Si Se Puede!!!

Great Americans deserve recognition, sign the petition. Nuff' said.

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Full Petition Text:

Petition to President Bush and members of the U.S. Congress

I call on the U.S. Congress to establish an official federal paid holiday in honor of Cesar E. Chavez, the late president of the United Farm Workers, on his birthday, March 31. This should include a Cesar Chavez day of service-learning and community action.
Signed by:
[Your name]
[Your address]

Short, sweet and to the point. The truth never needs very long to say.

FREE SPOCKO!!!!!!

The Internet can do many wonderful things. Probably the greatest are the dissemination of opinion and information. In this brave new world, anyone with a computer and an ISP can become a pundit, news aggregate, or diarist. There is a nasty and darker side to this as well. Such is the case of the blogger and muckraker Spocko.

As noted by Daily Kos Diarist Mike Stark, Spocko has suffered from the hard-handed and short-sighted tactics of Disney, yes the company that thrives on good wholesome family fun. Lets look at a sample of this Mouse stations programming highlights from MediaDaily News (Jan 5, 2007):

KSFO features hard right-wing talk show hosts who endorse torture and mock the tortured, called for the public hangings of New York Times editor Bill Keller and other journalists, and demand that callers mock Islam. They also mock their own advertisers, calling Chevrolet "sh!tty" and recommending that Sears' Diehard battery be attached to an African-American's testicles.

Makes Its A Small World look like a night in a Batista-era prison eh? Well this moral family fun was recorded by Spocko and placed on the Internet through his website, Spocko's Brain. He aslo began contacting the stations advertisers such as Netflix, MasterCard, Visa, and Bank of America. When either exposed to what they were sponsoring or called on it the sponsors pulled their adverts from KSFO. Was Disney surprised, shocked and appalled at the hate speech being spewed under their corporate nose?

The Friday before Christmas, Dec. 22, ABC Radio sent a cease-and-desist order to Spocko and his Internet Service Provider, 1&1 Internet, claiming unauthorized use of copyrighted material.

Neil Simpkins, spokesperson for ISP provider 1&1 Internet, says his company received the same letter from ABC Radio that was sent to Spocko's Brain, citing unauthorized use of copyrighted material. He says 1&1 gave Spocko one week to pull the material, and when he did not, the ISP pulled his site Jan. 2.

There is just one moon and one golden sun and a smile means friendship too everyone... oh sorry I was just carried away by the wholesome fun that a cease-and desist can bring. So lets let these folks, with just a sprinkle of pixie dust and a tiny bit of magic, know just how we feel. Here are some numbers and addresses so you can share the magic!

General Programming or ABC Radio Sales
Mike Connolly
Senior Vice President, Sales
ABC Radio Networks
(212) 735-1700

Robert A. Iger
President and Chief Executive Officer
The Walt Disney Company
500 South Buena Vista Street,
Burbank, California 91521
(818) 560-1000

1&1 Internet Inc.
701 Lee Road, Suite 300
Chesterbrook, PA 19087
Phone: 1-877-GO-1AND1
Fax: 610-560-1501

Ya Gotta Love The Ingenuity

Normally a parents bane at parties, and loathed by millions who must scrape it off their drive way after Halloween or block party, silly string finally has a useful... um... use.

Serious use for Silly String
By REBECCA SANTANA
Associated Press Writer
Wed Dec 6, 3:14 PM ET

STRATFORD, N.J. - In an age of multimillion-dollar high-tech weapons systems, sometimes it's the simplest ideas that can save lives. Which is why a New Jersey mother is organizing a drive to send cans of Silly String toIraq.

American troops use the stuff to detect trip wires around bombs, as Marcelle Shriver learned from her son, a soldier in Iraq.

This does however raise a couple of questions, foremost in my mind is:
Who brought the first can into Iraq anyways?
Second, who was the genius who thought this trick up?

That being said, or asked, this is the perfect time to plug Any Soldier. This group provides an easy way to find out what our troops need and a way to get it to them. For suggestions they have teamed up with several companies who have created care packages. Most of the requests are simple: phone cards, hygeine items, sunscreen, socks etc. Take a look choose any soldier, sailor, etc. and make the holidays a little brighter. As they post on the front page of the site:

A soldier in Iraq can't see your ribbon,
Or the flag at your front door.
But a letter they hold in their hands,
To them means so much more.
Supporter Liam Sweeny