Signs found at Occupy Wall Street and other occupations around the country Due to the recent budget cuts the light at the end of the tunnel has been cut off. I can’t afford to buy a politician so I bought this sign. I’ll believe corporations are people when Texas executes one. If you don’t understand [...]
~The following appeared in The Floyd Press on October 20, 2011 A group of citizens gathered in the Warren Lineberry Park Saturday to show their support for Occupy Wall Street (OWS), the ongoing protest of corporate greed and influence that began in New York City four weeks ago. Rallies in solidarity of the OWS protesters [...]
On Saturday my sister Kathy (pictured in photo 4) attended the Rally to Save the American Dream at the statehouse in Boston, Massachusetts, joining the ranks of citizens around the country who are standing with Wisconsin and other states where Republican governors are continuing to give tax breaks to corporations and the very rich—while cutting [...]
The shock has nearly worn off. The news I didn’t want to hear. I’ve followed the human health and environmental devastation caused by uranium mining on tribal lands for a few decades. I’ve written letters to the editor against nuclear power because there is no safe way to store the radioactive waste left behind, toxic [...]
My favorite post-election column title is one by authors Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson: Giving the Keys Back to the Folks Who Crashed the Car. But it’s not just our country’s economy that’s been derailed, got back on the track, and is now set to be pushed off before gaining any momentum. Slow progress made [...]
As an Independent who votes Democratic because they represent my views on women’s rights, civil rights, labor rights, and the environment better than their counterparts, I often disagree with my Republican friends but can understand and respect their conservative views. What I can’t understand (and what I have only disdain for) are the far right [...]
From our friend Timmy’s large flat screen TV in Sarasota, Florida, I watched Inauguration Day while Joe and Timmy (who only watched the start of it) played golf. Like the Academy Awards or an elaborate royal wedding, the pomp, pageantry and history had me glued to my front row comfy chair seat. That’s Joe in [...]
As soon as I reached the four-way intersection to make the turn to the Floyd County High School where I vote, I could tell it wasn’t an ordinary day. There were cars coming from two other directions with blinkers flashing, signaling that we were all converging to the same destination. When I took the turn [...]
The following was published in The Floyd Press on October 30, 2008 and at the FP online HERE. A Democratic fundraising rally for the Barack Obama/Joe Biden presidential campaign was held at the Sun Hall on Friday night. “The 9th District could prove to play a pivotal role in the November Presidential Election,” said local [...]
I was doing home respite care for a Wall Residences client, so I let my friend Mara stand in the rain in a line that wound around the Roanoke Civic Center to hear Barack Obama for me. She called periodically with updates. She was with her soon-to-be 11 year old daughter Kyla, who took the [...]
A couple of weeks ago I posted a series of comments made by Republican commentators and politicians questioning John McCain’s choice of Sarah Palin for his running mate. While both Republicans and non-Repulbicans have been questioning Palin’s qualifications, when it comes to McCain they are primarily concerned about his volatile temper and his lack of [...]
I stumbled upon this scene, a constructive use of a weekend afternoon, while in town for my writer’s circle on Sunday. After hearing from a friend in the Café Del Sol that some people were holding up Obama signs in the Courthouse parking lot, I jogged down to see for myself. In the five minutes [...]
Imagine where our country would be today with energy independence if Ronald Reagan hadn’t torn down the Photovoltaic solar panels that Jimmy Carter put on the White House and if he hadn’t followed that by racking up one of the biggest deficits in history. Imagine where we’d be now with energy independence if Vice President [...]
“Sarah Palin has many virtues. If you wanted someone to destroy a corrupt establishment, she’d be your woman. But the constructive act of governance is another matter. She has not been engaged in national issues, does not have a repertoire of historic patterns and, like President Bush, she seems to compensate for her lack of [...]
I’ve always respected John McCain. Although I understand that campaigning candidates tend to adapt their talking points to please their base of support, my respect for McCain wavered as he flip flopped on issues during the presidential nomination campaign. I don’t agree with McCain on many issues, but I was pleased to see at the [...]
Although John McCain has voted with President Bush 90% of the time, it’s his Vice-Presidential running mate, Sarah Palin, who is most like Bush. You would think that after eight years of enduring the most unpopular president in modern times, Americans would balk at an anti-science candidate who calls the war in Iraq “a task [...]
There were some who tried to draft former Virginia Governor Mark Warner for the 2008 Presidential Election. But Warner decided to run for the U.S. Senate, hoping to replace Senator John Warner, who is retiring. It was also rumored that Warner was on a Democratic list as a Vice Presidential possibility before his Senate run [...]
Animated Woman: If Obama is president the black people are gonna take over. They’ll line us white people up and shoot us. Postal Clerk: I think you should go home and go back to bed so you can wake up again.
