Thanks Cathee or How to spend a Sunday morning

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Monday October 16, 2006 · 8:46 PM PDT

2006/10/16 · 20:46

Things pass so quickly before our eyes. Which scandal? How much did she steal? Who did he email? What about North Korea? Help for Darfur? Those poor children.

I received an email from a longtime acquaintance, telling me how she spent her Sunday. No, it wasn't about politics. Years ago, she told me she was a Republican, whereupon I asked her why. She is certainly smart enough to have switched over by now.

No, her Sunday morning was spent in Church and then onto her next activity, which she describes so well, below. I have her full permission to share this story, which I chose to do, because for some reason it made me feel good, in a people to people to people kind of way. Read More

Bioweapon released during DC Demonstrations?

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Saturday October 01, 2005 · 8:51 PM PDT

2005/10/01 · 20:51

I was minding my own business this afternoon, when on The Laura Flanders Show (www.AirAmericaRadio.com), I heard that according to the WaPo, biohazard alarms were triggered during the DC peace march and demonstration. http://tinyurl.com/8twgp

According to WaPo, the cause was tularemia. This disease is high infectious, yet with the kind of symptoms that one could ignore - they sound flu-like until one gets to the conjunctivitis.
Untreated, the disease could prove fatal. Incubation is about a week, so if you were in D.C. and have these symptoms, perhaps it's a good idea to have it checked out.

Does anyone think that this just happened to appear on the Mall during a major demonstration?
No where else, not on K Street, not near the Watergate - just right where there were 100's of thousands gathered.

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America's Battered Wife Syndrome

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Thursday September 08, 2005 · 9:11 PM PDT

2005/09/08 · 21:11

"Dear America

As a friend of the family I can't sit back and watch you do this to yourself without saying something. Consider this a long distance intervention."
read it at http://12thharmonic.com/wordpress/ , written by Gail.

I stood and listened to it, aware that I was listening to something very important, something that reached so far inside of me because I have given that same speech, used those same words to friends in difficult situations. Read More

"For Want of a Nail" and more

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Saturday September 03, 2005 · 4:34 PM PDT

2005/09/03 · 16:34

I first read this article on Democratic Underground I hope they don't mind if I bring it over here. Below it are also a few of my own comments.

For Want of a Nail

September 3, 2005
By punpirate

With every seemingly simple calamity, there is a complex chain of events leading up to it. In the case of Katrina, the hurricane which has ruined much of the Gulf Coast, left many of its inhabitants homeless and taken the lives of many others, it will be a long time before that chain of events will be known.

There will be calls for investigations, by Congress, by the legislatures of the affected Southern states; perhaps, grudgingly, there even will be a Presidential commission to recommend ways to prevent such a disaster in the future.

Make no mistake - this is a disaster of near-incalculable proportions. What will these investigations and commissions find? That it was a disaster, and maybe little more than that.

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