Oddly Enough News Article | Reuters.com

Ironic indeed...

Oddly Enough News Article | Reuters.com: "'You can't miss the irony when it is acceptable to steal skins from their original owners and auction them off, but forbidden to auction a person's voluntarily offered skin to be surrendered only upon her death.'"

TheNewOrleansChannel.com - Food - Man Sees Image Of Jesus In Frying Pan

Ummmm... that looks like some kind of non stick coating that this person has worn off by using a metal utensil... I thought you weren't supposed to eat Teflon!

TheNewOrleansChannel.com - Food - Man Sees Image Of Jesus In Frying Pan: "Juan Pastrano, of Prairie Lea, Texas, said he was cooking his mother breakfast on Sunday when he looked close and saw what looks like the face of Jesus etched in his frying pan."

Bloomberg.com: U.S.

Gates and Buffett dumping their money into foreign currencies...

Bloomberg.com: U.S.: "The dollar has fallen 26 percent against a basket of six major currencies since the start of 2002. The trade deficit swelled to a record $609 billion last year, and the Bush administration expects the budget shortfall to reach an all-time high of $427 billion in the year ending in September."

essays & effluvia: US on Bush's handling of Iraq War

I love graphs- check this one out:

essays & effluvia: US on Bush's handling of Iraq War: "Since late March 2003, people were asked, 'Overall, how would you rate the job Bush has done in handling the issue of Iraq over the last several months?'"

City Pages: Built to Fail (No Child Left Behind Act)

City Pages: Built to Fail: "...people across the country are belatedly discovering that NCLB is being structured and implemented as a punitive assault on public education, designed to throw the system into turmoil and open the door to privatization."

Public School Privatization & Commercialization

More...

Scary...

Public School Privatization & Commercialization: "The conservative movement, being thoroughly anti-union, has at its heart a desire to rid the United States of the two remaining unionized sectors of the national economy: Public Education (teachers unions), and Public Employees. In service of these goals, the movement has moved aggressively against both public schools and public school teachers.

Of course, the movement is also interested in converting to private profit the estimated $300 billion annually spent on public primary and secondary education."

The Village Voice: The Bush Beat

No Child Left Behind Act...

The Village Voice: The Bush Beat: "It's a beautiful union-busting maneuver. The two main groups of unionized workers left in the U.S. are teachers and government employees. If the conservative cabal can privatize in those sectors, America's labor movement, already laboring, will be on death's door as far as political power goes."

Daily Kos :: How No Child Left Behind Has Put America's Future In Jeopardy

Read this and do something about it...

Daily Kos :: How No Child Left Behind Has Put America's Future In Jeopardy: "With the implementation of the No Child Left Behind act, the Bush administration has sentenced the next generation of public education in America to a lifetime of failures. "

MSNBC - Olbermann

MSNBC - Olbermann

Remember this guy from SportsCenter?

"Hey, guys, worry about yourselves. You’re spewing hate, while assuming that for some reason, God has chosen you and you alone in all of history to understand the mysteries of existence, when mankind’s existence is filled with ample evidence that nobody yet has been smart enough to discern an answer.

You might try keeping it simpler: did you help others, or hurt them?

I’ll be happy to be judged on the answer to that question, and if it’s a group session, I don’t expect I’ll find many members of “Focus On Family” in the “done ok” line."

USATODAY.com - U.S. students say press freedoms go too far

Someone's gotta tell the youth what's up- or we're in for much more of the same...

USATODAY.com - U.S. students say press freedoms go too far: "One in three U.S. high school students say the press ought to be more restricted, and even more say the government should approve newspaper stories before readers see them, according to a survey being released today."

"A Nation Rocked to Sleep" :: Intervention Magazine :: War, Politics, Culture

Wow... read the article that goes along with this poem...

"A Nation Rocked to Sleep" :: Intervention Magazine :: War, Politics, Culture: "Have you ever heard the sound of a mother screaming for her son?
The torrential rains of a mother's weeping will never be done
They call him a hero, you should be glad that he's one, but
Have you ever heard the sound of a mother screaming for her son?

Have you ever heard the sound of a father holding back his cries?
He must be brave because his boy died for another man's lies
The only grief he allows himself are long, deep sighs
Have you ever heard the sound of a father holding back his cries?

Have you ever heard the sound of taps played at your brother's grave?
They say that he died so that the flag will continue to wave
But I believe he died because they had oil to save
Have you ever heard the sound of taps played at your brother's grave?

Have you ever heard the sound of a nation being rocked to sleep?
The leaders want to keep you numb so the pain won't be so deep
But if we the people let them continue another mother will weep
Have you ever heard the sound of a nation being rocked to sleep?"