"Tsunami", my friend Shelley replied. A single word to an email I'd forwarded her about Costco not having rice on the shelves.

The Gamble of RealID.

This Representative seems to be working out the answer with a deck of cards during the debate over caving in to Chertoff.

The last storm in February, the snow on each side of the path was close to chest high. Instead of throwing the snow that high I started whacking it down. No more shovelling. With the recent warmer days and the rain, I can see the footprints in the white ice: me in my Sorrells, Salieri cat with the six toes, a few chippy feet and those of an errant chicken.

"The gap is too wide," the legislator emailed me.

LD2283 does nothing to improve Maine's electrical power situation. In combination with the bill on Energy Corridors, it is a give away to foreign and alien corporations. As is true of every "solution" that seeks to perpetuate our current economic paradigm, it makes matters worse.

Homeland Stasi gave South Carolina an unasked for extension on the implementation of RealID. Maine got no such extension, probably because they knew Gov. Baldacci would cave. And because Maine touted its opposition so loudly, the Feds wanted to make sure Maine knuckled under. Just like the Governor caved on state police enforcing INS rules a couple of years back. Montana got an extention too - bullies don't confront people that stand up for themselves.

The average per person US Average footprint. From Northwest Earth Institutute, "Choices for Sustainable Living", p111-5.

I have been involved in alternative energy since I studied architecture at MIT in the late 70s. I'm currently working with Peace Action Maine to develop the energy segment of their 2008 program - Reclaim Maine. I write personally and in my capacity as a Director of Peace Action Maine in strong opposition to LD2255 in any form. Wordsmithing will not help.

10:30am 3/9/2008 - Many of you are newly interested in leaving a smaller footprint. Chris has learned many of the ways to do just that. He will help you to understand methods for using your little piece of heaven as a way of saving the planet.

I was driving to pick up Mom, so we could visit her 94 year old third husband. Wes was recovering at Mercy Hospital from an operation to remove a tiny bit of bone that was pinching a nerve.