| The Democratic Sweep, and Where I Called It Wrong
Indiana: For the first time in state history, a U.S. senator (Republican Dick Lugar) ran without major-party opposition. (I found it intriguing that the Democrats couldn't find a candidate to run against Lugar and yet they were able to knock off three GOP congressmen.) Kansas: State Attorney General Phill Kline (R), who garnered national attention for his strong opposition to abortion and decision to seek the records of minors who received them, lost his bid for re-election. Maryland: In the Senate race, Mike Tyson campaigned in vain for his former brother-in-law, Michael Steele. Not only did Ben Cardin (D) win, but he emerged with both ears intact. Massachusetts: With Deval Patrick's election as governor, Massachusetts Democrats now control the governorship, both Senate seats and every House seat for the first time in state history.
Excerpt from `Defying Dixie'
Then it moved from the political to the personal to guarantee white supremacy. The system, which most people simply called Jim Crow, offered a color-coded solution for every human deed and thought, from where one might urinate to how far one's ambition might soar. Because it was so all-encompassing, it required constant policing and terrible, swift punishment of violations, willful or not. Taken piecemeal, Jim Crow might have seemed arbitrary. Why was it wrong for a white man to sit down and eat supper with the black woman who had nursed him as a baby? If a black man must step off a sidewalk to make way for important white men, should he not also pull his car off the road to make way for white drivers who overtook him on the highway? And why did a little white boy grow up to be mister and a little black boy grow up to be, simply, boy? These weren't the kinds of things a white man could learn overnight if suddenly confronted with black people on the streets of New York, London, or Cape Town.
Jeff Thelen's Blog
If it is, it's a rip-off to the low income people who could use the extra money.The last I heard, there was a debate in Washington D.C. over that very topic. With some wanting everyone to get the checks and others wanting the money to go only to those who paid taxes. Just for the sake of discussion and not that this is my opinion. But what would you say to those who argue that the people who PAY the taxes are the ones who should get the tax break? Just curious.JJeff, Your ending comments on your Jan. 14th newscast poking fun at the Viking fans because of the Packer success put you in the same class as Viking fans ! Winning isn't just enough for Packer fans. Then you wonder why Viking fans dis-like you so. With your news team snickering, you now have a few Lion fans dis-liking the cocky Packer fans.
minazione e resistenza irakena
Red Falcon, Caradine, Vernon, Cecil, R.P.G. Alley, High Tension Road, and so forth. Few of the American soldiers knew how the locals referred to those same streets.
When the hydraulic rear hatch of the Bradley opened, I saw Iraqi and American soldiers running here and there, shouting, guns drawn. I followed some soldiers into a house. In the kitchen, a young American in full combat gear was bending over a man who was lying face down on the floor. The soldier cursed as he struggled to tie the mans hands behind his back with plastic handcuffs. A couple of half-eaten plates of food were on a table, along with a mobile phone, which rang repeatedly. In an adjacent room, another prone man was being trussed. A teen-age Iraqi, the younger brother of the two men, entered the kitchen and began to object; the American soldier handcuffed him as well.
Austin's Foreclosures Down By 15 Percent
Attorney General Greg Abbott said the rate of foreclosures in Texas is a crisis. He also warned that some lenders are contributing to the problem. "In part, because a lot of these homeowners were misled into entering into these loans to begin with, that we've been involved in bringing legal actions against some of these sub prime mortgage lenders, such as Ameriquest," Abbott said. Abbott encouraged those homeowners to contact their lenders directly or to talk with a Housing and Urban Development-approved agency. While cities like Fort Worth, Dallas and San Antonio suffer with increasing foreclosure rates, Austin is actually fairing pretty well.
KXAN Austin News spoke with two realtors Monday, who said that the foreclosure rate in Travis County is actually down 15 percent, compared to this time last year.
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