BBC NEWS | Americas | ‘Freedom fries’ lawmaker’s U-turn Rep. Walter Jones (R-NC) has reversed his support for the Iraq war and now wants the troops brought home. He was formerly an adamant supporter of the war who led the whole Congressional “Freedom Fries” campaign to rename fried potatoes to get back at those wimpy peaceloving French bastards. His change of heart took place when he attended the funeral of a US sergeant and listened as the widow read her husband’s last letter home. He’s attended a lot of funerals, actually, and written over 1,300 letters of condolence, and he…
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… whether Michael Jackson is guilty or not. Naturally, everyone in the office is all a-quiver and jumping online to try to find live video. I can hear live feed-type audio coming from all over. Naturally, this will slow the office network to a crawl. If only the Onion had a live feed. That would be a lot more bearable. And of course now I’m curious enough to try to get a live feed going, but must try to resist. But if he’s guilty and he starts to cry in court, I’m betting his nose falls off. UPDATE: Huh? Okay,…
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This sounds like something that would be fun to do some Saturday: Community Sing at the Masthouse If it’s anything like McMenamin’s was in Seattle a couple of weeks ago, it would be awesome. No drinking – fine, it’s a private home. No smoking – AWESOME.
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The G8 ministers are attending next month’s summit are invited to bag the lavish banquet they’ll be served one night at Gleneagles, Scotland and have a single bowl of rice on Devonshire Green with some nice people from MakePovertyHistory.org. More information: G8: You’re Invited! Please RSVP
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All right, that’s a bit better. I still have to manually add the category and upload the photo to the right directory, but that’s almost as good as Mfop2 could do. Here’s Steve in his new Prius. His car is different than ours… it starts with the push of a button. We’re thinking of starting a club for hybrid car owners in the area, and might have a few people at the “Holy Rollers Classic Car Show” event at Holy Moly (which is July 10th if anyone was thinking of dropping by). Link Original upload: GinnyRED57.
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Gack. Well, I clearly have some more work to do with templates and such. Here’s my first attempt to fix the post; I think I’ve got the Flickr template set right but that’ll be another test. I had to remember (duh) that Firefox now requires image size to be specified in order to display the float properly without busting the middle column out all over. Original upload: GinnyRED57.
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I see via various blogs (BoingBoing and others) that the Downing Street Memo still hasn’t gotten much mainstream media attention. The new website on the Memo has a lot of information on the issues surrounding the document, and also under the Take Action link, you can sign on to the letter to the President that asks the questions originally asked by Sen. John Conyers and 88 other members of Congress on May 5, 2005. There’s a link to a PDF copy of the actual document, with the signatures in various hands and ink-colors. Then there’s a link to an alphabetized…
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Seen at Father Jake’s: BUSHFLASH – I knew that was AAR’s Mike Malloy doing the spoken word part, but the flash animation and music are great, too. I’ll have to go back and listen to “Did you get the memo?” too.
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All praise be to St McTivo, which captured the return of AAR’s Al Franken Show to Sundance Channel. They have an attactive new set and the TV show broadcasts one hour of the 3-hour radio show, which works better for me. I can’t really listen at work without either disturbing my neighbors or slowing down my computer’s connection to certain systems (there’s a network problem somewhere, and the suspected culprit is either excessive bandwidth use by all of us, or a whole lot of spyware). Anyway, it’s good to see Al and Katherine, and it gets me all het up…
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This is the first post in a new category, MakePovertyHistory. I’m pledging to post links to stories, at least once a week, that illustrate the need for an organization whose purpose is the eradication of poverty and the reduction of suffering from disease, world debt, and corruption in Africa and the world over. Rather than harangue all 2 of my readers, I’ll just post the links and a short quote and let you decide for yourselves if you are moved to respond in some way of your own. Sometimes the stories will be outrageous or horrific, and sometimes they’ll be…