Watch the edgy, factual, and at times funny film that shows where the U.S. really stands on family-friendly policies, offers personal stories of families across the nation, and shares solutions.....here
The Democratic-controlled House voted Thursday night to pay for military operations in Iraq on an installment plan, defying Bush's threat of a second straight veto in a fierce test of wills over the unpopular war.....more
At This Rate We Will Never Get Out Of Iraq. I Don't Think The Dems Are Getting Our Message
Terrorist Luis Posada Carriles Could Be Tried In New Jersey A grand jury is meeting in Newark to decide whether to indict Posada on charges of financing a terrorist operation. FBI agents visited Havana last year in connection with the probe, following up on a 1998 trip to the island.....more
He Says He Is Going To Spill The Beans If Tried, I Can't Wait To Hear What He Has To Say
Steal From The Poor, Give To The Rich
Not In Riviera Beach, Florida
Two national advocacy groups dropped lawsuits Thursday against this downtrodden city aimed at stopping one of the nation's largest eminent domain projects after the city said it would not force residents from their homes. The move comes one year after Florida enacted a law that prohibits the use of eminent domain for private development. It Was This Guys Idea, Mayor Michael Brown, But he was ousted from office in March, and a new city council and mayor pledged to abide by state law......more
Bush Administration Goes After Michael Moore
Academy Award-winning filmmaker Michael Moore is under investigation by the U.S. Treasury Department for taking ailing Sept. 11 rescue workers to Cuba for a segment in his upcoming health-care documentary "Sicko,".......more
End The Embargo On The Cuban People
The Dissolving GOP Wind's Going To Blow It Away I can't psychoanalyze those guys. I think the GOP was dissolving. Now it's drying up and the wind's going to blow it away. I just don't think we have the depth of knowledge, intellect, and experience necessary for a viable political party any more.....Rep. Wayne Gilchrest (R-Md.)
Notion of government and freedom has meant that American families must live with stagnant wages at a time of high profits and productivity without a way to get ahead no matter how hard they try. It has meant health insecurity for workers and their families as fewer and fewer jobs provide health care coverage. It has meant that workers face their older years without the means they counted on to retire, as corporations have slashed traditional pension plans. And it has meant that half of Americans don’t have the fundamental right to take a day off from work when they are sick without losing a job or a paycheck......more
Something Jeremy Wallace Of The Herald Tribune Failed To Mention
Though their specific concerns varied, the protesters stood together along southbound U.S. 41 in Punta Gorda Saturday in response to one event: Karl Rove's appearance at the Charlotte County Republicans' Lincoln Day Dinner Gala, held that evening at Benedetto's Restaurant in Punta Gorda........more
Here Is What Mr. Wallace Had To Say.......click here
Conservatism Has Failed Conservatism Is Dead Watching the Republican debate last week really highlighted the fact that conservatism is dead. Not so much in the sense that no one believes in it anymore (those 20 percenters are still hangin’ on), but that it has been discredited to the point that very few are willing to give it another chance......more
Tuesday, May 8, 2007
One In Eight Iraqi Child Dead Before Reaching Their Fifth Birthday The chance that an Iraqi child will live beyond age five has plummetted faster than anywhere else in the world since 1990, said a report released Tuesday, which placed the country last in its child survival rankings.....more State of the World’s Mothers Report
Italy's Neo-Fascist National Alliance Party
Giving Italians Free Urine Test
Milan authorities are handing out free urine testing kits to parents of teenagers so they can find out if their children are using illegal drugs. In a part of the northern Italian city controlled by the right-wing National Alliance party, almost 4,000 families will receive a coupon which they can exchange for a kit to test for some of the most widely used drugs including cannabis and cocaine......more
Lets All Pee Pee In The Cup
Lincoln Diaz-Balart, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and Mario Diaz-Balart Support Terrorist Luis Posada Carriles South Florida’s three Cuban-American members of congress today are denouncing the Justice Department’s cooperation with the government of Cuba on collecting evidence in the Luis Posada Carriles case.......more
Monday, May 7, 2007
May Day Cops Off LA Streets
Police Chief William Bratton said Sunday that up to 60 members of an elite squad that swarmed into a park and fired rubber bullets during a May Day immigration rally are no longer on the street......more
"I'm not going to defend the indefensible," Bratton told journalists
We Still Have The Video, What Will These Cops Tell Their Children?
RFK: Rove, 'Should be in jail,' Not In Office
He Is Very Good In The Caging’ Technique
Voting rights attorney Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has called for prison time for the new US Attorney for Arkansas, Timothy Griffin and investigation of Griffin’s former boss, Karl Rove, chief political advisor to President Bush.......here
Now Thats What I'm Talking About Mr. Star, Fix Elections And Compromise Your Countrys Democracy.....As Long As Your Side Wins. Couldn't This Also Be Treason?
Dean says Dems playing nice -- for now
Democrats running for president this year probably won't play nice with one another much longer, but they are staying together on issues important to voters, national party Chairman Howard Dean told a Dartmouth College audience Monday......more
Sunday, May 6, 2007
West Tampa Neighborhood Contaminated
Stay Away From 1707 West Arch Street
The chemical Perchloroethylene, is being improperly released into the environment at 7000 times the allowed limit. Cancer survivor Annette Jackson has lived just a block away from the plant for the past 23 years and says the news has her upset and worried. D.E.P. found high levels of the chemical in ground and water samples taken just outside. As much as 1000 gallons of the chemical was improperly stored and disposed of........more
Simply Unfucking Believable
Sarasota County Deputies Raid Jim Neville Island Looking For Pirates With A Tiki Bar Stocked With Booze The Sheriff's Office says it had complaints about the campers and knew they were there, but deputies could not find them from the air because the brush was so thick. On March 29 the helicopter's thermal imaging equipment spotted 17 sources of fire -- the campsite and tiki torches......more About The Jim Neville Preserve......here
Charlotte County Republican Party Host War Criminal A controversial war, investigations, plummeting polls and feisty Democrats have made it a tough year for the man known as "Bush's Brain." But you wouldn't know it from the applause a jovial Karl Rove received as he stepped to the lectern at the Best Western Hotel in Punta Gorda on Saturday night at the Charlotte County Lincoln Day Dinner.....more "I think he is still a political genius," said Bob Starr, Charlotte County Gop Political Genius = Fix Elections And Compromise Your Countrys Democracy
No One Righted "The Horrible Thing"
Charlie Give Alan Crotzer His Money
The Legislature left town Friday and Alan Crotzer didn't get a penny. No one righted "the horrible thing" that had happened to him, as Gov. Charlie Crist called it when he pledged Crotzer his support on the Capitol steps.......more
Best Of Right Wing Howler: April 27, 2006
TYPICAL LIBERALS
So is it any surprise they will not buy into the advertising nor buy the books Kos sells? They want it given to them. They just want a place where they can smoke their dope, wear their patchouli, dress in their Birkenstocks and protest the fact no one gives them what they want?....more
Saturday, May 5, 2007
Howard Dean 5.5.2007 Cinco de Mayo commemorates the battle at Puebla in 1862 when Mexican soldiers defeated an invading imperial force more than twice their size. It was a victory for freedom and liberty. Today, a similarly disproportional assault is being waged on family values by Republicans in Washington, including President Bush', who wants to derail comprehensive immigration reform and divide families merely for political gain.......more
Obama, Myspace, and GOP Misinformation
Recently blogs and newspapers have been buzzing about how the Barack Obama campaign took over the http://wwww.myspace.com/barackobama url from an Obama fan who started the page back in 2005. While the story is about whether the Obama campaign bullied the volunteer, the bigger story is about the way Republicans and Obama’s Democratic critics are using this as an attempt at misinformation......more
Hong Kong Willie Still Sticking It To The Man A TAMPA TOURIST ATTRACTION An artist's collective that makes art out of buoys, burlap bags and other discards. Founded in 1965. Stop in and say hello to Kim and Joe. They need our support. You know where it is, that colorful looking place on Fletcher Ave and I75. Check out Willie's blog .......here
Friday, May 4, 2007
Rageh Inside Iran Rageh Omaar embarks on a unique journey inside what he describes as one of the most misunderstood countries in the world, looking at the country through the eyes of people rarely heard - ordinary Iranians. From The BBC - Runtime 98 Minutes.........here Great Film, If You Haven't Seen It You Should.
Prison Pups Inmate Edward Parent, who is serving a ten-year sentence for a DUI death resulting in a conviction, sits with Chuck, a black Labrador he is training to be a service dog as part of NEADS' Prison Pup program, at the John J Moran medium security prison in Cranston, Rhode Island, in this April 24, 2007 file photo. Dozens of dogs are being trained by prison inmates in a fast-growing program that provides "service dogs" to help U.S. veterans who have lost arms and legs or suffered brain injuries in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.......ahnc Prison Pups
Joan Baez Banned By Army
Legendary folk singer and antiwar activist Joan Baez has been denied permission to sing at a concert for wounded soldiers at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. John Mellencamp had asked her to perform with him last Friday and that she accepted his invitation. But then the Army subsequently refused to let her take part. Mellencamp told RollingStone.com that when they asked why, the reply they got was, "She can't fit here."