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John Nichols states the case for Al Gore to seek the Presidency better than ever.
Gore Wins the Norwegian Primary
By John Nichols, The Nation 10-12-07
Having now won the Norwegian Primary, it is reasonable to ask why Al Gore would want to slog his way through the snows of New Hampshire.
But the inconvenient truth is that never has the man who might yet be president needed to more seriously consider his personal legacy--not to mention the small matter of his potential to make the world anew--than now.
There is, after all, the matter of the open space at the end of what is now the most remarkable resume of anyone seeking – or considering seeking – the presidency.
Let's review.
This is how Al Gore's resumé reads as of this morning:
Son of a great senator.
Harvard graduate, with honors.
Vietnam veteran.
Award-winning investigative journalist.
Congressman.
Senator.
Vice President.
Winner of the popular vote for President of the United States.
Best-selling author.
Environmental activist.
Academy Award winner.
And, now, Nobel Peace Prize winner--he shares the prize with the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change--for "their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about manmade climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change."
As resumés go, that is one for the top of the pile.
But it begs the question: Shouldn't a man who has gotten this far be thinking about how to finish the journey?
And isn't the last stop the Oval Office?
To think that Gore is not pondering these questions today would be absurd.
Of course, the former vice president says,
No doubt about that.
But Gore cannot feign ignorance of his own "political issue." When he appeared in San Francisco on the eve of Friday morning's announcement, at a fundraising event for California Senator Barbara Boxer ☼, the man of the hour tried to deliver an earnest address about climate change. But when he concluded his remarks, the crowd burst into chants of "Run Al Run!"
That message echoed the full-page ad that was placed by the burgeoning "Draft Gore for President" movement in the front section of Wednesday's New York Times. The advertisement bluntly suggested that the announced contenders for the Democratic presidential nomination lack Gore's ``vision, standing in the world, and political courage" -- not just with regard to climate change, but in his outspoken opposition to the war in Iraq, his defenses of civil liberties and his advocacy for a renewed commitment to science and reason.
"There are times for politicians and times for heroes. America and the Earth need a hero right now," read the Draft Gore movement's open letter to the soon-to-be Nobel man. "Please rise to this challenge, or you and millions of us will live forever wondering what might have been."
Now, that's pressure. But it is a velvet grip in which the peace prize winner finds himself.
Al Gore has arrived at the point that most politicians can only imagine in their wildest dreams. The entire world is asking him to be not merely a candidate but an ecological--not to mention, ideological --savior. And there is simply no question that he is viable. In fact, he is more viable than he has ever been.
Can Gore resist? Probably.
Should he resist? Probably not.
Sure, it will be said that Gore can do more to address climate change as a private citizen. But no one who as been so close to the presidency as he will miss the point that the most powerful official on the planet has some sway in matters involving the planet.
The last serious presidential prospect to win a Nobel Peace Prize was Teddy Roosevelt, who got the award when he was serving as president in 1906. (The Norwegians were impressed that he had convinced Japanese and Russian representatives to come to Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and that he had then gotten them to negotiate an end to a nasty little war they had been waging.)
Roosevelt exited the presidency in 1908 and almost immediately began to regret the decision. The peace prize was not enough to get Republicans to ditch his successor, the hapless William Howard Taft, and put Roosevelt at the head of their 1912 ticket. But TR did run the most successful third-party presidential campaign of the 20th century that year – as a "Bull Moose" Progressive.
Roosevelt never got over his belief that, had he just won the Republican nomination in 1912, he would again have been president. And, eight years later, at a point after the horrors of World War I when people were taking peace prizes rather more seriously, he was widely encouraged to make a run for the Republican nomination that probably would have secured him not just the party line but the presidency.
Roosevelt did not need much encouragement. Barely 60 -- the age Gore will turn next March -- the Rough Rider was ready for one more charge; indeed, family members and friends reported that he was raring to go.
Only the coronary embolism that did him in on January 6, 1919, was powerful enough to cure TR's case of presidency lust. And there is no reason to believe that Al Gore, a man who bid first for the presidency in 1988, considered running in 1992, spent eight years as an understudy, then bid again in 2000 – winning the Democratic nomination and the popular vote, but losing the job on a 5-4 technical call by the Supreme Court -- is any less inclined that Roosevelt was to give it another try.
There will be a lot of "fire-in-the-belly" talk over the next few days.
But Al Gore should not be worrying about checking his gut.
He should be thinking about the resume he has spent a lifetime preparing.
It is more impressive than ever.
Unfortunately, the suddenly more impressive character of Gore's resume only serves to emphasize that it remains incomplete.
A Nobel Prize for Peace is a fine honor. But take it from a man who won the presidency and the prize but could not leave the political arena.
"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better," Teddy Roosevelt said as he prepared another run for the White House. "The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."
http://www.thenation.com/blogs/thebeat?pid=242088
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Monica Smith
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Sorry to disagree, but we lived in Florida for fifteen years without "pest control."...
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Lucky you ... I'm a web acquaintance of a woman in San Luis Obispo, CA, she and her son who have a life-threatening form of MCS. They often lose consciousness from triggers.
She got it when living in Florida. Somebody pump 300 pounds of Dursban, a termite killer, into the ground under her house before they built it. It has since been banned, and may have come back under Bush and the Bugman. Not sure.
cC, you might ask her if it is psycho-somatic. (just kidding, couldn't resist):-)
http://www.blogforamerica.com/view/22555...
last thread (shortcut)
only 800 signatures away from the 200 Thousand mark! woohoo, should break it today, because it's jumped by leaps and bounds since Wednesday.
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/algor...
When you guys quit eating meat I will give up pest control :~) Altho I understand about the chemicals. Just not willing to make the trade. I remember many years ago living in student housing at UF even WITH pest control you had to wash out your coke bottles, keep things like rice and spaghetti in the fridge, and you still had to stomp your feet or turn on the light before you entered a room. Gross! Yuk!
Hey, Annilow, hubby resorted to eating bugs when in college after giving up meat. So I can see how giving up meat can cut down on bugs. (ucckkk) :)
5. Annilow
even WITH pest control you had to wash out your coke bottles,
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"even WITH"? After a while the insects become resistant to chemical poisons and some even thrive on the petro-chemical base. The birds that eat them die and the competing insect die, and the next generation of infestation is often even worse.
Chemicals poisons are no panacea, or even permanent control.
You should read "Silent Spring." It is 47 years old but has timeless lessons and written in layman's language.
5.Annilow
... you still had to stomp your feet or turn on the light before you entered a room. Gross! Yuk!
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Tell me about it.
I lived in an infested neighborhood in New Jersey, and Lower East Side of Manhattan. Very familiar with cockroaches.
My sister lived in a building for over ten years. They fumigated all the apartments, including hers once/month. She got ovarian c. at 41. She died 8 years later. You have to look at it from both sides.
correction - 6 years later - I don't really like to talk about it. Of course, there's no scientific proof of cause and effect, but nobody in government or industry was looking for it either. They were too busy making $500,000 on her chemo before she died.
Yeah I hear ya Fred. Am sorry about your Sis. I know NYC has a lot of the little buggers tho.
Once the roaches get into the cinder blocks to nest, spraying the interior doesn't do any good.
10. Annilow
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She lived on 4th Street, in Greenwich village (as in Bob Dylan, "Positively 4th Street) worked as a advertising aand freelance writer. She did pretty well.
What is interesting is that at the time in my life, I was becoming a bit more conservative, and she was always on the Left, and always a Democrat. However, I was always more environmental aware and started eating organic since the early seventies.
The only thing organic available was Peanut Butter and Rice. A lot different than today when you can even get organic beef and pork.
I was a vegetarian for 15 years because I had read "Diet for a Small Planet" where she explains how pesticides accumulate in carnivores over their lifetime.
I started eating meat again, as part of diet and other therapy to get rid of a 20-year yeast overgrowth problem I had, that was killing me. It took me 4 years but finally got rid of it, but I still have to be careful... it is almost like being an alcoholic, it can always come back more easily, once you've had it.
I used insecticides a couple of times, nonetheless. In fact, I can trace the first hint of MCS all the way back to 1985 when I sprayed my mom's house bedrooms too, for roaches, without a respirator and gloves.
the MCS really started rapidly progressing in 1998, not sure why. It may have had something to do with the campground in Maine where we were living when we were homeless.
Part of my leaning towards conservativism in the early 1980s had to do with the high-rise low-income housing projects in our very Democratic city. They infested our whole city with roaches. When they knocked them down, people moved out of them and brought the roaches with them to the nicers parts of town where I lived.
I blamed that housing blunder and the ruining of my town on Democrats because they were behind the projects. They always ran the town too. It was short-sightedness, and Republicans didn't seem that bad at the time, and they weren't, Nixon supported the environmentalists. Kean was a great liberal governor, and fiscally responsible. But the people backing the conservatives were right wing corporatists, the Neocons were waiting in the wings, and there was very little evidence of it at that time.
I was not very active in politics at the time. When I supported Democrats, I was always an activist.
Annilow, no I don't have roaches here, but had lots of them in my bungalow on Moorea. The Tahitians told me that if I started killing them, word would get out and all the relatives would come for revenge! And that seemed to be true, so I started throwing food outside for them (works here in the states for ants too) and had few problems after that. That said, an infestation would be very annoying.
14.seashell :-)
The Tahitians told me that if I started killing them, word would get out and all the relatives would come for revenge!
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Sounds like my old beatnik mentors in the Lower East Side in the 1960s. They used to tell me, if you kill one, about 200 come back to have a "funeral."
14. LOL -- that is prolly true -- the relatives come for revenge. See you folks after supper and a movie -- I rented an old TV movie - The Far Pavilions. I read the book a couple of summers ago - must have been bored - it took forever -- but I made it through it -- now I'm wading through the movie -- it's 2 CD's worth. So bbl.
Fred -- interesting story about your switch from conservatism and living in the woods in Maine -- sounds like between all of us we've seen a lot and done a lot. bbl
We have had odd winds this fall that scattered Asian Soybean Rust all over the midwest. So be prepared next summer while driving through to get sprayed by a low flying plane soaking you in fungicide.
Corn on corn had problems this year so the shift back to soybeans would have pressured prices but no end user of soybeans will sleep easy til a real cold spell pushes back against the rust. (kind of like those other southern pests I guess)
don't know what kind of food to throw out for that one but patches of squash draw away rootworms from corn
don't tempt me to plant a strip of kudzu
18. Phil Specht
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Sorry to hear that. I get organically grown cotton from the north Texas panhandle, and some years, when the State forces all cotton farmers to fumigate, they don't even have a crop. They just don't plant, or I guess maybe they destroy their crop, if it mean they'll have to spray or dust.
Be careful what you wish for.
The fact that Al's Nobel is being trashed by right wingnuts and associated media comes as no surprise. What did surprise (and appall) me is that so many on the left are criticising the award, and in the vilest of terms:
http://www.counterpunch.org/cockburn10132007.html
http://www.counterpunch.org/hoffman10132007.html
http://www.counterpunch.org/oberg10122007.html
Cant find a link, but apparently Sirota is also making nasty.
sigh..............................
So, people are jealous of Gore. What else is new?
Besides, losers are supposed to stay lost, you know. Sort of like Dean. LOL
How 'bout that Fred Thompson?
He's tall, ey?
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Fred Thompson: The Next Ronald Reagan?Fred Thompson made his first major appearance in the CNBC/MSNBC debate earlier this week. It’s difficult to say why, but Chris Matthews thought Thompson deserved more time than any of the other candidates. So how did the 18-year veteran lobbyist do?
(click for site page with youtube video)
Of the 15 minutes and 20 seconds Thompson was given, he spent over 2 minutes (14%) stuttering, confused, and stumbling over his own words. Personally, I want those 2 minutes of my life back.
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UPDATE!!
It has been suggested on other blogs that I used several snippets more than once and that the total time wasted was closer to 30 seconds instead of 2 minutes. I’m not sure where they are getting that idea from, but I assure you, I was plugging away at this from 7:30pm to almost 2:30am. If anything, I might have left a few out because I was tired and wanted to get to bed. These are also in chronological order from the first question to the last question.
Sirota has been hard on Gore ???
ha!
you call this 'hard' ?
http://www.workingassetsblog.com/2007/10...
or is this where Sirota is supposedly 'hard' on Gore ???
http://www.workingassetsblog.com/2007/10...
c'mon folks, do a little diggin' before you spread tall tales....
I'm putting together some of the pics from last night for our website...I'll
link it when I'm done. Here is who was a surprise to see at last night's rally...
I had another huge surprise that I didn't mention last night...
a former selectboard member's son hit a deer in front of our house,
it ran up our driveway and died where I park my car.
This happened while I was traveling home and it was removed before
I arrived... my wife said it was an eight pointer...too bad.
For those that don't know that smiling face, it's Liane from DemFest
several times a week i google news "al gore." there is no more volume of negative articles today than any other day. its usually about 1 factual to 1 negative as an average. i think if you do the same search for any one who'd be on our side you'd find like results. i've never done the same for, say, "rush limbaugh." might have similar results? maybe i/you should try???
I heard a snippet today that the Burmese military is going to take off its uniforms, pretend to change, put on suits and ties, and continue the reign of terror.
After the Riots, Burma Returns to an Unspoken Terror
By Kevin Doyle
The Guardian UK
Saturday 13 October 2007
It's 9.30pm and the buses in downtown Rangoon have stopped running. People scuttle home across the city's potholed roads and broken pavements and the few taxis still operating will only make short trips. With only 30 minutes to curfew, no one takes chances with the Burmese military these days.
Carrying shotguns and assault rifles, teenagers in military and police uniforms cluster at street corners until curfew, then retreat to fenced-off government buildings as darkness settles.
When the residents of this sprawling city of five million people withdraw to their homes, only pick-up trucks carrying troops ply the downtown area, scattering the dogs that take over the empty streets until the curfew ends at 4am.
With the killing of an unknowable number of peaceful protesters and the imprisonment of thousands more during the pro-democracy demonstrations last month, many people fear reprisals by the military. At the Shwedagon pagoda, the nucleus of the protests, the military is still in force. Wearing steel helmets, flak jackets and carrying extra ammunition, the number of troops far exceeds the few old monks who potter among the golden spires of what is the spiritual centre of Burmese life.
At the pagoda's eastern gate, from which the monks began their days of peaceful marches around Rangoon, six fire trucks - the type used to water cannon crowds, not put out blazes - are stationed. Dozens of monastic houses lining the route to the gate remain locked and empty, despite reports in Burma's state-controlled media that most of the monks have been released from jail.
Sources said that around 1,000 monks had lived and studied at these small monasteries, but where they have gone is not a question that anyone ponders aloud. One man simply put his wrists together in the sign of locked handcuffs when asked where they are.
"We cannot speak. We cannot defend. We have no weapons. They have all the weapons," said another 30-year-old man, who cannot be identified for his own safety.
He, like many thousands of others, joined the monks in the early part of the protests, before the killing. What most people know is that when the military and police moved to crush the demonstrations they went after the monks under the cover of darkness - kicking in doors and bundling monks, young and old, into trucks. Buddhist nuns were also taken away. The military were too powerful to be beaten by peaceful protests but some feel that the attacks and the disappearance of the Buddhist clergy will be the undoing of General Than Shwe, the Burmese junta's leader.
"We are a Buddhist country. We believe that if you do good, you receive good. If you do bad things you receive bad things. This will be the same for the military," said the 30-year-old.
The military announced, in the New Light of Myanmar newspaper, that monks and nuns taken in the raids were defrocked before interrogation and those found to not have participated in the demonstrations were reordained and sent back to their monasteries.
"The handling of the situation during the violent protests and measures taken by officials for purification of the Sasana [religion] amounts to serving the interest of the Sasana," the paper added. "Officials are to make continued efforts for perpetuation, purification and propagation of the Sasana."
Barricades remain stacked beside pavements, in the centre of wider roads and in alleys ready for use, though after the crushing of the recent protests none of those spoken to in Rangoon seem to have the stomach for more - just yet.
Many of those who took part in the protests, even as onlookers, have fled to the countryside fearing the ongoing night-time sweeps by the intelligence services who video-taped demonstrators and are now putting names to faces.
In the aftermath of the protests the military has cut the country's internet connection to stem the flood of protest images to the outside world. Cable TV, however, remains connected and residents in Rangoon watched the brutal crackdown in their city on TV sets tuned to CNN and the BBC.
In shops and hotel lobbies, Burmese staff whisper: "Have you seen CNN? Have you seen what happened?" Many said that the world had now seen the true face of their leaders thanks to images smuggled out of the country.
They hope that the international media attention will make a difference, though none believe the generals are anywhere near allowing democracy or handing over control of the country.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/101307Y.shtml
my group's playing this streaming festival tomorrow 8 pm pst. you have to go to the faq to find how to listen:
http://leplacard.org/2007/%5B:%5D%20p%20l%20u%20g%20%203%20%5B:%5D%20part%202/
link didn't work? hm...
try...
http://leplacard.org/
Just about game time...Go Sox
Reed are you getting the Niki Tsongas Democrat for Congress TV Ads before the game?
^video^
34. yep, completely live...a very cool event. started in amsterdam, i think.
Can't find it, but I thought I saw A Niki Tsongas Ad tonight which went after her Rethug oponoent and the Worst Administration for their position on SCHIP. Sure would like to link it for the blog.
Whoever wins POTUS for the Dems, it will be the Congress which shapes legislation.
For me, it is ...
POTUS/Congress(Senate/House)'08
started in amsterdam, i think.
> What I would give to plug my headphones in at the Milkweg and tune in.
http://www.frameshopisopen.com/
Frameshop: Well-Crafted PhoninessAl Gore won the most famous award on the planet, but it is New York Times columnist Bob Herbert who summed up in a brilliant Op-Ed piece the significance of this year's Nobel Peace Prize for America.
The fate of Al Gore offers a window into our condition as a country and the future we are doomed to repeat--soon--if we do not wake up to this problem and fix it.
Gore, whom Herbert calls "one of the most intelligent, thoughtful, talented men in America and remarkably well-equipped to lead the nation," is the exact opposite kind of leader that America has chosen for the past decade. Herbert blames journalists for what history will mark as one of the monumental failures of all time in that profession:
In the race for the highest office in the land, we showed the collective maturity of 3-year-olds. Mr. Gore was taken to task for his taste in clothing and for such grievous offenses as sighing or, allegedly, rolling his eyes. It was a given that at a barbecue everyone would rush to be with his opponent. We’ve paid a heavy price. The president who got such high marks as a barbecue companion doesn’t seem to know up from down. He’s hurled the nation into a ruinous war that has cost countless lives and spawned a whole new generation of terrorists. He continues to sit idly by as a historic American city, New Orleans, remains wounded and on its knees. He’s blithely steered the nation into a bottomless pit of debt. I could go on.
(full text here)
Every journalist working in America should print out that passage in extra-large font and tape it next to the bathroom mirror. Better yet, they should put the passage on a chain and wear it around their necks.
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John wrote "What did surprise (and appall) me is that so many on the left are criticising the award, and in the vilest of terms . . ."
Gore's just a Democrat, anyway. Don't shoot the messenger.
http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/24813
Night.
paine...didn't see the ads you mentioned. Going back next door the watch the game with my wife...yep, she's a Sox fan.
bbl
Reed -- sorry about the deer -- for the deer's sake and yours. Did our party give up the ghost. Oh well...
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NO Fred: no point, my phone line won't handle it. I get about 17 to 19 kbs on a good day, can run at 11 or 12, and have been known to get a line speed as low as 4.
chilimac,
This is the example of Sirota bashing Gore. I found most folks at Kos expect this, but I was surprised of Palast, but folks on Kos weren't.
So todays entry on his blog was to try to do some damage control only.
Showing Us You Don't Have To Be The Opposing Party To Be The Opposition
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Posted October 13th, 2007 by LindainSFNM in Al Gore, Democrat
Last night I was listening to Air America's off hour show, Clout, and Greg Palast was guest host again. They have been bringing on the various candidates to talk about why they want be President. They are given a time slot and they bring on whomever they wish will represent them well. This week was the Edwards team.
But that was not Friday night. Last night Greg Palast was hosting and brought on David Sirota. David Sirota who is a political journalist and reports in different magazines and blogs, will also work on political campaigns. He previously spent years in DC also working as a Press Secretary for a House Representative. When he works on campaigns, he becomes an attack dog and a Hack. He has taken up with the Edwards campaign on this cycle. In what capacity, I don't know. I know he had an official title from the Lamont campaign. But he was hired late in the game there. I became more familiar with Sirota's attack tactics on the Hackett for Senate Campaign, where the Marine Major that just returned from a tour in Iraq ran a Special Election for Congress and lost by a few percent (the closest a Democrat came in decades) took the challenge asked by Democratic Leadership to now run against Mike DeWine for the Senate. With returning from Iraq, running a special US House race and jumping to a Senate run when called upon, I find a most admirable quality. All the other Ohio state elected officials turned it down. Sherrod Brown, holding the seat now, included, which is who David Sirota worked for. He displayed his tactics and worked them to the max, because after Rep Brown turned down the Senate run in August of 05, Paul Hackett accepted the challenge and and they conducted the first poll with this relatively unknown candidate, showing how close the race was to the incumbent Republican DeWine. Rep Sherrod Brown decided to change his mind a couple months later.
"If they didn't hate each other so much, David Sirota and Dan Gerstein might be friends. They certainly have a lot in common. Both are in their thirties. Both are Jewish. And both are Democratic operatives. But their greatest similarity is their shared love of vicious political combat. Sirota, a lanky 30-year-old who has worked on campaigns for Philadelphia mayor and Montana governor, once branded a political opponent a "No Talent Ass Clown.""
http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=20061002&...
Well, together Sirota and Palast showed that regardless of whom it is, they will go after them if they aren't paying their salaries. I think I'm most surprised at Greg Palast. Showing a side I hadn't seen before. Buying his books, driving 2 hours to go hear him, and a friend of Democracy for America, this type of attacking was new to me. For Sirota, that is his norm. With the Edwards campaign bringing on Trippi as well, makes you really guess the attack mode will be the tactic they use. But worse, fellow (supposed) Progressive (and Palast sure sold enough books on the Florida case) taking to their lying attacks on the day that Al Gore won his Nobel Peace Prize, shows they will stoop as low as possible.
You would think they are educated enough to know that NAFTA was the policy of the President, which was Bill Clinton. A Vice President doesn't make policy, but does serve at the pleasure of the President. And as his duty, he went to get the votes Clinton asked for. OK, yes, we know the attackers (Sirota and Palast) know this, they just totally misrepresented it to try to tear down Al Gore. What's that saying? - With friends like these, who needs enemies? But then, Palast went further. In a sophomoric manner, Palast whined "Oh Al, if you're out there, call me". And then the assault continued to totally misrepresent Al Gore. Palast going so far to try to tear down Al's Global warming work, by saying NAFTA and Mexico (again in that sophomoric whine) "added to Global Warming". This behavior is totally unacceptable. Palast saying hey, I don't know, where is Al Gore on this? Then proceeding to further misrepresent Al Gore, with Sirota chiming in and agreeing. It was disgusting.
for rest and full post, go here:
http://www.algore.org/blog/lindainsfnm/s...
299. puddle
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Even a dial up shouldn't take that long. Do you have modem that has v.92 standard with v.44 compression? If not, that might be the problem.
They say the old fashioned 9-pin serial is the still the best way to go, although Intel hyperthreading CPUs may need a software patch on the driver for the serial connection, to avoid problems, so I've read. Any major brand of modem should have it by now
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By Linda on Oct 13, 2007 2:57 PM EDTHoward Dean Congratulates Former Vice President Al Gore on Receiving the Nobel Peace Prize
Sat, 10/13/2007 - 10:02 — admin
WASHINGTON, Oct. 12, 2007 -- Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean issued the following statement congratulating former Vice President Al Gore for receiving the Nobel Peace Prize today for his work concerning global warming:
"I want to congratulate our former Vice President Al Gore for winning the Nobel Peace Prize today. No other person has worked harder or done more to draw much needed attention to the crisis of global climate change, one of the most critical issues facing our planet. Future generations will thank him for his work to save our way of life. But the fight is far from over. His example should motivate each one of us to commit ourselves to doing everything we can in our own lives to save our precious planet."