How are we supposed to learn from history if we can't even agree what that history taught us? Seal Beach's Doug Korthof pointed us to an LA Times story you can find at this link ...
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/iraq/complete/la-na-haig12mar12,1,2499867.story
... where Gen. Al Haig sees parallels between Vietnam and Iraq. So far, so good, because it's as plain as the nose on your tuba that the main parallel is that Americans were not viewed as liberators in Vietnam, as they are not v
After a polite email exchange with Seal Beach environmental/electric car/anti-Bush activist Doug Korthof -- he was catching This Ticking Time Bum up on what he's been up to lately (lots more than us, that's fer sure) -- it occured to us that if the automakers are telling the truth, our heads will all explode right now: DUCK!
We kid.
No, what we wuz thinking wuz if automakers are being truthful that Californians just never embraced the barely advertised, sales un-pitched, tucked-on-the-corner-o
This just fell from the virtual sky courtesy of your favorite Seal Beach activist, Doug Korthof:
Hi,
We all know that Al Gore was swindled in the first of the neo-con "managed elections" of 2000, and that the theft of elections continues to this day via:
--Voting Machines fixed, altered or fraudulent,
--Local voting personnel suborned,
--Felon list "disqualifications" of Black and Democrat voters via Bush "data companies",
--Voting day dirty trix such as lack of poll-workers in certain area
Seal Beach activist Doug Korthof (see him in the upcoming documentary Who Killed the Electric Car?) sent this along about Iraq's girl blogger "Riverbend":
"She offers a ground-level female perspective on Iraq and your Tax dollars at work. Against incredible odds, this literate and intense young Iraqi brings her thoughts to the world...and may bring tears to your eyes," writes Korthof, who adds you can buy her award-winning book here. "You can read her on-line for free, but each book purchased s
We swear this will be our final electric-car post, at least until the next one, but there was one other tidbit we learned from Chris Paine, the writer-director of the excellent Who Killed the Electric Car?, which is now playing at Edwards University in Irvine.
Paine, Seal Beach activist Doug Korthof and actor-director Peter Horton (who you may recall from TV's thirtysomething) were among the leasees of GM EV-1s who tried desperately to extend their leases, buy their cars outright and delay the
When the California Coastal Commission meets in Huntington Beach on Thursday, panelists will be staring into at least one familiar face: that of Chief Anthony Morales of the Gabrielino-Tongva Band of Mission Indians (pictured).
While the commission deals with coastal development issues up and down the state, their monthly meetings bounce around from city to city so they can be closer to all the people whose interests they allegedly represent. Following them from town to town
