Broken Hallelujah

Good Morning...! yuck.... thundershowers. But if we didn't have the rain, I wouldn't have all these lovely flowers in my yard. Even though the rain is beating the shit out of their lovely blooms at this very moment.



**Finally got this to post today---after trying for 5 hours. Sometimes Blogger likes me to use my ftp.easybakecoven.net address; and sometimes it works best if I use the 140.186.45.2 address. Tempermental little thing.



Radiohead's new cd, "Hail To The Thief", leaked out all over the internet recently and besides file sharing, a radio station in Canada is also playing it saying the buzz it creates is worth risking legal action. It was supposed to have a June release date.



Collateral damage is just an unfortunate side effect, making it sound like we broke a couple dishes while cleaning up after dinner. Whoops. Gosh, sorry about your dead family, there, there now. Here, have some money. No, it's not easy to find the truth, to see the real numbers or to see the true pictures of war. But there are some honest reports trickling out. Ghastly scenes of a brutalized people. A handful of reporters actually reporting on something other than troop movements and food supplies. But you have to really look. You won't see them on CNN, or on GOP-lickin' Fox News, or even on this Web site. It's just too much. But if you want to know what Bush's little war is really inflicting, you might want to take a look. Here's just one site, from New Zealand, that's collected a number of such grisly images from foreign presses. Also includes photos of dead U.S. soldiers. Warning: Graphic content. Warning: Perspective altering. Warning: Breakfast ruining. Sure they're all, you know, dead. But hey, at least they're liberated. [via: sfgate.com]



Senate Appropriations Committee Chair Ted Stevens (R-AK) said that firefighters, police officers, and other first responders should bear the cost of homeland security by working overtime without pay. Tell Senator Stevens to retract his appalling demand that first responders make further sacrifices and pay the costs of homeland security. Click this link to take action! Retract Your Statement!



Don't forget to stop by and participate in "Saturday Snapshots" on Lynn's site. Post one of your pics that's explains the way you're feeling today. It's her grand opening.



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Quote For Today

"There's no use trying," Alice said, "one can't believe impossible things." "I daresay you haven't had much practice, "said the queen, "When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast." ~Lewis Carroll



saturday morning me/

hazelnut cuppa joe with amaretto & paul/cheerios/grapes/jeans/addidas/green football shirt (#5)/olive ball cap/pms looming/over-processed, sun-fried, need a shampoo, curly hair in ponytail/marlboros-make you sterile/hearing: ani difranco, dogs crunching on kibble/how about you?/



Some say the glass is half empty, some say the glass is half full, I say, are you going to drink that or not?