GROSSO!

I'll be the first to admit that I have not been pulling for the Italians after their first round match against the US. As an American fan, they were disgraceful, diving and the like and the Americans were unlucky to have not won the match. Nevertheless, now, its Fabio Grosso who gets the winner for the Azzuri. My mother's paternal side is Italian and her maiden name is........wait for it.......GROSSO! She must be so excited. The Italians earned this one, getting the better chances and twice being denied by the woodwork in extra time.

Getting Busted for Wearing a Peace T-Shirt

Yesterday afternoon, drinking a cup of coffee while sitting in the Jesse Brown V.A. Medical Center on Chicago's south side, a Veterans Administration cop walked up to me and said, "OK, you've had your 15 minutes, it's time to go."

"Huh?", I asked intelligently, not quite sure what he was talking about.

"You can't be in here protesting," Officer Adkins said, pointing to my Veterans For Peace shirt.

"Well, I'm not protesting, I'm having a cup of coffee," I returned, thinking that logic would convince Adkins to go back to his earlier duties of guarding against serious terrorists.

Flipping his badge open, he said, "No, not with that shirt. You're protesting and you have to go."

10 'Grannies for Peace' arrested in Philly

You Go Girls!


"We're saying, 'I've lived my life. Let me go to Iraq instead of our grandchildren, so they have a chance to live their lives,'" said Jean Haskell, 74, a grandmother of five from Philadelphia.

The Clean Sheet: Sorting things out

BIG NAMES DID NOT DELIVER: A lot of questions will be asked about some of the big names on this squad, and the answers will be tough to ascertain. In two of the three matches, no U.S. player stepped up and really put their imprint on the match. This was especially evident in the Ghana match against a side that should have been beaten in those first 20 minutes. This might sound crazy, but even the Yanks' lone goal was troubling to me. DaMarcus Beasley gets a ball handed to him and gets in behind the defense, then our fastest player pulls up and hits a first-time (albeit world-class) cross? I just can't see the Beasley of old in 2002 doing anything but taking that ball, outrunning everyone, and tucking the ball home. The result was a goal, but the decision told me a lot.

Death toll at least 16 for Northeast floods

From WRH:

Death toll at least 16 for Northeast floods
Posted Jun 29, 2006 06:01 PM PST
Category: CURRENT EVENTS

And where is President Bush?

Taking Japan's Prime Minister Koizumi to see Graceland on Air Force One.

You paid for the trip.

Starlings Galore!!

Thanks Allan.

Supreme Court rules against Bush over Guantanamo tribunals

The United States Supreme Court has ruled that President George W. Bush overstepped his authority in denying terror war detainees civilian trials...

The Court has ruled that U.S. detainees--classified by the Bush Administration as "enemy combatants"--cannot be considered exempt from the Geneva Convention. The administration had attempted to argue that the "combatants" had no rights under U.S. or international law, or that only certain rights under each applied.

The Supreme Court disagreed....

The ruling is not likely to result in the release of Hamdan, or other Guantanamo prisoners. In fact, it may result in longer detentions, while the United States attempts to put another system into place.