President Gore says tax what we burn, not what we earn

we are challenged to break our addiction to the disasterous carbon based fuels and save our planet for future generations. if we actually add the real cost to the extraction and burning of fossil fuels suddenly solar, wind and geothermal begin to look like a real bargain. and the new infrastructure we will create will mean good jobs for humans. blowing the tops off the world's second most diverse forest on the planet, 2nd only to the tropical rain forest, is an ongoing environmental disaster. and that's before the coal is even burned. killing and dying so the corporatists can secure the oil in countries where other humans are trying to live is bankrupting our nation in every way.
thank you President Gore for once again asking us to do the right thing......

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fun site

I just played this great game on Fuse's website -- you can throw pies at Tim Eyman! A great cure for the Tim Eyman blues . Eyman Meet Pieman

the site has great info on candidates for state office and judges

a day in the garden

i made an interesting discovery today...and now i know why i was stung trying to open the overgrown trail by the fence.....i tried to film the filbert crop being set but don't think i actually captured it...and finally the pond with the new shoreline revision in progress.....and i will determine what the actual level is now that the fawcet is replaced.



bald-faced hornet here

the garden and Girlie

a recent view in the front garden....

Jackson Browne and friends

From the DVD "Going Home"
This is one of my favorite Jackson Browne's song...
I hope you'll Like it ...

LIVES IN THE BALANCE

I've been waiting for something to happen
For a week or a month or a year
With the blood in the ink of the headlines
And the sound of the crowd in my ear
You might ask what it takes to remember
When you know that you've seen it before
Where a government lies to a people
And a country is drifting to war

And there's a shadow on the faces
Of the men who send the guns
To the wars that are fought in places
Where their business interest runs

On the radio talk shows and the T.V.
You hear one thing again and again
How the U.S.A. stands for freedom
And we come to the aid of a friend
But who are the ones that we call our friends--
These governments killing their own?
Or the people who finally can't take any more
And they pick up a gun or a brick or a stone
There are lives in the balance
There are people under fire
There are children at the cannons
And there is blood on the wire

There's a shadow on the faces
Of the men who fan the flames
Of the wars that are fought in places
Where we can't even say the names

They sell us the President the same way
They sell us our clothes and our cars
They sell us every thing from youth to religion
The same time they sell us our wars
I want to know who the men in the shadows are
I want to hear somebody asking them why
They can be counted on to tell us who our enemies are
But they're never the ones to fight or to die
And there are lives in the balance
There are people under fire
There are children at the cannons
And there is blood on the wire

(c) 1986 SWALLOW TURN MUSIC, ASCAP
Category: Music
Tags: Jackson Browne Lives in the Balance David lindley Crosby Still Nash Young Eagles Against The War

another version.....



and this version still says it !! ENOUGH!!!!!!

President Gore

we need real leadership to save the planet for those who come after and time is running out. he suggests we "tax what we burn, not what we earn." he challenges us to stop the broken system that favors the greedy special interests who are taking us full speed ahead to the destruction of the planet as they enrich themselves as never before. i hope we will be able stop them and do the right thing.

Detroit !!