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ELECTION 2008:  WASTING YOUR VOTE?

There's a concept among voters that if the candidate you really prefer has no apparent chance of winning, then it's a waste of your vote to check the box for that candidate. To address this issue, we've been forced to break out our light sabers. See our article, Wasting Your Vote — The Voters' Choice in 2008: Darth Vader, The Emperor, or Luke Skywalker.

TURNING GREEN OVER THE ELECTION

Do you think our politicians should do better at addressing air and water pollution, chemicals in household products, and the need for clean energy? Then you might want to check out our environmental voting guide and our article Why Vote Green? ...

DUMBO MUMBO-JUMBO

We don't hear that much about environmental issues on the news these days, but when we do hear it, it's sometimes hard to separate the info from the spin-fo. To help you decipher the code words, Grinning Planet presents an update of our Environmental Doublespeak article.

MEDIA-OCRITY

When it comes to politics, democracy, and the many other challenges of our lives, media play a central role. But, unfortunately, their value is usually negative, leaving us uninformed at best and propagandized at worst. What ever happened to true investigative journalism? Why has the press stopped doing it's job of counterbalancing those in power? Why is "media concentration" a death sentence for informative local TV, radio, and newspaper coverage? How does mainstream media send inappropriate social signals to our children and adolescents? There are lots of great books on these topics, and we have collected them on our recently upgraded Media Books list.

TUNE IN ... EMERSON, LAKE & PALMER —
“BLACK MOON”

An excellent and uncharacteristically activist song from ELP. As for the album of the same name, it's one of the few times a formerly great rock band put out something new that really was "sort of like their old stuff."
LYRICS SNIPPET:
We never learn—
Even deserts burn,
And all politicians lie.
They won't do nothin'
'Til we reach high noon...
Black Moon...




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Public Speaking Jokes/Cartoon link; thumb of public speaker with raised hand PUBLIC SPEAKING AWARDS PEOPLE SHOULD TRY TO AVOID GETTING
Public Speaking Jokes/Cartoon
  
campaign cartoon link; thumb of a bull WORST POLITICAL CAMPAIGN SLOGANS
Campaign Cartoon
  
Political Language Joke/Cartoon link; thumb of politician's head LITTLE-KNOWN POLITICAL ABBREVIATIONS
Political Language Joke/Cartoon
  
Congress - Political Cartoon link; thumb of woman's face IF THE U.S. CONGRESS WERE IN BUSINESS TO PRODUCE THINGS
Congress - Political Cartoon
  
president cartoon; thumb of 8 ball for political joke LITTLE THINGS THAT WORRY THE PRESIDENT
President - Political Joke/Cartoon
  
School Violence cartoon link; thumb of principal SIGNS YOUR SCHOOL IS CRACKING DOWN ON VIOLENCE
School Violence Cartoon
  
Baseball Cartoon link; thumb of baseball in a hand THE PROBLEMS OF BASEBALL PLAYERS IN THE OLD-TIMERS LEAGUE
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Music Cartoon/Quiz link; thumb of goofy looking musician MUSIC QUIZ
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Literature Cartoon link; thumb of frog REVISED 'CHILDREN'S LITERATURE' CLASSICS
Literature Cartoon
  
'Challenges for Working Moms' cartoon link; thumb of boy with box of toys KIDS' ATTITUDES... FOR AND AGAINST THEIR MOMS WORKING
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Hermit Cartoon
  
campaign cartoon link; thumb of a bull WORST POLITICAL CAMPAIGN SLOGANS
Campaign Cartoon
  
White House Cartoon link; thumb of White House seal THE WHITE HOUSE LIST OF FREQUENTLY CALLED NUMBERS
White House Cartoon
 
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RUPPERT-O-RAMA
Former LA police investigator Mike Ruppert has spent much of the last decade trying to alert us all to the dangers of peak oil and the dangerous criminal behavior exhibited by The Powers That Be. Those of us who have taken heed of his reports and predictions and have changed our lives to be more prepared for troubled times ahead are in his debt. If you are not yet familiar with Ruppert, below are some links to his current work and "greatest hits."

-- Current stuff:   [1] From the Wilderness' Peak Oil Blog   [2] The Shell Game (a novel by Steve Alten based partly on Ruppert's work)

-- Some excellent material from the 2004-2005 timeframe — all very interesting to re-experience, given what we now know about the housing bubble, how money works, peak oil, geopolitics, and 9/11. Ruppert's timelines are a little off, but he nails the trends and underlying machinations:   [1] From The Wilderness (archive of old articles)   [2] Crossing The Rubicon (book)   [3] The Truth and Lies of 9/11 (GoogleVideo)   [4] interview with Els Cooperrider (GPM audio)

 
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FUNNY BAILOUT BUFFET
Humor does not stop just because our elected leaders are selling us down the river. Here at GP, we're gonna laugh all the way to the poorhouse. Join in the grunting and guffawing with a few funny 'net clips.

$1,000,000,000,000 Bailout -- A faux, deadpan-humor White House press conference on the bailout....from Funny Ordie.

The Dark Bailout -- A strangely clever mix of clips from The Dark Knight Batman film and President Bush describing his bailout plan... from Spike.

The Daily Show -- An edgy but funny rant that blasts just about everybody associated with passing the bailout.

The Colbert Report -- More edgy, more funny: "Vladimir Putin's just jealous because America is winning the economic meltdown race."

 
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BUSHISMS VIDEO REVIEW
Well, love him or hate him, he'll be gone soon—barring a total usurpation of constitutional authority—and we will all be deprived of the grand gaffes and gargantuan goofs that gush from his grinning gob. The next president is almost certain to bring a decline in entertainment (and embarrassment) value, so enjoy him while you can ... with this 1-minute review of some of Bush Jr.'s worst public speaking flubs. At Google Video. Go there

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Public Speaking Cartoon

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Environmental Doublespeak

 
 
 
ECO SERIOUS
 
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CLIMATE TIME MACHINE
This very cool interactive tool lets you visualize Arctic ice melt, global CO2 emissions, and global temperatures over various timeframes. You can also see estimates of coastal inundation for various sea level rise amounts—all just by moving the slide control back and forth. Excellent! And scary! From NASA. Go there

Related GP article:
Global Warming vs. Climate Change

 
ECO FUNNY
 
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DRILL, BABY, DRILL!
A wild-eyed poke at the oil-drilling frenzy currently in vogue among our Washington officials. (Somehow they failed to get the memo that we can't drill our way out of our oil-addiction problem.) Funny stuff from animator Mark Fiore. Go there

Related GP pages:
-- Oil Spill Cartoon
-- Peak Oil/Energy Solutions

 
ELECTION FUNNY
 
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HOW TO PRETEND YOU CARE ABOUT THE ELECTION
This video short features a man who is supposedly an actor pretending to be a political analyst offering phony tips on how you can fake political acumen—perfect for our faux democratic electoral system! Funny stuff from The Onion. Go there

Related GP cartoons:
Ethics Cartoon
Fake News Cartoon

Related GP article:
Election Choice:
The Emperor, Darth Vader, or Luke Skywalker


 
 
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