Nathan_T's Blog

Sure enough, right after Al Gore won the Nobel Peace Prize for his work raising awareness of global warming and enviromental pollution people started coming out and saying what a mockery it made of the prize. Seriously? Is caring about future generations really a left or right issue?

I fear that while the rest of the industrialized world work at making air cleaner, water safer and try to lessen the impact that global warming could have we here in America are going to continue arguing about whether it's even happening and question why we should be the leaders in reducing the causes, even though we were the ones who have contributed more to world pollution than any other country.

It's not even only about warming, it's about safe living. We breathe far worse substances than our ancestors did 25 years ago, within a few decades most fish will be unsafe to eat due to mercury contamination. That is if we don't over-harvest the ocean to the brink of collapse as we're doing now.

 Perhaps the worst thing that could come from a warming world would be famine, disease, lack of water and the wars that will follow suit. We fight now for safety from other humans. Soon enough we might be fighting our neighbors for a drink of water.
 

President Bush is sharpening his Veto Quill yet again. This time he wants the "Protect America Act" to give retroactive immunity to telecoms that have helped the intelligence community to spy on it's own people. The bill in the House leaves that portion out. I think the only thing his version of the bill protects is his hide and the megacorps who funded his campaigns.

Look, this bill fundamentally gives the government the green light to spy on anyone of us. "Sure," you say,"but I have nothing to hide!" It's not that they want to spy on you, but get you used to the fact that you may be monitored at any time. A frog put in a pan of water will not notice the heat until he is dead as it's too gradual to be apparent.

One of our founding fathers knew what would happen in this country in time, Thomas Jefferson:

"Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual. "

"Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny."

"I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country."

Looks like Texas had $1.5 billion left over from last year. So their giving businesses tax credits this year. I'm all for that if it helps the mom and pops but somehow I doubt they fit into that scheme.

 
I guess our state must have crime way down, splendid education, clean air and water... and the roads? Best in the world!

Can I get some eggs to go with all the O.J. I've been force fed lately? Are we so content with our country and the world that the biggest news story is about an ex-football player who may or may not have been involved in a heist? I got a better one, the administration has pulled the biggest theft in history right in front of us and, unlike O.J., will walk away scott-free. Of course I'm talking about a war that was started under the premise of destroying weapons that the intelligence community knew weren't there, thus we were lied to, our sons, brothers, sisters, wives, husbands, mothers, etc... have had their lives stolen by this administration with no apologies, no discourse, only talking points and stubborn tenacity to "stay the course."

Will you stand up and say "no more!"? Will anyone bring about justice where justice truely needs to be meeted out to those responsible for these blatant deceptions?

Of course not, because we're too comfortable and they're too entrenched.

"I have absolutely no idea what my generation did to enrich our democracy. We dropped the ball. We entered a period of complacency and closed our eyes to the public corruption of our democracy."-Wynton Marsalis