SOME ARE LOSING IT

Dau’d X Mohammed sent this report along as it happened. It now appears six people were shot in Seattle in an incident connected to events in Lebanon.

At Least Three Shot At Jewish Center In Seattle
http://www.komotv.com/stories/44656.htm

Muslim goes on shotgun rampage at Jewish center

http://lonestartimes.com/2006/07/28/muslim-goes-on-shotgun-rampage-at-jewish-center/

“Stop Sending Tax Money to Israel” banner shown on broadcast

”CNN “Pipeline” is broadcasting live. I can’t bring myself to pay CNN for news

Broadcasting live from KING-5 TV via North West Cable News (NWCN)

happened at about 3:04 PM PDT

suspect called police

“main suspect” suspect in police custody. They know of no other accomplices

FBI called in

Tactical (SWAT) unit with bomb squad trailer on scene, now setting up…

IS THIS JUST THE BEGINNING?

Foreign wars have a way of coming home:

OTHER NEWS:

CBS Pays Fine, Files Challenge:Network Appeals FCC Ruling in Super Bowl Indecency Case

TV Week reports:

Nearly two years after the Federal Communications Commission first ruled Janet Jackson’s 2004 Super Bowl halftime wardrobe malfunction was “indecent,” and months after it fined CBS and its stations $550,000 for its airing, CBS today paid the fine and immediately filed suit in Philadelphia challenging the FCC decision.

Report from New Zealand: Agent Orange ’caused gene damage.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/5224690.stm

YOUR VOICES:

Gordan Stephan submits a poem: “To The Silence”

”such sadness
such pain
surely no one is right if everyone is wrong
we live in hardened hearts
darkened by the vacuum of hate
and it’s easier to choose sides and fix blame
than fix our thoughts
feel our madness
and see the shallowness of our cares
we tend to such a small view
of such a very small world
intemperate
impulsive
and thoroughly convinced
that no one else sees
no one else knows
no one else holds the light of truth
in words we destroy the other
in deeds we echo our words
and then, silence again
alone

IN MEMORIAM

My former colleague at WBCN, Darrell Martinie, the popular on air astrologer, astrology known as the ‘Cosmic Muffin’ has died at 63:

The Boston Globe reports:

“After Mr. Martinie’s funeral Mass tomorrow, the Roma Band — musicians known to many for their performances at feasts in the North End — will lead the funeral progression from the church to the cemetery.

“In addition to his husband, Mr. Martinie leaves his son, John Greene of Algonquin, Ill.; three sisters, Bonnie of Naperville Ill., Beverly Foster of Maui, Hawaii, and Susan Hickerson of East Peoria, Ill.; and two grandsons.

“The funeral Mass will be said tomorrow at 10:30 a.m. in Blessed Sacrament Church in Saugus. Burial will be in Riverside Cemetery in Saugus.”

LEAVING ONE WAR FOR ANOTHER

I am heading upstate and taking a break from obsessing with the war. I will be screening my film IN DEBT WE TRUST Sunday at 4 at the Rosendale N.Y.Theater, a kind of return command performance to assess audience response. I will tell you how it goes.

This is all I have time or the stomach for, but I will say that my skepticism with and alternative to the conventional media wisdom about the war now feels as if it is being vindicated. I really don’t want be be right. I want this to be over. Don’t you?

COMING NEXT

Iranians fear they are next:
http://www.payvand.com/news/06/jul/1277.html

Please pay attention tomorrow to the Congolese election and the march for an election recount in Mexico.

On the seventh day, I rest.

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