Andymatic

Month: September 2005

  • 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 […]

  • Bush to Investigate Why Bush Is an Idiot

    From MS NBC:  Beset with criticism over the federal response to Hurricane Katrina, President  Bush said Tuesday he will oversee an investigation into what went wrong and why — in part to be sure that the country would withstand more storms or even a weapons of mass destruction attack. I’m expecting as many roadblocks as […]

  • Barbara Bush on Those Lucky Lucky Poor

    Barbara and George H. were just on Larry King and Barbara said that it really meant a lot when her idiot-savant son flew over the wreckage. Like all the mythic poor turned skyward and thought That’s George flying overhead – I just know it! I’ll go check the televisi- oh that’s right I don’t have […]

  • Why I Don't Miss Dating

    Palochi’s top ten dating peeves: 1. Do not wear a rugby jersey, workout pants, and Adidas gym shoes when meeting someone for the first time at a nice restaurant. And if you’re even thinking about wearing FLIP-FLOPS with CAPRI PANTS, don’t even bother showing up. Who’s idea was capri pants for men? Ugh. Nothing drives […]

  • 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 […]

  • Calamity Break

    Need a break from the madness? I recommend the soothing and playful Flash games of Orisinal.

  • 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 […]

  • Anne Rice and Richard Ford on Katrina Response and Aftermath

    Law Dork points to two essays. One from Anne Rice: During this crisis you failed us. You looked down on us; you dismissed our victims; you dismissed us. You want our Jazz Fest, you want our Mardi Gras, you want our cooking and our music. Then when you saw us in real trouble, when you […]