I just received an email from: US Chamber Institute for Legal Reform [uschamberinstitute@ilrmail.org]. They have a survey about frivolous lawsuits. It is clear the Chamber wants to limit access to courts using the strawman frivolous lawsuits.

I answered the survey with strongly disagree to most of the questions.

Take the survey at

http://www.ilrinfo.org/...

Maybe we can show the Chamber there is another side to the argument on "lawsuit reform".

 

I just received a mailer from the DCCC. The letter, over the printed signature of Nancy Pelosi, thanks me for talking "with our caller". It also requests my pledge for $16.50.

I did not talk with anyone from the DCCC. I would not pledge an amount that ended in fifty cents.

My questions: Is this a scam? Is it just sleazy fundraising?

I wonder just how much wil be heard from the Christian Right or even the SCLM about keeping Christians from voting in Iraq.

It seems that the Kurds were the driving force keeping 90% of the 200 thousand Christian Assyrians away from the polls.

"Mubarak Sliva (58) sits in fornt of "Muntaka" coffe shop by an old table and drinks tea out of a little glass with his friends Michael and Jacob, He watches Shiites and the Kurds celebrating their election victory which will allow them to rule the country. Again and again Mubarak looks at this but seem like every time he feels like being stabbed in the heart. His friends feel sad also. The "Muntaka" is social center of the city of Qaraqosh located 15 kilometers distance from Mosul. All 30,000 inhabitants are Christian Assyrian who were prevented fom voting during the Iraqi elections."No one heard our voices, we were deprived of our constitutional right as in the Saddam Husseins time, nothing has changed", shouts Mubarak Sliva."

I have not seen anyting mentioned except this story.

http://www.aina.org/news/20050227125922.htm

As one who grew up in a Republican household in the 50s and early 60s, I Was raised Republican. Fiscally  responsible, no federal intrusion in to local education.  My 82 year old mother cannot understand just how the republican party has changed, just how much the republicans use people such as her.  

That is why I say "Republicans, it is not your father's party."

The good folks of Alabama are up to it again. This time the maker of "Alabama's Offical Wiskey" is charged with selling to a minor.

http://www.al.com/opinion/huntsvilletimes/index.ssf?/base/opinion/1103192167282340.xml

The top part of the article deals with yet another Alabama judge wearing the 10 Commandments. Yawn.

And yes I live in Alabama.