If you missed it Sunday, you can still catch it on HBO or the Web. HBO One cool moment with Fergie and Mick Jagger with U2 at Madison Square Garden doing Gimme Shelter… HBO: The 25th Anniversary Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Concert
Monthly Archives: November 2009
Tough Times Demand Real Leadership
Guest Editorial Column by Ron Sparks Alabama is facing the greatest financial crisis of modern history with the potential looming on the horizon of firing thousands of teachers and denying care to thousands of nursing home residents. While other candidates for governor, both Democrat and Republican, refuse to address this crisis, I have offered a…
Blackwater: Murderous Crusaders for Christ
An elite division of Blackwater plans targeted assassinations of suspected Taliban and Al Qaeda operatives in Pakistan. And everyone’s denying it. Blackwater’s Secret War in Pakistan Revealed What does it profit a country to gain the whole world, yet lose its soul?
Chicago: Saturday in the Park
What follows Black Friday? Saturday in the Park, of course…
Happy Black Friday Y'all
Hint: It ain’t about shopping… Steely Dan Live From New York: From the Two Against Nature DVD
Is It Time to Rename the Iron Bowl?
TV Lineup and Lines Below Time Out by Dan Rutledge You know, it’s sort of fitting that Week No. 13 of the Southeastern Conference 2009 football season is also Grudge Match Week — where in-state or traditional rivals get together. You know, the “you can throw the record books out on this one” kind of…
President Barack Obama's Thanksgiving Address
Love him, hate him, or indifferent, he is the president. You ought to at least listen to what he has to say… Happy Thanksgiving, Y’all!
New Left Media Video Captures Sarah Palin Supporters
This NEW LEFT MEDIA film was produced and edited by Chase Whiteside (interviews) and Erick Stoll (camera). On November 20, 2009, Sarah Palin visited Columbus, Ohio as part of her book signing tour for Going Rogue. When her supporters were asked broad questions about why they why they thought she should be president, the responses…
Karl Rove's New Group: Shift of Blamers (SOBs)
Karl Rove has been the mastermind of a new movement called the Shift of Blamers — or SOBs — who have replaced the birthers, deathers, Tenthers, and teabaggers as the most successful anti-Obama group thus far. Satire by R J Shulman NEW YORK, (PTSD News) — Karl Rove announced today on Fox News that the…
Failure Not an Option on Health Care
From the inside looking out, the Senate will pass a health care reform bill… Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy Failure is not an option on health care, a leading Democratic senator said Monday, even as Republicans turned up the heat on moderates who hold the fate of the…
Attorney Demands Halt to TVA Coal Ash Shipments
An aerial view of the Arrowhead Landfill in Marion, Alabama… by Glynn Wilson An environmental lawyer in Alabama is demanding that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency issue an order halting the shipment of toxic coal ash from Tennessee to a landfill in the Black Belt’s Perry County. David Ludder, formerly with the Legal Environmental Assistance…
Alabama, Florida Have More to Lose Than Gain
TV Lineup and Lines Below Time Out by Dan Rutledge With the two top spots already decided and nine league teams already bowl eligible, the Week 12 Southeastern Conference football schedule seems a bit out of kilter, almost unnecessary. Most folks — except those in Alabama of course, for whom the world would surely come…
Ron Sparks Blasts Davis, Riley on Charter School Idea
by Glynn Wilson Agricultural Commissioner Ron Sparks, the Fort Payne Democrat running for governor of Alabama, came out swinging against charter schools again today on the historic steps of the State Capitol Building in Montgomery. “Today, at the foot of the seat of power in the State of Alabama, I stand alone in opposition to…
Legal Group Challenges Locust Fork Coal Mine
Glynn Wilson Fog in Autumn on The Locust Fork River In another challenge to the Alabama Department of Environmental Management’s failure to protect the purity of the state’s waterways, the Southern Environmental Law Center today petitioned for a hearing on the permit issued last month for a 3,255-acre coal mine in Blount County. The proposed…
Thank You Mask Man…
A cartoon narrated by the late Lenny Bruce Need I say more this morning? See Facebook…
Sherman's March to the Sea…
A collection of photos and paintings depicting Sherman’s March to the Sea, set to “Oyster River Hornpipe” preformed by the 125th Ohio’s “Tiger Band.” I was going to do some journalism today, but decided a little symbolic nostalgia for the Civil War was called for instead. It figures that no one will read this far…
Alabama Secretary of State Abets GOP?
In an effort to collect information on voters and to register citizens to vote Republican, apparently, the Alabama Republican Party has been mailing out voter registration forms to residents of the state with a Republican Party return address rather than the Board of Registrars address, according to an announcement posted on the Secretary of State’s…
Sparks Calls Davis 'Hypocrite' on Ethics
by Glynn Wilson After Birmingham Congressman Artur Davis tried to make friends with the man who might be his Republican opponent if he were to win the Democratic Party primary next June, praising Bradley Byrne for his proposed ethics plan, Davis’s primary opponent Ron Sparks immediately called him a hypocrite. “It is the height of…
Americans Say Tax the Rich to Pay for Health Care
MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann Reports… Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy When it comes to paying for a health care overhaul, Americans see just one way to go: Tax the rich. That finding from a new Associated Press poll will be welcome news for House Democrats, who proposed doing just…
White House Close to Alabama U.S. Attorney Choice
by Glynn Wilson Highly placed sources in Alabama legal and political circles are now saying the White House may soon break the logjam on the replacement of the unpopular U.S. attorney in Montgomery with the appointment of assistant U.S. attorney Tamara Matthews Johnson, an African-American woman with Republican leanings who has been involved in many…
