“What strikes me is the utter lack of coordination in the search and rescue,” Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, told a panel of four front-line officials involved in the Katrina response. “Don’t you all talk to one another?”
FEMA continues to defy the brain’s ability to process stupidity.
And as long as we’re on the subject of stupidity […]
Just in case you were still doubtful that the Democrats have let go of the string tethering them to earth, here’s how the Houston group is planning to respond to this evening’s State of the Union address:
Join DEMOCRATS FOR PEACE at a protest to coincide with Tuesday evening’s State of the Union address. We will […]
Apologies to all of Polimom’s friends who perhaps support the fillibuster effort, but I sure wish these folks would find something productive to do with their time and energy.
Democrats launch effort to block Alito confirmation
This crop of Democrats is apparently unable to find anything other than lost causes to champion. Alito was not the worst […]
The president is a miserable failure when it comes to American citizens. Perhaps, as this NYTimes editorial seems to suggest, Congress can move things forward? (my emphasis)
Louisiana in Limbo
New Orleans waits. While some heroic efforts at rebuilding are taking place, hundreds of thousands of residents have put their lives on hold until they know what […]
The LATimes is running a series this week about some truly terrifying (to me) high school drop-out statistics.
The Times determined that at least 53% of the students who began at Birmingham in ninth grade graduated four years later, many from other schools.
Half? Holy cow! And today’s article – the second in the series – indicates […]
Sundays on the blog are fun for me. It’s the lowest-traffic day of the week, generally, which means I can talk about oddball topics and hardly anybody will care. So I’m assuming nobody will notice when I say that I’m declaring myself for the Presidency of the United States. (uproarious laughter)
Of course I’m kidding. I […]
Whether one thinks New Orleans is at risk of dying from neglect or via a deliberate death blow, it’s hard to avoid seeing the will of the White House regarding the city. In fact, it couldn’t be much clearer, could it?
What is it that Bush needs to hear, in terms of A Plan? He heard […]
Update March 20: http://www.polimom.com/2006/03/20/stupid-b-gone/
The Houston Police Department (HPD) seems to have started making some dents in the problem evacuees. Apparently, eleven of the recent homicides have been linked to a rivalry between two New Orleans housing projects.
KHOU.com (registration required) described it this way:
Investigators say the suspects and victims lived in rival housing projects in […]
So - lawyers for both the priest and the atheist have had their say, and a judge is now deliberating on whether the priest should stand trial for criminally misrepresenting a fictional Jesus.
Was Jesus of Nazareth actually John of Gamala? Intellectually, it’s a fascinating question, but it’s meaningless in the larger scheme of things.
How on […]
Beyond Mardi Gras, incomparable food, awesome music, and several parts of town, what was New Orleans known for before Katrina? Corruption and racism.
I’m not trying to pick on anybody here. It just is. Contrary to some opinions (like Holocaust deniers), history cannot be re-written – at least not overnight. The happy-go-lucky days of Edwin Edwards […]