Ronald Reagan killed the Fairness Doctrine, thus spawning the one-sided, fear-mongering, bs-fest that is Rush Limbaugh and inevitably, FOX News.
Now I think I see why Palin called him “America’s lifeguard” (referring, of course, to Sarah Palin’s America).
Wondering what the Fairness Doctrine has to do with the environment? Read the links below.
Why is Glenn Beck peeing (and farting!?) in the pool? He must’ve read the links below.
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change takes place in Cancun until December, 10. I imagine a lot of productive days discussing much needed change…
Not! (I am bringing back “Not!”–who’s with me?!)
Get outside and play–colder weather and/or shorter daylight hours are no excuse to sit inside!
Sincerely,
Hank D and the Bee
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Genetically engineered salmon are on a fast track to being the first GE Animal approved for human consumption. The FDA is trying to approve GE salmon as a new animal drug, but the truth is U.S. Food agencies don’t have a way to fully evaluate the impacts of GE salmon on human health or the environment. Worst of all, if these GE salmon are introduced into our food system, they won’t be labeled, so consumers won’t know what they’re buying.
The idiom “tilting at windmills” (or turbines) derives from the novel Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes. It means to attack imaginary enemies, or fight unwinnable or futile battles. Big Oil and Coal (and others) are in a futile battle against clean energy. Clean energy will inevitably emerge victorious. Unfortunately, when oil billionaire brothers, Charles and David Koch of Koch Industries (apologies for putting their names on the horse and ass’s asses) fight unwinnable battles you can be certain the pointless battles will last a lot longer than they should. Putting approximately 100 million dollars of their money into right-wing coffers to keep fellow polluters happy and federal regulations lax, Koch Industries is more than eager to fight a battle that compromises our future and greatly compromises the future of our children. The same children to which they are now eagerly marketing.
The brothers have also been enthusiastically supporting the Tea Party. They are doing a fine job of fooling the new political movement into believing that a victory for the Tea Party and their backers is a victory for good old “Joe America”.
What the Joes really need to do is look further in to who is telling them what, and why. A little digging will certainly uncover that most major polluting industries are in the pockets of many of their Republican and Tea Party heroes (Democrats too, but less so. Hence their slogan “the lesser of two evils”).
If billionaire polluters help elected officials get into office then who do you think they are beholden to? Who are they working for? You, the people, their constituents, the Joes they are polluting, or the billionaires who got them there? And why are these billionaires cow-towing to the Joes? Could it be that they want you to have their backs when “crazy, radical, hippie, liberals” (read, folks who like clean soil, air and water) call them out on the poison they release into our environment in extremely dangerous amounts? It could.
Name calling and turning Joe against Joe is a game politicians, corporations and billionaires have long played to keep us distracted so they are free to do whatever their extremely tiny, crusty, brownish-grey hearts desire. Which (to keep it simple) is ONLY to make more money.
Money is the root of all evil. And unfortunately evil is a beautiful flower of deception that keeps us from focusing on the root.
Let’s all try to pay closer attention to who is yelling at whom and why. Use your critical mind to find out why, and please avoid any misdirected hostility. Otherwise, you are the fertilizer that helps Evil grow.
Evil needs you. You do not need evil–no matter how pretty it may seem.
Sadly, Jeff Siegel from GreenChipStocks.com came up with this funny yet negative, caption (albeit, for a negative image). However, I’m sure Jeff would be the first to tell us (and I WHOLE-HEARTEDLY agree) that if we all invested our action and money in clean energy our choices would be less depressing.
Unfortunately, that is not the world we currently live in. The money has long backed the polluters, and although we are definitely in transition–we have a long way to go. And with the results of the mid-terms in, Karl Rove shares that our long-way-to-go just got longer.
“Climate is gone” he proclaimed at a recent conference for shale gas drilling companies. He goes on to say Congress “sure as heck” won’t pass legislation that would limit greenhouse gas emissions. Obama agreed that it’d likely be years before climate and clean energy legislation will be back on the table (more on this in Treehugger’s recent post).
Climate Hawks (aka, people who like clean air, water, and soil) unite! Let’s all start putting our money and our actions where our collective frowns are. We will un-”screw” ourselves only when our current choices–”getting worse” and “not getting worse”–include “getting better”. I’m sure our current two options are what inspired the always-entertaining blogger extraordinaire, Jeffrey Davis’s caption, “talk about choosing the lesser of two evils.”
Thanks for the captions, Jeffs, and the rest! Time to unscrew ourselves.
Please add your caption in the comments section below. Winner will be chosen on Friday and the cartoon will be posted again with caption and credit to the winner.
Same old same old from the right side of the aisle. As Treehugger columnist, Brian Merchant recently shared, “they are the only major political party of any democracy in the world that gets away with denying climate science.”
Scary.
More on the ever-tan Mr. Boehner: John Boehner on the Issues (scroll down for “Energy and Oil” and the “Environment”)
Water: Nature’s Wonderdrug–Now with Wonderdrugs! (cartoon) — Reposted from Wend Magazine, Twilight Earth, PlanetSave, and Ecopolitology. Between 2006 and 2007, the Southern Nevada Water Authority in Las Vegas screened tap water from 19 US water utilities for 51 different compounds. The 11 most frequently detected compounds are highlighted in the cartoon and described below. 1.used to treat cardiovascular disease, 2.an herbicide banned in the European Union (still used in the US) has been implicated in the decline of fish stocks and in changes in animal behavior, 3.a mood-stabilizing drug used to treat bipolar disorder, 4.an estrogen hormone blamed for causing gender-bending changes in fish, 5.an anti-cholesterol drug, 6.a tranquilizer used in psychiatric treatment, 7.a painkiller and anti-inflammatory linked to increases in asthma incidence, 8.an anticonvulsant used to treat epilepsy, 9.an antibiotic used against the “Strep” bacteria, 10.a reducing agent used in molecular biology, 11.an antibiotic
Christian Daughton of the EPA’s National Exposure Research Laboratory says that neither this nor other recent water assessments give cause for health concern. “But several point to the potential for risk - especially for the fetus and those with severely compromised health.”
