As many of you know I host a short feature segment on WERU Weds AM (7:30) and here’s another of the ongoing series…I haven’t recorded this one yet…your thoughts welcome. (I’m not trying to be...
Read MoreThere are states of mind we will not win over anytime soon. I’ve been in one of those states for a month and have a story to tell. I’ve lived for a long time (30 years) in other red states, Virginia and Colorado. I now live in Maine (my home state) for the past two years. (PS.I haven’t been able to blog in a while and may not be able to respond promptly.)
We arrived in Mississippi a week after Katrina to do post Katrina construction relief work. Get people back into their houses, roof over their head and so forth. We started in Laurel, MS, a town of some 30,000 90 miles from the coast. Every fourth house had a tarp on it, trees into houses, across driveways, debris in the roads, well, it looked like a week after a mighty big storm. Now, before anyone gets started, there are great people in MS, there are great people everywhere (regardless of political affiliation), and there is always the possibility of changing peoples minds. I’m sure Kerry got over 30% of the vote in MS, I even saw a Southerners for Kerry sticker. I got help and advice from Dems and progressives in MS. I live in a rural state, I lived in rural Colorado but I am here to say, there is a different world down here.
Read MoreTwo of my sons and us are headed for Mississippi. The damage is too extensive along the Coast and dangerous for us to deal with but the damage from the storm goes far inland and people are hurting. We’ll have chain saws, a...
Read MoreWe’re starting to see the set-up. Each cycle the Repubs pick a divisive issue and play it to the hilt-they played on the strong defense image and said only Repubs can protect us, they used the gay mariage issue shamelessly...
Read MoreThis was played as straight news…Today Gen. Richard Myers said (paraphrase) anti-war protestors are undermining troop morale in Iraq. Hello?? This canard is being trotted out yet again. What undermines troop morale is war,...
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