Daily Briefing - 11/22/06 Happy Thanksgiving!

While we see hope in atmospheric methane stabilizing, we wonder if the Democrats will pass climate change legislation. Speaker Pelosi will have them working hard from the get go... and probably with nice, new digs. The British Government is hiring nannies to take care of it's kids... well, American conservationists are employing cartoonists... so there! The blogs are already piping hot over the 2008 Senate elections, patience is not a virtue in the virtual world... I guess. With that and much more I leave you with the Briefing and hope that you will enjoy your Thanksgiving and remember what you are truly thankful for.

MW

O Lord that lends me life, Lend me a heart replete with thankfulness! ~William Shakespeare

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Daily Briefing – 11/22/06
Thanksgiving Edition
712 days until the NEXT election… and global warming is an integral part of our nation’s agenda!

Key Issues in the News
Global Warming
- Tom Friedman thinks Speaker Pelosi and President Hu Jintao should form a partnership based on energy and climate change
- LA Times: Global Warming – It’s Personal
- Will the Democrats pass climate change legislation?
o Also from Grist
- Growth of atmospheric methane stabilizes, may slow warming
- No longer a warning
- The next 100 million Americans
- Warming to a global theme
- Aww, a warm Al Gore… there’s a nice thought for your holiday
- Sharp aims for “zero impact”
Washington/Legislation/Politics/People/etc.
- It pays to be in power… you get nice offices
- GOP leaves a stinking present at the doorstep for Democrats… unfinished and massive spending bills
- In Midwest, election ads were 3x more frequent than election news
- No Taxation without Representation!
- Speaker Pelosi will have them starting early and continue working.
- A parting shot from George Allen: Concealed Weapons in National Parks
- Mean Jean Schmidt returns to Congress
- Sen. Lieberman hires former McCain communications director
- The Role of Energy in the 2006 Election
Other News from the Media
- NYT Editorial: Weighing in on Wages
- Mining firms eyeing Navajo land
- Dead Plagiarists Society
- Um, this is where British government has gone… its now employing nannies
- Up to 100 million acres needed for cellulosic ethanol crops
- Gary Larson, “Far Side” cartoonist, is drawn to the wild side
…and the Blogosphere
- At DailyKos they’re watching for GOP defections
- Hotline looks at the ’08 Senate races
o So does RedState
- Chris Bowers from MYDD explains why he’s thankful the American commercial enterprise has forgotten about Thanksgiving
- TomPaine: End Big Oil Aid to Africa
- From Grist:
o Reclaiming Thanksgiving
§ By serving fermented grape juice?
o Jay-Z pimps clean water and Green Day fights fossil fuels
- Rothenberg Report: Worst Self Inflicted Wound of ’06 and a Ballot Measure Wrap-Up
- RCP: House Updates
- The Caucus: 2008 like it’s tomorrow
Miscellaneous… or just plain weird
- Rosie O’Donnell and Kelly Ripa fight over Clay Aiken!
- That darn far left hidden agenda strikes again!
o And so does the “radical homosexual agenda”
- First Daughter robbed in Argentina
- Kazakh leader: Let’s laugh at Borat
Quotes O’ the Day
As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them. ~John Fitzgerald Kennedy

He who thanks but with the lipsThanks but in part;The full, the true ThanksgivingComes from the heart.~J.A. Shedd

For flowers that bloom about our feet;For tender grass, so fresh, so sweet;For song of bird, and hum of bee;For all things fair we hear or see,Father in heaven, we thank Thee!~Ralph Waldo Emerson