Bill Bennett Explains His Assholian Behaviour to the Brute Hannity

FOXNews.com - Hannity & Colmes - Interview - Bill Bennett Explains His Controversial Remarks: "Yeah. Yeah. Well, let's see, you got Kennedy. I will � I'll not take instruction from Teddy Kennedy. A young woman likely drowned because of his negligence. I'll take no moral instruction with him. That's much worse than legal gambling what Teddy Kennedy did. He should make no judgments at all about people. He shouldn't be in the Senate."

He's a rather evil fuck; always has been.

HUD chief foresees a 'whiter' Big Easy - The Washington Times, America's Favorite Messiah's Newspaper

HUD chief foresees a 'whiter' Big Easy�-�Nation/Politics�-�The Washington Times, America's Newspaper: "Alphonso R. Jackson, secretary of housing and urban development, during a visit with hurricane victims in Houston, said New Orleans would not reach its pre-Katrina population of '500,000 people for a long time,' and 'it's not going to be as black as it was for a long time, if ever again.' "

CNN.com - Bennett under fire for remarks on blacks, crime - Sep 30, 2005

CNN.com - Bennett under fire for remarks on blacks, crime - Sep 30, 2005: "'If you wanted to reduce crime, you could -- if that were your sole purpose -- you could abort every black baby in this country and your crime rate would go down.
'That would be an impossibly ridiculous and morally reprehensible thing to do, but your crime rate would go down,' he said."

Turks Challenge Hughes On Iraq

Turks Challenge Hughes On Iraq: "'This war is really, really bringing your positive efforts to the level of zero,' said Hidayet Sefkatli Tuksal, an activist with the Capital City Women's Forum. She said it was difficult to talk about cooperation between women in the United States and Turkey as long as Iraq was under occupation."

'It's Happening to Us,' He Says With Disbelief - Yahoo! News

'It's Happening to Us,' He Says With Disbelief - Yahoo! News: "Port Arthur Police Officer Robert Bridges worked through the night Thursday to get people out. At dawn Friday, on a whim, he decided to drop in on an old family friend, Wilbert Green, 76, to make sure that he was gone. He found Green on his knees in a small clapboard house.
'He was praying � praying that someone would come get him,' Bridges said. 'He doesn't have a phone and he couldn't find anybody. He said, 'I've been asking for you.' I said, 'Well, let's do it.' "

Amazon.com: DVD: Bob Dylan - No Direction Home (2005)

Amazon.com: DVD: Bob Dylan - No Direction Home (2005): "'Yes, I wish that for just one time you could stand inside my shoes. You'd know what a drag it is to see you'. (Positively 4th Street). "

Not for the faint of heart.

:: rogerebert.com :: No Direction Home: Bob Dylan

:: rogerebert.com :: No Direction Home: Bob Dylan: "Dylan stood atop a column of air. His songs and his ideas rose up from within him and emerged uncluttered and pure, as if his mind, soul, body and talent were all one."

FAMILY DEMANDS THE TRUTH / New inquiry may expose events that led to Pat Tillman�s death

FAMILY DEMANDS THE TRUTH / New inquiry may expose events that led to Pat Tillman�s death: "�I can see it like a movie screen,� Baer said. �We were outside of (a city in southern Iraq) watching as bombs were dropping on the town. We were at an old air base, me, Kevin and Pat, we weren�t in the fight right then. We were talking. And Pat said, �You know, this war is so f� illegal.� And we all said, �Yeah.� That�s who he was. He totally was against Bush.� "

But bottle-blonde brainer Ann Coulter got all wet about Pat, mistakenly thinking that he was like her dad - an idiot with a stiffy from which flies the flag she can't get enough of...

"Tillman was an American original: virtuous, pure and masculine like only an American male can be. The stunningly handsome athlete walked away from a three-year, $3.6 million NFL contract with the Arizona Cardinals to join the U.S. military and fight in Afghanistan, where he was killed in April.

He wanted no publicity and granted no interviews about his decision to leave pro football in the prime of his career and join the Army Rangers. (Most perplexing to Democrats, he didn't even take a home movie camera to a war zone in order to create fake footage for future political campaigns in which he would constantly palaver about his military service and drag around his "Band of Brothers" for the media.)

Tillman gave only an indirect explanation for his decision on the day after 9-11, when he said: "My great grandfather was at Pearl Harbor, and a lot of my family has gone and fought in wars, and I really haven't done a damn thing as far as laying myself on the line like that." He said he wanted to "pay something back" to America.

He died bringing freedom and democracy to 28 million Afghans – pretty much confirming Michael Moore's view of America as an imperialist cowboy predator. There is not another country in the world – certainly not in continental Europe – that could have produced a Pat Tillman."

National Enquirer

National Enquirer: "'I do think that Bush is drinking again. Alcoholics who are not in any program, like the President, have a hard time when stress gets to be great.

'I think it's a concern that Bush disappears during times of stress. He spends so much time on his ranch. It's very frightening.'"

National Enquirer

National Enquirer: "Family sources have told how the 59-year-old president was caught by First Lady Laura downing a shot of booze at their family ranch in Crawford, Texas, when he learned of the hurricane disaster.

His worried wife yelled at him: 'Stop, George.'"

Kerry blasts Bush on federal response to Hurricane Katrina

Kerry blasts Bush on federal response to Hurricane Katrina: "�This is the Katrina administration,� read prepared remarks posted on 2004 Democratic presidential nominee�s website, www.johnkerry.com. �Katrina is a symbol of all this administration does and doesn't do,� read Kerry�s script, portions of which were included in an e-mail to supporters that ended with a fundraising appeal.
�Michael Brown [Bush�s former emergency-management director] � is to Katrina what [former Iraq administrator] Paul Bremer is to peace in Iraq; what [former CIA Director] George Tenet is to slam-dunk intelligence; what [former Deputy Defense Secretary] Paul Wolfowitz is to parades paved with flowers in Baghdad; what [Vice President] Dick Cheney is to visionary energy policy; what [Defense Secretary] Donald Rumsfeld is to basic war planning; what [House Majority Leader] Tom Delay [R-Texas] is to ethics; and what George Bush is to �Mission Accomplished� and �Wanted Dead or Alive.��"

CNN.com - Have you heard the one about Katrina? - Sep 16, 2005

CNN.com - Have you heard the one about Katrina? - Sep 16, 2005: "Ten years ago, Hughley said, he participated in a Harvard University seminar on comedy with Robert Klein and Joan Rivers. The question was posed: was there any subject they considered out of bounds for comedy?
Yes, Klein replied. There had just been a flood in India that had killed thousands of people. He saw nothing funny about that.
Rivers piped up: 'I just want to know. Who got all the jewelry?'
Hughley filed that away as a lesson.
'The event itself, of course it's not funny,' he said. 'It's the ironic things around it that everyone can relate to.'"

CNN.com - Have you heard the one about Katrina? - Sep 16, 2005

CNN.com - Have you heard the one about Katrina? - Sep 16, 2005: "The joke rattled through e-mails across the country even as lives hung in the balance after Hurricane Katrina: What's President Bush's position on Roe vs. Wade?
Answer: He doesn't care how people get out of New Orleans."

Disney on Parade - New York Times

Disney on Parade - New York Times: "On Thursday night, Mr. Bush wanted to appear casually in charge as he waged his own Battle of New Orleans in Jackson Square. Instead, he looked as if he'd been dropped off by his folks in front of a eerie, blue-hued castle at Disney World. "

The Bush league Government is NOT Ready for the Avian Flu Epidemic

ABC News: Avian Flu: Is the Government Ready for an Epidemic?: "'The lack of advanced planning up until the moment in the United States, in the sense of not having a huge stockpile I think your citizens deserve, has surprised me and has dismayed me,' he admits.
Faced with worldwide demand, the Roche company, which produces Tamiflu, has organized a first-come, first-served waiting list. The United States is nowhere near the top. "

Overturning the Gospels

Overturning the Gospels - Newsweek Society - MSNBC.com: "The genius of the whole Republican program, in fact, is that it not only offers tax cuts and morality, but tax cuts as morality. "

This is a terrific article. The points made are like water in a desert

Overturning the Gospels - Newsweek Society - MSNBC.com

Overturning the Gospels - Newsweek Society - MSNBC.com: "Katrina has reminded us that Christian morality should be about responding to the wretched and loving the unlovable�not about other people�s sex lives."

Foie gras - "If the USDA thought there was cruelty they would step in."

Foie gras ban gets vivid hearing: "'This has been around forever. Why is it all of the sudden an issue? The USDA controls how livestock, poultry and duck farms are run. If the USDA thought there was cruelty [they would step in]. The point is, this is not a local issue.'"

If ?? there was cruelty? ... come on. It is the grossest torture one could imagine. Have someone describe it to you and you will be sobered and disgusted.

Bush needs to take a dump

U.S. President George W. Bush writes a note to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice during a Security Council meeting at the 2005 World Summit and 60th General Assembly of the United Nations in New York September 14, 2005.

In case you haven't read it yet, it says "I think I may need a bathroom break. Is this possible?"

The parish that feds overlooked / Canadian Mounties reached St. Bernard before troops did

The parish that feds overlooked / Canadian Mounties reached St. Bernard before troops did: "Two days after Katrina hit, a team of Canadian Mounties from Vancouver showed up to help,..."

err, uh, ok, it turns out it wasn't actually the Mounties, but rather a rescue team from Vancouver - not as vivid an image as Mounties rounding the bend, but still, Canadians beating Bush to the scene must really twist his pretzel, eh?

"...and a sprinkling of officials from neighboring parishes paid visits, but it would be days before there was any sign of assistance from the United States government. "

ABC News: Mass. GOP Official Resigns After Charges

ABC News: Mass. GOP Official Resigns After Charges: "Novak, 54, was taken into custody after allegedly depositing money in a Brockton bank, federal authorities said.
'I think that it's an unfortunate incident. It's something that's happened in his private life, and the party has responded appropriately,' O'Brien said Wednesday.
The party's chairman, Darrell Crate, said in a statement the charges are strictly related to Novak's private business dealings and 'have absolutely no connection to the Republican Party.' "

New York Daily News - Special - He comes back to save cat

New York Daily News - Special - He comes back to save cat: "And then, from nowhere, a hysterical ball of brown fur came flying out of a dark corner and Lambert grabbed it up, weeping joyously.
'Mamou! Little Mamou!' he crooned. 'This is the one I felt the most guilty about leaving. She always senses when I'm going away and gives me the pitiful 'Please don't leave' look.'"

When he's denied communion for allowing abortion rights to continue, what then?

BREITBART.COM - Just The News: "Roberts said he felt the landmark 1973 ruling legalizing abortion was 'settled as a precedent' and that the Constitution provides a right to privacy.
But when senators pressed for details on his opinions _ even to the point of interrupting his answers _ Roberts said repeatedly that he shouldn't address some issues that could come before the Supreme Court with him as chief justice.
At one point, Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., who has indicated he may run for president in 2008, accused Roberts of 'filibustering.'
'Go ahead and continue not to answer,' said Biden. Later, he interrupted Roberts and when criticized, insisted, 'His answers are misleading, with all due respect.'
'Wait a minute! Wait a minute! They may be misleading but they are his answers,' said Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., the Judiciary Committee chairman."

Take a right, lose a ball

Roberts is too much of an unknown

BREITBART.COM - Just The News: "The heart of the abortion ruling is 'settled as a precedent of the court, entitled to respect under principles of stare decisis,' the concept that long-established rulings should be given extra weight, Roberts told the Senate Judiciary Committee on the second day of his confirmation hearings.
Still, review and revisions have been the hallmark of the high court on issues from integration to gay rights, and Roberts indicated that groundbreaking cases can draw a second look.
'If particular precedents have proven to be unworkable, they don't lead to predictable results, they're difficult to apply, that's one factor supporting reconsideration,' Roberts said"

He'll crash the boat.

Campaign for the Supreme Court - The Politics and Strategy of the Appointment Battle

Campaign for the Supreme Court - The Politics and Strategy of the Appointment Battle: "My heart aches for less divisiveness,' he said, his voice quavering, 'less polarization, less finger-pointing, less bitterness, less partisanship.'
He said his concern was primarily about 'judicial activism' which has 'created these huge rifts in the social fabric of the country ... It's a tension pulling us apart' rather than bringing us together.
I believe it's time that it's stopped.'"

Such a pile of shit. "Judicial activism" means he doesn't like the decisions. He thinks that "it's time that it's stopped". He should make note of the fact that if my rights are curtailed in any way, then he will probably be consumed by a "steady tradewind of grapeshot".

"No shame" bleats rightie writer

Jack Kelly: No shame: "A better question -- which few journalists ask -- is why weren't the roughly 2,000 municipal and school buses in New Orleans utilized to take people out of the city before Katrina struck?"

Writer Jack Kelly tries to show that previous hurricanes got slower responses from federal disaster efforts than did Katrina. His proof is the recollection of a member of the Florida National Guard. Not even a nice try.

CBS News | Old Dog Saves Owner From Katrina | September 9, 2005�12:30:06

CBS News | Old Dog Saves Owner From Katrina | September 9, 2005�12:30:06: "'About four hours after I was treading water and all, I was about ready to let go, and I felt this real peaceful feeling, like, 'This is it.' Ya know? And I was about to let go and, all of a sudden, he was on that mattress and come running to the corner of the mattress, and he kissed me and kissed me and kissed me. And it kinda snapped me out of it, and I was able to come back.' "

Please read-PLEASE help!!! from Best Friends

Please read-PLEASE help!!! from Best Friends: "What on earth is going on? Why is no one out here to help them? We�re just on two boats. Heard about a veterinarian who�s on another boat. We need a whole freaking navy! "

Pet rescuers race against time !!! - Sep 9, 2005

CNN.com - Pet rescuers race against time - Sep 9, 2005: "On the flooded streets of New Orleans you can hear the dogs barking for miles. They are trapped -- in houses, on roofs, tied to porches. They are frightened and hungry.
For the pets left behind after Hurricane Katrina, relief is on the way, but it's a race against time.
'It's a dire situation,' said Melissa Seide Rubin of the Humane Society of the United States.
Rescue workers are worried most about pets locked inside homes and whose food and water supply may have run out. For them, rescue is their only chance of survival."

This is so horrific that I can barely cope.

"Football Season Is Over" - Hunter Thompson

BREITBART.COM - Just The News: Hunter's last note: "'No More Games. No More Bombs. No More Walking. No More Fun. No More Swimming. 67. That is 17 years past 50. 17 more than I needed or wanted. Boring. I am always bitchy. No Fun _ for anybody. 67. You are getting Greedy. Act your old age. Relax _ This won't hurt.' "

The Wesley Prudens - Southern Dung

Not much traction with the abuse - Nation/Politics - The Washington Times, America's Newspaper: "The race hustlers waited for three days to inflame a tense situation, but then set to work with their usual dedication. "

This bottom dweller grew up in the home of his father, Wesley Pruden, Senior, one of the stately scumbags of racist America. Believing anything Junior writes is akin to praying to the tattoo on John Wilkes Booth's hand.

According to the laws of common sense, anything one can do to hinder the career, diminish the honor, and disrespect the brood of Wesley Pruden should be done with great dispatch. If the good is to truly prevail, the bad must be utterly destroyed.

Hannity, Coulter falsely suggested Ariz. paper ... [Media Matters]

Hannity, Coulter falsely suggested Ariz. paper ... [Media Matters]: "On the August 30 broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio show, Fox News host Sean Hannity and right-wing pundit Ann Coulter suggested that anti-conservative bias was the impetus behind the Arizona Daily Star's August 28 decision to drop Coulter's syndicated column. According to Coulter, the Star, like MSNBC, has 'had excellent success in keeping conservatives out.' In fact, the Star made clear that Coulter was dropped because her 'shrill, bombastic and mean-spirited' commentary was unpalatable to even its self-identified conservative readers. And rather than 'keeping conservatives out,' the Star replaced Coulter's column with that of another conservative: Fox News host Tony Snow -- a fact Coulter and Hannity neglected to mention."

Wesley Pruden of The Washington Times, or as they put it: "America's Newspaper"

Not much traction with the abuse�-�Nation/Politics�-�The Washington Times, America's Newspaper: "The vultures of the venomous left are attacking on two fronts, first that the president didn't do what the incompetent mayor of New Orleans and the pouty governor of Louisiana should have done, and didn't, in the early hours after Katrina loosed the deluge on the city that care and good judgment forgot. "

...and here's a little background regarding Pruden and the family that spawned it...

Pruden's father, Wesley Pruden Sr., was the chaplain to the Capital Citizens Council in Little Rock, Arkansas, a segregationist group that battled integration throughout the 1950s and 1960s. When President Dwight Eisenhower sent Army troops to protect nine black teenagers attempting to integrate Little Rock Central High School in 1957, Pruden Sr. reportedly told an assembled mob, "That's what we gotta fight, niggers, Communists and cops."

ABC News: Water Receding, but New Orleans Anxious

ABC News: Water Receding, but New Orleans Anxious: "'I have been all over the world. I've been in a lot of Third World countries where people were better off than the people here are right now,' retired Air Force Capt. William Bissell said Monday. 'We've got 28 miles of coastline here that's absolutely destroyed, and the federal government, they're not here.' "

ABC News: Water Receding, but New Orleans Anxious

ABC News: Water Receding, but New Orleans Anxious: "'Bureaucracy has murdered people in the greater New Orleans area. And bureaucracy needs to stand trial before Congress today,' Aaron Broussard, president of Jefferson Parish, said on CBS' 'The Early Show.'
'So I'm asking Congress, please investigate this now. Take whatever idiot they have at the top of whatever agency and give me a better idiot. Give me a caring idiot. Give me a sensitive idiot. Just don't give me the same idiot.' "

New Orleans City Council President: "Maybe God's Going To Cleanse Us"

New Orleans City Council President: "Maybe God's Going To Cleanse Us": "Meanwhile, New Orleans City Council President Oliver Thomas after witnessing the horrors first hand and hearing talk of Sodom and Gomorrah commented, 'Maybe God's going to cleanse us.'"

Not much traction with the abuse�-�Nation/Politics�-�The Washington Times, America's Newspaper

Not much traction with the abuse�-�Nation/Politics�-�The Washington Times, America's Newspaper: "Sen. Mary Landrieu, who seems to think she's cute when she's mad, even threatened on national television to punch out the president -- a felony, by the way, even as a threat. "

Barbara Bush says it all

DRUDGE REPORT FLASH 2004�: "What I'm hearing, which is sort of scary, is that they all want to stay in Texas."

This is the best description of the shame of it all.

Mr. Broussard angrily denounced the country's leadership. "We have been abandoned by our own country," he said. "It's not just Katrina that caused all these deaths in New Orleans here. Bureaucracy has committed murder here in the greater New Orleans area, and bureaucracy has to stand trial before Congress now."

It is Bush's incompetence that authored this bummer.

My Way News

My Way News: "Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld toured a medical facility at New Orleans' international airport on Sunday. He spoke and shook hands with military and rescue officials but walked right by a dozen refugees lying on stretchers just feet away from him, most of them extremely sick or handicapped."

Booman Tribune ~ Boo!

Booman Tribune ~ Boo!: "The tear-filled eyes of Jefferson Parish President Aaron Broussard as he was interviewed by Tim Russert on today's Meet the Press:
'... The guy who runs this building I�m in, Emergency Management, he�s responsible for everything. His mother was trapped in St. Bernard nursing home and every day she called him and said, �Are you coming, son? Is somebody coming?� and he said, �Yeah, Mama, somebody�s coming to get you.� Somebody�s coming to get you on Tuesday. Somebody�s coming to get you on Wednesday. Somebody�s coming to get you on Thursday. Somebody�s coming to get you on Friday� and she drowned Friday night. She drowned Friday night! [Sobbing] Nobody�s coming to get us. Nobody�s coming to get us...'
MR. RUSSERT: Mr. President...
MR. BROUSSARD: Nobody's coming to get us. Nobody's coming to get us. The secretary has promised. Everybody's promised. They've had press conferences. I'm sick of the press conferences. For God sakes, shut up and send us somebody. "

My Way News

My Way News: "No one knows how many people were killed by Hurricane Katrina and how many more succumbed waiting to be rescued. But the bodies are everywhere: hidden in attics, floating in the ruined city, crumpled in wheelchairs, abandoned on highways."

Storm exposed disarray at the top

Storm exposed disarray at the top - washingtonpost.com Highlights - MSNBC.com: "Among the flaws they cited: Failure to take the storm seriously before it hit and trigger the government's highest level of response. Rebuffed offers of aid from the military, states and cities. An unfinished new plan meant to guide disaster response. And a slow bureaucracy that waited until late Tuesday to declare the catastrophe 'an incident of national significance,' the new federal term meant to set off the broadest possible relief effort."

Big Easy Food Looters

The Show Didn't Benefit by Censors - Los Angeles Times: "'I hate the way they portray us in the media,' West began his remarks during the hourlong program, on which he was one of several celebrities, including Hilary Swank and Leonardo DiCaprio, who spoke between musical numbers. 'If you see a black family, it says they're looting. See a white family, it says they're looking for food.'"

Do You Know What It Means to Lose New Orleans? - New York Times

Do You Know What It Means to Lose New Orleans? - New York Times: "But to my country I want to say this: During this crisis you failed us. You looked down on us; you dismissed our victims; you dismissed us. You want our Jazz Fest, you want our Mardi Gras, you want our cooking and our music. Then when you saw us in real trouble, when you saw a tiny minority preying on the weak among us, you called us 'Sin City,' and turned your backs. "

Putting Katrina on Roberts

Inside Opinions: Legal Blogs: "Katrina serves as a grim reminder of the importance of the federal government. Next week, as the senators grill Judge Roberts, I hope they'll remind him of that. The call of conservatives for handing over more power to the states is seductive. Who better to understand the needs of local communities than their local governments? However, sometimes (most times?) we need to be one nation and not 50 local communities. Disaster relief showcases this better than most. "

Pets are suffering terribly in this catastrophy

AccessNorthGa.com - North Georgia's Newsroom: "As Valerie Bennett was being evacuated from a New Orleans hospital last week, rescuers told her there was no room in the boat for her dogs.

She pleaded. "I offered him my wedding ring and my mom's wedding ring," the 34-year-old nurse recalled Saturday.

They wouldn't budge. She and her husband could bring only one item, and they already had a tupperwear tub containing the medicines her husband -- a liver transplant recipient -- needs to survive.

She left her dogs with an anesthesiologist who was taking care of about 30 staff members' pets on the roof of the hospital, Lindy Boggs Medical Center.
The doctor euthanized some animals at the request of their owners, who feared they would be abandoned and starve to death. He set up a small gas chamber out of a plastic-wrapped dog kennel.
'The bigger dogs were fighting it. Fighting the gas. It took them longer. When I saw that, I said 'I can't do it,'' Lorne Bennett said.
But the anesthesiologist, a cat owner, promised to care for the other pets."

This drives me nuts.

A Colossal Failure of Leadership - Eleanor Clift

A Colossal Failure of Leadership - Newsweek Hurricane Katrina Coverage - MSNBC.com: "This has been a colossal failure of government. President Bush spent Tuesday, the day after Katrina struck, at a Medicare event in Arizona and then he made his way to a San Diego naval base for yet another anniversary tribute to the Greatest Generation. His concession to reality was adding a few words of compassion to his prepared remarks."

A peek into the heart of Lucianne Golberg's world

(from a registered contributor to Lucianne.com)

Reply 25 - Posted by: Betty Jean, 9/2/2005 7:49:16 PM

I'm just really tired of seeing these fat black young women yelling at the camera that they haven't had any food or water in 5 days, among other things. Then where in Heaven's name has all that trash come from that is strewn around every where you see a group gathered together.

I'm really just tired of NO and their news and am going to tune it out starting right now. It's not my fault they've had too many babies, no husband and live off my taxpayer money. If you lay down with dogs, you get up with fleas.

My sympathy lies with all the other folks in other areas that have been hit just as hard."

This righty psychopuppy's prayers and dreams must be demonic stunners, wouldn't you think?

The nests of anger are linking up, as in a firestorm

from a Drudgereport headline...

"KANYE WEST ON NBC FUNDRAISER: 'GEORGE BUSH DOESN'T CARE ABOUT BLACK PEOPLE... They're saying black families are looting and white families are just looking for food...they're giving the (Army) permission to shoot us'..."

BREITBART.COM - Just The News

BREITBART.COM - Just The News: "At the back end of the line, people jammed against police barricades in the rain. Refugees passed out and had to be lifted hand-over-hand overhead to medics. Pets were not allowed on the bus, and when a police officer confiscated a little boy's dog, the child cried until he vomited. 'Snowball, snowball,' he cried. "

I know that people are the most important but jeeesh!, the plight of animals exists whether we like it or not. I hope that some fanatical animal rescue folk in the New Orleans area are able to keep track of Snowball's fate, along with all the other pets that are now stranded and facing a potentially tragic end.

Danie Yergin - jerk

This 'energy expert' is a kneejerk conservative ass. He said on CNBC that "...I hate to say it, but we have to consider conservation."

Plus other bullshit.

Planning, response to Katrina faulted - washingtonpost.com Highlights - MSNBC.com

Planning, response to Katrina faulted - washingtonpost.com Highlights - MSNBC.com: "'How many people are going to die, per hour, before you get 40,000 troops in there?' Madden asked yesterday. 'I think it has cost lives. . . . They can go into Iraq and do this and do that, but they can't drop some food on Canal Street in New Orleans, Louisiana, right now? It's just mind-boggling.'"

'It just seems like black people are marked' - washingtonpost.com Highlights - MSNBC.com

'It just seems like black people are marked' - washingtonpost.com Highlights - MSNBC.com: "'To me,' said Bernadette Washington, 'it just seems like black people are marked. We have so many troubles and problems.'
'After this,' her husband, Brian Thomas, said, 'I want to move my family to California.'"

FOXNews.com - Politics - Hastert: Rebuilding New Orleans Under Sea Level Makes No Sense

FOXNews.com - Politics - Hastert: Rebuilding New Orleans Under Sea Level Makes No Sense: "It makes no sense to spend billions of dollars to rebuild a city that's seven feet under sea level, House Speaker Dennis Hastert (search) said of federal assistance for hurricane-devastated New Orleans.
Democratic lawmakers from Louisiana were quick to disagree Thursday and Hastert sought to clarify the comment during the day.
'It looks like a lot of that place could be bulldozed,' the Illinois Republican said in an interview about New Orleans Wednesday with the Daily Herald of Arlington Heights, Ill."

Republican bedside manor wins hearts and minds everywhere.

USATODAY.com

USATODAY.com: "HHS Secretary Leavitt says the government is still trying to figure out the extent of the crisis and how best to respond. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has assembled two dozen 20-member teams ready to go into the gulf area and are �negotiating deployment of one or more of these teams,'' said CDC director Julie Gerberding in a briefing Thursday."

Gee, then next week they'll begin formulating an idea which will merge into a concept, then filter down through the various specialist groups which will then begin the task of creating a work schedule that allows for steady progress until the situation is stable enough to send in some extra water for those who might not have found adequate supplies. Residents will be advised to continue to support the war in Iraq.

...or...

"“We have advance teams checking the situation and trying to help with assessment of what is needed,'' she said.

In a matter of a few weeks they will be ready to mount a plan to rebuild Iraq... err rather New Orleans.

Kuwaiti: 'The terrorist Katrina' is a soldier of Allah'

Kuwaiti: 'The terrorist Katrina' is a soldier of Allah'

"I do not think — and only Allah [really] knows — that this wind, which completely wiped out American cities in these days, is a wind of mercy and blessing. It is almost certain that this is a wind of torment and evil that Allah has sent to this American empire."

Oh great, more religious leaders explaining their brainless theories.

Communications Networks Fail Disaster Area Residents

Communications Networks Fail Disaster Area Residents: "Reed E. Hundt, a former chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, said the scale of the damage would make it hard to repair, and he bemoaned the government's failure to develop an emergency wireless network for rescue workers.
'We always discover the same thing,' he said. 'We need a national emergency communications network and we don't have one.'"

USATODAY.com

USATODAY.com: "Humans and chimpanzees share an almost identical genetic inheritance, scientists report today in a landmark comparison that they call an �elegant confirmation� of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.
Although scientists have long believed that humans and chimps are related, this comprehensive analysis of their separate genomes offers the best proof of their shared genetic past."

Former Clinton Advisor: "No One Can Say they Didn't See it Coming" - International - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News

Former Clinton Advisor: "No One Can Say they Didn't See it Coming" - International - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News: "On the day the levees burst in New Orleans, Bush delivered a speech in Colorado comparing the Iraq war to World War II and himself to Franklin D. Roosevelt: 'And he knew that the best way to bring peace and stability to the region was by bringing freedom to Japan.' Bush had boarded his very own 'Streetcar Named Desire.' "

Former Clinton Advisor: "No One Can Say they Didn't See it Coming" - International - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News

Former Clinton Advisor: "No One Can Say they Didn't See it Coming" - International - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News: "The Bush administration's policy of turning over wetlands to developers almost certainly also contributed to the heightened level of the storm surge. In 1990, a federal task force began restoring lost wetlands surrounding New Orleans. Every two miles of wetland between the Crescent City and the Gulf reduces a surge by half a foot. Bush had promised 'no net loss' of wetlands, a policy launched by his father's administration and bolstered by President Clinton. But he reversed his approach in 2003, unleashing the developers. The Army Corps of Engineers and the Environmental Protection Agency then announced they could no longer protect wetlands unless they were somehow related to interstate commerce. "

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"In 2001, FEMA warned that a hurricane striking New Orleans was one of the three most likely disasters in the U.S. But the Bush administration cut New Orleans flood control funding by 44 percent to pay for the Iraq war."

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""My administration's climate change policy will be science based," President Bush declared in June 2001. But in 2002, when the Environmental Protection Agency submitted a study on global warming to the United Nations reflecting its expert research, Bush derided it as "a report put out by a bureaucracy," and excised the climate change assessment from the agency's annual report. The next year, when the EPA issued its first comprehensive "Report on the Environment," stating, "Climate change has global consequences for human health and the environment," the White House simply demanded removal of the line and all similar conclusions. At the G-8 meeting in Scotland this year, Bush successfully stymied any common action on global warming. Scientists, meanwhile, have continued to accumulate impressive data on the rising temperature of the oceans, which has produced more severe hurricanes. In February 2004, 60 of the nation's leading scientists, including 20 Nobel laureates, warned in a statement, "Restoring Scientific Integrity in Policymaking": "Successful application of science has played a large part in the policies that have made the United States of America the world's most powerful nation and its citizens increasingly prosperous and healthy ... Indeed, this principle has long been adhered to by presidents and administrations of both parties in forming and implementing policies. The administration of George W. Bush has, however, disregarded this principle ... The distortion of scientific knowledge for partisan political ends must cease." Bush completely ignored this statement. "

How incensed do we feel now?

The Storm After the Storm - New York Times

The Storm After the Storm - New York Times: In the late nineteeth century in Pennsylvania... "Prejudices were let loose. Hungarians then were akin to today's illegal Mexican immigrants - hard-working people who took jobs no one else wanted. Newspapers carried accounts of gangs of Hungarian men cutting off dead women's fingers to steal their rings. 'Drunken Hungarians, Dancing, Singing, Cursing and Fighting Amid the Ruins' a New York Herald headline blared."

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"Then in 1927, the great Mississippi flood rumbled down upon New Orleans. As Barry writes in his account, "Rising Tide," the disaster ripped the veil off the genteel, feudal relations between whites and blacks, and revealed the festering iniquities. Blacks were rounded up into work camps and held by armed guards. They were prevented from leaving as the waters rose. A steamer, the Capitol, played "Bye Bye Blackbird" as it sailed away. The racist violence that followed the floods helped persuade many blacks to move north.
Civic leaders intentionally flooded poor and middle-class areas to ease the water's pressure on the city, and then reneged on promises to compensate those whose homes were destroyed. That helped fuel the populist anger that led to Huey Long's success. Across the country people demanded that the federal government get involved in disaster relief, helping to set the stage for the New Deal."