As the deadly storm system moved ashore almost three years ago, sending fatal floods through New Orleans and the Gulf Coast, Bush was in Phoenix….It was Aug. 29, McCain’s 69th birthday, and on the tarmac, Bush presented his old political rival with a cake. The two posed, holding the cake up for cameras, and within seconds, went their separate ways. The cake, melting in the 110-degree Arizona heat, was left behind, uneaten.
It’s a photo op that Democrats will no doubt use as part of their campaign to portray a McCain presidency as nothing more than a third Bush term–a picture of the senator and the president, yukking it up on one of the administration’s darkest days….Arriving Thursday morning, McCain was asked how he planned to distinguish himself from Bush’s handling of Katrina. "Just like I do everything," he said. "They have to judge me on my record."…
Yet on the issue of New Orleans, it’s still unclear how different McCain and Bush actually are. Speaking about Katrina, McCain, like many other Republicans, has trashed the administration’s handling of the storm and has vowed to prevent similar catastrophes. "We can never let anything like that happen again," McCain told reporters on board his Straight Talk Express earlier this week. Still, the senator, who has visited the Lower Ninth Ward twice since the storm, has yet to tread into the far trickier debate over what to do about New Orleans now, a fight that has dragged on and on with little progress since the waters washed part of the city away.
The senator won’t present his own plans for recovery, at least not today. Asked earlier this week if he thought the Lower Ninth Ward should be rebuilt, McCain shrugged, considering the question for several seconds. "I really don’t know," he finally said. "That’s why I am going … We need to go back to have a conversation about what to do: rebuild it, tear it down, you know, whatever it is."
Can’t just wash away all those votes. Not sure how your campaign is going to spin this into faux gold, but don’t try using "let them eat cake" or "suck it up and deal." That doesn’t play well for the masses.
Can’t just wash away all that failure to lead, either. You weren’t exactly standing up for the folks in the Gulf Coast, then or now, were you?
As Scout Prime says, distancing is hard work. While using prison labor to fill out your background shots might be visually useful, some actual work might be a better move. You could start by asking your pal Joe Lieberman when he plans on holding oversight hearings on the contractor that stuffed NOLA levees with newspaper. Since he hasn’t done much of anything up to now, how about you try and get him off his ass…if you are going to use him as a photo prop for your campaign, it’s the very least you could do.
And I do mean, the very least…
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Let Them Eat Cake!
To the woodshed Johnny!
So? Is it just me, or are all the links invisible? I have to highlight text to see them, and they’re in a different font…
I can see ‘em.
Try refreshing the page.
Is Sen. Mc-Nobrain expecting a case of national amnesia to take over? Sorry Johnny – there’s a whole lot of people who remember a whole lot about what happened during and after Katrina.
I’ve done that repeatedly.
I’m sure that your good friend, that nice Mr. Lieberman, will be calling a hearing soon of his Senate Homeland Security and Government Oversight Committee to get that conversation going.
*crickets*
Any day now, I’m sure he’ll put that conversation on the schedule.
*crickets*
Yep, that conversation is right around the corner, I’m sure.
*crickets*
You just wait.
*crickets*
That conversation is going to be really something. People are going to look back and say “Gosh, it’s a good thing we didn’t rush into that conversation for three years, or we might have ruined it.”
*crickets*
And we wouldn’t want that to happen. No matter how many lives it places on hold (or worse) in the meantime.
did you take out the cache? I mean empty
J&J holding hearings? They’re more likely to run off to Massachusetts together and get a marriage license.
If LIEberman has a meaningful hearing on anything dealing with Homeland Security (god, I hate that name… so third reich) I’ll faint dead away.
Good Morning Christy…..
how about that guy… my Senator who now has missed more votes in the Senate that Sen. Tim Johnson…. MORE than a Senator who nearly lost his life……. The citizens of Arizona would like our Senator to do his job that he is currently getting paid for……
Local radio station that McBush has somewhere between 4-8 homes…. some enterprising reporter [is there one left] needs to ask him the cost of milk, bread and gas?
Oh about McBush saying as a woman I need more education & training to get equal pay…… lets see…. I have a diploma in Nursing and a dual BS in Software Engineering & Business AND found out that at previous job I was earning $15K less than the guys who have that extra appendage.
I am sick of the MSM press. When asked why he did not vote for the supplemental $ for Katrina re-build, he stated because it was filled with Pork Barrell spending and waste. No follow up question.
I’m eager for either Hillary to Obama to run against McBush’s record, just like he asked for. Such an easy target.
Boxturtle (Be careful what you ask for, St. John…you might get it)
To me, it echoes more of Botha than the Third Reich. Apartheid-era South Africa had the so-called “homelands;” 1930s Germany had the Fatherland.
Even a marriage license won’t make their crimes legal. lol
You know, every time I hear Mc-nobrain give a speech or “answer” a question, he just talks around and around it..I think his standard answer always includes the phrase, “That’s an interesting question” or “I’m glad you asked that” and then he goes off into the wilderness and never gets back to the subject at hand. He has no answers, that guy.
amen!
Yeah, but could they be forced to testify against each other? :)
I’ve slept since then, but I do recall a LOT of crap being loaded into that bill once it became “must pass”. Not sure I blame McBush too much for that vote, I blame all the cynical b******ds who loaded the bill down.
Boxturtle (Wonder if any of that pork was Hillary or Obama)
I’m seeing them fine as well. What browser are you using?
Christy, Thank you for giving us a McShame/Katrina view. Your take is always good. My family has a large part of its story in NO. It had huge problems before Katrina, but to see him mincing around in his Navy cap with a prissy wife….too much in that seen of disaster, tragedy, and boatloads of sincere, devoted volunteer workers…well, a violation of all that matters. Thank you.
The t3ext is a rather pale blue, I can see them but not without squinting and guessing.
She meant SCENE
Hmmmm — I haven’t fiddled with the font or colors or anything. What browser are you using? I’m wondering if there is a common denominator. Sometimes different browsers read Wordpress differently…
Good Morning Christy -
stuffing the levees with newspaper ??? that story is breaking today, Times-Picayune didn’t have it up yet – although they did have a story on ‘mysterious leak’ at the 17th Street Canal – Times-Pic link
but if you read the ‘newspaper in levees’ story, you see it was used in place of a “rubber joint” anyone wanna guess what that would have cost ?? dear god
Went through and bolded all the links — see if that helps…
I’m in Firefox on my pc and Safari on my Mac. The links are more visible on the mac (like everything else!).
IE, heaven help me, at work. If I recall things were fine for me on Firefox at home this morning. It’s happening at TBogg and EW too, but links at other sites are visible. I’m baffled…
It’s all about the perception. While we folks who follow politics closely know the vacancy of the McCain “forgotten America Tour” in light of the decades of conduct by today’s GOP.
However as a small piece in the NYTimes reports today, South Carolina’s James Clyburn, the House Majority Whip says that large numbers of African-Americans, the ones who stood shoulder to shoulder with then beleaguered Bill Clinton during his impeachment…..those same constituents see a deliberate and malicious attempt on behalf of Bill “Jesse Jackson won South Carolina-Obama’s using the race card” Clinton to destroy Obama’s chances for a win in 2008.
Meanwhile the media helps to promote the “McCain the maverick cares about African-American’s” spin.
So while Bill Clinton continues to spout off with vaguely racists talking points John McCain campaigns as a racial healer who is denouncing attacks on Sen. Obama by GOP operatives.
We know the truth, but it is the perception.
Bill and Hillary and taking a hammer to the base of the Democratic Party and McCain is playing the media propelled role of the great emancipator.
-G
This is why I really want McBush to run on his record:
http://www.aflcio.org/issues/p…..n_bush.cfm
My bet is that if Obama/Clinton brings it up in a debate, he’ll explode.
Boxturtle (Memo to Dem’s: wear old clothes to said debate. Could get messy)
Does the cursor change from an arrow to a pointy finger when you hit one?
i have been through at least 10 hurricanes,one on a boat out at sea,where i got a concussion,and was hospitalized for a month,the last one..Wilma,blew off the roof,i NO longer live in S,Fla,for fear of another near death experience…St John,and his side kick Sancho Lieberputz,are despickable…that is all
Sure, but couldn’t McCain introduce a clean bill or was his staff too busy?
Doesn’t he have to actually care about it first before his staff even bothers? Oh, wait…I think we have our answer…
Wow, on a boat, that is beyond scary!!
Yep. It’s the only way I can tell they’re there!
If my brother’s African-American wife is any barometer(yeah, anecdotal I know)…Needless to say she is seething with great anger at Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton.
Her feelings are almost a mirror of what James Clyburn has articulated.
-G
it is more than vacant,it throws salt on the wounded imo
I went back through the post and bolded all the links. Can you refresh your screen for me and see if that helps you?
Absolutely. ANY senator could, and IIR some tried. Backroom Pork is one of the few items that get bipartisan support.
Boxturtle (In McBush’s defense, his staff is probably very busy issuing “clarifications” after his speeches)
and I’m seething with anger at John McCain, he’s done nothing for the people of New Orleans, nothing.
48 hrs,not knowing if we would make it,with perfect storm type waves,needless to say ,i never leave port without sight of land anymore….yeeesh
I interesting note about Hurricane Wilma, electric poles are rated to withstand 120 mph winds, and Hurricane Wilma had 118 mph winds, and yet about 10,000 electric poles were broken or blew down. As far as I know, no reason was ever given.
It’s very peculiar. As the page begins to load I can see them, but when it’s finished loading they disappear. I’m completely befuddled.
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That prison labor story is pretty astounding, definitely worth clicking through. The mayor of the town in Alabaman personally requested prison labor to set up for the McCain event because “The regular workers don’t work on Sundays, when the event had to be set up.”
Yeah, right. I’m betting they actually “don’t work” without being paid overtime.
Yeah, but I just watched Mc
Maybe the same folks who hacked Lieberman’s site are after us. :-)
Boxturtle (Can’t duplicate your problem here, I tried)
The only one I can consistently see is the one at the bottom indicating new comments, the “Click here to load them!” link. That’s a normal blue underscored link. Weird…
Exactly my earlier point. And the MSM let’s him get by with throwing a red meat GOP slogan out there (filled with pork barrell spending) and not challenging him on finding a solution and providing leadership.
I did notice a little more scrutinizing of McCain this morning on CBS. Maggie was asking about the GOP ad in NC and how he was unable to get the ad taken down and didn’t that demonstrate a lack of power or leadership within his own party. It had some teeth to it at least.
prolly tornados..spawned…guess what…they were concrete and steel snapped in half ,
its not NICE TO FOOL mother nature…
Recent Works in Southern Cal. The first signs probably been seen close to a million times by now – cost me a dime.
http://freewayblogger.blogspot…..works.html
Hell of a lot of fun, this. And once others catch on we may even get our country back!
I just watched McCain on MSNBC declaring the GOP is the party of Lincoln and that the North Carolina GOP is ‘out of touch’ with the reak GOP.
The media is going to help McCain catapult his propaganda. Thumb in the eye, dishonest as all hell, but repetive and ultimately we know the GOP repeat, wash, repeat propaganda efforts work pretty damn well.
-G
(Refreshed)
Every time one of my programs does an automatic update, (like IE or security updates) I have a new and different problem to get used to. Previous to my most recent update, when I opened the second page of a post, I had to refresh half a dozen times to get it to the “Done” point so that I could use the “Reply” function or preview or link properly. My most recent updates seem to have fixed that problem, but if I have several 2nd pages open at the same time, one of the pages ultimately goes blank and spins and spins with a blank page. Sometimes it does it while I’m trying to read the post. I’m wondering if your program has recently updated itself. Otherwise, rebooting should help, because I, too, can see the links fine.
Along with the stupid smirk and laugh. The best example of that I can think of is when the kid asked about Hillary having a shot and a beer. He was simply stupified. Couldn’t talk. Babblemuch.
McC speechified at the funeral of Pat Tillman. He basked in the glory of the “War Hero” as one “Hero” paid homage to the other, but when it came time to rail against the Bush Administration for its deliberate lying about the fratricide of Tillman and the cover up McC was as silent as Tillman is. A senator from Arizona and a famous “Son” and nothing but silence from both of them. One of them should have been screaming; instead the only sound was Tillman spinning in his grave.
You want to complain about Obama’s associations? How about McC and his association with Bushco? If credibility has anything to do with who you know, McC is the greater sinner by a mile.
I can’t wait till the general election.
McCrazy likens himself to Lincoln and TR and then goes to Reagan. The first two political ideals are diametrically opposed to the last. Where does bipolar and senility become seperated from reality…very Bush-like.
he is their ANOINTED one..Saint McShame…he will be thrown NERF balls,cause he can do NO WRONG period
i can hum this…dontcha know that i love you…dododododdo
MSNBC website has a frontline article on how McCane has flipped on taxes. Sorry, can’t link on this toy computer.
Calling the NC Reps “out of touch” may just turn them against him. Turn NC Blue!
Meanwhile George ‘Small government’ Bush s touting the fact that his bribes, err, refunds are ‘gonna help the economy’.
Eeeffah.
-G
This is my concern. McBush, we can beat easily. With MSM running for the VP slot, there’s BILLIONS of dollars of free airtime available for propaganda and that changes the equation.
Boxturtle (I miss Baghdad Bob, at least he was funny)
McShame= HERO ,he will be forgiven everything
even Richard Lewis said it on KO,5x last nite,that is the meme
I put up the August 29, 2005 photo last night. It is from the White House site. They were so proud of it and all.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news…..-515h.html
True. And we can’t successfully fight that. But there’s plenty of stuff out there that he “stands behind” or hasn’t asked forgivness for that we can hammer him with. We shouldn’t need to go after the mistakes he’s admitted were mistakes.
Boxturtle (I LOVE a target rich environment)
I’d just like to know how you define pork in a situation like Katrina!
back to those ^%@#^%!@&%! newspapers – the Contractor is Ercon Corp.
here is a handy list of their Federal Contracts through 2007
FedSpending.Org
and would love to hear from anyone who can explain the levels of ‘competition’ as laid out in the pie chart under “Extent of Competition”
interesting (not!) that the righteous cash comes from Tauzin’s district
not a peep on any of the cable nets about this
how do you refute a saint?
Money for non-Katrina-related things.
Remember some of the German war heros from WWI..and where their futures ended. All they wanted was a chance to get even for their beloved military. It was a McCrazy idea..right?
there is a company that was < 2 miles from my house in Fl.it was called ASHBRIT</p>
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13153520/
The McCain-Lieberman-New Orleans connection and the lack of activity by McCain and investigation by Lieberman are prototypical examples of an old mind think, that no one will remember anything that happened more than a week ago and so the
hypocrisydiscrepancy between their current positions and their previous ones will remain forgotten. However, this is precisely what the blogosphere does. It remembers and makes the connections. So the story is there. The question is will the MSM pick up on it? There natural tendency is to bury it which is why we should push it..
Only way I know of is with a more powerful Saint.
Boxturtle (Where is Mother Teresa when we need her?)
but only by his ‘base’ the McRib cultists who will look increasingly out of touch to everyday folks spending $5 on a gallon of milk and $4/gal of gas
and hey sadlyyes,
the second I saw the word “fleecing” in your link, knew it was Meyers – keep waiting for the press release on her departure to pursue ‘personal interests’ *g*
As usual, the people who should have gotten the work – the people at the local level – neither got the work nor got the money.
Thank you for a wonderful big outburst laugh,{{{{{{mwah}}}}}}},i must now go work
me thinks HALEY FUKKIN BARBOUR too
BTW the detectives who killed Sean Bell and fired 50 shots at him, unarmed the day before his wedding, have been acquitted.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04…..LL.html?hp
ICF International has a $756 million contract with the state to administer the Road Home Program. Contract was increased to $912 million and they are not even doing a good job.
OT: Breaking News from your MSNBC link “US Military contracted ship fires on Iranian boat. Here we go.
oh fuk
By all means drag that traitorous bastard Lieberman into this mix.
Staple their ill fitting suits together at the hip.
Lieberman’s lack of ambition when it comes to getting off his ass and doing his job investigating Katrina and the strangling of money for repairs needs to be highlited.
I would also like to see the worthless bastards from the MSM do an hour long special INSIDE the Ninth Ward but I ain’t holding my breath.
The whole thing is a black mark on the government and a neon light over the Republican self interest mindset.
charment
?
MSNBC is currently running it as a banner, no details yet.
Boxturtle (I second the “Oh Fuk”)
yep.
No details, just the breaking news banner at the top of their website. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/
The first shot across the bow fired at Iran. I knew these fuckers were going to do it.
I have not understood why Lieberman’s incompetant performance as Chairman has not been hung around his neck like a dead and rotting piece of meat.
“Military Contracted Ship”?
Blackwater?
You had the same thought I did.
Here is the Rueters article
Got it, I was looking on the FDL news thingy.
guess no more election….
A cargo ship contracted by the U.S Military Sealift Command has fired at least one shot toward an Iranian boat, a U.S. defense official said on Friday.
“It was an MSC vessel,” the official said, confirming the ship fired on an Iranian boat.
oy,FEINGOLD and BIDEN ,better screw their courage to the sticking place
wow – someone here raised the issue of “contracted ships” sometime within the last 2 weeks – Siun ? Angie ?
and what kind/class/level of weaponry can one find on a MSC ?
The Military Sealift Command (MSC) is a United States Navy (USN) organization that controls most of the replenishment and military transport ships of the Navy. It first came into existence on 9 July 1949 when the Military Sea Transportation Service (MSTS) became solely responsible for the Department of Defense’s ocean transport needs. The MSTS was renamed the Military Sealift Command in 1970.
Military Sealift Command ships are civilian manned, and are referred to be as being in service, rather than in commission. Some, owned by the United States Government, have the prefix USNS, standing for United States Naval Ship, whilst others, on charter or equivalent, are simply the normal merchant MV or SS. Their hull numbers have the prefix T- in addition to the normal hull number that an equivalent commissioned ship in the USN would have.
Four programs comprise Military Sealift Command: Sealift, Naval Fleet Auxiliary Force (NFAF), Special Mission, and Prepositioning. The Sealift program provides the bulk of the MSC’s supply-carrying operation and operates tankers for fuel transport and dry-cargo ships that transport equipment, vehicles, helicopters, ammunition, and supplies. The NFAF’s role is to directly replenish ships that are underway at sea, enabling them to deploy for long periods of time without having to come to port. The Special Mission program operates vessels for unique military and federal government tasks, such as submarine support and missile flight data collection and tracking. The Prepositioning program sustains the U.S. military’s forward presence strategy by deploying supply ships in key areas of the ocean before it is actually needed.
I am finding Armament:None on all the craft I can identify but I sure as hell wouldn’t want to be there unarmed.
You picked the wrong fields . . . I think McCain believes we need more MINERS . . . now there’s a field for women!
Combine todays actions with this WSJ article and one could surmize that the whackos are really going to try and attack Iran. “US Says new find indicates Iran still sending weapons to Iraq”
So who commands these ships and gives permission to start international incidents. I am trying to understand how this could happen. What would the Iranian ship had to have done, short of firing at the Sealift to provoke such a response?
well i thought May…sigh
whackos at the helm,that is all over and out
Katymine – that whole “women need more education and training” thing just makes me want to fly into a zillion pieces. Women in this country are already more educated than men are. Females already outnumber males in college. If every employed female decided tomorrow to just not work for a couple of weeks, the whole damn place would come to a screeching halt. That whole issue is based on employers dependence on being able to get the same skill set as men have(or better, goodness knows), but at a cut-rate, sex-based discount. And we are supposed to sit there, smile and be grateful for being allowed to work.
thanks for all the 4-1-1.
Bush keeps bitchin- moanin an complainin about Iran. Bout time someone asks him “So what the fuck are ya gonna DO about it- last time I looked- you were the fuckin president”
It’s gettin down ta “Johnnie keeps HITTIN me momy”
I think since the USS Cole was bombed, ships fire shots over the bow of any craft that approaches, unless they know who it is.
si,si senora
hope it aint 10 dollar gas coming to you this summer…oy
There was a similar incident in the Suez Canal on March 25 where an American supply ship fired on and killed an Egyptian. Egyptians in small boats often approach ships to sell them cigarettes.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/…..s.suez.ap/
yea but they would love to get Iran,egypt …not so much.i must go work ,bbl
and the est. $750 million we’re spending a day in Iraq would have re built NO in what 60 days, 90 days ?!?!? X~(
True. But we aren’t looking for a reason to bomb Egypt.
Ya know, the thought that the dark o’ the moon right on top of the Dem convention would be a perfect time to hit Iran seems to come through regardless of if I have my tinfoil hat on.
Boxturtle (Shiny side out, always)
Add posin’ to bitchin’, moanin’ and complainin’ and you’ve summed up Bush’s approach to being Preznit.
Hello, hello.
Whew.
My laptop blew it last night.
Man, I was jonesing.
New wheels now, tho. Helps having a mister with extra equipment. ha.
I’m for “put up or shut up” on Iran..
“Listen here you little prick of a president- if you want to go to war with Iran- then put a formal proposal before congress and we’ll debate and vote on it- but we aren’t going to let you get away with this endless fuckin whining about it”.
It’s silver and sleek and No Spew On The Screen.
cbl2 at 68—-thanks for the freakin’ gold mine of a site!!!!!!!!
is exactly what i was needing for things i’m doing for an ohio project…….my oh my…….
can’t thank you enough….
back to Christy’s post –
McCain’s responses reflect someone who has never been held to account on anything -
“shrugged”, “I really don’t know” “whatever it is”
Oil up $3.04 to 119.10
Go in front of Congress?!? I want some of what you’re smoking!
If Bush decides to hit Iran, Congress won’t know about it until well after the bombs start falling.
Boxturtle (Bush will probably get 6 waves of bombers through before Nancy even expresses indignation)
SHIIIITE!
you’re welcome!
it drives me around the bend how much stuff is out here in open source media and they can’t put the ribs down long enough to take a peek -
Yep, it’ll be the Air Force that gets it done. Or some “victimized” neighbor that provides the opening.
I now notice the AF recruitment ads (never saw those before) v. Army.
caption:
Really, $125/barrel ? wow, I see what Dick was sayin’ now
McStoooooooooopit today
McCain today on Barack Obama …
I think it’s very clear who Hamas wants to be the next president of the United States. So apparently has Danny Ortega and several others. I think that people should understand that I will be Hamas’s worst nightmare….If senator Obama is favored by Hamas I think people can make judgments accordingly.
no McGiggolo…you are OUR WORST NIGHTMARE
My tinfoil hat is on backwards/inside out:
I’ll bet you anything Goodyear has a contract with these guys for tires and conveyor belts…just sayin’. no evidence, just the tinfoil.
Jeeze..he doesn’t even know the difference between Hamas, Al-Queda, Sunnis and Shia…Mc-nobrain.
I think McCain is stuck emotionally in pre-Vietnam mode. I was watching footage of and remembering the horrible racial violence…the horrible assassinations the country experienced…McCain has a major disconnect in his mind…
The other day he said that people who fought in WWII came back and created a nation better than the nation we have now. The Leave it to Beaver days or something.
He is numb and disconnected — especially when it comes to civil rights and just plain compassion for fellow citizens. That is what is so incredibly frighting about him…he can’t really feel anything…he’s stuck. Perhaps it is due to his POW years and perhaps that is just the way he is.
I bet AQ, Al Sadr, Nazrellah, Iran, and Satan himself will be accused of supporting Obama before this elections is over.
Boxturtle (McBush better worry if Satan goes for Obama. Its tough for a republican to get elected without that endoresement)
My take on that response was that he realized he couldn’t go into “straight talk” mode ie. “these jobs aren’t coming back” because that would be heartless and callous. So he shrugged instead and fumbled for the “we’ll look into it” deflection.
Wow, I sense the concern, don’t you? /s
Yeah. We think this campaign is in the gutter now? Hah! Just wait.
That pic kinda freaked me when I first saw it.
What? Just how is that appropriate?
I thought they didn’t have That Kind of behaviour in the mid East.
No PDA.
I agree, but how can one say that in a campaign in an acceptable above the belt way? I’m sure there is a way, but can’t think of it at the moment. (still waking up).
aha
heres the problem methinks
Iran agrees to talk with nuclear arms inspectors
The head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog calls the accord to discuss alleged evidence of a weapons program a milestone.
By Borzou Daragahi, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
April 24, 2008
BEIRUT — International arms inspectors have reached an agreement with Tehran to discuss alleged evidence of nuclear weapons experiments, officials said Wednesday, signaling a potential breakthrough in negotiations over Iran’s controversial research program.
Arms control experts call the purported evidence “the alleged studies of weaponization.” The material was discovered on a laptop computer purportedly smuggled out of Iran and given to U.S. officials. Its authenticity has long been a bone of contention between Tehran and international inspectors.
NO CAN HAVE DETENTE,no can do
Newspaper in the levees??? Holy shizza.
Someone really wants the 9th Ward gone forever…
Where is the accountability Lieberman??
Oil up to $119…Nice job President Clusterfuck!
No. Dick Cheney is a republic, remember?/s
Were they Republican Newspapers?
That’s $119.10 Bush dollars. A Bush dollar is about equal in value to a Canadian dollar. Before we stopped using real American dollars in 2001, oil was much cheaper.
gotta go work a double – blergh
y’all be good to one another
Cliff Schecter said he has ALWAYS BEEN THUS,in high school they called him McNASTY…true dat
Yep. black and white and red/read all over.
Hi from the ninth ward! (upper not lower) Thanks for writing this Christy. There is so much to be done still down here. I’m always thrilled to see us back in the news and in the minds of folks!
$200 here we come!
We’re getting close to $4/gal at the pump here in Vegas, probably be there in a month or less. Then on to $5.
me too,but here i sitz waiting for another war to start…..oy
How many houses would Mc$$ and $indy have to sell to make a big chunk of improvement in the 9th Ward. Say 6 of their McMansions would just about recreate the missing homes in the area. Did they offer?
That what McCain wants for the country is regress not progress. He is a backwards-facing candidate. His policies are proven faulty and the country needs to move forward with progressive policies not regressive thinking. McCain’s ideals are a fantasy, not reality. He wants to dismantle our society and go back in time. Things like that. He is not in touch with reality…nevermind the people.
Jeepers. No problem with that chain of custody of evidence, is there? /s
They’re workin’ on it.
A US military “contract” ship fired on a Iranian boat today.
i live in the ninth ward on the side of that is on high ground and we’re a vibrant part of still hurting city… the lower ninth ward (holy cross area) also didn’t flood and that’s where all the people are. As you drive towards the lake from the river, in all parts of the city, there are still huge swaths of abandoned houses. It’s the same typical pattern.
I was just talking to a friend in NO. I am wondering if you know of any work/volunteer projects where someone can come to help out for a few days? Names to contact, etc.
Looking at his record…makes me think he doesn’t like or respect black people…period. He’s an empty suit.
Thanks LS. you rock.
I’m glad Christy brought up Katrina today too. I’ve been obsessing on the fact that it is still ignored. It’s the equivalent of the Dust Bowl of the 30’s IMO. They can bail out Wall Street, they can give tax money to fraudulent contractors, and leave real people with real needs hurting. Breaks my heart.
Yeah we’ve been close to $4 (and in a few instances OVER) on premium grades for a while here. Regular is still below- but not much…
I am actually in favor of higher gas prices so I don’t mind seein it go to five.
My wife just got back to germany where it is somewhere around $10 by the time you convert from liters to gallons and then convert to Bush dollars.
yah,thats why my nerves on total overload
cbl2 at 126–well, be reassured, not only do i use what you pass out for all kinds of different things, i pass it on to ’them’ when i write….and they aren’t all eatin’ cocktail weenies.
when i found http://www.newsmeat.com, i went there to track political money, but has given me a list of where people have been employed, hooking them up with who knows whom, that’s one of the reasons i love it….i see a name, i pull it up…..has led me to all kinds of dark places under rocks. then i flip ’em over……
so, thanks.
And I think he doesn’t like hard work. Sound familiar? I think we do not need another Prez whose favorite locale is a place in TX for cutting brush and riding bikes. We do need someone who wants to go to work. That would be both Clinton and Obama, I think
well, I recommend you get in touch with Habitat for Humanity. There are also lots of Baptist organizations working down here. If you call nearly any church in the area, they can place you also.
Did everyone sign the moveon.org petition re: McCain Outrage in New Orleans?
http://webmail.ca.rr.com/do/ma…..v=standard
All part of the Life-Is-A-Shit-Sandwich ethos.
i.e., the more bread you got, the less shit you gotta eat.
Already past 4 bucks in central california.
As Kevin Phillips points out in “Bad Money”, the govt. is hiding the REAL rate of inflation- so Bush dollars are actually worth LESS than what official statistics would suggest- and financial markets are actually NEGATIVE through the seven years of the misadministration when you adjust for the TRUE rate of inflation. Those on social security have LESS every month–etc…
It’s an ugly game.
Thank you. I will explore; I am seriously thinking about some days later, yeah, a NO summer.
Oh! I never heard that one before!
I have to say after Katrina, Hillary was down here a lot. Mary Landrieu who needs a lot of help to get re-elected down here, we’re going red state quickly, brought a busload full of senators down here. I don’t recall McCain being one of them. But Hillary came down here a lot. Obama came down and gave the post katrina graduation speech at Dillard. I think finding out who actually came down here right after the floods shows who really supported us.
Yeah, when were in the UK and France 4 years ago for le Tour, we paid around $6.23 a gallon equivalent for the the cars we rented. With the subsequent USD freefall, I can only imagine.
And the one with the gold rules; yet, it is nice note to be cynical.
Been past four bucks in NoCal for a while now…we boast the highest prices in my town. Even SF is a bit lower.
We used to think of driving trips in terms of time. Now we think in terms of gas money. Oh, that’s $10 of driving, $20 of driving. etc.
let me know if you’re coming down, i’m teaching one seminar for summer school and trying to get some papers published, but I’m usually pretty open during the summer, I’d be glad to show you around
I’ve always found the story of the controversial body recovery contractor after Katrina. I believe the death count was much, much higher than we were told. I would imagine they didn’t want the body count to exceed 3,000 and trump 9/11. Just sayin’…no proof or anything…but that crony company was the same company that dumped all those bodies before Katrina.
I live to serve.
;)
Ford surprises the street and reports a small profit.
Ford is actually doing a good job. It’s quality is now in Toyota territory and it’s one of the only companies to provide a small suv with a hybrid power train…
If they can get ahead of the curve on fuel economy- they could do well and I will buy nothing but Ford if they do.
Toby, I’ve often wondered what would happen if women unionized, regardless of occupation, and conducted a general strike, a modern day Lysistrata. What would happen if women marched, rioted and burned every time a man was acquitted of murdering a woman?
Care to comment on the Road Home program, since you are in New Orleans?
Sorry, guys. I gave you the wrong link to moveon.org petition.
Here it is
http://pol.moveon.org/mccain_p…..Z&t=3
sadlyyes at 139–”Iran agrees to talk with nuclear arms inspectors”
yep, we say ’here kitty kitty” and when it gets close enough, stomp on it.
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this is what i’ve been pushing and sending out today in letters and calls—
please ask your guests to comment on the syrian president saying this week he will not have talks with the bush white house but will with the new president, whomever that is. (this wasn’t mentioned much in the news, i thought it was BIG news)
and then right after that statement, the white house released the new ’classified’ information about syria which is now all over the news.
and no mention of syria’s previous statement about bush and his representatives.
Is there a list or article anywhere of who supported you early on and who still is?
Ditto. We no longeer make any unnecessary trips.
McCain was against relief funding before he came out against Bush response. Only thing clear is that he doesn’t care about NO and only campaigns there because of visibility/PR he might get as being compassionate. Remember how well compassionate conservatism has turned out!
There is some level of gas pricing where consumers will wake up and change what they buy. We aren’t there yet. It may BE $10 per gallon.
Most cars probably use about 100 gallons of fuel per month to stick to round numbers- so $10 adds up to $1,000 per month- per vehicle. Most households have at least two_ so yer talkin two thousand dollars per month
MIGHT encourage people to buy em some hybrids.
Yeah. Just one comment really. Another Disaster. The private contractor is getting huge amounts of money for one of the most inefficiently run programs ever. They were so afraid that folks would take the money and do something stupid with it, they spent more time and moeny ensuring that would happen then in getting money out to the folks that need it. Many of the people I know that actually got money didn’t really get enough to finish their houses. I didn’t even both with it, I went for a historic houses grant instead. Mitch Landrieu handled that money and I got approved and given a check within weeks. I had the money sitting in the back before I could even find a contractor to do the jobs.
Road Home is the reason Governor Blanco would have been seriously beaten if she would have run for re-election. It’s just a huge mess and they’re still finding serious problems with the contractor running it. They just keep running out of money because they seriously underestimated the need.
The only problem with that is the credit market. Lots of folks in credit card debt are stuck with the gas guzzlers not because they want to continue to drive it, but because they don’t have the ability to finance another car.
Let’s see how McCain and the Repugs handle this … Sadr instructs his followers to wage open war against the Americans …
I am going to say a prayer for my nephew and all the troops stuck in this quagmire … Congress has failed them once again …
Yes.
http://www.womenofthestorm.net/
yeah- it’s a problem- and govt. should probably do something to offset the costs for low income people- but in the end, cost increases are the only way to solve this problem. They will either come from well thought out govt. action- or through the vagaries of the oil market.
OT, but it strikes at McCain’s “My wife’s a multi-millionaire and I have a government pension and healthcare, but you folks should stand on your own two, well, one, foot” hypocrisy. The same hypocrisy, with a few twists, that’s now infecting Chuck Schumer. Following is the gist of a note to my CongressCritter about Schumer’s claim that “America isn’t ready” for a national healthcare system.
Sen. Schumer’s comments read as if Karl Rove is advising him, too. They’re a great way to turn away progressives in the fall and to cater to conservatives who would never vote for Schumer’s priorities even if he used as much Chapstick as Joey Lieberman.
The answer to Bring it On; W gets another sports outing for himself. Why doesn’t he join the action, please.
Well, I just heard a Rush rant on McC for not being a Conservative, then his being critical of the NC ad. Rush really hot that MC can be a Maverick, but not OK for others to be…..
Then I got a clue where all the cult language may be coming from. He called being cult, having a Messiah is cult of personality that does not go with being a Repub. Sounded awfully familiar accusing the opponents of being a cult. Just wondering….
Hey the commercial for this is already available…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRar6yKZE8g
Here ya go…from a CBS News broadcast back from 1972 (you know when stories were longer than 2 minutes!)…watch for Rove after 3 min…
Lest we forget…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BM0zJl9Bxk8
Tap yer toes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGoEcIEv3_Y
Bear Sterns has endorsed McCain…………………….
China says McCain would be better for their economy than the regulating Dems…………….