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Musings from the Cotton Patch
I just got a digital camera and I finally got the pictures from there to here via Photobucket. (Sorry that took a few days.)
 XanaDUer and her boyfriend! They are really nice people!  Debau2005! She's a fellow horse owner and a really cool lady!  Debau2005 and Mr. CB.  MG Krebs and Caspar! They drove in from the ATL! They're really cool too!  Our group after XanaDUer and her boyriend left. We wish they could have stayed longer. Me, Ammonium, MG Krebs, Caspar and Deb (standing.) I had previously met MG Krebs and Caspar at our Atlanta meet ups. I met XanaDUer, her boyfriend, Debau2005 and Ammonium for first time here in Athens. I have to say that DUers are the nicest people! A good time was had by all. It was a beautiful day and downtown was alive with activity as the students return and the town gears up for the first UGA home football game of the season! We had a table overlooking the street and we had a great view of downtown. We even talked politics but we chatted about all sorts of other things too! XanaDUer, Deb and I are all horse lovers which is really neat! I look forward to meeting with my DU friends in Atlanta this fall! We want to see little Mr. Carter Dean in person! Krebs suggested a post-election get together in November. Hopefully, we will be celebrating Democratic victories! I'm listening online yet Mike is less than 100 miles away.
AAR needs an Atlanta station or any station in GA.   Agua Linda is authentic Mexcian fare (cooked and served by Mexican-Americans) and the Bluebird is Athens' original and oldest vegetarian restaurant (orginally name was the ElDorado back in the 1970s. The ElDorado was where many Athens musicians and artists hung out and drank coffee. The B52s used to practice in a room behind the restaurant in the origianl location. The room was originally part of an African American funeral home business.) The Taco Stand is a venerable Mexican food stand (cheap and good). I can't count how many meals I've eaten at the Taco Stand. In fact, I just ate there yesterday. Black Bean and Rice Sancho, side of Spanish Rice with hot sauce and a side of chunky salsa. The Bluebird's Morning Custard and Bulldog Tofu are classics.
Yum! How are you doing BOSS? It sounds like you had a nice holiday in Kansas!
My azaleas, irises and roses are blooming and the dayliles are about to bloom. It's beautiful here in Georgia. The nights are cool and the days are warm and sunny! I have good friends in Grenada. I almost moved there to live. I know a family whose loved one is still in prison after an illegal trial in a kangaroo court (organized on by the US) all these years after the Revolution. He's been in Richmond Hill since 1983 after he was tortured by the US Armed Forces and agents.
 The Last Prisoners of the Cold War are Black: http://www.geocities.com/elethinker/RG/Gre... Information about the plight of the Grenada 17: http://www.thegrenadarevolutiononline.com/... Excellent historical site about the Grenadian Revolution: http://www.thegrenadarevolutiononline.com/... Remember the Revo Forward ever! Backwards never! http://www.caribbeannetnews.com/2004/06/28... Grenada 17 says US torture of POWs not new by Leroy Noel Monday, June 28, 2004 ST GEORGE‘S, Grenada: The 17 persons convicted in Grenada for the death of former Prime Minister Maurice Bishop and several of his cabinet colleagues say reports of the humiliation and torture of prisoners of war in Iraq, Afghanistan and at Guantanamo Bay, by their US military captors are nothing new. A statement from the Grenada 17 says official US spokespersons have sought to portray these horrible abuses as recent, isolated incidents by out-of-control individual soldiers, and not the result of official US policy but those who lived through the US invasion of Grenada know the truth. The prisoners added that in the months following the October 1983 US invasion of Grenada, 2,800 Grenadians out of a total adult population of 60,000 were detained, most of them at a prisoner of war camp set up at Point Salines International Airport. Many of the prisoners were kept in small ‘sweat boxes’ designed so that they had to crawl on hands, knees and stomachs like dogs in order to get in and out. The Grenada 17 indicated that guard-dogs were set halfway into the sweat boxes to terrorize them; abuse, including racist abuse, was screamed at them day and night by the soldiers; and the boxes were constantly beaten at night so as to deprive the detainees of sleep. They were kept in those boxes on the asphalt tarmac for days or weeks, in the sun, in the stifling daytime heat. Leaks in the boxes let in the heavy October night rains, so that they shivered in their wet clothes night after night, many becoming ill they claimed. more.. He showed compassion and took the initiative to rescue people and take care of his fellow human beings.
His heroism during Katrina was awesome. Perhaps, he had no other way to support himself post-Katrina. I will not pass judgement upon him. I'm sure that no white, upper-middle class drug users in NOLA have been arrested recently.  It's not fair, this crazy "war on drugs."  <snip> Whatever else you made of him, when it came to delivering sustained barrages of political invective, you had to salute his indefatigability. George Galloway stormed up to Capitol Hill yesterday morning for the confrontation of his career, firing scatter-shot insults at the senators who had accused him of profiting illegally from Iraqi oil sales. They were "neo-cons" and "Zionists" and a "pro-war lynch mob", he raged, who belonged to a "lickspittle Republican committee" that was engaged in creating "the mother of all smokescreens". Before the hearing began, the Respect MP for Bethnal Green and Bow even had some scorn left over to bestow generously upon the pro-war writer Christopher Hitchens. "You're a drink-soaked former Trotskyist popinjay," Mr Galloway in formed him. "Your hands are shaking. You badly need another drink," he added later, ignoring Mr Hitchens's questions and staring intently ahead. "And you're a drink-soaked ..." Eventually Mr Hitchens gave up. "You're a real thug, aren't you?" he hissed, stalking away. more... http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,... |
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