Category: News

  • FEMA Confuses Charlestons

    A South Carolina health official said his colleagues scrambled Tuesday when FEMA gave only a half-hour notice to prepare for the arrival of a plane carrying as many as 180 evacuees to Charleston. But the plane, instead, landed in Charleston, West Virginia, 400 miles away.  

  • Jesse Jackson: ‘Refugees' Connotes Racism

    From Yahoo News: What do you call people who have been driven from their homes with only the clothes on their backs, unsure if they will ever be able to return, and forced to build a new life in a strange place? I’d call them refugees. Jesse Jackson says: It is racist to call American […]

  • DoE Funded Op-Eds in Major Newspapers

    From The Stakeholder: The Department of Education has paid education advocacy groups to produce newspaper opinion pieces, advertisements, and other public materials that reached audiences all over the country without revealing that the government paid for their production and distribution, according to a report issued late last week by the Department’s Inspector General that concluded […]

  • How Cuba Does It

    From TruthOut.org: Last September, a Category 5 hurricane battered the small island of Cuba with 160-mile-per-hour winds. More than 1.5 million Cubans were evacuated to higher ground ahead of the storm. Although the hurricane destroyed 20,000 houses, no one died. What is Cuban President Fidel Castro’s secret? According to Dr. Nelson Valdes, a sociology professor […]

  • Blaming the Poor

    Robert Tracinski of the Intellectual Activist lays the blame on the poor – further, on the welfare state: (link from a comment over on Terrance’s blog) People with values respond to a disaster by fighting against it and doing whatever it takes to overcome the difficulties they face. They don’t sit around and complain that […]

  • US Accepts UN Aid

    Don’t tell John Bolton. This might make that 70’s-porn-star moustache melt: The Bush administration,has accepted a U.N. offer of help in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and a U.N. team has gone to Washington to see how it can complement American efforts. See what assholes we look like when we throw around our unilateral bellyfat […]

  • Maybe This Counts as Responsive

    (via Disinfo) The very first thing George W. Bush did in response to Hurricane Katrina was to offer a helping hand… but to his friends in the oil industry. The president released millions of barrels of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve so the oil companies would have enough fuel to make gas and keep […]

  • They Had Predicted Katrina

    Don’t believe a line of crap Homeland Security is shoveling. Last year FEMA ran an exercise for a possible Hurriance Pam. (source from TPMCafe) Hurricane Pam brought sustained winds of 120 mph, up to 20 inches of rain in parts of southeast Louisiana and storm surge that topped levees in the New Orleans area. More […]

  • Richard Simmons

    Did you really have to wear a tank top on Larry King to talk about a national tragedy and its fundraiser? Don’t you have like a formal long sleeved shirt to wear? I mean yes, you can still have the rhinestones.

  • Faked Aid Shelters, Faked Levee Repairs, Helicopters Grounded

    I know you’re sick of Katrina. But when my kids come home from school and read the one-line sentence about this hurricane and hear how heroically and instant the response was I want to be able to point to this entry to remind them that it took five fucking days for us to respond. (via […]