5 Years is Long Enough!!

Yesterday marked the 5th anniversary of the invasion of Iraq. As of yesterday, the United States has lost 3,992 solders, 370 of those from Citizen Reindeer's home state of Texas.

Bring them home now.

Photosource: CRIOonline.com

This is a riot

Okay, if this ain't "a girl with a song," we don't know what is.

It's fun. It's brash. It's music.

Photo: Merkley

I know Merkley has a blogspot. When we get the address, we'll post it.

Eddie Van Halen

We're not sure what's up, but we know that we wish him well: News reports state that Van Halen has canceled more shows due an "undisclosed" illness that Eddie is battling.

Read up, or we'll keep you posted.

http://www.reuters.com

Photo: Robert Padgett/Reuters

Politics as UNusual...

Citizen D has been kind of involved with all the political activity in Texas this week and asserts that caucusing is insane! Obama supporters pulling up and destroying signs, Clinton supporters questioning the validity of votes (probably rightly so, given what Citizen D saw), and then there were moments like these:

Sitting alone at the end of a table at one of the caucus sites on Tuesday night, sat a woman dressed in a burka - head to toe - only a slit for her eyes. Two of the monitors from one of the campaigns were completely nervous over this - they were from Boston, they said, were pretty much conditioned at this point to fear such things. And because the woman was blind and holding a long, white cane, this added even more mystery to her and her appearance. And her reason for being there...

But guess what? She was a citizen and was there to vote. Her voice was sweet and small, and her eyes, though unable to see, were a most beautiful shade of shallow-water blue.

She got signed in. Participated. And left with the assistance of her friends.

A lesson for all that night on so, so many levels.