Hot & Now - Really, Now, I mean it.

Okay, so for a while there it looked like my grand plans to start posting exciting hot off the press opportunities to be your very own progressive patriot were all part of an oafish scheme to commemorate Scott Mclellan's departure as White House Spokeperson by having this post become "inoperative."

Well, think again you darned cynic you. Here's your creme-filled, chocolate frosting activism. And thanks Lance for explaining the mishap with BlueNC, and not dropping a boatload of smackdown on me for not acting sooner.

Help Mother Earth, God's Creation or those natural areas that hide what you do when you don't want your mother or God watching:

NC Conservation Network: Quick, run little children, go help lobby for Clean Water - tomorrow. Sorry, that's piss poor, NC Conservation Network was on this a while back, and I should have moved a lot quicker. But I'll make it up to nature, because one way or the other, nature is going to even things up for us.

Why should you care about water, well, for one thing, not having enough clean public water supply is going to decimate our planet's supply of plastic. And I don't think I need to point out that there are some pretty bad side-effects to using up your plastic. And not just making that line in The Graduate seem even more dated. Where, pray tell, do you think most bottles end up. (Hint, Tony Soprano gets his health insurance from the proprieter.)

In addition to promoting clean pulbic water, you also should help promote safe well-water. As someone who deals with low-income housing issues, I can say from experience, this is a major health and financial issue for North Carolina's rural poor.

We also need smart energy . That's why Brian Busby's NC Conservation Network's executive director, says we need:

* Greater investment in renewable and efficient sources of energy.
* Encouragement of alternative fuels and hybrid vehicles with tax exemptions and credits.
* A commitment to using state-of-the-art energy efficiency techniques before building costly and polluting new power plants.
* More funding for education and other programs that help North Carolinians make smart energy choices.

So, donate your ducats over to NC Conservation Newtork. Or take action, and push for North Carolina to provide incentives for energy efficiency.

Because, we've tried plenty of Dumb Energy here in the Bush-Cheney era, we need Smart Energy.

Also, check out Bike-to-Work week, see if there's a Starbucks near you offering free lattes for skipping the caily grind of traffic. The weather's nice, you're nice, you both should be together more.


More action coming to you soon. But I've got to roll some dough to put the sign back on.

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Hmm, wonder if the Journal's reporters read the N&O?

Not shortly before she claimed here that she didn't think in partisan terms, Virginia said this.

"It is a travesty that North Carolina is controlled by the Democrats," said U.S. Rep. Virginia Foxx, a Republican from Banner Elk, at a breakfast Saturday at the N.C. Conservative Leadership Conference.

Well, gosh, all of us folks who criticized her for using taxpayer funds to bring a little corner of the GOP echo chamber down here to Winston-Salem, guess we missed the boat there.

The Right-wing Congress delegation from North Carolina - re-defining the term Bush League every day.

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Vernon Robinson, please! (NOT) Lead US the WAY

I've given it a great deal of thought, perhaps at least 15-20 minutes. And I have come to a conclusion the logic of which is flawless. No matter the multitude of ins-and-outs I see before me, there is one irrevocable conviction I now hold.

It is Vernon Robinson who must not lead us, because it is HE who has shown by his powerful of not leading how we can rid ourselves of the tyranny of government. Vernon is the the principaled siren call of a generation asking for all governing to cease. And thus, Vernon Robinson is the future.

Vernon. The Future.

He is no product of the temperal- that mealy-mouthed, poll-tested candidate of today. Vernon is eternal and never-changing. Some candidates spend their entire careers flip-flopping, prevaricating and vacillating. Not Vernon. The man is a rock. In fact, that wasn't a 1-ton granite monument to the 10 commandments Vernon put in front of the Winston-Salem City Hall in the middle of the night a few yea, that was Vernon himself. (Care to guess where the Don't Covet commandment was written?).

Vernon has not only not wavered in the way he views the world, he's never wavered in the way he sees the opponents he faces. No matter who that opponent is and what seat is being sought.

From Republican primary opponent to non-partisan city counsel representative to democratic incumbent; from Superintendent of Public Schools to Ward Representative to Congress Member, Vernon always sees a "gay-loving, tax-and-spending, gun-hating, god-descrating liberal."

Some say Vernon is a hater, I say no. Vernon doesn't hate. He sees the common in all of us. Admittedly, Vernon sees that common man as a slimy liberal, baby-killing pagan, but nonetheless, he sees a unified America of slimly, liberal, baby-killing pagans. For Vernon, there is no black, no white, no male, no female.

Just immigrant loving commies.

Sure, he's a bit of a utopian, but it's just Vernon's way of saying, "Some see the world as it is, and ask 'why?' I see the world as it never was, and ask "why don't I run a campaign attacking the things that never were and the people who have never been."

I will admit, occasionally Vernon's campaign tactics can illicit fear and mistrust. For instance - in 2004, when he compared Republican state representative Virginia Foxx's voting record to that of NY Senator Hillary Clinton, I was terrified.

First I thought,

I know Majority Leader Dr. Bill Frist is terrible at running the Senate, but I HAD NO IDEA that he was bringing up legislation meant for the North Carolina State House....

Why, I can imagine Minority Leader Tom Daschle saying 'Umm, Point of Order, would the majority leader care to explain why we're voting on a local bill from Cawtawba County? In fact, where the heck is Catawba County. And what's this next bill about allowing Lottery Advertisements in Smart Start textbooks?

Then, even more terrifed, I thought,

Oh my god!

They actually let Virginia Foxx serve in Washington!!!

Winston-Salem and North Carolina will be a laughing stock!

But then I realized, once you ignore that one wants to create sustainable energy alternatives and the other wants to park an oil rig in the shallow water of the coast of Cape Hatteras, that one wants to privatize social security and the other wants universal health care, MY GOD, IT'S ALMOST LIKE YOU ARE SEEING DOUBLE!!!!!!

Nobody ever gives Vernon credit for being the prophet he truly is.

Well, there are those out-of-state contributors feting him on his marry way as he goes from one campaign to the next. (Vernon, there is a 6th grade Class Secretary race that needs your voice and message badly, call me.)

Still, Vernon must face the taunts from folks regarding his penchant for spending so much money on so few votes. They don't understand that it is the true heir to Jesse Helms that can spend $1000s of other people's money per vote and remain fiscally conservative. Because his critics don't consider that Vernon could attempt to run a campaign that spent money on winning enough votes to actually be elected to office - but that would be pure liberal excess.

Some, so-called "conservatives act as though they are anti-government. But it is next to the shining example of Vernon Robinson that their weak, pro-government inadequacies come in stark contrast. Vernon is the true anti-government candidate - he refuses to be electable, and by doing so refuses to govern.

Even when Vernon was elected to the Winston-Salem City Council, as part of a liberal plot to force Vernon to govern, Vernon was one step faster. He fooled them by meticulously avoiding his so-called obligations as a public servant. They scheduled City Council meetings, hoping to foil his non-governing plans. But Vernon, like James Bond escapes their overly-intricate plot for world-domination.

No, no amount of liberal deviousness will force Vernon to govern, instead he will hold press conferences and explicate to the masses just how un-governing his actions are, he will raise funds promising to sing the virtues of not governing to Americans from sea-to-shining-sea. Vernon, my friends is the future. In a world populated by Vernons, us slimy, baby-killing liberals will learn how not to govern, by first learning how not to win elections (Vernon is a God at not winning, he's not won 7 times! George Bush tried to lose in 2000, but failed, and Vernon thus thinks little of George Bush's non-governing ability. Though he agrees, Iraq is a much better effort.)

Ultimately through Vernon's (lack of) guidance, we will remove the shackles of government itself so that we may all be free to be the slimy, baby-killing liberals we yearn to be!

Well, at least after we send the black-booted thugs to break down the doors of all people with hispanic surnames, load them flown to an undisclosed location in expensive apache helicopters, each one flown by Vernon himself - the man is Sir to you, you slimly liberal baby-killer.

Anybody know a good Mariachi band, Vernon's got a fundraiser to do. No North Carolina Donors necesary.

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