Here's a link for you to visit.
I can't get this song out of my head. You know the lyrics.
This land is your land, this land is my land
From California, to the New York Island
From the redwood forest, to the gulf stream waters
This land was made for you and me
I just keep thinking about these lyrics.
Here's another thing I keep thinking about. How this corporate boot-licking band of board room-loving reactionaries that are calling the shots from the Republican side of the Supreme Court are going to rule on any BP-related litigation that may make it to their chamber. This is the court that, on behalf of making sure that CEO's continue their death grip on legislative reform, ruled that corporations have the same rights as individuals vis a vis campaign contributions.
Corporations have rights!! Just like people!! Do corporations have the same responsibilities?
If you got government approval of some business venture and it was proven that your negligence caused catastrophic loss, not even on par with what we are seeing in the Gulf, don't you think your ass would be in a sling right now? Forever?
All of the readers who posted here that we will all be worse off if BP goes out of business, who whined about loss of jobs and income: do you honestly think you can weigh that against the economic-environmental-cultural losses that are accumulating as the result of this disaster?
Snap out of it. It's the beginning of the end for Big Oil.
Oh... and boycott BP.
Congress. Many had no idea that members of Congress
retire with the same pay after only one term, that they specifically
exempted themselves from many of the laws they have passed (such as
being exempt from any fear of prosecution for sexual harassment)
while ordinary citizens must live under those laws. The latest was to
exempt themselves from the Healthcare Reform. We do not have an elite that is
above the law. The self-serving must stop. A Constitutional Convention is an
idea whose time has come.
Proposed 28th Amendment to the United States Constitution -
"Congress shall make no law that applies to the citizens of the
United States that does not apply equally to the Senators and/or
Representatives; and, Congress shall make no law that applies to the
Senators and/or Representatives that does not apply equally to the
citizens of the United States .."
Keep it going, pass it on. Tell your representatives. Make it so.
1968 was the year, a year when more people had hope for a better future for the children than we have today!
THANK YOU !
Thank you!
Like an atkins diet you can stay off the carbs (or oil) for a while but chances are our gluttony for oil won't keep us on the diet for long.
Shame on you tree huggers...
In my book it is MASSIVE SOLAR AND WIND POWER development starting TOMORROW, no more subsidies (OUR taxpayer dollars!!) to the fossil fuel extraction and exploitation businesses that power OUR country, wherever they come from -- no more DIRTY coal, disgusting mountaintop destruction, "sludge ponds", nuclear ponds of fetid radioactive waste sitting around in some of our backyards, mining accident deaths, NO MORE. Yes the sun doesn't shine, or the wind doesn't blow half the day, but other countries have found ways to store and utilize the energy produced when they do shine and blow.