The James Logan Courier

By Peter Hecht
McClatchy Newspapers(MCT)

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Attorney General Jerry Brown, who has set out on a legal crusade to force local government agencies in California to reduce greenhouse gases through better land use planning, was upstaged recently by a talking snowman.

The former governor and national political figure made a YouTube video for last Tuesday's CNN Democratic presidential debate, asking the candidates what they will do about "climate disruption and global warming."

But Brown didn't make the cut. Instead, millions of viewers for days watched repeated plays of a video — created by two Minneapolis men — depicting a forlorn snowman and his frosty sidekick.

"I've been growing concerned about global warming," the snowman says. "The single most important issue to the snowmen of this Global warming permeates public discourse

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Fatima Jinnah (July 30, 1893 — July 8, 1967) was the sister of Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan and an active political figure in movement for independence from the British Raj. She is commonly known in Pakistan as Khatoon-e-Pakistan (Urdu: — "Lady of Pakistan") and Madar-e-Millat ("Mother of the Nation.") She was born in Karachi, Pakistan, then a part of British India. She was admitted to the Dr. R. Ahmed Dental College in the University of Calcutta in 1919 and went on to open her dental clinic in Bombay in 1923. She was an instrumental figure in the Pakistan movement and the primary organiser of All India Muslim Women Students Federation. After the formation of Pakistan and the death of her brother, she remained a part of politics. In 1965, Miss Fatima Jinnah ran for President as a candidate of the Combined Opposition Party (COP) however she did not win. She continued to work for the welfare of the Pakistani people until she died in Karachi on July 8, 1967.

Read Fatima Jinnah's book, My Brother, free from the government of Pakistan.