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Sunday, September 4, 2005

New Orleans, The Why It Happened As It Did, an email received

CHRONOLOGY.... Here's a timeline that outlines the fate of both FEMA and flood control projects in New Orleans under the Bush administration. Read it and weep: January 2001: Bush appoints Joe Allbaugh, a crony from Texas, as head of FEMA. Allbaugh has no previous experience in disaster management.... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, September 1, 2005

Please donate to legitimate agencies for helping Katrina's victims.

There are so many Katrinarelief.com and katrinadonate.com, web sites, etc. which, when using Firefox, etc. you are allowed to see the true URL of the pages and they turn out to be fake sites with fake Paypal pages attached, the better to rob you, my dearies. You can see the real addresses of the... Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, August 29, 2005

Who Am I Voting For? Maybe No One at this rate.....

I have taken a pledge this year to not vote for any candidates who will not speak positively about the issues. If the candidates don't tell me what they stand for, want for me, for us, and what they are excited about, then I'm not voting for them. I sincerely don't care which party they belong to, I... Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, August 23, 2005

The Imam Pat Robertson has Spoken, It's Jihad in Venezuela

I think that tomorrow, he will ask for youngsters who will volunteer for suicide missions in Caracas. What a world we live in. If he lived in Britain, would he be invited to leave today? Land of the Free and Home of the OutSpoken Ignorant Idiots, that's us. Put another point on the side of the chart... Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, May 29, 2005

Hit and Run, Exercising my Brain, too

I am watching more television now, because I bought an exercise machine that wants me to walk miles on it, “fly running” I call it when I go faster. I placed the darned thing in front of the television set and watch the news or C-SPAN while going at it. So, of course, I am more upset than ever... Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, April 4, 2005

Major Daily Irritant for Embedded Citizens !!!

I want a new function button on my remote control apparatus for my television set. I want to be able to close the blabbering mouths of reporters who are attending an important occasion and not allowing me to just experience it. Leave the other sound tracks and remove only that track carrying their... Sign in to see full entry.

Friday, March 11, 2005

Mara Salvatrucha, gangs and I have a lot to say on this subject......

So, get that cup of coffee and read my summary of who they are and where they are and what they are doing. It's three pages in Word, so.................. The Mara (MAH-rah) Salvatrucha (Sahl-vah-TRUE-cha) or MS-13 or Surenos (Sur-ehn-yos), is a gang that has successfully spread out in a web of crime... Sign in to see full entry.

Saturday, February 26, 2005

Our Fall from Grace into Disgrace........

The Torture Papers-The Road to Abu Ghraib by Karen Greenberg and Joshua Gratel,describes how the U.S. Government officials, at the highest levels, knew about and discussed in depth, the practice and uses and efficacy and morality of the use of torture in Guanatanamo Bay prison facilities and... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, February 23, 2005

Are Ma Bell and Halliburton people? Wellll, yes they are...................

I listened to a very interesting legal seminar today about just who is a person and who is not. Provocative. This is a long winded post, so grab some coffee or return later when you have a moment or two more to read. Since the beginning of our nation this has been a hot and controversial point of... Sign in to see full entry.

Friday, February 18, 2005

New Computer pulls me away from Blogit for awhile.....& Negroponte

He was ambassador in Honduras when the Contras, et al were killing everyone in Central America with the help of the CIA and the US government, remember? He knew everything that was going on and even helped the rats to get arms. He is very experienced at covert operations and shall undermine our... Sign in to see full entry.

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