The following stories are all about an organization that really does a huge amount of work to guarantee low wage earning families have a voice in American politics. I’d say that the recent developments surrounding ACORN and the registration of lots of new voters are a good indication that we’ve hit a raw nerve!  

http://www.city-journal.org/html/13_2_acorns_nutty_regime.html 

 familysecuritymatters.org

Well, I’d been predicting this for some time now. Moderate Republicans have know for quite a long time that this radical evengelical wing would lead eventually to the downfall of the Republican party. And again, as I predicted, we (populists) rose back into power, replicating the rise of conservative media through the internet in less than a quarter of the time it took conservatives to sieze total power in media and government. 

We certainly have one hell of a mess to clean up but we’ll be doing it with a Democratic Whitehouse, Congress and Senate!!! Whoo hoo!!!  

don’t look for love, love is an action.

do what you love, look around and see who is truly with you.

D VanThournout

Poll of 500 major firms reveals that only one in 10 regard global warming as a priority

By Tricia Holly Davis, Geoffrey Lean and Susie Mesure

Sunday, 27 January 2008

Global warming ranks far down the concerns of the world’s biggest companies, despite world leaders’ hopes that they will pioneer solutions to the impending climate crisis, a startling survey will reveal this week.

Nearly nine in 10 of them do not rate it as a priority, says the study, which canvassed more than 500 big businesses in Britain, the US, Germany, Japan, India and China. Nearly twice as many see climate change as imposing costs on their business as those who believe it presents an opportunity to make money. And the report’s publishers believe that big business will concentrate even less on climate change as the world economy deteriorates.

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I don’t know it this was a great idea or not… I have a myspace page now on top of all the other things I have going on.

http://www.myspace.com/badweatherrr

Romantic love is mental illness. But it’s a pleasurable one. It’s a drug. It distorts reality, and that’s the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw. Fran Lebowitz

I lost the whole blog I thought. I had to reconstruct it by the seat of my pants

 fortunately I was very lucky I was able to do it in less than two hours.

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I woke up really early this morning. I was in bed pretty early I guess.

Nice colors in the sky, a little coffee finally and I’m ready to go!

So, we’ve been having this problem Dana and I… no car at all. I know that ultimately we have to give it up and I’m really not to broken up about the car not working. I’ve been missing riding my bike anyway. Trying to run a non-profit office and organize (walk and chew gum as they say) was making it impossible to ride my bike at all.

So, in the last several days, we’ve spent a little more than $100.00 on parts for the car trying to figure out why it won’t run. To the left you can see the coil pack (the old one), cost us $66.00!

Last night while on the phone with my love she’s saying that her dad is mentioning that sometimes there are chips in the keys nowadays…

Even though I’d actually driven the car with the new key already, I thought about this all night. This morning I remembered what Dana’s dad had said and I went back in the house and found the key that we always had used and which may have a chip and tried to start the car. It took it awhile but it started!

 Now I don’t know if we even needed to replace the coil pack at all.

I think I’ll try using the other key that I had made again and see if it conks out on me again.

Then I’ll try and take the slightly used coil pack back. Not likely to meet with any success there I bet.

I should put the bike rack on and strap my bike on and take a test drive.

Maybe I’ll go get that video game I’ve been wanting.

Maybe I’ll go get the stuff out of the ACORN office in Davenport like my laptop, bulletin board, scanner, etc. this morning.

Maybe I’ll drive all the way to Chicago to see my love!

Maybe I’ll go find stuff to make beer!

Maybe……. I’ll find out if the Habitat for Humanity Restore is open saturday and go look at tile for the bathroom!

Hope you’re having a great time in Chicago Dana! Happy trails

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Thought you’d like to see some pictures of the upstairs bathroom before it was ripped out.

All that got ripped out because of a clogged bathtub drain. It probably won’t drain much better than it did when we get done with it either. That’s what sucks about this whole thing…. 

Also, be sure to check out the new page I put up with pictures of ceramic tile from Habitat for Humanity’s Restore. bathroom tile

 Widdy biddy says hi

checkout the-$4,000.00 cat