Call for Impeachment

Rep. Kucinich, former candidate for president, submitted a resolution calling for Pres. Bush's impeachment. The resolution is read for a second time on the House floor tonight.

Watch it here: http://www.cspan.org/watch/cs_cspan_wm.asp?Cat=TV&Code=CS

Read the Congressional Record: http://www.cspan.org/watch/cs_cspan_wm.asp?Cat=TV&Code=CS
Read the calls for Impeachment: http://www.reuters.com/article/middleeastCrisis/idUSN09301988

Election Night Update

The Marlboro Herald Advocate in Bennettsville has a nifty site covering the Marlboro polls: http://www.heraldadvocate.com.dnnmax.com/

Darlington is having problems with the voting machines communicating, so no results for that county are ready.

Election Night Update

Election Results will be posted on The News & Press Web site in full tonight!

Solicitor's Race:
Marlboro County with 14 of 16 precincts reporting, Will Rogers leads Jay Ervin 3393 to 1014.

US Senate Race:
GOP: Incumbent Lindsey Graham leads challenger Buddy Witherspoon 68 to 9 in Marlboro County.
Dems: Michael Cone trails Bob Conley 1557 to 1867 in Marlboro County.

We have a long night ahead of us.

Getting a Bath

Volunteers and board members of the Darlington County Humane Society held a fundraiser dog wash Saturday.

The next dog wash fundraiser is July 12, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., at Darlington Piggly Wiggly on Pearl Street. The tent is set up on the side of the building facing Edwards Avenue. Donate $10 and your dog gets a wash and organic flea dip, which smells wonderful and is available at the feed store in Hartsville on Railroad Avenue.

If you want to volunteer, go to their next meeting 2 p.m. June 22 at Swift Creek Fire Department. If you don't have time to spare, donations are always accepted. If you have pets, please spay or neuter them.

For more information about the Darlington County Humane Society, click here.

One more reason to eat local

This article is an excerpt from a book I would like to read.

Shopping for apples. At supermarkets in North America and Europe, the choice is restricted to half a dozen varieties: Fuji, Braeburn, Granny Smith, Golden Delicious and perhaps a couple of others. Why these? Because they're pretty: we like the polished and unblemished skin. Because their taste is one that's largely unobjectionable to the majority. But also because they can stand transportation over long distances. Their skin won't tear or blemish if they're knocked about in the miles from orchard to aisle. They take well to the waxing technologies and compounds that make this transportation possible and keep the apples pretty on the shelves. They are easy to harvest. They respond well to pesticides and industrial production. These are reasons why we won't find Calville Blanc, Black Oxford, Zabergau Reinette, Kandil Sinap or the ancient and venerable Rambo on the shelves.

Our choices are not entirely our own because, even in a supermarket, the menu is crafted not by our choices, nor by the seasons, nor where we find ourselves, nor by the full range of apples available, nor by the full spectrum of available nutrition and tastes, but by the power of food corporations.

Makes me want to hit the Pee Dee Farmers Market for some local food selections. The food will be fresh, fragrant and tasty, plus the money will stay in our economy to help our community.

How about you?

Drilling for misinformation

Rumors abound. Everyone is talking about oil. Gas prices. Drilling in Alaska.
Oil companies, foreign governments, regular citizens all put forth their ideas here on the Web. What's true and what's not is hard to distinguish.

On the (Internet) radio, I heard that Alaskan oil was being exported to Japan rather than being refined and used here to keep us "energy independent." A Google search revealed a range of answers to my skeptical mind. Some sites dismissed the entire idea that the oil was sent abroad while others noted that Pres. Clinton, after much prodding from oil companies, allowed oil exports to Asia.

We've all seen the ads that try to sell us the idea that oil companies are friendly, clean, happy people that just want to make our world a shiny, happy place. ... Based on my last trip to the filling station, that can't be entirely true. (A further explanation of a specific example can be found here too.)

How much can we believe our myriad sources of information when many are owned by a handful of corporate conglomerates?

This site Save The Internet says that

The nation's largest telephone and cable companies -- including AT&T, Verizon, Comcast and Time Warner -- want to be Internet gatekeepers, deciding which Web sites go fast or slow and which won't load at all.

Are we going to let this happen? Find your senators here and your representatives here.

The Supreme Court declared in 1945 that "the widest possible dissemination of information from diverse and antagonistic sources is essential to the welfare of the public, that a free press is a condition of a free society."

I agree.
I don't want big corporations censoring America. I want to hear every one's opinion. I want to be able to examine all these opinions, facts and sides of every issue and decide for myself. I want to critically think about issues because nearly all are not as black and white as they appear in 15-min. rotations on CNN, MSNBC or FoxNews.

What about you?
Post your ideas in the comments section.

From SC Fishing Report

Great Pee Dee
Fish the main river for catfish and target bass and panfish in the surrounding oxbow lakes.
Catfish: Good to very good. Catches of catfish are picking up in the main river using eels, large minnows, and goldfish. Fish on the bottom in holes and around channel breaks.
Crappie: Fair. Anglers fishing ox bow lakes off the main channel are starting to report improved catches. Use minnows.

Lynches River
Bream: Good. Anglers are doing well fishing worms, wax worms, and crickets on the bottom.