Bumbershoot has announced a partial list of performers this year including:
Ani DiFranco - Son Volt - Tift Merritt - Brazilian Girls - Digable Planets - Flatstock - STREB - The Decemberists - Ted Leo/Pharmacists - DeVotchKa - The Gospel Hummingbirds - 1 Reel Film Festival - Sarah Lee Guthrie & Johnny Irion - Ink Spot [...]
Archive for May, 2005
Republicans Ready to go Nuclear on the Democrats!
Published by May 18th, 2005 in Politics. 0 CommentsThis morning NPR reported on how the Republicans are moving forward with their nomination of Priscilla Owen to U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit. NPR reported that Senator Frist was going to use this nomination in order to push the “nuclear option” of changing the Senate procedures by banning filibusters on court nominees. [...]
From today’s New York Times:
Mr. McClellan and other administration officials blamed the Newsweek article for setting off the anti-American violence that swept Afghanistan and Pakistan. “The report had real consequences,” Mr. McClellan said. “People have lost their lives. Our image abroad has been damaged.”
But only a few days earlier, in a briefing on Thursday, Gen. [...]
Well it certainly is puzzling as to why Newsweek retracted its story considering that the allegations of desecration of the Quran by the U.S. interrogators at Gitmo are probably true. For a thorough rundown of the numerous reports that came out previous to Newsweek’s story, read the posts at This Modern World today. [...]
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It looks like the Senate is headed for a showdown in the filibuster fight. The Republicans seem willing to risk changing the rules in order to force through Bush’s court nominees. The Republicans seem to think that since they are the majority party and control all three branches of government they should be [...]
The May 16 headline of Newsweek states, “Officials cheered the capture of Al Qaeda’s No. 3 man. But what do we do with the growing group of top terror suspects once we nab them?”
What is going on here?
According to the Newsweek article, one Mr. Abu Faraj al-Libbi was arrested, by burqas wearing security forces, [...]
Have you ever had the conversation with someone in the previous generation like say your parents or your uncle or whomever that inevitably includes the statements like: “Well when I was your age things were different… Back then mothers stayed home with their kids… We didn’t need any daycare… We made no attempt to [...]
I don’t know if there is a god, but the people behind Force Ministries think there is and that He’s on our side. Check out their website. Quite a few people I know have visited the website, and the most common response I get is, “Is this a joke?” It’s not. [...]
When did Bush decide on Iraq?
Published by May 10th, 2005 in Iraq, Middle East and Politics. 1 CommentWhen will the mainstream media grab ahold of this? As first reported in the Times (No, not that one, the London Times) on May 1, 2005, Bush had already decided on military force in Iraq prior to a July 23, 2002 meeting among the prime minister’s advisers in Blair’s office. This meeting was [...]
