Sunflowers
Sunflowers The local farmer who has leased some fields from us in the past usually plants hay, wheat, corn, and so forth. When things are slow here in Texas or “off season”(or if he has a failed crop or whatever), he takes all his mega agribusiness equipment and a crew (and himself) to the Midwest for a few weeks to harvest sunflowers (and other things). Last year, his friends up north talked him into trying a couple of fields of sunflowers in Central Texas. He didn
Even Crooks Are Depressed
Even Crooks Are Depressed You may think that crime has gone up in these dark economic times when more and more people are out of work and fewer and fewer people have money. That hasn
Newest Cell Phone Feature Is So Hot You May Need A Fire Extinguisher
Newest Cell Phone Feature Is So Hot You May Need A Fire Extinguisher
81st Legislative Session Ends: Lawmakers Continue To Let Down Texans
81st Legislative Session Ends:
While there were some small victories during this 81st Legislative Session, for the most part the people of Texas were let down again by their elected officials. It appears to be a reoccurring theme every two years when the legislature meets.
The reason for these poorly orchestrated and unsuccessful legislative sessions appears to be the ever-increasing power of the wealthy special interest lobbies, who continue to dominate the allegiances of Texas lawmakers.
The days seem long gone when the first priority of government officials is to their every day constituency. Now that hard-working Texans are hardly working, diligence, and intelligent decision-making should be the priority of our lawmakers, but as we have just witnessed during this session, our legislators failed miserably
Guns, My Tokhes!
Guns, My Tokhes! The mantra of those who rationalize gun ownership whine that only good, decent, upstanding American citizens will pass the stringent government application process. Such paranoid illogicality is based upon an unreasonable conviction that the good American needs to protect himself and his family from the dregs of society, or the corrupt constabulary, or a military run amok under the tyrannical dominion of depraved politicians
Bomb Tyler!
Bomb Tyler! As Uncle Hugh used to say, “The leading cause of death and incarceration in America is stupidity.” Hey Kids! What Time is it? TOO STOOPID TO LIVE TIME, UNCLE DON! YA-A-A-Y-Y-Y! Okay, here
I Forgive Cindy Sheehan
I Forgive Cindy Sheehan “If you love somebody, set them free.”
Gitmo, Or Crimino?
Gitmo, Or Crimino? So, when is James von Brunn going to Guant
18-Month Window To Afghan
WASHINGTON, D.C.
China, U.S. Still Blaming Other For Not Reducing Carbon
WASHINGTON, D.C.
Perry: Carbon Limits Will Kill Texas Economy
AUSTIN, Texas
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Grade ‘Eff’ Media Fails Sheehan’s Test — BradBlog Tracks Activist’s Tiff With RawStory, Iconoclast
BradBlog Tracks Activist’s Tiff With RawStory, Iconoclast [Editor’s Note: The Lone Star Iconoclast is running this entry from The BRAD BLOG as a feature story in the interest of sharing with our readers a teachable moment. The moment illustrates the relationship among an anti-war activist, a blogger for an alternative Internet media outlet, and the blogger’s opinioned source. This piece’s author Brad Friedman finely captured the delicate tiff with an open mind and (perhaps more importantly) an open heart because in the end all the actors in this story are open to criticism from any side. If not, then why refer to this profession as the “free press?” Enjoy!] LOS ANGELES, Calif. Cindy Sheehan, whose Army son was killed in the early days of the Iraq War, and who became well known during her controversial stand in protest outside of George W. Bush’s property in Crawford, Texas, in the summer of 2005, is taking her protests to Bush’s new tony suburban enclave in Dallas. RAW STORY covered Sheehan’s plan to lead a “march on former President Bush’s new home in the well-to-do Dallas suburb of Preston Hollow” on Monday, June 8, in protest of what Dallas’ NBC affiliate quotes her as describing as “crimes against humanity.” “We can’t allow George Bush’s crimes to be forgotten just because he is not in office anymore,” she told the NBC affiliate via e-mail, as reported in their story, which also quotes Bush’s new neighbors chiding protesters to “Go away… Go back! Leave us alone!” In an apparent attempt to offer additional “balance” to his coverage of Sheehan’s new protests, RAW STORY’s Stephen C. Webster reports that Sheehan “was hit by the right for criticising [sic] the invasion of Iraq and, eventually, by the left for being a perpetual spotlight-seeker.” Webster notes that he “would link to sources” backing up his claims of criticism from the left, “but that bit comes first-hand.” He recounts that he’d “spen[t] months covering Cindy’s activity for The Lone Star Iconoclast in Crawford,” and writes that he “understand[s] many of the various opinions expressed about this woman’s activism.” He then goes on to associate with his former Iconoclast colleague Nathan Diebenow who, he writes, “quite accurately summarized, her constant angling for the spotlight and failure to significantly modify her tactics,” which, Webster goes on to charge, “made Cindy into a ‘media bore’ (as opposed to the oft referenced ‘media whore’ insult so many on the right would hurl at her).” To all of that, Sheehan replied in comments confirmed as her own to The BRAD BLOG today in a scathing rebuttal which begins: “Eff whoever wrote this article and Nathan Dibenow [sic] from the Lonestar Icnonoclast. [sic]”… ‘ONE OF THE WORST ARTICLES I HAVE EVER READ’ Sheehan, who, until recently had paid her own way to host a weekend progressive radio show on San Francisco’s Green960 (KKGN), called “Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox” (which still continues via Internet podcast), goes on to blast the reporters from both outlets, responding sarcastically: “Yes, I am doing all this for attention, because obviously the wars are over and George Bush and Dick Cheney have been prosecuted and everything is happy crappy and I should just go home and suffer in silence.” She continues by listing seven points, in all capital letters, underscoring her belief that protests against Bush and Cheney and President Obama need to continue; railing against the Iconoclast for capitalizing on her C
