There are many, many people working to either save the Gulf of Mexico ecosystem or trying to get the images and message out about it. We all know that we cannot rely on our own government, MSM or British Petroleum to tell us the truth. The powerful cannot overcome the good. Right now it just seems that way. With photographers like Nick Zantop and Jerry Moran_Native New Orleans Photography and organizations like the American Birding Association and On Wings of Care willing to take risks and get dirty there is hope for the gulf and us.

Sen. John McCain’s office was the stage for a sit in by five members of the Phoenix-based group HERO. The activists were demanding the Arizona Senator back a repeal of the US military’s Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy.

Lieberman’s numbers in Connecticut are in the tank.   In a head-to-head race Dick Blumenthal would beat him 58% to 30%.  His approval rating with Democrats in his own state is 21/70 — he has to get with the program or face an electoral wipeout in 2012.  The Ryan Grim article Klein links to says he only came in  at the end of the negotiations, in time to take credit and get his face before the camera. 

That’s the Lieberman you can count on.