As I awoke this morning, I shuffled out of bed. Got some clothes on and went to turn on my half broke computer.

I see that my house might float away due to some storm that got some ‘goombas’ from Wilma. The bird flu is like the boogy man and coming to get us….wooo, I’m so scared! The Iraq constitution has passed.

AND….

AMAZON Finally got their head out of their 4th point of contact and finally enabled my book to be pre-ordered!

So go grab your copy if you haven’t or grab another!

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General, Book

The woman lived a full life.

(born Feb. 4, 1913, Tuskegee, Ala., U.S.) black American civil rights activist whose refusal to relinquish her seat on a public bus to a white man precipitated the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott in Alabama, which is recognized as the spark that ignited the U.S. Civil Rights Movement.

Parks attended Alabama State College (now Alabama State University) and made her living as a seamstress. In 1943 she became a member of the Montgomery chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), and she served as its secretary until 1956. On December 1, 1955, she was arrested for refusing to relinquish her seat on a public bus to a white man, a violation of the city’s racial segregation ordinances. Under the aegis of the Montgomery Improvement Association and the leadership of the young pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, Martin Luther King, Jr., a boycott of the municipal bus company was begun on December 5. (African Americans constituted 70 percent of the ridership.) The boycott lasted until December 20, 1956, when the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a lower court’s decision declaring Montgomery’s segregated seating unconstitutional. For her role in igniting the successful campaign, which brought King to national prominence, Parks became known as the “mother of the Civil Rights Movement.”

In 1957 Parks moved with her husband and mother to Detroit, where from 1965 to 1988 she was a member of the staff of Michigan Congressman John Conyers, Jr. She remained active in the NAACP, and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference established the annual Rosa Parks Freedom Award in her honour. In 1987 she founded the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self-Development to provide career training for young people. Her autobiography, Rosa Parks: My Story (1992), was written with Jim Haskins. In 1999 she was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal of Honor, the highest honour a civilian can receive in the United States.

© 2005 Encyclopaedia Britannica

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General

On 9/8/04 I made a post about the 1000th person killed in Iraq. I was pissed and ranted about it and how the media were like sharks swimming around a piece of meat.

So now a little over a year later, another 1000 soldiers have just about perished in this war. The biggest headline is this hurricane, here, here & here. Seems that is the only thing of interest coming from the MSM.

However there were some other important pieces of news about the war today. As of today there is 1998 American soldiers who have died.

There was a significant attack on the Palestine Hotel that killed over 20 people. These are not confirmed numbers.

The Iraqi constitution votes are still being counted. Seems there is some opposition coming from the Sunni’s. Seems they fear that the Shiites and Kurds are going to gain too much power as a result of this constitution.

So if the MSN won’t post it, then I will. I mean we all can’t be sharks in this pool can we? Mind you, I had to do some digging to find news about Iraq today with the exception of Foxnews.

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General, News from home