Birmingham Blues

…or not.  No crazy partying going on here.  I am planning to go to the Over the Mountain Democrats meeting tonight, but other than a penchant for cold beer and good music, I don’t think these folks go in for out of control revelry.  ‘Course, they could surprise me. 
So, if you do that sort of [...]

Yes, the Bush administration did such a bang up job of getting bin Laden that — oops, he’s back, and al Qaeda too.

Senior leaders of Al Qaeda operating from Pakistan have re-established significant control over their once-battered worldwide terror network and over the past year have set up a band of training camps in the tribal regions [...]

I’m not Episcopalian, so it’s easy for me to say that the US church should tell the Archbishop of Canterbury and the rest of the Anglican Communion buh-bye, but I don’t respond well to ultimatums from bigots.
The Anglican Communion gave the U.S. Episcopal Church a September deadline on Monday to stop blessing same sex unions, but did gave no [...]

The Washington Post has several follow-ups on yesterday’s horrendous article about outpatient care for our soldiers:
The Hotel Aftermath
Army Fixing Patients’ Housing
Hospital Addresses Soldiers’ Complaints
It’s a shame that unflattering press coverage is what it takes to get some action, but I’m all for major improvements ASAP.  These soldiers have given their health for their country; it’s the [...]

…(one day late) to Jeff at Politics In Alabama!

Theodore Roosevelt in the Kansas City Star, May 7, 1918:
“The President is merely the most important among a large number of public servants. He should be supported or opposed exactly to the degree which is warranted by his good conduct or bad conduct, his efficiency or inefficiency in rendering loyal, able, and disinterested service to [...]

If you can read this article without weeping, you are far tougher than I.  How can we countenance treating wounded soldiers this way?
Behind the door of Army Spec. Jeremy Duncan’s room, part of the wall is torn and hangs in the air, weighted down with black mold. When the wounded combat engineer stands in his [...]

…to Wheeler at Alablawg!

Federal investigators have found that the government has thrown away $10 billion of waste and fraud in Iraq.
The three top auditors overseeing work in Iraq told a House committee their review of $57 billion in Iraq contracts found that Defense and State department officials condoned or allowed repeated work delays, bloated expenses and payments for [...]

Off to Alabama Arise’s “Let Justice Roll” conference.  I’ll be back later this afternoon.  What’s happening?