I hear that they want to start making fire hydrants look like fake animals and that all airplanes are going to have to be painted to look like teradactyls…personally, I like the idea When a Tree Isn’t Really – New York Times The Adirondack Park Agency, a powerful group charged with protecting New York’s six…
Category: Politics
Over 10,000 activists to head to HK for WTO protests
HONG KONG (Reuters) – More than 10,000 overseas activists will head to Hong Kong in December to protest at a meeting of the World Trade Organisation, organisers said on Monday. A rights group in Hong Kong that is coordinating the rallies and protests by more than 130 overseas groups also called for frank and open…
Karl Rove is a Dirty Snitch…
This is the kind of scumbag we have setting policy….the kind of guy that uses his power to settle (or attempt to settle) personal vendettas…but then we are in Iraq because W. said “That guy tried to kill my dad.” WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Top White House advisor Karl Rove was one of the secret sources…
Watch out for Terrorists and Their Plans
((Thanks Lily for sending me this link. I’d like to add one more devious plan the terrorists might have…let George W. Bush continue to destroy the US and her image around the world…why attack America when she is eating herself anyway…. Be sure to click on this link for the whole list at cockeyed.com.)) Terrorists…
SignOnSanDiego.com > News > North County — 40 do a swell job on surfing record
Big Mahalo to Bruddah Jon in SoCal for sending me these party wave links. DEBBI FARR BAKER / Union-Tribune Surfers pose for a group shot on South Carlsbad State Beach prior to their attempt at breaking the Guinness Book record for the most surfers riding the same wave at the same time. June 30, 2005…
Boing Boing: London Bombing Coverage
Image: phonecam snapshot of passengers trapped in the London underground system. Alfie from moblog.co.uk says, “This image taken by Keith Tagg Adam Stacey. He was on the northern line just past Kings Cross. Train suddenly stopped and filled with smoke. People in carriage smashed tube windows to get out and then were evacuated along the…
The American Dream, Arriving on Wheels – New York Times
The Midtown Recreational Vehicle Park in Austin, Tex., houses about 75 trailers, including five that are owned by formerly homeless men through a community outreach program. ON the eastern fringe of town, beside the airport and clogged freeway entrance ramps, there sits a bargain-rack version of the American dream. The American Dream, Arriving on Wheels…
U.S. service men, women who have died in Iraq, Afghanistan
An interactive map to show where all the US men and women killed in Iraq and Afghanastan were from. Palm Beach Post – U.S. service men, women who have died in Iraq, Afghanistan
Kim Jong Ils New Friend
Kim Jong-il changes travel companions July 05, 2005 For the last six months, North Korean leader Kim Jong-il, at least in his public duties, appears to have changed his traveling companions. According to an analysis by the JoongAng Ilbo’s Unification Research Institute on North Korean media reports, Mr. Kim now prefers the company of government…
The Division of America…Let's Do It.
(note, I haven’t cross referenced these figures but if they are right, it explains a lot…thanks for sending this Matthew.) Dear Red States We’re ticked off at the way you’ve treated California, and we’ve decided we’re leaving. We intend to form our own country, and we’re taking the other Blue States with us. In case…