All hail Kayne West for having the courage to tell the truth. During NBC's apolotical concert to raise money to help the victims of Katrina, West went off the script, leaving scene partner Mike Myers...
ACORN is one of the businesses whose offices were destroyed by Katrina was. ACORN is a national organization that fights to dfend the rights of low and moderate income families -- in other words, all...
Josh Marshall wondered on TPM where Dick Cheney is. Probably in an undisclosed location counting the profits he's making on his Halliburton stock options. Because the oil industry is making money off...
Listen here to Ray Nagin, Mayor of New Orleans who has the guts to say "I need troops, man. I need 500 buses. You gotta be kidding me, this is a national disaster."
Bush at the conference today: The good news is -- and it's hard for some to see it now -- that out of this chaos is going to come a fantastic Gulf Coast, like it was before. Out of the rubbles of...
"It's all my fault, boys. It's all my fault." Robert E. Lee to his troops, after the disastrous Pickett's Charge on the final day of Gettysburg. And we're stuck with "I don't think anyone anticipated...
From Louisiana Senator Dave Vitter comes an estimate on the death toll: "My guess is that it will start at 10,000, but that is only a guess," Vitter said, adding that he was not basing his remarks on...
From today's photo-op a long way away from anyone suffering. HE IS A FUCKING DISGRACE.
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Major Owens over at HuffPost has a great piece on the true looters of New Orleans: the corporations and politicians who laid the groundwork for this epic disaster. Read the whole thing, but he ends...
Which one of these men looks like he doesn't have a fucking clue about what's going on in the south coast? "I'm not looking forward to this trip," Bush said as he set out for a first-hand look at the...
Act for Change has an on-line petition running. The purpose is to hold people accountable for their actions in the wake of Katrina. Go to the link and sign. The media, including Fox News in some...
From the Washington Post, a New Orleans resident: "To me," said Bernadette Washington, "it just seems like black people are marked. We have so many troubles and problems." And black people have a...
Bush on GMA today (link from the Washington Post): "It's very important for the citizens in all affected areas to take personal responsibility and assume a kind of a civic sense of responsibility so...
Paul Krugman, as ever, on point in tomorrow's NYT: Before 9/11 the Federal Emergency Management Agency listed the three most likely catastrophic disasters facing America: a terrorist attack on New...
It has taken this utter horror, this wholesale massacre of American life, for the media to start doing its job after five years of hibernation. Here's Anderson Cooper hounding Dem. Sen. Mary Landrieu...
A child can understand why George W. Bush needs to be let go from his job. Whether he is uncaring or imcompetent (I'm thinking some of both) doesn't matter. His actions are clear. To say he screwed...
If we're to arrest global warming, it has to be done through political action. Which is why we first have to understand how political action led to Katrina. Here's Ross Gelbspan again: Even if we all...
HUGE funding cuts by Bush + HUGE hurricane caused in part by Bush-supported pro-global warming policies = Worst Natural Disaster in US History. Yes, it doesn't take a climatologist or an economist to...
From CNN: The United States is the world's largest emitter of carbon dioxide. The Bush administration wants [emissions] cuts to be voluntary and resists mandatory measures it says would hurt economic...
