Weekly Address: Holiday Greetings

In this week of Easter, Passover, and faithful celebration, the President offers a holiday greeting and calls on people of all faiths and nonbelievers to remember our shared spirit of humanity. (Compare to the video on the previous post on the rise and fall of the right-wing hate machine)…

According to the Associated Press:

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You know who they are. They attack you for your opinion.

They side with corrupt politicians over their fellow brother and sisters. They post people’s address online and put them in danger because their 12 year old son spoke of the benefits of SCHIP. They pretend to be patriots while stifling free speech.

They pretend to support the troops yet blindly support those who are getting them killed for lies.

History will show them to be very much like a cult. I give you the mean right wing attack machine.

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Glynn Wilson

Wild turkeys sneak through a grassy field in the rain at Oak Mountain State Park south of Birmingham, Alabama. The spring weather brought out the crowds to camp on Friday, but the rains came in from the east Saturday, just in time to cool things off for Easter Sunday. [Click on the image for a larger view]

Turns out there are an estimated 500,000 wild turkeys in Alabama.

The comeback of the wild turkey has been well documented, but worth repeating, according to Steven W. Barnett, a wildlife Biologist with the Alabama Division of Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries, who wrote the following piece for Outdoor Alabama.

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