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"A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart." Along with many friends from my community and the world over, I am engaged in a war with people who do have money in their hearts. Pacific Gas and Electric Corporation plans to use eminent domain to take land from many of us in the Sierra foothills to build a huge electrical transmission project. This project will blight Sierra ecosystems as well as devastate a beautiful unspoiled foothill valley. Please go to our website and sign our petition and vote in our poll.

Website: http://www.savethefoothills.org

Member Since: September 25, 2006

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Grids to hold for summer, power prices to spike

News – This summer across the United States, the lights will stay on but Americans will pay more for it, power industry analysts said.

View Story Discuss (10) (news.yahoo.com) 42 days ago by STONERS

Voted for on June 13, 2008 09:58am

This story has mostly positive ratings. 218 votes / 4 sinks

Supreme Court Justices Rule Terror Suspects Can Appeal in Civilian Courts

Politics – The Supreme Court has ruled that foreign terrorism suspects held at Guantanamo Bay have rights under the U.S. Constitution to challenge their detention in civilian courts.

View Story Discuss (456) (msnbc.msn.com) 42 days ago by TechnologyExpert

Voted for on June 13, 2008 09:58am

This story has mostly positive ratings. 73 votes / 2 sinks

How Iran Has Bush Over a Barrel

Money – If wasn't clear before it should be now: the Bush Administration can't afford to attack Iran. With gas already at $4 a gallon and rising almost every day, Iran figuratively and literally has the United States over a barrel. As much as the Administration is tempted, it is not about to test Iran's promise to "explode" the Middle East if it

View Story Discuss (87) (time.com) 41 days ago by expursuit

Voted for on June 13, 2008 09:58am

This story has mostly positive ratings. 195 votes / 9 sinks

Silence of the Media

Do No Evil – "All of us, including all the Iraqis, are witnessing a terrible secrecy and silence of the media of what is happening in Iraq now." The Iraqi blogger is back....

View Story Discuss (151) (last-of-iraqis.blogspot.com) 43 days ago by jovial

Voted for on June 13, 2008 01:48am

This story has mostly positive ratings. 131 votes / No sinks

Mo Ghile Mear - A Tribute

Art & Design – To end religious persecution in Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and England Bonnie Prince Charlie's followers battled against unsurmountable odds. Hundreds of thousands died (1745). The great paintings of D'Arcy Bacon, Caravaggio, Mary Cassatt, Gustave Courbet, Julien Dupre, Winslow Homer,and J.M.W. Turner are feautred in this Spadecaller video.

View Story Discuss (29) (youtube.com) 43 days ago by Spadecaller

Voted for on June 13, 2008 01:42am

This story has mostly positive ratings. 5 votes / No sinks

Bush doesn't rule out military strike in Iran

Politics – President Bush today raised unprompted the possibility of a military strike against Iran's presumed nuclear weapons ambitions, even as he admitted having been unwise to do so previously about Iraq.

View Story Discuss (2) (news.yahoo.com) 43 days ago by DoseASpinoza

Voted for on June 13, 2008 01:38am Commented on 1 time: 1

This story has mostly positive ratings. 184 votes / 13 sinks

War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death

Politics – Narrated by actor and activist Sean Penn, the film exhumes remarkable archival footage of official distortion and exaggeration from LBJ to George W. Bush, revealing in stunning detail how the American news media have uncritically disseminated the pro-war messages of successive presidential administrations. Based on the book by Norman Solomon.

View Story Discuss (74) (video.google.com) 42 days ago by RickyDawkins

Voted for on June 13, 2008 01:35am

This story has mostly positive ratings. 129 votes / 2 sinks

Body of War: Songs that Inspired an Iraq War Veteran

Music – Meet Tomas Young, 25 years old, paralyzed from a bullet to his spine, wounded after serving in Iraq for less than a week. Body of War is an honest portrayal of what it's like inside the body, heart, and soul of this extraordinary and heroic young man.

View Story Discuss (22) (bodyofwarmusic.com) 45 days ago by RickyDawkins

Voted for on June 10, 2008 12:32pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 104 votes / 4 sinks

A message from Mordechai Vanunu

Do No Evil – I am Mordechai Vanunu, the man who told the truth about Israel's Nuclear Weapons. Program in 1986 and paid with 18 years of my life in Israel Prison .

View Story Discuss (106) (onlinejournal.com) 45 days ago by jovial

Voted for on June 10, 2008 12:25pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 290 votes / 20 sinks

John McCain: "The Constitution Established America as a Christian Nation"

Politics – A glassy-eyed McCain shows us exactly why he is unfit to lead this great nation. (In fact, the U.S. Constitution makes no mention of Christianity)

View Story Discuss (279) (atheistmedia.blogspot.com) 45 days ago by RickyDawkins

Voted for on June 10, 2008 11:24am

This story has mostly positive ratings. 168 votes / 5 sinks

House Committee Details Abramoff Connections to Bush White House

Politics – The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform released a "proposed" report this morning finding that Jack Abramoff did indeed have "personal contact with President Bush" and that Abramoff and cohorts were "held in high regard" by White House officials.

View Story Discuss (48) (tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com) 44 days ago by jovial

Voted for on June 10, 2008 10:16am Commented on 1 time: 1

This story has mostly positive ratings. 278 votes / 23 sinks

Kucinich presents Bush impeachment articles

News – An Ohio Democratic lawmaker and former presidential candidate has presented articles of impeachment against President George W. Bush to Congress.

View Story Discuss (743) (rawstory.com) 44 days ago by idyll

Voted for on June 10, 2008 10:05am

This story has mostly positive ratings. 104 votes / 4 sinks

The Greatest Story Never Told

Health & Fitness – Study: Smoking Pot Doesn't Cause Cancer--It May Prevent It!

View Story Discuss (38) (counterpunch.com) 80 days ago by populist

Voted for on May 04, 2008 08:57pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 60 votes / 5 sinks

The Enemy-Combatant Attack on Freedom

Do No Evil – To analyze the critical importance of the "enemy-combatant" doctrine, we will examine the cases of two people who were incarcerated as "enemy combatants" Ã¢â;¬" Jose Padilla, an American citizen, and Ali al-Marri, a citizen of Qatar. Both were taken into custody on American soil, labeled "ene

View Story Discuss (2) (fff.org) 80 days ago by populist

Voted for on May 04, 2008 08:57pm