The big urban areas in TX and OH have barely started to report results. This explains why no one has called either race, even while Clinton is currently ahead 57/41 in OH.

CNN has interactive county maps (TX, OH)

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From my incoming Twitter stream

-MSNBC projecting Texas, Rhode Island for McCain. Has enough delegates to win the Republic nomination.

-Looking good for Obama in TX. CNN says the results so far have not come in for Obama’s strong areas. And he’s still ahead.

-Clinton is claiming illegal procurement of caucus packets in Texas.

(Twitter is sort of like IM that broadcasts to many people. Breaking news hits Twitter extremely fast.)

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Factor in those fifty delegates on top on Clinton needing huge victories tonight to stay competitive (which I doubt she will get), then the party greybeards may soon come to explain to her that she will withdraw gracefully or messily, her choice.

But watch the delegate count. If Clinton doesn’t make substantive gains on the race that matters — the delegate race (remember, the Clinton campaign said it was all about delegates after Iowa) — then there will be a major push from Obama and the party to shut this thing down.

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Orecon has $24 million in vc funding for their new design, which puts most of the moving parts above water level, thus preventing corrosion by salt.

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Seriously!

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From 2001-2003, I was Co-coordinator of the Green Party of Los Angeles County. The GP was growing fast then, lots of voter registration drives and outreach. It was fun. Other parts were not so fun. In my role of Treasurer, I had a legal obligation to file a complaint against a Green Party member for his disposition of a $10,000 check. This caused ruptures that the California Green Party still hasn’t recovered from.

From there, I got active in the ANSWER Coalition, helping to build antiwar demonstrations, some of them quite massive. Got involved with the group behind them, the Party for Socialism and Liberation, and learned about Marxism. Got purged from PSL quite recently for reasons I’m unclear of (and no longer care about) - so now I’m a free agent.

So, it’s been a turbulent several years. Quite exciting too, at times. Worked on the 2000 Nader campaigns and Peter Camejo’s run for governor in 2003. Helped build antiwar protests where tens, sometimes hundreds of thousands came. Drove the truck that led L.A. mass protests several times. I’ve learned a lot about politics, organizing, and people.

So what’s next for me?

Lately I’ve become increasingly interested in the political ramifications of global warming and peak oil. How do we organize for change here? To work towards solving these problems societies as a whole need to work together. We no longer have time for squabbling (or idiotic wars). Also, solutions will require huge amounts of money and resources as well as new directions for the planet. This means governments and business must become involved on a massive basis.

The Green Party absolutely played a huge role in getting global warming and renewable energy into the national consciousness. Whether they can survive the 2008 elections as a viable party is uncertain, but their contributions have been crucial.

I’m reading The World is Flat by Thomas L. Friedman. It’s about how the planet is increasingly flattened by globalization, with work being done wherever it can be done the cheapest and most effectively. In it, he becomes startled when a Harvard political theorist tells him that his thesis, that the World is Flat, is almost precisely what Karl Marx wrote about in 1848. “The inexorable march of technology and capital to remove all barriers, boundaries, frictions, and restraints to global commerce.” Of course, Marx believed once that happened, workers worldwide would discover their exploitation and then rise up and throw off their shackles. (They might also just sit back in the La-Z Boy and think, I’m glad I’m not living in a mud hut any more.)

So, am I an ecosocialist now? Maybe. But as you might guess, I’m currently a bit burned out on -isms, so no labels for me for a while, thanks.

As mentioned, to solve global warming, we all really do need to work together. I’m looking around for new groups to become involved with. What’s your group doing?

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This will wake up up, if you aren’t already.

Yeh, this one’s for the workers who toil night and day
By hand and by brain to earn your pay
Who for centuries long past for no more than your bread
Have bled for your countries and counted your dead

In the factories and mills, in the shipyards and mines
We’ve often been told to keep up with the times
For our skills are not needed, they’ve streamlined the job
And with sliderule and stopwatch our pride they have robbed

CHORUS:
We’re the first ones to starve, we’re the first ones to die
The first ones in line for that pie-in-the-sky
And we’re always the last when the cream is shared out
For the worker is working when the fat cat’s about

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24 more hours and primary season will be over here in Ohio! I have received 23 calls since 8:00 am this morning - all automated saying “support my candidate”.

One of the nice things about being a registered Green is that both parties completely ignore you. No overflowing mailboxes and robocalls, come election time, just peace and quiet. And when a candidate does contact you, it’s so obviously a “let’s tell the Greenies we love trees” kind of thing that it’s laughable.

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I want one

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