A good piece of music

“A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, ‘Huh. It works. It makes sense.’”

“Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.”

Barack Obama

6:00 pm  

Obama has a plan to change the United States energy model

The president Barack Obama has announced a series of new standards for emissions and fuel consumption of vehicles. This regulation, which involves a radical shift with respect to the Bush Administration, is aimed to achieve by 2016 a fleet of cars and light trucks by 40% cleaner.
Obama’s initiative is considered as the biggest regulatory effort from the Clean Air Act 1970 which provided the first limits in the United States for pollutant emissions from cars related to climate change. According to the president, this plan will result from a 2012 historic turning point towards an economy based on clean energy reducing the dependence on foreign oil.
5:25 pm  

Successful people are persistent

Ray Kroc, founder of Mc Donald’s, didn’t became rich overnight. He was a persistent and patient man.

Sam Walton worked for years to build his company, Wal-Mart.

Thomas Edison tried 1,000 different filaments before he was able to create the first incandescent light. He worked very hard to get it.

“Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination are omnipotent.”

President Calvin Coolidge

11:56 am  

Make no little plans

Obama laid out a new vision of high-speed rail. When recession ends oil prices will go up again to high levels.
We must embrace high-speed rail because it will reduce our dependence on oil and besides, the air pollutant emissions down. We want a cleaner future for our children.
High-speed rail is a reality in France, Spain, China and Japan and it has brought a strong development in areas where it has been implemented.
The development of this infrastructure will take many years and should be planned so that it can be a reality in the future.

5:46 pm  

This is the end

This is it…this is the end…

11:38 am  

Watchmen

I saw Watchmen today. Well, technically, it was last night. Great movie, and just what I needed after the week I had. This is the only spoiler — the ending’s slightly different, but in a way that wraps everything up nicely.

The only gripe that I have about the movie is this: this movie is DARK. I know, there’s guys running around in masks and stuff, but this is most definitely not a kids’ superhero movie. This is an adult movie in the best sense of the word. Moms, dads — don’t do what I’ve already seen a few do, and take your kid to go see this movie. There’s a reason why this movie has the rating it has. Please respect that, and let your kids, you know, be kids.

11:12 am  

Lion in Winter

Prince Geoffrey: “You fool! As if it matters at all how a man falls!”
Prince Richard: “When the fall’s all that’s left, it matters a great deal.
from The Lion in Winter, 1968
11:31 pm  

I’m not kidding

I’m not kidding. If you’re a Republican, and you’re not denouncing this clown as LOUDLY as possible RIGHT NOW, you hate babies and want them to have AIDS. You also probably hate puppies, kittens, and sunshine, but we’ll get to that eventually.

5:06 pm  

Sean Hannity Smears NCLR

Last night, Sean Hannity made the ridiculous claim that the National Council of La Raza (NCLR) “has called for Mexico to annex Southwestern states”.

Today, Janet Murgia, the executive director of NCLR, said this:

“NCLR has never made the statement and does not support the views Mr. Hannity attributes to us, as even a cursory review of our public statements or website would substantiate. Such conspiracy theories would be silly if they were not so often used to create fear and distrust of all Hispanics living in America. While Mr. Hannity is well within his rights to disagree with the views of our organization, he is not entitled to lie about us. In light of this, we are asking in the strongest terms possible for an immediate on-air correction.”

What she said. Then again, what else can you expect from the folks who literally hate babies?

5:01 pm  

Great organizer

The difference between a decent organizer and a great organizer is not how they organize. It’s whether they can communicate their ideas, and get others to adopt them as their own.

11:50 am  

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