The Story of a Hurricane
Aug 30th, 2005 at 11:12 am by Susie
The Progress Report has the full story of how systemic de-funding and stripping of environmental protections by BushCo led to the inevitable disaster that is Hurricane Katrina.
Meanwhile, the cable news chuckleheads continue to feature rooftop rescues.


National Guard: Enough GIs for Storm Duty
Though thousands of National Guard personnel from Louisiana and Mississippi are serving in Iraq, off
Tonight I saw a report on CNN that was the only news crew to reach the small towns just east of Biloxi. When the reporter interviewed an alderman from Long Beach, all he could talk about was how many churches they lost. Not about the loss of life nor the thousands of now homeless people there are in the area, just how many churches were gone.