Officials blamed a wildfire that consumed more than 38,000 acres and destroyed 21 homes last week on a boy playing with matches, and said they would ask a prosecutor to consider the case. The boy admitted to sparking the fire on Oct. 21, Los Angeles County sheriff’s Sgt. Diane Hecht said Tuesday. Ferocious winds helped it quickly spread.
I’m waiting for someone to call for a ban on matches in homes, so that we can “protect” ourselves from having this ever happen again.
A growing number of state and local governments are considering big sales tax increases to pump up sluggish revenue, cut property taxes or pay for new programs. Again we have politicians, who can’t stop their tax and spend policies, while in the same breath expect us to sacrifice from which Americans are having little left to give.
Last night on the show, I mentioned an organization that helps families of lower income and seniors on a fixed income stay fed, while their income is constantly being attacked by the inflationary tactics of the Federal Reserve.
For $25 a unit, you’ll get on average $80 worth of food, some of it name-brand. Filled with staples that change every month, there is no limit to how many units you can buy. This can help complement your current food purchases, as well as lower that amount you spend weekly at the grocer.
If you’re financially-frustrated and burdened with debt or your retirement checks don’t go as far as they used to, Angel Food Ministries can help make sure that you can feed your family until things brighten.
Global warming is in the news, infesting campaign rhetoric and the plot lines of many movies and TV programs. Our kids are being indoctrinated with its certainty in the schools.
A senior foreign policy adviser to the Republican frontrunner Rudy Giuliani has urged that Iran be bombed using cruise missiles and “bunker busters” to set back Teheran’s nuclear programme by at least five years. The tough message was delivered by Norman Podhoretz, one of the founders of neoconservatism.
Is it just me or is this the same rhetoric that has us mired in Iraq?
Above quote from Devvy Kidd’s outstanding column - basically telling us about the HR1955 bill snuck through congress during California’s wild fires that makes all of us at odds with the government as it is now operating out of WDC. WE Americans (those here legally) are basically up a creek without a paddle…
A 12-hour standoff ended this morning with a north Houston man lobbing Molotov cocktails at Houston Police before taking his own life rather than vacate a home he’d lost to foreclosure.
The Bush administration and New York cut a deal Saturday to create a new generation of super-secure driver’s licenses for U.S. citizens, but also allow illegal immigrants to get a version.