News from San Diego and a Camp Casey Alum about a veterans and others memorial on the beach that gave voice to the fallen who would want us to Bring Their Buddies Home. My friend Ellouise sent this out from Barbara who was the greeter/parking organizer at the Peace House in Crawford, TX while Camp […]
Bush on the Border November 28th
Just before Thanksgiving Day, Bush announced that he will be in Tucson on Monday just before appearing in Phoenix at a Kyl fundraiser. That man has been here way too often…. three times in AZ in the last year, not to mention his slimeball “brain” Rove. Of course Dubya the Dumb can only safely appear […]
Kolbe retires…. from sinking Republican ship
Rats desert sinking ships and Rep. Jim Kolbe announcing his retirement today may be the first of a wave of Republican rats leaving the U.S. Legislature before the Culture of Corruption capsizes the entire Hill. I don’t think Republicans are the only corrupt individuals in Washington — however, I do feel there is a significant […]
Cindy Sheehan for Person of the Year
There is a write in campaign to nominate Cindy Sheehan for Time’s Person of the Year. I certainly understand why she should be nominated. She engaged a nation in a discourse that desperately needed to be held. Whenever a nation creates an icon from a simple human being and does so almost overnight, you know […]
SOA Sister Protest at Fort Huachuca
Some call it Fort Sneezy but the innocuous nickname does little to mask the truly dark actions that take place at Fort Huachuca. Like most dirty little dark secrets, it is not so much a matter of no one knowing but of no one wanting to know. In Southern Arizona on Sunday November 20th about […]
Unlikely Allies — CODEPINK and Murtha
Strange times make for strange bedfellows. Well at least for strange sheet-fellows. CODEPINK Tucson and CODEPINK Phoenix dropped a banner during the State Democratic Committee meetings Saturday in Tucson to encourage Arizona Democrats to work for peace — like Murtha. While they come to the mutual position — that the troops need to get out […]