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But if he WAS setting up a run, I didn’t see it. I WISH I did. I HOPE he runs.

“Nah, Al is running. I hope he has learned enough from last time”

Darwins I hope America has learned enough since last time.

See, unlike the current resident of the White House, Al Gore can do two things at once, viz., make a documentary about an important subject and launch a campaign.

Just like he stated at the beginning of the movie, shouldn’t we be concerned about and prepare for threats in addition to terrorism? The ole multi-tasking Gore — he was talking on his cell and working on his Mac laptop.

Nah, Al is running. I hope he has learned enough from last time.

I didn’t get that out of it at all. Seems to me he is more interested in addressing global warming than in being President. While I WISH he would run, I sorta hope I am right and that he sticks to this fight.

Gore mentioned a meta-analysis that used 900+ studies – the percentage questioning if global warming was occurring – 0%. Not much of a controversy.

He also mentioned a study of popular press articles (number over 600) and the percentage questioning if global warming is occurring = 53%. A controversy in the popular press, but not in peer reveiewed scientific journals. Makes you go hmmm…., now doesn’t it.

My opinion only: Al may be saying that he’s not running, but he is running.

Makes me wanna hang around a fudamentalist church! I could watch for some people entering who look kinda nervous. Then if they came out all wide eyed, just follow ‘em home and wait for them to start giving away their stuff!

Actually, this is relevant to the post I wanted to make. I just say Al Gore’s movie, “An Inconvenient Truth”……..Compelling stuff. Had he made that movie in 1998, the election would not have been close enough for bush to steal. A Republican congress would have frustrated Gores efforts to address global warming……and probably just about anything else productive. But the ushot is people would now be saying “George who?”

Folks, Gore made the case. Global warming is here and it is now and human beings ARE at the very least contributing to it. But have you noticed that alot of people who decry global warming are the same folks waiting for Jesus to come scoop ‘em up? I say it is just a little more important to care about this world and what we are making it then it is to deny that there is a problem because to do so assumes we have power to alter “creation” I’d say we best err on the side of protecting what we got rather than hoping for paradise.

The debate is over. We CAN correct the damage we have done to this world. Anyone who says we can’t shows not much faith in their country or their fellow man. I’d just as soon they’d shut up.

LOVED the DU link. Sometimes a laugh saves the day.

“Children of the rich who have about a 22 percent chance.” Rich children have a 78% chance of not being rich anymore. Guess this mobility thing works both ways.

“Children born to the middle class’ chance of ending up in a lower quintile (39.5 percent). A higher quintile (36.5 percent). Their chances of attaining the top five percentiles 1.8 percent.” So, the middle class can go either up or down. That sounds about right.

Because these measures are based on percentages of the population, they don’t really mean that much. There will always be people at the top 5% of income and the bottom 5% of income, but without some context of how good those respective incomes are, those statistics are a nothing more than a tautology.

http://www.americanprogress.org/site/pp.asp?c=biJRJ8OVF&b=1579981

Thanks, Julie. Lynard Skynard was a great band. I liked .38 Special, too.

Sweethome Alabama, where they sky is so blueSweehome Alabama I’m comin home to you”

You are more than welcome . . . your examples were a trip down memory lane. I think that “gella” is like the French word, “nespa” – which means such things as “isn’t it true”, “don’t you agree”, etc.

Alabama??? Makes you wonder if something serious, as in voter revolt, is afoot. Neil Young is going to have to write some new songs.

The COMMENTS on this are the funniest things I have read in a long, long time.

End timers do not click!

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Patricia Todd made history today when voters in Alabama’s 54th legislative district voted to send the Democrat to the State House, marking the first time ever that legislature will include an openly gay Representative.

The Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund, the nation’s largest gay and lesbian political action committee, endorsed Todd and helped raise tens of thousands of dollars from its national network of donors to help fund her campaign. Todd has no Republican opponent in the general election in November.

“The road to equality in Alabama is a mile shorter today,” said Chuck Wolfe, president and CEO of the Victory Fund. “Gays and lesbians in Alabama will now have what all Americans deserve–a voice and a vote.

Alabama knows well what a single voice can accomplish. We applaud Patricia’s courage in stepping up to be heard,” Wolfe said.

So…now ala-freakin’-bama is more progressive than kansas?

heheheheh

Lots of news in the real blogosphere about it. Church boy goes down the drain as a result of the abramhoff taint.

Some others running this year should beware. They outta be hearing footsteps right now.

And I see the feds are getting closer to katherine “i love makeup” harris in the government procurement ethics mess she is in.

Culture of Corruption.

I wonder if we will get a thread…

“Boy that sun sure is hot today, gella?”

“Boy, dat bush fella sure has da whole damn world fouled up, gella?”

“Boy, dat terry and joe giffs our churches a bad name, gella?”

“Boy, dat kansas boe sure is a buncha knotheads, gella?”

heheheheheh. Thanks for the set up dd.

Most Lebonse are great people, so what? Look at their country. The Lebonese are like the Muslims in most countries, either radical or neutral. They have allowed the terrorists to take over their country.

The Muslim religion is being defined by the nuts. War is a failure of many things, it’s what happens when a people have decided that freedom is more important than peace.

Hank

It’s a social club and a market. Saying your a christian doesn’t make you any different than saying you’re a Democrat. Just because you’re a Democrat, doesn’t make you a nice guy or somebody that cares for the plight of the less fortunante. Just says you belong to a social group, a club, a network peer group.

Most christians don’t go to church to worship god, they go there because family, friends, and co-workers go there. Networking possibilities, job contact, and etc.

A perfect example is when I used to work at Cessna. There was a big wig there that was “supposely” religous christian. He went to a specific church. All of a sudden people “buttkissers” started to go to the same church he did. Even new hires that never went to church or attended a different one started to go to the church the big wig went too. Why? Because people who were getting promotions to foreman and etc all went to this guys church. It was no secret.

Off Topic! But sort of a on it. I totally disagree with you Sum1 that going to war is to admit failure. But I guess I don’t go to your church!

My boss is Lebanese. He’s a great guy. In my worst nightmares I can’t imagine him trying to kill me or sign up to be a terrorist.His family lives in Beirut. The violence is very hard on him. He has a different view of being a neigbor to Israel. Talks about how no one talks about the things Israel does to the people in the South. There isn’t anything he can do for his family and I can see him throwing himself into his work to not think about it.

My rant? A coworker. He professes to be a better christian than anyone else. He believes to compromise is to admit failure. (myself, I believe to go to war is to admit failure)

This whole week he’s gleeful over the invasion. Spends hours talking about the type of bombs being dropped. How the civilians being killed “brought it on themselves” He’s clueless of what that talk does to his boss. How can a christian be such an advocate of death and destruction?