Terrell Owens Attempts Suicide

Breaking news out of Dallas' WFAA-TV...

According to a Dallas Police report obtained by news 8, Dallas Cowboys star receiver Terrell Owens attempted suicide Tuesday night. The report also says that Owens was depressed and reportedly took prescription pain pills. A woman companion observed him putting two pills in his mouth. The woman says the prescription of 40 pills was filled on September 18th and until yesterday he'd taken only five pills. According to the police report, Owens was asked if he'd taken the rest of the prescription. Owens said yes. According to the report, police also asked if he was trying to harm himself. Owens answered yes. Terrell Owens was treated at Baylor University Medical Center.

Kudos to Wonkette who laughed as much as I did when I saw CNN's new politics ticker. What a joke...

TEEN IDOL BREAKS ENGAGEMENT AFTER ONE WEEK … OPRAH’S BEAU, GRAHAM, TALKS RACE WITH LARRY KING … INJURED DOLPHIN MAY GET PROSTHETIC TAIL ….

But it’s not a ticker at all. It’s just a blog with some political stuff.

Get it together CNN!

We will never forget this great Texan

Excellent New Casey Ad

This new ad from the Bob Casey campaign is touching, real and different. It sheds some light on his past showing his compassion for students as a teacher in the public school system. This is a guy Pennsylvania needs in a US Senator. Forget that loser Santorum, who lives each day fighting AGAINST human rights and equality.

How Bush missed his opportunity to be the best president ever, over and over again

Newsweek’s Jonathan Alter writes about how Bush failed to use the political capitol he gained after 9-11. His bottom line is that Bush’s arrogant, my way or the highway, leadership style has messed this country up. He could have defied gravity and lead with greatness but instead, his leadership has brought us to an unwinable war in Iraq with other countries looking to us with disappointing and rolling eyes.

Here is Alter's view of how things could have been.

Our next president has his work cut out to regain our credibility on the world stage.

Google to Promote Banned Books

I often have beefs with Google but this time I am proud of what they are doing on behalf of Banned Books Week. It's undoubtedly a public relations ploy, but regardless, they have posted a list of 42 books that have been challenged or banned from schools across the country.



Reading expands the mind! Read a book today and defy gravity tomorrow!

Washington Times Endorses Marie Johns For Mayor

The Washington Times endorsed Marie Johns for Mayor on September 5th.

Read some of her other endorsments.

We need an experienced leader to better DC's services and citizens! Vote Marie Johns on September 12th!

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DC Voter Guide Contains Incorrect Polling Places

The DC primary is this Tuesday, Sept. 12th. I thought I was all set and ready to go. I read the voter guide, decided who I was going to vote for and found my polling place. Then I receive a post card yesterday from the DC Board of Elections. It reads:

Due to an error by the contractor responsible for the production and mailing of the 2006 DC Voter Guide you may have received a guide with an incorrect precinct number on the label...The District of Columbia Board of Elections and Ethics apologizes for the contractor’s error.

I feel frustrated at the mistake in the first place but it infuriates me to no end that the Board of Elections does not take responsibility for the mistake. This is typical of how DC operates. It is never the fault of the city. Now if I contracted out a service for my job and the contractor made a mistake, the fault would be my own.

This is why I am voting for Marie Johns for mayor. She will hold herself and city administrators accountable for the city's errors and incompetence. A Cropp or Fenty administration will only ensure the status quo.

Check the DC Board of Elections website for more infomration.

Hands Off The Constitutions; An expert looks at how not to ban gay marriage

A conservative circuit court judge wrote an interesting opinion piece in this week's Washington Post. He does not write in support of gay marriage. Rather, he takes to task how gay marriage opponents are hijacking constitutions to get their way.

The Framers meant our Constitution to establish a structure of government and to provide individuals certain inalienable rights against the state. They certainly did not envision our Constitution as a place to restrict rights or enact public policies, as the Federal Marriage Amendment does.

Ordinary legislation -- not constitutional amendments -- should express the community's view that marriage "shall consist only of the union of a man and a woman." To use the Constitution for prescriptions of policy is to shackle future generations that should have the same right as ours to enact policies of their own. To use the Constitution as a forum for even our most favored views strikes a blow of uncommon harshness upon disfavored groups, in this case gay citizens who would never see this country's founding charter as their own.

Americans are Smarter than Bush's Propaganda

I am just moments from kicking off the Labor Day Weekend! Happy Friday! But first I just have to rant about our President. He is on a circuit tour promoting this war in Iraq, in which he created, and saying if we don’t win the war, we will lose the war on terror. He even went so far as to compare this fight against our enemies in Iraq to the Nazis.

He links together the many sectarian groups in Iraq with Al Qaeda as our “enemies of liberty.” Thankfully, ABC World News last night said that lumping these groups together is not accurate. In fact, some of the insurgents in Iraq have actually fought Al Qaeda and ran them out of town in some cases.

Our President cannot admit his failed policies and is using this war as a political tool to excite the Republican base by linking the war in Iraq to the “global war on terror.” I know we as Americans are smarter enough to see that we need a new policy with regard to Iraq.

I can’t wait until Congress returns from break and the Democrats push a vote of no confidence in Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. This week Rumsfeld compared critics of the war in Iraq to appeasers of Adolf Hitler. Outrageous!!

God help our troops!