SondraK, Lympian Slayer An anti-war group is hiring activists to travel to at least a dozen states this summer to galvanize opposition to what it calls the “Bush-McCain plan to escalate” the U.S. mission in Iraq.
~SNIP~ A coalition of liberal and anti-war groups, the organization is advertising online for activists, offering a “generous stipend” of $400 a week. More than 100 organizers will likely be hired. The ads say they “could be assigned to targeted legislative districts anywhere in the country—you will receive your assignment after you have been accepted.”
The group won’t release details on the summer campaign until a later date, said spokeswoman Moira Mack.
“We are definitely building up the capacity for the summer,” Mack said. “A couple of our allies have started Iraq action summer training camps on campuses across the country.”
Jackson’s words while defending his son Trey against charges of racism surprised a lot of people I talked to Tuesday.
“I’ve had that colored boy in my home,” Jackson said of the teen son of an African-American high school basketball coach.
If the southern Colorado town of La Jara needs a place to start mending an ugly racial rift, Dr. Jackson’s phrase would be a fine place to start.
~SNIP~ King called the phrase “disparaging and dehumanizing.”
Think N-word light.
“Colored boy” is the polar opposite of “people of color.”
this is the stuff that counts.
The Senate on Wednesday rejected legislation that would cut off money for combat operations in Iraq after March 31, 2008.
Israeli medics evacuate a wounded woman from the scene of a rocket attack in the southern Israeli town of Sderot May 15, 2007. A rocket fired by Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip hit a house in Sderot on Tuesday
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Hamas gunmen killed five of their own combatants in an ambush on a Fatah vehicle that had been carrying Hamas detainees, Fatah officials said Wednesday.
in other news.....
two Palestines
Nice house…
Fatah has it’s own John Edwards.
I finally figured it out. I kept hearing about all those jobs Americans just won’t do. We’re never really told what they are, but I guess we should be happy they’re getting done and stop complaining about all the negative aspects of having twenty million illegal aliens in our midst..................
I’ve really not given ANY “candidate” running for PotUS’08 any serious thought until now......
The cigar!!!!!!!!
*stomp*stomp*stomp*
You may recall a couple months back that my asthma inhalers went from a $7 co-pay to a $20 because the old propellant formula was RUINING!!! the environment and they substituted the ozone depleting greenhouse gas producing whatever it was for ethanol...and they suck now.
I had to re-fill my prescription today and had this exchange with the Pharmacist:
Me:
I need two Albuterol inhalers.
Pharmacist woman in the window:
You’re aware they’ve changed??
Me:
Yes
Pharmacist woman in window:
do you know why?
Me:
yes, that’s why I’m pissed.
Pharmacist woman in window:
Are you a Democrat? Because you can blame Bush for that.........
The donks have Kucinich, while we in turn have Ron Paul
After tonight, there can be no doubt that the man is a certifiable crackpot.
That is, unless you happen to be a Liberetardian True Conservative(TM) who has deemed Ron Paul worthy of our respect
So please, no guffawing.
And speaking of Kucinich, it appears that he and Paul have a lot in common…
That’s not conservatism folks, that’s dementia.
And let’s not forget that Ron Paul is also a member of the Spineless Seventeen
The Ugly American 
tonight’s scenes from my humane eggs carton
More than 2,500 drivers who regularly commute in 25 major metropolitan areas were asked to rate road rage and rude driving in telephone surveys between January and March. The survey was conducted by Prince Market Research has a margin of error of plus or minus 2 percentage points.
The list, ranked from those reporting the most incidents of road rage to the fewest:
Time, time time…
The Watson Post Office is one of the nation’s 37,000 post offices in which clocks have been removed from retail areas as part of a “retail standardization program” launched last year. The effort is designed to give the public-service areas a more uniform appearance, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported in Thursday editions.
“We want people to focus on postal service and not the clock,” said Stephen Seewoester, Dallas spokesman for the U.S. Postal Service.
At the Fort Worth post office, the hook that once held up the small battery-powered clock now protrudes from a plaster wall. The clock was taken down months ago.
A customer-service expert at Texas A&M University was not impressed with the decision to take down the timepieces. “It’s silly,” said Leonard Berry, holder of the M.B. Zale Chair in Retail and Marketing Leadership. “I guess they think people don’t have watches.”
