IT’S unfathomable. A shooting during a Mother’s Day parade wounds 19 people, including children. You have to ask yourself what is it going to take before conservative senators in Congress send a message to people that America’s so-called “gun culture” doesn’t mean turn our cities into the wild west. From CNN: Abdul Aziz believes he [...]
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Beyoncé Blows Out the Lights at the Super Bowl
What’s more, she filled the television screen, a human pneumatic drill of intensity, constantly bouncing and whirring. This is part of what set her apart from some past performers, whose songs were big enough, but whose attitude and presentation weren’t. At the beginning of “Crazy in Love,” she dropped to one knee, then sprawled on [...]
Sandy Versus Katrina, Are You Kidding?
YOU WOULD think Republicans would be too embarrassed by the memory of Katrina to utter such obscenity, but you’d be wrong. Fox ran with this nonsense comparison, with Drudge doing his best to compare the situation in the New Orleans stadium with what’s happening in New York, Staten Island and New Jersey. Segue to Paul [...]
Gov. Chris Christie: “The President has been All Over this and Deserves Great Credit”
Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy HE IS not just a candidate for reelection, he is the President of the United States doing his job. The comments from Governor Chris Christie say it all. “The federal government’s response has been great. I was on the phone at midnight again [...]
From Hurricane to Tropical Storm, A View of Isaac from NASA
“We haven’t seen anything like this, not even with Katrina,” said Billy Nungesser, president of Plaquemines Parish, located about 95 miles from New Orleans. “Those areas that didn’t flood for Katrina were flooded for this storm. If this is a Category 1 storm, I don’t want to see anything stronger.” [New York Times] THE NATIONAL [...]
Hurricane Isaac Bears Down on Gulf
As the seventh anniversary of Hurricane Katrina’s landfall approaches, New Orleans — and much of the Gulf Coast — is preparing to put into practice the lessons learned from that defining storm. Tropical Storm Isaac is following a path eerily similar to Katrina’s in 2005. [CNN] TAMPA IS safe, but New Orleans is not.
“Christian Patriot” Who Criticizes Southern Decadence Convicted of Obscenity
Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. In itself, this isn’t exactly news breaking stuff, but it is another example of the fairly widespread and weird obsession with sex – in particular, what the obsess-sor imagines other people do – that characterizes our society. It involves a minister who denounces “the gays,” [...]
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