Jobs and the New Economy

Host: U.S. Senator Harry Reid, UNLV, and Center for American Progress Action Fund

Type: Meetings – Convention

Network: Global

Date: Monday, August 10, 2009

Time: 10:00am – 6:00pm

Location: UNLV – Cox Pavilion

Street: 4505 S. Maryland Parkway (corner of Tropicana Ave. & Swenson Ave.)

City/Town: Las Vegas, NV

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JUST ADDED: Former PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON!

PENDING: Keynote Address by GOV. ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER

WHAT: High-level industry leaders, scientists, policy experts, and public officials, along with citizens and the media, will gather in Nevada for a day-long summit hosted by the Center for American Progress Action Fund, U.S. Senate Majority Leader HARRY REID (D-NV), and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

This year’s summit will bring together the nation’s top minds, including former Vice President AL GORE, Secretary of Energy STEVEN CHU, energy executive T. BOONE PICKENS, White House Council on Environmental Quality Special Advisor VAN JONES, Nevada State AFL-CIO executive DANNY THOMPSON, and many others to chart a course for our nation’s clean energy future.

WHY: 2009 provides a pivotal opportunity for our nation to come together to define a policy agenda that accelerates the deployment of clean energy and energy efficiency, creates good jobs, advances energy independence, and ensures long term economic prosperity for Nevada, the nation, and the world. We hope you will join the conversation.

For more information on the summit and to register online, visit: http://www.cleanenergysummit.org

$25 discounted admission price for students!!!

Want to participate in a different way? Volunteer at the event by applying at: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=SS_2fKOgcDwWwNwh6armDwVw_3d_3d

Unique. President Obama is asking all Americans to send a Tweet to your Senator. You can access the website to send your tweet here.

The instructions on the site are:

We’re calling and writing letters — and now there’s a new way to contact your representatives.

Enter your zip code in the box below to “tweet” one of your senators to tell them to support real health insurance reform this year.

Please use all the hashtags provided so we can track your tweets on the map to the right.

Just below those instructions is a Twitter button. Click it and it will take you to your Twitter page.  There will be the following message already entered for you to send. Just click the Update button and viola your message is sent to your Senator.

Alex Castellanos is a Republican Party media consultant and strategist. He wrote the following in The American Conservative Union Foundation. He makes some sense too. Here is his article in full for your thoughtful consideration.

With every passing day, Barack Obama is ensuring his own reelection — but at a bloodcurdling cost for Democrats on the ballot without him in 2010.

President Obama speaks with power and grace.  He is gifted with that alchemical political material, Teflon.  He exudes even-handed comfort, assuring all sides that this President understands their argument.  His smile is an embrace that disarms, displaying the confidence of a young leader certain his intellect will prevail. [Read more →]

A couple of friends of mine brought my attention to hate groups in the United States. Yes, I know we are supposed to be a Christian country and practice love for our fellow man.

Photo: SPLC file photo shows Furrow, charged with shootings in Los Angeles, in an Aryan Nations security guard uniform. (special)

But that is a fantasy. Hate is alive and well in the United States. I’ve even seen it here in Pahrump in the actions of a former Town Board a few years back in attacks on Pahrump Latinos with Town Ordinances all anti-Hispanic. That Town Board, of course was all white people. In fairness I should point out that the anti-Hispanic members of that former Town Board was not unanimous. I think the vote was 3-2. And I don’t know if those three were card-carrying hate group members. But I do know that it was Pahrump voters who elected them. Doesn’t say much for the intelligence of those voters.

Photo above: The recent murder of a woman who tried to quit the Klan near Bogalusa, La., brought back memories of “Klantown, U.S.A.”

But back to the reason for this post. The state of Nevada has 13 different hate groups according to the Southern Poverty Law Center. They are: [Read more →]