Now I've said something about the Downing Street Memo, but hop on over to Left Behind Child's blog and read about it, here's a lengthy quote,

Nothing young Americans can do in life is more honorable than offering themselves for the defense of their nation. It requires great selflessness and sacrifice, and quite possibly the forfeiture of life itself. On Memorial Day 2005, we gather to remember all those who gave us that ultimate gift. Because they are so fresh in our minds, those who have died in Iraq make a special claim on our thoughts and our prayers.

In exchange for our uniformed young people's willingness to offer the gift of their lives, civilian Americans owe them something important: It is our duty to ensure that they never are called to make that sacrifice unless it is truly necessary for the security of the country. In the case of Iraq, the American public has failed them; we did not prevent the Bush administration from spending their blood in an unnecessary war based on contrived concerns about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction. President Bush and those around him lied, and the rest of us let them. Harsh? Yes. True? Also yes. Perhaps it happened because Americans, understandably, don't expect untruths from those in power. But that works better as an explanation than as an excuse.

Dem. Rep John Conyers from Michigan has a letter to Bush seeking answers to specific questions about the Downing Street Memo. According to Raw Story he is seeking 100,000 "signatures" to accompany the letter.
Please take a moment to "sign" this. If you have a blog or email list, please seriously consider helping spread the word.

Well, New York Prosecutors are going after Mayor Jason West (you know, the one who wed gay/lesbian couples last year)
--Read About It Here--

Questions :

Well this is just, great, okay let me fill you in, I woke up got the paper, grab my cheerios and sit down to see what prediciment Garfield's gotten himself in today, when all of a sudden, WHAM! Front page says, "School Board: Bay students will wear uniforms" well, let's just say at that point there were Cheerios all over my kitchen wall. I found that unfortunatley there was a vast majority in favor of uniforms. Now it's already ridiculous that sunglasses and hats are out-lawed, (PS. WE'RE IN FLORIDA! IT GETS HOT! SOMETIMES TANKTOPS ARE NECESSARY!) but to reduce a student's individuality to a uniform; it's grotesque, horrific, and just plain unconstitutional! I understand that some students are teased; and I totally disagree with that; but to punish a majority for a minority is reprehensible. Furthermore according to Tinker v. Des Moines (1969) it is (if I may quote Justice Abe Fortas, “. . . In the absence of a specific showing of constitutionally valid reasons to regulate their speech, students are entitled to freedom of expression of their views."
". . . First Amendment rights, applied in light of the special characteristics of the school environment, are available to teachers and students. It can hardly be argued that either students or teachers shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate. . . ."

Rarely are the words of one state legislator worth national attention, but when Senfronia Thompson, a black representative from Houston, stalks to the back mike with a certain "get-out-of-my-way" look in her eye, it's, Katie, bar the door. Here is Thompson speaking against the Legislature's recent folly of putting a superfluous anti-gay marriage measure into the state constitution:

"Members, this bill is about hate and fear and discrimination... When I was a small girl, white folks used to talk about 'protecting the institution of marriage' as well. What they meant was if people of my color tried to marry people of Mr. Chisum's color, you'd often find the people of my color hanging from a tree... Fifty years ago, white folks thought interracial marriages were 'a threat to the institution of marriage.'....

"I have served in this body a lot of years, and I have seen a lot of promises broken... So... now that blacks and women have equal rights, you turn your hatred to homosexuals, and you still use your misguided reading of the Bible to justify your hatred. You want to pass this ridiculous amendment so you can go home and brag -- brag about what? Declare that you saved the people of Texas from what?....

"Last week, Republicans used a political wedge issue to pull kids -- sweet little vulnerable kids -- out of the homes of loving parents and put them back in a state orphanage just because those parents are gay. That's disgusting.

"I have listened to the arguments. I have listened to all of the crap... I want you to know that this amendment [is] blowing smoke to fuel the hell-fire flames of bigotry."

Then They Passed the Amendmant.