Tower Tremors: Wireless Communication Towers
Cellular towers are becoming a part of our modern landscape equivalent to when billboards began to multiply a few decades ago. And like billboards, they are a mixed blessing at best and an environmental blight to many people. Each year in North America an estimated 4-5 million birds per year are killed in [...]
Bribes are just part of doing ‘bidness’ in Iraq..or An officer and a bribery suspect.
Well, this really isn’t a surprise right? What probably IS a surprise is who is taking them. From the NYT article:
Court documents filed in the case say the Army took action because the company was suspected of paying hundreds of thousands in bribes to Army officers to secure contracts to build, operate and maintain warehouses [...]
Bye Rove, don’t let the door hit ya where the good Lord split ya!
Today is the last day ‘of work’ for Karl Rove, aka the devil incarnate. Lets give him a rollicking good bye by remembering how he ruined the United States of America and basically the entire world as we know it. Let me start:
PlameGate…nothing more need be said.
Politicizing every department withing the Federal Government.
This is your [...]
Iowa Judge Allows Same-Sex Couples To Wed
DES MOINES, Iowa — A county judge struck down Iowa’s decade-old gay marriage ban as unconstitutional Thursday and ordered local officials to process marriage licenses for six gay couples. Gay couples from anywhere in Iowa could apply for a marriage license from Polk County under Judge Robert Hanson’s ruling.
Less than two hours after word [...]
Depleted Uranium- The gift that keeps on giving.
There are some bloggers who walk the walk. They are on the road much of the year speaking about the horrors and dangers of War. Charlie, Tammara and REB 84 are three who I have the pleasure of knowing, if only on the ‘internets’ through emails and their blogs. These are individuals that spend [...]
Pentagon’s military officers are NOT all on the same page…
The page I am referring to is the Iraq War page and what should be done next. McClatchy has a good article up that points out how many of the military minds can not come to a consensus on how to deal with the war. From the McClatchy article:
In a sign that top commanders are [...]
Remembrance…
Here are the thoughts of the Angry Black Bitch regarding Katrina, two years after the levee’s Failed.
Two years ago today was like any other day until it wasn’t. I’m sure I went to work, laughed with some people and bitched about something…and then came Katrina.
I am unable to recall Katrina without selfishly thinking about my [...]
Ghosts of New Orleans ~ 2 Years On
Your Demon had the great fortune to live in New Orleans for several years pre-hurricane, so the way that a great & wholly unique American city was allowed to disintegrate right before our very eyes is a continuing outrage, & a personal one, to me. It was, to me, a magic place, a [...]
Katrina Blanket
A flag is many things to many people. In the aftermath of Katrina this blanket of the American flag is her comfort. Little did she know that help wasn’t on the way. An old woman now…probably worked hard all of her life as someone’s maid or housekeeper. She had old age to look forward to [...]
Tonight on CNN, Katrina from a childs perspective.
Just a short note to alert folks that CNN will be showing a documentary tonight by Spike Lee and Soledad O’Brien entitled: Children of the Storm. Broadcast time is 8pm Eastern. Filmed almost entirely by 11 teenagers using handheld cameras, CNN says the doc “captures their poignantly personal journeys as they learn about [...]
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Criminal Investigations On Iraq Weaponry
Several federal agencies are investigating a growing network of criminal cases involving the purchase and delivery of billions of dollars of weapons, supplies and other material to Iraqi and American forces, this according to some American officials. They said it amounted to the largest ring of fraud and kickbacks uncovered in the conflict here.
The inquiry [...]
a level of ridiculousness
Please welcome our new writer, Big Ass Belle. She is a wonderful addition to our staff here at Sirens.
Scott Reed, a Republican strategist, was dining in Philly Monday night when his cell phone went crazy. That was, of course, the night now infamous Rethug Senator Larry Craig was outed as a bathroom sex hunting hypocrite. [...]
California Passes Iraq Ballot Measure
The Senate Bill (SB294) would ask voters whether President Bush should end the US occupation of Iraq and begin the “immediate, complete, safe and orderly withdrawal” of troops.
The California Assembly has approved the legislation on Monday to ask voters (that’s me!) whether they/I support ending the Iraq War and immediately withdrawing troops. Of course [...]
putting it all together
the blogosphere has been pretty busy of late- what with all of the corruption oozing out of the government and whatnot. ever wonder why it is only just seeping out now? i do- but then again i tend to be suspicious in nature. so- a recent recap has seen at least 14 [...]
