Jesus. There goes cable.

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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.

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But not for the right-wing gander. Remember how the wingnuts screeched about ads showing Bush as Hitler? How the people who so love and defend “free speech” forget all about it when their Leader’s virtue is impugned?
Now, isn’t this sweet? Conservative twit Michelle Malkin has an ad on her site that shows Cindy Sheehan as […]

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Oh look, they finally noticed:
WASHINGTON — The nation’s poverty rate rose to 12.7 percent of the population last year, the fourth consecutive annual increase, the Census Bureau said Tuesday.
The percentage of people without health insurance did not change.
Overall, there were 37 million people living in poverty, up 1.1 million people from 2003.

What’s a few million […]

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Soledad O’Brien still making lots of offensive comments about the people who “refused” to evacuate. I guess Soledad has never been poor and assumes people stayed in the path of the storm - oh, I don’t know, to protect their collections of Civil War figurines or porcelain dolls.
Why oh why can’t we have a better […]

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Good post over at Kevin’s in which he compares and contrasts the policy styles of Bush and Clinton. Great quote from Jon Chait:
Bush’s [domestic] political successes all have three main elements in common….The first is massive partisan discipline…. Element No. 2 is massive giveaways to well-organized lobbies…. The third element is — how should I […]

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Let’s have at it:
AUSTIN — Texas doctors who perform abortions without parental approval or after the third trimester could face capital murder charges because of a new law that takes effect this week, a prosecutors group says.
The Texas District and County Attorneys Association has outlined that scenario in its new book updating the Texas […]

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Oh, look. The Washington Post has finally noticed that the FDA is a political tool.

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So if God really does punish people, what does it mean when He switches the hurrican track away from New Orleans (well-known den of iniquity) and instead slams it into Alabama and Mississippi, possible the most God-fearing states in the union?

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So the Republicon crooks who are running Kentucky thought they were home free when their equally crooked governor decided he’d merely pardon them all.
Uh, not so fast, fellas.
You can’t pardon somebody just because they’re indicted. There has to be a fine or a sentence to remit. You can’t nullify something that doesn’t yet exist.
Dumbasses.
UPDATE: This […]

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Via Jo and Roxanne, I discovered this site listing the top 100 songs in any given year. These were the hits the year I graduated high school. The ones I still like are in bold; the ones I really, really like are bold and italicized, the ones that make me cringe are crossed out and […]

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Speaking of disaster areas (not that they’re even comparable), but I haven’t heard about the job yet and I’m out of money - as in, can’t buy food, can’t fill up the tank once I use what’s left.
And I really hate feeling like a mooch, but there it is. I’m flat broke. If you can […]

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Via Raw Story: Pat Buchanan thinks Bush should be impeached - for allowing so many illegal immigrants.

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A wedding story:
A Hells Angels widow showed up at a West Philadelphia church before a biker wedding on Saturday and yelled at rival Pagans for killing her husband last January, according to authorities.
The widow, Margie Wood, once a friend of the marrying couple, left the scene without further incident, authorities said.
Meantime, the groom, Dominick “Tack” […]

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My Uncle Jim died Friday. He was 84. The quietly sly Scotsman, a retired TV repairman, was apparently making lunch when he had a massive heart attack and died. A neighbor found him on the kitchen floor after my cousin tried to reach him and couldn’t.
He’d been feeling a lot better lately. It took everyone […]

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Billmon has a couple of new ones, and they’re great.

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Just so you know how serious this storm that “missed” New Orleans is, here are some reports from the comments at Weather Underground:
East New Orleans is under 10 feet of water and rising… French Quarter has some flooding… Rest of city is dry although some spillage is now occuring from lake side..
100’s of […]

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Amanda on the Boy in the Bubble, our Fortunate-Son-in-Chief:
I’ve said it before but it bears repeating–I think that the reason that Bush won’t come out of hiding and tell Cindy Sheehan the truth about why her son died in Iraq is because the honest answer is so fucking evil. Casey Sheehan died because he’s not […]

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Gag me with a spoon.

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Krugman:
Most of what Alan Greenspan said at last week’s conference in his honor made very good sense. But his words of wisdom come too late. He’s like a man who suggests leaving the barn door ajar, and then - after the horse is gone - delivers a lecture on the importance of keeping your animals […]

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While a giant section of the Superdome roof has just peeled away, well-paid anchor twit Soledad O’Brien interviews Sen. Mary Landrieu.
She keeps making snippy comments about the 20% of the New Orleans citizens who didn’t leave: “Are they just complacent?” You know, in that smarmy, fake concern they like to simulate.
Landrieu pointed out that some […]

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Is Google trying to build its own free internet? And what would that mean? [Via Raw Story.]

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“Dude, the food was way better, plus Nam had trees instead of sand! Duh…”
U.S. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., disputed the notion that the Iraq war is a replay of Vietnam, contrasting comments last week by Sen. Chuck Hagel, R-Neb.

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From Baton Rouge, CNN’s Anderson Cooper is doing that standing-outside-in-the-hurricane thing, and he’s pointing out that this Mississippi River barge is starting to slam into the bridge where he’s standing, and that the crane on it is starting to swing around at random.
And I had this moment - just a moment - when I really […]

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So just in case you can break away for the Saturday session only, you can get a $25 day pass for Eschacon - the day, coincidentally, on which yours truly will be sitting on the blogger panel! (I suspect we’ll devote ourselves exclusively to blogging ethics).
Please note: Contrary to what you may have read, this […]

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