Fred Phelps is a LOSER!

Finally!!!  There is retribution……..  CHECK.   THIS.  OUT.
A grieving father won a nearly $11 million verdict Wednesday against a fundamentalist Kansas church that pickets military funerals in the belief that the war in Iraq is a punishment for the nation’s tolerance of homosexuality. 
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The jury first awarded $2.9 million in compensatory damages. It returned later in the [...]

Beowulf is Coming

Wow! Check this out – it’s a MOVIE!
Love these stories, Beowulf, Sir Gawain & the Green Knight, The Iliad, not to mention all the stuff written by Madeline L ‘Engle, Ursula K. LeGuin, Frank Herbert……. the list goes on and on.

Karen Hughes Resigns….Again

Is it the family again, Karen?

Must be harder than she thought to convince those Muslims we really are nice. Reporting from the AP, Hughes has plans to go back to her home state of Texas but she reportedly told those on her staff that “improving the world’s view of the United States is [...]

So Much For al-Qaeda

 
Police: Boy playing with matches started 38,000-acre fire
That’s just ‘one’ major fire area, Buckweed in Los Angeles county. The authorities are still ‘hunting down’ those responsible for the gigantic Santiago fire. I wonder how Fox – Fixed & Faux – News will play this?

What about HR 2262?

There was an article in The Idaho Statesman yesterday regarding a mining reform bill coming before the House Rules Committee and eventually to the floor sometime this week. In fact, the Rules Committee is hearing positions this afternoon with guidelines for the amendment process posted and here there is the texts of the bill, [...]

Moving Way for a Coal Mine

In a tiny, 700-year-old German village in the eastern part of the country, there’s an American flag that flies upside down. It won’t much longer.

For the Heuersdorf’s roughly 50 inhabitants who will have to find alternative living arrangements before Dec. 31, 2008, the church’s move might at least have a purpose. “We want to keep [...]

No! They Diddn’t!

It’s not enough that Blackwater can slaughter Iraqis at will, now there’s this little tidbit someone forgot to mention.
The State Department promised Blackwater USA bodyguards immunity from prosecution in its investigation of last month’s deadly shooting of 17 Iraqi civilians, The Associated Press has learned.
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Three senior law enforcement officials said all the Blackwater bodyguards involved [...]

So There Are Consequences?

Remember Fred Sanford always holding his chest, spouting ‘hold on, Elizabeth, I’m coming’ – that’s just about how I felt when I read this headline.
 Man behind fake FEMA briefing loses new job
All in all, I guess he could still receive some kind of presidential medal or sumthin’.

Who Will Stand Up?

A commenter leaves a couple of sentences:
An editorial issues a call:
A senator stands on the floor of Congress and addresses the issues of shredding the Constitution – our Constitution.

What can be used to counter the passel of lies and the bullshit from this administration as gloriously illustrated in this fraudulent ‘news [...]

More on my Luna Mix-up

The point of the post on Tom Luna, the current public schools superintendent of Idaho, was to highlight the pursuit of his brother by law enforcement officials for sexual molestation of a family member.
As of early this morning, Mr. Luna’s brother – James Luna – had turned himself into the Canyon County jail.
However, I [...]