hello all

I guess this is what the President meant when referring to the Gulf Coast in the SOTU.

Compassionate Conservatism/fuckers

Afternoon gang. This just pissed me off…can you tell?

$600M is small change. I know that one insurance company has paid out $700M in Mississippi alone. FEMA makes my head hurt.

So why are trailers meant to be lived in manufactured with toxic chemicals to begin with?

Uh huh. That’s quite the last sentence there – absolute clarity and white hot anger.

Lack of health care for 47,000,000 Americans times 7 years = one million dead

Iraqi dead = one million

Long term effects of Katrina malfeasance by Bushco = unknown

What is wrong with this picture, Nancy?

Uuuhhh, because they’re cheaper to manufacture?

Uh-oh, Jim ‘Mad Money’ Cramer is a commie, he gave a lefty speech at Bucknell University:

Jim Cramer challenges ‘laissez faire’ government

He blamed both Republicans and Democrats for a “hands-off democracy” and “rough-and-tough capitalism,” but was especially critical of government institutions like the Federal Reserve under then-Chairman Alan Greenspan for failing to “curb the Internet boom before it became the dotcom bomb recession of 2001.”

He said Greenspan could have curtailed that boom by using the rules that Congress gave the Fed to curb excessive margin lending that exacerbated the Internet stock boom.

“Then the effects of the dotcom hangover were so severe that he had to lower rates substantially to reflate to get the economy going again. The result? The reckless over-built housing bust that could rival the Great Depression in taking down economies worldwide,” he said, adding that as many as 7 million homebuyers could be left destitute.

……

In the end, he said, laissez faire policies are but a “fraud meant to get around the true role of a government in promoting the general welfare and enriching a select few” and called on enlightened caring capitalists to reassess the abilities of an unregulated marketplace and for the country to readdress the role of regulators “who would leave us at the hands predator capitalists.”

It is necessary, Cramer said, to get the limitations of capitalism back on the agenda for the next generation in order to fulfill the mission statement made by the Founding Fathers “to promote the general welfare for all.”

http://www.bucknell.edu/x40027.xml
(Via Atrios)

Yeah, I guess the manufacturers don’t pay the medical costs of the residents. Seems like a case for a good liability lawyer.

I spent my jr. high school and high school days living with my beloved grandmother in a trailer in a cheap trailer park in Sacto. Cali. My friends and I used to joke about me being “trailer trash”. They didn’t push it too far though. ’cause they knew I would kick their ass. I have an affinity toward those who live in trailers, but would not choose to do so, given the chance. The poor should not be poor in the richest nation on earth.

Obama or Clinton had better act like Democrats when one of them becomes the new president.

My granny lived in a trailer for most of her later years, because the upkeep on her old Victorian three-story house just got to be too much as her arthritis took over. It was tiny and cramped, even for one little old lady and a rambunctous granddaughter after a while. I don’t know how large families do it in the FEMA trailers which are half-again as small as the one my granny lived in…

I never watch Cramer because his demeanor is so offputting. But somehow within the last two weeks I was flipping channels & stop for a moment to find out what he was ranting about. It was exactly like his Bucknell speech, right there on CNBC. You could have knocked me over with a feather.

I had many fruitless discussions with respected colleagues during the dot-com bubble on why Greenspan didn’t raise the margin requirements (Reg T iirc), so it’s not as if it wasn’t obvious at the time.

“the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — generally considered a repository of nonpartisan scientific expertise”

HAH! HAHAHAHAHHA! Tell that to all the autism parents out there. You think the toxic trailer cover-up political shenanigans is messed up? You should get a load of their “research” on vaccine safety that’s been sent to a privately contracted repository, safe from the reach of FOIA.

BTW, apparently almost all these trailers are made w/formaldehyde, and when one buys a new one there’s a warning contained in the back of the brochure somewhere stating that they’re not safe for long-term exposure. If you have refaced cabinets made of MDF, you probably have it in your kitchen. Oh, and did I mention that it’s on the FDA’s list of APPROVED vaccine ingredients? Nope, nothing to see here, move along, get your flu shot…

toxic trailer provided knowingly by our own government who has spent more effort suppressing evidence of the formaldehyde toxicity and protecting it’s own employees from said toxicity than they have trying to resolve the lack of enough housing problem for their fellow Americans in need.

The amount of monies needed on the Gulf Coast is a drop compared to the wastage going on in Iraq. I am going to be so glad when these devils have gone but I still wonder whether, even with a new prez, there will be the will to help people that are not the requisite colour of white.

In New Orleans they have kicked most of the people out of trailers. Many of those have to leave or are homeless.

There is no affordable housing left and no realistic plans to rebuild any.

KB homes just pulled out of the “River Garden” development. This was the supposedly successful re-development of the former St. Thomas housing project. I don’t like the idea of projects but the idea of thousands of homeless families is much, much worse. So the type of development they are supposedly replacing all of the New Orleans housing projects with are a complete failure. This is in no small part because of the housing market crash that we are currently experienceing. No one wants to buy a brand new house in a former housing project at any price. Now the remaining units won’t be sold because people don’t want to live next to a vacant lot.

And so it goes.

Education is the key to lifting people out of poorness and keeping folks out of prison. I continue my wait for the “education president”.

Someday kiddo, one of your students might well be such a president.

In the meantime, please continue your ongoing educational outreach to the remaining ‘candidates’. I don’t know how successful you might be with the current and foreseeable ‘crop’, but it can’t hurt to try.

You mean the same CDC that didn’t quarantine buildings & test workers the minute that anthrax was suspected? That CDC?

This subject makes me fightin’ mad. I know people who wouldn’t be considered “the poor” who used to have solid jobs with a moderate paycheck who no longer have a home and also live in those toxic trailers. Yes, they had flood insurance. They still have no or limited infrastructure. Their jobs are gone, the ground is poison, the trailers are toxic, they do menial work for any pay and they are caught in a world of loops and hoops of papers and documents to prove their condition.

I know what they did wrong. They didn’t turn their trailers into casinos to get government support.

I wish we could see the white people in this situation also. And, the Vietnamese who lived in New Orleans East who were never mentioned. They lost everything.

New Orleans is not the French Quarters just as San Francisco is not Pier 39. The Gulf Coast is a place where families live. Their children go to school. They require medical care.

Forgive me but I am so disgusted with putting “business” first before humanity. I can assure you the gambling houses won’t give a damn about the needs of the people. Their only purpose is to turn over their money to the casino so the owners can get richer and richer off the people’s tragedy.

I almost never watch him either, and don’t know much about him. I typically watch him when I am at my bank. In SF Bay Area, a lot of banks have put big screen TV in the branches for some reason. A few months ago at the bank, I saw Cramer yelling about the financial CEOs and Treasury bigshots: “THEY DON”T KNOW ANYTHING!! THEY ARE SO STUPID -MY DOG COULD DO BETTER!!!” I thought, huh, you wouldda thunk you’d see that on cable TV?

Since then the TV in that bank has been tuned to cooking shows. Maybe a coincidence.

I understand all too well what you are saying. What I wouldn’t give to go back and spend just a few hours with my Grandma in that tiny trailer. Grandma was a saint. ;0)

“The poor are always with us.” /snark

Now there’s a “meme”. It is amazing how so many people believe that when evidence often runs to the contrary. Education, in and of itself. is not enough to “lift people” out of poverty. It is necessary but not sufficient when the rest of the socio-economic deck is stacked. I used ti work with adult literacy directors and I’d ask them, “do you really tell people that getting a GED will change their lives”? They’d say, yea, it’s a “necessary fiction”.

Thank you for reading my mind. Are there people who sit around corporate meeting rooms saying “How can we make this evil? Is there something toxic we can put in here? How about nails, do we have to hammer them all the way down?”

Criminy…

‘Course, I know it comes down to seven years of Federal refusal to enforce corporate regulations. Any inspector would have required tests looking for toxic chemicals and insisted the factory revise its construction methods. But under this government, the inspector wasn’t sent out, and if a regulatory compliance report were somehow created, it would be ignored. And the inspector would probably be fired for good measure.

Second that.

Complete breakdown of government service. Absolutely appalling.

Behind this all I see that smirking bastard and I just want to explode.

Oh goody! I know the next line. ‘It has ever been thus…’

Greenspan was part of the Ayn Rand inner circle cult. They literally worshipped money and tycoons. The tycoon is god (John Galt) and capitalism is to have NO, nada, tidak, nil laws or rules. Praise lawlessness. So Greenspan will never put in one regulation. Ever see that ugly cheap gold dollar sign they wore around their necks?

Sorry, any evidence that might be obtained is covered by national security priviledge. :)

Check out Framing Dropouts: Notes on the Politics of an Urban Public High School (Paperback) by Michelle Fine or Lives on the Boundaries by Tim Rose or better yet season 4 of the Wire.

Well…well! Bush gets apoplectic about all the Congressional earmarks and orders his agencies not to expend money for these projects. In the meantime his own agencies are shifting moneys allocated by Congress for low-income housing TO casinos and marinas.

I guess that they need to freeze one side of pork, so that they can thaw the other side out.

I believe there’s one with more time on his hands as of today.

Wouldn’t it be nice to one day have a progressive woman or man from Oklahoma, or some other poor state become president. I’d think I’d died and gone to Heaven. ;0)

Does Arkansas count? ;0)

That’s what I was thinking. Couldn’t he do more for the poor of NoLa by some well placed lawsuits than with a hammer & nails?

I think it was Digby who pointed out that this project was not about helping Louisiana’s poor – a crime in itself, since helping them was the publicly-touted reason Congress allocated taxpayer dollars for reconstruction efforts.

It’s not about overspending by a hundred percent to rebuild a damaged port, or expanding it to add a nifty new yacht club (so that there’ll be dock boy jobs for the local yokels).

It’s about Barbour having the patronage power to dole out funds to Barbour-related developers who use the Barbour lobbying firm. (The one he “resigned” from, but still visits in Washington, DC, every month via the private jet and limo, so that he can not oversee its operations.)

The point is to make sure that Barbour’s clients (and Barbour) get rich on the taxpayer dime, no matter what the money’s spent on or how well it’s built or operated. That’s what the money’s for. Follow it.

When Congress gets bored pussyfooting with Bush about his shredding the Constitution, or gets tired of being Cheneyed by Big Dick, it can always turn its attention to how its spending our money. Cause lord knows, Congress is successful at overseeing that as it is overseeing private contractors in Iraq or the DOJ’s political prosecutions of Democrats.

Now that is an interesting thought. Would not surprise me so see something like that happen.

As AG.

We in Oklahoma love Arkansas. I was in Fort Smith the other day. Lord it’s pretty up there.

We should get the idea to him. Wonder if he or Elizabeth still reads FDL?

Reservation residents have had to deal with HUD and crappy housing for a long time and some of the crap built out here has had to be torn down and new homes built. Hopi is several hundred home short of what is needed.

I sure that the Bushies would just like to buy one big piece of cheap land and move all of those inconvenient Gulf Coast people to it and then put the BIA in charge of them.

“Honest scientific studies don’t start with the conclusion, and then work backwards from there,” Miller said….

But…but…that’s how Creation Science works. Is he suggesting that Creation Science and Intelligent Design aren’t science?!?

Why wait?

Anyone remember all the scoldings from the US about ‘crony capitalism’ during the Asian and other financial crises in the late 90s and early 00s?

This post and some of the comments on Barbour are interesting in that light.

Generally speaking, life on the Rez is not all that pleasant.

If you want your plan to work, ethnic cleanse. Indonesia did it with US approval and support. Put Katrina victims in toxic trailers. The Iraqi surge does it by stimulating massive refugees.

Last week, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees released a survey of Iraqi refugees in Syria. The survey found that one in five of those registered with UNHCR since January 2007 – more than 19,000 individuals – are registered as “victims of torture and/or violence” in Iraq. The survey also found that,
73% had been affected by bombing, shelling, rockets
80% had witnessed a shooting
68% had been interrogated/harassed militias or other groups
16% had been tortured
72% had been eye-witnesses to car bombings
75% knew somebody who has been killed

These data conform to what the AFSC learned in interviews with Iraqi refugee families in Syria and Jordan. In the report you will find recommendations for both short term and long term priorities now being pursued.

It all interrelates. Check these facts out and the map:

http://www.afsc.org/iraq/refugee-crisis.htm

I think the suit would have a better chance with the force of the government fighting for the people rather than against them, as it would be if such a case were to be taken up now.

Michael Gerson claims W is the “heart of the Republican party” (to borrow a phrase):

“Compassionate conservatism is thus a cause without a constituency — except for the large-hearted man I first met in 1999 and who, on Monday night, proposed to double global AIDS spending once again.

But it was only a hint of his former boldness. On policy, this State of the Union was the least ambitious effort of an ambitious presidency. Given the short calendar and a hostile Congress, there was no other option. The time for boldness has passed. But in his speech he seemed his same, confident self. And one source of his confidence should be this: His achievements are larger than his critics understand.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/…..inionsbox1

I saw Digby’s post this morning and I’m happy to see Christy addressing it, also. I want to puke when I read Gerson saying that Bush would be even more compassionate if it weren’t for those meanies in Congress.

Asshat.

Kiddo, if the ‘American Dream’ is to survive as it relates to freedom and human dignity, then it shall be because dreamers and doers such as yourself, lahoma and all the truly humane souls here found, have not only not ‘lost’ the dreams, but have the courage to live their convictions, every single day.

Frankly, I’d settle for a genuine progressive, of either sex, of any color hailing from any place at all, so long as the ‘progressive’ in question is an authentic, feeling, non-elitist person who actually has some first hand experience NOT being one of the haves or have-mores.

The BIA will make sure they know that isn’t pleasant.

IANAL, but couldn’t a suit be started privately that the govt joins later? After all, there’s no guaranty that Ds will win (though I think it’s highly likely), and people are getting sick while we wait.

IANAL, either. Could be. And time is of the essence for many.

Gotta run. I’ll try to check back later.

Somebody else said this on another thread, but Tommy Smothers had that smirk down. I would love to send a large 8 1/2 x 11 photo of George with that smirk to Nancy.

One can only dream.

Gerson lives in some sort of hallucinogenic alternate reality where God and love merge into human form as George Bush. It’s creepy.

The rethugs are not so much into science (Creationism and all) so….

OT The NY Post (Murdoch’s NYC paper) has come out for Obama

link on NYPost: http://tpmelectioncentral.com/

You mean Hillary’s sucking up to Murdoch didn’t do her any good?

Formaldehyde

Formaldehyde, a colorless, pungent-smelling gas, can cause watery eyes, burning sensations in the eyes and throat, nausea, and difficulty in breathing in some humans exposed at elevated levels (above 0.1 parts per million). High concentrations may trigger attacks in people with asthma. There is evidence that some people can develop a sensitivity to formaldehyde. It has also been shown to cause cancer in animals and may cause cancer in humans. Health effects include eye, nose, and throat irritation; wheezing and coughing; fatigue; skin rash; severe allergic reactions. May cause cancer. May also cause other effects listed under “organic gases.” EPA’s Integrated Risk Information System profile – http://www.epa.gov/iris/subst/0419.htm

Cafferty is on a tear today over at CNN. Posing question about change and why people end up not doing it….

Refers to Fox as the F-Word network.

What’s not to love about Cafferty.

Guess so, also, probably anything the NYT does, the Post tries to do the opposite. :-)

It is part of their master plan! Get the poor so sick they will die off…. then they don’t have to have any of THEIR money help those lazy poor people … they should just die off. I lets raise taxes to 97% on all gross income over 500k and If they don’t like it they can just up and emigrate to some other country and leave us to make this country great again, where social conscience has a prominent place in our government!

Cafferty is a cracky old man (his self-description iirc). So he tends to say anything. There was something recently that I vehemently disagreed with him on, but I can’t remember what it was. Still, he’s the best news theater on 24/7 channels.

Formaldehyde

all those medical specimens we had in school were pickled in formaldehyde precisely because it’s not compatible with life. Nothing will grow in it.

Make that cranky, not cracky. I don’t have any insight into Cafferty’s drug habits.

FWIW (we will see much more Murdoch garbage later-probably going the other way, but who knows) here is the NY Post comment: http://www.nypost.com/seven/01…..813218.htm

Have you ever been at the check out counter and seen your mother or perhaps your grandmother have to “put things back” because they didn’t have enough money to pay for it all? This goes on every single day in every market, in every town. This my friends… is reality. For many poor souls.

My question to Harry Reid is what does he plan to
do about Lieberman’s non-action on the FEMA trailer matter..

It just seemed to me that rebuilding New Orleans would have made the perfect FDR New Deal program, with the contracts and jobs going to New Orleans citizens themselves. But, that would have been sacrilege to the conservatives. Instead, they used it to prove their point that government can’t poor piss out of a boot.

Poorness is not some disease we have not yet found a cure for. We know what the solutions are. It’s a matter of implemention. And that’s the deal. People do not deserve to be poor. They have not earned the right to be poor.

Sounds a lot like “Are there no prisons? No workhouses?…Then they should die and decrease the surplus population.”

– E. Scrooge, late of Scrooge and Marley.

He plans to do nothing. He is Harry Reid.

Yeah, what IS this hero worship thing Bush has going?

I emailed Digby when she wrote about this a couple of days ago. I serve on the board that administers CDBG grants for our county, and this is just sick. In addition to all the obvious reasons it’s wrong, it’s another round of the Bushies saying “laws? what laws?”

CDBG funds are appropriated by Congress for affordable housing. I don’t know the exact regs, but “waivers” to use them for projects completely unrelated to that are obviously against the intent of Congress, and I wouldn’t be surprised if they’re actually illegal.

Bush thinks that they are poor because they didn’t work hard to be born wealthy like he did.

I dunno. His current chief of staff, Bolten, has a collection of photographs of Bush’s hands. These people take their boss worshipping ass-kissery to a whole new level of ick.

I heard Seann Hannity driving home from shopping. He was saying that hes been wrong on many things and that after a lot of thought he was thinking more like McCain. Hes now for immigration, the environment and all that Mc Cain stands for, including being against the “Bush tax cuts”
His supporters were shocked and wondered if he had hit his head. Ive only heard him full of hate before and think this might have been a moment that the Repugs will take our issues except for the Court.

It is the Psycotic Bastards’ Club.

I have been away from the tubes for a few days. Can someone update me on FISA??? The last I heard, cloture was voted down on Monday. Any new developments?? Did they kick the can for another month? Thanks in advance for any update. Sorry to go OT.

We spend $15,000,000,000 per month on losing the Bush war. Please keep this in mind precious people. That’s ‘per month’.

Born on third base and thinks he hit a triple.

A much needed chuckle on this day, eCAHN.

“LONDON (Reuters) – More than one million Iraqis have died as a result of the conflict in their country since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003, according to research conducted by one of Britain’s leading polling groups.”

http://www.reuters.com/article…..=worldNews

Imagine how many more would be dead if Bush weren’t so compassionate.

Happy to oblige. Feeling pretty blue myself.

Have to do a drive by. But via Naomi Klein, the stuff about not reopening public schools is alarming. They mean to make everything private. My heart breaks for New Orleans.

There was a deal between the House, Senate and the WH — extensions voted through for 15 days, WH is to sign. So it’s a kick the can down the road to try and come to agreement or, if not, guess we’ll see…

On our end, there will be more pressure. But I’m still trying to determine the best avenues for it. Have had to catch up on momma duties today, having been immersed in FISA for days now. So will try and have an update on this tomorrow as I get time.

But with regard to the really critical matter, did Trent Lott get his house rebuilt so that he and George can one day sip mint juleps on the front porch while watch the sun go down over the Gulf?

Yup. This CDBG grant costs one Iraq-day.

Puke policy:

NOLA – Gentrification

Barbour – money laundering

Poverty – Make the poor work for you until they die, then get some more.

From the AP. The Feds are doing so well. This should give you confidence in their handling of the Gulf Coast.From TPM

A federal judge on Wednesday ruled that the Interior Department has “unreasonably delayed” its accounting for billions of dollars owed to Indian landholders.

The federal agency “has not, and cannot, remedy the breach” of its responsibilities to account for the Indian money, U.S. District Judge James Robertson said in a 165-page decision in a long-running federal lawsuit alleging mismanagement of Indian trust funds.

“Indeed, it is now clear that completion of the required accounting is an impossible task,” Robertson said.

Chertoff and Liebermans legacy

Better ethnic cleansing with formaldehyde..

Lahoma invites me, usually several times a week, to think that it is not right to hate people (and as usual she is correct). But it sure is hard to buy into that in terms of GWB. ;0)

Wonder if he or Elizabeth still reads FDL?

I think she does. Christy and/or Jane would know for sure…

Thank you for the update. I will keep the pressure on my Congress folks.

I dunno. His current chief of staff, Bolten, has a collection of photographs of Bush’s hands. These people take their boss worshipping ass-kissery to a whole new level of ick.

I’d forgotten that little fetish

taking my dad out to a little boston market but I have to post this think progress lead before I go;

1 million: Iraqis who have died “as a result of the conflict in their country since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003, according to research conducted by one of Britain’s leading polling groups.” The survey also found that “20 percent of people had had at least one death in their household as a result of the conflict, rather than natural causes.” 5:09 pm | Comment (6)

howz that shock and awe workin for ya you ol commander in chief you

Meanwhile, Tweety is salivating on MSNBC on the day’s events, Edwards and Giuliani dropping out and all that…

I could say I’d like to hit Bush outta da park. But I won’t. Aw… the hell I won’t.

That is so, so wrong on so, so many levels.

Make everything private or make the place unlivable?

Well, no surprise, just got an email from ND Dems that Friday evening’s event with Edwards has been cancelled.

Disheartened. Thinking I’ll vote on Feb 5 for Edwards still as a statement of support for his campaign. And then I think I’ll stop thinking about national politics for a while and work to re-elect the progressive woman on the Fargo City Commission who’s being targeted by the local Rethuglican elites. That I can fit in my frazzly schedule of Real Life.

How ’bout you guys? We’re talking a lot today. But what will we do?

How ’bout you guys? We’re talking a lot today. But what will we do?

elect more and better Democrats

Recall folks. Eyes on the prize. The White House.

FDL coining vocabulary: some examples: fuckery; ass kissery; meme(s)… Some in MSM print media have picked up on the latter. It’ll be interesting to see which ones make it into urban-dictionary usage.

Edwards speech again on CSPAN 1

OT: It may have been mentioned elsewhere, but I saw a clip of Jimmy Carter on CSPAN being asked if he endorsed either Democratic candidate. He said that he and Rosalyn had never endorsed a candidate during the primary as a matter of policy. However, he listed all of his voting children and grandchildren, smiled with a twinkle, and said that all but one were supporting Obama.

I thought it was interesting following Kennedy’s endorsement, since Carter and Kennedy had never reconciled.

Not only that, Garbo, but aluminum is also okay-fine with the FDA for an acceptable ingredient in vaccines.

They’re also spewing the nonsense that “vaccines don’t contain thimerasol (mercury) anymore” which is a lie. They had them tested at an independent lab. There are traces of mercury still in vaccines.

Apparently, they put it in during the process, and then “filter” it out…um-hum…where do I sign up?

Personally, I’m rooting for my fave: craptastic.

Meanwhile, Tweety is salivating on MSNBC on the day’s events, Edwards and Giuliani dropping out and all that…

Tweety Media…add it to Biodun’s FDL vocabulary? Shorthand for everything we loathe about the MSM.

Meme is far from a new term.

Have you ever been at the check out counter and seen your mother or perhaps your grandmother have to “put things back” because they didn’t have enough money to pay for it all? This goes on every single day in every market, in every town. This my friends… is reality. For many poor souls

Just some memories this brought up

When I was a little kid we had to share candy bars (large Catholic family) and we’d fight over who got the bigger piece. As I got older when my Dad received raises he would buy a side of beef at the butcher shop and we would grind some of the meat into hamburger and mix oatmeal in to stretch it out. For a while we were eligible for government cheese and powdered milk. We had a huge garden (to my eyes of a child) in which we grew our own vegetables and canned much of it.

We always had food. We always had clothes (sometimes hand-me-downs). We’re survivors. My parents did a great job with what they could

So, Shrub is giving money to Casinos? What an ass

PS is the trailer court in which you lived with your Grandma the one on Folsom Blvd.?

This is hardly newsworthy. I thought it was conventional wisdom that Republicans cheated, lied to, and stole from those people unable to defend themselves, aka The Poor. What WOULD be newsworthy is if they either changed their ways(fat effing chance), or were stopped by the Democrats(again, even fatter effing chance). So this is just another story to make the general public yawn again while they stuff their fat effing faces with french fries and fried pies. Move on.

I can almost promise you Rove is out there working on his little devilish schemes on behalf of McCain even as I type. We need to defeat Karl Rove and send this individual to the dustbin of infamy.

I think I’ve seen fuckery earlier as well.

I liked Jane’s chicken-shittery

Tweety is my personal fave. Was that invented here? Everyone I’ve used it on thinks it’s perfect, including my wingnut son.

craptastic enshrined in the lexicon forever, Christy

KO ought to be rolling “craptastic” out any day now.
It’s a beauty.

we had to share candy bars (large Catholic family) and we’d fight over who got the bigger piece.

What? You didn’t know about I-divide-you-choose?

or maybe ColberT once the writer’s strike ends…. please God make the writers’ strike end….it is painful to watch our faves limp thru their shows….

Yes it was (trailer court not far from Rancho). That’s a major good guess. ;0)!

Well, although there are not people sitting around thinking, “…how can we make this evil…” it’s a credible argument that greed is evil.

Using formaldehyde, and other chemicals that are volatile and emit toxic vapors as part of the mix of chemicals in the manufacture of artificial wall materials and insulation materials in cheap trailers is a cheaper way to build them. These cost savings are not necessarily passed on to the purchaser (FEMA in this case). Greed.

Spending money fighting research that shows the potential harm these chemicals can cause, particularly among the young and elderly, in order to avoid legal actions against the users of these substances, and to protect the manufacturers of these substances from having to limit their use and thus hurt sales and profits is another case. Greed.

That’s how it plays out, IMO.

I’m fairly certain that we’re on the same page here, but just thought I’d sharpen the point.

I thought that “what sort of fuckery is this” was an Amy Winehouse-ism. Am I misremembering on that one? Anyone know?

That didn’t stop us from fighting ;-)

Half Irish

My aunt had six kids. Somehow whenever I was at her house, as the baby of the family, I always ended up with the small piece no matter whether I got to choose or not. Comes with the small one territory, I suppose. *g*

I thought that “what sort of fuckery is this” was an Amy Winehouse-ism. Am I misremembering on that one? Anyone know?

Yep.

Oh good — my brain hasn’t turned to mush after all, then. Thanks, Newtonusr

I think it was Digby who pointed out that this project was not about helping Louisiana’s poor – a crime in itself, since helping them was the publicly-touted reason Congress allocated taxpayer dollars for reconstruction efforts.

It’s not even about overspending by a hundred percent to rebuild a damaged port, or expanding it to add a nifty new yacht club (so that there’ll be dock boy jobs for the local yokels).

It’s about Barbour having the patronage power to dole out funds to Barbour-related developers who use the Barbour lobbying firm. (The one he “resigned” from, but still visits in Washington, DC, every month via the private jet and limo, so that he can not oversee its operations.) The point is to make sure that Barbour and his clients get rich on the taxpayer dime no matter what it’s spent on or how well they build or operate. That’s what the money’s for. Follow it.

When Congress gets bored pussyfooting with Bush about his shredding the Constitution, or gets tired of being Cheneyed by Big Dick, it can always turn its attention to how it’s spending our money. ‘Cause lord knows, Congress is as successful at overseeing that as it is in overseeing mercenaries in Iraq or the DOJ’s political prosecutions of Democrats.

No surprise here, just business as usual for Bushliburton and their real constituency the Disaster Caplitalism Business Complex, the hell with serving the American people: Katrinia Two Years Later: The Rich Get Richer & The Common Folks Still Get The Shaft

dipping my oars back into the lake…. needed chill-out time ;o}… its imperative that bushco and all sycophants must go… this post is just one of many thats shown UNcompassionate that crowd is…

thats shown how

John Edwards to the rescuuuue… sounds to me like a major class action lawsuit with trble damage and criminal penalties. Or ecerybody gets a brand new modukar home on the lot they kived in before the flood or locatioon of their choice! Boink on Bush

Because they were someones good ol buddy who shimped on the materials.

And if your poor the police assume you are breaking a lot of laws…hence America’s prisons are overflowing with people of color…most of the rest are bailin’…the for profit prison systems wants you baby. And they like repeat business.