Blog: SHEER GOLDEN HOOKS

Collaboration between Steve Kilbey of the Church and Jeffrey Cain of Remy Zero.

"First off, congratulations to you and your party on your sweeping election results! Together with a sizable majority of Americans, I am again hopeful for the future of our country. My special concern, however, is for our failing health care system and how it is pricing health care beyond the reach of ordinary Americans. Our system has come to the point where none of the many incremental reforms will work. The business model of insurance has failed, and we need to rebuild the system on a social insurance model. Let me be direct. Although we have [...]

An emergency "Plan B" using the latest technology is needed to save the world from dangerous climate change, according to a poll of leading scientists carried out by The Independent. The collective international failure to curb the growing emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere has meant that an alternative to merely curbing emissions may become necessary. The plan would involve highly controversial proposals to lower global temperatures artificially through daringly ambitious schemes that either reduce sunlight levels by man-made means or take CO2 out of the air. This "geoengineering" approach – including schemes such as fertilising [...]

This seems like a really good idea. You know what that means? We won't do it!

As in 350 parts per million of Carbon.

Oh, what joy it was. 2009 is going to be even better!!

Why Bombing Ashkelon is The Most Tragic Irony by Robert Fisk How easy it is to snap off the history of the Palestinians, to delete the narrative of their tragedy, to avoid a grotesque irony about Gaza which - in any other conflict - journalists would be writing about in their first reports: that the original, legal owners of the Israeli land on which Hamas rockets are detonating live in Gaza. That is why Gaza exists: because the Palestinians who lived in Ashkelon and the fields around it - Askalaan in Arabic - were dispossessed from [...]

Leaders Lie, Civilians Die, and Lessons of History are Ignored by Robert Fisk We've got so used to the carnage of the Middle East that we don't care any more - providing we don't offend the Israelis. It's not clear how many of the Gaza dead are civilians, but the response of the Bush administration, not to mention the pusillanimous reaction of Gordon Brown, reaffirm for Arabs what they have known for decades: however they struggle against their antagonists, the West will take Israel's side. As usual, the bloodbath was the fault of the [...]

Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News , World News , and News about the Economy This video is well worth studying, not so much for the subject it covers, but for the attitude of Meredith Vieira. Notice how she sets the segment up. The next part that is really interesting I will leave to you to figure out. Consider it a test.

You know, it's really interesting to hear facts and what is usually called "truth" on television in this country at any time. But to hear it in less than 6 minutes is truly amazing. Thom Hartmann is a really bright guy and if you get a chance to listen to his radio show it is well worth your time. Unless, of course, you like being lied to. Then I would advise you to listen Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Michael Savage or any of the other right wing radio fanatics who lie repeatedly to their audiences.

It's a brilliant trailer set to the Talking Heads classic "Once In A Lifetime". Whoever made this clip gets two big thumbs up from me.

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He's the "change" you can believe in!

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Yes, it seems like we have been here before. An unpopular foreign war, an administration that has run over the constitution, an energy crisis and the wheel keeps on turning.

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Imagine you or me trying to do this.

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