Month: September 2005

Mountain of Dreams ~ Part 5

  Rainbows and other Promises The amazing and beautiful Ponderosa Pines that dotted our landscape were planted by the grateful hands of WPA workers in the 30’s.  Most of them were fully 40′ to 50′...

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Salem witch hunt

Cross posted from The Mystery of the Haunted Vampire and My Left Wing Here’s an American history lesson to remember: Persecution of people is not a good thing. That wouldn’t seem hard to forget, but some people have...

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Pericles Strikes Again

by Col. W. Patrick Lang (Ret.)"Politics cannot solve what ails Iraq now. It can help, and certainly the constitution is an important step in that direction. But at the end of the day, it’s only when the so-called...

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Life begins at birth (duh!)

Alright, let’s fucking stop all this nonsense and get back to fundamentals. When one person breathes, one person eats, one person shits, then there’s (duh!) one person. A woman is one person. A pregnant woman is one...

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Bush: Lights! Camera! Empathy!

Crossposted at Shadow Blog for America Keepers of Bush image lift stagecraft to new heights This article was written by Elisabeth Bumiller of the New York Times in May of 2003. The version here, includes photographic examples,...

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