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From commentor Skerry, participant:
The People’s Climate March was an astounding success! Estimated 400,000 in NYC marched. So many that they had to start diverting people off the route before the end because the permit was going to expire. We had planned for 200,000. Tremendous!
Also, marches around the globe in Melbourne (30,000), Nepal, Papau New Guinea, Barcelona (2000), Rome, London (40,000), Paris (1,000), Berlin (4000), Rio (5000), Stockholm, Amsterdam, Toronto. A total of 168 “sister” marches. I don’t know the numbers for all the cities. Information is still coming in.
Headlines on some of the major media. Top of the homepage for NYTimes. No mention on Sunday talk shows, Fox, CNN (shocking). Lots of foreign press coverage.
The plan [for Monday] is to “flood” Wall Street. I have no idea how many will participate. This action is a off-shoot from Occupy. I won’t be there, but will be watching closely.
The UN meets Tuesday to discuss and plan for the next big summit in Paris in 2015.
Pictures can be found at peoplesclimate.com and on Flickr.
Oh, and my daughter got a selfie with Al Gore. She was delighted. She marched with the student/youth section. They estimated over 50,000 students covering 10 blocks. We had anticipated 4 blocks. Just a delightful day.
Stunned by scale of #PeoplesClimate march. Pic taken 2.5 hours after it first started passing by my NYC apt. bldg. pic.twitter.com/8d1Xg3G92J
— Justin Gillis (@JustinHGillis) September 21, 2014
Based on a density algorithm, #PeoplesClimate march organizers claim a turnout of 310,000.
— Justin Gillis (@JustinHGillis) September 21, 2014
Gillis describes himself as “Reporter for The New York Times, covering the science of climate change and the policy implications of that science”
The AP figures this must be serious — the Rockefellers have announced they’re getting out of the oil business.
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Apart from trying to save the planet, what’s on the agenda for the start of another week?
raven
Doesn’t seem like the Sunday talk shows would have had something before the event happened.
raven
Also, there was a lot of whining here about if the guy that breeched the White House security had ben brown, he would have been shot blah blah blah.
Schlemazel
@raven:
So the guy was a paratrooper?
Baud
@raven:
I happened to catch a bit of Meet the Press, and they had Grover Norquist on to talk about taxes and freedom.
ETA: Their new set design is strange.
PurpleGirl
There is Pet Adoption Expo in Hartford (Ct.) on October 4th. The shelter/kitten cam I watch, which is located in Danielson, Ct., will be participating. I will be helping Cassie (kitten foster mama and shelter founder) with the event. This week I’m helping prepare materials to hand out.
(I’ll repeat this information and give more details closer to the event and invite BJers who live in the area to pass by. The Expo is free to attend.)
BillinGlendaleCA
Why would you do that to yourself? I’m sure there’s a 12-step to help.
Baud
@BillinGlendaleCA:
There should be a warning on remotes: Channel flipping can be hazardous to your health . . . and your TV’s.
Mustang Bobby
According to TPM, Chuck Todd has now divided America into “Chick-Fil-A country” and “Starbucks nation.”
I’d like one giant meteor to go, please.
Ramalama
Funny, that tweet about Al Gore rithm (with a lithp) and #peoplesclimatemarch. Tho deadpan.
Ramalama
@Mustang Bobby: Ventures a bit too close to David Brooks’ residency at Applebees.
Comrade Jake
@Baud: gotta love the MTP mindset, eh?
“Man ratings suck! Let’s change the host and the set, but keep the same guests we’ve always had!”
Schlemazel
@Mustang Bobby:
Poor Chuckles does not have the intellectual capacity for more complex thought so he has to go with the Pla-Skool of politics.
And I second your request with a “please be soon!” added.
Baud
@Mustang Bobby:
Yes! I caught that segment also. I wonder if Starbuck’s approved that message (Chick-fil-a might have).
@Comrade Jake:
It’s a “library” theme now, which I guess is a warmer look. What was strange is that Chuck and Grover were at a side table, and John Stanton (one of the journalists on the panel) was at a different table, and he had to ask his question from what looked like a good distance from the guests.
Mustang Bobby
@Ramalama: What’s ironic is that I did a search for Starbucks in Petoskey, Michigan, where I used to live. It’s a summer resort community, but it’s rural and rather conservative. There’s a Starbucks there. Then I did a search for Chick-Fil-A for the same town. “Your search for Chick-fil-A restaurants near [ Petoskey, MI US ] found no locations. Please try another address to find a restaurant near you.”
Try another one, Chuck
BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: I’m sure they were intimidated by Stanton, he’s a big guy and has lots of tats.
Skerry
Morning, all. Thanks for the post. It was an exciting day in NY.
On Tuesday, there’s the UN climate change summit with 120 world leaders. President Obama will speak. Notable absences by leaders from Australia, Canada, China and India-they are sending lower level officials. All in preparation for 2015 Paris conference.
ETA: unrelated, but my daughter was robbed at knifepoint in Baltimore last night. She’s fine. Thief took her purse but not her cellphone or keys, which were in her other hand.
Baud
@BillinGlendaleCA:
I would watch if he and Norquist went a few rounds in the ring.
To be clear, Stanton wasn’t by himself at the kids table. There were about three, I think. Stanton was the only one to ask Grover a question, which is why I remember him.
Skerry
In other news, my daughter was robbed at knifepoint in Baltimore last night on her boyfriend’s porch. Thief took her purse with her cash tips from restaurant job, but not her keys or cellphone which she had in her hand. She was unharmed. Police responded and took a report, but were pessimistic. I told her to walk the street today and she might find the purse, sans cash.
Mustang Bobby
@Skerry: Wow; I’m glad she’s okay.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: That might bring in a younger demo, even if Chuckles was officiating. Maybe NBC should give it a try.
Baud
@BillinGlendaleCA:
Next SUNDAY! SUNDAY! SUNDAY!. . . on Meet the Press…..
OzarkHillbilly
@Skerry: Glad she’s OK. Emotionally too?
Skerry
@Mustang Bobby: Thanks. She did the right thing by giving up her purse. Today she has to start the clean-up: new IDs, etc
Mustang Bobby
@BillinGlendaleCA: Growlin’ Grover Norquist vs. Bernie the Bruiser Sanders… both in WWE Speedos? Pass.
Iowa Old Lady
@Baud: Mr IOL watches the Sunday shows, even FOX, and they couldn’t decide whether Obama was wrong for sending armed forces to the Middle East or wrong for not sending enough. But he was, for sure, wrong! Which was what mattered.
Skerry
@OzarkHillbilly: She was very upset last night, of course. He approached her as she was unlocking the front door so she never saw him coming. I’ll talk to her later today to see how she’s doing.
Keith G
@Skerry: Years ago, a kid put a gun in my face demanding money. It took me a bit to get over the skittishness.
I was a poor eyewitness. I told the detective that all I remembered seeing was a silver revolver with bullets in the cylinder and behind that a head with blond hair.
Southern Beale
This story on George Zimmerman in the Orlando Sentinel really pissed me off. He’s treated like a celebrity, with people asking for his autograph when he goes to the local gun show — how sick is that? Kill an unarmed black teenager and you’re a celebrity with the gun crowd?
And then he says he’s “constantly receiving death threats.” Calling bullshit on that one. On Twitter, right, that’s not a death threat. A death threat is someone trailing you through your neighborhood and shooting you for being black.
Oh yeah and a big Benghazi cherry on top of this interview, too. He’s like a walking wingnut meme.
Iowa Old Lady
@Skerry: Sorry she went through that. That kind of thing shakes you up.
Baud
@Iowa Old Lady:
That has pretty much been the story since Day 1, hasn’t it?
OzarkHillbilly
@Skerry: The feelings of violation are the hardest to overcome.
Tommy
@Southern Beale: He always wants to play the victim doesn’t he.
Tommy
@Iowa Old Lady: I could only stomach one of them. Face the Nation. Of all people they had Joe Lieberman on to talk about foreign policy. How is his name even in your contact list?
OzarkHillbilly
Rick Perry thinks Joan Rivers would not have died if she had been in Texas because in Texas, abortion clinics are strictly regulated.*** I sh!t you not.
*** unlike Texas fertilizer plants. FREEDUMB!
raven
@Schlemazel: Those are not jump wings, maybe air assault or a CIB, not sure.
Ramalama
@Skerry: Yikes. So glad she got out unharmed. I was robbed at something point while working in a Mrs Fields, long time ago. Could not ID the guy afterwards. I’m just too suggestable. The cops blatantly indicated who they wanted me to pick out but I just repeated over and over, he could be but I can’t be sure. When I started reading about how eye witness reports were overrated, I felt a glimmer of gladness.
Tommy
@OzarkHillbilly: I thought you were joking. That maybe I hadn’t seen another comment. Just missed something. Then I clicked through to your link and my freaking god he said that. Made a point of saying it on purpose it seems. WTF.
Mustang Bobby
@OzarkHillbilly: Did Rick think Joan Rivers was having an abortion? (I know what you meant, but following Rick’s train of thought is like following a sugared-up six-year-old.)
Ramalama
@OzarkHillbilly: WHAT?? You know what, aside from the whole fucking up the economy and the Middle East, I’m really really angry – angriest – at how W enabled MORONS running for office get an absolute pass. The debates that W participated in should have been complete FODDER, non-stop fodder, for anyone with a pulpit or newspaper or show, or corner stand to make fun of him and end the bloody nonsense.
BillinGlendaleCA
@OzarkHillbilly: Joan Rivers died getting an abortion? Damn, that woman was still able to pump em out at 81? Now I only got as far as college intro biology, but I didn’t think that possible. But Rick Perry wears glasses so he must be right.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Mustang Bobby: Or a methed up texan.
OzarkHillbilly
@Mustang Bobby: All I meant was, “See Rick Perry? See Rick run? Run Rick, run! See Rick talk? Say something stupid Rick. See Rick say something really really unbelievably stupid? He hasn’t done that since the last time he spoke.”
Tommy
@Keith G: I’ve been mugged at gunpoint twice. I am generally terrible with names but recall faces at the drop of a hat. All I could focus on was the gun. No chance I could ID them. None. Maybe I should have tried harder but I just wanted to get out of the situation.
Mustang Bobby
@OzarkHillbilly: Yeah, I got your meaning totally. But even the article itself makes it sound like Rick thought she was having an abortion on her vocal chords. (Trust me, I would never mock you.)
OzarkHillbilly
@Mustang Bobby: Oh yeah, also meaning to point out that Rick Perry actually thinks he could win the GOP nomination for President. And he’s right, it really is possible.
OzarkHillbilly
@Mustang Bobby: I did not think you were mocking me… just wasn’t sure what you thought I was trying to say.
Tommy
@OzarkHillbilly: I think many on the right that we mock are not as dumb as we think. Just working the “rubes.” But Perry is as dumb as I think he is. I don’t know if he could think his way out of a wet paper bag.
Iowa Old Lady
@OzarkHillbilly: I suspected “admitting privileges = something something Joan Rivers” was percolating away on the right somewhere because since Rivers died, a conservative woman at the gym has been telling people to make sure their doctor has admitting privileges.
guachi
About that Chick-Fil-A and Starbucks thing – Todd mentioned Montana and North Dakota as rural Chick-Fil-A states. There are no Chick-Fil-As in either state.
OzarkHillbilly
@Iowa Old Lady: I suspect it was something like that, but DAMN! he is stupid in not only how he said it, but also that he, the Governor of low regulation, business friendly Texas, said it. He is as much as admitting that GOPers think the only proper use of regulations is as cudgels against things they don’t like. We all know the true intent of those abortion restrictions and saving lives is not something Texans care about, they have proven that time and again.
Tommy
@Iowa Old Lady: I am not a doctor or expert on Joan Rivers. But if I am not mistaken her admitting doctor was there. He performed a procedure not allowed and things went sideways.
Mr Stagger Lee
The Rockefellers are sooooo yesterday,are they even in the Forbes 400? This is the era of the Koch-sucker,sucking the life out of the planet unless they are clapped in irons.
dedc79
My favorite freakout so far:
debbie
@dedc79:
Takes an ideologue to know an ideologue.
Tommy
@dedc79: A mob like the tea party.
Southern Beale
@OzarkHillbilly:
I was curious: does he want to expand those stringent clinic regulations to every other medical clinic in the state, or did he think she was having an abortion?
Seriously confused. I can’t imagine all of the plastic surgery, colonoscopy and other “outpatient” clinics doing big business in Texas would like to hear that Perry wants to place those some strict requirements on them.
Mustang Bobby
@guachi: But there are Starbucks in both Montana (Great Falls) and North Dakota (Minot). Both are well-known liberal enclaves.
beth
@dedc79: It really says something that their biggest complaints after events like this are that the attendance numbers were inflated, the crowd was unruly and they left a mess. Never an argument on the issues, just a lot of whining. Fox News has taught them well.
rikyrah
@Southern Beale:
tell it, Southern Beale
Kathleen
@guachi: Well, in all fairness a Republican probably told him that and it’s not his job to research any statements Republicans make. Journalism is hard.
Gene108
@Southern Beale:
There’s some sort of conflation between gun-nuts and white supremacists. Ruby Ridge is a “never again” moment for gun-nuts, but ignored is the fact Randy Weaver was charged with selling sawed off shutguns to white supremacist groups. He failed to show up to court which triggered the stand-off.
The Weavers were not the Cleavers, living the good clean suburban life, when deranged ATF agents decided to attack them.
Yet I wonder what the “never again” moment really means in their minds. I somehow have the feeling there’s the “never again” moment is about the government keeping good Christian white people from keeping the Jews, blacks, browns and yellows I their place.
OzarkHillbilly
Yet another GOP Gov saying stupid sh!t:
“But Deal instead has chosen to react to the number in the most hilarious and conspiratorial way possible, with one of the choicest quotes of the cycle: States with Republican governors have high unemployment rates while states with Democratic governors have lower ones? The Obama administration must be cooking the books!“
Georgia is not about to be outdone by Texas.
Kathleen
@Skerry: I am sorry to hear your daughter has to deal with that. How are you doing?
Gene108
@guachi:
When I was still living in NC, in the mid-1990’s, I had a relative visit from the Midwest, he was stunned there were stand alone Chikifila restaurants. Everywhere else they were just in the mall food court.
Being a privately held company, they seem to be slower in expanding nationally than publicly traded companies like Starbucks.
Matt McIrvin
@Mustang Bobby: Sometimes the Chick-Fil-A and the Starbucks are at entirely opposite ends of the mall.
RaflW
The news from the Rockefeller Fund is big. I’m not sure how fast the divesting is happening, but these folks, cited by the NYT, claim that $50 billion is pledged to divest.
That is becoming a big enough number, and with some big enough names, that the fossil fuel companies must be noticing. Maybe not enough yet to change their behavior, but fairly soon at least some financial advisors are going to start suggesting that the big oil and coal companies have impaired assets in their fuel reserves.
I’ve been dubious of the divestment strategy, but it has advanced faster than I thought it might. I hope it continues to expand!
rikyrah
Kobach’s ballot ‘disclaimer’ worsens Kansas’ circus
09/22/14 08:00 AM
By Steve Benen
As of late Friday afternoon, the procedural nuttiness that has plagued Kansas U.S. Senate race appeared to have run its course. The state Supreme Court had ruled that Democrat Chad Taylor could, in fact, remove his name from the statewide ballot, creating a one-on-one match-up pitting Sen. Pat Roberts (R) against Greg Orman (I)..
What’s more, Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach (R), who oversees state elections and just happens to be part of Roberts’ re-election campaign committee, appeared to be in retreat, directing officials to begin mailing ballots – as mandated by federal law – to Kansans voting from overseas without a Democratic candidate, as per Democrats’ wishes.
There was, however, a catch. Kobach, who’s making no real effort to hide his brazen partisanship, continues to make unprecedented moves, turning Kansas’ race into a circus with no modern parallel. From the Wichita Eagle over the weekend:
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/kobachs-ballot-disclaimer-worsens-kansas-circus
RaflW
@guachi:
You don’t expect Chuckie to have actually been to Montana or North Dakota, do you? These are just metaphorical places, other than brief mentions in the Cook Report vis. US Senate race-horse watching. Otherwise, umm, flyover? Really, c’mon why go there or even know anything factual about it?
SiubhanDuinne
@Matt McIrvin:
In the office building where I used to work, the Chick-Fil-A and the Starbucks were right next to each other.
Sherparick
I would wish us Environmentalists would go all out to defeat Fred Upton, Mitch McConnell, Thom Tillis, etc. Until we start taking scalps and having Republicans win primaries who want to repeal every conservation and environmental law and program passed since 1900, this will be an uphill battle.
ruemara
My response is always the same. How many people there are registered to vote? If not, you’re wasting your time. It sure looks good, but without a comment to voting in each & every election, that’s all it does.
WaterGirl
@Skerry: I’m so glad your daughter is alright! It must have been terrifying. I imagine it’s also terrifying to think about, even though the threat has already passed. Sending good thoughts for all concerned.
Also, I greatly appreciate your information on the march, etc. As I mentioned in a thread yesterday, it gives me hope.
schrodinger's cat
@Mustang Bobby: Isn’t Chick-filA a mostly southern chain?
Ruckus
@Tommy:
Perry couldn’t find his ass with both hands, which is pretty funny considering his head is already up there.
Comrade Colette Collaboratrice
@dedc79: Please to be warning about NRO linkage – I wouldn’t give them a click if my mother-in-law’s life depended on it.
Mnemosyne
@schrodinger’s cat:
Yep. Chuck Toddler’s equation is pretty obviously “Latte-Sipping Northern Elites vs. Real Americans.”
nastybrutishntall
So the guy likely to be our next County Commissioner here in Montezuma County, CO is a White Supremacist Christian minister. http://www.kingdomseekersministry.org/beliefs.html
He won the Republican primary in a 25% Democratic county, so I look forward to his wise Anglo-Saxon ways ruling our lives. Ahh, yes. There is no wingnut like the Desert Wingnut.
Bobby B.
The comments on the “Reason” site’s article were educational. Much “take a bath Hippie, and stop smoking pot!” humor from pups who likely weren’t born until after 1990. Jack Webb and Sinatra would have approved.
WaterGirl
@nastybrutishntall: That must be incredibly discouraging.
mai naem mobile
Chikfila now has more stores than kfc.Just think about that. The only thing I knew about chickfila before the recent xtian stuff was seeing one in the mall years ago and I am a veg so I never went in to even look at the menu.
dedc79
@Comrade Colette Collaboratrice: Fair enough. I figured the blocked quote would be sufficient warning that the source was going to be some godawful publication like NRO
Ramalama
@mai naem mobile: I’ve only ever seen Chikfila in malls too. Not seen them anywhere in Canadia though. There are KFCs in Quebec, only they are called PFK.
Not sure the Chick could legally set up shop in Canada since it’s against the law to discriminate against teh gays and it’s a law that gets enforced. WalMarts are here, but they pay the minimum wage, which is pretty high here. And everyone everywhere seems to be in a union. So it’s not out of the realm of the possible that the Chicks might change their tunes in another country, if they so decided to branch out.
… which has nothing to do with you being vegemetarian.
Anne Laurie
@schrodinger’s cat: Yep. And as others have said, the company is privately owned, so they’re not under pressure from MBAs to expand just for the sake of expansion.
Ironically, there’s a Chick-fil-A right here in the People’s Republic of Massachusetts — just down the road from us, in a shopping mall food court. It went in before the Great Huckabee Anti-Queer publicity stunt. I assume it must be profitable, enough, but age and the internet have enabled me to avoid most mall shopping trips…