The World Around You

Steven posts a response to Rush Limbaugh’s critique of the campaign for Amendment 1. I, for one, am utterly shocked and dismayed at the fact that Rush got it wrong. I mean if you can’t trust Rush Limbaugh for the truth, who can you trust?

Gen. Wesley Clark may finally be jumping in the pool,

WASHINGTON — Retired Army Gen. Wesley Clark has told friends he is likely to become the 10th Democratic presidential candidate, a move that could shake up the crowded field just four months before the first ballots are cast.

Clark, 58, has not made a final decision, but the Arkansas resident is aggressively recruiting campaign staff and plans to announce his intentions next week, friends and party officials said on condition of anonymity.

He could still put the brakes on a campaign, they said.

This ought to shake things up, and the race may get an honest-to-goodness front runner.

Dean Esmay wins the prize for most creative 9/11 tribute on his site today.

The Birmingham News lists some of the specific agencies that will lose their state funding under the Governor’s proposed budget,

Ending state funding for non-state agencies and colleges. Some of the Birmingham-area agencies and schools that could be affected, and the amounts they got this year, include: Children’s Hospital, $846,545; Miles College, $346,872; Helen Keller Eye Research, $318,671; McWane Center, $297,048; Children’s Theatre of Birmingham, $166,347; Birmingham Civil Rights Museum, $118,819; and Children’s Theatre of Birmingham-Summerfest, $23,764.

Also among those on the chopping block are: Tuskegee University, $4.7 million; child advocacy centers statewide, $2.8 million; Coalition Against Domestic Violence, $814,332; Talladega College, $485,009; Marion Institute, $414,278; AIDS Task Force, $317,992; and Lyman Ward military academy in Camp Hill, $193,328.

And I know for a fact that that cut in funding to the Coalition Against Domestic Violence and Child Advocacy Centers will mean many of domestic violence shelters and CAC’s will close. If that isn’t a travesty, I don’t know what is.

Take a moment today to remember the lives lost on September 11th and to reflect on what it really means to be an American in these difficult times.