Oh Beautiful...but only on my TV

If you as a reader were to spend time with me offline you would learn in a matter of seconds, I am a tree hugging liberal. This week to hear that President Obama negated the EPA's attempt to provide clean air for future generations hurt. It was a kick in the stomach. It was the quintessential WTF move for a president elected on change. I am sure several other "where's the change" moments can be noted but for now I focus on the EPA ruling.

I could almost see the head of the EPA, Lisa Jackson, throwing her hands up in the air and asking WRF?!?! She has spent over 18 months working hard to promote an understanding of the Clean Air Act only to be toppled by the unfounded notion that the act would derail jobs.

How, I would like to know would jobs be killed by regulation? Regulation of industry in America would create jobs. Corporations would be forced to hire or to train workers to implement the changes required by the legislation. Training people for new technology equates to jobs for those training. The advent of the automobile was the herald of the end of the horse and buggy. Many people in the horse and buggy industry lost their jobs. I now ask, who amongst us is lamenting the end of the horse and buggy? And why? The end of the horse and buggy created not only direct jobs in the auto manufacturing but also indirect jobs in highway construction, glass manufacturing, law enforcement, etc...

I am a tree hugging liberal and not ashamed of hugging trees or of being a liberal. My goal is to leave this planet better than what I found it. My 14 year old turn to me,yesterday, and said, "I am tired of all of this severe weather." I could not assure him that things would get better. I could only explain to him the importance of his generation being better stewards of the land than mine. I went on to let him know that if we do not do something now we are not guaranteed a future 10 years from now without devastating monthly weather events.

While many pro-industry scientist like to point out how climate change has always occurred on the planet, they fail to mention how humans have been able to adapt to such changes. What we are seeing now is climate change on crack. We are the crack dealers and need to accept responsibility for the crack head monster we have created. Yes, we have always had climate change on this planet, yet we have been able to have the time to evolve with the climate change. Our misuse of the environment has increased the speed of the climate change without allowing time for us to adjust to the climate changes we are seeing. We are killing ourselves just to make a dollar.

Please become aware of how we are impacting our planet. Insist that instead of supporting corporations that are killing our planet our government(s) invest in technology that will allow us to have comfort while living in peace with nature. Example: Instead of funding a war filled with contractors in the Near East, we need to fully fund NASA's space exploration. Maybe we will find a planet of water/ice before we run out of potable water on this planet (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9796321). Support those protesting the tarsands. They are being arrested daily. Send bail money. We must take care of our nation. If we do not we will find ourselves with as much potable water as India or China.

Links:
http://www.inthesetimes.com/working/entry/7309/chemical_industry_regulation_would_create_not_kill_jobs/

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/21/regulations-and-growth-linked_n_930653.html

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/08/cantor-jobs-memo-calls-for-repeal-of-health-enviro-labor-rules----and-tax-cuts.php

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2007/aug/28/climatechange.emissionstrading

http://www.gits4u.com/envo/envo4.htm

http://www.econ.yale.edu/~srinivas/C&I%20Economic%20Performance%20Update.pdf

http://bit.ly/pXNtz0
http://www.tarsandsaction.org/

Black Lightning is more than ready for prime time

Black Lightning It is finally here. I do mean finally for I have been waiting for seems to be ages (1977). I am calling for a second season having only watched the first two episodes. I am not sure of the level of involvement Tony Isabella & Trevor Von Eeden in the production of each episode. The first two I enjoyed, did I say that already? The first two episodes seems to have been packed with every issue seen in mainstream media and think pieces regarding the Black community. This posting is not a think piece. It is my piss piece. Before I touch on the piss, thanks, many thanks, to Salim and Mara Akil for making it happen. Black Lighting opens with a Black parent, once again, having to bail a child out of jail for exercising his/her right of protest in the USA. We need to question why peaceful protests with no guns see protestors arrested. Please do not take I am saying people of color should have guns at protest marches. We would be shot before the

White Boys Whine

Quick and dirty Star Trek Discovery is everything I thought it would be. It is my hope the White boys chill the fuck out . There will be a White male captain . The Black woman will be of a lowered status. White boys are you appeased ? My personal view fuck White boys who had their dicks in a vise over women of color at the helm of a fictional space vessel. I shall watch Star Trek Discovery . I shall pay the fee to CBS Access with joy. If you wanted to watch OITNB you paid Netflix . Overall I look forward to the day a fictional show that features women of color in prominent positions doesn't freak out White males. They were so freaked out they compared The Orville to Star Trek Discovery . Guys chill out , future happens .

Y'all should eat my grits no cheese

It is two days after the GOP primary in Mississippi. We are still laughing at Mitt's attempt to cuddle up to us with cheesy grits and a few y'alls thrown in. In my area of Mississippi it is yaw'all(10 second word). Had he come here expecting us to be able to count to 20 without removing our shoes, he may have been taken a little bit more seriously. I am not sure if Mitt's grits ranks with Bush's "this part of the world" statement after Katrina but it ranks. Truthfully, I enjoy cheese in my grits along with garlic and red pepper. However, I do not think my love of grits, a bowl every morning, makes me Southern. Although I was born in Southern California and partially reared in Southern Wisconsin, I consider myself a full blown Mississippian. Along with keeping my grits to myself, I also speak without care of accent. The fact that I can tell you how to get from Memphis to the Coast without using the interstate or Google says I am from Mississippi.

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