Bigoted, intolerant and uninformed politicians like Virgina Foxx (R-NC) have NO place in office in North Carolina let alone anywhere else. Congresswoman you should resign effective yesterday. My we all remember your ignorance in 2010.
The truth about Matthew Shepard’s case from Rick Sanchez of CNN
Archive for April, 2009
30 Apr
Virginia Foxx (R-NC) Bigot and Worst person in the World
30 Apr
Pandemic Paranoia: “Swine Flu” Fear & Loathing in the Conservative Media
Keep in mind the GOP was against additional funding for pandemic flu prepareiness but they sure can pass blame and hate.
30 Apr
Granville County Teen victim of the Patriot Act abyss
Source: WRAL.com
Sixteen-year-old Ashton Lundeby’s bedroom in his mother’s Granville County home is nothing, if not patriotic. Images of American flags are everywhere – on the bed, on the floor, on the wall.
But according to the United States government, the tenth-grade home-schooler is being held on a criminal complaint that he made a bomb threat from [...]
29 Apr
H1N1, the Story behind the hype
Flying Pigs, Tamiflu and Factory Farms
Source: F. William Engdahl
If we are to believe what our trusted international media report, the world is on the brink of a global pandemic outbreak of a new deadly strain of flu, H1N1 as it has been labelled, or more popularly, Swine Flu. As the story goes, the outbreak [...]
29 Apr
DHS releases memo containing H1N1 quarantine guidelines
As the Department of Homeland Security releases a memo outlining quarantine guidelines, it is important to look beyond the hype and put the swine flu outbreak into some perspective. While no one can deny the situation is serious and should be dealt with accordingly the fact is that since January of this year more than 13,000 people have [...]
27 Apr
H1N1 Swine Flu Tracker
A North American map tracking the swine flu the provided by Google.
Source: The New York Times
The new swine flu cases are caused by an influenza strain called H1N1, which appears to be easily passed from person to person. Mexican health authorities have confirmed 149 deaths from that flu and are investigating the illnesses of 1,600 people, [...]
27 Apr
Is Osama bin Laden dead?
The mystery continues.
Source: GEO Pakistan
ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari said Monday that Pakistani intelligence believes Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden is dead but acknowledged they had no evidence.
“The Americans tell me they don’t know, and they are much more equipped than us to trace him. And our own intelligence services obviously think that he does [...]
27 Apr
Several notable environmental bills worth tracking
There is a must read by Lisa Sorg at Indy Weekly regarding several notable NC environmental bills currently in committee. One bill, if passed could put an end to the devastation in Appalachia caused by mountaintop coal removal, the bill seeks to prohibit utility companies from using newly mined coal extracted by that method.
A member of Save Our Cumberland Mountains, League [...]
24 Apr
There’s no place like…wait,Texas for the NBAF? Read the complaint
Oh Sweet Jesus (to quote my good friend Kathy) it is official, although not surprising, Texas is suing DHS for the National Bio and Agro Defense Facility (NBAF). On Thursday, the Texas Biological and Agro-Defense Consortium, the group bidding for the NBAF in San Antonio, Texas, filed a solid, legally sound (my opinion) notice of intent to sue the Department Homeland Security with the [...]
