Happy Thanksgiving!

Thanksgiving means different things to different people. For us here at Skinny Moose Media and from Tom and Steve Remington, we want to take a few minutes and just thank everyone for being a part of our lives.

All too often we can get caught up in so many bad things going on around us that we forget about how many things we should and can be thankful for. And as such, I am thankful for you and both Steven and I and everyone associated with Skinny Moose Media want to wish you the absolute very best Thanksgiving Day. And may it be the most special day of all.

Tom and Steve Remington

New Environmental Manifesto “A Blue Print For Disaster”

U.S. Rep. Don Young

Washington, D.C. – Hundreds of thousands of U.S. jobs would be lost and more than 60 billion barrels of domestic oil would be locked up if the incoming Obama Administration accepts a new environmental manifesto released by the national environmental community, U.S. Rep. Don Young (R-Alaska) said today.

Young, the Ranking Member on the House Natural Resources Committee, was critical of “the anti-job and anti-energy manifesto” approved by the environmental community as their agenda demands for President-elect Obama. Read more

Black Activist Calls for Rangel’s Ouster from Congressional Leadership

Washington, D.C. – As yet another potential tax-related ethical lapse involving Congressman Charles Rangel (D-NY) surfaces, a member of the Project 21 black leadership network is calling for the veteran lawmaker to be removed as chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee – at least until these serious allegations are fully investigated.

Bishop Council Nedd II, a member of Project 21′s national advisory council, said: “It’s galling that the head of the committee in charge of levying taxes has either a profound ignorance of tax law or a disinterest in adhering to the laws he wants others to follow.” Read more

Why I’m Not Thankful We’ll Have Obama as President – Yet

Washington, D.C. – Black conservative leader Deneen Borelli, a full-time senior fellow with the Project 21 black leadership network, says she’s not thankful America is about to have Barack Obama as President – at least, not yet.

While she’s grateful for “our nation’s greatness and endless opportunity…” which made it possible for “a fatherless, racial minority of modest means rise to the most powerful position in the world,” Borelli says, and even “excited… about Barack Obama’s achievement,” she’s reserving judgment until she sees what kind of President Barack Obama turns out to be for not only racial minorities, but all Americans. Read more

Black Leader Condemns Bush for Not Pardoning or Commuting Sentences of Jailed Border Agents During Pre-Thanksgiving Round of Executive Clemency

Washington, D.C. – Project 21 Chairman Mychal Massie is condemning President Bush’s inaction regarding incarcerated Border Patrol agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Alonso Compean and is reiterating his call for a pardon or commutation of the agents’ sentences before the President leaves office in January.

Massie’s call comes as the White House has announced that President George W. Bush granted pre-Thanksgiving pardons to individuals involved in the distribution of drugs and bank embezzlement and commuted the sentences of two men given harsh mandatory sentences related to cocaine trafficking. Read more

ATI-News/Zogby Post-election Poll Shows Majority of Voters Oppose Outlawing Workers’ Right to Secret Ballot for Union Elections

Over 25 percent of Obama Voters Disagree with His Opposition to Free and Fair Elections for American Workers

November 25, 2008

Media Contact: Peyton Knight at (202) 828-1202

Washington, D.C. – A majority of American voters say they would have been less likely to vote for President-elect Barack Obama if they had known he supported controversial legislation that would eliminate workers’ right to a secret ballot in union elections, according to an exclusive post-election poll conducted by ATI-News and Zogby International. Read more

Rep. Young, AK On Benefits Of Offshore/Onshore Drilling

Washington, D.C. – The following is U.S. Rep. Don Young’s (R-Alaska) statement on today’s announcement regarding the Minerals Management Service’s disbursement of a record $23.4 billion to State, Federal and American Indian accounts due to onshore and offshore energy production in Fiscal Year 2008.

Young is the Ranking Member on the Natural Resources Committee.

“This historic level of disbursements to individual States, American Indians and the federal government demonstrates the important contribution that oil and gas leasing makes to the balance sheet of the taxpayers. Read more