• What’s going on in Gaza…Same as usual just more intense.

Israel expanded its most lethal air offensive to date (some 300 air strikes since midday Saturday) against Gaza’s Hamas leaders yesterday. The successful attacks dolled out more damage than ever before, making rubble out of parts of the city. They are amassing what appears to be a large ground force attack as well
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In our last submission, I was attending a Southern institution of higher learning that was ahead of its time in that it did admit some African Americans, allowed them almost equal rights with their white(and asian and middle eastern counter-parts), even though all other surrounding schools were strictly segregated, as was the town of Raleigh, NC, where the college was located. Read more

“We were really busy leading up to the storm,” Thompson United for the Homeless Director said. “Some days we can get all of them in, some days we can’t.”

Area shelters have similar ways of dealing with homeless who have to be turned away.

The New Life Center can house about 100 men and serves 180 or more meals each day.
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Citing the usual suspects…credit crisis and dwindling sales, Chrysler LLC on Wednesday said it would shut down all of its manufacturing operations from the end of this week for at least a month. Read more

Lets Just Say Millers Spot on Here

10. Larry Craig

9. Ted Turner & Deepak Chopra

8. “The Pregnant Man” Thomas Beatie

7. Fischer Stevens “He Dumped Michelle Pfeiffer and he resembles a toad.”

6. Fidel Castro “Head Moran in Cuba”

5. Plaxico Burress Read more

Republican opposition killed a $14-billion auto industry bailout plan in the Senate on Thursday night, putting the future of U.S. automakers in doubt and threatening to deliver another blow to the economy. Read more

Watch Friends of the Phantom Working the Streets of Fargo North Dakota during Raging Blizzard Here

Blizzard conditions made travel hazardous Sunday across the northern Plains as officials closed major highways and urged people to stay home.

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CHICAGO – President-elect Barack Obama asked the White House if his family could move to Washington earlier than normal, but aides say the White House couldn’t give them the official guest house as early as his family wanted. Read more

BREAKING NEWS: Gov. Blagojevich, wearing a black and blue jogging suit, appeared before a federal judge this afternoon on corruption charges. U.S. Magistrate Judge Nan Nolan set a $4,500 personal-recognizance bond for the governor, who was arrested at his North Side home this morning. Blagojevich and his chief of staff were arrested at their homes this morning in a probe involving the governor’s quest to fill Sen. Barack Obama’s open Senate seat and focusing on wire fraud and bribery charges.
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In the last installment, we discussed life in the segregated rural south in the mid 1950.s Now, I don’t want to leave the impression that I totally did not like the south or its people.

In general, it’s a relaxed area of the country in which to live and the people an inherent gentility that we midwesterners can’t imagine. But on the issue of race they were at that time in my opinion totally misguided. And they didn’t particularly care for goddamnyankees.

To set the time line for this period, George Preston Marshall was popularizing the then small-time NFL by, against the advice of his colleagues, televising the games of his all white Washington Redskins throughout the southeastern United States. The civil rights movement had started and African Americans who exercised their first amendment right to peaceably assemble in order to demonstrate for the right to vote, for example, were tear gassed and cattle prodded by the police and sheriffs that should have been protecting them from the seething white mobs that surrounded them.
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