Ex-Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm Dies

AP is reporting Shirley Chisholm has died at age 80.

An extreme radical for her time, it is perhaps a measurement of where we are that she would be called “too conservative” by Democrats of today.

I see this morning that one of my favorite Search Engines, AltaVista is doing it’s part. They’ve placed a Tsunami aid Slug on their front page loaded with links to various agencies doing work in the ‘Rim’.

Pay them a

I’ve added a Yahoo News Feed to the CSS here at Bit’sBlog.
We’ll see how it goes. Let me know if you like it, or if there are problems.

Editor’s note: I wrote this a few years ago, possibly for the 2000 or 2001 New Year’s show, and never posted it, because other thoughts came forward. But in re-reading this one, I’ve decided it was too good to simply

Drat. Nothing on the American side, this year. But the rest of the show was fine, despite a rather high wind. The smoke, which usually provide a nice backdrop for the fireworks people to ‘paint’ on held up amazingly well

Blogging will be light or non-existant tonight, as I’ll be in Niagara Falls with the family, as usual.

Be careful tonight.
I like having all of you as readers.
Keeping that situation, I suppose, requires you remaining alive and

So, if someone were to put a blog up about politics, and current events, and called it “Thoughts and Analysis”, would they call it “T&A” for short?

So says Right Dominion who then goes on to explain where the phrase comes from and so on. A worthy read.

I posted this link yesterday… and I do so again today for two rearsons. Amazon.COM American Red Cross Disaster Relief

1: Because it’s a place you need to visit.
2: Because those who have visited have thusfar raused over 7

Professor Ed Lynch of Hollins U in Roanoke, VA has a column posted today which ought to raise an eyebrow or two…. You might be a liberal if …

An example or two:

“You might be a liberal if… You

You will recall I mentioned the other day a editorial from the blithering idiot, Al Neuharth. It seems that E*P has been getting drowned in letters of response from angry Americans who share my view. E&P is singing the blues

Dizzy Girl Gennie notes an effort on the left to boycott Gasoline sales on the day President Bush is inaugurated.

Aside from the idea that they still can’t get over losing and move on, the connection here of course is

Remember we were supposed to open up shipments of Canadian beef again? Well…. Maybe Not.

Check out the flying fur at Snugg Harbor.

The Greatest Jeneration points out that while the death toll on the Sunami business keeps getting higher, the bright spot is Amerca’s bellying up to the bar… so far there’s on the order of 80 million in PRIVATE donations…. a