Month: September 2005

Where will you be 9/24/05?

There’s been a lot of talk about the big March in Washington DC on September 24. For all those going, travel safely and bring back lots of stories (and pictures). But a lot of us can’t make it to DC…Some of us...

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Iraq War Grief Daily Witness (photo) Day 116

this diary is dedicated to all who suffer because of war and other disasters cross-posted at DailyKos, Booman Tribune, European Tribune, and My Left Wing. image and poem below the fold Local boys stand near Iraqi police during a...

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We Have One Day to Save Her From MURDER

Michael Allen Gottlieb posted the following over on dKos and I wanted to share this with you all here. http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/9/13/11568/0097 Her name is Frances Newton. She is poor, black and living on death row...

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When is privacy just privacy?

If you read some of the überblogs on the John Roberts hearings, you’ll see a lot of talk about the right to privacy — which Roberts himself called “the so-called right to privacy” in an internal memo...

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Another Flood, FEMA, and Leadership Era

You remember, don’t you, those horrific videos of the destruction of Grand Forks, North Dakota by a raging Red River? I remember, too, seeing video of the frantic sand-bagging of shores by prison inmates and anyone else...

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