Molly Ivins has passed away. She died from breast cancer at the age of 62.
"We are the people who run this country. We are the deciders. And every single day, every single one of us needs to step outside and take some action to help stop this war. Raise hell."
Will you watch?
No.
Man, this is just sick. Please do not watch “If I Did It, Here’s How It Happened” or enrich that scumbag by buying his book. Please.
Back then O.J. denied everything. Now, I guess, he’ll tell us how he terrified her, beat her, sliced her until rivulets of blood streamed past the bougainvillea outside their Brentwood home. We’ll tune in. Then he, Fox, Regan, and all those advertisers will cash in on the blood of the woman who saw it all coming.
But the turning of the water was no miracle, no divine judgment on the leader whose fateful partnership with George W. Bush is producing - week after week, month after month, year after year - fresh cause for future mourning. The color came from the thousands of fake poppies tossed into the fountain in what The Observer called "a spontaneous act of remembrance": an offering of the ubiquitous charity emblems worn by most of the population in the week leading up to the memorials.
In any case, Tony Blair never saw the vision of blood in the Square; he was in Hyde Park, with the Queen and other worthies, conducting formal ceremonies where no free action or unscripted word from the public was allowed to intrude. These offices of the dead were a fitting end to a week which saw Blair and his ministers launch a massive new fearmongering campaign, promising a "generation" of terror, war and tyrannical security measures in a "long and deep struggle" against his own nation's Muslim minority.
or start taking massive doses of prozac.
Bush went to the UN yesterday and lied. Huge surprise, no?
Wanna be depressed just like me? Read the UN News Centre. I imagine Mr. Annan is glad his job is over at year end, regardless of what he said at the end of his speech.
No, I will not share my drugs with you.
Gaza: The Children Killed in a War the World Doesn't Want to Know About, by Donald Macintyre.
Okay... less depressing fare ~
Thai Coup Leader Promises to Hold Elections by October 2007.
That's good. Except... there were supposed be elections in October 2006.
Tuesday night's coup was the first in 15 years and the 18th successful or attempted military takeover since the country became a constitutional monarchy in 1932.
The probe surprised Americans United for Separation of Church and State, a watchdog group that has filed 58 complaints of improper church politicking over the last decade and a half. The grievances were roughly evenly divided between liberal and conservative religious groups.
"What perplexes me about All Saints," said Barry Lynn, a group spokesman, "is that I have never heard of a church being asked to undergo such a sweeping, broad and deep investigation on the basis of a complaint about a single sermon by a guest speaker."
