From today's Tennessean...
Marsha Blackburn presses fight to save incandescent bulbs
A gem...
“Despite my best efforts, our beloved incandescent light bulbs are still scheduled to go away at the end of the year,” Blackburn said in a statement a staffer provided Tuesday.
“I will fight until the end so that people can keep their light bulbs and we’ll see what happens in the coming days. In the meantime, I am stocking up and filling my family’s Christmas stockings with light bulbs. Hope my friends in Tennessee are too.”
and what she'll never understand...
Replacing a single light bulb in every home in the country with a CFL would save enough energy to light about 3 million homes for a year and keep 9 billion pounds of greenhouse gases out of the air a year, according to the EPA. That’s the same amount that is emitted by about 800,000 cars.
“Sometimes we have to pass a law to make a difference on a mass scale,” said Scott McIntosh, who is working on master’s degrees in both business and sustainability at Lipscomb University.
“People aren’t aware how little changes can make big differences.”
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Yep, a handshake for one of his loyal followers. Atlanta, April 2007
This is the G-Funk from Brentwood, Tennessee. My "far-left" blog is back! As critiquing the Right-wing has proven to be one hell of a task, I'm going to try and focus on my some of my REAL favorites, especially my congressman, Marsha Blackburn. However, you never know who might show up, so stay tuned!
About the G-Funk
- G-Funk
- Nashville, Tennessee, United States
- You got to know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em
ARE YOU A LIBERAL?
"If by a 'Liberal' they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people — their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights, and their civil liberties — someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what they mean by a 'Liberal,' then I'm proud to say I'm a 'Liberal.'
- John F. Kennedy
- John F. Kennedy
CONFUSION
Blackburn remarks on the amazing condition of our economy...
Republicans are not going to play I-told-you-so, but it is pretty obvious that the tax reductions passed in 2003 helped Americans dig out of a recession and get back to work.
Our tax policies, the tax relief and reform we passed in 2003 and 2005, helped get government out of the way of America's entrepreneurs, and our unemployment rate is now lower than it was in the 1970s, the 1980s, and the 1990s.
It is time that we begin to fine tune our focus and decide what the priority of government ought to be.
Our tax policies, the tax relief and reform we passed in 2003 and 2005, helped get government out of the way of America's entrepreneurs, and our unemployment rate is now lower than it was in the 1970s, the 1980s, and the 1990s.
It is time that we begin to fine tune our focus and decide what the priority of government ought to be.
List of Reps I'd rather have for TN-07
- 1. Steve Cohen (TN-09)
- 2. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz (FL-20)
- 3. John Yarmuth (KY-3)
- 4. Jan Schakowsky (IL-9)
- 5. Jim McDermott (WA-7)
- 6. John Lewis (GA-05)
- 7. David Price (NC-4)
- 8. Sheila Jackson Lee (TX-18)
- 9. Louise Slaughter (NY-28)
Yep, a handshake for one of his loyal followers. Atlanta, April 2007