Sunday, March 18, 2007WOMEN IN COMBATToday's cover story in the New York Times magazine on the women soldiers who have served in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq shocked me. First it was the statistics. More than 160,000 women have been deployed in America's most recent and on-going wars, compared to 41,000 women in George Bush... Sign in to see full entry.posted by Cynthia at 10:21 AM Comments (4) (link) Saturday, March 17, 2007MWI, JEB BUSH, NEW ORLEANS AND HALLIBURTON REDUXHalliburton has become a household word meaning corruption, to the point that it has become a dangerous joke. There seem to be on-going investigations but the moral outrage among those of us who are following these horrific stories is not enough. Where is the press on this? Perhaps because of the... Sign in to see full entry.posted by Cynthia at 10:18 AM Comments (4) (link) MY DAY AT THE AIRPORTSitting at Logan airport, hoping that my flight to Philadelphia isn’t canceled along with the dozens of other flights that have been canceled. So far things don’t look promising. The flight has already been delayed an hour. The snow is getting thicker by the minute. People who were on the canceled... Sign in to see full entry.posted by Cynthia at 9:13 AM Comments (0) (link) Tuesday, March 13, 2007"GRINGO, GO HOME!"So taunts a smiling Hugo Chávez surrounded by a crowd of adoring fans and supporters, as he goads our Bush boy while on his grand tour of Latin America. As Chávez leapfrogs a step ahead or a step behind our very own Bush boy, the contrast is striking and pictures speak a thousand words. Bush travels... Sign in to see full entry.posted by Cynthia at 4:08 PM Comments (4) (link) Sunday, March 11, 2007"WHEN WE SEE POVERTY WE CARE."What a joke. When I read that quote, which came straight from the lips of the most callous, disconnected from reality president in our nations history, I almost fell off my chair laughing, until the tears came to my eyes, because it unfortunately is not a joke. This quote was Bush boy's explanation... Sign in to see full entry.posted by Cynthia at 9:00 AM Comments (8) (link) |
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