Thursday News Roundup

Tara posted the Thursday News Roundup at Blog for America at 5:17 p.m., and it includes these headlines:
DeLay PAC Indicted
Dean on Katrina Aftermath
25,000 Body Bags Arrive

Click here to read.

Demetrius is still working on the roof, so I went to the Bring Them Home Now Tour potluck with our daughter but didn't stay for the speakers. One of the people at our table was a man named Vince who was with the tour. Cindy was not there tonight--there are three different tour routes and she is trying to make some of the stops with each of them. Vince, who I think said was with Veterans for Peace had been down at Camp Casey, originally planning to stay there for a week, but he and others kept extending their time. Then when this tour started, he decided to join it. He said, "I can't think of anything more important I could be doing right now." He's from West Virginia, and was inspired to go to Camp Casey when he saw the way Cindy was being attacked, and he felt it was important to go and support her.

I brought a handful of cards with me, with my name, email address, the addresses of my blogs, and passed them out so that if anyone who did stay for the speakers wants to write up a report, they can send it to me and I can post it.

After we ate, I took my daughter to find a restroom, and while we were out of the room, the people sitting at our table spread the word that it was her birthday. So she was surprised to have the whole room sing "Happy Birthday" to her when we came back.

I came home to find a link to this Flash animation in my mail, courtesy of someone from our local interfaith peace group:
Four candles