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Off to a weekend grassroots retreat with Thankful, jjem! and Free Spirit among others. Subject: Election Integrity. Should be fun on a number of accounts, lol!


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2008's gonna be fun. . . .

The party of "Family Values" three front runners have five divorces, and at least four adulteries amongst them. The Democrats' top three on the other hand, have none. How's this going to wash with the American Taliban?

Lurking just over the horizon are liabilities for three Republicans who have topped several national, independent polls for the GOP's favorite 2008 nominee: Sen. John McCain (affair, divorce), former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (affair, divorce, affair, divorce), and former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani (divorce, affair, nasty divorce). Together, they form the most maritally challenged crop of presidential hopefuls in American political history.

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Daylight exacerbates warning

You may have noticed that March of this year was particularly hot. As a matter of fact, I understand that it was the hottest March since the beginning of the last century. All of the trees were fully leafed out and legions of bugs and snakes were crawling around during a time in Arkansas when, on a normal year, we might see a snowflake or two.

This should come as no surprise to any reasonable person. As you know, Daylight Saving Time started almost a month early this year. You would think that members of Congress would have considered the warming effect that an extra hour of daylight would have on our climate. Or did they ?

Perhaps this is another plot by a liberal Congress to make us believe that global warming is a real threat. Perhaps next time there should be serious studies performed before Congress passes laws with such far-reaching effects.

CONNIE M. MESKIMEN / Hot Springs

For Sam's father. . .

For Sam

Click! The big pic is amazing!

The War on Babies

In 2004, Gov. Haley Barbour came to office promising not to raise taxes and to cut Medicaid. Face-to-face meetings were required for annual re-enrollment in Medicaid and CHIP, the children’s health insurance program; locations and hours for enrollment changed, and documentation requirements became more stringent.

As a result, the number of non-elderly people, mainly children, covered by the Medicaid and CHIP programs declined by 54,000 in the 2005 and 2006 fiscal years. According to the Mississippi Health Advocacy Program in Jackson, some eligible pregnant women were deterred by the new procedures from enrolling.

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To the shock of Mississippi officials, who in 2004 had seen the infant mortality rate — defined as deaths by the age of 1 year per thousand live births — fall to 9.7, the rate jumped sharply in 2005, to 11.4. The national average in 2003, the last year for which data have been compiled, was 6.9.

At what point do you simply call it murder?

August 25, 1992 by NOAA GOES-7 weather satellite


The most beautiful earth on earth

~~ Subway Seranade

It's Mama's Day. Honor her.

Bless the Animals

Iraqis are sick of foreign people coming in their country and trying to destabilize their country. —George W. Bush


Image via Shakespear's Sister

Gosh, I do love the Serviceberry!

jc ~~

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There are days I *really* miss the redwoods. . .

Aren't grand bebes wunnerfull?

Matt Gentry, The Roanoke Times via Associated Press

April 19, 1995, the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building

Columbine High on April 20, 1999.

April 16, 2007 Virginia Tech

The Waste Land

I. THE BURIAL OF THE DEAD


APRIL is the cruellest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain.
Winter kept us warm, covering
Earth in forgetful snow, feeding
A little life with dried tubers.


T.S. Eliot

Virginia Tech

A White House spokesman said President Bush was horrified by the rampage and offered his prayers to the victims and the people of Virginia.

"The president believes that there is a right for people to bear arms, but that all laws must be followed," spokeswoman Dana Perino said


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Holocaust Remembrance Day

NO, WE DO NOT FORGET




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