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There’s a movement in Massachusetts to elect Elizabeth …Jim Dean


I don’t need to tell you who Elizabeth Warren is — you’ve probably seen the video where she debunks right-wing “class warfare” talking points and makes a powerful case for the social contract.

Elizabeth is a fighter and a truth-teller. You saw it in that video — and you saw it in Washington, where she stood up for the middle class and took on the big banks to hold Wall Street accountable.

She is exactly the sort of person we need fighting for us in Washington everyday and we need to have her back in this Senate race in Massachusetts. Republican Scott Brown has a $10 million war chest and big banks will go to the mat to keep a real progressive like Warren out of the Senate.

Help elect Elizabeth Warren. Chip in $12 to her campaign right now.    WWW.DemocracyForAmerica.com

When we asked our Massachusetts members who they supported for Senate, the answer was loud and clear — 90 percent of DFA members said they supported Elizabeth Warren.

There’s a movement in Massachusetts to elect Elizabeth and it’s about more than taking back a Senate seat — it’s about electing someone who will get America working for regular folks again and hold big banks, insurance companies and Wall Street accountable for their actions.

Electing Elizabeth is a huge step towards getting Americans back to work and rebuilding the middle class.

Elizabeth Warren is standing up for us. Let’s stand up for her. Chip in $12 to her campaign right now.   WWW.DemocracyForAmerica.com

Thanks for everything you do.

– Jim

Jim Dean, Chair
Democracy for America

2012 Barack Obama


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TGIF ….&some News


just another rant …

Apparently, Climate change and its impact on science not to mention the latest comments from scientists all over the world has … churned up
some opinions … I like it. I want to thank everyone who even bothers to make comments at all …honestly, I had hoped to get maybe one, or two but the number of comments is great, please keep it up. So, with all that said the comment below is …

Comment:

Indeed Al Gore is not a scientist.  I recommend against using him as a source of climate science, except perhaps as an intermediary to actual scientists.

Perhaps a better idea is to lend credibility to the National Academy of Sciences.  Or the Royal Society (Great Britain’s national science academy, the oldest and probably most respected in the world).  Or the national science academies of over 30 nations, including France, Germany, Russia, China, and a host of others.  Or the American Physical Society, the American Chemical Society, the American Geophysical Union.  They have all issued unequivocal statements that global warming is really happening, that it’s caused by human activity, and that it’s very dangerous.

One is also well advised to put more trust in actual working climate scientists.  They too are in near-universal agreement that global warming is really happening, that it’s caused by human activity, and that it’s very dangerous.

One is ill advised to trust “Roger from New Zealand” on this issue.

My Response –

I am not using Gore as anything. Again, like i have stated to “Rodger from New Zealand, I receive newsletters and action alerts
from Gore and UCS which happen to at least provide information that hopefully makes people think and share…. they are not the only source but they are in the
game and more need to jump in or try to gain more PRsomehow. I appreciate your words of advice and I do believe my responses were adequate and spoke for themselves really.  i believe that Global Warming and Global Cooling are not only realities but also environmental and manmade  problems that definitely need to be addressed sooner than later.

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Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA) Memo to House GOP on Upcoming Jobs Agenda

Cost Estimates for the 112th Congress


H.R. 2845, Pipeline Safety,
Regulatory Certainty, and Job Creation Act of 2011

September 27, 2011 pdf
Cost estimate for the bill as
ordered reported by the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure on
September 8, 2011

H.R. 585, Small Business Size
Standard Flexibility Act of 2011

September 27, 2011
pdf
Cost
estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on Small
Business on July 13, 2011

S. 1547, Export-Import Bank
Reauthorization Act of 2011

September 26, 2011
pdf
Cost
estimate for the bill as reported by the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing,
and Urban Affairs on September 8, 2011

H.R. 2405, Pandemic and
All-Hazards Preparedness Reauthorization Act of 2011

September 26, 2011 pdf
Cost estimate for the bill as
ordered reported by the House Committee on Energy and Commerce on July 28,
2011

H.R. 1165, Transportation
Security Administration Ombudsman Act of 2011

September 26, 2011 pdf
Cost estimate for the bill as
ordered reported by the House Committee on Homeland Security on September 21,
2011

wicked weather Wednesday …&some News


just another rant …only it’s not mine   – round 2

I posted an article from the Union of Concerned Scientists on 9/23 … that so controversial question? Is Global Warming Real or is it really Global Cooling …read below. I want to thank the person who responded even though laced with a whole lot of patronizing … i get it … Global Warming is science not politics … unfortunately, some in politics don’t seem to know or get science enough to make intelligent decisions and while the person commenting may not agree but Global Warming became Political in the late 60′s under the Nixon era …ugh right?  anyway, just thought i would share.

Comment 9/23 -My response most certainly is my personal opinion and it is also well supported by proven fact as well as being  shared by an increasing number of honest scientists.

Cheers

Roger

http://www.rogerfromnewzealand.wordpress.com.

9/27 ME  -” i receive info from gore ….”

9/27 Comment – So you believe Al Gore is a reliable source of information with regard to the unproven “Anthropogenic CO2 causes Global Warming” hypothesis then?

Here are a few fact about good old Al that you may not have yet digested.

Believe it or not, Al Gore is not a scientist, but he is a great speaker, just like Hitler was actually.  But lets take a look at Al Gore’s personal life.

Al Gore is not using his superior oratorial powers to help you and me from a failing planet, he is using them to enhance his investments. Doing rather well at it too I might say. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/energy/6491195/Al-Gore-could-become-worlds-first-carbon-billionaire.html

Al says that he is simply “putting his money where his mouth is”, well I don’t know about you but I would say that he is putting  his mouth where his money is – especially when he actively urges Congress to adopt policies in his favour.   In most parts of the world, most people who influence legislators in order to fill their pockets, go to gaol for considerable periods of time.

Now Al urges everyone to take on vows of poverty in order to save the world. This link below says it all better than I can. What about his multiple mansions etc.?
http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2011/06/24/the-failure-of-al-gore-part-one/

So Gore is :
1) A God
2) A Guru
3) An idiot
4) A money grubbing con man
5) A fine upright guy.

Check out the links above and then see which category you would like to assign him too.

Cheers

Roger

http://www.rogerfromnewzealand.wordpress.com

PS If I have not confined myself to reported facts, please point out the error of my ways.

9/27 My response below:

Roger Roger Roger

I did not say i believe all of what Gore or UCS say but that i receive info from them and post
it because they have information to share. I personally believe Global Warming
or you are pushing Global Cooling is definitely a reality that is both environmental
and manmade that is enough for me to digest as a matter of fact. I am one of
several in my family that grew up in a great area with clean air, which has
deteriorated, and those of us who lived in this area prior to the industrial
build up can feel it. I will say again, if you have a newsletter or action
alerts to share i would but I think we are not on the same page. I do know that
AL Gore is not a scientist silly but he has been an advocate with a big name
that has people ask questions and demand more …even though our politicians
who create and pass the laws don’t seem to
be listening …his pluses are that he was a politician and knows people
with information that should get debated … I get it you don’t like or respect
his opinion. I want Republicans to accept we have air quality issues that are
both environmental and manmade and act accordingly for the future of our kids
here in the US and that unfortunately is being filibustered on all angles …I
want cleaner air, stricter regulations , i want those that dumped their shit on
American Indian land or created nasty landfills punished because the run off
quite possibly is pooled or in our ground water; Corporations have gotten away
with secret bs for years and while your focus is on legislators and lobbyists i
really am more concerned about making the lives of people safer especially for
those who almost always have corporations dumping their waste …sometimes
secretly sometimes not so secretly in or near groundwater res and poor people
who i guess they don’t care about …it all contributes to environmental
changes. I am no expert and i never said i was, but as someone who is open to
all information on global warming that will get Congress to do something…Gore
has money to do something … the info comes from scientists who cares. I say
get involved and put the facts out there. I believe in the 1st Amendment and
some come by money in various ways that can annoy, frustrate and offend us but
i won’t hate on Gore for putting out info there or his ability to make $$$ that
is the American way. I will say if there are facts out there that prove him
wrong then i would discontinue posting info and or vote for his efforts but
that has not happened for me personally… yet. If I have learned anything
since the days when Congress believed in the fact that there is an increase, in
asthmatics …clean air gives certain States big regulation worries and even if
Gore were right, we have too many climate deniers to move toward a cleaner USA.
Again, i am not an expert so your abc thing is silly and just accept we will
have to agree to disagree. I did visit your blog and you do not like President
Obama so …that puts us at odds, but thank you for the conversation.

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Will speak directly to public school students

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