{I'm generally opposed. I am still not convinced of anthropogenic global warming, and even if I were, this strikes me as the WRONG approach. --a0} http://www.thedailygreen.com/enviro...e-bill-47062902 6.29.2009 9:49 AM House Cap-and-Trade Bill: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly While most environmental groups were ecstatic, dissenters decry giveaways to industry. Business groups, too, are split. By Dan Shapley As the dust settles on the nation's first serious effort to regulate greenhouse gas emiss...

You got it ALL in this baby! Sanford, Tea Parties, federalist, Demographics, Tax Cuts, Moderates, Rush, Bush, Issues orgasmic, lol I swear if you copy and pasted my posts in the past 5 months, one over the other, it would come out to be this article VER BATIM. Long, but be sure to not miss a sentence Thursday, May. 07, 2009 Republicans in Distress: Is the Party Over? By Michael Grunwald These days, Republicans have the desperate aura of an endangered species. They lost Congress, then the White H...

On Sun, 10 May 2009 13:59:56 -0700 (PDT), Too_Many_Tools <too_many_tools@yahoo.com Republicans are screwed. TMT Republicans in the Wilderness: Is the Party Over? By MICHAEL GRUNWALD Michael Grunwald Thu May 7, 1:00 pm ET These days, Republicans have the desperate aura of an endangered species. They lost Congress, then the White House; more recently, they lost a slam-dunk House election in a conservative New York district, then Senator Arlen Specter. Polls suggest that only one-fourth of...

http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2009/06/30-20 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 30, 2009 6:04 PM Shell Oil Proposes New Arctic Ocean Drilling Plan Court order stops prior drilling effort SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. - June 30 - Alaska Native and conservation groups today cheered the end of a successful legal challenge that stopped Shell Oil from hastily drilling for oil in the Arctic Ocean. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit dismissed the case after Shell Offshore, Inc., withdrew the drillin...

for those interested, there was a bunch of dope protests around the country this past weekend. nyc had one in central park. saul williams (slam poet) cynthia mckinney (ousted outspoken congress member) were there. here are some pics a college buddy took: http://photos.yahoo.com/naeem_mohaiemen. click on NOT IN OUR NAME folder. don't mean to bombard you with all this but i am trying to get the word out to as many communities and people as possible. here is NATIONAL ANTI WAR MARCH that folks will...

Once again I’ve managed to let quite a long time pass between blog posts; sorry about that. I hope to do better over the next few months, for two reasons: I’m nearly done with my first draft of Avenger, and I’ve gotten past a whole battery of right-to-the-last-minute projects here in the office, and feel like I might be on top of my schedule for a little while. My latest effort is a brand-new adventure for low-level characters that’ll be coming out in a few months; I’ll say more about it when I...

Dee Dee Myers' husband pens a hit piece on Sarah Palin for his employer, Vanity Fair: It Came from Wasilla Despite her disastrous performance in the 2008 election, Sarah Palin is still the sexiest brand in Republican politics, with a lucrative book contract for her story. But what Alaska’s charismatic governor wants the public to know about herself doesn’t always jibe with reality. As John McCain’s top campaign officials talk more candidly than ever before about the meltdown of his vice-presiden...