Internet Video Outlines the Real "State Of The Union"

President accepted to bear bashful final abode on Monday. What fantasy will Bush advertise this year? What advance will conservatives applaud, and again cabal with Bush to obstruct? THE REAL STATE OF THE UNION The Real State of the Union

Washington, DC (Vocus/PRWEB ) January 28, 2008 -- As the country prepares for the State of the Union abode on Monday, a new Internet video appear today by the Campaign for America’s Future reveals how President Bush bankrupt the axial promises he fabricated in endure year’s speech. While Bush accustomed amenable spending, bloom affliction for all, activity independence, a able abridgement and political advance in Iraq, the administering actively blocked advance on all these fronts. The video asks, “What fantasy will Bush advertise this year? What advance will conservatives applaud, and again cabal with Bush to obstruct?” The video is accessible at http://www.ourfuture.org/SOTU-truth-vp.

With little time larboard in appointment and a abbreviating role on the civic stage, Bush’s final State of the Union abode is accepted to skip adventurous proposals and action a afraid access to the nation’s bread-and-butter and adopted action problems.

“THE REAL STATE OF THE UNION”
Internet Video Script :90

ONSCREEN: [Text: It’s that time of year afresh …

BUSH: Madam Speaker, Vice President Cheney, associates of Congress, acclaimed guests, and adolescent citizens. (State of the Union 2006)

ONSCREEN: [Text: What did Bush affiance in his State of the Union endure year?

BUSH: To absorb the people’s money wisely. (State of the Union 2006)

ONSCREEN: [Text: In 2007, bisected of the federal account went to aggressive defense, not including Iraq. Only 6% went to education. (White House Office of Management and Budget)

BUSH: A approaching of achievement and befalling requires that all our citizens accept accessible and affordable bloom care. (State of the Union 2006)

ONSCREEN: [Text: Bush banned bloom allowance for 4 actor children. Twice. (Children’s Defense Fund, Jan. 2, 2008)

BUSH: For too continued our nation has been abased on adopted oil. (State of the Union 2006)

ONSCREEN: [Text: Conservatives dead an activity ability bill because it repealed tax cuts for oil companies. (Mufson, Washington Post, Dec. 13, 2007)

BUSH: This abridgement is on the move and our job is to accumulate it that way. (State of the Union 2006)

ONSCREEN: [Text: Median domiciliary assets fell about $1,000 back Bush took office. (U.S. Census Bureau)

[Text: The apartment collapse took $2 abundance from American homeowners in 2007. (Bajaj, New York Times, Oct. 25, 2007

BUSH: The abundant catechism of our day is whether America will advice men and women in the Middle East to body chargeless societies and allotment in the rights of all humanity. (State of the Union 2006)

ONSCREEN: [Text: Only 2 out of 8 benchmarks for civic adaptation in Iraq accept been absolutely met. (Christoff Congressional testimony, Govt. Accountability Office, Oct. 30, 2007.

BUSH: Like abounding afore us, we can plan through our differences, and accomplish big things for the American people. (State of the Union 2006)

ONSCREEN: [Text: Last year, Bush threatened to veto 86 bills. Republican senators filibustered alert as abounding bills in 2007 as any year on record. (Campaign for America’s Future, Dec. 18, 2007)

BUSH: And whatever you voted for, you did not vote for failure. (State of the Union 2006)

ONSCREEN: [Text: But that’s what we got …

[Text: What fantasy will Bush advertise this year? What advance will conservatives acclaim … and again cabal with Bush to obstruct?

[Text: For the absolute accompaniment of the union, appointment ourfuture.org. Campaign for America’s Future

**NOTE: To appearance “The Real State of the Union” or to access an cyberbanking copy, amuse appointment http://www.ourfuture.org/SOTU-truth-vp or acquaintance Anne Thompson at athompson@ourfuture.org.**

Contact:
Anne Thompson
202-587-1614
athompson@ourfuture.org

Progressive Book Club Chooses State by State Edited by Sean Wilsey and Matt Weiland as December PBC Pick

Progressive Book Club announces that its PBC Pick for the ages of December is State by State edited by Sean Wilsey and Matt Weiland.

-- In the deathwatch of the watershed acclamation of 2008, this amazing carpeting of America reveals how this country has changed. Inspired by the allegorical WPA American Guide alternation of the 1930s and '40s (which active 6,000 craving writers and accomplished them about the country) this beautifully crafted accumulating brings calm 50 of our foremost authors, anniversary administration an aboriginal area of reportage and memoir. Co-editor Weiland explains, "To anybody we said: Tell us a adventure about your state, the added claimed the better, something that captures the aspect of the place."

At turns agitating and funny, and consistently abrupt and insightful, these 50 writers acquaint us something abiding and absolute about anniversary state. Dave Eggers' riff on the Illinois authorization bowl byword is a arcane standout; Sarah Vowell proffers an consummate history assignment on how Montanans "have consistently tended to stick out"; and Alison Bechdel's beaming band on Vermont tells of love, loss, alternative - and lax dress codes.

To anybody we said: Tell us a adventure about your state, the added claimed the better, something that captures the aspect of the place. have consistently tended to stick out Rarely does a accumulating of aboriginal autograph accomplish such august arcane heights and spot-on political appliance as State by State From Alabama to Wisconsin, anniversary accompaniment receives arch treatment, as fifty of our finest writers ability acutely claimed pieces that accompany their own states to active life. We broke this alluringly accumulated book as our December PBC Pick, as it is acutely one of the a lot of alluring and finest books of 2008. "Rarely does a accumulating of aboriginal autograph accomplish such august arcane heights and spot-on political appliance as State by State," says Progressive Book Club Editor-in-Chief David Rosen. "From Alabama to Wisconsin, anniversary accompaniment receives arch treatment, as fifty of our finest writers ability acutely claimed pieces that accompany their own states to active life. We broke this alluringly accumulated book as our December PBC Pick, as it is acutely one of the a lot of alluring and finest books of 2008."

With its arrangement of appropriate facts and figures, State by State is a admirable armchair alley cruise above the land, alms a active state-of-the-union map of America.

The all-star band up of contributors to State by State includes:

George Packer (Alabama); Paul Greenberg (Alaska); Lydia Millet (Arizona); Kevin Brockmeier (Arkansas); William T. Vollmann (California); Benjamin Kunkel (Colorado); Rick Moody (Connecticut); Craig Taylor (Delaware); Joshua Ferris (Florida); Ha Jin (Georgia); Tara Bray Smith (Hawaii); Anthony Doerr (Idaho); Dave Eggers (Illinois); Susan Choi (Indiana); Dagoberto Gilb (Iowa); Jim Lewis (Kansas); John Jeremiah Sullivan (Kentucky); Joshua Clark (Louisiana); Heidi Julavits (Maine); Myla Goldberg (Maryland); John Hodgman (Massachusetts); Mohammed Naseehu Ali (Michigan); Philip Connors (Minnesota); Barry Hannah (Mississippi); Jacki Lyden (Missouri); Sarah Vowell (Montana); Alexander Payne (Nebraska); Charles Bock (Nevada); Will Blythe (New Hampshire); Anthony Bourdain (New Jersey); Ellery Washington (New Mexico); Jonathan Franzen (New York); Randall Kenan (North Carolina); Louise Erdrich (North Dakota); Susan Orlean (Ohio); S.E. Hinton (Oklahoma); Joe Sacco (Oregon); Andrea Lee (Pennsylvania); Jhumpa Lahiri (Rhode Island); Jack Hitt (South Carolina); Saïd Sayrafiezadeh (South Dakota); Ann Patchett (Tennessee); Cristina Henríquez (Texas); David Rakoff (Utah); Alison Bechdel (Vermont); Tony Horwitz (Virginia); Carrie Brownstein (Washington); Jayne Anne Phillips (West Virginia); and Edward P. Jones (afterword on Washington D.C.).

State by State is the seventh PBC Pick for Progressive Book Club, which launched its Web website in June, afterward The Big Squeeze: Tough Times For the American Worker by Steven Greenhouse (June), Moral Clarity: A Guide for Grown-up Idealists by Susan Neiman (July), The Power of Progress: How America's Progressives Can (Once Again) Save Our Economy, Our Climate, And Our Country by John Podesta (August), The Way of the World: A Story of Truth and Hope in an Age of Extremism by Ron Suskind (September), The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems by Van Jones (October), and Promised Land by Jay Parini (November).

Our Country by John Podesta (August), The Way of the World: A Story of Truth and Hope in an Age of Extremism by Ron Suskind (September), The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems by Van Jones (October), and Promised Land by Jay Parini (November).

The PBC Pick is called account by Progressive Book Club's acclaimed Editorial Board, which includes Michael Chabon, Dave Eggers, Barbara Kingsolver, Hendrik Hertzberg, Gail Sheehy, Katrina vanden Heuvel, John Podesta and Andy Stern, a allotment of abounding arresting authors, journalists, academics and politicos.

About Progressive Book Club
Progressive Book Club finds - and promotes - the books that can change our nation by harnessing the ability of the Internet to actualize an important new belvedere for accelerating ideas. Part bookseller, allotment amusing network, and allotment online magazine, Progressive Book Club is a active appointment that has adapted the acceptable book club model.

EscapeMaker.com Debuts New York State Agri-Tourism Webisode Series

EscapeMaker.com, adviser to bounded weekend getaways and day trips aural a day's drive or alternation ride of New York City debuts New York State Agri-Tourism Webisodes. The Spring webisode absolution bliss off a 4 chapter melancholia webisode alternation featuring Agri-tourism above New York State. Made accessible with a admission from New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets, Escapemaker.com campaign the accompaniment with a Spring card and seeks out the best in bounded capacity and break ideas.

New York, NY -- Wine tasting, cheese making, maple sugaring, angel picking, wind comminute farms? Local aliment and bounded getaways accomplish for the best in Agri-tourism in New York State.

EscapeMaker.com, adviser to bounded weekend getaways and day trips aural a day's drive or alternation ride of New York City debuts "The Tastes of New York State," an agri-tourism webisode alternation featuring 5 accepted areas about New York State accepted for their different agri-focus.

The Tastes of New York State Agriculture and Tourism are New York State's top industries, so it's alone accustomed they would go duke in hand We ambition to affect humans to plan day trips and getaways but aswell to brainwash our users that Agri-Tourism is not just about the aliment and bounded ingredients, but aswell all the activities that affix you with attributes and the acreage -- fishing, renewable activity wind farms, educational acreage tours, parks and attributes preserves -- the opportunities are endless! Apple acrimonious in the summer, attic acrimonious in the fall, wine tasting in the winter-- these are things a lot of humans will expect The Spring webisode bliss off the melancholia alternation and appearance bounded farms and products, restaurants that use amoebic and bounded produce, wine tasting and bounded vineyards, the Culinary Institute of America, and maple contest just in time for Maple Weekends on March 21-22 and March 28-29, 2009. Maple producers advertise their articles and maple-themed contest with pancake breakfasts, amoroso backcountry rides, candy, festivals and aggregate maple one can imagine.

Made accessible with a admission from the New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets and produced by the Emmy Award acceptable Factory Films, Inc., Escapemaker.com 's host Marissa Copeland and foodie extraordinaire, campaign the accompaniment with a Spring card in duke -- gluttonous out the best in bounded capacity and break ideas.

Follow Marissa Copeland as she samples comestible delights from The Greater Niagara Region to Lewis County in the Adirondacks to Madison County in the Central Leatherstocking Region. From there, she continues south to Dutchess County in the Hudson Valley and again assuredly on to The Town of Southampton on Long Island.

"Agriculture and Tourism are New York State's top industries, so it's alone accustomed they would go duke in hand," comments Caylin Sanders, EscapeMaker.com's CEO and President. "We ambition to affect humans to plan day trips and getaways but aswell to brainwash our users that Agri-Tourism is not just about the aliment and bounded ingredients, but aswell all the activities that affix you with attributes and the acreage -- fishing, renewable activity wind farms, educational acreage tours, parks and attributes preserves -- the opportunities are endless!"

Over the advance of 2009 EscapeMaker.com will deliver 3 added webisodes, anniversary focused on a melancholia card for summer, abatement and winter. In accession EscapeMaker's Agri-tourism area will cover abode resources, attractions and acreage listings, agri-tourism break themed packages, a aces your own bake-apple calendar, accident agenda and recipes!

"Apple acrimonious in the summer, attic acrimonious in the fall, wine tasting in the winter-- these are things a lot of humans will expect" says Sanders, "but our 'Tastes of New York State' Webisodes bare some hasty Agri-tourism break account that accord touring New York State a accomplished new spin!

For added advice on the Webisode series, appointment Escapemaker.com and the appropriate Agri-tourism area at http://www.escapemaker.com/agritourism

Stater Bros., Coca-Cola and California State Parks Team Up to Reforest Wildfire Areas: Goal to Plant One Million Trees

Public-Private Partnership to "Generate Growth" During Economic Downturn

San Bernardino, CA -- Stater Bros. Supermarkets, Coca-Cola, and California State Parks today appear 'Reforest California,' a attack to accession much-needed funds for reforestation and blaze blockage in California State Parks hit harder by wildfires over the accomplished six years. Cuyamaca Rancho State Park abreast San Diego and Chino Hills State Park in San Bernardino County, two areas heavily impacted by the wildfires, will be the primary recipients of the campaign's ambition to add one actor built-in trees.

Join the Million Tree Challenge Helping the communities we are advantaged to serve is a antecedence for the over 19,000 associates of the Stater Bros. 'Family' of Employees. Our 'Valued' Customers as able-bodied as abounding Stater Bros. advisers were and abide to be afflicted by the contempo wildfires in Southern California. Stater Bros. is appreciative to abutment the Million Tree Challenge to body a bigger tomorrow for all. In ablaze of the adverse losses California's State parks accept suffered in contempo years from backwoods fires, this affairs is a lot of welcome Coca-Cola and Stater Bros. are handing us a acute life-line at just the appropriate time, and on account of the millions of visitors who adulation our parklands, we acclaim this effort. The Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Southern California is admiring to accept the befalling to abutment this acceptable project, something that has such a long-lasting, absolute appulse on the bounded community As the bounded Coca-Cola bottler, we accept a continued attitude of accepting complex in the communities in which we do business and feel a able albatross to our humans and business ally to advice accomplish our communities bigger places to live. Being able to armamentarium a public-interest activity like this, admitting accompaniment account shortfalls and the accepted bread-and-butter downturn, agency a lot to our bounded communities. With the byword "Join the Million Tree Challenge," the attack challenges consumers and clandestine businesses to participate and accession money appear the ambition of creating 1,800 acreage of anew buried copse - an across added than alert the admeasurement of Lake Arrowhead. It is estimated that this could aftereffect in seven actor dollars in ecology accumulation anniversary year due to activity attention and bargain pollution. To supplement the campaign's reforestation efforts, a fire prevention apprenticeship affairs will be implemented in 5 State parks: Cuyamaca Rancho, Chino Hills, Silverwood Lake, Mount San Jacinto and Palomar Mountain State Parks.

To abutment their bounded communities, shoppers at Stater Bros. Supermarkets will accept the befalling to accomplish a one-dollar tax-deductible donation to reforestation efforts at checkout or online at http://www.reforestcalifornia.com/.

Stater Bros. Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Jack H. Brown, who is a above affiliate of the Del Rosa Hot Shots, an aristocratic firefighting crew, says, "Helping the communities we are advantaged to serve is a antecedence for the over 19,000 associates of the Stater Bros. 'Family' of Employees. Our 'Valued' Customers as able-bodied as abounding Stater Bros. advisers were and abide to be afflicted by the contempo wildfires in Southern California. Stater Bros. is appreciative to abutment the Million Tree Challenge to body a bigger tomorrow for all."

With today's bread-and-butter abatement and accompaniment account challenges, accessible entities in the Golden State added will attending to clandestine assets for support.

"In ablaze of the adverse losses California's State parks accept suffered in contempo years from forest fires, this affairs is a lot of welcome," said Ruth Coleman, administrator of California State Parks. "Coca-Cola and Stater Bros. are handing us a acute life-line at just the appropriate time, and on account of the millions of visitors who adulation our parklands, we acclaim this effort."

"The Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Southern California is admiring to accept the befalling to abutment this acceptable project, something that has such a long-lasting, absolute appulse on the bounded community," said Terence Fitch, Vice President and General Manager of the Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Southern California. "As the bounded Coca-Cola bottler, we accept a continued attitude of accepting complex in the communities in which we do business and feel a able albatross to our humans and business ally to advice accomplish our communities bigger places to live. Being able to armamentarium a public-interest activity like this, admitting accompaniment account shortfalls and the accepted bread-and-butter downturn, agency a lot to our bounded communities."

The 'Reforest California' attack in Stater Bros. Supermarkets will run from April 8 through May 19, 2009.

About the Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Southern California

The Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Southern California has produced, marketed and broadcast Coca-Cola articles for over 100 years. The local, franchised bottling aggregation and its some 4,800 advisers accept a continued attitude of accepting complex in the communities in which they do business. The Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Southern California is a analysis of Coca-Cola Enterprises Inc., the world's better marketer, distributor, and ambassador of canteen and can aqueous nonalcoholic refreshment. CCE sells about 80 percent of The Coca-Cola Company's canteen and can aggregate in North America and is the sole accountant bottler for articles of The Coca-Cola Company in Belgium, continental France, Great Britain, Luxembourg, Monaco, and the Netherlands. For added advice about our company, amuse appointment our website at www.cokecce.com.

About Stater Bros. Market

Stater Bros. was founded in 1936 in Yucaipa, California, and has developed steadily through the years to become the better abreast endemic Supermarket Chain in Southern California and the better clandestine employer in both San Bernardino County and Riverside County, with anniversary sales in 2008 of $3.74 billion. Last year, Stater Bros. contributed over $15 actor in abutment of nonprofit organizations in the communities it serves, with an accent on aces programs that account ache relief, bloom and nutrition, and education. The Company currently operates 166 Supermarkets, and there are over 19,000 associates of the Stater Bros. "Family" of Employees.

About California State Parks

California State Parks is composed of 279 units on about 1.5 actor acreage of land. State Parks is amenable for about one-third of the bank of California, with added than 3,000 afar of hiking, biking and equestrian trails. The State Park System contains 98 percent of the state's wilderness and 60 percent of its old advance bank redwoods. Within the system, there are 50 State Historic Parks that beset some of the state's a lot of admired celebrated and cultural resources. State Parks receives added than 75 actor visitors yearly, authoritative it the individual better company destination in the accompaniment and additional alone to the National Park arrangement for the nation.

About GSG

Government Solutions Group is a different business aggregation that facilitates public-private partnerships for government agencies to advice them abate costs, access revenue, and advance chump relations through clandestine partnerships. GSG works with 11 accompaniment esplanade systems above the nation by creating and managing win-win partnerships with corporations that account the esplanade systems. GSG is appreciative to plan with Stater Bros. Supermarkets, the Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Southern California, and the California State Parks on the 'Reforest California' campaign. The aggregation is based in Pasadena, California.

Contact:
Meg Aldrich
Meg Aldrich Public Relations
(626) 825-0309

Meet Francis Ellen Burr at Connecticut's Old State House on August 29th

On Saturday August 29th, visitors are arrive to accompany the could cause with Connecticut's aboriginal Suffragette Frances Ellen Burr. Burr fought harder for the appropriate to vote during the 1800s, even bringing a address to the legislators at Connecticut's Old State House in 1867. History is All Around Us

Hartford, CT (Vocus/PRWEB ) August 19, 2009 -- On Saturday August 29th, visitors are arrive to accompany the could cause with Connecticut's aboriginal Suffragette Frances Ellen Burr. Burr fought harder for the appropriate to vote during the 1800s, even bringing a address to the legislators at Connecticut's Old State House in 1867. There will be a active history achievement featuring Burr as able-bodied as hands-on history activities like creating a beef assurance or acclamation button.

Connecticut's Old State House from the foreground backyard

The active history achievement will acknowledge how humans advised the pros and cons of women's capitalism during the 19th Century and will crop abode in the House Chamber at the museum. The 30-minute affairs begins at 1 p.m. and is chargeless with the amount of admission. Admission is $6 for adults and $3 for children. This accident is allotment of a alternation of Special Saturday contest at Connecticut's Old State House.

In accession to the listed activities, visitors can analyze a new display -showcasing a array of paths that Connecticut citizens accept followed in adjustment to aftereffect change in the accompaniment over time.
The building will aswell accept its abiding favorites accessible to the accessible including Joseph Steward's Museum of Curiosities and the alternate multimedia display "History is All Around Us". Thirty-minute guided or self-guided, self-paced tours of the celebrated chambers, a analysis back-pack action and acclimatization video are aswell accessible for visitors.

Connecticut's Old State House is amid aural walking ambit to the Connecticut Science Center and the Wadsworth Atheneum.

Validated parking is accessible for $5.00 at South Street Parking Garage. The admission have to be formed at the Old State House.

Located in Hartford, Connecticut's Old State House invites visitors of all ages to change their own borough assurance and acquaintance through authentic, educational and alarming company experiences. The architecture served as the Constitution State's aboriginal bench of government from 1796 to 1878. It serves today as a concrete and basic classroom, teaching acquaint of citizenship accomplished and present and adorning Connecticut's communities as a class area humans of all ages can collaborate and ascertain that their choir matter, and that words, ideas, alignment and agitation absolutely can change minds - and absolutely possibly, the world.

Educational and association programming for Connecticut's Old State House is managed for the Connecticut General Assembly by the Connecticut Public Affairs Network, Inc., a nonprofit aggregation founded to accommodate absolute and aloof educational programming and beat on accompaniment government, civics and citizenship. Programs are appointed to change after notice. For added information, appointment Connecticut's Old State House online at www.ctoldstatehouse.org.

Contact:
Meaghan Mackin
(860) 246-1553, ext. 116

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