TIME MAGAZINE’S PERSON OF THE YEAR: YOU!

Congratulations dear readers, Time Magazine named you person of the year. And Time got it right. YOU! Okay, us, or anyone who took control from the powers that be, or who contributed in some way. There are a lot of astounding things happening. The internet has grown beyond our wildest imaginations 10 years ago.

Read the Time article and give yourselves a pat on the back. If you are reading this then give yourself a warm pat on the back for not ingesting mainstream media for at least a while today.

ps If you are Bill O’Reilly and you are reading this then don’t give yourself a pat on the back. We bloggers remember you spouting, “I’d go in with a hand grenade,” referring to what you’d do to the blogosphere! I’m pretty sure that Time Magazine wasn’t referring to you, Bill, when they said, “YOU.” What they meant in your case was, “Get over yourself, Bill.” Ditto to Newt Gingrich for suggesting that we need to curb freedom of speech to prevent terrorist attacks. I’m pretty sure Time wasn’t referring to you either, Newt.

By 2040 Greenhouse Gases … Open Arctic Sea in Summers

!!!! Alarm Bells – anyone hear them over the din of Limbaugh, FOX News, Coulter, DeLay, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, body counts, ….?
By 2040, Greenhouse Gases Could Lead to an Open Arctic Sea in Summers ANDREW C. REVKIN of the NY Times is writing about an article from the journal Geophysical Research Letters,

Basically, we’ll have shipping lanes from Atlantic to Pacific oceans north of Canada. Folks will be buying land in northern Canada, and building ports and fuelling stations up there, as the polar bears begin to run out of territory. The problem will continue to get worse as the darker colored ocean waters will absorb more heat than the white ice. Ironically, the winters will be colder, as blowing winds pick up more cold from the melted waters than from the frozen ice.

You really need to look at the map in the Times article to see how huge this summer ice melt will be. Almost the entire northern polar ice cap will be melted in the summer, leaving a small amount of summer ice to the north of Eastern Canada and Greenland.

Meanwhile, in my home state of Texas, we are being hijacked by the pinheaded Governor Rick Perry who is fast tracking the permits for 11 new coal-burning power plants. These are not the new, cleaner coal burners, he is letting them build 11 OLD TECHNOLOGY COAL PLANTS!!!!!!

With the foresight and intelligence of Rick Perry, I’m starting to think that he’s ready for the national scene in ‘08. Yeah, that’s the ticket, “PERRY FOR PREZ IN ‘08.” It would be a relief to get him out of Texas. Poor Washington.

If only we’d simply forgotten about Iraq after we’d finished up in Afghanistan, we could have gone to war against global warming.

IF ONLY WE’D DEVELOPED AN ENERGY POLICY IN THE 70′S.

If only we’d been as smart as Brazil. They were quick to react to the oil embargoes of the early 70’s, and started on a national program to convert their vehicles to ethanol. By last year the transition was complete. Every vehicle in Brazil runs on ethanol produced from sugar cane, which has a higher per acre yield than corn. In fact, Brazil is now an exporter of ethanol.

If only, … aaaahhhhh, But no, the U.S. is still dependent on Middle Eastern oil, and getting worse, and soon to be competing with a China on the fast track to consumerism and demands for more oil. So we are trying to permanantly embed ourselves in the Middle East to bring democracy to the region, rid it of WMD, kill hundreds of thousands of innocent people so that we preserve our own national interests over there. Can you spell oil with me kids, O-I-L. Very Good!

My how the time flies when I’m off on a good rant. Thank God and Little George Bush that we’re winning in Iraq!!! We’re winning? Right? Little George????

YUP, REPUBLICANS LOST IRAQ WAR!

I’m beginning to be a fan of a lot of the Huffington Post’s writers, Cenk Uygur being one of my favorites. He’s a lawyer, and co-host of THE YOUNG TURKS, a morning show on Air America. He wrote a blog piece for the Huff-Po folks, entitled: THE REPUBLICANS LOST IRAQ, to which I replied:

You said it so lucidly Mr. Uygur. The blame for losing the Iraq War rests squarely on the Republican shoulders. Anyone who tried to inject sanity into their jingoistic monologue was scorned as a traitor. From day one I was incensed by Ann Coulter calling anyone who openly disagreed with the President, ON ANY TOPIC, an unpatriotic traitor. We all should have been rounded and tried like terrorists, in Ann’s and Rush’s and O’Reilly’s insane, reptilian worldview.

I am concerned that Democrats will now be roped into the “blame pool,” having won both houses. However Rumsfeld’s latest leaked memo written two days before he resigned, and the fact that most of the mainstream media now call it a Civil War, should limit the Democrat’s liability for the calamity ahead. Watch, though, the neocons will still be grousing that if they had been given enough time they would have pulled Iraq out of its current funk. (Hey neo-knotheads, it’s gone on longer than the America’s involvement in W.W. II.

The failed Republican – neocon approach has ignited a searing fire in the bellies of future generations of Middle Eastern jihadists. They will rightfully blame the U.S. for the 650,000 civilian deaths in Iraq.

The best approach to the Iraq situation would have been to grant more time to the initial weapons inspectors, and to a diplomatic solution.

I feel that your main point, Mr Uygur, needs to be hammered out loudly and firmly for the media and the world to hear, and remember. Say it loud! Say it proud! REPUBLICANS LOST IRAQ!

I feel that this bears repeating as a mantra for a while, vain and arrogant as it may sound, as a dose of reality to Republicans, neocons, their followers, and the rightwing media who have been pounding the terrorist war drums for the last five years. We need to drum this truth, into their heads.

If you have not yet checked out the Huffington Post, you need to do so, daily, or hourly if you are like me. It updates several times an hour, tracks the main wireline news, and has the best bloggers out there. It’s a national treasure. Give them a visit.

I’ve got several posts to get pasted up in the next few days – maybe Tuesday, or so. Thanks for your patience, Denny.

RUPERT MURDOCH SEES THE LIGHTS – MILLIONS OF US!!

UPDATE TO THE FOX – MURDOCH – O.J. SIMPSON BOYCOTT:

Murdoch, this afternoon backed down and agreed to not air the O.J. non-confession and to not publish the book.

Thank goodness for the decency of the American people to stand up against Murdoch and O.J. Had this contest of wills gone another week, I personally believe that FOX and Murdoch would have suffered great losses. Ahhhhh, the internet is a powerful tool.

I just posted the following, in reply to Nora Ephron’s “SAY IT AIN’T SO, RUPE” at Huffington Post. (Thank goodness for Arianna Huffington over there. She is a genuine lioness – fearless.)

Murdoch and O.J. Simpson deserve each other. They’re both skanky-like-skunks.

They are both out of touch with reality – the American zeitgeist – both of them thinking that O.J. is some loveable little teddy bear whose media image can be rehabilitated. (I shouldn’t be so harsh on them, as I, myself, was equally wrong as to the “Clean Up Charles Manson Projects” that have attempted to rehabilitate Manson’s image for years only to fail tragically time and again.)

What a tragedy it must seem to FOX Sports that the good American people simply won’t play their part in cleaning up O.J. Murdoch could almost hear O.J. again, up in the press box, screaming hysterically, “I thought I could cut and run, but just look at this mother____ fly!!”

Murdoch just doesn’t get it. He doesn’t seem to connect well with the American psyche. He and the neocon politicians he’s been pimping are out of touch with with the mainstream thought, as shown in the last elections. We hear from out of his mouthpiece, FOX News, that they are looking out for us, AS IF!

As if we need to be told by these skanky-like-skunk punks from FOX what is morally good for us. Listen to FOX news prattle on about how they know what’s best for us, and then watch them try to foist this Murdoch – O.J. off on us. No thanks, Rupe! We don’t need your skanky-ness guarding the hen house.

The American people were turning up the heat quickly on the boycott of FOX and Murdoch’s other companies. Murdoch, like a deer in the headlights, finally saw the lights – millions of us.

Good Cheer & Congratulations to Bloggers everywhere. You did it again.

Blessings to the Brown and Goldman families.

BOYCOTT OF FOX AND O. J. SIMPSON

NOVEMBER 20, 2006

ACTION ALERT: Ron Goldman’s Family calls for Boycott of FOX and O. J. Simpson. Join them now!

Sick of hearing about O.J. Simpson, again? Sickened that he’s being paid umpteen millions for this putrid book deal and interview on FOX? You’re not alone. There are millions of our good Americans who rightly see this as morally repugnant. We know in our hearts that this interview should not be aired on national television, and especially in the middle of the holiday season. I have spoken with people to get diverse opinions, and there is no one – right or left of center, or middle of the road – who is saying, “Hurrah for O.J.” – NOT A SINGLE ONE!

No one but Rupert Murdoch. He is the owner of HarperCollins (who is publishing the book), and FOX Broadcasting (who is airing the two hour interview with Simpson), and FOX News (who is hyping the book and interview). Murdoch owns NEWS Corp that owns them all. Bill O’Reilly, who works for Murdoch on FOX News is hyping the mess, all the while claiming to be the Culture Warrior (O’Reilly’s new book). He is, in all honesty, calling for a boycott of the interview and book, but then states that FOX News is in no way affiliated with FOX Broadcasting. That’s dishonest. At his boss’s behest he is deflecting criticism from FOX NEWS while hyping this travesty on FOX NEWS, the station he protects for his boss.

The Simpson non-confession will air Nov 27 & 29, at the end of the ratings Sweeps Week, in Murdoch’s skanky attempt to boost FOX’s ratings, and then be able to claim higher market share, and thus sell more advertising. Murdoch and FOX and HarperCollins are as morally repugnant as Simpson. This is murderous bloodmoney on which they are all profiting.

WE must speak powerfully to Murdoch and his companies, on behalf of our beliefs in American decency. We must act immediately!

I have, therefore, made my decision to join Ron Goldman’s Family in boycotting all FOX channels, HarperCollins, News Corp., Murdoch, and all of his companies and products. I will not watch FOX channels, or buy HarperCollins books for as long as it takes Murdoch to clean up his act. I urge you, too, to join the Goldman Family’s boycott.

Here some of the ways you can participate in the Goldman Family’s Boycott of FOX:

1. Email this information to everyone on your email lists. Believe me, they will all be grateful to learn of ways they can speak out on this.

2. Post this email on your blog, website, personal site, forum, or any other way you can think of to inform people.

3. Tell your friends, family, neighbors, groups, co-workers, and fellow church members. They will agree with you on this. They just haven’t been energized yet. But they are sickened by this and need this information.

4. This is very important: Sign the Goldman Boycott Signup at: Don’t Pay OJ.Com (http://www.dontpayoj.com/)

5. Sign this: Boycott Petition in response to FOX’s OJ Simpson television program

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/134434237

6. Call your local FOX affiliates and complain to them. Tell them you are disgusted and that you are boycotting their stations. Look under television stations in the yellow pages for FOX. Or, you can use this link to their website to list their affiliates: http://www.fox.com/links/affiliates.htm There are email addresses here, too:   FOX News Channel comments write to:     comments@foxnews.com

7 Write a letter to your local newspaper editor. Be nice and polite.

8. Make some copies of this email to hand out or post on bulletin boards.

9. Call a talk radio station and give them your thoughts, calmly and politely.

10. Turn off all FOX channels – Broadcasting, FX, Sports, News.

11. Don’t buy any more HarperCollins books.

12. Urge any FOX employees you might speak to, to call in sick on the days the shows are to air, Nov. 27 & 29, 2006.

13. Email Bill O’Reilly and urge the “Culture Warrior” to resign or donate a year’s pay to the Goldman Family.

We need for this blackout of FOX to continue throughout this entire time, through Dec 1. This would cause maximum impact on their ratings and cause the most loss to their ad revenues once the ratings week is over.

Please take action now. Do it for the Goldman Family and all that is decent in America. Please make a small start by forwarding this email to the people on your list. And then sign the Goldman Boycott: www.dontpayoj.com