[AGL] period of consequences - Gerry

[Gerry]

I rarely feel that you and I are all that different politically. I may be a little more populist, being a rural type and all. I guess the movie will show up around here somewhere one of these days. The local progressives score a lot of political video for small showings.

You Astro fans are fortunate to have easy pickings in town. My Braves can't beat anybody these days. Just hoping Clemens doesn't show up to pitch the last game of the series...

Morning spent on knees servicing one of the cloches; picking weeds, smashing little grasshoppers, spraying with Spray n' Grow, and breathing in the aroma of healthy basil and pepper plants. While the cloche method of gardening does not include the eye candy of viewing the plants at a glance, when you pull back the covers and stick your head in there it is TRIP.
G


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Connie Clark 
  To: survivors' reminiscences about Austin Ghetto Daze in the 60s 
  Sent: Friday, June 09, 2006 9:34 AM
  Subject: Re: [AGL] period of consequences - Gerry


  Gerry <mesmo at gilanet.com> wrote: 
    All political parties are collections of splinter groups.

    That environmental passion seemed to leave him during his tenure as VP and
    in the 2000 race. Many of us took his lack of passion in this area as a slap
    in the face. Prior to his movie his main contribution to the environment was
    a book he wrote about hiking with his son. Plenty of smoke but no fire. In
    my NSHO his campaign was run by the DLC who told him to soft peddle the
    environment and stick to the center--hardly a place to express one's
    passion--and he complied.

    C---------------
    couldn't agree with you more, except the part about the book.  I read Earth in the Balance, and it was an extensive treatise on environmental ills of every kind.  It was quite an education for me back in '92. 

    G-------------------------------
    Anyway, I like the guy but still wonder about him, a very strange fellow,
    Aries, smart but strange. I jumped to the Greens in 2000 and have no
    regrets. Until the Dems get passionate about the environment (much more
    passionate than Kerry in 2004) I will stick with the Greens. The environment
    is issue number one with many of us--and I don't mean global warming...I
    don't downplay it but there are lots of environmental problems that have
    been around for a long time and have to be addressed, like acid rain and
    coal operators who reap the profits and leave huge holes in the ground, and
    range reform on government lands, and Monsanto, etc, etc, etc.

    C----------------------------------
    I also agree here, but I don't find him strange. Gore would not dismiss any environmental issue, but he is saying Global Warming is a threat to our planet's existence, now.  So much of the world's environmental problems are closely if not directly related to fossil fuel production and consumption as you know. The new book is mostly pictures, graphs with global perspective of conditions all over the wordld - hope you can get a chance to look at it.

    BTW, Gerry, thank you for doing the small footprint thing.  I do take that seriously myself.  It is hard.

    - good luck with the rain dancing
    Connie



    ----- Original Message -----
    From: "Harry Edwards" 
    To: "survivors' reminiscences about Austin Ghetto Daze in the 60s"

    Sent: Friday, June 09, 2006 6:02 AM
    Subject: Re: [AGL] period of consequences


    Yeah. But I wasn't really talking about THAT Green Party. Which was
    (is?) really nothing more than a collection of splinter groups. I do
    admire Gore the most when he's being true to his environmental passion.

    On Jun 8, 2006, at 10:21 PM, Connie Clark wrote:

    > thanks
    >
    > but uh Harry, maybe the Green Party should have supported him in 2000
    > - or at least given him half a chance.
    >
    >
    > Harry Edwards wrote:
    >> Happy Birthday Connie! Almost sounds like Gore is calling for a . .
    >> . uh . . . Green Party.
    >>
    >> On Jun 8, 2006, at 8:33 AM, Connie Clark wrote:
    >>
    >> > the change in policy needs a grassroots movement asking every
    >> > politician and every business now "what are you doing about global
    >> > warming?"
    >
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