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A Generational Challenge To Repower America
Here follows Al Gore's speech in its entirety. It's long. Suck it up. This is important.
This speech was given today at the D.A.R. Constitutional Hall
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TEXT VERSION
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Ladies and gentlemen:
There are times in the history of our nation when our very way of life depends upon dispelling illusions and awakening to the challenge of a present danger. In such moments, we are called upon to move quickly and boldly to shake off complacency, throw aside old habits and rise, clear-eyed and alert, to the necessity of big changes. Those who, for whatever reason, refuse to do their part must either be persuaded to join the effort or asked to step aside. This is such a moment. The survival of the United States of America as we know it is at risk. And even more -- if more should be required -- the future of human civilization is at stake.
I don't remember a time in our country when so many things seemed to be going so wrong simultaneously. Our economy is in terrible shape and getting worse, gasoline prices are increasing dramatically, and so are electricity rates. Jobs are being outsourced. Home mortgages are in trouble. Banks, automobile companies and other institutions we depend upon are under growing pressure. Distinguished senior business leaders are telling us that this is just the beginning unless we find the courage to make some major changes quickly.
The climate crisis, in particular, is getting a lot worse -- much more quickly than predicted. Scientists with access to data from Navy submarines traversing underneath the North polar ice cap have warned that there is now a 75 percent chance that within five years the entire ice cap will completely disappear during the summer months. This will further increase the melting pressure on Greenland. According to experts, the Jakobshavn glacier, one of Greenland's largest, is moving at a faster rate than ever before, losing 20 million tons of ice every day, equivalent to the amount of water used every year by the residents of New York City.
Two major studies from military intelligence experts have warned our leaders about the dangerous national security implications of the climate crisis, including the possibility of hundreds of millions of climate refugees destabilizing nations around the world.
Just two days ago, 27 senior statesmen and retired military leaders warned of the national security threat from an "energy tsunami" that would be triggered by a loss of our access to foreign oil. Meanwhile, the war in Iraq continues, and now the war in Afghanistan appears to be getting worse.
And by the way, our weather sure is getting strange, isn't it? There seem to be more tornadoes than in living memory, longer droughts, bigger downpours and record floods. Unprecedented fires are burning in California and elsewhere in the American West. Higher temperatures lead to drier vegetation that makes kindling for mega-fires of the kind that have been raging in Canada, Greece, Russia, China, South America, Australia and Africa. Scientists in the Department of Geophysics and Planetary Science at Tel Aviv University tell us that for every one degree increase in temperature, lightning strikes will go up another 10 percent. And it is lightning, after all, that is principally responsible for igniting the conflagration in California today.
Like a lot of people, it seems to me that all these problems are bigger than any of the solutions that have thus far been proposed for them, and that's been worrying me.
I'm convinced that one reason we've seemed paralyzed in the face of these crises is our tendency to offer old solutions to each crisis separately -- without taking the others into account. And these outdated proposals have not only been ineffective - they almost always make the other crises even worse.
Yet when we look at all three of these seemingly intractable challenges at the same time, we can see the common thread running through them, deeply ironic in its simplicity: our dangerous over-reliance on carbon-based fuels is at the core of all three of these challenges -- the economic, environmental and national security crises.
We're borrowing money from China to buy oil from the Persian Gulf to burn it in ways that destroy the planet. Every bit of that's got to change.
But if we grab hold of that common thread and pull it hard, all of these complex problems begin to unravel and we will find that we're holding the answer to all of them right in our hand.
The answer is to end our reliance on carbon-based fuels.
In my search for genuinely effective answers to the climate crisis, I have held a series of "solutions summits" with engineers, scientists, and CEOs. In those discussions, one thing has become abundantly clear: when you connect the dots, it turns out that the real solutions to the climate crisis are the very same measures needed to renew our economy and escape the trap of ever-rising energy prices. Moreover, they are also the very same solutions we need to guarantee our national security without having to go to war in the Persian Gulf.
What if we could use fuels that are not expensive, don't cause pollution and are abundantly available right here at home?
We have such fuels. Scientists have confirmed that enough solar energy falls on the surface of the earth every 40 minutes to meet 100 percent of the entire world's energy needs for a full year.
Tapping just a small portion of this solar energy could provide all of the electricity America uses.
And enough wind power blows through the Midwest corridor every day to also meet 100 percent of US electricity demand. Geothermal energy, similarly, is capable of providing enormous supplies of electricity for America.
The quickest, cheapest and best way to start using all this renewable energy is in the production of electricity. In fact, we can start right now using solar power, wind power and geothermal power to make electricity for our homes and businesses.
But to make this exciting potential a reality, and truly solve our nation's problems, we need a new start.
That's why I'm proposing today a strategic initiative designed to free us from the crises that are holding us down and to regain control of our own destiny. It's not the only thing we need to do. But this strategic challenge is the lynchpin of a bold new strategy needed to re-power America.
Today I challenge our nation to commit to producing 100 percent of our electricity from renewable energy and truly clean carbon-free sources within 10 years.
This goal is achievable, affordable and transformative. It represents a challenge to all Americans -- in every walk of life: to our political leaders, entrepreneurs, innovators, engineers, and to every citizen.
A few years ago, it would not have been possible to issue such a challenge. But here's what's changed: the sharp cost reductions now beginning to take place in solar, wind, and geothermal power - coupled with the recent dramatic price increases for oil and coal -- have radically changed the economics of energy.
When I first went to Congress 32 years ago, I listened to experts testify that if oil ever got to $35 a barrel, then renewable sources of energy would become competitive. Well, today, the price of oil is over $135 per barrel. And sure enough, billions of dollars of new investment are flowing into the development of concentrated solar thermal, photovoltaics, windmills, geothermal plants, and a variety of ingenious new ways to improve our efficiency and conserve presently wasted energy.
And as the demand for renewable energy grows, the costs will continue to fall. Let me give you one revealing example: the price of the specialized silicon used to make solar cells was recently as high as $300 per kilogram. But the newest contracts have prices as low as $50 a kilogram.
You know, the same thing happened with computer chips -- also made out of silicon. The price paid for the same performance came down by 50 percent every 18 months -- year after year, and that's what's happened for 40 years in a row.
To those who argue that we do not yet have the technology to accomplish these results with renewable energy: I ask them to come with me to meet the entrepreneurs who will drive this revolution. I've seen what they are doing and I have no doubt that we can meet this challenge.
To those who say the costs are still too high: I ask them to consider whether the costs of oil and coal will ever stop increasing if we keep relying on quickly depleting energy sources to feed a rapidly growing demand all around the world. When demand for oil and coal increases, their price goes up. When demand for solar cells increases, the price often comes down.
When we send money to foreign countries to buy nearly 70 percent of the oil we use every day, they build new skyscrapers and we lose jobs. When we spend that money building solar arrays and windmills, we build competitive industries and gain jobs here at home.
Of course there are those who will tell us this can't be done. Some of the voices we hear are the defenders of the status quo -- the ones with a vested interest in perpetuating the current system, no matter how high a price the rest of us will have to pay. But even those who reap the profits of the carbon age have to recognize the inevitability of its demise. As one OPEC oil minister observed, "The Stone Age didn't end because of a shortage of stones."
To those who say 10 years is not enough time, I respectfully ask them to consider what the world's scientists are telling us about the risks we face if we don't act in 10 years. The leading experts predict that we have less than 10 years to make dramatic changes in our global warming pollution lest we lose our ability to ever recover from this environmental crisis. When the use of oil and coal goes up, pollution goes up. When the use of solar, wind and geothermal increases, pollution comes down.
To those who say the challenge is not politically viable: I suggest they go before the American people and try to defend the status quo. Then bear witness to the people's appetite for change.
I for one do not believe our country can withstand 10 more years of the status quo. Our families cannot stand 10 more years of gas price increases. Our workers cannot stand 10 more years of job losses and outsourcing of factories. Our economy cannot stand 10 more years of sending $2 billion every 24 hours to foreign countries for oil. And our soldiers and their families cannot take another 10 years of repeated troop deployments to dangerous regions that just happen to have large oil supplies.
What could we do instead for the next 10 years? What should we do during the next 10 years? Some of our greatest accomplishments as a nation have resulted from commitments to reach a goal that fell well beyond the next election: the Marshall Plan, Social Security, the interstate highway system. But a political promise to do something 40 years from now is universally ignored because everyone knows that it's meaningless. Ten years is about the maximum time that we as a nation can hold a steady aim and hit our target.
When President John F. Kennedy challenged our nation to land a man on the moon and bring him back safely in 10 years, many people doubted we could accomplish that goal. But 8 years and 2 months later, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the surface of the moon.
To be sure, reaching the goal of 100 percent renewable and truly clean electricity within 10 years will require us to overcome many obstacles. At present, for example, we do not have a unified national grid that is sufficiently advanced to link the areas where the sun shines and the wind blows to the cities in the East and the West that need the electricity. Our national electric grid is critical infrastructure, as vital to the health and security of our economy as our highways and telecommunication networks. Today, our grids are antiquated, fragile, and vulnerable to cascading failure. Power outages and defects in the current grid system cost US businesses more than $120 billion dollars a year. It has to be upgraded anyway.
We could further increase the value and efficiency of a Unified National Grid by helping our struggling auto giants switch to the manufacture of plug-in electric cars. An electric vehicle fleet would sharply reduce the cost of driving a car, reduce pollution, and increase the flexibility of our electricity grid.
At the same time, of course, we need to greatly improve our commitment to efficiency and conservation. That's the best investment we can make.
America's transition to renewable energy sources must also include adequate provisions to assist those Americans who would unfairly face hardship. For example, we must recognize those who have toiled in dangerous conditions to bring us our present energy supply. We should guarantee good jobs in the fresh air and sunshine for any coal miner displaced by impacts on the coal industry. Every single one of them.
Of course, we could and should speed up this transition by insisting that the price of carbon-based energy include the costs of the environmental damage it causes. I have long supported a sharp reduction in payroll taxes with the difference made up in CO2 taxes. We should tax what we burn, not what we earn. This is the single most important policy change we can make.
In order to foster international cooperation, it is also essential that the United States rejoin the global community and lead efforts to secure an international treaty at Copenhagen in December of next year that includes a cap on CO2 emissions and a global partnership that recognizes the necessity of addressing the threats of extreme poverty and disease as part of the world's agenda for solving the climate crisis.
Of course the greatest obstacle to meeting the challenge of 100 percent renewable electricity in 10 years may be the deep dysfunction of our politics and our self-governing system as it exists today. In recent years, our politics has tended toward incremental proposals made up of small policies designed to avoid offending special interests, alternating with occasional baby steps in the right direction. Our democracy has become sclerotic at a time when these crises require boldness.
It is only a truly dysfunctional system that would buy into the perverse logic that the short-term answer to high gasoline prices is drilling for more oil ten years from now.
Am I the only one who finds it strange that our government so often adopts a so-called solution that has absolutely nothing to do with the problem it is supposed to address? When people rightly complain about higher gasoline prices, we propose to give more money to the oil companies and pretend that they're going to bring gasoline prices down. It will do nothing of the sort, and everyone knows it. If we keep going back to the same policies that have never ever worked in the past and have served only to produce the highest gasoline prices in history alongside the greatest oil company profits in history, nobody should be surprised if we get the same result over and over again. But the Congress may be poised to move in that direction anyway because some of them are being stampeded by lobbyists for special interests that know how to make the system work for them instead of the American people.
If you want to know the truth about gasoline prices, here it is: the exploding demand for oil, especially in places like China, is overwhelming the rate of new discoveries by so much that oil prices are almost certain to continue upward over time no matter what the oil companies promise. And politicians cannot bring gasoline prices down in the short term.
However, there actually is one extremely effective way to bring the costs of driving a car way down within a few short years. The way to bring gas prices down is to end our dependence on oil and use the renewable sources that can give us the equivalent of $1 per gallon gasoline.
Many Americans have begun to wonder whether or not we've simply lost our appetite for bold policy solutions. And folks who claim to know how our system works these days have told us we might as well forget about our political system doing anything bold, especially if it is contrary to the wishes of special interests. And I've got to admit, that sure seems to be the way things have been going. But I've begun to hear different voices in this country from people who are not only tired of baby steps and special interest politics, but are hungry for a new, different and bold approach.
We are on the eve of a presidential election. We are in the midst of an international climate treaty process that will conclude its work before the end of the first year of the new president's term. It is a great error to say that the United States must wait for others to join us in this matter. In fact, we must move first, because that is the key to getting others to follow; and because moving first is in our own national interest.
So I ask you to join with me to call on every candidate, at every level, to accept this challenge -- for America to be running on 100 percent zero-carbon electricity in 10 years. It's time for us to move beyond empty rhetoric. We need to act now.
This is a generational moment. A moment when we decide our own path and our collective fate. I'm asking you - each of you - to join me and build this future. Please join the WE campaign at wecansolveit.org. We need you. And we need you now. We're committed to changing not just light bulbs, but laws. And laws will only change with leadership.
On July 16, 1969, the United States of America was finally ready to meet President Kennedy's challenge of landing Americans on the moon. I will never forget standing beside my father a few miles from the launch site, waiting for the giant Saturn 5 rocket to lift Apollo 11 into the sky. I was a young man, 21 years old, who had graduated from college a month before and was enlisting in the United States Army three weeks later.
I will never forget the inspiration of those minutes. The power and the vibration of the giant rocket's engines shook my entire body. As I watched the rocket rise, slowly at first and then with great speed, the sound was deafening. We craned our necks to follow its path until we were looking straight up into the air. And then four days later, I watched along with hundreds of millions of others around the world as Neil Armstrong took one small step to the surface of the moon and changed the history of the human race.
We must now lift our nation to reach another goal that will change history. Our entire civilization depends upon us now embarking on a new journey of exploration and discovery. Our success depends on our willingness as a people to undertake this journey and to complete it within 10 years. Once again, we have an opportunity to take a giant leap for humankind.
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By scrolling down here, you can ignore the text version up there and simply listen to Al Gore.
Please plug this to make this world a better place.
This speech was given today at the D.A.R. Constitutional Hall
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TEXT VERSION
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Ladies and gentlemen:
There are times in the history of our nation when our very way of life depends upon dispelling illusions and awakening to the challenge of a present danger. In such moments, we are called upon to move quickly and boldly to shake off complacency, throw aside old habits and rise, clear-eyed and alert, to the necessity of big changes. Those who, for whatever reason, refuse to do their part must either be persuaded to join the effort or asked to step aside. This is such a moment. The survival of the United States of America as we know it is at risk. And even more -- if more should be required -- the future of human civilization is at stake.
I don't remember a time in our country when so many things seemed to be going so wrong simultaneously. Our economy is in terrible shape and getting worse, gasoline prices are increasing dramatically, and so are electricity rates. Jobs are being outsourced. Home mortgages are in trouble. Banks, automobile companies and other institutions we depend upon are under growing pressure. Distinguished senior business leaders are telling us that this is just the beginning unless we find the courage to make some major changes quickly.
The climate crisis, in particular, is getting a lot worse -- much more quickly than predicted. Scientists with access to data from Navy submarines traversing underneath the North polar ice cap have warned that there is now a 75 percent chance that within five years the entire ice cap will completely disappear during the summer months. This will further increase the melting pressure on Greenland. According to experts, the Jakobshavn glacier, one of Greenland's largest, is moving at a faster rate than ever before, losing 20 million tons of ice every day, equivalent to the amount of water used every year by the residents of New York City.
Two major studies from military intelligence experts have warned our leaders about the dangerous national security implications of the climate crisis, including the possibility of hundreds of millions of climate refugees destabilizing nations around the world.
Just two days ago, 27 senior statesmen and retired military leaders warned of the national security threat from an "energy tsunami" that would be triggered by a loss of our access to foreign oil. Meanwhile, the war in Iraq continues, and now the war in Afghanistan appears to be getting worse.
And by the way, our weather sure is getting strange, isn't it? There seem to be more tornadoes than in living memory, longer droughts, bigger downpours and record floods. Unprecedented fires are burning in California and elsewhere in the American West. Higher temperatures lead to drier vegetation that makes kindling for mega-fires of the kind that have been raging in Canada, Greece, Russia, China, South America, Australia and Africa. Scientists in the Department of Geophysics and Planetary Science at Tel Aviv University tell us that for every one degree increase in temperature, lightning strikes will go up another 10 percent. And it is lightning, after all, that is principally responsible for igniting the conflagration in California today.
Like a lot of people, it seems to me that all these problems are bigger than any of the solutions that have thus far been proposed for them, and that's been worrying me.
I'm convinced that one reason we've seemed paralyzed in the face of these crises is our tendency to offer old solutions to each crisis separately -- without taking the others into account. And these outdated proposals have not only been ineffective - they almost always make the other crises even worse.
Yet when we look at all three of these seemingly intractable challenges at the same time, we can see the common thread running through them, deeply ironic in its simplicity: our dangerous over-reliance on carbon-based fuels is at the core of all three of these challenges -- the economic, environmental and national security crises.
We're borrowing money from China to buy oil from the Persian Gulf to burn it in ways that destroy the planet. Every bit of that's got to change.
But if we grab hold of that common thread and pull it hard, all of these complex problems begin to unravel and we will find that we're holding the answer to all of them right in our hand.
The answer is to end our reliance on carbon-based fuels.
In my search for genuinely effective answers to the climate crisis, I have held a series of "solutions summits" with engineers, scientists, and CEOs. In those discussions, one thing has become abundantly clear: when you connect the dots, it turns out that the real solutions to the climate crisis are the very same measures needed to renew our economy and escape the trap of ever-rising energy prices. Moreover, they are also the very same solutions we need to guarantee our national security without having to go to war in the Persian Gulf.
What if we could use fuels that are not expensive, don't cause pollution and are abundantly available right here at home?
We have such fuels. Scientists have confirmed that enough solar energy falls on the surface of the earth every 40 minutes to meet 100 percent of the entire world's energy needs for a full year.
Tapping just a small portion of this solar energy could provide all of the electricity America uses.
And enough wind power blows through the Midwest corridor every day to also meet 100 percent of US electricity demand. Geothermal energy, similarly, is capable of providing enormous supplies of electricity for America.
The quickest, cheapest and best way to start using all this renewable energy is in the production of electricity. In fact, we can start right now using solar power, wind power and geothermal power to make electricity for our homes and businesses.
But to make this exciting potential a reality, and truly solve our nation's problems, we need a new start.
That's why I'm proposing today a strategic initiative designed to free us from the crises that are holding us down and to regain control of our own destiny. It's not the only thing we need to do. But this strategic challenge is the lynchpin of a bold new strategy needed to re-power America.
Today I challenge our nation to commit to producing 100 percent of our electricity from renewable energy and truly clean carbon-free sources within 10 years.
This goal is achievable, affordable and transformative. It represents a challenge to all Americans -- in every walk of life: to our political leaders, entrepreneurs, innovators, engineers, and to every citizen.
A few years ago, it would not have been possible to issue such a challenge. But here's what's changed: the sharp cost reductions now beginning to take place in solar, wind, and geothermal power - coupled with the recent dramatic price increases for oil and coal -- have radically changed the economics of energy.
When I first went to Congress 32 years ago, I listened to experts testify that if oil ever got to $35 a barrel, then renewable sources of energy would become competitive. Well, today, the price of oil is over $135 per barrel. And sure enough, billions of dollars of new investment are flowing into the development of concentrated solar thermal, photovoltaics, windmills, geothermal plants, and a variety of ingenious new ways to improve our efficiency and conserve presently wasted energy.
And as the demand for renewable energy grows, the costs will continue to fall. Let me give you one revealing example: the price of the specialized silicon used to make solar cells was recently as high as $300 per kilogram. But the newest contracts have prices as low as $50 a kilogram.
You know, the same thing happened with computer chips -- also made out of silicon. The price paid for the same performance came down by 50 percent every 18 months -- year after year, and that's what's happened for 40 years in a row.
To those who argue that we do not yet have the technology to accomplish these results with renewable energy: I ask them to come with me to meet the entrepreneurs who will drive this revolution. I've seen what they are doing and I have no doubt that we can meet this challenge.
To those who say the costs are still too high: I ask them to consider whether the costs of oil and coal will ever stop increasing if we keep relying on quickly depleting energy sources to feed a rapidly growing demand all around the world. When demand for oil and coal increases, their price goes up. When demand for solar cells increases, the price often comes down.
When we send money to foreign countries to buy nearly 70 percent of the oil we use every day, they build new skyscrapers and we lose jobs. When we spend that money building solar arrays and windmills, we build competitive industries and gain jobs here at home.
Of course there are those who will tell us this can't be done. Some of the voices we hear are the defenders of the status quo -- the ones with a vested interest in perpetuating the current system, no matter how high a price the rest of us will have to pay. But even those who reap the profits of the carbon age have to recognize the inevitability of its demise. As one OPEC oil minister observed, "The Stone Age didn't end because of a shortage of stones."
To those who say 10 years is not enough time, I respectfully ask them to consider what the world's scientists are telling us about the risks we face if we don't act in 10 years. The leading experts predict that we have less than 10 years to make dramatic changes in our global warming pollution lest we lose our ability to ever recover from this environmental crisis. When the use of oil and coal goes up, pollution goes up. When the use of solar, wind and geothermal increases, pollution comes down.
To those who say the challenge is not politically viable: I suggest they go before the American people and try to defend the status quo. Then bear witness to the people's appetite for change.
I for one do not believe our country can withstand 10 more years of the status quo. Our families cannot stand 10 more years of gas price increases. Our workers cannot stand 10 more years of job losses and outsourcing of factories. Our economy cannot stand 10 more years of sending $2 billion every 24 hours to foreign countries for oil. And our soldiers and their families cannot take another 10 years of repeated troop deployments to dangerous regions that just happen to have large oil supplies.
What could we do instead for the next 10 years? What should we do during the next 10 years? Some of our greatest accomplishments as a nation have resulted from commitments to reach a goal that fell well beyond the next election: the Marshall Plan, Social Security, the interstate highway system. But a political promise to do something 40 years from now is universally ignored because everyone knows that it's meaningless. Ten years is about the maximum time that we as a nation can hold a steady aim and hit our target.
When President John F. Kennedy challenged our nation to land a man on the moon and bring him back safely in 10 years, many people doubted we could accomplish that goal. But 8 years and 2 months later, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the surface of the moon.
To be sure, reaching the goal of 100 percent renewable and truly clean electricity within 10 years will require us to overcome many obstacles. At present, for example, we do not have a unified national grid that is sufficiently advanced to link the areas where the sun shines and the wind blows to the cities in the East and the West that need the electricity. Our national electric grid is critical infrastructure, as vital to the health and security of our economy as our highways and telecommunication networks. Today, our grids are antiquated, fragile, and vulnerable to cascading failure. Power outages and defects in the current grid system cost US businesses more than $120 billion dollars a year. It has to be upgraded anyway.
We could further increase the value and efficiency of a Unified National Grid by helping our struggling auto giants switch to the manufacture of plug-in electric cars. An electric vehicle fleet would sharply reduce the cost of driving a car, reduce pollution, and increase the flexibility of our electricity grid.
At the same time, of course, we need to greatly improve our commitment to efficiency and conservation. That's the best investment we can make.
America's transition to renewable energy sources must also include adequate provisions to assist those Americans who would unfairly face hardship. For example, we must recognize those who have toiled in dangerous conditions to bring us our present energy supply. We should guarantee good jobs in the fresh air and sunshine for any coal miner displaced by impacts on the coal industry. Every single one of them.
Of course, we could and should speed up this transition by insisting that the price of carbon-based energy include the costs of the environmental damage it causes. I have long supported a sharp reduction in payroll taxes with the difference made up in CO2 taxes. We should tax what we burn, not what we earn. This is the single most important policy change we can make.
In order to foster international cooperation, it is also essential that the United States rejoin the global community and lead efforts to secure an international treaty at Copenhagen in December of next year that includes a cap on CO2 emissions and a global partnership that recognizes the necessity of addressing the threats of extreme poverty and disease as part of the world's agenda for solving the climate crisis.
Of course the greatest obstacle to meeting the challenge of 100 percent renewable electricity in 10 years may be the deep dysfunction of our politics and our self-governing system as it exists today. In recent years, our politics has tended toward incremental proposals made up of small policies designed to avoid offending special interests, alternating with occasional baby steps in the right direction. Our democracy has become sclerotic at a time when these crises require boldness.
It is only a truly dysfunctional system that would buy into the perverse logic that the short-term answer to high gasoline prices is drilling for more oil ten years from now.
Am I the only one who finds it strange that our government so often adopts a so-called solution that has absolutely nothing to do with the problem it is supposed to address? When people rightly complain about higher gasoline prices, we propose to give more money to the oil companies and pretend that they're going to bring gasoline prices down. It will do nothing of the sort, and everyone knows it. If we keep going back to the same policies that have never ever worked in the past and have served only to produce the highest gasoline prices in history alongside the greatest oil company profits in history, nobody should be surprised if we get the same result over and over again. But the Congress may be poised to move in that direction anyway because some of them are being stampeded by lobbyists for special interests that know how to make the system work for them instead of the American people.
If you want to know the truth about gasoline prices, here it is: the exploding demand for oil, especially in places like China, is overwhelming the rate of new discoveries by so much that oil prices are almost certain to continue upward over time no matter what the oil companies promise. And politicians cannot bring gasoline prices down in the short term.
However, there actually is one extremely effective way to bring the costs of driving a car way down within a few short years. The way to bring gas prices down is to end our dependence on oil and use the renewable sources that can give us the equivalent of $1 per gallon gasoline.
Many Americans have begun to wonder whether or not we've simply lost our appetite for bold policy solutions. And folks who claim to know how our system works these days have told us we might as well forget about our political system doing anything bold, especially if it is contrary to the wishes of special interests. And I've got to admit, that sure seems to be the way things have been going. But I've begun to hear different voices in this country from people who are not only tired of baby steps and special interest politics, but are hungry for a new, different and bold approach.
We are on the eve of a presidential election. We are in the midst of an international climate treaty process that will conclude its work before the end of the first year of the new president's term. It is a great error to say that the United States must wait for others to join us in this matter. In fact, we must move first, because that is the key to getting others to follow; and because moving first is in our own national interest.
So I ask you to join with me to call on every candidate, at every level, to accept this challenge -- for America to be running on 100 percent zero-carbon electricity in 10 years. It's time for us to move beyond empty rhetoric. We need to act now.
This is a generational moment. A moment when we decide our own path and our collective fate. I'm asking you - each of you - to join me and build this future. Please join the WE campaign at wecansolveit.org. We need you. And we need you now. We're committed to changing not just light bulbs, but laws. And laws will only change with leadership.
On July 16, 1969, the United States of America was finally ready to meet President Kennedy's challenge of landing Americans on the moon. I will never forget standing beside my father a few miles from the launch site, waiting for the giant Saturn 5 rocket to lift Apollo 11 into the sky. I was a young man, 21 years old, who had graduated from college a month before and was enlisting in the United States Army three weeks later.
I will never forget the inspiration of those minutes. The power and the vibration of the giant rocket's engines shook my entire body. As I watched the rocket rise, slowly at first and then with great speed, the sound was deafening. We craned our necks to follow its path until we were looking straight up into the air. And then four days later, I watched along with hundreds of millions of others around the world as Neil Armstrong took one small step to the surface of the moon and changed the history of the human race.
We must now lift our nation to reach another goal that will change history. Our entire civilization depends upon us now embarking on a new journey of exploration and discovery. Our success depends on our willingness as a people to undertake this journey and to complete it within 10 years. Once again, we have an opportunity to take a giant leap for humankind.
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I was at Gavin's place on saturday and lulu was browsing some webbies.. i found these particularly interesting.
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The Buffalo Theory
In one episode of 'Cheers', Cliff is seated at the bar describing the Buffalo Theory to his buddy, Norm. I don't think I've ever heard the concept explained any better than this.
'Well you see, Norm, it's like this . . . A herd of buffalo can only move as fast as the slowest buffalo. And when the heard is hunted, it is the lowest and weakest ones at the back that are killed first. This natural selection is good for the herd as a whole, because the general speed and health of the whole group keeps improving by the regular killing of the weakest members.
In much the same way, the human brain can only operate as fast as the slowest brain cells. Now, as we know, excessive intake of alcohol kills brain cells. But naturally, it attacks the slowest and weakest brain cells first. In this way, regular consumption of beer eliminates the weaker brain cells, making the brain a faster and more efficient machine.
And that, Norm, is why you always feel smarter after a few beers.'
'Well you see, Norm, it's like this . . . A herd of buffalo can only move as fast as the slowest buffalo. And when the heard is hunted, it is the lowest and weakest ones at the back that are killed first. This natural selection is good for the herd as a whole, because the general speed and health of the whole group keeps improving by the regular killing of the weakest members.
In much the same way, the human brain can only operate as fast as the slowest brain cells. Now, as we know, excessive intake of alcohol kills brain cells. But naturally, it attacks the slowest and weakest brain cells first. In this way, regular consumption of beer eliminates the weaker brain cells, making the brain a faster and more efficient machine.
And that, Norm, is why you always feel smarter after a few beers.'
Wot is Love
Wat is True Love?.
Are you having some feelings towards somebody special?
I found the below on the net...
Now, if love is painful, and tortures us so, why do we love?
Coz we fan jian rite.. no la.... Why is it all we search for in life? This pain, this agony? Why is it all we long for? This torture, this death of self? Why?
The answer is so simple because it's...LOVE.
It is such an addictive emotion/feeling that people who dun have it, longs or pines or wishes to experience it pronto.
"The greatest weakness of humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they are still alive"
Are you having some feelings towards somebody special?
I found the below on the net...
* Are your palms sweaty, is your heart racing and is your voice caught within your chest?
-It isn't love, it's LIKE.
* You can't keep your eyes or hands off of her, am I right?
-It isn't love, it’s LUST.
* Are you proud, and eager to show her off??
-It isn't love, it’s LUCK.
* Do you want her because you know she's there??
-It isn't love, it’s LONELINESS.
* Are you with her because it’s what everyone wants??
-It isn't love, it’s LOYALTY.
* Are you with her because she kissed you, or held your hand?
-It isn't love, its LOW CONFIDENCE.
* Do you stay for her confessions of love, because you don't want to hurt her?
-It isn't love, it’s PITY.
* Do you belong to her because the sight of her makes your heart skip a beat??
-It isn't love, it’s INFATUATION.
* Do you pardon her faults because you care about her?
-It isn't love, it’s FRIENDSHIP.
* Do you tell her every day she is the only one you think of?
-It isn't love, it’s a LIE.
* Are you willing to give up all of your favorite things for her sake?
-It isn't love, it’s CHARITY.
* Does your heart ache and breaks when she's sad?
-Then it's LOVE.
* Do you cry for her pain, even when she's strong?
-Then it's LOVE.
* Do her eyes see your true heart, and touch your soul so deeply it hurts?
-Then it's LOVE.
* Do you stay because a blinding, incomprehensible mix of pain and relation pulls you close and holds you to her?
-Then it's LOVE.
* Do you accept all her faults because it's a part of who she is?
-Then it's LOVE.
* Are you attracted to others, but yet choose to stay with her faithfully without regret??
-Then it's LOVE.
* Would you give her your heart, your limbs and even your life??
-Then it's LOVE.
Now, if love is painful, and tortures us so, why do we love?
Coz we fan jian rite.. no la.... Why is it all we search for in life? This pain, this agony? Why is it all we long for? This torture, this death of self? Why?
The answer is so simple because it's...LOVE.
It is such an addictive emotion/feeling that people who dun have it, longs or pines or wishes to experience it pronto.
"The greatest weakness of humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they are still alive"
July 17, 2008
Osama bin Laden Audition Tape
This is a hilarious audition tape of someone impersonating Richard Dreyfuss, Robin Williams, Peter Falk, and Al Pacino (Scarface) who are all then impersonating Osama bin Laden.
Absolute Randomity
Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe?'
Expediency asks the question, 'Is it politic?'
And Vanity comes along and asks the question, 'Is it popular?'
But Conscience asks the question 'Is it right?'
And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular,
but he must do it because Conscience tells him it is right.
~Martin Luther King~
Expediency asks the question, 'Is it politic?'
And Vanity comes along and asks the question, 'Is it popular?'
But Conscience asks the question 'Is it right?'
And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular,
but he must do it because Conscience tells him it is right.
~Martin Luther King~
Grow Old with You
Last nite after watching HellboyII and popping into a Japan fair.... a mishmash of other stuff
I walked to the taxi stand and waited for a cab. Behind me stood an elderly couple tink btw 50 to 60s, the lady was elegant and the old man was old and gentlemanly.
He insisted on carrying the shopping even though he was visibly frail and all. i was tinking wah lau, jin loving lorrr....(Reminded me of the song Grow Old with me by Adam Sadler)
Then my fren told me to help them with their stuff.. i was like.. why was i tinking about alot other stuff b4 even tinkin of helping them.. so i went heck.. Excuse me, can i help u with your stuff ?b4 they tink this fat guy is trying to make a run with their shopping....
They smiled and obliged me.
I carried their stuff all the way from the end of the queue till the start. I decided to let them go first so that i could help them load up on the cab. at first i was quite hesitant as i dunno if my fren needs to go home urgently or wot.. but i was tinkin heck lah...
I offered them my cab. and they obliged again. =)
i felt happy not bcoz i did a good deed. but becoz i manage to see a such loving couple which actually showcases the lyrics.
Hahahah.. i know dumb me.
Love; wot makes it last ?
Lyrics of Song
Billy idol (speaking): good afternoon everyone. we’re flying at 26,000 feet,
Moving
Up to thirty thousand feet, and then we’ve got clear skies
All the way to las vegas, and right now we’re bringin you some in-flight
Entertainment. one of our first-class passengers would like to sing you a song
Inspired by one of our coach passenger, and since we let our first-class
Passengers do pretty much whatever they want, here he is.
Robbie hart (singing):
I wanna make you smile whenever you’re sad
Carry you around when your arthritis is bad
All I wanna do is grow old with you
I’ll get your medicine when your tummy aches
Build you a fire if the furnace breaks
Oh it could be so nice, growing old with you
I’ll miss you
I’ll kiss you
Give you my coat when you are cold
I’ll need you
I’ll feed you
Even let ya hold the remote control
So let me do the dishes in our kitchen sink
Put you to bed if you’ve had too much to drink
I could be the man who grows old with you
I wanna grow old with you.
I walked to the taxi stand and waited for a cab. Behind me stood an elderly couple tink btw 50 to 60s, the lady was elegant and the old man was old and gentlemanly.
He insisted on carrying the shopping even though he was visibly frail and all. i was tinking wah lau, jin loving lorrr....(Reminded me of the song Grow Old with me by Adam Sadler)
Then my fren told me to help them with their stuff.. i was like.. why was i tinking about alot other stuff b4 even tinkin of helping them.. so i went heck.. Excuse me, can i help u with your stuff ?b4 they tink this fat guy is trying to make a run with their shopping....
They smiled and obliged me.
I carried their stuff all the way from the end of the queue till the start. I decided to let them go first so that i could help them load up on the cab. at first i was quite hesitant as i dunno if my fren needs to go home urgently or wot.. but i was tinkin heck lah...
I offered them my cab. and they obliged again. =)
i felt happy not bcoz i did a good deed. but becoz i manage to see a such loving couple which actually showcases the lyrics.
Hahahah.. i know dumb me.
Love; wot makes it last ?
Lyrics of Song
Billy idol (speaking): good afternoon everyone. we’re flying at 26,000 feet,
Moving
Up to thirty thousand feet, and then we’ve got clear skies
All the way to las vegas, and right now we’re bringin you some in-flight
Entertainment. one of our first-class passengers would like to sing you a song
Inspired by one of our coach passenger, and since we let our first-class
Passengers do pretty much whatever they want, here he is.
Robbie hart (singing):
I wanna make you smile whenever you’re sad
Carry you around when your arthritis is bad
All I wanna do is grow old with you
I’ll get your medicine when your tummy aches
Build you a fire if the furnace breaks
Oh it could be so nice, growing old with you
I’ll miss you
I’ll kiss you
Give you my coat when you are cold
I’ll need you
I’ll feed you
Even let ya hold the remote control
So let me do the dishes in our kitchen sink
Put you to bed if you’ve had too much to drink
I could be the man who grows old with you
I wanna grow old with you.
Cant Smile Without You
This song was haunting me thru out last night.
There was this particular scene in Hellboy2 when Red and Blue both has some relationship problems and started to listen to "The Greatest Love Songs Forever".. And of coz it has to be a barry manilow..
It was particularly haunting for me coz u have to feel the words of wot Red said (between sips of beer),"You simply have to know why a woman is angry? You cant find out from others; You have to know. Thatz wot love is all about eh?"
Interestingly i was talking to a certain Lester Chan on the issue of Romantic Love. He calls it this ,"Romantic love has to be selfish to certain extent. The desire to exalt the object of your affection and admiration into an interpersonal relationship that excludes any third person. To place a person in matter of importance beneath no other person excluding perhaps your closest kin. Hence, the common terms such as "being in a relationship with this girl", "getting engaged to him", "I'm married to my wife", "she is the most important person in my life" etc; symbolize a certain extent of romantic involvement with another person that is exclusive and a level of significance towards the person that is special only towards him or her. These relationships can exist definitely, without romantic love. However, they are the best examples that I can find to illustrate the difference between romantic involvement and other forms of love."
So is Loving someone that cheem.. or issit just a feeling.. Apparently in today society love is nothing more than a feeling. It comes; It goes.
I am a traditional guy when it comes to love.
I will throw all caution to the wind and go after the love of my life.
I will risk life and limb to be with the one.
But i fail many times as i am timid and shy in front of the girl i like.
This might sound funny and contradictory to the usually boisterous and frank me but Frenz who have known me for a long time witness this adverse change whenever i meet girls i am genuinely interested in.
SIGH.
So what is love to you ?
Leave a comment...
Enjoy the song.
*********************************************************************
You know I Can't Smile Without You,
I Can't Smile Without You,
I can't laugh
and I can't sing,
I'm findin' it hard to do anything.
You see, I feel sad when you're sad,
I feel glad when you're glad,
If You only knew what I'm going through,
I just Can't Smile Without You.
You came along just like a song
and brightened my day,
Who'd've believe that you were part of a dream
Now it all seems light years away.
And now you know I Can't Smile Without You,
I Can't Smile Without You,
I can't laugh and I can't sing,
I'm finding it hard to do anything.
You see, I feel sad when you're sad,
I feel glad when you're glad,
If you only knew what I"m going through,
I just can't smile.
Now some people sa y happiness takes so very long to find.
Well I'm finding it hard leaving your love behind me.
And you see,
I Can't Smile Without You,
I Can't Smile Without You,
I can't laugh
and I can't sing,
I'm findin' it hard to do anything.
You see, I feel sad when you're sad,
I feel glad when you're glad,
If You only knew what I'm going through,
I just Can't Smile Without You
There was this particular scene in Hellboy2 when Red and Blue both has some relationship problems and started to listen to "The Greatest Love Songs Forever".. And of coz it has to be a barry manilow..
It was particularly haunting for me coz u have to feel the words of wot Red said (between sips of beer),"You simply have to know why a woman is angry? You cant find out from others; You have to know. Thatz wot love is all about eh?"
Interestingly i was talking to a certain Lester Chan on the issue of Romantic Love. He calls it this ,"Romantic love has to be selfish to certain extent. The desire to exalt the object of your affection and admiration into an interpersonal relationship that excludes any third person. To place a person in matter of importance beneath no other person excluding perhaps your closest kin. Hence, the common terms such as "being in a relationship with this girl", "getting engaged to him", "I'm married to my wife", "she is the most important person in my life" etc; symbolize a certain extent of romantic involvement with another person that is exclusive and a level of significance towards the person that is special only towards him or her. These relationships can exist definitely, without romantic love. However, they are the best examples that I can find to illustrate the difference between romantic involvement and other forms of love."
So is Loving someone that cheem.. or issit just a feeling.. Apparently in today society love is nothing more than a feeling. It comes; It goes.
I am a traditional guy when it comes to love.
I will throw all caution to the wind and go after the love of my life.
I will risk life and limb to be with the one.
But i fail many times as i am timid and shy in front of the girl i like.
This might sound funny and contradictory to the usually boisterous and frank me but Frenz who have known me for a long time witness this adverse change whenever i meet girls i am genuinely interested in.
SIGH.
So what is love to you ?
Leave a comment...
Enjoy the song.
*********************************************************************
You know I Can't Smile Without You,
I Can't Smile Without You,
I can't laugh
and I can't sing,
I'm findin' it hard to do anything.
You see, I feel sad when you're sad,
I feel glad when you're glad,
If You only knew what I'm going through,
I just Can't Smile Without You.
You came along just like a song
and brightened my day,
Who'd've believe that you were part of a dream
Now it all seems light years away.
And now you know I Can't Smile Without You,
I Can't Smile Without You,
I can't laugh and I can't sing,
I'm finding it hard to do anything.
You see, I feel sad when you're sad,
I feel glad when you're glad,
If you only knew what I"m going through,
I just can't smile.
Now some people sa y happiness takes so very long to find.
Well I'm finding it hard leaving your love behind me.
And you see,
I Can't Smile Without You,
I Can't Smile Without You,
I can't laugh
and I can't sing,
I'm findin' it hard to do anything.
You see, I feel sad when you're sad,
I feel glad when you're glad,
If You only knew what I'm going through,
I just Can't Smile Without You
This contestants gots balls
Diabolical... i tink he dun understands it.... lolx
He failed the auditions and ended up swearing at the judges in hokkien, melayu and english.
He definitely put Msia on the map !!
He failed the auditions and ended up swearing at the judges in hokkien, melayu and english.
He definitely put Msia on the map !!
July 16, 2008
Gen 35
Things like how broken Abraham's family has become in Genesis 35 - it's hard to miss. And yet God continues to both use and bless them.
This chapter opens up with God giving Jacob an instruction to build an altar to Him. That is a gift of a task, a chance to serve the Lord and carry out His direct order.
But do you know what Jacob has to do first? He has to empty his house of false idols. Here is what Jacob says in verse 2, "Get rid of the foreign gods you have with you, and purify yourselves and change your clothes." God means business. He wants Jacob to totally wear new stuff and do new stuff as of then. its like drawing a line and crossing it immediately and never looking back.
I feel like that sometimes.
I feel like God has a task He wants me to do.
He has a lot He wants me to accomplish for Him, but my house and my heart are too full of foreign gods.
There is no/little room for Him or His work.
I have my own mission and do not have the time or spiritual space in my heart for Him.
I wonder though, does God still work that way?
Does He call us to do things that we can't really do when we've still got foreign gods in our eyes?
Do we ever have to empty our own houses before we get to build an altar to Him?
Hard to say, but a few months ago something happened that makes me think maybe that's still the way God works.
On a Saturday late nite, I supper-ed with my mentor whom we're not in the habit of meeting up regularly. I basically said, "I need to start everything all over again. There are a few silly things which I started and has grown and I think I will become a jerk if I don't get absolutely grounded in the Lord." Within 24 days after I sent that email, sumtin happened.
Maybe that was purely coincidental. Perhaps emailing my mentor wasn't an act of me cleaning up my house and my heart.(which i tink is true) Perhaps the event which happened had nothing to do with anything at all. Perhaps Perhaps Perhaps
But mebbe, God still believes that we can't build His altar, we can't walk His road, we can't move in His direction, if we harbour that ghost of a feeling with a foreign god(s).
This chapter opens up with God giving Jacob an instruction to build an altar to Him. That is a gift of a task, a chance to serve the Lord and carry out His direct order.
But do you know what Jacob has to do first? He has to empty his house of false idols. Here is what Jacob says in verse 2, "Get rid of the foreign gods you have with you, and purify yourselves and change your clothes." God means business. He wants Jacob to totally wear new stuff and do new stuff as of then. its like drawing a line and crossing it immediately and never looking back.
I feel like that sometimes.
I feel like God has a task He wants me to do.
He has a lot He wants me to accomplish for Him, but my house and my heart are too full of foreign gods.
There is no/little room for Him or His work.
I have my own mission and do not have the time or spiritual space in my heart for Him.
I wonder though, does God still work that way?
Does He call us to do things that we can't really do when we've still got foreign gods in our eyes?
Do we ever have to empty our own houses before we get to build an altar to Him?
Hard to say, but a few months ago something happened that makes me think maybe that's still the way God works.
On a Saturday late nite, I supper-ed with my mentor whom we're not in the habit of meeting up regularly. I basically said, "I need to start everything all over again. There are a few silly things which I started and has grown and I think I will become a jerk if I don't get absolutely grounded in the Lord." Within 24 days after I sent that email, sumtin happened.
Maybe that was purely coincidental. Perhaps emailing my mentor wasn't an act of me cleaning up my house and my heart.(which i tink is true) Perhaps the event which happened had nothing to do with anything at all. Perhaps Perhaps Perhaps
But mebbe, God still believes that we can't build His altar, we can't walk His road, we can't move in His direction, if we harbour that ghost of a feeling with a foreign god(s).
Hokkien Death note
L will turn over and die a zillion deaths....
It is super painful to watch...
PS: is this our next generation ? Vulgar and stoopid ?
It is super painful to watch...
PS: is this our next generation ? Vulgar and stoopid ?
HKG Vs SGP
Outraged by Hong Kongers being rude about Singapore, Katie Oh and Taz the Raz produced this song to tell the truth to the world.
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Lyrics:
Singapore is a better place than Hong Kong is,
We got more art and culture; all they got is biz,
We so stylo, they jus' vile-o, we speak Singlish—awmost English-lah!
Singapore is a smarter place than Hong Kong is,
We keep more of our history than Hong Kong did,
We so good tase, they jus' gone case, we speak Singlish—almost English-lah!
Can or not? Okay-lah.
We got mansions; they got boring office blocks;
We got quaysides; they jus' got a smelly dock;
Our shophouses—wah! So pretty; theirs all slums;
Our old buildings are renewed but theirs—where got?!
Singapore is a better place than Hong Kong is,
We got more art and culture; all they got is biz,
We so global, they just local, we speak Singlish—almost English-lah!
Eh? What they speak-ah? I don't know-Cantonese, izzit?
Singapore is a smarter place than Hong Kong is,
We keep more of our history than Hong Kong did,
We so wham-bam, they so ayam, we speak Singlish—almost English-lah!
Why you look at me lidat? You see me no up izzit?!
We more mature: Singaporeans all can vote;
They not ready: Hong Kongers still have to wait;
Democratic cities let their folk have voice;
We pick leaders (alamak! but not much choice!).
You say Hong Kong so world city.
We not stupid. We say Singapore, also can.
Eskew me, we very stylo-milo one awreddy okay.
Don't shy. Never see before izzit? Izzit?
Singapore is a better place than Hong Kong is,
We got more art and culture; all they got is biz,
We so hot one, they so kwai lan, we speak Singlish—almost English-lah!
So how? Can or not? Also can-lah! Izzit? Aiyeeah! Sudah-lah.
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Credits according to Youtube site
Words and Music: Katie and Taz.
Video: Taz's friends.
Photos taken from personal and public sources: Thanks and acknowledgements to Jon-Jon, Connie, MICA and the Singapore Tourism Board.
Thanx misterjam.com for providing a forum.
The pointz we are trying to make are these:
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Lyrics:
Singapore is a better place than Hong Kong is,
We got more art and culture; all they got is biz,
We so stylo, they jus' vile-o, we speak Singlish—awmost English-lah!
Singapore is a smarter place than Hong Kong is,
We keep more of our history than Hong Kong did,
We so good tase, they jus' gone case, we speak Singlish—almost English-lah!
Can or not? Okay-lah.
We got mansions; they got boring office blocks;
We got quaysides; they jus' got a smelly dock;
Our shophouses—wah! So pretty; theirs all slums;
Our old buildings are renewed but theirs—where got?!
Singapore is a better place than Hong Kong is,
We got more art and culture; all they got is biz,
We so global, they just local, we speak Singlish—almost English-lah!
Eh? What they speak-ah? I don't know-Cantonese, izzit?
Singapore is a smarter place than Hong Kong is,
We keep more of our history than Hong Kong did,
We so wham-bam, they so ayam, we speak Singlish—almost English-lah!
Why you look at me lidat? You see me no up izzit?!
We more mature: Singaporeans all can vote;
They not ready: Hong Kongers still have to wait;
Democratic cities let their folk have voice;
We pick leaders (alamak! but not much choice!).
You say Hong Kong so world city.
We not stupid. We say Singapore, also can.
Eskew me, we very stylo-milo one awreddy okay.
Don't shy. Never see before izzit? Izzit?
Singapore is a better place than Hong Kong is,
We got more art and culture; all they got is biz,
We so hot one, they so kwai lan, we speak Singlish—almost English-lah!
So how? Can or not? Also can-lah! Izzit? Aiyeeah! Sudah-lah.
--
Credits according to Youtube site
Words and Music: Katie and Taz.
Video: Taz's friends.
Photos taken from personal and public sources: Thanks and acknowledgements to Jon-Jon, Connie, MICA and the Singapore Tourism Board.
Thanx misterjam.com for providing a forum.
The pointz we are trying to make are these:
A. Singaporeans have a sense of humour. and
B. SINGAPOREANS ROCK!!!
The pointz we are trying to make are these:
A. Singaporeans have a sense of humour. and
B. SINGAPOREANS ROCK!!!
Random Joke
Why are men with pierced ears better prepared for marriage?
They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.
They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.
Flowers
Caught this at my fren's house.. he aso brogged abt them... jin happy
PS: its mite look abit gheyish for 2 grown men to brog abt flowers.. but they're very beautiful...
HOW MEN AND WOMEN DIFFER
Got this off Rainne.... interesting thots
NICKNAMES
* If Laura, Kate and Sarah go out for lunch, they will call each other Laura, Kate and Sarah.
* If Mike, Dave and John go out, they will affectionately refer to each other as Fat Boy, Godzilla and Four-eyes.
EATING OUT
* When the bill arrives, Mike, Dave and John will each throw in $20, even though it's only for $32.50. None of them will have anything smaller and none will actually admit they want change back.
* When the girls get their bill, out come the pocket calculators.
MONEY
* A man will pay $2 for a $1 item he needs.
* A woman will pay $1 for a $2 item that she doesn't need but it's on sale
BATHROOMS
* A man has six items in his bathroom: toothbrush and toothpaste, shaving cream, razor, a bar of soap, and a towel from M&S.
* The average number of items in the typical woman's bathroom is 337. A normal man would not be able to identify more than 20 of these items.
ARGUMENTS
* A woman has the last word in any argument.
* Anything a man says after that is the beginning of a new argument.
CATS
* Women love cats.
* Men say they love cats, but when women aren't looking, men kick cats.
FUTURE
* A woman worries about the future until she gets a husband.
* A man never worries about the future until he gets a wife.
SUCCESS
* A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend.
* A successful woman is one who can find such a man.
MARRIAGE
* A woman marries a man expecting he will change, but he doesn't.
* A man marries a woman expecting that she won't change, but she does.
DRESSING UP
* A woman will dress up to go shopping, water the plants, empty the bins, answer the phone, read a book, and get the post.
* A man will dress up for weddings and funerals.
NATURAL
* Men wake up as good-looking as they went to bed.
* Women somehow deteriorate during the night.
OFFSPRING
* Ah, children. A woman knows all about her children. She knows about dentist appointments and romances, best friends, favourite foods, secret fears and hopes and dreams.
* A man is vaguely aware of some short people living in the house.
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY
* Any married man should forget his mistakes. There's no use in two people remembering the same thing.
* What a woman says: C'mon..This place is a mess. You and I need to clean.Your trousers are on the floor and you'll have no clothes if we don't do the laundry now.
* What a man hears: C'MON ... blah, blah, blah YOU AND I blah,blah, blah, blah, blah ON THE FLOOR blah, blah, blah, NO CLOTHES blah, blah, blah, blah, NOW
NICKNAMES
* If Laura, Kate and Sarah go out for lunch, they will call each other Laura, Kate and Sarah.
* If Mike, Dave and John go out, they will affectionately refer to each other as Fat Boy, Godzilla and Four-eyes.
EATING OUT
* When the bill arrives, Mike, Dave and John will each throw in $20, even though it's only for $32.50. None of them will have anything smaller and none will actually admit they want change back.
* When the girls get their bill, out come the pocket calculators.
MONEY
* A man will pay $2 for a $1 item he needs.
* A woman will pay $1 for a $2 item that she doesn't need but it's on sale
BATHROOMS
* A man has six items in his bathroom: toothbrush and toothpaste, shaving cream, razor, a bar of soap, and a towel from M&S.
* The average number of items in the typical woman's bathroom is 337. A normal man would not be able to identify more than 20 of these items.
ARGUMENTS
* A woman has the last word in any argument.
* Anything a man says after that is the beginning of a new argument.
CATS
* Women love cats.
* Men say they love cats, but when women aren't looking, men kick cats.
FUTURE
* A woman worries about the future until she gets a husband.
* A man never worries about the future until he gets a wife.
SUCCESS
* A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend.
* A successful woman is one who can find such a man.
MARRIAGE
* A woman marries a man expecting he will change, but he doesn't.
* A man marries a woman expecting that she won't change, but she does.
DRESSING UP
* A woman will dress up to go shopping, water the plants, empty the bins, answer the phone, read a book, and get the post.
* A man will dress up for weddings and funerals.
NATURAL
* Men wake up as good-looking as they went to bed.
* Women somehow deteriorate during the night.
OFFSPRING
* Ah, children. A woman knows all about her children. She knows about dentist appointments and romances, best friends, favourite foods, secret fears and hopes and dreams.
* A man is vaguely aware of some short people living in the house.
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY
* Any married man should forget his mistakes. There's no use in two people remembering the same thing.
* What a woman says: C'mon..This place is a mess. You and I need to clean.Your trousers are on the floor and you'll have no clothes if we don't do the laundry now.
* What a man hears: C'MON ... blah, blah, blah YOU AND I blah,blah, blah, blah, blah ON THE FLOOR blah, blah, blah, NO CLOTHES blah, blah, blah, blah, NOW
July 15, 2008
Ren CI: Ongoing
Venerable Shi Ming Yi to be charged in court on 4 Aug 2008
Venerable Ming Yi is out on S$200, 000 bail.
Head of Ren Ci Hospital, the Venerable Shi Ming Yi has been charged with alleged forgery, conspiracy and misuse of funds.=)
Venerable Ming Yi, who was also former Ren Ci Chairman, was slapped with 10 charges Tuesday morning.
The monk faces four charges under the Penal Code involving two counts of alleged criminal breach of trust.He also faces one count of alleged forgery for the purpose of cheating and one count of abetment for allegedly falsifying accounts.
He also faces six charges under the Charities Act for allegedly providing false information.
Two of his associates Raymong Yeung and Phua Seow Hua were also alleged to have gone into conspiracy with the Venerable and were also charged in court Tuesday.
Separately, a volunteer from Ren Ci was charged with allegedly possessing some 70 copies of obscene film.
Venerable Ming Yi is out on S$200, 000 bail.
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