The site for ranting and reporting by John Masters
If you are tracking Ivan, you will see that he stayed on a more westerly track over the course of the weekend. He is still a very powerful storm, and will most certainly graze Cuba, and most likely will hit the U.S. sometime Thursday along the Alabama, Florida panhandle coast if the NOAA track verifies.
Read moreHere are a couple of pictures of probably the worse damage I’ve seen in our neighborhood. This is just about two blocks from the house. That was a motor home, and a lot of the branches have already been trimmed back.
Read moreThough the Bush Administration has spent billions to deal with an imaginary threat in Iraq, it has not sufficiently funded, nor has it put forth realistic strategies to deal with, threats to America’s ports, railways, chemical plants and other infrastructure. It has also failed to secure America’s borders or establish effective terrorist watch lists.
Read moreAs you may have noted, I have not posted on the blog in a while. This is because I was cleaning up from Frances and preparing for Ivan, and dealing with some (probably) unrelated problems around the house over the previous week.
Read moreLess than two months after it was signed, the Bush administration officially changed its estimate to confirm closely with Foster’s own prediction, admitting the new law “would cost at least $530 billion over 10 years, or one-third more than the price tag used when Congress passed the legislation.”
Read moreJournalist Josh Marshall points out how quick the Bush administration was in trying to squelch media coverage of the fact that 1,000 Americans have now been killed in Iraq. At 4:27 eastern time, AP put a story on its wire with the headline, “U.S. death toll in Iraq passes 1,000 mark.” Just 13 minutes later, a new AP headline read “Ridge: Terrorists hope to disrupt election” after a press conference by the Homeland Security secretary.
Read moreOne day before CBS’s much-anticipated segment on President Bush’s record in the National Guard, the Boston Globe published a major
Read moreAccording to George Bush, depending on the day, either two-thirds or three-fourths of them have been captured. Well, two-thirds or three-fourths of how many?
Read moreThe hurricanes seem to keep coming, friends needed a place to stay, and my vacation has now been officially ruined in its entirety thanks to Ivan.
Read moreThus far, we have survived. We have lots of sticks down, and only a couple of decent sized limbs in
Read moreThe winds are definitely kicking up and become more sustained. So far, the rain has not been that bad. We’ve had showers throughout the morning. There are have been some heavy showers, but those have not lasted more than a few minutes.
Read more