How does one miss a project cost estimate by a factor of 3? From the Washington Post:
The Bush administration said yesterday that the cost of rebuilding New Orleans’s levees to federal standards has nearly tripled to $10 billion and that there may not be enough money to fully protect the entire region. […]
The change followed […]
I have to say this…. it just seems so obvious.
What would happen if the Mexican government amended its constitution to allow foreign investment in its energy industry - with a guaranteed preference for its neighbor to the north? (For those who need help with this, I’m talking about OIL.)
I just have this vision […]
… and quacks like a duck…
The immigration debate and competing bills coming from the House and Senate are, like legalese everywhere, really difficult to wade through. That’s probably at least partly why the blogosphere seems so confused about terms like “felony” and “amnesty“. You can read the proposed bills yourself here — or you can […]
Duke University’s talented Blue Devils have apparently managed to hit all the buttons at once - a bunch of white athletes at a pricey American university gang raping a poor black woman who is working as an exotic dancer / escort to pay her way through college and support her two children.
Un-freaking-believable.
This apparently happened on […]
Evidently, the TABC’s sights were on the wrong target last week. Instead of looking in bars, they need to be infiltrating restaurants! That’s where this bozo loaded himself up before driving out and clipping two pedestrians last year.
In the interests of fairness, though, Polimom has no trouble understanding why these British visitors might have […]
The trials and tribulations of Rosita Hernandez, Houston’s disgraced former manager of the pro tem office, have been all the talk around town for weeks. Certainly, something is wrong with those bonuses, and investigations are ongoing.
Now, though, we learn that the woman who drew a salary of $126K lied about whether she graduated from high […]
When Polimom was a girl in school, there were kids who were viciously mean - so cruel that I can still remember their names 35 years later. Girls who teased.. laughed at… ignored… Yet Polimom is not blogging this from prison. Unlike the warped perpetrators of Columbine, I did not shoot those vile little tormentors.
It’s […]
I can’t say I’m surprised by this, but I’m certainly disappointed. Of course, I’m not trying to plan the rebuilding of my house in New Orleans; if I were, I’d be thoroughly ticked. From NOLA.com:
Although federal officials said Monday that new advisory flood maps are critical in guiding thousands of local homeowners waiting to restore […]
It’s tempting to put my tongue back into my cheek again on the immigration issue (where it was this weekend). I intended to do just that, actually, when I sat down at my keyboard this morning… but I can’t. As I wrote recently to a friend, subtlety is not always understood in the blogosphere.
There are […]
I stumbled across a post this evening in the blogosphere in which the individual talked about coming up on their 1,000th visitor. They had this really nice idea about some kind of prize or recognition… and Polimom thought, “Hmmmmm. I wonder how many have come to Polimom’s blog?”
I was shocked to discover that I’ve apparently […]
Think New Orleans has kicked off a viral linking campaign for those who blog about New Orleans. The rules (and the why’s) are posted at Link Think New Orleans. I like the idea - it’s a great way to widen the horizon while highlighting posts of interest.
So - I’ve been ‘pinged’, and since the […]
Given this weekend’s developments, Polimom feels the need to add a bit more commentary to Friday’s post about Abdul Rahman (the Afghani who converted to Christianity).
In the comments, some pointed out that charges have been dropped. Polimom believes that is not only a somewhat premature statement, it’s utterly irrelevant. A government that bases its rule […]
Have you ever noticed the tendency of some folks to foam at the mouth a bit when they get incensed about certain issues (like… say…. Bush or Iraq…)? Even if you haven’t actually been close enough to get hit with the spittle, I’m sure you’ve felt as if the newspaper editorial you’ve read in some […]