The Green Issue

Mic Check goes green in honor of the Live Earth Concert. Read all about Bush’s horrendous environmental record, get the inside scoop on the concert itself, and find out why a Missouri congressman says “the issue of climate change is dripping with the blood of Christ.” PLUS: Russia’s hosting the Olympics! You’re putting on your sunscreen incorrectly! Private contractors in Iraq are people too! And we’re getting ready for the luckiest day of the year. It’s July 6th, and we’re greener than an envious leprechaun.

Celebration Excuse

How will YOU celebrate George Bush’s birthday?

1885

Louis Pasteur successfully treats someone for rabies.

1947

The debut of Candid Camera

1957

Paul, John. John, Paul. Lennon and McCartney meet for the first time.

1957

Althea Gibson becomes the first African American to win Wimbledon

1976

Women are finally inducted into the U.S. Naval Academy

2001

Spy James Hanssen pleads guilty to 15 criminal counts

2005

NYT reporter Judith Miller gets thrown in the slammer for refusing to out her sources in the Valerie Plame leak case

EAT MORE CAKE

1907: Mexican painter Frida Kahlo

1921: First Lady Nancy Reagan

1935: The Dalai Lama

1946: Sylvester Stallone

1946: President George W. Bush

Daybook

ALL DAY

It’s National Fried Chicken Day! Make it finger-lickin’ good!

POTUS

Break out the cake and ice cream, Mr. Potus turns 61 today, and celebrates with the few friends he has left. Just kidding, sort of.

PEOPLE

Former Sec. of State Colin Powell participates in an internet chat with Generation Engage in New York.

STUMPIN’

Gov. Bill Richardson raises campaign cash in Columbia, SC, then speaks to the Manchester Chamber of Commerce in New Hampshire.

Senator Chris Dodd gets melodious with the singer Paul Simon at events in Mason City, Ft.Dodge and Sioux City, Iowa.

Fred Thompson does the fundraising thing in Atlanta.

Rudy Giuliani schmoozes between bites at a restaurant in Myrtle Beach then holds a town hall meeting in Savannah, GA.

Senator Hillary Clinton speaks to the United Steelworkers in Cleveland then gets her groove on at the Essence Music Festival in New Orleans.

Tommy Thompson starts his 100-stop bus tour around Iowa in Ames.

Representative Ron Paul tries his luck at a fundraiser for the Nevada G.O.P. in Las Vegas.

Mike Huckabee, Rock Star? Who knew! The former Governor rocks out with his band, Capitol Offense, in Dover, N.H.

TV TIME

Tune In At Work

The Oprah: (Repeat) Dysfunctional families in which children are the caretakers

The View: (Repeat) We’re laughing already; Steve Carell, Wanda Sykes, guest co-host Molly Shannon

Regis and Kelly: Pamela Anderson

Ellen DeGeneres: (Repeat) Denzel Washington, Nathan Lane

Stay Up Late

Letterman: (Repeat) Desperate Housewife Teri Hatcher, Elvis Costello & the Imposters

Leno: (Repeat) George Clooney, senior-citizen band the Zimmers, Rihanna

Late Late Show: The hilarious Amy Sedaris, Breaking Benjamin

Conan: (Repeat) What a pair; Snoop Dogg, Tom Waits

Kimmel: (Repeat) Kathy Griffin, T-Pain

 

Eavesdrop

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Congressman Emmanuel Cleaver (D-MO), in an exclusive interview with MicCheck.

Who: Congressman Cleaver is a member of the recently formed House Select Committee on Global Warming and Energy Independence and an ordained Methodist minister, serving as Senior Pastor at St. James United Methodist Church in Kansas City. [Congressman Cleaver]

What: Congressman Cleaver spoke with Mic Check about global warming, how the issue is resonating deeply with people of faith, the “stewardship responsibility” that all major monotheistic religions share, and, frankly, that “the issue of climate change drips with the blood of Christ.”

  • Cleaver points out that, “if there has ever been an issue where there is an inextricable connection between that which is occurring in the political arena and that which is dictated by the theological arena, it is climate change.”
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  • In the book of Genesis, Cleaver explains, God “said ‘go out subdue the Earth,’ not undo it, and we are undoing it.”
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  • The “stewardship responsibility": “We have a responsibility to Allah, Yahweh, God, Elohim, Jesus, whatever you want to call him, to take care of his Earth.”
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  • “This is God’s world, and the whole issue of climate change drips with the blood of Christ.”
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  • Cleaver feels that people “will resist our efforts to create carbon neutrality if they believe that change is ordered by the heavy hand of government.” But, “they will respond quite differently if they see it as a lifestyle ordained by the divine hand of God.”
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  • This issue needs to be “presented in a biblical and theological way” if “we’re going to save this little ball that rotates around the sun.”
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