I don’t read the Power Line blog that often, because I don’t often read right wing blogs, but when I saw that the Daou Report had linked to their post about Ray Nagin’s election win in New Orleans, I went over to read the whole thing.
The short version is this: Dumb niggers elected the wrong […]
Is anybody gonna tell Faith Hill and Tim McGraw to shut up and sing?
No, Bill and Al aren’t paring up for another run. But Hillary and Al both took some serious swipes at the Bush administration and the Republican congress yesterday.
Hillary Clinton gave an MLK Day speech in Harlem, that probably got more than a few “amens” with this zinger.
Speaking during a Martin Luther King Jr. Day […]
I meant to post about this yesterday, but didn’t have time. I noticed Sen. Barak Obama “broke it down” concerning conservative socio-economic designs.
“It’s called the ‘Ownership society’ in Washington. This isn’t the first time this philosophy has appeared. It used to be called Social Darwinism,” Obama said late Saturday at the Democrats meeting at […]
Further proof of the Mediocre Fratboy Theory. Former FEMA head Michael Brown continues to fail upwards, and his golden parachute lands him in Colorado heading up a disaster planning firm, of all things.
Former FEMA Director Michael Brown, heavily criticized for his agency’s slow response to Hurricane Katrina, is starting a disaster preparedness consulting firm […]
If you aren’t yet you will be when you find out who’s in charge of public health emergencies in the Bush administration.
With all the news and fears about avian flu coming our way, here’s a bit of information that may help you sleep better.
Or not.
Stewart Simonson is on the job. That’s Simonson, as in ex-Gov. […]
Here we go again. As if the subjects of race and brutality haven’t been played out enough in the wake of hurricane Katrina, we now have video of a news story we’ll probably hear more about in the coming week. Todd points to a video of New Orleans policemen beating a 64 year old […]
Now we begin to feel it. Remember that bankruptcy bill that Congress passed and Bush signed earlier this year? You know the one. The Republicans’ gift to to the banks and credit card companies? Well, it takes effect this month and Americans are trying to beat the rush to declare bankruptcy.
Last fall, the Debt Relief […]
Presstitutes, a new blog on the block, has a post up summarizing the right’s new framing for the Katrina aftermath. It goes something like this: “It was all made up.” This is because of some recent articles stating that the reports of the conditions in the Superdome were somewhat exaggerated.
This is apparently part of the […]
Well, there shouldn’t have to be a law. But apparently, it takes and Act of Congress, to get the president to appoint qualified individuals to government posts.
Today, Congressman Henry A. Waxman and House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi introduced the Anti-Cronyism and Public Safety Act, which would prohibit the President from appointing unqualified individuals to critical […]
File this one under “You’ve Got to be Kidding Me.” Remember Mike Brown? The former horse association attorney and Bush crony who was in charge of FEMA and presided over the disaster that was the response failure after the hurricane? Yeah. That Mike Brown
He’s got a new job.
CBS News’ Bob Schieffer just announced that the […]
This came across my desk last night. It seems FEMA is at least an equal opportunity fuck-up. After picking up your family and evacuating, to get out of the path of hurricane Katrina, only to be told when you reach out for help that you’re not a family after all? Well, if you’re a same-sex […]
One more thing, and then I’ll get off the topic of whether Bush is drinking or not. If he doesn’t want people to think he’s hitting the bottle again, then he shouldn’t go around saying stuff like this.
Bush said: “You know, something we — I’ve been thinking a lot about how America has responded, and […]
This CNN article about the body hunt in New Orleans has been open on my desktop all morning. I read it immediately, but it took all morning for me to write something about it.
Dr. Louis Cataldie, medical incident commander for Louisiana, said the elderly appear to make up the bulk of the dead but that […]
A co-worker of mine sent me this image last night. It the potential course of hurricane Rita. Taking it in kind of took my break away with the the thought of possible devastation in human, material and economic terms. If the post-Katrina scenario, and ongoing confusion (Katrina evacuees must now be evacuated from Rita’s path), […]