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Add Your Name to the Citizens' Roll Call Dear James, We have only 24 to 48 hours to try and save the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The Republicans are trying to sneak legislation through the Senate approving oil drilling and they are incredibly close to winning. We have to stop them. I am joining with Senator Maria Cantwell (D-Washington) in offering a critical amendment to stop this sneak attack on our environment. We will fight on the floor of the Senate, but we need you by our side. There are seven key Republican Senators whose votes will decide the future of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Before they vote, we need to make sure they know that their constituents are watching, and that they will not be able to support drilling without anybody noticing. Here are two critical steps we can take together to support our amendment to protect this National Wildlife Refuge: 1. Join the Citizens' Roll Call First of all, take part in a massive fast-moving display of citizen support for the Arctic Refuge. Sign our Cantwell-Kerry Citizens' Roll Call now. http://www.johnkerry.com/RollCall To make our Citizens' Roll Call impossible to ignore, we have alerted the media, environmental advocates and my fellow Senators to a scrolling display of the names and home towns of the roll call signers. It is posted on our johnkerry.com website, where we hope to soon add your name and a running tally of the number of citizens on our Citizens' Roll Call. 2. Bring the fight to the home states of the seven senators We need to launch emergency online advertising campaigns in the home states of those seven critical senators: Senator Coleman (MN), Senator Smith (OR), Senator Specter (PA), Senator Martinez (FL), Senator Lugar (IN), and Senators Gregg and Sununu (NH). We need your help to bring our Save the Arctic Refuge message home in these six states. Help us fund an emergency ad campaign to make sure they know how strongly the people they represent feel about protecting the Arctic. Please make an emergency donation right now. http://contribute.johnkerry.com/ When Senator Cantwell, myself and other Senators stand up in support of the Cantwell-Kerry Amendment, we will have powerful arguments on our side. (I have recapped some of those arguments at the end of this email message) But, to win, we need to be able to report directly to our Senate colleagues that massive numbers of citizens around the country - and in their own states - are rising up to demand that the Senate protect the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. That's why your immediate signature is so critical. http://www.johnkerry.com/RollCall The Bush Administration and its oil industry allies want to send a message that they can drill for oil wherever and whenever they want to - even if it means targeting a place as striking, pristine and irreplaceable as the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. They don't care about putting America on a genuine path to energy independence. If they did, they'd support efforts to increase energy conservation and to create clean, renewable sources of energy that no terrorist can sabotage and no foreign government can seize. Let me be very direct with you. It is going to take an immediate and impossible-to-ignore display of grassroots support to stop them. That's why your decision to sign our Cantwell-Kerry Amendment Citizens' Roll Call is so crucial. Thank you for acting quickly on this vital request. John Kerry P.S. Senator Cantwell, who comes from a state in the heart of the Pacific Northwest, has - at considerable political risk - courageously stepped forward to join me in leading this fight. We need you to help us win it. http://www.johnkerry.com/RollCall HERE ARE YOUR SAVE THE ARCTIC REFUGE TALKING POINTS * The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge's 19 million acres comprise one of the last places on earth where an intact expanse of arctic and sub arctic lands remains protected. * Drilling in the Arctic Refuge can't make even a small dent in meeting America's energy needs. U.S. Geological Survey scientists estimate that there is very likely only enough oil to supply America's needs for six months. And oil companies admit that, even that, won't be available for at least 10 years. * An irreplaceable natural treasure, the Arctic Refuge is home to caribou, polar bears, grizzly bears, wolves, golden eagles, snow geese and more. Millions of other birds use the Arctic Refuge to nest and as a critical staging area on their migratory journeys. * Of course, the Arctic Refuge supports more than wildlife. For a thousand generations, the Gwich'in people of Northeast Alaska and Northwest Canada have depended on it and lived in harmony with it. To them, the Arctic Coastal Plain is sacred ground.

QUOTE(KipWellsFan @ Mar 15, 2005 -> 12:08 PM) Part of a conversation I just heard in my school's hallway from a guy telling a girl he's going to see The Game in concert tonight. Guy: I'm going to see the game tonight! Girl: What game? He should have picked a better name for himself. My favorite band name along these lines was No Cover Looked great on the marquee out front

Also in the time machine thread after it was reported an on-line casino was the winning bidder: QUOTE(YASNY @ Mar 15, 2005 -> 12:18 PM) This has got to be the real deal. Who would stand to suffer financial consequenses more than a casino? Who wins Super Bowl XL? Well, the guy with the time machine would know. The World Series ... The Final Four ... Daytona 500 ... year after year. Think about it. You guys buying this? LMAO

QUOTE(YASNY @ Mar 15, 2005 -> 12:18 PM) This has got to be the real deal. Who would stand to suffer financial consequenses more than a casino? Who wins Super Bowl XL? Well, the guy with the time machine would know. The World Series ... The Final Four ... Daytona 500 ... year after year. Think about it. You guys buying this? LMAO

All together now . . . Duh! Wait, I thought he was in Iraq waiting for US Troops

QUOTE(RibbieRubarb @ Mar 15, 2005 -> 12:13 PM) Now I know who to contact to make some quick, stupid cash!! people losing quick stupid cash is how they have been paying for this stuff . . .

KW is telling Oz to manage, I like that. KW is taking responsibility for the contracts, I like that. I love competition and if Ozzie believes Harris is the starter, I like the fact that KW has given OZ the green light to play a guy based on merit not paychecks.

In other news Southsider2k5 Found at Kids-R-Us

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Mar 15, 2005 -> 08:49 AM) What happens when the "4th branch of government" is so biased against a single group of people, that they will do anything, including make up stories and evidence to discredit them, their beliefs, and their way of life? Is no one allowed to investigate the media and their intentions? Should no one find out why they are saying what they are saying? Should the media be allowed to favor a certian way of life over another, even while maintaining the charade that they are being fair? Why does the government (who I thought was us incidentally) deserve to be investigated and kept honest, but the people doing the investigating get off scott-free? Fair question and allow me show you how to answer a question. They should be checked and held to a high standard. But adding up column inches and air time and calling some negative and some positive is silly. A Tsunami killing tens of thousands of people is news, millions of sun bathers is not. Politicians taking junkets from foreign agents is news, kissing babies and mailing flags is not. Any negative story is immediately met with cries of media bias. The media has made mistakes on both sides. Remember Kerry and his supposed mistress? Was that media bias? The GOP is not asking for fair, they want cheerleaders. DeLay has called the attacks against him as media bias as evidence mounts. Clinton called his detractors part of a vast right wing conspiracy. Both statements are jokes. Now, would you care to answer my question?

What happens when the government is free of any criticism? When anyone who reports that the President authorized a break in, or had sex with an intern, or soldiers murdered civilians, is dismissed as having a bias? Are we better off? By discredting the one group who has the time, resources, and opportunity to "keep the governmnent honest" our elected leaders will have no oversight. This is basically what the Soviet Union had with TASS. And we know how well their society turned out.

When a group who appeals to half the population is pushing their self serving agenda at every opportunity, it's no wonder the public is starting to agree. Too bad they aren't using that propaganda for good, instead of self serving interests. What happens when we believe everything our government tells us because anyone who is critical of them can not be trusted?

They found this stuck in the Time Machines memory

QUOTE(Queen Prawn @ Mar 14, 2005 -> 09:18 PM) That would make it Vishay Angstrohm! :finger How do you know? It's from the future

QUOTE(Queen Prawn @ Mar 14, 2005 -> 08:31 PM) Looks like a couple Ohmite rheostat knobs on that thing. Look closer they are Vishay (Dale). Geez, engineers

QUOTE(AddisonStSox @ Mar 14, 2005 -> 01:03 PM) I know he lives pretty darn close to the stadium. Maybe he's getting some days off to be with the family or the baby? I dunno. I've really come around on DJ. I enjoy his voice and he's good for a couple of yucks. That said, a Hawk-Stone combo in the booth would be one for the ages. Hands down the best in the MLB. I don't know if any of you have the extra innings package, but if you have ever heard some of the broadcasters for other clubs, it's pretty easy to tell we have one of the better duos in baseball. Some are just god awful. I caught almost every broadcast team and the Yankee team is #1 in my book. I loved their broadcast.

Yee Haw Reminds me when Governor Jim Thompson (before he became FlaSoxxJim) downed a couple beers from a toilet plunger at an Illini game

:headshake To protect your family, the gun needs to be accessible, loaded, and ready to go. Most home evaders will not wait for you to fiddle with a safety and get the gun loaded. This is why, for my family, I decided a home protection handgun would be more risk than reward and instead invested in a really kick ass home security system. I also trained my dog to attack the intruders face and genitals (at least that is what the warning sign says.) victim brother mom

QUOTE(mreye @ Mar 14, 2005 -> 12:41 PM) More news? grudge baby, someone had it in for him . . . joking, just joking, pleeeeeeeease don't ban me

Everyone should have a copy of this in their wallet, purse, glovebox, and liquor cabinet

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Mar 14, 2005 -> 11:37 AM) And I just realized why Tex said what he did... . For those who do not know the big news, check the blog http://boringtheworld.blogspot.com/2005/03...te-finally.html I didn't want to out you in case you were still being quiet about it

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Mar 14, 2005 -> 11:20 AM) Did you claim it on your taxes as well then? Again, IIRC it was below the reporting threshhold. I'm not nearly smart enough to do my own taxes beyond, please sign here and give me a check.

IIRC, I reported it as a gift, along with a notorized statement. Spring, a great time to look at houses, I wonder why :rolly

QUOTE(EvilJester99 @ Mar 14, 2005 -> 10:45 AM) They will be divorced in 6 months, she will be caught in bed with his best friend... or the mail man hehe Or licking a coffee table with her travel agent I know Shut up, that's why

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Mar 14, 2005 -> 10:48 AM) I forgot about Waynes' World. I love seeing that big rooftop Capitol Cigar Store indian from 63rd and Pulaski in that film. For the life of me though, I've never been able to find a Stan Mikita's Doughnuts on that block... My north suburb bias is showing through with Ordinary People (Lake Forest) and Risky Business, also I believe Lake Forest. The birthplace of both my children.