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NBC's Alison Stewart hates East Providence

Just was watching NBC's Today Show when news reader Alison Stewart mentioned a kitten being stuck in a sewer storm drain in East Providence, RI.

She commented that she has been stuck in East Providence before and that she would not like to be stuck there (or to that effect)!

Stop the clash of civilizations

General Batiste: "Protect America, Not George Bush"

Steve Stycos: FARMERS' MARKET OPENS MAY 5

FARMERS' MARKET OPENS MAY 5

Saturday May 5, the Pawtuxet Village Farmers' Market will begin its fifth
season with a new emphasis on careful use of our natural resources. The
market will start small with greenhouse grown hanging plants and flats of
vegetable and flower seedlings. Among those at the market will be Ger and
Chang Xiong, who will have spinach, lettuce mix, eggs and a variety of
vegetable plants.

We will also be collecting used berry boxes (only about one month to
locally grown strawberries). The project encourages customers to return
plastic clamshell and fiberboard berry boxes to the market. We will then
attach a farmers' market recycling label and give them to farmers for
reuse.

The program will be coordinated by Annemarie Bruun, but will only work if
customers return boxes. We accept boxes purchased at the market or
elsewhere. So far, more than 500 have been collected. Clean quart
boxes.for June strawberries, pint boxes for July blueberries and half pint
boxes for September raspberries, may be returned to a table at the market.

We are also considering having a used book sale at the market. If you are
interested in helping, please hit your reply button and let us know you
are interested.

See you Saturday at the market from 9 to 12 in the upper parking lot of
Rhodes on the Pawtuxet, on Rhodes Place, just off Broad Street on the
Cranston side of Pawtuxet Village.

To receive the market email newsletter, contact ch1650@pol.net.


GREEN PARTY

Micki Whelan and Jeff Kamminga of Baby Greens are inviting all Pawtuxet
Village Farmers' Market customers to a customer appreciation brunch,
Sunday May 6 from noon to 3 at their home, 46 South Fair Street on the
Warwick side of Pawtuxet Village. Everyone is welcome for conversation,
food and a sale of jewelry and soaps made by Micki. Please RSVP to
461-7999 or babygreensri@cox.net.

Soldier In Iraq: War Can't Be Won

Obama Moves to Top of Poll

From Rasmussen Reports...

Obama is up, Giuliani slips to second, Edwards gains ground, and the other candidates remain in pretty much where they were a month ago. Those are the April results from a Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey asking if citizens would definitely vote for or against the 2008 contenders.

Thirty-three percent (33%) of Likely Voters say they’d definitely vote for Illinois Senator Barack Obama (D). That’s the highest total received by any of ten leading Presidential hopefuls included in the poll. Thirty-three percent (33%) also say they’d definitely vote against Obama giving him a net differential of zero (33% definitely for minus 33% definitely against equals net differential of 0). All other candidates have a net differential in negative territory meaning more people are set to definitely vote against them rather than for them. Other polling during the past month found Obama’s favorability ratings have increased to the highest level of any 2008 candidate (see summary of all Democratic and Republican candidates)

Cranston Schools

From Kmareka...

I went to the meeting of the Cranston City Council on Tuesday...

A must read for all Cranstonites...

PTV's TOP 10: Rove's Riots, O'Reilly Cracks, Cheney Hides

Karl Rove 1972

The Rude Pundit

From The Rude Pundit...

4/5/2007
Why Ann Coulter Is a C***, Part 3741 (Darfur Edition):
Because in her latest "column" (if by "column," you mean, "the s*** swirls and coloring book scribbles of a deranged, spasmodic demi-infant"), she actually says that Darfur is "a country from which no one anticipates terrorism anytime in the next millennium." It is the kind of statement, published in hundreds of newspapers and websites, gleefully repeated by troglodytes with no actual opinion to call their own, that ought to have a person permanently banned from all writing and speaking gigs unless they involve a wooden box and a street corner. While we shouldn't give a f*** about the context of such a blatantly bats*** nutzoid statement, Coulter was saying that Democrats would rather invade Darfur to stop the genocide than invade Iraq. Did that make a difference? Not really.

Let's do this quickly, shall we? Darfur - not a "country." It's part of Sudan. Sudan gave al-Qaeda the support - in allowing terrorist training camps there, among other things - to carry out the attack on the USS Cole in 2000. Osama bin Laden once had headquarters in Khartoum. There is no doubt that Sudan is deeply enmeshed in terrorist financing and other activities.

Leaving out that any editor worth a happy monkey f*** should have caught the error in Darfur being called a "country" in a nationally-syndicated column, it truly boggles the f****** mind, as it always does, as to why this ridiculous clown of a c*** beast is allowed to f*** her babblings into the air.

Thai King p-o'ed at this?

From USA Today...

The Thai government blocked access to the popular YouTube video website Wednesday saying a short film it features insults the country's beloved monarch.

Blocking access to YouTube was part of the military-installed government's move to shut down any websites deemed insulting to the king, and authorities will crack down on more, said Sitthichai Pookaiyaudom, the minister of information and technology.

Snoop Dogg Says F*** Bill O'Reilly

Hillary 1984

What We Call The News

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Our Choice

Trailer for Pirates 3

Why We Fight

I have returned from being out of town for a week. I caught this and wanted to come back to it because of its importance.

From Kmareka...

This documentary, Why We Fight, is over an hour and a half long, and worth every minute. If you ask yourself this question daily, which many Americans do, you owe it to yourself to consider the arguments made in this video and what they mean to our long-term survival as a nation.

Is American foreign policy dominated by the idea of military supremacy? Has the military become too important in American life? Jarecki's shrewd and intelligent polemic would seem to give an affirmative answer to each of these questions The American Documentary Grand Jury Prize was given to WHY WE FIGHT, written and directed by Eugene Jarecki. http://festival.sundance.org/2005/docs/05Awards.pdf What are the forces that shape and propel American militarism? This award-winning film provides an inside look at the anatomy of the American war machine. He may have been the ultimate icon of 1950s conformity and postwar complacency, but Dwight D. Eisenhower was an iconoclast, visionary, and the Cassandra of the New World Order. Upon departing his presidency, Eisenhower issued a stern, cogent warning about the burgeoning "military industrial complex," foretelling with ominous clarity the state of the world in 2004 with its incestuous entanglement of political, corporate, and Defense Department interests. Deploying the general's farewell address as his strategic ground zero, Eugene Jarecki launches a full-frontal autopsy of how the will of a people has become an accessory to the Pentagon. Surveying the scorched landscape of a half-century's military misadventures and misguided missions, Jarecki asks how--and tells why--a nation ostensibly of, by, and for the people has become the savings-and-loan of a system whose survival depends on a state of constant war. Jarecki, whose previous film, The Trials of Henry Kissinger, took such an unblinking look at our ex-secretary of state, might have delivered his film in time for the last presidential election, but its timing is also its point: It does not matter who is in charge as long as the system remains immune from the checks and balances of a peace-seeking electorate. Brisk, intelligent, and often very, very human, Why We Fight is one of the more powerful films in this year's Festival, and certainly among the most shattering.— Diane Weyermann http://www.whywefightmovie.com/

Weekend Iraq anniversary events

> MARCH 18 RALLY IN PROVIDENCE:
>
> The RI Community Coalition for Peace is sponsoring an anti-war march
> and rally in Providence on Sunday, March 18, the fourth anniversary of
> the invasion of Iraq. The march will start at 1:30 PM at Central High
> School on Broad Street. We will march downtown to the Federal
> Building at Kennedy Plaza, then up Westminster Street to the
> Beneficent church on Weybosset Street for a rally from 3:00 to
> 5:30 PM. The program for the rally includes:
> • The Raging Grannies singing anti-war songs
> • Rev. Jon Almond from the Mathewson Street United Methodist Church
> • Jacque Amoureux from the RI chapter of Military Families Speak Out
> • Elliott Colla, Director of Middle East Studies at Brown University
> • Steve Kelly from the Kelly Peace group and RI MFSO
> • Chris Murphy from the International Socialist Organization
> • Jeff Toste from the Green Party of Rhode Island
>
> ROUNDUP OF MARCH ANNIVERSARY EVENTS:
>
> This roundup of upcoming March events is provided as a service to the
> local peace community. These events have not necessarily been
> endorsed by RICCP unless otherwise stated.
> • Barrington, March 18: The East Bay Citizens for Democracy is
> planning a forum on Iraq from 2:30 – 6:00 PM at the Barrington
> Congregational Church. For more information, please contact: Pat
> Smith at sampa@cox.net.
> • Newport, March 18: The RI Progressive League is planning a peace
> rally in Newport starting at noon at Washington Square. For more
> information, please contact Gracious Audette at
> graciousaudette@aiconnect.com .
> • Providence, March 18: The local Declaration of Peace group is
> sponsoring a Gathering and Planning for Nonviolent Action from
> 5:30-7:00 PM, Beneficent Church, following the peace rally at the
> Church. For more information, please contact the AFSC office at
> 401-521-3584.
> • Providence, March 19: During the week of March 19, Declaration
> of Peace and other groups are planning nonviolent actions in the local
> area. For more information, please contact the AFSC office at
> 401-521-3584.
> • Providence, March 19: Brown Students for a Democratic Society and
> other groups will be staging a street-theater die-in at the Textron
> Tower in downtown Providence on Monday. They are planning to meet at
> Kennedy Plaza at 1:30 and walk the short distance to their
> headquarters. For more information, please contact Jonathan Rogers at
> Jonathan_Rogers@brown.edu .
> • Providence, March 19: For Move On.org, Christine Lindin is
> hosting a vigil at the Providence State House on Monday at 7:30 PM.
> For more information, please contact: Pat Smith at sampa@cox.net.
> • Providence, March 20: The RI chapter of the ACLU is sponsoring a
> film screening on Tuesday at 7 PM at the Columbus Theatre on Broadway
> in Providence. They are showing "Road To Guantanamo", and will be
> having a panel discussion with Nick Schmader and Carl Kreuger. For
> more information, please contact Megan Young at MYoung@riaclu.org .
> • Providence, March 20: Col. Ann Wright, who resigned from the
> diplomatic service in 2003 in protest of the war with Iraq, will be
> speaking on "The Coming War with Iran" at 7:00 PM in Smith-Buonanno
> 106 at Brown University, located at 100 Brown Street at Cushing
> Street. For more information, please contact Randall Rose at
> Randall_Rose@brown.edu .
>

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