Posted on September 28th, 2007 by Freckles Cassie
photo from ABC News
General Peter Pace is the chairman of the joint chiefs, making him the most elevated military office in the United States. He is not our priest-in-chief or our parent-in-chief, but he seems to think he is, and that his “upbringing” and his beliefs make him qualified to tell the rest […]
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Filed under: Featured Stories, First Amendment, FrecklesCassie, Government, LGBT Rights, Moral Issues, Opinion, Pentagon, Politics, Religion, U.S. Military, War on Iraq, equality
Posted on September 26th, 2007 by Freckles Cassie
Don’t these people know that nuclear plants can have accidents? Why don’t they invite alternate energy companies to set up there instead? Is the economy so bad that they have to say yes to THIS? Egads!!!!
Neighbors welcome Texas nuke plant’s growth
from HoustonChronicle
HOUSTON — Despite objections from nuclear energy opponents, the proposed expansion of a Southeast […]
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Filed under: Activism, Featured Stories, FrecklesCassie, Nuclear Energy, Opinion, Politics
Posted on September 26th, 2007 by Freckles Cassie
These suggestions are from Code Pink. (Thanks Franya.) What else might work?
1. Tell Senator Lieberman: No War in Iran!
Joe Lieberman is waving his sword again. On Sunday, he told CBS “I think we’ve got to be prepared to take aggressive military action against the Iranians to stop them from killing Americans […]
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Filed under: Activism, Code Pink, Congress, Featured Stories, Foriegn Affairs, FrecklesCassie, George W. Bush, Iran, Opinion, Pentagon, United Nations
Posted on September 25th, 2007 by Freckles Cassie
This is from Progressive Democrats of America. Please call or email.
Push the Senate Today to Support Katrina Survivors
September 25th, 2007
100,000 displaced. 65,000 families still living in FEMA trailers. This is the Gulf Coast two years after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina. After years spent dragging its feet, the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing […]
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Filed under: Activism, Congress, FEMA, Featured Stories, FrecklesCassie, Government, Hurricane Katrina, Politics
Posted on September 23rd, 2007 by Freckles Cassie
I HATE beauty pageants. Big time hate. But I know I will need a scholarship to go to college and I support girls that do the beauty pageant thing in order to get a scholarship. So reading stories like this bothers me. They’re combining to try to keep her from collecting. […]
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Filed under: Activism, Education, FrecklesCassie, Secondary Featured Stories, beauty pageants
Posted on September 23rd, 2007 by Freckles Cassie
Hurricanes are damaging and Rita did a lot of damage here in Texas. Not nearly as much as Katrina a few weeks earlier, but plenty of damage. This is Wikipedia’s description:
Hurricane Rita was the fourth-most intense Atlantic hurricane ever recorded and the most intense tropical cyclone ever observed in the Gulf of Mexico. Rita caused […]
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Filed under: Featured Stories, FrecklesCassie, Government, Hurricane Rita, Politics
Posted on September 18th, 2007 by Freckles Cassie
Why would anyone in congress keep the people of Washington from voting?
D.C. Vote Bill Dies in Senate
By Mary Beth Sheridan
Washington Post Staff Writer
Republican lawmakers yesterday blocked the Senate from taking up the D.C. vote bill, a potentially fatal setback for the District’s most promising effort in years to get a full member of Congress.
The opposition […]
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Filed under: DC, Democrats, Featured Stories, FrecklesCassie, Opinion, Politics, Republicans, Washington, election reform
Posted on September 17th, 2007 by Freckles Cassie
If we (the United States) turned everything over to the Iraqi government and we’re so proud of how democratic things are becoming there, then why are we (Condi Rice) trying to overturn their rules? We have nearly run out of soldiers and marines to send to Iraq, but the private mercenaries are […]
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Filed under: Condaleeza Rice, Featured Stories, Foriegn Affairs, FrecklesCassie, Government, Opinion, Pentagon, Politics, War on Iraq, crime
Posted on September 16th, 2007 by Freckles Cassie
When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer
(1902 - 1983)
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Filed under: FrecklesCassie, Secondary Featured Stories, creativity, quotation
Posted on September 16th, 2007 by Freckles Cassie
It’s very hard to stand up to a bully on your own. Bullies can be very intimidating, which is why bullying works until someone stops the bully. This is a wonderful account of how some high school kids in Canada reacted to a bully in their school, and how they worked as a […]
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Filed under: Featured Stories, FrecklesCassie, LGBT Rights, Young Adult Issues, schools
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