Time Flies

It has been a month since my last post. In that time I have been to Lansing, Michigan where automobile factories are being leveled one after another leaving thousands of Michiganders unemployed and scrap piles as high as a city skyline. I have been to Hartford, Connecticut where they are closing Home Depot stores a year after they were built...and they are refusing to lend a hand to a dying man in the street after a hit and run. Now there is a 400,000 square foot structure with a 3,000,000 square foot parking lot where forest used to be...and a society that has lost its most basic human responsibility because all that is left is its most basic human instinct - survival. There are babies having babies on the city streets. I have been to Las Vegas, Nevada where home prices have dropped 28.6% since last year!!! I have been to Saranac Lake, New York where everyone is convincing themselves that all is fine. And before that I have been to Alaska, where everyone knows it's not fine.

My point is this: We're about to lose this beautiful place we call America if all of us don't start to make some different choices. No more muscle cars, no more American beer, no more backwoods serenity, no more American Dreams. You may say I'm turning left. I'd rather say I'm heading forward and I urge you all to follow instead of veering left or right. The longer we are selfish, the more we complain, and longer we wait for or Obama or Capitol Hill inevitably diminishes the time until America goes on fire sale.


I've got a few suggestions for you here and I'd love to hear yours' back:

Robert Kennedy Jr. talks with CEO O'Reilly of Chevron:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/07/01/king.qanda/index.html

Green Motor Oil from Connecticut. That's right, it's made from beef fat...and it don't smoke so now your S-Dimer just classed up (Ragged Chevy S-10 for those of you who couldn't translate):
http://www.getg.com/index.php

"If every household in America changed one incandescent bulb to a compact fluorescent, it would be the same as taking 800,000 cars off of American roads."
http://www.projectporchlight.com/

At first I said you have got to be kidding me. And then I said, who better to take on the world's largest problems than two of the richest men of the world. Maybe something as large as AIDS in Africa has met it's match. And maybe you think so too:
http://www.gatesfoundation.org/default.htm