| Bangor-area punk bands rock out for good cause
Sometimes, the personal is political. In the case of local punk bands Clinic Bomb and USA Waste, it always is. "When I write songs, I write from personal experience," said Joanne Bolduc, vocalist for Clinic Bomb, who are based out of the Bangor area. "A song will come to me when I'm having personal problems, or my friends are, or when I'm thinking about different social issues. I try to make everything personal. Anger is a big motivating factor." Anger is also a weapon, and both Clinic Bomb and USA Waste use it to their full advantage, making straight up, hardcore-influenced political punk — the five-member Clinic Bomb since 2004, and power trio USA Waste since 1999, making the latter one of the area's longest-standing local bands. The two groups refer to each other as "brother and sister" bands, since they share most of the same politics, and at different points have shared the same musicians, like when USA Waste drummer Dub Waste joined Clinic Bomb for a year.
Coeur d'Alene Soldier Buried at Arlington National Cemetery
The young man's picture will be featured in "Your Voice" in the near future. DFO: Here's another example of how the online world has an advantage over the print world and even the "film-at-11" types. The storm hit when Herb was in Athol. He saw the funnel spout drop down nearby. Then, on the way back to Bayview, he checked out the rumor that a tree had hit a woman in the Thimbleberry Campground at Farragut. Finally, he returns to Bayview and lets us know about the power being restored and the interesting little incident of the twister and the street sign. In the blogosphere, everyone can become a reporter. Question: Did you suffer any damage from the storm? Or observe any damage? .
Mickelson finally takes Riviera for 16th victory out West
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When Camelot comes to Canberra
Well, maybe the summit will come up with something.
Rudds use of the phrase 'best and brightest' should make anyone with a sense of history nervous to say the least. It was made famous by the legendary American Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author David Halberstam who used it, ironically, to describe the men who sat at the heart of JFKs Camelot (though it may originally have come from a poem by Shelley).
Kennedy, a generalist himself, wanted to be surrounded by men of unsurpassed expertise.
One of the 'best and brightest' recruited by Kennedy was Robert McNamara, a brilliant young manager from the Ford motor company. He was so good that he became the first President of the company from outside the Ford family. He was skilled at systems analysis and championed an approach to government policy which placed analysis and rationality above other considerations, like political ideals.
Part 6: One woman’s story: Contemplating chemotherapy
Editor's note: The Montana Standard has asked health and fitness correspondent, Paula J. McGarvey who was diagnosed with breast cancer in August 2007 to share her own story. This is a continuation of stories Paula has shared with our readers over the last several months. The other stories have also been reposted online and are available at http://www.mtstandard.com/healthfitness/.By Paula J. McGarvey for The Montana Standard Jan. 17, 2008 Today I received the last of eight scheduled chemotherapy treatments. Since early October I have gone to the local cancer center religiously every two weeks. There, I would be hooked up to an IV and infused with toxic drugs, whose mission was to seek out and destroy any rogue cancer cells that dared to linger in my body after surgery.I haven't felt such a sense of accomplishment and relief since giving birth to my first child after 17 hours of labor one summer evening back in 1993.
Egypt moves to close Gaza border
Last month tens of thousands of Gazans overran the border into Egypt, flooding stores to purchase goods that were in short supply as a result of an Israeli blockade. Since then, the flow of Palestinians into Egypt has dropped, and Egyptian and Hamas security forces began sealing parts of the Gaza-Egypt border last week. Israel closed all border crossings with Gaza on January 17 to punish Hamas leaders for days of rocket attacks on southern Gaza. Egypt has been under pressure by Israel and the United States to reseal the Rafah border crossing to prevent the flow of terrorists and weapons into Hamas-controlled Gaza. The border is supposed to be jointly maintained by Egypt and the Palestinian Authority under the oversight of the European Union monitors but was closed after Hamas took over Gaza and split with the Palestinian Authority leadership last year.
CBS Falsifies Iraq War History
Those inspections only ended in March 2003 when President George W. Bush decided to press ahead with war despite the U.N. Security Council's refusal to authorize the invasion and its desire to give the U.N. inspectors time to finish their work. But none of that reality is part of the history that Americans are supposed to know. The officially sanctioned U.S. account, as embraced by Bush in speech after speech, is that Saddam Hussein "chose war" by defying the U.N. over the WMD issue and by misleading the world into believing that he still possessed these weapons. In line with Bush's version of history, "60 Minutes" correspondent Pelley asked FBI interrogator George Piro why Hussein kept pretending that he had WMD even as U.S. troops massed on Iraq's borders, when a simple announcement that the WMD was gone would have prevented the war.
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