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To: pompsander who wrote (761681)	4/27/2007 3:19:42 PM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Clinton Says Her Southern Twang a Virtue Apr 27 02:09 PM US/Eastern GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) - Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Rodham Clinton said Friday she sees her sometimes Southern accent as a virtue. "I think America is ready for a multilingual president," Clinton said during a campaign stop at a charter school in Greenville, S.C. The New York senator—who said she's been thinking about critics who've suggested that she tried to put on a fake Southern accent in Selma, Ala.—noted that she's split her life between Arkansas, Illinois and the East Coast. Clinton added a Southern lilt to her voice last week when addressing a civil rights group in New York City headed by the Rev. Al Sharpton. On Monday, dealing with a microphone glitch at a fundraiser for young donors, she quoted former slave and underground railroad leader Harriet Tubman. The two episodes prompted some ribbing in the media and hatched more than a few humorous YouTube video clips. Clinton is a linguistic polyglot—a Chicago native turned New York resident who works in Washington and spent two decades living in Arkansas when her husband, Bill Clinton, was governor. But observers have long noted her tendency to speak Southern primarily in front of black audiences, as she did with Sharpton last week and at a civil rights commemoration in Selma in March. All the Democrats are vying for the support of black voters—a crucial constituency especially in the early voting state of South Carolina. In 2004, black voters comprised nearly 50 percent of the state's Democratic primary turnout.

To: pompsander who wrote (761681)	4/27/2007 3:48:26 PM
From: Hope Praytochange	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

The March Of The New Luddites By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY \| Posted Tuesday, April 24, 2007 4:20 PM PT Environmentalism: So global-warming alarmists now want to limit our use of toilet paper. What's next, one-room shacks with bamboo fences? Don't laugh. That's also on their list of recommendations. Singer Sheryl Crow says she's spent most of her save-the-planet tour of campuses "trying to come up with easy ways for us all to become a part of the solution to global warming." Eureka! She's found a really practical idea. "I propose a limitation be put on how many squares of toilet paper can be used in any one sitting," Crow said. Singer Sheryl Crow, right, with save-the-planet tour mate Laurie David. Seriously, she advises cutting back on TP to "one square per restroom visit — except, of course, on those pesky occasions where two to three could be required." Square by square, roll by roll, we will solve this crisis! Crow also thinks paper napkins "represent the height of wastefulness," so she's designed a clothing line that includes a detachable "dining sleeve" for wiping your mouth. If only the greenhouse gasbags put such energy into creating new technology. Meanwhile, Time magazine just published a prescription for "surviving global warming." It listed 51 things we can do, including: • Building bamboo fences. • Using clotheslines instead of dryers. • Turning thermostats to 82.4 degrees in the summer. • Making only right turns to save idling in left-turn bays. • Taking fewer trips on "carbon-spewing" jetliners. • Wearing clothes from the thrift store. • Raking instead of blowing leaves. • Bringing your own cup to Starbucks. • Bringing a cloth bag to the check-out to tote your groceries. • Collecting rainwater. • Living in a 100-square-foot shack. We kid you not. This is all penance for our "carbon sins." Time gushed over one greenhouse gasbag from Northern California who felt so "guilty about the size of his residential carbon footprint" that he squeezed himself into a 100-square-foot hobbit hole. Jay Shafer thinks we consume too much energy in our "McMansions," so he'd like you to join him. Not in his hobbit hole, of course (he admits he can hardly find room for his clothes), but one he'll design for you. The former art professor (what a surprise) runs Tumbleweed Tiny House. Meanwhile, Al Gore dreams of a "carbon-free economy" where we're all riding bicycles to the windmill factory. As part of his "Global Marshall Plan" to save the Earth, he proposes "completely eliminating the internal combustion engine." Swell. This is the atavistic world in which the New Luddites want use to live — in lieu of the supposedly apocalyptic one they predict we'll have to live in if we don't head off global warming with their extreme steps. But the New Luddites want to roll back progress, industry and technology to prevent a world even their gloomiest forecasts show would not spell catastrophe for North America. In many ways, prolonged global warming would be a boon. We'd enjoy longer growing seasons and healthier forests. Meanwhile, we'd benefit from new transportation routes that would open up in the polar regions. Which world is worse? Theirs looks a lot like those we see on National Geographic — of Amazon rainforest tribes. Sure, they have no carbon footprint. They also have no shoes. Today's Luddites want to turn the clock back hundreds of years. Instead of textile looms, they want to smash clothes dryers.