I fell asleep this evening around 9:30. I woke up around 1:30 and couldn't go back to sleep. Instead of tossing and turning and keeping Kragen awake, I thought I'd read. That was a bad idea. The economy exploding is a nightmare. But, there's been some even more scary events taking place that aren't getting as much coverage because of the ( Read more... )

I'm praying that not too many people die from this. Galveston Texas is going to get slammed. This choice quote from Newsweek made me suck my breath in hard...Area residents who defied evacuation orders were already causing headaches for authorities. In Surfside, to the west, police used a dump truck to spirit away holdouts who had a change of ( Read more... )

I could go on about how the US Congress caved when it passed the FISA bill legalizing wiretapping on international communications to the USA and how surprised I was that Obama decided to vote for it after saying last year that he would filibuster it. (donate to the EFF or ACLU to help stop the madness as they sue the government.) I could wonder at ( Read more... )

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