American Values Alliance | Practical voice for progressive valuesAmerican Values Alliance | Practical voice for progressive valuesI wrote this a day or so ago to the good members of the Congressional Black Caucus and thought I'd pass it along to you here at the AVA.
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It might have been the right thing to run down to the river with buckets to collect water to throw on the burning building, but it would have been much better to have better fire codes and a functioning fire department.
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Anyone be interested in getting a group together for an Election Night Countdown/Celebration (fingers crossed!)
Either way the night turns out I'm thinking I'm going to need need either a shoulder to cry on or (more optimistically) others to celebrate with. (Lord knows I'm not going to sleep at all that night.)
Oh and are we still getting together this month at Tea's Me?
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We didn't want this occasion to pass quietly by. The American Values Alliance blog has been in operation for two years, emerging in its present form on 31 July 2006 as a forum for discussion of the political, social and cultural news of the day.
Randy Pausch, Carnegie Mellon professor of computer science died today of pancreatic cancer at 47.
In a cost saving move, Starbucks is shuttering 600 stores, with job losses totaling in excess of 12,000.
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Stop with the push for ethanol production, already. Over a year ago, reports indicated that only a small percentage of corn yields could go into ethanol without impacting prices in food markets. Certainly I wasn't the only one who heard those reports?!
Motivated by soaring prices at the pump, record numbers of commuters are parking their cars in favor of mass transit.
I'm still on vaycay and imagine my shock when I read this:
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This election cycle has been a treat for the mind and the senses. We've seen cable news use social networking to pose tough questions (OK, sometimes from snowmen) to candidates.
It was words to that effect that I heard in response to my assertion that there was a ton of chatter about race, Obama and religion on the blogs (at a race relations meeting where we were discussing these very matters--huh!) and that there was an opportunity to support this emerging (hell, emerged!) medium in channeling that discussion into something productive.
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The airlines are clearly struggling. House members are trying to figure out how Southwest Airlines could have for so long violated safety rules and how the FAA, the agency responsible for oversight, could have missed these safety violations.
In response to several of you who asserted that these were, in fact, progressive values, I've added the following categories:
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