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The United Nations on Global Warming

The following are some key findings in a report issued Saturday, November 17, by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change:
  • Global warming is "unequivocal". Temperatures have risen 1.3 degrees Fahrenheit in the last 100 years. Eleven of the last 12 years are among the warmest since 1850. Sea levels have gone up by an average seven-tenths of an inch per year since 1961.

Dear Mr. President



Have you heard of the X generation? The Y generation?

I'm from much earlier in the alphabet. I'm old enough to remember Hurricane Carla, JFK's funeral, and the Apollo astronauts reading from Genesis while circling the Moon. So, I'm old.

As a certified oldster, I hope to be forgiven that I don't know anything about contemporary music, iPods, or Pink. What I do know is that this is a brilliant performance.

Confessions of a "pro-life" Democrat

I just read the Bob Herbert piece about a 16 year old girl in Nacogdoches, Texas, whose battle against cancer max-ed out her parents' health insurance policy. This story will make you want to cry.

It's not just the millions of Americans without health insurance who go without medical care.

It's not just the millions of Americans who lose their jobs and discover that COBRA health coverage is 10 times the price of their old coverage.

News & Politics Videos from YouTube

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These videos are auto-magically selected by Google based upon the contents of this website and the keywords US presidential election 2008 democratic candidates:

Texas' Rank-ings

You know, I’m still a neophyte at the nitty-gritties of politics and of the cyber-world, so you hardcore experts will have to bear with me sometimes on my learning curves. But today as I was surfing around for websites of various Democratic clubs around Texas, I came across this bit of information that was published on Jan 31, 2007. It seems that the office staff of State Senator Eliot Shapleigh (D)-El Paso annually gleans our state’s ranking among the other 49 in a variety of categories. I’m telling you, the results are pitiful and I’m embarrassed. I also think that Mr. 39 Percent, our Governor should also be mightily embarrassed. Too embarrassed I would think to even show his well-coiffed head outside his mansion, much less to have designs on national politics. Take a look at some of these beauties that I am sure have not changed much in 11 months. They are ghastly:

 

Poor Ol' Cuzzin' Cornyn

He keeps trying and trying to get the children of poor parents in this state covered by SCHIP (State Comprehensive Health Insurance Program) one way or another, but his hero, President Dubya, just won’t do anything but veto any compromise. Now let’s step back and take a wide-angled view at just five areas that are pretty important over the next four years, of which SCHIP is just one of which Dubya is using to shape the future of this country almost as heinously as Dr. Moreau changed the future of the animals on his island in the story by H. G. Wells.

Tell Congress to Reject Bush Education Cuts

President Bush on Tuesday vetoed Congress' spending bill for education, labor and health programs for fiscal year 2008 and asked that Congress support his fiscal year spending request. The President fails to point out that his original spending proposal would cut education funding by $1.2 billion. Visit http://www.unionvoice.org/ct/Z71fI7E1Lc98/ to send a letter to your representative pressing Congress to stand up to President Bush and reject his veto.

Fort Bend Republican Messes

As I’m sure you’ve heard, if you read a newspaper or any blogs in Texas, our local Republican Party has fallen apart like a three dollar suitcase in a gorilla cage.

Some Ways to Maintain the Greenness of your Wallet and the Earth

This is Eco-Annie again with some more helpful hints to make your money go further and help bring back the earth to her previous healthful shape. All of these things may take a financial hit upfront, but in the long run will save you much more than what you paid.

1. Having a meeting, get together, party? It doesn't matter whether it's at work, home or place of worship. Place boxes or bags out for recycling glass, plastic drink bottles and soda cans. Someone volunteer to take them to be recycled.

Cow Patties, More than Just a Texas Treasure

Oh how I love it when I'm right...I mean correct. I'll die before I ever go right. In today's Houston Chronicle, in the Parade's Intelligence Report under Health Watch, there is an article entitled "What's Polluting Our Rivers?" The biggest culprit?