http://fromtheold.com/news/wil... Try this one at full screen mode: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v... http://www.csmonitor.com/World... http://www.monstersandcritics.... http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08... One third of wheat crop already … [Read more...]
Happy Birthday / Anniversary!
Happy Birthday John, and many happy returns on your 3rd anniversary celebration of same with President Bush as Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf region. Save me a piece of your special yummy "Let 'em Eat" cake! cross-posted at … [Read more...]
MA 5th District Positions on Hurricane Katrina & Gulf Coast Recovery
1. What specific measures would you support to help New Orleans and the Gulf Coast Recover from Hurricane Katrina? Jamie Eldridge: I support measures similar to those outlined in the Hurricane Katrina Recovery Reclamation, … [Read more...]
An Inconvenient Question or Three
Why are liberal Senators mounting an investigation of the DOJ action in firing three attorneys, when Bill Clinton fired all of them upon entering the White House, and the silence was deafening?Why, in the aftermath of Katrina, has not the … [Read more...]
How can we focus Congress on New Orleans and Gulf Coast
Last March I traveled to New Orelans with eleven other folks from the Concord area UCC churches to spend a week helping residents of New Orleans gut their homes so they could begin rebuilding. Despite the devastation it was a positive … [Read more...]
MA Residents Can Help Save Affordable Housing in New Orleans
Because you either live in the 4th Congressional District of MA or know others who do, you can help stop the demolition of public housing in New Orleans. What 4th District Residents Can Do Call US Representative Barney Frank to let him know … [Read more...]
MA Hot Stories: Katrina family in Provincetown, reverse-hetero-bias in Quincy, no subs in Wostah!
Happenings in the Sunday papers:Cape Cod times profiles a "Katrina family" who have resettled in Provincetown Quincy straight man claims sex bias; Company would give benefits to partner if he were gay, but he lives with a woman Globe … [Read more...]
Conservatism is Cancer
In my business experience, nothing shuts down sales faster than unhappy customers. Naturally, the business savvy conservative knows this. Since they are not able to destroy the government the old fashioned way â starving it to death â … [Read more...]
Another email from my cousin in New Orleans
Self-righteousness prevails again. Itâs not about what I can do for my community, but what can I get my community do for me, and how much can I get them to do before I have squeezed the last bits out. Even some of the people who say they … [Read more...]
Concert for New Orleans tonight @ Harvard
Tonight I'm doing a concert of Schubert's song cycle Die Schöne Müllerin at Harvard's Holden Chapel, 8pm, with pianist Rodney Lister. It's a small venue: only 80 seats or so. Admission is free, but I'll be taking donations for my cousin … [Read more...]