January 31, 2008 archive

Jan 31 2008

Bush and Cheney to Face Arrest?

“Fuckin’ A,” if either one of those muthafuckas steps foot in the town of Brattleboro, Vermont, once the townfolk vote next month.

The town Select Board voted last Friday to put the question on the March 4 Town Meeting agenda. So, in addition to Sen. Bernie Sanders and yummy maple syrup, we have another reason to honor our Green Mountain sisters and brothers.

Just a couple of spippets from Tuesday’s AP story…

[The measure] reads: “Shall the Selectboard instruct the Town Attorney to draft indictments against President Bush and Vice President Cheney for crimes against our Constitution, and publish said indictments for consideration by other authorities and shall it be the law of the Town of Brattleboro that the Brattleboro Police, pursuant to the above-mentioned indictments, arrest and detain George Bush and Richard Cheney in Brattleboro if they are not duly impeached, and prosecute or extradite them to other authorities that may reasonably contend to prosecute them?”

Jan 31 2008

Pretty Bird Woman House Update: It’s a GO!

Cross-posted on the Daily Kos under betson08

First of all, I want to express my deepest gratitude to all the Kossacks and other members of the netroots community for your commitment to the survival of the Pretty Bird Woman House.  Helping this shelter has been one of the most gratifying things I’ve ever done, and some of that has to do with the outpouring of caring and compassion that I witnessed while I was doing this project.

This morning I received an email informing me that the McLaughlin City Council had unanimously approved the shelter’s petition to operate in the house it wants to purchase. This was a wonderful accomplishment given some initial misgivings that some of the City Council Members had expressed.

A complete update on that and the fundraiser is below the fold.

Jan 31 2008

Complete Wastes of Time

So when I’m a blank slate and my mind needs to reset I go play some TankBall or Mahjong or sharpen my skills at Big Jump Challenge.  I tried the Campaign Game but Edwards always seemed to lose. YoudaCamper is a cute distraction, you have to create and manage a small campground.  

I haven’t found an MMORPG I like yet but maybe you will. Other time wasters include CNN, FoxNews, CBS, ABC, NBC, TWC, etc…

This brain fart sponsored by GE™

What’s your favorite waster?

Jan 31 2008

Walter Reed and Beyond – 1st Lt Elizabeth Whiteside, Now In Lockdown

The following is a Video report from CBS as a Lead In to a Report, now online but to be printed in tomorrows Washington Post from Dana Priest.

A Soldier’s Cry For Help – CBS News Video

Jan 31 2008

“I’m not waiting on the government to give me nothing”

Many of us (though, sadly, not all) know by now that the damage to New Orleans was not caused by a natural disaster but by human error — the errors of the Army Corps of Engineers.

That’s why back in February of 2007, New Orleans federal court judge Stanwood Duvall ruled the ACOE couldn’t claim immunity:

The Army Corps of Engineers can’t assert immunity in a lawsuit over the catastrophic flooding following Hurricane Katrina, because of the plaintiffs’ claim that flooding stemmed from the agency’s negligence in fixing defects in the Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet navigation project that it had known of for years, a New Orleans federal court judge ruled Friday.

Jan 31 2008

Hillary, Obama and McCain: Who’d have thought it? w/poll

Well, now that JE has dropped out, on the Democratic side we’re down to HRC, BO and MG (!) (yes, he even outlasted JE).  So, I guess we do really have a choice amongst the Democrats right now, but I’ll continue on the basis that Mike is not going to get the nomination.  On the Republican side, we’re pretty much down to MR, JMcC and MH (unless RP does much better next week, which he probably won’t), with McCain holding the mantle of front runner, which he probably will be able to manage to win the nomination from.

Jan 31 2008

McCain draft

There was a time, in the not too distant past, when I wished for John “100-Years War” McCain to be the Republican nominee for president.

The most vocal supporter of the war in Iraq, with two-third of the voters on the other side of the issue, McCain seemed like he’d be easy pickings for whichever Democrat ended up being the nominee.  After all, the Dems were all against the war, right?

The war issue was the top concern among voters.  McCain v. Anybody seemed like a slam dunk for Anybody.

But that was then. These days, it is not that clear a call.

ITEM:  The war is no longer front and center as an issue.  Even Democrats who voted in Tuesday’s primary ranked it way behind the economy as their most important issue.  Only 24% said Iraq was most important, while 55% chose the eoconomy.

ITEM: The candidates who spoke most forcefully and most frequently against the war — Mike Gravel, Dennis Kucinich, and more recently John Edwards — are gone from the field.

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