Cellular towers are becoming a part of our modern landscape equivalent to when billboards began to multiply a few decades ago. And like billboards, they are a mixed blessing at best and an environmental blight to many people. Each year in North America an estimated 4-5 million birds per year are killed in [...]
Bribes are just part of doing ‘bidness’ in Iraq..or An officer and a bribery suspect.
Well, this really isn’t a surprise right? What probably IS a surprise is who is taking them. From the NYT article:
Court documents filed in the case say the Army took action because the company was suspected of paying hundreds of thousands in bribes to Army officers to secure contracts to build, operate and maintain warehouses [...]
Bye Rove, don’t let the door hit ya where the good Lord split ya!
Today is the last day ‘of work’ for Karl Rove, aka the devil incarnate. Lets give him a rollicking good bye by remembering how he ruined the United States of America and basically the entire world as we know it. Let me start:
PlameGate…nothing more need be said.
Politicizing every department withing the Federal Government.
This is your [...]
Iowa Judge Allows Same-Sex Couples To Wed
DES MOINES, Iowa — A county judge struck down Iowa’s decade-old gay marriage ban as unconstitutional Thursday and ordered local officials to process marriage licenses for six gay couples. Gay couples from anywhere in Iowa could apply for a marriage license from Polk County under Judge Robert Hanson’s ruling.
Less than two hours after word [...]
Depleted Uranium- The gift that keeps on giving.
There are some bloggers who walk the walk. They are on the road much of the year speaking about the horrors and dangers of War. Charlie, Tammara and REB 84 are three who I have the pleasure of knowing, if only on the ‘internets’ through emails and their blogs. These are individuals that spend [...]
Pentagon’s military officers are NOT all on the same page…
The page I am referring to is the Iraq War page and what should be done next. McClatchy has a good article up that points out how many of the military minds can not come to a consensus on how to deal with the war. From the McClatchy article:
In a sign that top commanders are [...]
Remembrance…
Here are the thoughts of the Angry Black Bitch regarding Katrina, two years after the levee’s Failed.
Two years ago today was like any other day until it wasn’t. I’m sure I went to work, laughed with some people and bitched about something…and then came Katrina.
I am unable to recall Katrina without selfishly thinking about my [...]
Ghosts of New Orleans ~ 2 Years On
Your Demon had the great fortune to live in New Orleans for several years pre-hurricane, so the way that a great & wholly unique American city was allowed to disintegrate right before our very eyes is a continuing outrage, & a personal one, to me. It was, to me, a magic place, a [...]
Katrina Blanket
A flag is many things to many people. In the aftermath of Katrina this blanket of the American flag is her comfort. Little did she know that help wasn’t on the way. An old woman now…probably worked hard all of her life as someone’s maid or housekeeper. She had old age to look forward to [...]
Tonight on CNN, Katrina from a childs perspective.
Just a short note to alert folks that CNN will be showing a documentary tonight by Spike Lee and Soledad O’Brien entitled: Children of the Storm. Broadcast time is 8pm Eastern. Filmed almost entirely by 11 teenagers using handheld cameras, CNN says the doc “captures their poignantly personal journeys as they learn about [...]
