Bob Morris @ Mar 28th 2007 13:27 - Category: Unfiled ;
Rule applies to shopping bags made from petroleum products
Proponent says ban would save 450,000 gallons of oil a year
Board of Supervisors votes yes, mayor likely to sign law
This was spearheaded by Green Party activist Ross Mikarimi, who is also a member of of the S.F. Board of Supervisors. Spread the meme about this great idea whose time has come.
Tip: Green Lisa
Bob Morris @ Mar 28th 2007 00:23 - Category: Anti-war ;
Check this video of Tell Mama by country / folk singer Shawn Pander. It’s quite moving, from the point of view of a soldier in Iraq twelve days from shipping home. He’s seen too much blood, too much death, too many mangled friends, and doesn’t know if he can ever be the same again.
From the lyrics
I’m not the same
tell my darling little girl
daddy had to go away
I just couldn’t touch her face
using hands that I’ve killed with
Pander is donating all proceeds from the song the the Veterans of Foreign Wars Foundation, where I found this startling quote, given it’s on a highly patriotic site.
“When a family is about to be evicted while its breadwinner is defending our country, well, that’s reprehensible.”
- R. Lee Ermey
When the VFW is posting quotes like that, you know the populace is solidly opposing the war. Yet Congress continues to fund the war, even if Democrats pretend to oppose it with toothless resolutions. Meanwhile, US soldiers and Iraqis continue to be maimed and killed.
‘Tell Mama’ isn’t so much a political song, but more of a scream from the working class that the price they are paying, dead bodies and mangled, broken soldiers coming back from Iraq, is a price they can no longer pay.
Bob Morris @ Mar 28th 2007 00:15 - Category: Immigrant rights ;
A California judge has ruled neither founder Jim Gilchrist nor three directors of the racist anti-immigrant Minutemen can have control of the group, citing “serious issues concerning the credibility of the claims of both Jim Gilchrist and the defendants…” Thus, the group is now immobilized, pending a full trial. The issue, not surprisingly, is “sloppy accounting and possible fundraising improprieties.”
In other Minutemen news, San Diego police searched the home of local Minutemen founder Jeff Schwilk looking for evidence linking him to vandalism attacks against migrant camps.
The busy Mr. Schwilk has also just been sued for one million dollars by Joanne Yoon, an ACLU contractor, citing his threatening, racist, sickening web posts and emails about her.
Think about Schwilk the next time you hear a Minutemen member lie about how they aren’t racist.
Now a judge thinks they may have been playing Hide The Money… Why am I not surprised?
Bob Morris @ Mar 28th 2007 00:08 - Category: Unfiled ;
We may be entering a period of peak coal, just like we are with peak oil. Which will be none to soon for this highly polluting and destructive abomination of an energy source, you ask me.
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