Seattle's Fighting Climate Change - and you can help!

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Thursday September 11, 2008 · 11:28 AM PDT

2008/09/11 · 11:28

Greenhouse gases in the US come from all sorts of things - agriculture, energy generation and transportation are three of the biggest contributors. Many of the things people can do to help fit into two categories - too small, or too hard. I understand this, I've tried all of the little steps, and even some of the big ones, to reduce my personal emissions, but I've found a way that I think is both easy and effective.

This year in Seattle, you can get more bang for your buck than a carbon credit. We have a great, comprehensive, all-transit transportation package on the ballot. This package alone could reduce car commuting dramatically - it hits three huge employment centers dead center with extensions to our new light rail system, adds trains to our packed commuter rail, and expands our express bus system to run more often where the buses are overcrowded today. Each of these three expansions reduces our footprint.

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Friday October 28, 2005 · 1:14 PM PDT

2005/10/28 · 13:14

Toronto's Cloak Newswire, a decidedly nutty and unreliable source, just reported (at www.cloakanddagger.de, the same folks who believe that the Iraq war is causing hurricanes) that three more sealed indictments were delivered by Fitzgerald today. While my first response is to laugh and dismiss it, we did hear from sources earlier in the week that Fitzgerald was to seek 1-5 indictments, and that the number would be at the higher end of that.

The concept of a sealed indictment, as I understand it, is that it would be filed without public knowledge and proceedings could take place without public knowledge. This makes sense for a matter of national security.

This also makes sense if the anonymous star added to the CIA's Wall of Honor in 2003 actually does correspond to a CIA operative killed in hostile territory as a result of this leak.

What do you think?

AFA poll: Intelligent Design v. Evolution!

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Thursday August 04, 2005 · 2:08 PM PDT

2005/08/04 · 14:08

The AFA has a new poll up regarding whether evolution or "Intelligent Design" should be taught in public schools. It'd be pretty easy to show them that support is overwhelming for evolution - let's freep this poll, folks!

AFA Poll

Last year, we did the same thing to their poll regarding support for gay rights - I see no reason we can't do it again!

Lance Armstrong is a Democrat!

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Sunday July 17, 2005 · 6:11 PM PDT

2005/07/17 · 18:11

It's been mentioned recently that Lance Armstrong had expressed an interest in running for governor of Texas. There was some question as to whether he was left-wing or right-wing, although I believe it was put forward that his girlfriend, Sheryl Crow, is very left-wing.

Turns out he could be the perfect candidate. Today on OLN it turns out he's a Democrat! "Left of center, against the war in Iraq, and pro-choice" were the notable comments.

I think the UK Times Online also had an article about this recently.

What are you doing to help?

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Saturday May 21, 2005 · 2:59 PM PDT

2005/05/21 · 14:59

I'm not talking about writing letters or making phone calls - those things help, but it should be clear by now that everything we're trying to fight for and against is affected more than anything else by a flow of dollars.

I strongly suspect that in order to actually change the march toward a police state, individuals have to make the most impact they, personally, can on the finances of the companies we seem to accept have a large role in running our country.

So, whose products are you using? What do you buy? Ideally, I'd like to see some of us start paying attention to every penny that we spend and thinking "hm, that's $400 over the course of a year - do I need to be giving that company that much money?"

There are a lot of options out there. Here are a few interesting ones that many people can use: Read More

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Seattle's Fighting Climate Change - and you can help!

Could there already be other sealed indictments?

AFA poll: Intelligent Design v. Evolution!

Lance Armstrong is a Democrat!

What are you doing to help?