Peace-A-Rena

I’m breaking one of my cardinal rules and pasting in a post from another site in toto. It’s a powerful rant by Greg Palast, provoked by the recent fires in California, and the government’s response to them. I have a feeling he won’t mind. ‘Course, I’m not alone, soonerthought did the same thing, […]

A number of Oklahoma legislators are knocking themselves out in rudely and publicly refusing a gift of a Quran from a group of Muslim Oklahomans. Another class act for the citizens of our state to be proud of. Not.
I was glad to see that the Speaker of the House, Lance Cargill, with whom I usually […]

CNN’s mega-hyped special series on the environment, called Planet in Peril, and hosted by Anderson Cooper, is sponsored by Conoco Phillips.
I haven’t been watching the series, just caught a glimpse after Countdown tonight, enough to catch the sponsorship info. But someone who did watch said this:
It was disturbing to see the onslaught of American Petroleum […]

Reuters photo
My friend Desiree gets right in the face of Condoleezza Rice, who is, indeed, a “war criminal.”
(Tried to embed the video, but had technical problems.
Updated, with photo from Reuters.)
Update 2: Reuters story
Update 3: This AP photo is better, due to the angle (and Rice’s expression).

This is so cool! Those little bots keep going and going and going ….
NASA announced it was extending for the fifth time the mission of Mars space probes Spirit and Opportunity, in their indefatigable exploration of the Red planet.
The two robots touched down three weeks apart on Mars in January 2004 for an expected 90-day […]

Boy, I’m wiped out. It was a strange day.
I went with my friend and co-revolutionary James to promote the GI Rights Hotline outside the big hoopla send-off for the poor National Guard troops who are being deployed to Iraq. But we had to make stops for sign supplies, then got caught in bigtime traffic — […]

I didn’t make it to the SCHIP rally at the Capital today (I had to take my mother to the doctor). But Mainstream Baptist was there, and in fact Dr. Bruce Prescott, the director, was a speaker. I’m very heartened to see religious leaders and groups around the country, many of them conservative and/or “pro-life” […]

Sometime next week, the Pentagon will announce that 13,000 more Guard troops will deploy to Iraq and Afghanistan next year (7 of 8 units going to Iraq).
WASHINGTON - The Pentagon is preparing to alert eight National Guard units that they should be ready to go to Iraq or Afghanistan beginning late next summer, The […]

I got an email from Andrew Rice’s campaign today, their “Blogger Connection” distribution, with some news updates, on the pending S-CHIP vote in DC and the campaign’s fundraising figures for the third quarter.
1) Sen. Rice today called on members of the Oklahoma House delegation to vote to override President Bush’s SCHIP veto tomorrow. The text […]

Now, this is just cool.
Google just celebrated their one-year anniversary of it’s New York City offices. So they made a scale-model cake of the huge facility, using for reference (natch) Google Earth and Street View, two wildly cool Google technologies, and a crew of seven worked four days to construct the thing.
So they’ve got the […]