Category: Everyday Stories
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Look, Scott, there's our soup kitchen
MR. McCLELLAN: The President pointed out this one church that was still standing, but all the homes around it there were completely wiped out. Right. God goes bowling. Does this look like a man who wants to punch you out before you remind the public that he drastically reduced funding for southeast Louisiana’s chief hurricane…
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Friendly neighborhood gas update
Gas. Exxon at Piedmont and Ponce de Leon was totally sold out of gas today because of the run on it caused by rumors that Atlanta’s gas would be cut off because of Katrina. There were probably 30 cars still at the gas station across the street (at 10 PM) and officers still out trying…
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Increasing panic over gas in Atlanta
The AJC reports that “the possibility of shortages of gasoline at area stations had metro drivers waiting at pumps to fill up this morning. And prices rose accordingly.” My husband just called from the gas station (where our water pump was apparently, mistakenly replaced when only some hoses needed replacing) and he was told by…
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Dr. Lynn and Dr. Irwing say men are smarter than women–or how African-Americans took slave ship lemons and made lemonade with their white masters
Well, now we know for fact that men are more intelligent than women. The article actually says men are cleverer than women. Does intelligent mean the same thing as clever? Maybe in Britain it does. Seems I’ve mistakenly always thought of cleverness having as much to do with personality as it does with bare-bones intellect.…
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Camp Tamarack
Refresh my memory, please. Has a president’s visit always mandated the closing down of a large resort? The Tamarack webpage reads: Tamarack Resort will be open with limited access August 22-24 due to other scheduled events. Access to the resort will be limited to Tamarack Resort homeowners, Club members, lodging guests and season pass holders.…
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I hate this blog
I read about the rave bust in Utah the other day but I wanted to wait until after Bush spoke to the Veterans in Utah to post anything on it. So, yesterday Illustrious Leader tears himself away from his vacation, the photo-op of his biking with journalists, then the photo-op that gave us the White…
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It is not "real life" – it is what we’ve been educated to believe is "real life"
I don’t often post human-interest type stories like this one below, from CNN, but aside from my wanting to note that had this been an anti-war demonstration gone wrong, in which case I think a lot of people would have ended up in jail (I don’t believe any arrests happened), I wanted to hear some…
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Today’s AJC story on the Aug 17th Decatur "Stand with Cindy" vigil
Below is today’s Atlanta Journal Constitution story on the vigil in Decatur. If they say over 700 then there were more than the 800 we were told about by an organizer at about 8:30, and over at a Blog for Democracy post a woman is saying she was told it was around 1000 in attendance.…
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Atlanta "Stand With Cindy" Vigil
The Decatur/Atlanta “Stand with Cindy” vigil, that was at the Medlock Plaza and Suburban Plaza intersection in Decatur, began at 7:30. We didn’t get there until around 8 pm. (I don’t think we’ve been on time for anything since H.o.p. was born.) It was storming earlier and I wondered if it would be rained out,…
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Trains
When I was 19, my husband and I made the mistake of conversing with my mother’s father on the downgrading of the grand old railway system here in America. My mother’s father was the sort of very conservative man, never observed without a white shirt and tie, who had a strong vision of the way…
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The truth is Jean Charles de Menezes didn’t run from the police — and he is still dead
Via the Sideshow, more news on Jean Charles de Menezes. I had come across this elsewhere yesterday as well but was working on something and forgot to blog about it. Past posts of mine about de Menezes are here and here. The posts lead into some distressing comment areas. I was horrified by what had…
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Man knocks down 500 of the 800 crosses at Camp Casey with pick-up truck
Update at bottom of post. Plus I had believed there were 1000 crosses, but there were 800, so have changed the title to read 800.. I wasn’t going to post on anything today, then I read at Upbeat Defiance that last night a man with a pick-up truck and chain drove through and knocked down…