This has been around for a couple of years, but nothing has occurred to make the observations any less germane, or the conclusions any less correct. Indeed, if anything, the opposite is true, and it is all the MORE relevant today.
I wish it were actually true that the Dims were solidly behind protecting the entitlements fopr which we have already paid.
But they're not. You gotcher Blue Dawgs (among whom is usually numbered the injured Gabby Giffords), and yer "moderates," indeed, thew whole caucus outside the slef-proclaimed (76-member) House "Progressive" caucus who will probably line-up with the GOPhux. Grayson's technically "right" that the Dims are the only thing protecting the programs now, but they are remarkably flaccid about it.
I find this image compelling on so MANY levels. It was created by Vanessa Versailles Ma'et's Photos, and shared with me by mi bien hermanita in El Paso, Kathy Mc., who remarked upon it, with aching wisdom: "One tries to go with the flow, but it's difficult to just float toward an abyss." Yup...
because that might might lead you to conclude that global warming is already happening, warns Bill McKibben in a Washington Post oped.
In the wake of the devastating tornado's in Joplin, MO, and a record year for tornados, floods, and wildfires worldwide, author and environmentalist Bill McKibben makes the case that the extreme weather patterns predicted by climate science models look awfully like what we've been experiencing. His sarcastic column is a scathing indictment of climate change-deniers who repeat the "mantra that no single weather event can ever be directly tied to climate change" even in the face of clear patterns of many weather events.
The San Francisco videographer Stephen Thomson used images of the disasters mentioned to make McKibben's words even more powerful. Take a look:
There is no "myth" of Sysiphus. It's true the way it's told to us: Tho' life take its deadly, daily toll, I know it's (only) "Rock" 'n' "Roll." --Woody, Bergamo, '91
"He's an old blind bear....alone in the winter woods...with only the smell of his breath for comfort. Too mean to die, too lost to care. But show some caution....he's still the Bear."
The fix is in: The deal is down; The game is cooked; The dice are loaded; The wheels are rigged; The decks are all marked, shaved, and stacked; The dealers cheat, And the chefs ALL spit in the souffle…
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