Neil Young’s latest, much anticipated album went “live” on this website yesterday. The music is streaming for free, but not for download, so it’s not quite “free.” But you can listen, and the lyrics are sort of available – you click on the song title to see them stream across the screen ticker-style (and if you click the license plate to see the title list and get to where the ticker scrolls, the music cuts off). It sounds pretty rough – reportedly, it was written, recorded, and marketed in a hurry. There’s a lot of feedback – and I bet…
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What the hell, I used another online “Write a letter to your Congresscritter” form to add my little voice to the rising chorus calling for impeachment. Dear [Decision Maker To Be Filled In Later], Why have I chosen a form letter to write to ask your support in a grass-roots effort to Impeach George W Bush? Because it’s easy, yes, and also because I was reminded of this issue just now while I was working online. Actually, I’m all for a package deal – impeach the whole pack of lying, warmongering, spying war-and-energy profiteers, I say. I appreciate the work…
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Here’s irony for you – yesterday, I was doing a laundry run for the local PADS homeless shelter yesterday. It was absolutely the last day to do it, because the shelter we at Holy Moly volunteer for is a Friday night, and they needed to have the soiled laundry picked up, dropped off at the local hospital that donates the bedding sets, and clean sets returned to the site. Normally, I do this (about once a month or less) on Sunday after church the week I’m scheduled, but it can actually be done any time between Saturday and Thursday. But…
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Here’s why I wonder if Republicans think the rest of us are stupid: They line up to howl about issues that they think will get them attention, then quietly slink off and do exactly as they please. Case in point: the Republican Congressional leadership are all loudly calling for lower gas prices, energy efficiency, and anything that makes them look like they’re doing something about the problem. So they held a press conference recently at a BP gas station in Washington DC, and Speaker of the House Denny Hastert (R-IL) showed up in a hydrogen fueled car. Very nice, very…
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Oh, it was only matter of time, but still it’s sweet as candy on the tongue to type the words “Rush Limbaugh Arrested.” I about had convulsions just now when we were watching the tail end of Numb3rs, and a news teaser came up with the news that Rush Limbaugh had been arrested (oops, I did it again). Rush Limbaugh Turns Himself In On Fraud Charge In Rx Drug Probe MIAMI, April 28 — Talk radio icon Rush Limbaugh surrendered to authorities Friday on a charge of committing fraud to obtain prescription drugs, concluding an investigation that for more than…
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Unlike ***Dave, we had a ton of young visitors today for Take Your Progeny To Work Day. They started out being taken around on a tour to meet all the team leaders, and then they were in various activities all day. Toward the latter part of the afternoon, however, the rot set in. Their minders had other duties and tasks that needed attention, and eventually most of the boys ended up in the break rooms watching cartoons, while most of the girls wandered back and forth between whereever the activity room was and their mothers’ desks. Can’t help but wonder…
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Illinois General Assembly has Impeachment Resolution introduced | ImpeachPAC State Rep. Karen Yarbrough (D-Maywood) introduces HJR0125 in the Illinois General Assembly, utilizing the Sec. 603 procedure and calling for the impeachment of George W. Bush! WHEREAS, Section 603 of Jefferson’s Manual of the Rules of the United States House of Representatives allows federal impeachment proceedings to be initiated by joint resolution of a state legislature; and WHEREAS, President Bush has publicly admitted to ordering the National Security Agency to violate provisions of the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, a felony, specifically authorizing the Agency to spy on American citizens without…
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‘RESPECTFUL’ W. HEARS A HU, while Cheney kept watch from the rear. Safety note: never disturb a sleeping veep. He may awaken suddenly, guns blazing. That’s Rummy over there on the right, looking like he’s pretending not to notice.
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Ex-CIA agent says WMD intelligence ignored�|�Reuters.com CBS said the CIA’s intelligence source was former Iraqi Foreign Minister Naji Sabri and that former CIA Director George Tenet delivered the information personally to US President George W Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and other top White House officials in September 2002. They rebuffed the CIA three days later. “The policy was set. The war in Iraq was coming and they were looking for intelligence to fit into the policy,” the former CIA agent told CBS. US allegations that Saddam had WMD and posed a threat to international security was a main justification…
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AP Wire | 04/20/2006 | Legendary pilot Scott Crossfield killed in small plane crash RANGER, Ga. – Legendary test pilot Scott Crossfield, the first person to fly at twice the speed of sound, was found dead Thursday in the wreckage of a single-engine plane in the mountains of northern Georgia, his son-in-law said. Searchers with the Civil Air Patrol and others discovered the wreckage of the plane Thursday afternoon but didn’t immediately identify the body inside. In the 1950s, Crossfield flew numerous experimental planes at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., and was a key figure in the development of the…