFTA Meeting With Canadians

“To clear up any misunderstanding about my statements, the Obama campaign and Austan Goolsbee have already clarified Professor Goolsbee’s meeting with representatives from the Canadian government, and as confirmed by the Canadian government, Sen. Obama’s position on NAFTA has not changed,” he said. “As I said on a conference call with reporters earlier today, Sen. Clinton has a credibility problem with the working men and women across this country on the issue of trade. This problem is only underscored by Mark Penn’s continued role in her campaign.”

http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/04/08/hoffa-backtracks-after-questioning-obama-advisers-nafta-meeting-with-canadians/

7.

Progressive Avenger
Tue, 04/08/08

Children are not animals. Some parents are offend by the word "kid".

offend s/b offended

I'm going to get FDR's speech exerpt from the blog into our convention booklet, it is the soul of the party on the left hand that goes with the candidate on the right hand

my wife is donating a painting to the fund raising auction we have at our break to defray the printing cost

I just received a call from DFA for a contribution to start up or continue the Night school training sessions.

Did I miss something on the blog about their needing money?

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I have an old friend that called  little kids, "rug rats", til he had his own  Susan, which was a little over the top. 

this kerfluffle while a vote to give trade favors to a country where union organizers get murdered is up

a little too PC for my taste