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I think it would be great if the disaster in Haiti led to Port Au Prince being rebuilt with sustainability in mind. Now would be their best opportunity, if they got necessary aid. I think the Obama administration could really achieve a win-win situation here if the pledged to help Haiti go green (as well as re-building to seismic codes)
The explanation for gay Republicanism (GOProud) -- it's called MASOCHISM!!
While we ogle who knew who was sleeping with whom and while we allow the Rovers to create distractions which we willingly submit to by taking the bait every time -- the last day for the public to go on record in defense of Net Neutrality is tomorrow. The forces that took control of our government, emptied our treasury, killed hundreds of thousands in ginned up wars, and fortified the Shadow Government – these forces are still on the march. While we dither they march. They march straight toward the permanent removal of Net Neutrality and the removal of all restraint on corporate funding of political candidates. Unless we tighten our collective attention belt and WE set the agenda, starting with the above and proceeding to eliminating corporate private armies, there will be little else to do in the future but gossip, as real dialogue, real political involvement, and real access to information will be things of the past and the lockdown of the corporate state will be nearing completion.
File a comment in support of Net Neutrality by Jan. 14. Tell the FCC the internet cannot be surrendered to the control of the most powerful. And then tell everyone you know to do the same now:
http://www.savetheinternet.com/
How is it that reasonable people have allow ideologues to make the discussion of the climate crisis about whether or not global climate change is man-made? Why is that the most important issue? If we know that global climate change is happening, and we are contributing to it in however small a degree, don't we have an obligation to ourselves as a civilization to do what we can to curtail it? If we knew there was an asteroid headed for earth to wipe us out and could do something to stop it, would there really be a discussion over whether we should expend any effort because the asteroid is not man-made? Perhaps if knew it was only going to hit and wipe out Africa or South America, there would be such a discussion.
@minny
Thanks for the explanation. I'm not a big fan of either Reille or Monica. They hurt an awful lotta people with their selfishness.
Hey, DDay. That "unaware" comment is a bit tongue-in-cheek. The point is that women have a say unless they are raped. Women are often tricked into relationships by men who say they are not married, are married but separated, or are thinking of or getting a divorce. Seems to me that these women are not uninformed enough to fall for this in the cases of the Clintons and the Edwards.
I just hope Obama administration take this disaster in Haiti to win back the trust and respect in the world (specially in South America) by extending unconditional aid and help and not attaching strings that would ultimately stand to benifit big Corp instead of the Haitians.
Most recent research at Biosphere 2 has examined the effects of environmental changes that Earth is likely to face in the future, especially higher concentrations of atmospheric CO2. For example, researchers tested the hypothesis that tropical rain forests can "soak up" excess CO2 by increased photosynthesis. Using the instruments that precisely control the Biosphere's atmosphere, the researchers subjected the facility's rain forest to CO2 levels of 400, 700, and 1200 parts per million (ppm). 400 ppm is close to today's actual level. Under each condition, the researchers measured the forest's rate of CO2 uptake (by photosynthesis) and release (by respiration of plant and microorganism cells).
Results showed that the rain forest's ability to soak up CO2 declined at an atmospheric concentration of 700 ppm and was severely reduced at 1200 ppm. Uptake of CO2 did increase at higher atmospheric concentrations, but respiration increased even more (especially respiration by soil microbes). The researchers concluded that rain forests are unlikely to soak up much of the additional carbon dioxide that human activities will add to the future atmosphere.
Audesirk, Audesirk, and Byers (2006) Life on Earth. N.J. Pearson Custom Publishing p. 604.
FYI CSPAN2 is carrying the Financial Crisis Commission hearings. They have the CEOs of the banks vs. the commissions (which includes Woosley Born). The surprising thing to me is that the financial service people are pointing out all the things that are wrong with the system. Many of them are the things that Thom has pointed out plus many more. I home Thom can review the hearings. For much of it I need an interpreter.
One interesting side note, is that when the committee took a break, all the reporters jumped up and started taking pictures of the banksters.
Thom, in response to those who tout the "benefits" of Global Warming:
There is a reason I don't put my patio furniture in my greenhouse. Turn the planet into a giant greenhouse, and you can't just "open a window" or "air condition" the entire planet.
So the economist wants us to build AQUADUCTS from Antarctica to the Sudan?
Brilliant! What an ENORMOUS ECONOMIC STIMULUS!!!!
This guy is a kook- John is assessing the earth mechanistically, not as a whole. You can have an exhaust system in a car, but that alone does not run the car. One the ice in Siberia melts, etc. the methane off gassing will speed up the feedback loop.
Right wing mantra: "If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bulls**t"
Why is Thom interviewing an economist about a scientific question?
Unless, of course, there are no scientists who can give the denialist perspective?
@Kai, that's a good suggestion, except the majority of Republicans are elderly (white, male and self-centered too).
Harry Reid grew up in a time when 'negro' was the positive way to refer to a black person.
He is out of touch, because he has not kept with modern norms of speech. We should just spin this that Republicans are prejudiced against elderly people.
Hey does anyone know if the Supreme Court delivered its decision on corporate ability to directly give money to campaigns?
@ minny
There is no evidence and little likely hood that anyone was "unaware" as you posit. I am as unclear about which "ladies" you refer to as I am about what point you are trying to make. ? Hmmmm.
I'm getting tired hearing about this Harry Reid thing.
As an African-American I think it's interesting that the only people I see making a big deal about this is White people.
I don't think it was racist to point out people would be more likely to vote for a Black person that is light skinned. It maybe racist that people aren't as likely to vote for someone who is darker, but it's not racist to point out the issue.
And the negro comment, very bad choice of word sure... but I understand that Reid is an old man and that was the term used for a long time. I've talked to older Black people that still use that word or similarly out dated terms.
The truth is that when I first heard Harry Reid use the word negro on the news I wasn't upset. In fact I laughed.
I have often wondered how Bill Clinton and John Edwards each found a woman who was unaware that these men were married to such high-profile women as Hilary Clinton and Elizabeth Edwards. This inconvenient fact did not deter the "ladies" at all. Hmmm.
To redeem myself by having put a draft of my movie review of the AVATAR here. I now have had it professionally edited and published. Check it out at my website by clicking on the hyperlink on this post.
Senator Harry Reid has a 100% favorable voting record with the NAACP, x-Senator Trent Lott's favorable voting record was 30%. Actions say more than words.
i consider thom hartmann jim hightower john perkins naomi kein and david korten leaders on the subject of corporatocracy. i would like them to unite together to take the lead to work to end the personhood of corporations. to see great change in society it take unity. please unite together and bring us abourd to end the personhood of corporation. so we may create a society of the people for the people.
Christ, Harry Reid used a word that is no longer politically correct and the way he delivered it shows he most likely wasn't aware of it.
If the Democrats get rid of Harry Reid as Senate leader, I hope its based on logic such as not agreeing with is tactics of rolling over every time the republicans threaten Filibuster. But if this is the worst the right-wing can come up with, well its says more about the right-wing then it does about Senator Reid.
Obama uses 'pocket veto' option - is this the same man America voted in?:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/13/house-to-rebuke-obama-on_n_4217...