Tierney hammers Congress for their lousy priorities: At last there is a light in the darkness. Washington was slow to respond to Katrina’s victims, but now Congress has finally sprung into action. It has bravely promised to investigate the situation. Unfortunately, the members haven’t figured out exactly how, because Democrats want it to be done …
Open Threads
Unabashed Silliness
John Aravosis, reacting to this CNN story about Al Gore financing a plane flight from a New Orleans airfield: Al Gore personally saved 270 people in New Orleans All it took was one guy saying God damn it, I’m getting the planes and saving these people. Where the bloody hell was George Bush when everyone …
Sorry You Lost Your House
Really. I am sorry you lost your house and everything, but you are just a dick, Dr. Ben Marble. Also at the DKos (this must be Dkos Friday here), this diary on disaster preparedness. Personally, I will take the new fashionably easy route to disaster preparedness. I am not going to prepare at all, and …
Dogs and Cats Living Together
Lt. Smash and Code Pink raise money for Katrina.
More on the NO Censorship
Jeff Goldstein takes on those suggesting it is absolutely necessary to photograph and pass around pictures of the dead in order to somehow speak ‘truth to power’ about the ‘government failures’ in New Orleans. Go flame him for a while.
ATTN: People Who Refuse to Evacuate
There is nasty stuff in the water. And if you don’t believe me, check this out: That is a 15′ (Readers state that water moccasins don’t get that big and it is probably only 5-6′. That is, by my estimation, still 5-6′ more water mocassin for my tastes.)water moccasin near the devastation in New Orleans. …
Nice Site
Here is an interesting weblog that consists of ten U. Penn students discussing their thoughts. Check ’em out.