Al Qaida’s back in pre-9/11 fighting form, operating without fear or restraint along the Pakistan- Afghanistan border with the tacit support of Pakistan’s ISI, but somehow Iran is the world’s “most active” state sponsor of terrorism according to BushCo:
WASHINGTON (AP) — Al-Qaida has rebuilt some of its pre-Sept. 11 capabilities from remote hiding places in [...]
April 30, 2008 – 12:20 pm
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Ramona D. Marek, MS Ed.
It is well-established that we Americans love our pets with 49.7 percent of us considering them part of the family. New statistics published by the American Veterinary Medical Association’s 2007 U.S. Pet Ownership and Demographics Sourcebook (“Sourcebook”) show cats now rank as America’s first pet with 82 million owned cats to [...]
and not black boxes that can be hacked but not audited, right?
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court ruled Monday that states can require voters to produce photo identification without violating their constitutional rights, validating Republican-inspired voter ID laws. [...]
April 27, 2008 – 12:09 pm
Winner of the Oral History Association’s 2007 Nonprint Format Award…..A production of: The Northwest Women’s History Project
GOOD WORK SISTER! tells the stories of women shipyard workers of World War IIan eventful period in women’s economic and social history.“In their OWN WORDS these women reveal the pride they took in their work and the loss they [...]
April 27, 2008 – 12:07 pm
Image via WikipediaDavid Carrier is running to unseat Senator Don Benton in the 17th Legislative District. He has a PHD in economics from Notre Dame and is a professor at WSUV.
If you visit his campaign website, davidcarrier.org, he says:
People who are struggling and experiencing hardship represent lost talent and energy. Through my community service [...]
April 27, 2008 – 12:39 am
Here is some ancient humor:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7bYLgfM96M
April 25, 2008 – 11:36 am
As a person who works in the maritime industry, which is pretty conservative, this is cool*:
THE ILWU West Coast longshore workers have voted to “stop work to protest the US war and occupation on Iraq and Afghanistan on May Day 2008,” the ILWU said. All 29 ports on the U.S. West Coast are to be [...]
April 25, 2008 – 10:55 am
NEW YORK (AP) — Three detectives were acquitted of all charges Friday in the 50-shot killing of an unarmed groom-to-be on his wedding day, a case that put the NYPD at the center of another dispute involving allegations of excessive firepower.
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Bell, a 23-year-old black man, was killed in a hail of gunfire outside a seedy [...]
Instead of hanging out by the 7-11 writing speeding tickets, could you please do something about the scrap haulers driving their teetering and shedding loads up Hwy 30, across the St. Johns Bridge and over to Schnitzer?
Case in point, my ruined commute last night:
Some of these guys (and gals), with their jerry-rigged trailers filled with [...]
Sen. John McCain on Thursday blasted the Bush administration and all levels of government for the failed response to Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans.
“We know we didn’t have the right kind of leadership … where government agencies were getting information from watching cable television rather than have a flow of information,” McCain said during an [...]
April 24, 2008 – 12:23 pm
Not to be too snarky, but according to the AP, Clinton won 82 of 158 delegates allocated by the PA primary: a whopping 52%.
Those delegates bring her count up from a pre-PA 1,592.5 to 1,674.5, which takes her from 78.6 of the necessary 2,025 delegates for the nomination to a respectable 82.7% (a rise of [...]
April 23, 2008 – 11:10 pm
Oh, how I wish we lived in a country like this fantasy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GG7sj2APpc
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