Give me a caring idiot!
From our favourite president -- I mean Jefferson Parish president Aaron Broussard -- speaking to the Today Show: "So I'm asking Congress, please investigate this now. Take whatever idiot they have at...
View ArticlePhotos from New Orleans Garden District taken today
Ouch, I know -- this is #2 - but I just found these and thought your readers who have been evacuated might appreciate them. If they have already been posted here, then please just delete this...
View ArticleForget the water for now; what about the people?
This BBC reporthttp://news.bbc.co.uk/nolavconsole/ifs_news/hi/nb_rm_fs.stm?checkedBandwidth=nb&nbram=1&chec kedMedia=ram&news=1&bbwm=1&nbwm=1&bbram=1&nol_storyid=4217710...
View ArticleThe tourists are talking
And it ain't pretty:Holiday in hell: Saskatchewan pair recount ordeal in New OrleansWhile New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin appealed to the masses to get out of the city, Mitzel and Johnson tried everything...
View ArticleLetter says no looting in French Quarter
New Orleans blogger Gulfsails posts this letter. He titles this post "Looting in the French Quarter" but actually the letter says there was NO looting in the French Quarter. He writes: The letter...
View ArticleThe Pet Rescue people need HELP in New Orleans
The New Orleans blogger GulfSails is involved in pet rescue there now and it is a huge, heartbreaking task. I follow his blog and post his stuff on Daily Kos. Here is his latest plea to all animal...
View ArticleUpdate on New Orleans neighbourhoods
GulfSails keeps on with his fine reporting from the heart of New Orleans. Today, his animal rescue group saved five cats and four dogs -- no more news yet because his system crashed and he lost a...
View ArticleReality bites
Remember this?The aide said that guys like me were ''in what we call the reality-based community,'' which he defined as people who ''believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of...
View ArticleThe racist mindset
Looking back over the last several weeks, the enduring story of the hurricanes has emerged: racism. The evacuation and dislocation of hundreds of thousands of black people has revealed a vicious and...
View ArticleIraq is the fruit of the poisonous tree
There is a legal principle called "fruit of the poisonous tree" by which evidence is inadmissable if it was generated from an unconstitutional or illegal act. In discussions about the Iraq War, I...
View ArticleBlame the Republicans for this war, not the Democrats
Amid all the criticism of the Democrats for their role in voting to permit Bush to go to war in Iraq, it seems to me that the Republicans in congress are getting off the hook. If ANYONE had even a...
View ArticleTorture- don't ya just LOVE it?
Yesterday's Hardball showed an odd Chris Matthews performance -- it was about torture, and Matthews came across as lovin' it. The whole interview gave me a creepy-crawly sensation while he was talking...
View ArticleMakin' a list, Checkin' it twice, Gonna find out who's naughty or nice
I posted this on my own blog last night, but a comment in TPM just inspired me to post it here. Josh Marshall asks this morning: Here's one thing I'm a bit unclear on in this NSA domestic spying story....
View ArticleIf a soldier dies in the forest . . .
Hmmm.. . . If a soldier dies in the forest, does his death make any sound if nobody knows about it? Adding up the deaths reported in Today in Iraq it appears that at least 18 US soldiers have been...
View ArticleTruthiness -- the Word of the Year
truthiness: the quality of stating concepts or facts one wishes or believes to be true, rather than concepts or facts known to be true. Did you know that the American Dialect Society has selected...
View ArticleI am liberal, hear me roar
After the disappointment of seeing the Alito cloture vote approved, I was thinking how downhearted the progressive blogosphere would be tonight. But its not, not at all. People are reciting...
View ArticleWhat are the true patriots in NSA doing?
The Washington Post reports on the domestic spying program and toward the end of the article I found some interesting stuff. First, the National Security Agency machines are not selective:. . . the...
View ArticleDeja vu all over again
I didn't watch the show but when I read Adrianna Huffington's account of today's Meet the Presswith Democrats Tom Daschle and Jane Harman, and Republicans Pat Roberts and Peter Hoekstra I had a strange...
View ArticleHearts and Minds
Bush and company keep trying to compare Iraq to World War II. And indeed they may have a point -- if you think of the Americans army as playing the German role this time. A few months ago, when we...
View Article"Anti-gay adoption" will get the wingnut vote out
Well, here it is -- USA Today is reporting that banning gay adoption will be voted on in 16 states in November, 2006. I've been watching for this -- I knew there would be SOMETHING that would be used...
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