Wednesday, May 9, 2007

Conservative Assault On America's Families
The “you are on your own”
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
Art Car Parade
Houston's Don't Miss Event
I Guess There Were Protesters At Roves Event
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