In Fairness to Hamilton, NJ
I sent the members of the Hamilton, NJ Town Council a link to my recent post concerning the arrest of a protester at a Republican event there. Councilman Dan Benson was kind enough to respond to that article.
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Bush Quelling Protests Again
During a speech in Hamilton, NJ, the mother of a soldier killed in Iraq was handcuffed, lead away and charged with trespassing after she began shouting questions to First Lady Laura Bush.
Read moreTwo Hurricanes=Two Deductibles
Well, in most insurance policies, mine included, you pay your deductible for each occurance of a hurricane. My deductible, like most deductibles in FL is quite high when it comes to “Hurricane related wind damage.” And if you got hit by both hurricanes, you’ll be expected to pay two deductibles.
Read moreHow Drunk Do You Have to Be?
Having sex with corpses is now officially illegal in California after Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a bill barring necrophilia, a spokeswoman said on Friday.
Read moreHurricane Watch III-Small Sigh of Relief
If you are tracking Ivan, you will see that he stayed on a more westerly track over the course of the weekend. He is still a very powerful storm, and will most certainly graze Cuba, and most likely will hit the U.S. sometime Thursday along the Alabama, Florida panhandle coast if the NOAA track verifies.
Read moreStorm Damage In Tampa
Here are a couple of pictures of probably the worse damage I’ve seen in our neighborhood. This is just about two blocks from the house. That was a motor home, and a lot of the branches have already been trimmed back.
Read moreHomeland Security–Not So Secure
Though the Bush Administration has spent billions to deal with an imaginary threat in Iraq, it has not sufficiently funded, nor has it put forth realistic strategies to deal with, threats to America’s ports, railways, chemical plants and other infrastructure. It has also failed to secure America’s borders or establish effective terrorist watch lists.
Read moreStorm Weary
As you may have noted, I have not posted on the blog in a while. This is because I was cleaning up from Frances and preparing for Ivan, and dealing with some (probably) unrelated problems around the house over the previous week.
Read moreBush Crony Screws Us On Medicare Estimates-But Makes Out Himself
Less than two months after it was signed, the Bush administration officially changed its estimate to confirm closely with Foster’s own prediction, admitting the new law “would cost at least $530 billion over 10 years, or one-third more than the price tag used when Congress passed the legislation.”
Read moreAdministration Squelches Media Coverage of Iraq Death Toll
Journalist Josh Marshall points out how quick the Bush administration was in trying to squelch media coverage of the fact that 1,000 Americans have now been killed in Iraq. At 4:27 eastern time, AP put a story on its wire with the headline, “U.S. death toll in Iraq passes 1,000 mark.” Just 13 minutes later, a new AP headline read “Ridge: Terrorists hope to disrupt election” after a press conference by the Homeland Security secretary.
Read moreWhere Oh Where Did Georgie Go?
One day before CBS’s much-anticipated segment on President Bush’s record in the National Guard, the Boston Globe published a major
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