Last night I was part of a conference call/town hall meeting event with Repower America which included remarks by it's Chariman, former Vice President Al Gore.

Al Gore's name being added to a new environmental school in LA is an irony, but not the way rightwing bloggers are spinning it. It actually comes right back on them.

Hateful atmosphere in the blogosphere concerning Al Gore. I think we need to look a lot deeper than James Jay Lee to see the source of it on all sides.

Al Gore was correct when he stated we needed a climate movement in this country. And after watching what took place in Washington DC yesterday, I am convinced we need it now more than ever.

In a post on his blog yesterday, Al Gore called for climate protests in America in response to the betrayal by our Congress in doing its moral duty to address the climate crisis. This is no small news, (though it will be treated as such in our media) this is a clarion call to begin a social movement to reclaim our soul as a nation and our moral conscience as a species make no mistake about that.

Last night I was part of a conference call/town hall meeting event with Repower America which included remarks by it's Chariman, former Vice President Al Gore.

Reading this article about an appearance he made in Mexico this past week to discuss climate change you get the distinct impression the media there is just so disappointed they didn't get to be a part of his entire discussion because they just care so much about climate change. Hogwash.

Al Gore has been cleared of any wrongdoing in the allegations brought against him. And you could hear a pin drop in the halls of rumor and innuendo...

Recent events have given Al Gore's detractors a chance to declare open season on not only his reputation but the very science behind global warming. I think they are all in for a rude awakening on both counts.

Al Gore's media venture, Current, is said to be coming to a crossroads. I say, it's worth going down that road to save.

As I'm sure those who may be reading this now know, new accusations years old have surfaced in the latest attempt to shut up Al Gore. And I say that because it looks so obvious based on the timing, and because of the response it is getting from the usual suspects who always froth at the mouth just at the mention of his name.

Nobel Peace Prize recipient and former Vice President of the United States Al Gore has a new book out entitled, Our Choice: A Plan To Solve The Climate Crisis. In reading this book however, it became more to me than just a plan to solve the climate crisis. It is a book to solve the human crisis.

I usually do not comment on Mr. Gore's personal life, but in this case I feel I have to make a comment based on the fact that I have supported him for many years and have followed his work and essentially his life in those years and am repulsed by the continuing media assault on him and now his family.

So as a supporter of him and his work, I'm going to now be honest about my feelings regarding his involvement with Hollywood types who in my eyes are no different than Washington DC soul suckers and the media who is their willing accomplice:

How easy it is to throw stones at others and blithely ignore our own shortcomings.

It is easy when you are Ari Fleischer and you said anything that was on the Bush-Cheney menu for the day.  As Fleischer and other neocon allies point fingers at Obama and proclaim that his weaknesses caused the current Iran election vote scandal to materialize, it is necessary to see where the Republican right has stood on democratic electioneering.

This is the same Ari Fleischer who was laughed off his own podium and out of the White House press room after steadfastly declaring that the Bush-Cheney administration did not make decisions based on politics.

A subject that is too tragic to laugh off is how Democrats actually won the last five presidential elections but were not given official credit for two victories.  Fraud coupled with political opportunism robbed Democrats of legitimate victories in 2000 and 2004.

Al Gore gave us a momentous challenge this past Thursday by calling upon us to have the same spirit that birthed this nation to address the climate crisis and make no mistake about it, this is just as much an issue of Democracy as it is an economic, environmental, or national security issue.