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Escalation announced tonight
By John Servais · Wed Jan 10, 2007
In his speech tonight, Bush gave no specific time lines for expected results. The first words from news commentators referred to six months for results. But Bush can avoid any accountability in six mo
Israel to bomb Iran?
By John Servais · Tue Jan 9, 2007
Freaky. There are reports - rumors? - that Israeli Air Force pilots are training for a bombing run into Iran. If Israel drops nuclear bombs on Iran then you know W asked them to do it - for they have
Airport issues
By John Servais · Mon Jan 8, 2007
The new discussion site about airport issues - blinet.org - is being run by Matt Paskus. While his name is not on the site, he is very open to be identified. He lives out by the airport and - surprise
Bush is totally dysfunctional now
By John Servais · Sun Jan 7, 2007
Why should the execution of Saddam be a concern to all of us? Because it was a lynching - and Bush and company participated. Personally I think Bush wanted Saddam dead quick out of fear that we may be
The dead are blessed
By John Servais · Mon Jan 1, 2007
3,000 service persons killed in Iraq? Oh we are beyond that - up to 3,002 this morning - and could climb past 4,000 this year if we ‘stay the course’. More telling for me is we are approaching 50,000
Candlelight vigil tonight
By John Servais · Sun Dec 31, 2006
As the 3,000th US service person is killed in Iraq today or tomorrow, the Whatcom Peace and Justice Center will hold a candlelight vigil at the Maritime Heritage Park this evening starting at 4:30 pm
Saddam Hussein executed
By John Servais · Fri Dec 29, 2006
The US - the Bush administration - had Saddam Hussein executed this evening. How sad - how stupid on several levels - and how oh so immoral. There are tyrants of several countries who murder their peo
Moving Target
By Tip Johnson · Mon Dec 11, 2006
One of the more momentous public hearings in Bellingham’s history appears to be ready to pass with more than the ordinary confusion. We wrote about some of the mis/disinformation earlier.

On th
The Iraq Study Group Report
By John Servais · Wed Dec 6, 2006
A good historic moment is upon us today. The Iraq Study Group Report was presented this morning to our nation’s leaders and to us citizens. I think this report and its 79 recommendations provide a sup
Public meeting & hearing rescheduled
By John Servais · Thu Nov 30, 2006
Notice:

Relative to the last post:

Ecology has rescheduled the public meeting for:
December 7th, 6:30 p.m. ñ 8:30 p.m., Bellingham Cruise Terminal, 355 Harris Avenue, Bell
Public Process - Lots of it (kind of),
By Tip Johnson · Mon Nov 27, 2006
or I lied (sort of!)

In the previous post I complained that the biggest rip-off in Whatcom County history was happening without even being discussed or making it into the news. Well, I lied. To
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
By Tip Johnson · Sun Nov 26, 2006
The good? We are no longer spewing forty+ pounds of mercury vapor every day into the local atmosphere. We are no longer dumping 20 to 40 tons of polluted solid waste into our bay, ravines and gravel p
Long Run
By Tip Johnson · Sun Nov 19, 2006
Milton Friedman died at 94 years of age last week. Friedman was the maverick economist who implemented monetarist policies beginning with the administrations of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher. As
Torturous topics
By Tip Johnson · Sun Nov 19, 2006
While we’re being proud to be Americans, don’t forget that George Bush just pushed through legislation that makes it legal for our boys at Abu Ghraib to have tortured and makes it legal for them to ke
Welcome to America!
By Tip Johnson · Sun Nov 19, 2006
Protesting and dissent is no longer supervised by the police. It is actively escalated to violence, punished and prosecuted. This snippet is about a fellow rotting in jail as the result of his journal
Let them vote on it?
By Tip Johnson · Sun Nov 19, 2006
Zetta Bracher, President of the local Democratic Women’s Club, has an idea for getting consensus on our “new direction” in Iraq.

When it became apparent that there were no weapons of mass destr
Hot Button
By Tip Johnson · Thu Nov 16, 2006
The war in Iraq is widely regarded to have been the “hot button” issue of the last election. I don’t buy it. Americans seem to like a good fight. After all, we get into a lot of them. The problem with
Plenty more to flush
By Tip Johnson · Sun Nov 12, 2006
Bellingham’s new, old mayor, Tim Douglas, got off to a great running start at his new job by dealing quickly and firmly with an important issue that threatened to embarrass the City forever - the form
Killers or Healers?
By Tip Johnson · Thu Nov 9, 2006
Congratulations, Americans. That was certainly worth voting for! Voters thoroughly routing the entrenched Neo-Con administration will help restore our world image, so badly damaged since re-electing t

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