AN EARTH DAY THOUGHT & A SONG

I know it's going to seem that I'm Sarah Palin bashing again tonight, but the sinking of the oil rig in the Gulf Of Mexico made me think of Palin saying just a few weeks ago that we didn't need to fully examine off shore drilling. She wants us to "Drill, Baby, Drill." While I know no matter how much we plan, there can always be a disaster, but I would still like to proceed with caution. So tonight I would like to say to the half term Governor from Alaska, "Think, Dumb Ass, Think." Unless you think what happened today is no big deal.

Rather than get into a long essay tonight, I thought I would offer one of my favorite energy songs, "Power". It was written by John Hall (who is now a congressman from New York), who with his band Orleans, brought you "Still The One" and "Dance With Me."

Here's a video of John and some famous friends performing the song. The lyrics appear below. Please remember that while today is Earth Day, everyday is respect the earth day.





POWER
(John and Johanna Hall)

Just give me the warm power of the sun.
Give me the steady flow of a waterfall.
Give me the spirit of living things as they return to clay.
Just give me the restless power of the wind.
Give me the comforting glow of a wood fire;
But please take all of your atomic poison power away.

Everybody needs some power, I'm told,
To shield them from the darkness and the cold.
Some may see a way to take control when it's bought and sold.

I know that lives are at stake:
Yours and mine and our descendants in time.
There's so much to gain, so much to lose,
Every one of us has to choose.

Just give me the warm power of the sun.
Give me the steady flow of a waterfall.
Give me the spirit of living things as they return to clay.
Just give me the restless power of the wind.
Give me the comforting glow of a wood fire;
But please take all of your atomic poison power away.

We are only now beginning to see
How delicate the balance of nature can be.
The limits of her ways have been defined
And we've crossed that line.

Some don't even care or know that we'll pay,
But we have seen the face of death in our day.
There's so little time to change our ways.
If only we together can say:

Just give me the warm power of the sun.
Give me the steady flow of a waterfall.
Give me the spirit of living things as they return to clay.
Just give me the restless power of the wind.
Give me the comforting glow of a wood fire;
But please take all of your atomic poison power away.