An animal rights group wants to rent a prison building the state plans to close and turn it into the nation’s first chicken empathy museum. A People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals official sent a letter Monday to Gov. Tim Kaine asking to rent the Botetourt Correctional Center building in Troutville…
Ashley Byrne , this is for you:
I rode by the Acorn Office at 739 8th Street, SE (across the street from the Marine Barracks) and shot photos 9766-68 on Saturday after the Tea Party. Rode by again today (leading a bike tour of the city for Boy Scout Troop ###, Fredericksburg, VA on Saturday and needed to do a shake-down ride) and shot 9788-89 today....
ThomasM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Former President Jimmy Carter said Tuesday that U.S. Rep. Joe Wilson’s outburst to President Barack Obama during a speech to Congress last week was an act “based on racism” and rooted in fears of a black president…
Oh, sure, I could’ve added a bunch more.
Perhaps you have some suggestions.
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*curtsey*
Thanks again, John!
President Obama was blasted by a top Latino ally on Monday for modifying his health-care plan in the face of conservative criticism.
The criticism was leveled in Spanish by Rep. Luis Gutierrez, a Democrat from Illinois who was the first Latino member of Congress to endorse Barack Obama for president.
Referring to the Obama administration, Gutierrez said: “Those who should be our friends, our allies, are more and more giving Rep. (Joe) Wilson, R-S.C., exactly what he wants to continue with this prejudice against our community."…
...looks like a bunch of people are taking “you lie” personally........
Just a quickie ...
The donations are pouring in from every direction and so fast and furious that my head is spinning!!!!!!!
While I haven’t been able to sit down and gather my wits completely, it looks like we’ve accumulated over… $1700!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I have 3 more checks waiting at the PO box that I’m going to pick up in a bit…
I have no words.
I plan to sit down tomorrow evening and put it all together. Had I expected this kind of response I’d have been better prepared to keep track as we went along.
I’m going to have to enlist JR’s help to round it all up in one place and man the calculator while I rattle off from the checks and the PayPal account. It’s honestly too much for me to handle by myself! I am NOT COMPLAINING!!!!!
I am so grateful for your patience and for not thinking I’m an ungrateful schmuck for not responding/acknowledging your generosity one by one for the time being. Again, this got bigger than I could have ever imagined and at the moment, is just physically impossible.
There’s still one more day (am I a glutton for punishment or what! :) if you are so inclined…
Nepal’s capital city, Kathmandu, has run out of goats to sacrifice just days before the country’s biggest religious festival of the year…
President Barack Obama called hip-hop musician Kanye West a “jackass” during an off-the-record moment while conducting an interview Monday with CNBC, an ABC News anchor reported on Twitter.
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The tweet forced the network to issue an apology after the Internet quickly became abuzz over the stunning quote published on the microblogging site.An ABC spokesperson said, “In the process of reporting on remarks by President Obama that were made during a CNBC interview, ABC News employees prematurely tweeted a portion of those remarks that turned out to be from an off-the-record portion of the interview,” Politico reported. “This was done before our editorial process had been completed. That was wrong. We apologize to the White House and CNBC and are taking steps to ensure that it will not happen again.”
West, who is no stranger to controversy, apologized for the incident after Sunday night’s MTV broadcast and again Monday night during an interview on the premiere of NBC’s “Jay Leno Show.”
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West told Leno he’s going to take some time off to reflect and that “it was rude, period.”The White House had no immediate comment on the matter, Politico reported.
House Democratic leaders will move ahead with a “resolution of disapproval” against Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.) on Tuesday afternoon, following through on their threat to sanction the conservative lawmaker for heckling President Obama during his speech to Congress last week.
Democratic leaders will formally introduce the resolution Tuesday afternoon, according to House insiders, and the vast majority of Democrats - as well as some Republicans - are expected to vote for it.
No decision had been made at press time as to which Democrat would be offering the resolution.
A number of Democrats, led by Majority Whip James Clyburn (S.C.) and other black lawmakers, were outraged when Wilson yelled out “You lie!” during Obama’s address, and they have pressed Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and other top Democrats to sanction Wilson.
Democrats say they will craft the resolution very narrowly, so that it simply addresses Wilson’s behavior while avoiding larger fights over Wilson’ claim that the Obama-backed health care bill will give health insurance to illegal immigrants....
WTF do these freaking people want?????? The guy apologized almost immediately already!!!!!!!!!!
Have you ever hurt yourself with food? Biting your lip or cheek doesn’t count.
Because I burned my knee this afternoon with a Pomegranate toaster pastry.
They’re real patriots, and they’re spectacular!
( Scroll down, you pigs. She has a pretty face too. )
SBG
( for David A. Tatum in comments )
Ted Kennedy Jr., the oldest son of the late senator Edward Kennedy, answered with an intriguing “maybe” this morning when ... asked whether he’d be interested in [going] into politics.
“Maybe I’ll run for public office. I haven’t crossed that bridge yet,” Ted Jr. said.
God you guys rock!
We have accumulated $1125 $1335 $1385$1435!!!!!!!!!! toward our little gesture of thanks to our troops.
( original post here with details in case you missed it )
You people are amazing....all I have to do is ask and you deliver. Every. single. time.
As I understand I have a check or two enroute and will be tallying and gathering together the total funds on Thursday and delivering them on Friday when I attend a pre-event at Ft. Lewis for the alumni.
Consider this one last nudge...if anyone cares to contribute, I’ll be accepting donations through Wednesday. (when I’ll also be compiling a list of you all and attempt to thank you personally for all you have done )
But for now, THANK YOU FOR ALL THAT YOU ARE! USA!USA!USA!
veal calves
France Telecom SA was mobilizing all 20,000 of its managers Monday in an effort to respond to a string of 23 employee suicides that unions blame partly on layoffs and restructuring at the telecommunications giant.
Apparently the employees couldn’t handle the change from gubbmint-run outfit to that eeevil, gray capitalism…
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handy chart used to estimate 3 million 4 million 1.8 million
( biggie one for future ref )
“record crowd”
A record crowd lined the National Mall and parade route on Inauguration Day, Washington officials said Thursday.
About 1.8 million came to the city for the day’s inaugural events, according Leslie Kershaw, a spokeswoman for Washington, DC Mayor Adrian Fenty. That estimate — 50 percent higher than the previous record — came from local and federal agencies in the Joint Operations Command Center, which was responsible for managing the crowd.
The National Park Service, which was banned by Congress from releasing crowd estimates after controversy over its count of participants in the Million Man March in 1995, said it would not challenge the 1.8 million figure, according to the Washington Post.
“tens of thousands”
ACORN’s lifeblood is conflicts with targets outside the organization.
Think about that. It’s lifeblood isn’t empowering disadvantaged communities nor lifting people out of poverty. It isn’t concerned about increasing economic growth to improve the lives of its members. It’s lifeblood is conflict. Conflict with targets. It actually thinks of the world outside itself as targets.
So, we headed up to New York............
remember, it’s for the children™
The Green Party invited President Barack Obama’s green-jobs czar to join their ranks, possibly as a future presidential candidate, after he stepped down last Sunday following controversial statements and activities.
Van Jones had recently come under fire for making derogatory comments about Republicans, calling them “a—holes,” earlier this year, and likening former President George W. Bush to a “crackhead” in a speech captured on YouTube.
The Green Party compared Obama’s restraint in coming to Jones’ aid over the recent controversy to President Bill Clinton’s lack of defense when his African-American nominee for Assistant Attorney General, Lani Guinier, was attacked and ultimately withdrawn.
“The targets tend to be Black—consistent with Republican fury over the election of Barack Obama to the White House,” the Party said in a statement about the comparison.
Jones is an African-American environmental activist from California and has been championed by liberals as pioneering the “green jobs” movement – or jobs that add to the quality of the environment.
“Like the Greens, Van Jones sees green jobs and a healthy environment as interconnected pillars of a sustainable and just economy, said Mike Feinstein, co-chair of the Green Party.
“We encourage Van to bring that agenda into the electoral arena as a Green Party member, leader and possible future candidate, either nationally, statewide in California, or locally in Oakland, his home...”
