Birmingham Blues

Jennifer, formerly of Intous, has moved to Redd Turtles & Blue Ducks. Love the name!

I wasn’t terribly surprised with my result, given I spend most of my time reading, writing, or running my mouth. Although there is a musical intelligence category, and that one might fit too. What about you? Given the consistently high quality of comments, I’d expect lots of linguistic intelligence among my readers.

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Oops.  al-Maliki decided he didn’t really want to meet with Bush in Jordan after all.  Could that be because of neocon National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley’s memo questioning al-Maliki’s ability to stop sectarian violence?  A pretty funny assessment, coming from an administration that launched a preemptive attack on a sovereign nation and then totally mismanaged [...]

Good.
U.S. District Judge Richard J. Leon’s ruling sharply criticized the Federal Emergency Management Agency for illegally cutting housing funding and subjecting storm victims to a convoluted application process he called “Kafkaesque.”
…FEMA, criticized for responding too slowly to the storm, said in a statement Wednesday that it sent letters outlining the program changes, explaining why some [...]

We report; you decide.  At a reception for incoming congressional members, newly elected Sen. Jim Webb (D-VA) tried to avoid George W. Bush, but Georgie just couldn’t take the hint:
“How’s your boy?” Bush asked, referring to Webb’s son, a Marine serving in Iraq.
“I’d like to get them out of Iraq, Mr. President,” Webb responded, echoing [...]

…to Jeff at Politics In Alabama!

…is give peace a chance.
DENVER, Nov. 28 — Peace is fighting back in Pagosa Springs.
Last week, a couple were threatened with fines of $25 a day by their homeowners’ association unless they removed a four-foot wreath shaped like a peace symbol from the front of their house.
The fines have been dropped, and the three-member board [...]

…because of what we started in Iraq?
I left my home Monday.
As my family fled the fighting that’s engulfed our neighborhood in Baghdad, I gazed out the car window, thinking that I might never again see the fruit stand off our street, the shops where my sisters and I bought soft drinks, the turquoise-domed mosque where we [...]

ADDENDUM:  For Montgomery residents, there will be a World AIDS Day Interfaith Service at Immanuel Presbyterian Church - 8790 Vaughn Road at 6PM on Friday December 1st.  Contact the church for more info at (334)260-0567 OR Montgomery AIDS Outreach at (334) 280-3349.  (Thanks, brother-in-law!) 
Okay, clearly this post should have gone up yesterday, but I’m going [...]

…because the organization isn’t really interested in doing Christian things.
ORLANDO, Fla. - The president-elect of the Christian Coalition of America has declined the job, saying the organization wouldn’t let him expand its agenda beyond opposing abortion and gay marriage.
The Rev. Joel Hunter, who was scheduled to take over the socially conservative group in January from [...]