Scary USCC.

Scary Scary USCC.

If you are attending please come and help before, I jump out of my skin.

~Rachel
(...the oh-so in over her head...)

Yesterday the U.S. government admitted, for the first time, that officials destroyed videotapes that documented interrogations of Ali Almarri, the only alleged "enemy combatant" still detained on U. S. soil.

The admission surfaced in motion US attorneys filed in the District Court of South Carolina.  Earlier this year the Defense Department ( Read more... )

RE: Bush's Administration's Retardation

Please note that the previously known Holiday of May Day,  you know, the holiday based on the the historic union and labor organizing movements of the United States. The people that took the Divine Right of the rich to exploit normal citizens and threw it on its ear as what defines our country. Is now going to ( Read more... )

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I dream of warm summer rain drops. I dream of the smell of suntan lotion, and the familiar oily-grittiness of of it mixed with sand after a long day on the beach. I dream of laughter that catches off guard, falling asleep to the rhythm of someone else's heartbeat, staring up at the stars with wonderment. I dream of feeling small (yes, smaller than ( Read more... )

Stolen from rosdubh

Seventh Level of Hell

Guarded by the Minotaur, who snarls in fury, and encircled within the river Phlegethon, filled with boiling blood, is the Seventh Level of Hell. The violent, the assasins, the tyrants, and the war-mongers lament their pitiless mischiefs in the river, while centaurs armed with bows and arrows shoot those who try ( Read more... )

A skein of thoughts.

Today is the day Martin Luther King was assassinated.

Growing up he was one of the few historical figures I first began to admire. Not just because of the level of political involvement that sort of runs through my family. But because he has a strange magical aura around him. He changed the world with dreams and words. He ( Read more... )

So, in the wake of the Great Cutting-School Debacle of '08, 
and the subsequent punishments that I have doled out (not excluding the loss of Television, Ipod, Stereo and Door - I mean c'mon I'm a West Indian parental figure, If I'm not gonna beat the stupid out of her its gotta be psychological warfare), and my sister's missing the score cut-off I ( Read more... )

Kids and Cliques-What You Need to Know

By Istar Schwager, Ph.D.
I'd like to dedicate this column to my childhood friend Denis, who died this week. In the e-mails that have gone back and forth among those of us who knew him since second grade, we all talk about his inclusiveness. Denis built a sense of community by reaching out to everyone in the ( Read more... )