Puget Sound Liberals Weekly Newsletter #105

Enhancing Freedom, Opportunity and Cooperation in Puget Sound and Beyond

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Our vision is hundreds of thousands of well-informed Puget Sound Liberals working together.

 

January 18, 2008

 

 

 

 

 

Our Website                                                                            Our  Editor   

 

                        Table of Contents   * featured articles

 

Puget Sound Liberals

About Puget Sound Liberals

Opportunities, Petitions and Feedback

 

Commentaries from Our Members

Dorli Rainey on Bio-Fuels

Forest Gower on Bio-Fuels

Ronna Weltman on Choosing a College

Don Smith on Meeting with Congressman Reichert

Dave Gamrath on Over Population and Consumption

Peter House on State Caucuses*

Ray McBain on Medicare Part D Prescription Costs

Andrew Villeneuve on netroots cooperation*

 

Liberals and Democrats Links to the Beef

Has Bill Clinton Become a Whiney Victim?

Let’s hope that Republicans Win Equally*

During Our Nightmare, What Should a Liberal Do?*

 

State and Local  Links to the Beef

Monitoring and Influencing Our State Legislature

 

Nation and World  Links to the Beef

Preventing Terrorist Acts in Our United States*

Restricting Our National Guard from Foreign Service

 

Our Liberal Spirit

Our Dark Night of the Soul

 

Recommended Books

 

 

 

Our Political Priorities

 

·       Fair Clean Elections and Open Government

·       Fair Taxes and Competent Spending

·       Investment for Productivity

·       Quality Health, Education, Jobs, Income and Retirement

·       Environmental Protection and Energy Independence

·       Personal Security and Equal Rights

·       Justice and Peace Everywhere

·       International Cooperation and Leadership

 

Conservatives oppose all of these

 

     Let’s End Our National Nightmare

 

         Let’s Restore Our American Dream

 

 

More on Conservative opposition to our American Dream

 

See Nancy Pelosi’s political priorities

 

 

Quote of the Week

Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.  Socrates

 

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Calendar of Events

 

Schedule of Liberal films on PBS

 

 

Democratic Underground.Com

 

Drinking Liberally

 

Conversation Cafe

 

Puget Sound Regional Council – Destination 2030 Update Scoping meetings

Auburn – Thursday, January 24 at 3 PM at Auburn City Hall (25 West Main Street)

Everett – Monday, January 28 at 4 PM at Main Library (2702 Hoyt Avenue, Everett)

Tacoma – Wednesday, January 23 at 4 PM at Main Library (1102 Tacoma Avenue South, Tacoma)

 

Saturday, January 19 at 6:30 PM at Carrie Bogner’s home (1120 24th Ave E, Seattle) – inSPIRe Salon, with potluck, conversation and presentation and discussion of environmental issues led by three representatives of prominent environmental organizations.

 

Monday, January 21 at Franklin High School (3013 Mount Baker Boulevard South, Seattle) – Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration with 9:30 AM Workshop, 11 AM Rally and 12 PM March.  For more. [Strongly recommended for suburbanites who need to understand inner city priorities.  Dave Thomas]

 

Friday, January 25 at 6:30 PM at Rick Hegdahl’s home (104 - 165th Avenue NE) – Lake Hills Liberals Salon, including Light Buffet and movie ‘Who Killed the Electric Car?’ and Discussion.  Bring beverage, fruit, cheese, crackers, etc

 

Friday, January 25 at 7 PM at King County Library Administration Building (960 Newport Way NW, Issaquah) – 5th Legislative District Movie Night Sicko, A film by Michael Moore on America’s failing health care system

 

Wednesday, February 6 at 5:30 PM and February 7 at Hilton Seattle (1301 6th Avenue, Seattle) – Emily’s List  Candidate Training for Democratic Pro-Choice Women.  For more information.

 

Saturday, February 9 at 10 AM at Kirkland City Hall (123 Fifth Avenue, Kirkland) – 48th District Legislators town meeting.  REMEMBER to attend your Democratic Presidential Caucuses afterwards!

 

Saturday February 9, 2008 at 1:30 - Precinct Caucuses.  Find your caucus location.


Saturday, February 16 at 6 PM at Town Hall (1119 – 8th Avenue, Seattle) – Americans United for Separation of Church and State presents an evening with Michael Weinstein, author of With God on Our Side who is concerned with church-state issues confronting military personnel.

 

Saturday, February 23-24 at IBEW Hall (19802 62nd Ave S, Kent) – Democracy for America Grassroots Training, sponsored by Darcy Burner.  For more.  For more.

 

Saturday, March 22 at 10 AM at Bellevue City Hall (450 110th Avenue NE, Bellevue) – 48th District Legislators town meeting

 

Washington State Caucus and Convention Schedule

Legislative District Conventions - Saturday April 5, 2008
County Conventions - Saturday April 19, 2008
Congressional District Conventions - Saturday May 17, 2008
Washington State Convention - June 14 & 15, 2008 - Spokane, Washington

 

Opportunities, Petitions and Feedback

 

Opportunities

 

Join Working America in alliance with labor union members

 

See MoveOn’s new online tools.

 

Order Democracy in America ‘Precinct Organizing’ and other Night School Training videos

 

Order Sightline’s 2007 Cascadia Scorecard.  See other research that they share with our politicians.

 

Order Lester Brown’s Plan B, #3.0, Mobilizing to Save Civilization.  For more.

 

Petitions and Donations

 

Join GoPetition to easily create your own petitions. Great tool for advocacy groups.

 

NARAL Pro-Choice Washington seeks support among precinct caucus participants.

 

Help a Liberal Democrat defeat an incumbent Conservative Democratic Congressman.

 

Ask your congressman to support hearings on impeaching vice president Dick Cheney.

 

Tell EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson to explain why he denied California's waiver request!

 

Urge top television reporters to ask presidential candidates about global warming.

 

AFL-CIO petition to support secure high quality health care for all.

 

AFL-CIO petition to support Employee Free Choice Act to restore the freedom to form unions.

 

Ask U.S. Treasury Department to put a freeze on foreclosures

 

Ask President Bush to assign 24 helicopters to help peacekeeping in Darfur

 

Feedback Needed Concerning Our Website

 

We have decided to not offer a blog, since there are many excellent northwest blogs.  We want to offer a discussion (bulletin) board.  Do you know of any inexpensive discussion board software?  Please email me your suggestions.  Dave Thomas

 

Commentaries >From Our Members

 

Email from Dorli Rainey

I work with a group called  One Earth.. This group challenges the wisdom of taking millions of acres out of farming for food and converting it into growth areas for fuel plants. One Earth is not a group which wants to antagonize, but live up to the definition of protest (i.e. for the truth).

 

There is a company in Seattle