Filed under: American Elections 2008, History, Posted by TA, Society | Tags: Canada, inauguration, Martin Luther King, Nova Scotia, Obama, Pulitzer Prize, quote, reverend, Rosa Parks, sentence
A day after Obama’s inauguration I was at a coffee shop drinking some tea and reading the daily newspaper. Amidst all the nonsense, frivolity, excess and repetition of so many quotes, wishes and shenanigans there was this incomparable sentence by a man from Nova Scotia, Canada. He said:
“Rosa Parks sat down so King could walk. King walked so Barack could run. Barack ran so all of us can fly”.
Rev. Elias Mwamba Mutuale
Mr. Mutuale, the spectacular connection of your words created what I’d call the most original and creative post-Obama inauguration sentence. For at least one sentence in life you managed to break the line of genius. I don’t know you, never heard of you and will probably never hear again, but if there was a one-sentence-wonder Pulitzer Prize for the average citizen you’d be the winner by far.
Filed under: Activism, American Elections 2008, Behavior, Democracy, Energy, Environment, Politics, Posted by TA, Society, TA | Tags: American Elections 2008, Barack Obama, California, Carbon, Clean coal, Energy, Environment, John McCain, R&D
Quoted from http://blog.macleans.ca/2008/11/03/mccain-v-obama-on-the-environment/:
McCain v. Obama on the environment : The Green Room : Macleans.ca Blog Central
By Alexandra Shimo | 
Email | November 3rd, 2008 at 11:55 am
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Filed Under: The Green Room Tags: clean air act • clean tech • climate change • emission • McCain • Obama
Environmentalists have generally come out in favour of Obama, but there is actually much similarity between the two presidential candidates on environmental issues.
Both support a cap and trade system, a system that sets a ceiling on emissions, and offers permits for companies that meet those targets.
Both support offshore drilling, but oppose it in the arctic refuge.
Both candidates said they would grant California a long-sought
waiver under the Clean Air Act so the state could set its own limits on automobile emissions of carbon dioxide. (This is big, since the California market is seen as too large to ignore, so it can bring in a change of standards for North America at large).
However, there are key differences. McCain’s cap and trade plan gives out the carbon permits, rather than selling them in an auction. (When the EU gave out the permits, their price collapsed, and ultimately the amount of greenhouse gases increased.)
McCain’s emission cap is not mandatory, but Obama’s would reduce emissions by 80 percent from their 1990 levels by 2050
Obama says he will channel between $30 billion and $50 billion a year into clean energy technology and creating green jobs.
McCain says he will give out tax credits for alternative energy, but the only concrete dollar figures towards clean tech that he lists on his site are for a technology that has dubious environmental credentials – clean coal.
Perhaps most tellingly, McCain has a history of voting against investment in renewable energy. He voted against tax credits for clean energy R&D in 2001, against clean energy incentives in 2005, and against an increase in clean energy R&D funding that same year. In February 2008, he missed the vote on clean energy incentives, as he had done on a motion on fuel economy standards in December 2007.
With such a record, his commitment to alternative energy is often seen as disingenuous at best.
Angel and Tiggs 