We write on behalf of dedicated individuals who believe that a large number of America's most urgent problems can be solved by simply electing candidates on November 2 who have the guts to do one simple thing...
Commit to making America Energy Independent on clean, American energy by the end of this decade.
That's it.
A commitment to Clean Energy Independence will:
- Create millions of new jobs, almost overnight
- Create new industries and a new, vibrant economy where we actually make things again,
- Stop the funding of foreign terrorists, prevent the ability of one dictator or one country to unilaterally choke off our energy supply and vastly increase America's National Security and Sovereignty
- Create a sustainable planet for our children
- Allow us to keep trillions of dollars circulating within the U.S.
- Be a heroic investment in America and generate the largest return on any investment in the history of our country, ultimately supplying virtually free energy for the rest of our lives and our children's lives
- Allow America to successfully compete with China and remain the world's #1 economic power into the 21st Century.
It's time!
This is not a partisan issue. It is an American issue and one that is critical for our very survival as a nation. Republican presidents Nixon, Reagan, Bush and Bush as well as Democratic presidents Carter, Clinton and Obama have, for over 40 years, warned us about our addiction to foreign oil, our pandering to dangerous dictators and regimes, the economic insanity of sending a billion dollars per day out of the country! In fact, way back in 1973 Richard Nixon created "Project Independence" and set a national goal for The United States to develop "the potential to meet our own energy needs without depending on any foreign energy sources" by 1980. It is embarrassing that we haven't reached that goal today, 30 years later, shameful that we haven't really even tried and more important now than ever before.
But, crippled and drunken on special interest money like a pathetic beggar with a bottle of whiskey and a tin cup, our Congress has failed to stand up to Big Oil and their lobbyists and make any significant progress to bring Energy Independence to America.
Accordingly, there is really only one issue in this election ... GUTS.
Does America have the guts to really -- no kidding -- create new jobs by investing in and building new infrastructure that will allow us to get off of foreign oil and become Clean Energy Independent?
Do we have the guts to think like Dwight Eisenhower or JFK? Can we be visionaries who plan beyond this fiscal quarter and build the modern day equivalent of a national highway system or a bold new space program, and create an energy system that can power America, on American Energy, through the rest of The 21st Century?
Do the 472 candidates we will vote for on November 2 have the courage to be real leaders?
We have come together to ask America to think beyond the lobbyists, the millions of dollars of special interest attack ads, the political bickering and also beyond party or political philosophy. American sovereignty is not a political or a partisan issue. Being held hostage to the whims of oil dictators half way around the world should never be an option for a country as ours. Sending at least $360 Billion out of the country every year for something we could produce here with American jobs is a travesty and spending an additional $50 Billion every year to send our young men and women in the military to protect those countries and supply routes that provide our addiction to foreign oil adds to the insanity.
We are better than that. We are The United States of America.
And yet we are slowly becoming a 2nd or even a 3rd world country, as Arianna Huffington writes, as our infrastructure crumbles and China, (while boldly employing 6 million of her people in new, clean energy technology jobs), heads towards their complete economic domination of this country, and the world, for the rest of The 21st Century.
Yes We Can manufacture and install solar panels and solar mirrors on our homes and in our vast deserts across this great land.
Yes We Can manufacture and install even more windmills that capture the great winds that sweep through our plains.
Yes We Can build a permanent infrastructure that utilizes Geothermal energy for cooling and heating our homes, energy efficiency technologies that lower the need for heating and cooling, tidal energy that taps the great forces of the oceans that kiss our shores, even more efficient internal combustion and a seismic move to electric cars including the conversion of all Government vehicles, conversion to LEDs, biodiesel and algae farms that can produce the liquid fuels of the future, piezoelectricity and smart grids that efficiently distribute power when and where it is needed and other amazing, creative solutions.
The technology is here. Now. We can certainly have conversations about more oil drilling and nuclear energy but these are not clean, are not renewable, are many years away from making us energy independent and are not our future or the future of the 21st Century.
If everyone who wanted America to become clean energy independent by the end of this decade went to the polls on November 2 and voted for candidates that would make this happen, it would happen. That's the beauty of Democracy. We have the power. WE the people elect EVERY one of the 435 members of The House of Representatives and a determinative number of United States Senators on November 2.
We stand together for this vision and, in collaboration with three great clean energy pioneers - The League of Conservation Voters, The Sierra Club and The National Wildlife Foundation Action Fund -- have compiled a bipartisan list of those candidates who these organizations believe have the guts to do what is necessary for a 21st Century America.
It's up to you. The media will hardly talk about this issue, but we must because we can become Energy Independent on clean, American energy by the end of this decade. Join us and Maroon 5, Jason Mraz, Rosario Dawson, Jason Alexander, Michelle Rodriguez, Peter Coyote, James Cromwell, Noah Wyle, Ed Begley, Valerie Harper, Brenda Strong, Rosanna Arquette, Felicity Huffman, Richard Belzer, Tate Donovan, Richard Schiff, Melissa Fitzgerald, Deidre Hall and foreign friends of the campaign, Sting, Trudie Styler and Graham Nash, in supporting the bipartisan clean energy candidates listed at www.EnergyIndependentCongress.US so we can, in THIS election, get off of foreign oil, put our people back to work and finally solve some of the deepest, most profound problems facing this great country!
Richard Greene is an attorney, political and communication strategist, author of the Prentice Hall coffee table book, "Words That Shook The World: 100 Years of Unforgettable Speeches and Events"
Marshall Herskovitz has helped shaped American culture with his Emmy Award winning television series, "30 Something" and many movies including "The Last Samurai" and "Dangerous Beauty". He is immediate past President of The Producer's Guild.
Paul Haggis is an Academy Award winning writer and director ("Crash", "Million Dollar Baby") and co-founder of Artists for Peace and Justice. Richard Greene is author of "Words That Shook The World: 100 Years of Unforgettable Speeches and Events" and ran for Congress on the Green Party, on this very issue, back in 1992. Richard@WordsThatShookTheWorld.com
"Two Large Cod and a Chainsaw.” If that sounds like a Monty Python still life, then welcome to the slightly surreal world of Episode 5, which featured, among other oddities, bodies swinging over a fjord, fish dragged up a hill, a medieval knight straight out of “The Seventh Seal” and, for good measure, a decapitated farm animal.
This last item formed a kind of Satan’s Passover for doctor Kat, whose attempts to eat a sheep’s head (as part of what the Land of the Midnight Sun likes to call “a traditional Christmas ritual”) ran up against three serious obstacles. 1) Kat hasn’t eaten meat in 22 years. 2) Her meal was staring at her the entire time. 3) The ghost of Bernard Herrmann was cranking up the accompanying music to “Psycho”-like distress levels. But Kat stayed cool. “Crunchy romaine lettuce,” she murmured in a trance of denial. “Calamari. Cucumbers.” Until at last she hit on the winning formula: “It tastes like money!”
Or at least victory. By dint of their gustatory valor, Kat and fellow doc Nat vaulted straight to the finish line, where presumably some vomit bucket was waiting just offscreen. Not so lucky were the beach-volleyball Amazons, who were eliminated just as I was beginning to tell them apart. While undeniably lovely, Katie and Rachel have remained stubbornly undeveloped as characters, and in this final outing they were reduced to uttering Lombardi-isms like “We don’t lose” and “This is not ‘Amazing Friend,’ it’s ‘Amazing Race,’ ” which served to only underscore how amazingly far behind they were.
You won’t find this, probably, in any contestant briefing, but “The Amazing Race” is really two races: one for bucks, one for hearts and minds. And it’s the latter competition that is most definitely heating up. Michael’s nutcracker mouth and fractured English grow more winning with each passing week. (When informed that one challenge would require “strength, stamina and guts,” he proudly cackled: “I don’t have none!”) Brook, with her verve and gumption, has accomplished the extraordinary feat of making me revisit my feelings about the Home Shopping Network. I didn’t even mind when she invoked dead relations to get Claire up that rope of doom. “Pray to your grandma!” shouted Brook. “She’ll get you through this. Just think of your grandma and how strong she was. She’d be encouraging you the whole way.” Personally, I think Grandma would be saying, “Why the hell are you dangling hundreds of feet over a Norwegian fjord?” but then again, the only thing my grandmother ever got dirty was her martini.
And now, please, a moment of celebration for Vicki the Tattooed Lady, who is quietly exposing boyfriend Nick for the sack of bluster he is. Despite “riding dirt bikes competitively” since he was 12, Nick was left gasping in Vicki’s wake as she pedaled toward the next clue. And this was just after she’d hoisted herself up and down a rappelling line with nary a whine or grimace. As Vicki herself explained: “I’m the one who has the guts in this relationship.” Testify, sister. And if you ever end up in a women’s penitentiary — as occasionally seems possible — the queenship of Cell Block H is yours for the taking.
— Louis Bayard
Photo: Nat and Kat faced with the Norwegian delicacy of a sheep's head. Credit: CBS.
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Shep Smith isn't leaving Fox News anytime soon. The face of the network's news division has signed a three-year contract extension with Fox News, Deadline.com's Nellie Andreeva reported Tuesday morning.
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Good morning! We have a full day of Kansas City Chiefs news. O-line love and praise for the running game and a shout out to DJ are ahead. There are also a few articles on the Buffalo offense and how productive they've been recently.
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Google donates $5 million for <b>news</b> innovation to Knight Foundation <b>...</b>
Google and news organizations have had a rocky time of it. To overdramatize the situation only slightly: Google insists that it cares about journalism as a.
Shep Smith's Fox <b>News</b> Contract Renewed
Shep Smith isn't leaving Fox News anytime soon. The face of the network's news division has signed a three-year contract extension with Fox News, Deadline.com's Nellie Andreeva reported Tuesday morning.
Arrowheadlines: Chiefs <b>News</b> 10/26 - Arrowhead Pride
Good morning! We have a full day of Kansas City Chiefs news. O-line love and praise for the running game and a shout out to DJ are ahead. There are also a few articles on the Buffalo offense and how productive they've been recently.
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We write on behalf of dedicated individuals who believe that a large number of America's most urgent problems can be solved by simply electing candidates on November 2 who have the guts to do one simple thing...
Commit to making America Energy Independent on clean, American energy by the end of this decade.
That's it.
A commitment to Clean Energy Independence will:
- Create millions of new jobs, almost overnight
- Create new industries and a new, vibrant economy where we actually make things again,
- Stop the funding of foreign terrorists, prevent the ability of one dictator or one country to unilaterally choke off our energy supply and vastly increase America's National Security and Sovereignty
- Create a sustainable planet for our children
- Allow us to keep trillions of dollars circulating within the U.S.
- Be a heroic investment in America and generate the largest return on any investment in the history of our country, ultimately supplying virtually free energy for the rest of our lives and our children's lives
- Allow America to successfully compete with China and remain the world's #1 economic power into the 21st Century.
It's time!
This is not a partisan issue. It is an American issue and one that is critical for our very survival as a nation. Republican presidents Nixon, Reagan, Bush and Bush as well as Democratic presidents Carter, Clinton and Obama have, for over 40 years, warned us about our addiction to foreign oil, our pandering to dangerous dictators and regimes, the economic insanity of sending a billion dollars per day out of the country! In fact, way back in 1973 Richard Nixon created "Project Independence" and set a national goal for The United States to develop "the potential to meet our own energy needs without depending on any foreign energy sources" by 1980. It is embarrassing that we haven't reached that goal today, 30 years later, shameful that we haven't really even tried and more important now than ever before.
But, crippled and drunken on special interest money like a pathetic beggar with a bottle of whiskey and a tin cup, our Congress has failed to stand up to Big Oil and their lobbyists and make any significant progress to bring Energy Independence to America.
Accordingly, there is really only one issue in this election ... GUTS.
Does America have the guts to really -- no kidding -- create new jobs by investing in and building new infrastructure that will allow us to get off of foreign oil and become Clean Energy Independent?
Do we have the guts to think like Dwight Eisenhower or JFK? Can we be visionaries who plan beyond this fiscal quarter and build the modern day equivalent of a national highway system or a bold new space program, and create an energy system that can power America, on American Energy, through the rest of The 21st Century?
Do the 472 candidates we will vote for on November 2 have the courage to be real leaders?
We have come together to ask America to think beyond the lobbyists, the millions of dollars of special interest attack ads, the political bickering and also beyond party or political philosophy. American sovereignty is not a political or a partisan issue. Being held hostage to the whims of oil dictators half way around the world should never be an option for a country as ours. Sending at least $360 Billion out of the country every year for something we could produce here with American jobs is a travesty and spending an additional $50 Billion every year to send our young men and women in the military to protect those countries and supply routes that provide our addiction to foreign oil adds to the insanity.
We are better than that. We are The United States of America.
And yet we are slowly becoming a 2nd or even a 3rd world country, as Arianna Huffington writes, as our infrastructure crumbles and China, (while boldly employing 6 million of her people in new, clean energy technology jobs), heads towards their complete economic domination of this country, and the world, for the rest of The 21st Century.
Yes We Can manufacture and install solar panels and solar mirrors on our homes and in our vast deserts across this great land.
Yes We Can manufacture and install even more windmills that capture the great winds that sweep through our plains.
Yes We Can build a permanent infrastructure that utilizes Geothermal energy for cooling and heating our homes, energy efficiency technologies that lower the need for heating and cooling, tidal energy that taps the great forces of the oceans that kiss our shores, even more efficient internal combustion and a seismic move to electric cars including the conversion of all Government vehicles, conversion to LEDs, biodiesel and algae farms that can produce the liquid fuels of the future, piezoelectricity and smart grids that efficiently distribute power when and where it is needed and other amazing, creative solutions.
The technology is here. Now. We can certainly have conversations about more oil drilling and nuclear energy but these are not clean, are not renewable, are many years away from making us energy independent and are not our future or the future of the 21st Century.
If everyone who wanted America to become clean energy independent by the end of this decade went to the polls on November 2 and voted for candidates that would make this happen, it would happen. That's the beauty of Democracy. We have the power. WE the people elect EVERY one of the 435 members of The House of Representatives and a determinative number of United States Senators on November 2.
We stand together for this vision and, in collaboration with three great clean energy pioneers - The League of Conservation Voters, The Sierra Club and The National Wildlife Foundation Action Fund -- have compiled a bipartisan list of those candidates who these organizations believe have the guts to do what is necessary for a 21st Century America.
It's up to you. The media will hardly talk about this issue, but we must because we can become Energy Independent on clean, American energy by the end of this decade. Join us and Maroon 5, Jason Mraz, Rosario Dawson, Jason Alexander, Michelle Rodriguez, Peter Coyote, James Cromwell, Noah Wyle, Ed Begley, Valerie Harper, Brenda Strong, Rosanna Arquette, Felicity Huffman, Richard Belzer, Tate Donovan, Richard Schiff, Melissa Fitzgerald, Deidre Hall and foreign friends of the campaign, Sting, Trudie Styler and Graham Nash, in supporting the bipartisan clean energy candidates listed at www.EnergyIndependentCongress.US so we can, in THIS election, get off of foreign oil, put our people back to work and finally solve some of the deepest, most profound problems facing this great country!
Richard Greene is an attorney, political and communication strategist, author of the Prentice Hall coffee table book, "Words That Shook The World: 100 Years of Unforgettable Speeches and Events"
Marshall Herskovitz has helped shaped American culture with his Emmy Award winning television series, "30 Something" and many movies including "The Last Samurai" and "Dangerous Beauty". He is immediate past President of The Producer's Guild.
Paul Haggis is an Academy Award winning writer and director ("Crash", "Million Dollar Baby") and co-founder of Artists for Peace and Justice. Richard Greene is author of "Words That Shook The World: 100 Years of Unforgettable Speeches and Events" and ran for Congress on the Green Party, on this very issue, back in 1992. Richard@WordsThatShookTheWorld.com
"Two Large Cod and a Chainsaw.” If that sounds like a Monty Python still life, then welcome to the slightly surreal world of Episode 5, which featured, among other oddities, bodies swinging over a fjord, fish dragged up a hill, a medieval knight straight out of “The Seventh Seal” and, for good measure, a decapitated farm animal.
This last item formed a kind of Satan’s Passover for doctor Kat, whose attempts to eat a sheep’s head (as part of what the Land of the Midnight Sun likes to call “a traditional Christmas ritual”) ran up against three serious obstacles. 1) Kat hasn’t eaten meat in 22 years. 2) Her meal was staring at her the entire time. 3) The ghost of Bernard Herrmann was cranking up the accompanying music to “Psycho”-like distress levels. But Kat stayed cool. “Crunchy romaine lettuce,” she murmured in a trance of denial. “Calamari. Cucumbers.” Until at last she hit on the winning formula: “It tastes like money!”
Or at least victory. By dint of their gustatory valor, Kat and fellow doc Nat vaulted straight to the finish line, where presumably some vomit bucket was waiting just offscreen. Not so lucky were the beach-volleyball Amazons, who were eliminated just as I was beginning to tell them apart. While undeniably lovely, Katie and Rachel have remained stubbornly undeveloped as characters, and in this final outing they were reduced to uttering Lombardi-isms like “We don’t lose” and “This is not ‘Amazing Friend,’ it’s ‘Amazing Race,’ ” which served to only underscore how amazingly far behind they were.
You won’t find this, probably, in any contestant briefing, but “The Amazing Race” is really two races: one for bucks, one for hearts and minds. And it’s the latter competition that is most definitely heating up. Michael’s nutcracker mouth and fractured English grow more winning with each passing week. (When informed that one challenge would require “strength, stamina and guts,” he proudly cackled: “I don’t have none!”) Brook, with her verve and gumption, has accomplished the extraordinary feat of making me revisit my feelings about the Home Shopping Network. I didn’t even mind when she invoked dead relations to get Claire up that rope of doom. “Pray to your grandma!” shouted Brook. “She’ll get you through this. Just think of your grandma and how strong she was. She’d be encouraging you the whole way.” Personally, I think Grandma would be saying, “Why the hell are you dangling hundreds of feet over a Norwegian fjord?” but then again, the only thing my grandmother ever got dirty was her martini.
And now, please, a moment of celebration for Vicki the Tattooed Lady, who is quietly exposing boyfriend Nick for the sack of bluster he is. Despite “riding dirt bikes competitively” since he was 12, Nick was left gasping in Vicki’s wake as she pedaled toward the next clue. And this was just after she’d hoisted herself up and down a rappelling line with nary a whine or grimace. As Vicki herself explained: “I’m the one who has the guts in this relationship.” Testify, sister. And if you ever end up in a women’s penitentiary — as occasionally seems possible — the queenship of Cell Block H is yours for the taking.
— Louis Bayard
Photo: Nat and Kat faced with the Norwegian delicacy of a sheep's head. Credit: CBS.
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Google donates $5 million for <b>news</b> innovation to Knight Foundation <b>...</b>
Google and news organizations have had a rocky time of it. To overdramatize the situation only slightly: Google insists that it cares about journalism as a.
Shep Smith's Fox <b>News</b> Contract Renewed
Shep Smith isn't leaving Fox News anytime soon. The face of the network's news division has signed a three-year contract extension with Fox News, Deadline.com's Nellie Andreeva reported Tuesday morning.
Arrowheadlines: Chiefs <b>News</b> 10/26 - Arrowhead Pride
Good morning! We have a full day of Kansas City Chiefs news. O-line love and praise for the running game and a shout out to DJ are ahead. There are also a few articles on the Buffalo offense and how productive they've been recently.
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Google donates $5 million for <b>news</b> innovation to Knight Foundation <b>...</b>
Google and news organizations have had a rocky time of it. To overdramatize the situation only slightly: Google insists that it cares about journalism as a.
Shep Smith's Fox <b>News</b> Contract Renewed
Shep Smith isn't leaving Fox News anytime soon. The face of the network's news division has signed a three-year contract extension with Fox News, Deadline.com's Nellie Andreeva reported Tuesday morning.
Arrowheadlines: Chiefs <b>News</b> 10/26 - Arrowhead Pride
Good morning! We have a full day of Kansas City Chiefs news. O-line love and praise for the running game and a shout out to DJ are ahead. There are also a few articles on the Buffalo offense and how productive they've been recently.
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Google donates $5 million for <b>news</b> innovation to Knight Foundation <b>...</b>
Google and news organizations have had a rocky time of it. To overdramatize the situation only slightly: Google insists that it cares about journalism as a.
Shep Smith's Fox <b>News</b> Contract Renewed
Shep Smith isn't leaving Fox News anytime soon. The face of the network's news division has signed a three-year contract extension with Fox News, Deadline.com's Nellie Andreeva reported Tuesday morning.
Arrowheadlines: Chiefs <b>News</b> 10/26 - Arrowhead Pride
Good morning! We have a full day of Kansas City Chiefs news. O-line love and praise for the running game and a shout out to DJ are ahead. There are also a few articles on the Buffalo offense and how productive they've been recently.
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