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If you want to look for me as you read this, go to City Mortuary where I have determined to fester among the anonymous people there. Michael Fox: The Whoresrace Michael Fox takes on the media's coverage of the presidential horserace - and it's not just the MSM tis time, but "progressive media" as well! Bill Douglas: Willie Nelson's 9/11 Conspiracy Charge EXPOSE MEDIA COVER UP & the Tim Russert Factor (7 comments) Willie Nelson's 9/11 Conspiracy Charge EXPOSE MEDIA COVER UP & the Tim Russert Factor This corporate media "ommission" reminds of an ongoing campaign of a corporate media cover up of 9/11, and an EXPLOSIVE new novel, "The Shell Game," that radio host Jack Blood believes may destroy that media blockade of 9/11 truth JoelThorson: McCain: The Undead Perception and reality diverge wildly where Sen.
Storms slice through Mid-South
Editor's note: If you have school cancellations, government office closures or other schedule changes that need to get out to the public, click here to report it and include your name, e-mail address and telephone number for verification. Severe weather slammed the Mid-South Tuesday night, killing at least four people while causing a swath of damage from DeSoto through Shelby and Tipton counties. Two men and a woman died in a collapsed Hickory Hill office building while a Fayette County man was found dead in a pickup truck north of Somerville. Memphis Fire Department spokesman Lt. Keith Staples said 12 people have been taken to area hospitals as of about 9 p.m. Two were in critical condition. .
Review: 'Wishful Drinking' Fisher's tell-all
It isn't every solo show that can boast a supporting cast that includes Debbie Reynolds, Eddie Fisher, George Lucas (all seated in the audience) and Paul Simon (on tape). Carrie Fisher's does. Or did, at least - so help me, Obi Wan Kenobi - Tuesday when her "Wishful Drinking" opened at Berkeley Rep's Roda Theatre. And that's not all. The cast of characters in her autobiographical tale also features Elizabeth Taylor, Mike Todd, Connie Stevens, Sherlock Holmes and a Wookiee. Welcome to the curious world of tabloid theater. Fisher (Carrie), daughter of crooner Fisher (Eddie) and movie star Reynolds, former stepdaughter of Taylor, Stevens and a host of others (on both sides), ex-wife of Simon and eternal Princess Leia, is just telling her life story - as honestly, sardonically, fetchingly, caustically and comically as she can.
Catalytic converters targeted by North County thieves
The loss is just one in a recent rash in thefts of the costly anti-smog devices that police say are sold to scrap metal recyclers for cash.The rash of thefts began in early January, and since then, more than a dozen catalytic converters have been stolen from vehicles in North County, police said. All of the thefts target late-model Toyota trucks and sport utility vehicles, they said."They pick those because they sit higher off the ground," making it easier for thieves to crawl underneath and remove the converter, which is attached inside the exhaust pipe, Escondido police Lt. Bob Benton said.The converters are stolen for the small amounts of precious metals they contain, including platinum, rhodium and palladium, and can fetch up to $100 at scrap metal yards, authorities said.The thefts do not cause serious damage to the vehicles, but can cost victims up to $3,500 in repairs, said Jennifer Baray, assistant service manager at Toyota of Escondido.Like pilfered copper pipes and wiring, police began seeing catalytic converter thefts when the price of the metals increased, authorities said."There's always some hot valuable that's being stolen because of its scrap value," said Fiona Everett, crime analyst for the Carlsbad Police Department.Frank Scafidi, spokesman for the National Insurance Crime Bureau, said there are no hard statistics on the frequency of the crime, which has grown into a nationwide problem."We started getting reports of these things early last year.
Village youths succeed where police fails
Vigilant squads catch eight transformer thieves red-handed in Issewal village
Jupinderjit Singh
Tribune News Service Issewal (Hambran), February 20
What the police could not do for months to prevent thefts of transformers, a group of youths of this village, all soldiers, has done in just six days. .
Boulder: Impeach Bush?
Boulder's elected leaders are expected to decide next week whether to draft and vote on a resolution calling for the impeachment of President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney. For the past few weeks, activists have been showing up at Boulder City Council meetings, carrying signs, handing out "impeach" pins and asking City Council members to take up such a resolution. Similar measures have passed in cities across the country, including Detroit and Telluride. Liz Robinson, one of the organizers of the effort, said people hoping to see impeachment proceedings have given congressional Democrats — who won a majority in the fall of 2006 — plenty of time to act. But since they haven't, she said, locally elected officials should take up the slack. "Whether or not it's the city's business directly, like potholes, I feel this affects all of us," she said.
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