Having been out-of-touch for the better part of July, so thought I’d check in to see what’s happening around my local watering holes. I’m back in an area of the country where my literary bonds are strong, and that’s where the bulk of my energy is headed. As someone said the other day, “art is real.” I would also add that art is strong, art is healing, and art is open to interpretation by each and everyone of us....
Monthly Archives: August 2006
Nation’s Governors closing ranks on Bush Federalization of National Guard
The nation’s Governors are closing ranks on Bush and a proposal in Congress to federalize the National Guard in case of emergencies. What makes this even more bizzare and scary, is that Bush cannot be trusted with any authority, and the fact of what might constitute an emergency in the eyes of his Royal Highness. Anyone that has the slightest memory of last year when Katrina came along and gutted a big portion of my state, will remember the...
Judge orders killer’s release
Now I don’t even know what to say, or even what to think about this. So I will just let you read it and make your own opinion. Judge orders killer released from prison A convicted killer is set to be released from prison after a judge ruled his rights had been violated because he was continuously denied parole. On Thursday, the state Supreme Court declined to review an appeal by the California attorney general’s office, paving the way...
FEMA and their toxic trailers
GOD, I wanna scream at the tops of my lungs at this pathetic excuse for an agency! How long will it take for this botched up sorry excuse for a relief agency to get just one thing right? Not only did a lot of people have to wake very long periods to get a trailor to begin with, but now that they have them, it is making them sick! FEMA to test hurricane trailers for formaldehyde emissions Federal authorities...
Now That Is What I Call an Impeach Sign
With the permission of the FreewayBlogger, comes a copy of one of his post. This is just the greatest Impeach sign that I have ever seen. Best. Impeach. Ever. Freewayblogger, I put this up in March on a radio tower at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan. The command there loved it! Yours, Anonymous If this guy can climb a radio tower in Afghanistan, you should be able to reach that fencing next to the freeway behind the dumpsters at the mall....
Is WaPo “Sleeping Over” On K Street?
In a “News” story in The Washington Post this morning “An Estate Tax Twist Reverses Party Roles On Minimum Wage”Staff Writer Jeffrey Birnbaum leads with one of the most disingenuous paragraphs I have read in a major newspaper in awhile: For years, organized labor has worked hard to raise the minimum wage, while business groups have campaigned to block such a change. This week in the Senate, however, the AFL-CIO is pushing to kill the wage increase while practically...
John Kerry: Because I was lucky
Pamela posted earlier about the Boston Globes article on John Kerry and The Pan-Massachusetts Challenge. This is the email that was sent out by John Kerry. This man knows no limits. Because I was lucky Dear Friend, Saturday, I’m going on a long bike ride — with 4,500 other riders from 36 states. Following my 2003 bout with prostate cancer, I will be among the 200 or so riders who are cancer survivors. Each of us will be sponsored...
What Was Particularly Effective About Kerry’s Health Care Speech
So I voted for John Kerry, so I’m partisan, so my favorite baseball team is suffering through it’s 9th straight sub-500 season (or is it me who’s doing the suffering?) blah-blah-blah. The Kerry healthcare speech yesterday, gotta love it! Any Democrat (or anybody to the left of Dick “I really do shoot first” Cheney) can find their personal favorite parts of the speech. But here are mine: 1. Attack Wal-Mart a.k.a. “the Bully from Bentonville.” You wanna show your...
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