Broken Hallelujah

Thanks for hanging with me today.



Make it stop. Please. I don't think I can take much more. Go read first hand account of journalist-producer, Stuart Hughes, who was injured in Iraq by a landmine recently and just said goodbye to an old friend. His Northern Iraq weblog tells his personal story and there's a chilling account of those with him when injured on April 2 on the BBC News site that is worth reading.



(Picture on the Port of Oakland link) An anti-war demonstration at the Port of Oakland turned violent this morning when Oakland Police opened fire with wooden dowels, "sting balls," concussion grendades, tear gas and other non-lethal weapons when protesters at the gates of two shipping lines refused an order to disperse.

Before you start hating the protesters, listen to what they say. Many do what they do out of peace and love. But some may claim that protesters start all the violence. My husband and I have both seen for ourselves undercover police dressing up like "hippies" and provoking fights with the police at peace rallies. This was years ago in New York, and in LA, but it can happen anywhere.

[via: common dreams]



Someone recently asked me about the little "no war" blinkie on the right side of this site and I just found that site. Several other blinkies are included; some a little more explicit. Not safe for work.



Haiku-O-Matic

As I try to sleep

I count the graceful white sheep

Smothered in mint sauce



walked into strip bar

my girlfriend hugging a pole

do I have to tip?



Quote For Today

Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills? ~Kahlil Gibran



Going from zero to bitch in record speed.