Huntsville Festival to Highlight Barack Obama’s Campaign for Change The Manifest Hope Arts Festival will be held this year on Sunday, October 26 from 3-7 p.m. in Lowe Mill’s upstairs theater in Huntsville, Alabama. The Festival is the brainchild of supporters of Barack Obama and its purpose is three-fold: to educate people about Senator Obama’s…
Monthly Archives: October 2008
Politics and Science in the Post-Bush World
De gustibus non est disputandum “There’s no accounting for taste.” Under the Microscope by Glynn Wilson I’m sitting here in The Bunker listening to George Soros on CNN and searching the world over for a beautiful sentence to start yet another Sunday column. Do a Google search for “beautiful sentence” just for the heck of…
Alabama Coastal BirdFest Named for John Borom
This year, the Alabama Coastal BirdFest takes on a new name. Now in its 5th year, the John L. Borom Alabama Coastal BirdFest takes place Oct. 16-19, 2008. It features 20 guided tours, evening events, and a free, daylong Bird and Conservation Expo. Registration opened in mid-July. “From here on, the event shall be known…
SEC Tigers Face Gaters, Hogs…
Time Out by Dan Rutledge The top game on Week 7 of the Southeastern Conference menu has to be LSU’s visit to The Swamp to take on the Florida Gators (Line: Florida by 6) … but the most interesting game — although the outcome will probably not have any real bearing on who wins the…
The Sidewalk to Nowhere: McCain-Palin's Nutjob Supporters
Yeah, this is really who we trust to vote for the right candidates on November 4th…
McCain-Palin Still Lead over Obama-Biden in Alabamaland
National Polling Shows A Landslide Coming for Democrats Nov. 4 by Glynn Wilson If the presidential election were held today, Alabama would remain red on the national electoral-college map and the state’s nine electoral votes would go to the Republican ticket of John McCain and Sarah Palin over Barack Obama and Joe Biden, according to…
Formal Investigation Launched into Roebuck Fish Kill
Report Recommends Removal of the Roebuck Tennis Courts by Glynn Wilson The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has officially launched a formal investigation into the Roebuck Springs fish kill in September that resulted in the death of an estimated 11,760 endangered watercress darters (E. nuchale), according to Tom MacKenzie, the agency’s chief of media relations…
Obama-McCain Debate Preparations: Comments Welcome
While Obama is prepared for Tuesday night’s debate in Asheville, N.C., in a state where he is hoping to sway voters who typically vote Republican in presidential elections, Sen. John McCain spent much of Saturday holed up in a dark hotel conference room engaged in intense debate preparation, then moved outside Sunday near the creek…
Sarah Palin's Latest Appearance on Saturday Night Live
Uh, Tina Fey, that is…
Bush Aides Skate until Next Year in Political Justice Probe
by Glynn Wilson A Republican-dominated appeals court panel issued a ruling Monday that effectively allows White House aides to President George W. Bush to escape public testimony on the political manipulation of justice until the next Congress convenes next year. House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, the Michigan Democrat, says there will be an appeal.…
Freedom Is A Dangerous Thing
Under the Microscope by Glynn Wilson What does the word “freedom” mean when the banks and insurance companies fail and the government bails them out, basically by taking them over? What does the word freedom mean when it is used to invade a nation — for no provocation — to kill a “mad” dictator and…
Political-Justice Scales Falling from Birmingham Eyes?
Guest Column by Roger Shuler Is there hope for Alabama’s largest newspaper? The Birmingham News opines today about the Justice Department report issued this week showing political considerations played a role in the firings of nine U.S. attorneys. The firings were “weird,” the News determines. No, it seems clear, the firings were corrupt. But our…
No Let-Downs in T-Town
Times Out by Dan Rutledge Their styles are certainly different, but they are both winners and know how to teach others to be winners, too. Talking about Alabama coaching legend Bear Bryant and Nick Saban. Ever since The Bear left Tuscaloosa, the Bama Nation has been searching in vain for someone to take his place.…
Confronting Racism: Why NOT to Vote Against Obama
The AFL-CIO’s Richard Trumka makes the case before the United Steelworkers Union, for why union workers should NOT vote against Obama because of the color of his skin. Powerful stuff. Pass it on…
House Approves Sweeping Financial Bailout Measure
No guarantee it will solve the financial crisis… by Glynn Wilson With the economy on the brink of collapse, the credit market on the verge of freezing, and the Nov. 4 election looming, the U.S. House of Representatives approved an unprecedented $700 billion government bailout of the battered financial industry on Friday and sent it…
Biden-Palin Debate Comments
The Palin smirk While the traditional news media is reporting that the “stakes” are “sky-high” for John McCain’s running mate Sarah Palin in Thursday night’s debate with falling poll numbers and growing voter skepticism, the stakes are also high for Obama’s running mate Joe Biden — not to mention the future of the country. The…
Judge Agrees Parties Should Have Registered Voter List
Secretary of State Agrees to Provide List by 5 p.m. Thursday In an emergency court hearing Thursday morning, Montgomery County Circuit Court Judge William Shashy indicated that he will sign an order to give the Alabama Democratic Party a copy of the registered voter list statewide, based on an agreement reached between the party and…
Republican Rogers Leads Democrat Segall, 45-36
Republican Mike Rogers leads Democrat Josh Segall in the Alabama Congressional District 3 race 45-36 percent, according to the Capital Survey Research Center, the political polling arm of the Alabama Education Association, even though 35 percent of respondents identify themselves as Democrats, 30 percent identify themselves as Republicans, and 28 percent as independents. The survey…
Homer Simpson Tries to Vote for Obama
Watercress Darter Update and Video
by Glynn Wilson There’s still no word from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service or the city of Birmingham on penalties for the illegal removal of a beaver dam two weeks ago, an act of ignorance that resulted in the death of at least 1,000 endangered fish. But there’s a new MySpace page for the…
