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Time finds what it really, really charitably calls ‘discrepancies’ in FEMA Chief Michael Brown’s resume. Like when he served as “assistant city manager with emergency services oversight” in Edmond, Okla.? Okay, he was an intern (title=administrative assistant) there while he was in college.
Read moreHouse Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-TX) said yesterday that conservative leaders plan to use the post-Katrina gas price woes to push through “a sweeping new energy bill.” But yesterday, a watchdog group released internal oil company memos showing “how the industry intentionally reduced domestic refining capacity to drive up profits,” in spite of the fact that “the oil industry blames environmental regulation for limiting [the] number of U.S. refineries.”
Read moreIn light of all the attention being given to the Supreme Court lately, I thought I’d provide a little SCOUSA trivia. Here’s information on the first case ever handled by the Supreme Court.
Read moreA trio of Duke University sophomores say they drove to New Orleans late last week, posed as journalists to slip inside the hurricane-soaked city twice, and evacuated seven people who weren’t receiving help from authorities.
Read moreIn my previous post on the lack of relief efforts by the federal government, I made it clear I don’t believe race had anything to do with the abysmal response to the tragedy. Thanks to Condi Rice for confirming that for me.
Read moreHere is a report of your Federal Government’s response to Hurricane Katina and the flooding of New Orleans on Wednesday — two days into the crisis. No one in charge. How scary is that? The biggest disaster on our shores in a century, and our government’s leaders were AWOL. Our President’s deer-in-the-headlights reaction to the 9/11 attacks was no fluke. For all his tough talk, the man simply does not know what to do when things go really, really wrong.
Read moreI’m too busy to be blogging, but I had to post this article excerpt. It seems our outstanding Homeland Security Dept. is being sure we stay safe by keeping out Canadian Disaster Aid.
Read moreWell, a couple of days after the hurricane hits New Orleans and does Billions of dollars in damage, W finally decides he can give up two of his vacation days to get back to Washington and help monitor the relief and recovery efforts.
Read moreCindy Sheehan was on Bill Maher’s show last night. When Maher asked her jokingly that if she didn’t get satisfaction from George Bush, would she go over his head to Cheney or Rumsfeld, she replied:
Read moreIn a great piece in the Washington Post, Gary Hart chastises the current crop of Democrats for not standing up, admitting they were wrong to vote for the war in Iraq, and not going to the American people with the truth.
Read moreEditor and Publisher has the story, but in their usual attempt to distract and control the message, W now says that you have a right to your opinion, but if your opinion doesn’t match his, you don’t love America.
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