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usa extends patriot act
usa threatens to derail UN climate change summit

I couldn’t resist one more link in connection to the NOLA / Katrina disaster, this one from Steve and Jen at the News Blog. Possibly NSFW (profanity) and definitely not for the easily offended conservative, but painfully true nonetheless.
EDIT 5 September 5:49am – Okay, so now we have a best post ever and a [...]

I need to get off of this topic for a while, and I want to avoid turning this site into the soapbox and rantfest my last journal became, so let me just add a couple of quick updates to the notes below.
Earlier I linked to an article describing how volunteer boaters hoping to assist in [...]

’[Y]our national greatness, swelling vanity; your denunciation of tyrants, brass-fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade and solemnity, are, to Him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy – a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace [...]

when i first heard about katrina i was in portland, and remembered being a bit surprised that a storm in the gulf was making front-page headlines all the way up in oregon. when i got back, i started loosely following the news out of new orleans, checking once in a while to see if [...]

Friend Judy writes:
Subj: 80 years ago…
July 21, 1925 was the last day of the famous Scopes Monkey Trial.
Amazing that in 2005 teaching mainstream science in high school classrooms is still an issue.
Agreed.