An article taken from moggymania

Pitbull kills boy, there's a lot of pitbull bashing going on... And I agree with Moggy's assessment. There is something very "off" about the mother.

She locks her son in the basement, and then leaves him alone in the house with two mating pit bulls, when she's scared they might harm her son because of the whole sex thing? He's dead, and it's all "Well, typical, he never listened to me"? She says several times in this article that she "has no regrets"?

I admit, I've never been in this position, but are these normal things to say/do? I can deal with the contradictions - she "never saw any violent tendancies" but she was so scared that she locked her kid up, okay. She needs to justify her choices. But... I don't know, the whole thing creeps me out.

Bunch of Buzzflash articles. This is a good crop, be sure to read.

One on recruitment to the Army.
One on terrorism charges.
One on slow response to the Downing Street memo. (Name and password are "thisisbull", taken from bugmenot.com)
Another article on that same issue.
One on a homophobic attack in Brooklyn.
Good news on Bush.
One on the "good and honest Iraqis" fighting US forces. Quote marks indicate a quote, not skepticism.
One on the fundies and corporations and oh god help us all.
Finally, one on rape and the day-after pill.

I need to stop reading the news...

Nursing homes in Texas haven't had a rate increase in six years, according to Cheryl Killian, owner of three small nursing homes and administrator at the Sycamore Care Center in Fort Worth. "We're about 22 percent underfunded right now, per patient, per day," she says. "People are dying right now in Texas because of the underfunding. They're getting bed sores and laying in their own waste because we can't afford to keep on going. I've been doing this for 30 years and it's never been this bad."

Killian, one of the few on the street who actually voted for Perry, said her fellow Republicans would rather sit in a church than face reality. "It's not their issue. Maybe they're afraid of speaking out," she said.

Republican Kathy Holt says too much taxpayer money is being wasted on administration costs in education and nursing homes. "The church should be responsible for taking care of the elderly," she says. "I'd be more than happy to write that woman a check. In fact, I bet I could get that entire church to make a donation."

When I asked Janet Waterman to respond to Cheryl Killian's concerns about nursing homes, she said, "People have been dying for years. What about the babies who are dying from abortion?"

*screams*

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

There's also an article about marijuana legalization...

This argument might actually work. Though I find the optimistic attitude that those billions would be spent on, say, education, to be... sad, really.

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About everybody's favorite conspiracy!

And I was almost going to delete this icon for lack of use, too. *sniffle*