Subpoenas and Testimony

Both the United States Senate and the House of Representatives have had committees approve subpoenas for, among others "turd blossom" karl and bush's Supreme Court nominee harriet miers. The last time such high ranking people at the White House were subpoenaed it was when hypocrite newt and the boys issuing them on the urgent National Security issue and threat to Our way of government that was "Did the President receive oral sex?" The scandal of firing U.S. Attorneys on a purely and specifically political basis is different than the "partisan witch hunt" that was the "white water"/monica lewinsky investigation, and not in the way flip-floppers like bush mouthpiece tony snow might explain. This latest bush administration scandal cuts at Our three co-equal branches of government. Many presidents have fired U.S. Attorneys at the start of their tenure. The bush's department of justice fired these federal prosecutors because they either strongly investigated republican officials or didn't move fast enough on their investigations of Democrats to have a negative impact on election day. Once a U.S. Attorney is hired, he/she can not do their job effectively if he/she fears termination for not following the party in power's talking points and/or agenda. Sometimes I ask myself, am I really talking about America here. The "party in power"'s politics controlling the system of justice? Geebus!

I'm with Colbert. "Buckle on your Balls" and Impeach this President. For the rush to a war of choice in Iraq (willfully leading Us into a war on false statements, documents and pretenses), Katrina (a dereliction of duty), Valerie Plame (outing a covert CIA operative working on Iran's nuclear program), Abrahmoff (former deputy secretary stephen griles is pleading guilty in that one), the Walter Reed scandal (again dereliction), illegally spying on Americans (even by today's standards), and now the "prosecutor purge". I long for the days when the President just broke into the opposing party's offices or had sexual relations with a woman other than his wife.

Speaking of Presidents, Al Gore spoke in front of a Congressional committee on Global Warming or as the reds like to say it "global climate change". Man, were we weak allowing bush to take office after Gore won the popular vote (and maybe the electoral with Florida) in 2000. Asleep at the wheel. Anyway, the former Vice President did well in front of a not always so friendly audience. At times using analogy instead of his usual meteorology professor jargon to make his point. I'll just leave you with some facts.

Of the 21 hottest years ever measured, 20 have occurred within the last 25 years. 2005 and 1998 tie as hottest.

The 1990s was the warmest decade on record.

232 million Number of registered vehicles in the U.S. That's almost one per person!

600 gallons Average amount of gasoline consumed by one U.S. car each year.

12,000 pounds Amount of carbon dioxide emitted from one U.S. car each year.

240 Number of trees needed to absorb the 12,000 pounds of carbon dioxide emitted from one U.S. car each year.

2.7 trillion Number of miles U.S. cars and light trucks traveled in 2004. That's the equivalent of taking 10 million trips to the moon.

5% Percent U.S. population is of the world population.

30% Percent of world's automobiles in the United States.

45% Percent that the United States contributes to the world's automotive carbon dioxide emissions.

4 Number of car companies that support a national cap on global warming emissions. They are Ford, General Motors, DaimlerChrysler and Toyota.