Political prisoner Armando Valladares describes his time in Castro’s gulag.
Once in prison, if the guards felt like punishing us, they would put us in cages, with mesh roofs, and walk along the edge while pouring buckets of urine and excrement all over our bodies. Sometimes, guards would shoot prisoners for target practice.
h/t Babalu Blog
Following a weekend of press noting his high approval ratings, The Daily News submits this hit piece on Rudy Giuliani. According to the story, Rudy is a bad dad and a philanderer who makes a habit of playing marital musical chairs. The New York Times got in on the game too.
Welcome to the race for president Rudy. It’s only gonna get uglier.
From M-W
Pan·der
Function: intransitive verb
Inflected Form(s): pan·dered; pan·der·ing
:to act as a panderer; especially : to provide gratification for others’ desires – See Hillary Clinton
Now the question remains…if Hillary is willing to put on a (badly done) southern drawl just to collect money and/or votes from an African American constituency, how long will it be before she admits to being a lesbian just to pull the Hollywood vote?
Am I the only one who doesn’t ‘get’ the faggot comment by Ann Coulter? I mean, there has to be some kind of inside joke happening here, right?
It was a joke, wasn’t it?
Shock! Picture of twenty something Tony Blair proves he was a normal college student prone to a prank now and then.
So he was a twit. Big deal.
Al Mohler asks…
What if you could know that your unborn baby boy is likely to be sexually attracted to other boys? Beyond that, what if hormonal treatments could change the baby’s orientation to heterosexual? Would you do it?
Without question.
From John Hawkins…
Right Wing News polled 63 right-of-center bloggers on eight issues of interest. The results, which you can see at the following address, may surprise you.
The High School in Enterprise, Alabama took a direct hit from a tornado today killing at least 8 people and injuring more than 40.
There’s no word yet on the identities of the dead. The news hit a little close to home. A friend of my son (who used to be a neighbor) moved to Enterprise a couple of years ago. He’s around 15 or 16 years old, and it’s likely he was in the school today when the storm hit.
From the local newspaper the Enterprise Ledger: Mike Shroades entered Enterprise High School to pick up his daughter Thursday afternoon. School was closing at 1 p.m. and he hoped to make it home before the storm struck. He didn’t make it.
Photos, more here
Video from inside the school
More video here, and here
Blogging from the scene
Live Video from WVTM-TV
Storm rips through downtown Enterprise
Residents coping with chaos
President Bush will visit area
Victims told to stay in school
Tornadoes touch down in a number of areas
MORE: Enterprise Ledger | Fox10 TV, Mobile | Dothan Eagle |
UPDATE: There’s still no news on the fate of our family friend.
A top Taliban member says Osama bin Laden is alive and well.
The hiccups have ended.