Enjoy; nice dis of Mittens

[whometense]

From http://chimesatmidnight.blogspot.com/2005/02/romney-suddenly-wants-to-spend-600.html">The Chimes at Midnight:

Just once I'd like to see the GOP deal with a pressing economic or social problem without recourse to their favorite universal panacea, the tax cut. Still and all that, the govenor is doing hsi fair share to keep us working, certainly he is keeping the curbside baggage handlers at Logan Airport busy with all his goings and goings and goings.

If only we could quietly move the state without leaving any forwarding address the next time Romney is out sucking up to the wowsers in Utah or Kentucky. Of course that would leave us with Kerry Healey's name on the letterhead, but she has to ask for a hall pass to use the little girl's room so lets not worry about her shall we?

[paineinthearse]

1. When is the last time we had a full-time rethug governor?

Celucci resigned to become ambassador to Canada.

Weld resigned to be ambassador but was not appointed/confirmed (a brilliant political move by Bubba).

Mittens has started his run for the white house.......

[whometense]

2. I honestly can't remember,

but it never seemed like Weld was full time even when he was.

Don't forget Swift Jane.

I think we'd have to go back to Dukakis to find a full-timer.

[ohkay]

3. Weld

was a great gov. We have a history of having good republican governors. Mittens is not one of them. I hope Bush appoints him ambassador to Greenland.

[Ian David]

4. Mitt Romney for Ambassador to Tuvalu!

http://www.tuvaluislands.com/



The sinking of Tuvalu

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"On the road it comes up to mid-knee high for adults, a perfect spot for kids to play surf with their makeshift boards, happily trailing after cars and vans that struggle to reach dry land, but oblivious to the fact that these particular tides/floods are creating BIG problems for all of us. Our island is sinking together with our hearts. Maybe it's its destiny, but then again, maybe it's not."

Meanwhile, Greenpeace has been busy on a southern islet, Betio, off the main atoll in Kiribati, Tarawa, which had the same extreme high tide event:

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The science of global warming is highly controversial, hugely complex, politically volatile and vicious, with every acknowledged uncertainty picked over and exploited. Even when focused down to a comparatively tiny part of the Pacific, and one of the world's smallest, most remote, and poorest countries, there are precious few certainties.

All the kind and gentle people of Tuvalu can do is plead their case and cause in every forum they possibly can, calling on anybody with ears to hear and eyes to see, to Really Listen and Really See.

More:
http://webdiary.smh.com.au/archives/margo_kingston/000686.html


Also:

Postcards from the Edge
Photos of Tuvalu show global warming in action
By Gary Braasch
16 Feb 2005
Since 1999, photographer Gary Braasch has worked to document global warming around the world. His images bring home a concept that's often hard to visualize. Today, as the Kyoto Protocol goes into effect, Braasch sends a dispatch and photos from Tuvalu, a Pacific island nation whose fate already hangs in the balance.


They see a lot of rainbows in Tuvalu. But people disagree about whether they're a sign of God's protection or just a cruel reminder of this tiny country's position in the world.

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Tuvalu, a nation since 1978, joined the U.N. in 1999 and is a signatory to the Kyoto Protocol. Laupepa, for one, is angry at how things are playing out. "President Bush goes to war to protect his country, and talks of national security, but the security of my people is threatened by global warming," he said to me. "How can you tell the American people that the way they live -- having three cars, using so much energy -- is endangering lots of small countries down the track?" The tide rose only a few meters away as he spoke.


More:
http://www.grist.org/news/maindish/2005/02/16/braasch-tuvalu/

Photo Gallery:
http://www.grist.org/news/maindish/2005/02/16/braasch-tuvalu/#