Rants from the Server Room: October 2008

Friday, October 17, 2008

George W. Bush is Leaving: Saying Goodbye to Someone Has Never Felt Soo Good!

George W. Bush is almost gone, but his impact will be haunting us for decades to come. Thats if the country and the environment actually survive.

George W. Bush says history will be the decider, but we should speed up the process a bit. WhatWouldYouSayToThePresident.com is another site that allows simple folk like us to say our piece and help future generations understand what really happened.

Farewell43.com is another one of my favs, but the funniest I have seen this week is: Palin as President (http://www.palinaspresident.us/)

But seriously though, we should pressure politicians via sites like these, because they are not getting good enough results. And that is a nice way of putting it.

At the very least these reviews will be tied to their online reputations, and maybe one day a politician will actually have enough of an open mind to read what everyday citizens think about them.

Find out the facts on these politicians at OnTheIssues.org and FactCheck.org

Rate individual congress members, world leaders, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, McCain, Obama, Hillary, Putin and many more via CongressRatings.com.

Thursday, October 16, 2008

Poverty Can Be Eliminated

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Today is blog action day, and poverty is our focus. According to Unicef, thousands of children die daily from lack of clean water, food and basic medicine. All it takes is a few bucks to make a difference. Please help us fight poverty...

Here are some things you can do to help:

Join our 12-Hour Radio Talkathon
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Get Creative
The sky’s the limit on what you can do! If you have a crazy idea then act on it and let us know so we can spread the word!

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Saturday, October 11, 2008

ABC Chooses Big Oil Money Over Saving Our Planet

Image via WikipediaI recieved this email from Cathy Zoi, CEO of wecansolveit.org:

"Did you notice the ads after last night's presidential debate?

ABC had Chevron. CBS had Exxon. CNN had the coal lobby. But you know what happened last week? ABC refused to run our Repower America ad -- the ad that takes on this same oil and coal lobby.

I sent a letter asking ABC to reconsider their decision and put our ad on the air, but still we haven't heard back more than a week later. I think they need to hear from all of us."