Farmers Branch to vote

Ordinance likely to go to Farmers Branch voters
A referendum to repeal an anti-illegal-immigration ordinance in Farmers Branch will likely go ahead after the city secretary confirmed Wednesday that opponents of the ordinance collected enough signatures to force a vote.
The City Council is expected to schedule the referendum for the next municipal election on May 12.
City [...]

Back off and Relax

Rumsfeld tells Iraq critics ‘just back off’ - CNN.com:
WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said Thursday that anyone demanding deadlines for progress in Iraq should “just back off,” because it is too difficult to predict when Iraqis will resume control of their country.
- Chicago Tribune - .:
“So you ought to just back off, [...]

Things that make me go hmmmmm

The ultimate drug deal:
The flaws in the Medicare Plan D program didn’t crop up without anyone seeing them coming. They are the expected result of the way Congress designed the program. So ask those who want to serve you how they’ll fix its flaws.The greatest of them arises from a feature inserted to protect drug [...]

Just Another Cindy Sheehan Wanna Be?

Let me guess, Kevin Tillman is just another American helping the terrorist cause by suggesting something is wrong with our “strategy.”

Truthdig - Reports - After Pat’s Birthday:
It is Pat’s birthday on November 6, and elections are the day after. It gets me thinking about a conversation I had with Pat before we [...]

Pro-Wal-Mart blogs fake

Wal-Mart blogs revealed to be done by PR firm’s employees - Oct. 20, 2006
October 20 2006: 11:44 AM EDTNEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — A public relations firm has revealed that it is behind two blogs that previously appeared to be created by independent supporters of Wal-Mart.
The blogs Working Families for Wal-mart and subsidiary site Paid Critics [...]