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Jim Dean barnstorms upstate New York with Nixon, Massa
Eric Massa, Ted Nixon, and their grassroots supporters meet with Jim Dean in upstate New York. Click here to help Ted. And here to help Eric.
"Ask a busy person," they say, and busy Jim Dean showed how it's done with a whirlwind campaign tour through upstate New York Oct. 10-11 on behalf of two DFA candidates.
First up, Ted Nixon. Ted is a DFA-List candidate for an open county legislature seat in Monroe County/Greater Rochester. With the GOP controlling both the county executive position and the legislature majority, it's been impossible for Democrats to pass any legislation -- most just dies in committee... if GOP strong-arm tactics allow it to get even that far.
Jim appeared on Ted's behalf at a house party in Ted's hometown of Pittsford, NY, in the heart of the 10th legislative district. Mike and Janet Reynolds' house was crowded to the rafters with local supporters eager to meet Jim and lend a helping hand to Ted, running hard for one of the three seats needed to turn the legislature.
Next up, Eric Massa. Eric whisked Jim off to the Southern Tier of New York State for several campaign stops benefiting Eric's 2008 Congressional campaign.
Eric is campaigning hard to unseat GOP Congressman Randy Kuhl, one of President Bush's staunchest supporters. The 29th district is nominally "red" but was long represented by a moderate Republican, Amory Houghton, who stood up to Bush on key issues like the invasion of Iraq. Amo retired and was replaced by Kuhl, an enthusiastic supporter of the neocon agenda.
Eric, just named to Esquire magazine's Top 100 as the iconic citizen candidate, knows the 29th district will be better served by a DFA-style outlook that is fiscally responsible and socially progressive.
The highlight of Jim's day with Eric was a fundraiser for the Schuyler County Democratic Committee in Watkins Glen, a fun country hoedown with Jim as the featured guest speaker.
Thanks, Jim and DFA, for all that you do!
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Annilow
Mon, 10/15/07
1:06 pm
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Annilow -
Thanks for posting that personal account about the need for gated communities. I give you credit for living in such an environment in San Jose (don't know about how it is in Florida for you now).
Where I live, we don't even have fences separating our properties and both my cars are ungaraged, uncarported.
How can you stand though the idea of feeling cooped up behind a gate ? For myself, in a similar situation, I would feel I was locked up behind bars. (maybe it's just that I lived my whole life in New England)
Iowa Governor Chet Culver approved two bills on May 23rd that establish a new state fund for clean energy research and development. The state will provide the new Iowa Power Fund with $25 million per year for the next four years. The fund will support research, development, commercialization, and deployment of biofuels, renewable energy technologies, and energy efficiency technologies, while also seeking to cut greenhouse gas emissions. The fund will also educate the public about these technologies and will aim to increase the demand for them. The $100 million fund will be run by an 18-member board, with oversight from a seven-member committee of legislative and university leaders.
Spark a new friendship in the dark!
Lights out San Francisco
October 20, 2007
...did you know that If every American home replaced just one light bulb with an ENERGY STAR qualified bulb, we would save enough energy to light more than 3 million homes for a year, more than $600 million in annual energy costs, and prevent greenhouse gases equivalent to the emissions of more than 800,000 cars.
http://www.lightsoutsf.org/
Ask your city Mayor to hold a candel light vigil for energy. 1 hour. I'm going to, again, right now.
The effort will complement a bill signed in April, establishing the Iowa Climate Change Advisory Council to consider and determine the best strategies for reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the state. It also establishes a greenhouse gas inventory and registry within the state. See the governor's press release and the text of the bill, SF 485.
What is unsustainable is growth in the desert (water supply); and coastal areas (rising sea levels), but let's just pick one fight at a time.
3. Phil Specht
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three cheers for Iowa - the next progressive mecca.
...did you know that If every American home replaced just one light bulb with an ENERGY STAR qualified bulb, we would save enough energy to light more than 3 million homes for a year, more than $600 million in annual energy costs, and prevent greenhouse gases equivalent to the emissions of more than 800,000 cars.
We replaced all our bulbs with CFBs. We keep our thermostat at 85 in the summer, 65 in the winter, and off in the fall and spring. We drive a Honda and a Subaru about 15K per year combined. We're looking into a solar panel and water heater.
But given the magnitude of the problem, it doesn't seem like enough.
We need truly clean energy. Not just green, but clean.
5. Linda*in*SFNM
...did you know that If every American home replaced just one light bulb with an ENERGY STAR qualified bulb,
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Well you've convinced me, but will have to convert gradually, and I hope they recycle these things where I live. I will only put them where there is no chance of accident breakage because the gas is toxic and high voltage from the ballast can be deadly.
I've been using 15 watt indescents in several of my bulbs. You'd be surprized at how bright they are up close, especially good in desk lamps, better than flourescents for not bothering others sleeping at night when reading.
Incandescent light drops off intensity much better with distance than flourescents do.
My landlord pays the electric.
wind turbines that split water and fuel cells that use the hydrogen would be totally clean
let's do it
Gore/Boxer
anyone have a transcript link to Obama's 150 billion dollar initiative he announced in New Hampshire last week?
all of the Democratic Candidates have variations of a new economy fueled by green technology, it was part of Hillary's major economic speech I heard in Dubuque a month ago
as former points out it is who owns it that matters a great deal
wind turbines that split water and fuel cells that use the hydrogen would be totally clean
let's do it
A very poignant article about Martin Lee Anderson and his death at a boot camp.
"Folks on both sides wore crosses around their neck...God was on their side. A view of Panhandle justice"
http://journals.democraticunderground.com/madfloridian/1581
And more outrage. The guards say they were not beating him, but they were just using "pain compliance techniques"
http://journals.democraticunderground.com/madfloridian/1582
"Garrett, 30, of Lynn Haven, said Anderson was talking throughout most of the interaction — saying that he was tired and wouldn’t finish a required physical assessment run. Garrett said Anderson got angry a few times and would tense up. That’s when the guards would throw him to the ground or use pain-compliance techniques, such as pressure points."
11. Phil Specht
wind turbines that split water and fuel cells that use the hydrogen would be totally clean
let's do it
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Love it, but the brutal truth is that fuel cells utilizing liquid fuel made by hydrogen gas is still very much theoretical. Anyone here can put their money where their mouth is. There are many small public companies "working on it" and you can support them by buying their stock, if you dare.
7. I agree w/ Phil - it doesn't matter what we do about electricity b/c we are going to run out of water and the question will be academic. Having said that -- I've said before it's so simple -- tax incentives for personal windmills and solar panels. This creates good jobs as well as generates electricity. Then all electric cars that we charge ourselves in our garages. We all share electricity and leftover goes back to the grid.
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* rdorgan
Mon, 10/15/07
2:30 pm
I live in a tiny little town in N FL made up of all church going Xtians (republicans) and me. I never lock my door except at night when I go to sleep. Once I left my purse at the dollar store and when I went back it was there, money and all, someone had turned it into the clerk. I DO have a 6 ft privacy fence mainly for the dog but it raised some eyebrows when built - most have fences, but mainly for dogs. My little neighborhood is not ritzy enuf for being 'gated' but my girlfriend from San Jose and her hubby live in a beaut up the road a town or two. San Jose is a beautiful town but suffering from some of the same things that plague Los Angeles. I mainly moved to live cheaper. The Bay Area is pretty perfect except for having too many people.
Also, how we solve the transportation thing is ACCESSIBLE PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION -- if Europe and NYC can do it so can we -- we just have to deport all the rich special interest groups like Big Oil, Big Cars, etc.
fuel cells made from fossil fuels are here already, and are probably more efficient and pollute less, but you are going up against the huge automotive industry parts and repair industry. You've got to have something in it for them to get political traction.
16. Annilow
7. I agree w/ Phil - it doesn't matter what we do about electricity b/c we are going to run out of water and the question will be academic
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I don't know about that. We are running out of potable water, but there is lots of wells that are polluted with pesticides and chemicals. Maybe we can use those.
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Phil Specht
Mon, 10/15/07
2:51 pm
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all of the Democratic Candidates have variations of a new economy fueled by green technology, it was part of Hillary's major economic speech I heard in Dubuque a month ago
...it is who owns it that matters a great deal.
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I'm afraid..., (lol, no pun intended Mike) it is matters "decesively"..., and it is where the major fight starts.
Don't listen to party-pooper, anything possible if you ignore science and live in a fantasy world.
16. Annilow
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Tremendous amounts of water are used to produce and refine petroleum and all the countless toxic substances we make with the by-products for home and bath.
20. I hope so Fred - it would be great if we could figure a way to depollute water. Deep down inside I think Mother Earth will figure a way to get rid of us -- I think HIV/Aids and other scourges are Mother Earth's way to send us the way of the dinosaurs.
LindaSFNM - has your anasthetic worn off yet? Hope u r ok.
22. Not to mention toilets. Once I used a public toilet in the high desert out west. It used no water and did not smell -- of course chemicals they used may have been worse I don't know. Every time I flush I think of all the potable water going to waste, no pun intended.
Pointing out what can't be done at this time plays into the hands of those who want nothing done.
The technology exists, or can, that will solve the problems.
Why people who don't stand to make money from the status quo carry water for it is beyond understanding.
And did anyone see the Dubai report on 60 minutes last night? Talk about a waste of energy -- putting a ski slope under a roof where it is 120 degrees outside? And LV -- gosh I love LV but some of the stuff -- like at Bellagio where they have that indoor garden in the desert heat. Wasteful wasteful wasteful.
Annilow, funny you should ask. :( Thank you though :)
Hubby called to check in. He asked how the swelling was. I said I don't care. I'm not looking at myself, it's the PAIN (no pun to paine:D) I'm concerned about. He then said "is the numbing wearing off? ..."UH YEAHHH".
Stupid me, I was comparing this to when I had 4 teeth pulled at once. I said "heck if I managed that without pain medication, this will be a breeze". But ding bat here forgot the difference of the PROCEDURE. OY. No, I won't give details, but just to say the stitches are about 2 teeth away from the area he had to work...coming in from the side.
Bet hubby comes homes and calls me bride of Frankenstein or something.
16.Annilow
Also, how we solve the transportation thing is ACCESSIBLE PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION -- if Europe and NYC can do it so can we -- we just have to deport all the rich special interest groups like Big Oil, Big Cars, etc.
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If can start at the grass roots by individuals, but it will take a long time.
To do it massively and dislodge the powers that be is faster but almost impossible and may be political suicide.
What is more important politically right now is cleaning up the toxic chemical environment and severely cutting the cancer and Chronic degenerative disease rate.
Something we should have started 40 years ago after Silent Spring. The organic food movement is a good example of a grass roots movement, and look how long that took.
But there are so many toxins ubiquitous in our air, on our body products, in our building materials and furnishings. Food is only one leg of the table.
Just go to EWG.org for more info on how insidiously toxic our human ecology and environment is. Mostly this is a by product of petroleum refinement, but if we reduce the demand or legality of them, it would weaken the petroleum industrial hegemony too.
It seems the only thing we still manufacture in this country is toxin.
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Annilow
Mon, 10/15/07
3:11 pm
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Also, how we solve the transportation thing is ACCESSIBLE PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION -- if Europe and NYC can do it so can we -- we just have to deport all the rich special interest groups like Big Oil, Big Cars, etc.
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Can you imagine, not worrying of been late for passing by trolley because next is coming in a matter of minute or two...., then you are seating in a green, clean trolley's comfortable chair and WHILE riding you are reading book or (even better yet..., lol) socializing with pretty woman next seat..., HA-HA-HA....., THE LIFE!
24. LOL...( I snorted)...(no I'm not on pain medication)
Speaking of chemicals though....and technology...if we can use ultra violet lights to kill bacteria...like in hot tubs....why can't we for our toilets......and cool looking I might add.
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Fred, if you are seriously going to switch, that's WONDERFUL.
Now, you have an IKEA near you, right?
Did you.....and everyone else know that IKEA is ...well, I heard, they are doing CFL drop off centers at IKEA, to make disposing of the CFL's safe and easy.
I'm on hold to make sure they ALL are doing it. bbl with that info.
The American Cancer Society is a front for the chemical-pharma-cosmetics industrial complex, because their sole purpose seems to be to convince us that smoking is the only thing that causes cancer.
You know why they call the Republicans the GOP party, right?
G=Gas
O=Oil
P=Petroleum
:)
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FRED from OR
...or get regular tests.
,,,,tests find it, they don't stop it from coming. Again, treat the symptoms instead of ridding the problem.
Hubby just heard a fellow workers daughter was diagnosed in her bone...in Texas.
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FRED from OR
Mon, 10/15/07
3:35 pm
16.Annilow
...ACCESSIBLE PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION...
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If can start at the grass roots by individuals, but it will take a long time.
To do it massively and dislodge the powers that be is faster but almost impossible and may be political suicide....
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Throwing away billions of $$$ per week (or per months?) is not "political suicide"...?
Priorities could be decide by owner (BY PEOPLE)!
Great news......Ikea Stores....all, do have bins for CFL so they can dispose of them for you. What a GREAT service...if you have Ikea....I don't. :(......But Pittsburgh does!
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Linda*in*SFNM
Fred, if you are seriously going to switch, that's WONDERFUL.
Now, you have an IKEA near you, right?
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Well I have always used them in a limited sense. I have an ultra-violet compact flourescent in my bathroom that i keep on all the time 24/7 to keep mold growth down.
I think people should be aware of the dangers and precautions of CFs as well as the energy benefits. I really can't wait until LEDs come along. They don't wear out, so that's the problem with the throw-away MO of big corporations. It will have to grow from grass roots industry and the temptation for them to sell-out to big industry is tremendous. If they go public they'll be gobbled up and dismantled.
What does IKEA stand for? Oregon is herrendous for recycling, and lots of people still remember when we were the pioneer of bottle recycling. Those days are gone forever. The timber industry, once the most powerful in the State, succeeded in making environmentalism the enemy of jobs and industry.
24. It needn't go to waste. It's perfectly possible to have drinking water come out of the waste-water plant. We did it in Gainesville 25 years ago. Strangely enough, the process (it relies on bacteria and filters) was patented in South Africa by some Dutchmen.
It was a requirement because the water was going to be recharged into the drinking water aquifer because, of course, the citizens couldn't imagine drinking it out of the plant.
What was really interesting was that there were some "impurities" as there are in all waters that meet drinking-water standards, but when they tested the underground plume as the water percolated through the limestone, they discovered that as it moved further from the injection point it was "polished." That is, there were organisms way down deep (probably over a thousand feet) that were consuming whatever was left. I think it was later that organic life was discovered deep in the ocean, living without light, near the lava flows from under-water volcanos. I used to be though that living things need light.
The environmental engineers working for the city were very excited by their discovery and presented the findings in academic papers.
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former
Throwing away billions of $$$ per week (or per months?) is not "political suicide"...?
Priorities could be decide by owner (BY PEOPLE)!
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Don't get on my case. Just calling em like I seez em. If you can change public perception, great, but it is easier said than done. Big money always can run more TV ads than you and me.
OMG. This just came through on a comment. She made this video herself, Goregal, it brought me to tears.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmGYYqJ6N...
mmmmm, yes Weyhauser.
What does IKEA stand for? Ingvar Kamprad Elmtaryd Agunnaryd (Swedish home furnishings retailer)
39. Cool, huh? So, what happened?
...I'll have to check back...I need to lay down for a bit.
bbl
I think Pelosi MUST be trying to end the war by screwing up our relations with Turkey. She's not stupid or crazy, that has to be the explanation. Maybe she's crazy like a fox.
34.Linda*in*SFNM
Hubby just heard a fellow workers daughter was diagnosed in her bone...in Texas.
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We are the most toxic-chemically-polluted developed country in the world.
the problem is that most of it is odorless and invisible. And much of what is detectable we are addicted to, like kids sniffing glue or paint. Our body chemistry has adjusted to crave it. How many people love that "new car smell" or that "new house smell" it is probably carcinogens and neurotoxins and teratogenic (causes birth defects) vapors and gases that we crave.
39. Yeah that would be great Monica -- I'm sure we have technology if we put it to work. Interesting post.
Compact Flourescents give off radio frequency radiation. There is no contraversy about whether the body can detect this radiation. The contraversy is whether this is harmful or not to the body. There are a number of individuals that are electrical sensitive to radiation.
Some people have hypersensitivity to mercury because they cannot excrete it easily. One woman broke a CF bulb and paid $2000 to have the mercury removed from her home.
LEDs do not give off radiation. They do not contain mercury.
A few energy saving ideas:
Nineteen years ago I designed the house we had built and still live in. There are four skylights, two of them 2 x 4, two 2 x 2 in the bathrooms which are on interior walls and so would require a light switched on every time they are used during the daytime. One is in the kitchen which also has no windows but has other sunlight from adjoining rooms.
I cannot estimate how much energy this design has saved us through the years. We just had a new roof installed and new skylights which are even better and clearer.
I also designed the glass verticle glass blocks beside the front door to let in light and also to view anyone in the front entrance though they cannot see in. Again, another savings -- no need for a light in the foyer though there is one there. Also good for security.
Another energy saver: dimmer switches for incandescent light bulbs. These are especially thrifty if you have a bank of light as in bathrooms or a chandelier.
It amazes me why I never hear these mentioned for energysavers. If you are contemplating a new roof, you may be able to add a few skylights at that time, but most need to be built in during new construction.
Hope this helps someone.
Hey, everybody!
Just wanted to first of all thank Sheri for promoting my blog entry, and also say if you clicked Ted's link and it didn't go to his website, try again. While typing I confused him with his cowboy cousin Tex Nixon, LOL. Sorry!
-- volney
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LOL, exactly right anni.
Pelosi never does anything without a lot of good thought, though we may not always agree with it.
25. What do you want us to do Sitka?
If you mean you in particular, whatever you think best.
If you mean as a country and worldwide, stop powering our economy and our lives by burning and polluting -- even if it can be made "neutral." And the first step is to stop thinking of reasons why it can't be done or putting up straw debates over what technologies aren't feasable at this time.
Pelosi never does anything without a lot of good thought, though we may not always agree with it.
It's what she's thinking that's the problem. She's not thinking like the people who put the Dems and her into power last year.
Thanks for a very good blog Volney. Eric appears to be an excellent candidate.
Perhaps Jim Dean learned how to do those whirlywind tours while helping Howard's campaign. Don't know how they do it but they seem to thrive on it.
50. Joan* In*Florida
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I am not sure if dimmer switches save electricity that much. I know they lower voltage but never tested them for current consumption.
Sitka
Do you ever agree with anyone or anything on this blog? The answer is pretty much NO. Maybe you would be much less stressed if you went somewhere friendlier to your thinking.
OMG
OMG
OK, my mistake, I didn't stop when I should have.
That Goregal, who made a couple videos for Mr. Gore...look at this one.
OMG, I'm speechless.
Time are Changing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARoNENPSI...
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Fred,
They do save electricity. Better half knows electricity and current consumption well. Bulbs last many times longer as well as they run cooler.
Do you ever agree with anyone or anything on this blog?
Actually, quite a lot. You're only seeing what you want to.
As for my overall attitude toward DCDems, I'm confident my opinions are in line with the majority on this blog for -- what little that's worth.
And you certainly are not the one to decide who should post here or what we say.
54.Sitka
And the first step is to stop thinking of reasons why it can't be done or putting up straw debates over what technologies aren't feasable at this time
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The first step is to deal with science and technology. You are being contentious and apprehensive if you think it is all nothing but politics.
Everybody knows there's a political factor. You are not telling us anything we don't know, but it is not the only factor and far from the deciding factor in most cases. It's wilfull ignorance and obsession to believe the politics is the key to everything. Gore would be running if it were.
If you don't know enough about the science, go educate your self and then tell us where the political bottlenecks are.
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By Linda on Oct 15, 2007 2:13 PM EDTThe Dean's are tops!!!