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Breaking: Tap Runs Dry in Tennessee
Town!
From GEF for Suzie-Q
Do me a favor and tell that Moron Bush that Global
Warming(From the Sun) is quite real!
Tennessee
Town Has Run Out of Water
ORME, Tenn. (AP)
- As twilight falls over this Tennessee town, Mayor Tony Reames drives up
a dusty dirt road to the community’s towering water tank and begins his
nightly ritual in front of a rusty metal valve.
With a twist of
the wrist, he releases the tank’s meager water supply, and suddenly this
sleepy town is alive with activity. Washing machines whir, kitchen sinks
fill and showers run.
About three
hours later, Reames will return and reverse the process, cutting off water
to the town’s 145 residents.
The severe
drought tightening like a vise across the Southeast has threatened the
water supply of cities large and small, sending politicians scrambling for
solutions. But Orme, about 40 miles west of Chattanooga and 150 miles
northwest of Atlanta, is a town where the worst-case scenario has already
come to pass: The water has run out.
The mighty
waterfall that fed the mountain hamlet has been reduced to a trickle, and
now the creek running through the center of town is dry.
Three days a
week, the volunteer fire chief hops in a 1961 fire truck at 5:30 a.m. -
before the school bus blocks the narrow road - and drives a few miles to
an Alabama fire hydrant. He meets with another truck from nearby New Hope,
Ala. The two drivers make about a dozen runs back and forth, hauling about
20,000 gallons of water from the hydrant to Orme’s tank.
“I’m not
God. I can’t make it rain. But I’ll get you the water I can get
you,” Reames tells residents.
Between 6 and 9
every evening, the town scurries. Residents rush home from their jobs at
the carpet factories outside town to turn on washing machines. Mothers
start cooking supper. Fathers fill up water jugs. Kids line up to take
showers.
“You never get
used to it,” says Cheryl Evans, a 55-year-old who has lived in town all
her life. “When you’re used to having water and you ain’t got it,
it’s strange. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve turned on the
faucet before remembering the water’s been cut.”
“You have to
be in a rush,” she says. “At 6 p.m., I start my supper, turn on my
washer, fill all my water jugs, take my shower.”
During its peak
in the 1930s, Orme (rhymes with “storm”) boasted a population of
thousands, a jail, three schools and a hotel. But those boom times are
long gone.
After the coal
miners went on strike in the 1940s, the company shut down the mine and the
town has never been the same. Not a single business is left in Orme. The
only reminder of the town’s glory days is an aging wooden rail depot
that sits three feet above the eerily quiet streets.
Although changes
are coming - cable TV arrived just a few years ago - cell phones still
don’t work there. The main road into town is barely wide enough for two
cars to pass one another. Dogs wander the streets, farm animals can be
heard all around town, and kids gather outside the one-room City Hall to
ride their bikes.
“It’s like
walking back in time. It’s Never-Never Land here,” says Ernie Dawson,
a 47-year-old gospel singer who grew up in Orme.
Water
restrictions in Orme are nothing new. But residents say it’s never been
this bad.
Even last
summer, as the water supply dwindled, city leaders cut off water only at
night. But in August, Reames took the most extreme step yet and restricted
use to three hours a day.
Elected in
December, he has now spent $8,000 of the city’s $13,000 annual budget to
deal with the crisis. Most of the money went toward trucking water from
Alabama.
He has tried to
fill the gaps with modest fundraisers, but it hasn’t been easy. A
Halloween carnival last week cleared about $375 and a dog show two weeks
ago made $300.
The town has
received a $377,590 emergency grant from the U.S. Department of
Agriculture that Reames hopes will be Orme’s salvation. A utility crew
is laying a 2 1/2-mile pipe to connect Orme to the Bridgeport, Ala., water
supply. The work could be finished by Thanksgiving.
“It’s not a
short-term solution,” Reames says. “It is THE solution.”
He says the
crisis in Orme could serve as a warning to other communities to conserve
water before it’s too late.
“I feel for
the folks in Atlanta,” he says, his gravelly voice barely rising above
the sound of rushing water from the town’s tank. “We can survive.
We’re 145 people. You’ve got 4.5 million people down there. What are
they going to do? It’s a scary thought.”
Attention All College and Young
Republicans
From Blogenfreude for Agitprop
The Dear Leader is having trouble staffing
his little nation-building experiment over in Iraq. State
Department diplomats, sensibly enough, don't want to get blown to
bits in the Green Zone. Condi's solution? Force 'em!
But there's some dissention
in the ranks:
At a rare, contentious meeting, foreign service officers told
senior State Department officials that the move to fill
vacancies in Baghdad puts them in danger, jeopardizes the
well-being of their families, and could deplete the ranks of
those willing to serve overseas at a critical time. Several
diplomats said privately they would resign rather than accept
orders to serve in Iraq.
[snip]
Jack Crotty, a senior Foreign Service officer who has worked
overseas, told his superiors that being forced to serve in Iraq
is a "potential death sentence and you know it."
"It's one thing if someone believes in what's going on
over there and volunteers," he said, according to the
Associated Press, "but it's another thing to send someone
over there on a forced assignment."
What to do? Well, we know that College
Republicans and Young
Republicans won't serve
in the armed forces (other
priorities). Maybe they'll sign up for the foreign
service and help out their president. It must be less
dangerous than actually fighting.
It's their war - why aren't they diplomating it?
You can ask them here
and here.
Bill Maher: No Crony Left Behind -
Politics on The Huffington Post
From Parson for Der
Parson's Rant
Bill Maher hits the nail on the head again. Here is post from
Hffington Post about how even "No Child Left Behind" makes money
for his corprate buddies.
Bill
Maher: No Crony Left Behind - Politics on The Huffington Post
New Rule: In the next fifteen months, President Bush has to perform at
least one act that doesn't make money for someone he knows.
Take "No Child Left Behind." At first it just looked like
gentle empty bullshit, a way to neutralize the Democrats edge with
voters on education issues. What did it even mean? And how could you be
against it? Education. It was a perfect cause that would honor the
legacy of any president...'s wife. Which made it even more perfect for
pre-9/11 Bush. And who could it hurt? No one. It made Lady Bird
Johnson's wild-flowers-by-the-highways project look like the fucking
Marshall Plan.
Except, like all Bush ideas, there was more to it. To meet the
requirements of "No Child Left Behind" America's public
schools have ordered more than eleven million standardized tests in the
last two years. (New York State alone ordered 1.7 million.) The cost of
the tests -- and the testing industry, including test prep -- now
exceeds two billion dollars a year. And 90% of the industry is
controlled by five corporations. And the largest of them is McGraw-Hill.
And the McGraw family just happens to go back 80 years with the Bushes.
Another beneficiary of No Child Left Behind? Neil Bush's educational
software company. The one funded by the United Arab Emirates. The one
Barbara Bush said the Katrina victims had to spend her donation on.
Which is, of course, all blood under the bridge. But when Bush does
anything, there's always some profit motive behind it. Nothing is free
but the hookers. So it wasn't surprising that he announced his post war
plans were to replenish the coffers with speeches. But before that, he
has to do one purely altruistic thing. Just one.
Things They Don't Tell You When You Sign
Up
From Carol
for Peace
When soldiers volunteer to "fight terrorism", they don't
usually consider the possibility that the real danger could lie within
their own ranks.
Maybe you have already read about these two soldiers who volunteered to
serve our country but ended up shot dead, not from fighting terrorists,
but at the hands of someone on the base where they were stationed.
Others have already written about the connection between these two
murders, but I only recently learned of the second death.
Robert Rouse, on his Left
of Centrist site, posted a video
of the Chicago protest last week. On the video, he spoke with Juan
Torres whose son died from a mysterious gunshot wound in Afghanistan in
2004. You can read what I wrote about Juan after I met him at Camp Casey
in August of 2005 by clicking here.
What I didn't write at that time was that Juan's son was in the military
doing accounting work before he died. Just remember that there are a lot
of things going on in the land of poppies. You can put the scenario
together any way that you want. After all, the military has been doing
that ever since Juan Jr. died.
What I didn't know, until I watched Robert's video, was that another
soldier who also worked in accounting at Bagram AFB in Afghanistan (same
base as Juan) recently died of a gunshot wound to the head. One night in
late September of this year, Ciara Durkin was found dead outside a
chapel. The military initially reported her as having been killed in
action, but they later changed the cause to a "non-combat
related incident". According to her family, before she died,
she told them that she
had witnessed things she didn't agree with and if she died, she
wanted her family to investigate.
The family is awaiting the results of the investigation. Ciara was
lesbian, and some are wondering if her murder was a hate crime. Maybe.
But these two stories are too eerily similar to me.
And I'll be interested in learning what the investigation comes up with.
At 24% Approval, Bush Isn’t in a
Position to Issue Ultimatums
From Christopher for From
the Left
President Bush sought to save Michael
“I can’t say if waterboarding is torture” Mukasey’s
troubled nomination for Attorney General Thursday and defended
the retired judge’s refusal to say what he considers torture.
Bush warned
of a leaderless Justice Department if Democrats do not confirm him.
“If the Senate Judiciary
Committee were to block Judge Mukasey on these grounds, they
would set a new standard for confirmation that could not be met by
any responsible nominee for attorney general. That would guarantee
that America would have no attorney general during this time of
war.”
Works for me.
At 24%
approval, Bush isn’t in a position to issue ultimatums. In
fact, if it’s a choice between Michael Mukasey and not having
an Attorney General, then I believe it’s best for the country to
leave the position of top law enforcer vacant.
Know a blog that
deserves to be featured on the Blog World Report? Contact Robert.
Should Voting
Machine Makers Be Sued?
From TomCat for Politics
Plus
Voting machine manufacturers should be investigated by Congress and sued
by state and local governments across America for knowingly selling
defective products to taxpayers, a growing number of voting
rights attorneys and activists are saying. If successful, these
advocates say the legal action could lead to multimillion-dollar
refunds.
"It is our view at Voter
Action that this whole question must be brought to a new
level," said John Bonifaz, the group's legal director. "It
is akin to the scrutiny that finally was applied to the big tobacco
companies, with respect to what they knew and when they knew the
effects of the products that they were marketing."
"A month ago, four citizens filed allegations with Arizona's
attorney general complaining about these issues," said Jim March,
a Black Box
Voting board member and voting technology consultant, referring to
a legal complaint that manufacturers sold uncertified electronic
voting machines to Arizona counties. "If he does not respond in
60 days and does not file a suit, then we can file it."
In 2003, March and Black Box Voting founder Bev Harris filed a
similar whistleblower suit in California against Diebold Election
Systems that was settled for $2.6 million by the state's attorney
general.
The latest round of public-interest advocacy has been sparked by
recent reports from independent journalists and state officials documenting
flaws in the manufacturing and performance of electronic voting
systems. Congressional staffers say the product liability
issue may be ripe for inquiry. Meanwhile, legal experts say local
governments could have a strong case for seeking refunds.
"A state or county that purchased a machine would have a
straightforward claim under the uniform commercial code and contract
law if the machines did not perform as warranted so long as the defect
was material -- i.e., it substantially impaired the value of the
machine -- and was undisclosed to the purchaser," said Michael
Gergen, a University of Texas law professor. "I would think a
defect that raised serious questions about the accuracy of a vote
count would substantially impair the value of a machine."
The new advocacy comes against a backdrop of recent disclosures
about the nation's electronic voting systems. This summer, California
Secretary of State Debra Bowen completed a major review of security
flaws in the various voting systems deployed in her state. That review
prompted Bowen to restrict the use of several makes and models in the
state's February 2008 presidential primary. Under Bowen's early August
directives, thousands of electronic voting machines will be pulled
from use.
Then, in mid-August, ex-CBS anchorman Dan Rather, now with HD.net,
presented an investigative report on the shoddy overseas manufacture
of one widely used electronic voting system, the iVotronic made by
Election Systems and Software (ES&S). He went to Manila, in the
Philippines, where employees assembling ES&S machines spoke of
using defective screens and rebuffed efforts to tell management about
quality control problems. As many as 15,000 machines may have
had defective screens, Bonifaz said, which correlates with election
incident reports of voters saying they selected one candidate, but
another choice would register on their electronic ballot... [emphasis
added]
Inserted from <AlterNet>
I think suing these manufacturers is a great
idea, but that raises another question. Were the irregularities
the result of shoddy construction of the machines, or were they
built-in by design? If it was just shoddy workmanship, then one
would expect the errors to be evenly distributed, when in fact, the
degree to which the errors have favored the GOP renders the
statistical improbability of unplanned error an asymptotic approach to
infinity. Given this, they should be sued for fraud, rather that
defective product.
Denial ain't just a river
From Randal Graves for L'ennui
mélodieux
It's
a way of life.
President Bush compared Congress' Democratic leaders
Thursday to people who ignored the rise of Lenin and
Hitler
It doesn't take much to shut Nancy and Harry up, but if
anything will, it's the invocation of The Great Horned
One. No, not that
one. This
one, silly goose.
Also, we're apparently at war, and Bush said any denial of
this is dangerous. His words struck me as quite strange,
considering that we've always been at war with the
Monolithic Islamic Über-Caliphate® that's been hell bent
on destroying the United States since the death of
Muhammad nearly fourteen centuries ago. You're not
treading on any new ground, Mr. President, but I humbly
defer to your celebrated wisdom. The floor is certainly
yours. Go on.
"History teaches us that underestimating the words
of evil, ambitious men is a terrible mistake," Bush
said.
Lesson
noted, sir. And the President didn't let us infantile
activists in the Lefty Moonbat-O-Sphere off the hook. Give
us hell, Bush!
"When it comes to funding
our troops, some in Washington should spend more
time responding
to the warnings of terrorists like Osama bin Laden
and the requests
of our commanders on the ground," Bush said,
"and less time responding to the demands of
MoveOn.org bloggers and Code Pink protesters."
Uh, what was that sir? I was trying to light my doobie,
but dude, someone stole my corn chips. Man! Hey, was it
you, Chimpy McBushHitler, you lovable scamp? I'm gonna
call Barbara's pretty little mind on yooooouuuuuuuu!
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Frozen Pizza Recall
From NY Texan for BlueBloggin
This is getting out of control. Now frozen pizza has been
recalled for E coli with 414,000 cases affected.
Health Risk: High
Public health officials are urging
consumers to throw away any Totino’s or Jeno’s
brand frozen pizzas that contain pepperoni in the wake of a
multi-state outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 infections.
“We took action on that basis as a precaution, because
of the possibility that a link might exist,” said General
Mills spokesman Tom Forsythe.
The manufacturer, General Mills, has recalled all frozen
pepperoni pizzas produced at their Wellston,
Ohio
, plant. More than 120 million of these pizzas have been
distributed since the beginning of July.
The specific products covered
by the recall are as follows:
- Totino’s Original Crisp Crust Party Pizza,
Pepperoni, 10.2 oz.
- Totino’s Original Crisp Crust Party Pizza, Classic
Pepperoni, 10.2 oz.
- Totino’s Original Crisp Crust Party Pizza, Pepperoni
Trio, 10.2 oz.
- Totino’s Original Crisp Crust Party Pizza, Three
Meat Sausage, Canadian Style Bacon & Pepperoni, 10.5
oz.
- Totino’s Original Crisp Crust Party Pizza,
Combination Sausage & Pepperoni, 10.7 oz.
- Totino’s Original Crisp Crust Party Pizza, Supreme
Sausage & Pepperoni with Green Peppers & Onions,
10.9 oz.
- Jeno’s Crisp ‘n Tasty Pizza, Pepperoni, 6.8 oz.
- Jeno’s Crisp ‘n Tasty Pizza, Combination Sausage
and Pepperoni, 7.0 oz.
- Jeno’s Crisp ‘n Tasty Pizza, Supreme Sausage and
Pepperoni With Green Peppers and Onion, 7.2 oz.
Consumers can contact Totino’s /
Jeno’s for product replacement by clipping the UPC (bar
code) symbol from each pizza box and sending their UPC’s,
along with their name and address to:
Totino’s / Jeno’s
P.O. Box 200 - Pizza
Minneapolis
,
MN
55440-0200
The product itself should be thrown
away. Consumers with additional questions about the
recall should contact the company at (800) 949-9055
About
E. Coli
E. coli
O157:H7 is a potentially deadly bacterium that can cause
bloody diarrhea and dehydration. The very young, seniors and
persons with compromised immune systems are the most
susceptible to foodborne illness.
Activist Baby Boomers Are Alive
and Well
From The
Boomer Chronicles
I am lucky to live in a part of the world where people care about
and work on politically progressive causes. Last night, my
neighborhood of Jamaica Plain hosted a talk by Frances
Moore Lappe, author of the groundbreaking classic Diet for a
Small Planet (1971), which addressed hunger and promoted
vegetarianism. One of the facts that she popularized is one I quote
all the time: It takes 16
pounds of grain or soy to produce 1 pound of meat. Lappe’s focus
on hunger has expanded to encompass all manner of global issues
through an organization she founded called Small
Planet Institute.
Last night, the audience was, by my estimation, two-thirds
gray-haired folks who are still politically engaged. Some people
insist that baby boomers are self-indulgent, self-centered people, but
I can say that this is certainly not true of the ones I know.
There is a wide array of organzations peopled by, or financially
supported by, activist baby boomers. Here are just a few:
Common
Dreams: the Portland, Maine-based provider of progressive news
and views
Adbusters:
a Vancouver, B.C., publication that challenges consumerism
Dollars
& Cents: a Boston-based publication on economic justice
Our
Bodies, Ourselves: a Boston-based organization that pioneered
the women’s health movement
Ms. Magazine: the feminist publication marks its 35th
anniversary this fall
Blackwater sneaks silencers into
Iraq
From GottaLaff for Cliff
Schecter
 Blackwater
just gets sleazier and sleazier. It's a good thing they're
representing us in Iraq. They really help our image:
Federal agents are investigating allegations that
the Blackwater
USA security firm illegally exported dozens of
firearms sound suppressors — commonly known as silencers
— to Iraq and other countries for use by
company operatives, sources close to the investigation tell
NBC News.
They apparently didn't get necessary export approval.
The sources said the investigation is part of a broader
examination of potential firearms and export violations.
Now. Guess who's in charge of regulating exports of arms?
Coincidentally, the company’s main responsibility in
Iraq is protecting officials of the State
Department, the agency that regulates exports of arms.
The firm had more than $500 million in federal contracts in
2006.
So there we have it.
Blackwater sent the silencers overseas with its employees
without getting the necessary export approval.
The penalty is up to 10 years in prison and fines up to $1
million per count.
But why would Blackwater need silencers? To win hearts and
minds? Sure, that must be it.
The military uses them for covert action and nighttime
tactical assaults where stealth and surprise are required, but
experts say it is not clear why Blackwater guards would need
them for missions such as personal protection of diplomats.
Blackwater is doing
a perfect job. Thank
God for Blackwater.
Ann Coulter At It
Again
By Larry Sadler for
Let's
Talk
Colmes ask Coulter to apologize for her statment about
Judaism. Ann Coulter said that she wears criticism
from Jewish groups over the remark as a badge of
honor.
Ann comment was, the Anti-Defamation League condemns
Dennis Prager. I wear it as a badge of honor. It's
like citing the National Organization of Women to tell
me how all women feel. The point is: This is the same
old fight we see all the time with the irreligious
trying to stir up trouble with the religious.
What is this woman talking about and is it just that
she's still trying to sell her new book?
The reminder of her statment was as follow; "Yes,
godless liberals are upset that other people believe
in God. This is the exact same thing we saw with
George Bush speaking at Bob Jones University. And
suddenly, The New York Times was offended on behalf of
Catholics, because of some untoward remarks the
original Bob Jones had made about the Catholic Church,
not as bad as what the New York Times had said about
the Catholic Church, I might add, and religious people
just don't fall for it. We know the real enemy are
secularists."
What a country Bush has made for us, when these types
of people crawl out from under their rock and spew
more hate and fear for us all.
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AAAArrrrggghhh
By Fran for Ramblings
 I
don't mean to make light of the situation.... but it
is hard to believe, in the 21st Century, the coast of
Africa has Pirate problems. As with everything else-
modern day Pirates have updated their equipment as
well.
No longer do they use the classic, standard pirate
ship
 But
now use the more streamlined, motorized skiff.
 Interestingly,
these Pirates have successfully captured vessels at
sea. Four ships in the region remain in pirate hands,
the Navy said. When the shots were fired, it was not
known the ship was filled with highly flammable
benzene. U.S. military officials indicate there is a
great deal of concern about the cargo of one of the
captured ships, because it is so sensitive. Benzene,
which U.S. authorities have declared a known human
carcinogen, is used as a solvent and to make plastics
and synthetic fabrics.
U.S. and NATO warships have been patrolling off the
Horn of Africa for years in an effort to crack down on
piracy off Somalia, where a U.N.-backed transitional
government is struggling to restore order after 15
years of near-anarchy.
The pirates often are armed with automatic rifles and
shoulder-fired rockets, according to a recent warning
from the agency.
"To date, vessels that increase speed and take
evasive maneuvers avoid boarding, while those that
slow down are boarded, taken to the Somali coastline
and released after successful ransom payment, often
after protracted negotiations of as much as 11
weeks," the warning advised.
It's hard to believe with all the sophisticated
equipment modern ships have, that Pirates have
successfully ovetaken 4 ships in the 21st century.
Than again, if you reframe it, I guess pirating comes
in many forms. I saw regular gas being sold here for
$3.17 per gallon, and the national debt is $9
Trillion.
I am shocked, shocked I tell you, to
hear there's corruption in the Bush Administration
By Pookyshoehorn for Ramblings
of a Madwoman
 Yes,
to paraphrase Capt. Renault in Casablanca,
I know it's shocking. But apparently top level officials
in the Bush Administration have accepted gifts from
members of the very
industry they are charged with regulating!
From today's Washington
Post:
The chief of the Consumer Product Safety Commission and
her predecessor have taken dozens of trips at the
expense of the toy, appliance and children's furniture
industries and others they regulate, according to
internal records obtained by The Washington Post. Some
of the trips were sponsored by lobbying groups and
lawyers representing the makers of products linked to
consumer hazards.
The records document nearly 30 trips since 2002 by the
agency's acting chairman, Nancy Nord, and the previous
chairman, Hal Stratton, that were paid for in full or in
part by trade associations or manufacturers of products
ranging from space heaters to disinfectants. The
airfares, hotels and meals totaled nearly $60,000, and
the destinations included China, Spain, San Francisco,
New Orleans and a golf resort on Hilton Head Island,
S.C.
The agency's travel patterns during the Bush
administration, detailed in internal agency documents,
differ from those of the Clinton era. Ann
Brown, who served as chairman from 1994 to 2001,
traveled only at the expense of the agency or of media
organizations that sponsored appearances where she
announced product recalls, according to the documents
provided.
"We hated to have an industry pay for our staff
for anything," said Pam Gilbert, a lawyer who was
executive director of the agency under Brown.
You can read the entire article here. The
Sicko Money Chooses Hillary
From Rick B for Ten
Percent
In
a reversal from past election cycles, Democratic
candidates for president are outpacing Republicans in
donations from the health care industry, even as the
leading Democrats in the field offer proposals that
have caused deep anxiety in some of its sectors.
Hospitals, drug makers, doctors and insurers gave
candidates in both parties more than $11 million in
the first nine months of this year, according to an
analysis of campaign finance records done for The New
York Times by the Center for Responsive Politics, an
independent group that tracks campaign finance.In all,
the Democratic presidential candidates have raised
about $6.5 million from the industry, compared with
nearly $4.8 million for the Republican candidates.
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York has amassed
the most of any candidate, even as she calls for
changes to the health care system that could pose
serious financial challenges to private insurers, drug
companies and other sectors.
Clinton’s is third way conservative tinkering, only
Kucinich is proposing
healthcare removed from the profit motive-
On
Jan. 24, 2007, Reps. John Conyers and Dennis
Kucinich led 43 other House members in introducing HR
676, the Conyers/Kucinich Health Care bill. Today the
bill, which Kucinich helped write, is supported by 76
members of Congress, 250 union locals, and more than
14,000 physicians. HR 676 is endorsed by the New
Hampshire State Legislature and by Michael Moore,
producer of SICKO.
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The Dear Leader is having trouble staffing
his little nation-building experiment over in Iraq. State
Department diplomats, sensibly enough, don't want to get blown to
bits in the Green Zone. Condi's solution? Force 'em!
But there's some dissention
in the ranks:
