Ilona posted a diary at Kos about Zack's deployment this afternoon:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/5/13/151920/601

Since Zack has been one of our guest bloggers, it would be nice to have lots of CCNer's wishing him well over there.

In light of the recent post about Wes Clark as The Anti-Poverty Candidate, I was struck by an announcement of a conference planned by Sojourners with this declared goal:

We hope to do nothing less than put poverty on the national agenda, and challenge candidates from both parties to present the nation with their plans for dramatic poverty reduction both at home and globally.

Once upon a time. . . in the days before Clark04, I got a little color inkjet printer to use with my computer at home.

The little printer was proud and shiny and made lovely colored printouts. It could even make copies! How pleased I was to have this handy little device. It was not a very speedy machine, but for the few things I needed to print and copy, it was just perfect. And it didn’t take up too much space on my desk.

This e-mail was sent to the Troops & Vets Series team by Jessica, one of our team members, who wrote Finding Mikey. She asked us to post it at CCN on her behalf.

I found this article today about the Polytrauma Rehab Center for injured troops in Tampa, Florida. Among the patients featured is Jose Pequeno, who graced our Troops & Vets series in Bring Jose Home. I’ve been trying to follow his progress and thought some of you might want to have an update as well.

The Long Journey Home
By JEAN HELLER
St. Petersburg Times
February 24, 2007

Short, sweet and to the point, this Huffington Post blog, by James Boyce. concludes:

One man talks the talk.

Another man walks the walk.

Your call America.

Ms. Sekula-Gibbs Goes to Washington
or, as captured by Wonkette: Corrupt Texas Rep. Temporarily Replaced by Crazy Texas Rep

I started following this story at Texas DU and it kept getting better and better. . . laugh out loud kind of stuff :-))

Shelley Sekula-Gibbs was the write-in Republican candidate defeated by Nick Lampson for Tom DeLay's old seat in Congress. However, there was a simultaneous election to fill the last few weeks of DeLay's term. Lampson didn't run in that special election, which was called as a last resort kind of tactic by Rep. Gov. Rick Perry, who refused to hold a special election earlier in the term when it would have made some sense. So Sekula-Gibbs won the office for the remainder of the current session - at a considerable cost to taxpayers.

This documentary from filmmaker Richard Hankin follows an Army Ranger and veteran of the war in Iraq, Sergeant Jeremy Feldbusch, who returns to his Pennsylvania home blinded and brain-damaged from combat injuries and struggles painfully to readjust to his highly altered civilian life. "Expertly made" ("Variety"). Showtime website

The pictures on the movie’s website provide a glimpse into the story: www.homefrontthemovie.com

Update to earlier post: http://securingamerica.com/ccn/node/9557

Garcia wins District 32 seat

"Juan Garcia has won the District 32 Texas House of Representatives race, upsetting Republican incumbent Gene Seaman.

"With 328 ballots still out, Garcia is up by 602 total votes, according the San Patricio County election officials.