Cherokee Sage Woman

http://www.cbsnews.com:80/stories/2007/09/21/national/main3284577.shtml

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20070920/people-kathy-griffin/

Looks like that $90K could've gone to feed the hungry.. house the homeless.. aid the sick & dying? But what am I thinking? That's what JESUS would do.. and this is just Pigeon Forge thinking.
Kathy Griffin is laughing all the way to the bank w/ the full page advertising for her.. you go girl!

When you try to exercise free speech in this insane country..
Will '08 EVER get here???

http://www.ajc.com/multimedia/content/multimedia/video/index.html?clip=30851&cxntnid=amn091807e

Kerry could have SO intervened in this mess.. I'm truly disappointed in him.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20070918/student-arrested-kerry/

OK, Kerry is a total A-Hole!!
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2007/09/19/student_at_a_kerry_ev ent_is_tasered/

Then there's this weinie!
http://mediamatters.org/items/200709190009

Fox censors Sally Field's anti-war speech at Emmy's...Field then continued, "If mothers ruled the world, there would be no -" But the Fox Emmycast cut off her sound and pointed the camera away from the stage, silencing the rest of her sentence: "god-damned wars in the first place."

http://www.couragetoresist.org/x/

Heroes of another sort.. God bless them.

http://www.alternet.org/blogs/video/62293

I'm just utterly appalled.

Follow up:
http://www.alternet.org/blogs/video/62520/

I had forgotten how wonderful the rain sounds on our tin red roof. But now I am blissfully reminded, as east TN gets a long sweet drink of Mother Nature's water. It's been a long dry spell, which they tell me will make for a prettier than usual fall.. nonetheless, I have sorely missed the gentle shoosh of rain on the panes.
It's a classic case of 'you don't know what you got til you lose it', because I'm sure that I've bitched about the wet weather in the past. This spring & summer of drought has been a steady reminder that we need the storms, to appreciate the rainbows at the end of them.

And so, as I sit out on the back porch w/ my pups on my lap.. I care not what Congress is cooking up for me, what Britney's skills are or aren't, or what gas prices may be leaping to.
I am just kicking back, reading a good book & enjoying the rain.
If I were brave enough, I'd take a lesson from my friend Juliepoolie, & dance out in it.
For now, I'm happy just to breathe it in, & watch it fall.

This is bliss.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2007410737,00.html

Just sick..