Wednesday, November 29, 2006

I pity the foo

Tuesday, November 28, 2006

Powerful Documentary: WINTER SOLDIER



Hope you all had a great Thanksgiving!
There was a time during my turkey- filled weekend, that I felt a little under the weather & needed to slow my life down a bit.
I found myself watching a documentary called WINTER SOLDIER. It was something that Steve & I had hoped to watch a while ago but never got around to it, so Steve popped it in the DVD player.

This film blew me away.
Here a group of Vietnam veterans opened up and talked about their experiences in the war.

Very recently we heard President Bush state that if he learned anything about Iraq during his visit to Vietnam, he said that learned that we should stay the course…“we’ll succeed unless we quit.”
Well, that’s not what I learned about Vietnam.
It’s not what Keith Olbermann learned either.

(By the way, Keith Olbermann is awesome for telling it like it is.)

The longer we stayed there, the sicker we became in the treatment of the Vietnamese.
I wonder about the Iraqis now, especially since the Abu Ghraib atrocities have come to our attention.

For more info on the film, please check this out.


I had never before heard about how powerful this film is. I am thankful that I saw it!
Please rent this & talk about it.
It’s so important.

And thank you!

Wednesday, November 22, 2006

Have a Happy & Safe Holiday!

Monday, November 20, 2006

A New Home For BoHo-- A Time for Thanks



As some of you know, I have recently become a company member with Bohemian Theatre Ensemble, a great group of people!

They have been looking for a permanent space for quite some time now. It is hard for an itinerant company to solidify performance dates in advance because we can never know what dates will be available in someone else’s space! We also have had a hard time with storage, ticketing systems, etc…. a permanent home would be a blessing for this talented ensemble!

Well, we’ve searched high & low (or at least they have, I’ve only been around for a month so far), and we finally have a home to call our own!

Drum roll please…..

Our New Home is located at The Heartland Studio Theatre located at 7016 North Glenwood in Chicago’s Rogers Park! How funny that YERMA closed this weekend…we thought it would be the end of our time in the Heartland space and now we can nestle right in there!

It’s very exciting and we are thrilled at the opportunities that will arise just from having a theatrical home! We’ve got much work to do though…we’ll be under construction for a bit so we can spruce the place up and really create an adaptable place so we can utilize it to the best of our ability. We’ve got lots of supplies to buy!

If you are interested in helping us out, here’s where you can make a tax deductible donation via paypal to the company.


If you prefer to write a check, please make it out to Bohemian Theatre Ensemble and send it to:
2437 West Farragut Avenue #3B, Chicago, IL 60625

Please tell them I sent you! And Thank you so much!

Friday, November 17, 2006

Thanks for the Memories

Thursday, November 09, 2006

Who is this Gates guy?





Rummy is now out, put in his resignation, only hours after the Dems won on Tuesday night.
So, what I wanna know is if this Robert Gates is WORSE???

It makes me very suspect. Bush only has 2 more years in the White House. He needs to get as much accomplished as possible. And as we have seen from the last 6 years, can destroy….ahem…“accomplish” quite a lot.



Bush announces Rumsfeld stepping down
Posted by: "Jim Senyszyn" jnsenyszyn@insightbb.com jnsenyszyn
Wed Nov 8, 2006 12:08 pm (PST)


Bush announces Rumsfeld stepping down

President taps ex-CIA chief Gates to replace embattled defense secretary

BREAKING NEWS

NBC, MSNBC and news services

Updated: 26 minutes ago

http://tinyurl.com/yyt7ax

WASHINGTON - Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld stepped down as defense
secretary on Wednesday, one day after midterm elections in which opposition
to the war in Iraq contributed to heavy Republican losses.

President Bush said he would nominate Robert Gates, a former CIA director,
to replace Rumsfeld at the Pentagon.

Asked whether his announcement signaled a new direction in the war that has
claimed the lives of more than 2,800 U.S. troops, Bush said, "Well, there's
certainly going to be new leadership at the Pentagon."

Bush lavished praise on Rumsfeld, who has spent six stormy years at his
post. The president disclosed he met with Gates last Sunday, two days before
the elections in which Democrats swept control of the House and possibly the
Senate.

Military officials and politicians dissatisfied with the course of the war
had called for Rumsfeld's resignation in the months leading up to the
election. Last week, as Bush campaigned to save the Republican majority, he
declared that Rumsfeld would remain at the Pentagon through the end of his
term.

Source: Cheney stuck by Rumsfeld

But sources told NBC News' military analyst Bill Arkin that prior to the
election, Vice President Dick Cheney argued with other politicians over
whether Rumsfeld should stay. White House Chief of Staff Josh Bolten and
others said Rumsfeld should be removed, the source said. Both sides agreed
the decision would be made after the election, when Bush would make the
final call based on how Republicans did.

According to the source, Bush agreed Rumsfeld should be removed after seeing
election results favoring Democrats. Cheney then lost another argument,
protesting Gates' nomination as Rumsfeld's replacement.

Rumsfeld, 74, was in his second tour of duty as defense chief. He first held
the job a generation ago, when he was appointed by President Ford.

Whatever confidence Bush retained in Rumsfeld, the Cabinet officer's support
in Congress had eroded significantly. Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., the House
speaker-in-waiting, said at her first postelection news conference that Bush
should replace the top civilian leadership at the Pentagon.

And Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, who had intervened in the past to
shore up support for Rumsfeld, issued a statement saying, "Washington must
now work together in a bipartisan way - Republicans and Democrats - to
outline the path to success in Iraq."

The Pentagon offered no date for Rumsfeld's departure.

Appointee a close Bush family friend

Gates, 63, has served as the president of Texas A&M University since August
2002, and as the university's interim dean of the George Bush School of
Government and Public Service from 1999 to 2001.

The school is home to the presidential library of Bush's father. Gates is a
close friend of the Bush family, and particularly the first President Bush.

He served as deputy national security adviser from 1989 to 1991 and then as
CIA director during the first Iraq war, from 1991 until 1993.

Gates joined the CIA in 1966 and is the only agency employee to rise from an
entry level job to the 7th floor director's office. He served in the
intelligence community for more than a quarter century, under six
presidents.

Bush has considered Gates for jobs before, including in 2005 when he was
searching for a candidate to be the nation's first national intelligence
director.

His nomination must be confirmed by the Senate.

Rep. Ike Skelton, D-Mo., who is expected to chair the House Armed Services
Committee next year, said Rumsfeld's resignation "presents an important
opportunity for our country to begin a new policy direction in Iraq and in
the war on terrorism."

He encouraged the Bush administration to take advantage of the fresh start.

NBC News and The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Monday, November 06, 2006

The Coon Shop



The Holidays are coming up so quickly!!!
Can you believe it???
Wow…it sneaks up on me every year!

Well, I know that I will be doing a little shopping from THE COON SHOP this year. Just thought I’d mention it in case you were looking for ideas this season.
I have a love for painting and photography in addition to. A lot of my pieces have a sense of humor so take a look & happy shopping!

Sunday, November 05, 2006

Army Recruiters

I am disgusted.
But I am not naive enough to say that I didn't already know this was going on.
Every summer in Chicago, I refuse to go to the Air & Water show, where we see military jets doing amazing stunts and recruiters infiltrate the audience & try to get people to enlist. Sorta like showing them that the military is "cool" and not addressing the fact that we send our boys off to be killed for a war that shouldn't be. Recruiters typically prey on the young.

This is just another example.

( http://tinyurl.com/y4j3h4 )

Nov. 3, 2006 - - An ABC News undercover investigation showed Army recruiters
telling students that the war in Iraq was over, in an effort to get them to
enlist.

ABC News and New York affiliate WABC equipped students with hidden video
cameras before they visited 10 Army recruitment offices in New York, New
Jersey and Connecticut.

"Nobody is going over to Iraq anymore?" one student asks a recruiter.

"No, we're bringing people back," he replies.

"We're not at war. War ended a long time ago," another recruiter says.

Last year, the Army suspended recruiting nationwide to retrain recruiters
following hundreds of allegations of improprieties.

One Colorado student taped a recruiting session posing as a drug-addicted
dropout.

"You mean I'm not going to get in trouble?" the student asked.

The recruiters told him no, and helped him cheat to sign up.

During the ABC News sessions, some recruiters told our students if they
enlisted, there would be little chance they'd to go Iraq.

But Col. Robert Manning, who is in charge of U.S. Army recruiting for the
entire Northeast, said that new recruits were likely to go to Iraq.

"I would not disagree with that," Manning said. "We are a nation and Army at
war still."

Manning looked at the ABC News video of his recruiters.

"It's hard to believe some of things they are telling prospective
applicants," Manning said. "I still believe that this is the exception more
than the norm. . I've visited many stations myself, and I know that we have
many wonderful Americans serving in uniform as recruiters."

Yet ABC News found one recruiter who even claimed if you didn't like the
Army, you could just quit.

"It's called a 'Failure to Adapt' discharge," the recruiter said. "It's an
entry-level discharge so it won't affect anything on your record. It'll just
be like it never happened."

Manning, however, disagrees with the ease the recruiter describes.

"I would believe it's not as easy as he would lead you to believe it is," he
said.

Sue Niederer, whose son, Seth, joined the Army in 2002, said she was all too
familiar with recruiters' lies.

"They need to do anything they possibly can to get recruits," Niederer said.

Seth was sent to Iraq and was killed by a roadside bomb.

Niederer said she was not surprised by what ABC News had found. She believes
it's still a widespread problem. She said that recruiters told Seth he
wouldn't be put into combat.

"Ninety percent [are] going to be putting their lives on the line for our
country," she said. "Tell them the truth. That's all. Just tell them the
truth."

Wednesday, November 01, 2006

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