I am going to include, below, two messages.  One is from Gore and one is from our Madame Speaker.  They are gearing up for Gore's testimony before congress.
This is NOT about Gore running for President.  It is about getting congress to act on this issue.  I hope everyone will read and react to the message.

If you have signed the petition, please send it out to everyone you know and get them to sign.  It would be great to get over 300K people to sign it.  For every signiture, Gore is going to deliver a post card to the appropriate congresscritter.

Okay, so maybe an anti-war protest isn't supposed to be funny.  But I find almost everything funny in one way or another. I often get accused of "innapropriate laughter", God Forbid!

Anyway, Jim and I made our poster on friday night and our first idea was to "Impeach Cheney first". As an after thought we made the other side different.

Join me for yet another picture diary of the protest in DC.

If you are on the east cost Ophrah might be on your TV.

I am going to quote the diary I wrote months ago.  It can be found at my blog Www.politicaltheatreblog.co.

If you want to see Gore on Oprah, look at your TV listings.

This recipe came in my email and I decided I had to share it.
Please feel free to come in and share you favorite recipes and cooking tips.
Or feel free to share you funniest Thanksgiving story, embarassing stories are the MOST welcome.  = )

I get so many emails from different groups that sometimes I share them in case you all are not signed up for the same activism and information groups I am signed up for.

Here is one from Laurie David who has started an organization called the GLOBAL WARMING VIRTUAL MARCH.  
There is some interesting new information.  Evil doing by TX coal companies and a chance to join the virtual march and get the emailed updates.

Join me......

CARTOON THREAD.... good stuff

Graphic intensive

I am pretty damn sure the democrats would throw "Choice" out the window in a heart beat if they thought that meant more power in the polls.  For that reason groups like NARAL must be non partisan. That's such a no brainer that I won't even discuss it anymore.  But I suppose I can't stop anyone else from doing so.  

BTW... in another strike against the idea that this election was a win for conservative democrats, two thirds of those who won are pro-choice. With rare exception these were pro-choice democrats who unseated anti-choice republicans.

I couldn't let this day pass without doing one more push to get people calling for move-on.

All the grumpy non democrats have been culled from the list and we are calling MOSTLY (can't promise completely)happy happy democrats who want change.  

We need you to help push those last people out of the house to vote... or thank them for voting.

Join me through the Looking glass.

We can't be the party of reform if we do not get rid of someone as corrupt as William Jefferson.  In LA they have a good candidate to replace him but she needs help.  Her name is Karen Carter, she is a pro-choice African American woman who is a really good fit for the district.  If she wins she will be the FIRST African American woman to represent LA. in the US Congress.

Below is the email I received.

I was calling people for Move-on and I had a really funny call.  I'd like to tell you about it but first I am asking you to please recommend this diary.  We are just three days from a MAJOR election and all of us can do more than we are already doing.  

There have been some really silly diaries on the rec list, all kinds of rants and hyperbole and even some that border on tin foil hattery.  I think there was an I/P argument there for a few hours today.

Most of the time I do not care what appears on the rec list.  But I have to think that at this late date we can have one that encourages people to do phone banking. It doesn't have to be mine.  I have tried to get other people's diaries on this topic recomended over the last few days.

So enter and read my story and the latest pleas from various groups and my personal plea.

Do it because Al Gore was doing it himself today....

his Green tinged email below :

This one was about Veterans, about how they are the ones who gave us everything good in this country.  You know, because none of this would be possible if they had not fought.

And it is annoying because you never get these emails about the brilliance of the judiciary or great immigrants of history.  That would encourage people to think like liberals I imagine.

Still my son sent this to me for a very sweet reason and it made my day.  

cross over the dotted line and read my response to him.  

Here is one I got from True Majority encouraging me to team up with Move-on.

Former United Nations chief weapons inspector Hans Blix on Wednesday described the United States-led invasion of Iraq as a "pure failure" that had left the country worse off than under the rule of Saddam Hussein.

I think many people have said this now.  Wasn't Senator Rockefeller one of them?

IMO, we could have paid Saddamm to behave better for a lot less money and lives.  But the truth may also be that Iraq needs a "strongman dictator" to keep the different factions in order.  

Of late the ranting diaries here have bored the hell out of me and left me seeking something more interesting and thoughtful to read and I swore I would never write one of my own again.  But I am about to break my promise to myself because I feel a rant coming on and I think there are a few people in power who need to be a bit more aware of what their obligation to us and to this nation is.  Clue: it is not about anyone's re-election or personal power and ambition.

If something I have to say motivates someone here to make a call or two to a congress-critter, all the better.

I have to use up space to get this diary to post.  This is powerful, she reaches millions of people.  

I need some help in identifying the age of a house on the local market.  The year built was not listed and the agent was able to tell me some interesting facts about the house that might give someone who knows more than me about building a clue about the age of the house.

And of course feel free to share your thoughts on your house, you favorite housing styles, remodling old homes etc...