LDS and Catholic Church joined forces 11 years ago to oppose same sex marriage
Bob Morris @ 20:54 Category: LGBT rights Tags: prop 8;
November 12, 2008
Lieberman
Bob Morris @ 20:52 Category: Unfiled;
It’s not that the Democratic Party has no spine or can’t identify a snake when they see one. Something else is going on. Obama wants him to stay. Why?
100,000 cars running on wind power by 2013
Bob Morris @ 17:45 Category: Renewable energy, Wind turbines;
The world’s first offshore wind farm, at the head of Copenhagen harbor.
Denmark plans to power 1 million homes and 100,000 electric vehicles with wind power by 2013. Imagine if the US had projects like this happening nationwide. Perhaps we will soon. Obama has said that renewable energy will be a major priority.
SFist: A call for constructive Prop. 8 overturning tactics
Bob Morris @ 13:45 Category: LGBT rights Tags: prop 8;
SFist is putting out a call for and sites and/or organizations doing any of the following constructive things to help overturn gender and queer discrimination in the state of California.
* Reaching out to latino, black, and religious communities
* Providing legal support — to block prop 8, or to protect gay couples, or to promote other equality-themed legislation
* Organizing lists of volunteers/voters who are passionate about the cause
* Providing volunteers/voters with training/instruction for doing outreach of their own
* Conducting research/focus groups to find out exactly what our opportunities/obstacles are, and where our efforts are having the greatest impact
Jump on in. “Don’t mourn, organize.”
On Mormon-owned business boycotts
Bob Morris @ 11:26 Category: LGBT rights Tags: prop 8;
AmericaBlog on Bill Marriot’s blog post about the hotel chain being LGBT friendly.
It doesn’t matter if Bill Marriott didn’t give to Prop 8. He is a major donor to the Mormon Church. And they use that money to impose their religious views on others, whether you like it or not.
Second, Bill Marriott may not have given to Prop 8, but people on his staff, who run some of his hotels, did. And we pay their salaries. We pay for those donations every time we stay at a Marriott.
A national boycott of a major Mormon-controlled business could be quite effective. In the words of legendary organizer Saul Alinsky; pick a target and freeze it, the rats will crawl out to defend it, and then you’ll know who the real enemy is.
The other players in Yes on 8 are quite happy to let the Mormon Church take all the heat. We need to force them into the open too.
Best Buy CEO. Most difficult climate ever
Bob Morris @ 10:03 Category: Credit crisis;
Best Buy just announced sales have dropped sharply. This is an obvious bad sign and portends a slow holiday season. Consumer are the driving wheel of the economy.
“Since mid-September, rapid, seismic changes in consumer behavior have created the most difficult climate we’ve ever seen. Best Buy simply can’t adjust fast enough to maintain our earnings momentum for this year.”
This after the poster child for stupidity, Circuit City, filed for bankruptcy. (Yes, I’d call firing all the top salespeople in a lunatic effort to save money a monumental act of stupidity.) Everyone knew the Circuit City bk was coming, yet buyers haven’t flocked to Best Buy, rather, they’ve just stayed home. Even with all the discounting.
Protest Prop 8 nationwide Nov. 15
Bob Morris @ 08:54 Category: LGBT rights Tags: prop 8;
Abandoned flooded mines heat homes
Bob Morris @ 04:39 Category: Renewable energy Tags: geothermal energy;
The Mine Water Project is Holland just opened the first minewater power station. It uses warm water from flooded mines to heat homes. They plan to show it is “economically viable and environmentally sound to extract geothermal energy from the water in former and closed mines on a large scale.”
