From SPLOID: The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is the lead federal agency in the rescue & recovery operation at work in New Orleans and the Mississippi gulf coast. FEMA has released to the media and on its Web site a list of suggested charities to help...
Katrina As Divine Retribution — ‘Christian Zionist’ Version
The prophets of Katrina-as-divine-retribution are proliferating by the minute. The "we hate Arabs" wing of the blogosphere was quick to publicize this one, a find by the ever-prolific MEMRI -- devoted to proving that all things Muslim are the root of all evil -- and...
Oh, One More Thing, America…
As you're watching all this footage of people in Louisiana and Mississippi sleeping in overcrowded gymnasiums, their homes destroyed, loved ones missing, jobs lost… just remember that YOUR money is going to pay Gaza "settlers" $200,000 to $300,000 per family to...
Yes, This Is Personal
Steven Plaut, an Israeli business professor and David Horowitz hanger-on whose intelligence has been unfavorably compared to that of a retarded lemur, writes:[W]e thought we’d bring you the list of countries from around the world (and overseas Red Cross offices) that...
Opportunity Costs: Iraq and Katrina
Radley Balko on Katrina:The federal government has again failed at the one thing it's actually supposed to do: Protect us from outside threats. Perversely, this failure is the direct result of a fool's errand carried out in response to the massive failure of four...
Baghdad on the Gulf of Mexico
When are Americans going to begin asking the obvious question: "Is this how the much-vaunted Homeland Security Department handles a real disaster?" WWLTV.com | News for New Orleans, Louisiana | Local News (AP) The evacuation of the Superdome was suspended Thursday...
Bring Them Home Now Bus Tour Begins
On Wednesday, in my hometown of Austin, Texas, I took part in a march of - my best guess - a thousand or so people, from the Texas state capital building to city hall, where we met up with the buses from Cindy Sheehan's Bring Them Home Now Bus Tour. It was a quite...
700 Club’s New Disclaimer
Following Pat Robertson's call for the assassination of Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez, the station 'ABC Family' has apparently decided to run a new disclaimer at the end of the 700 Club's broadcasts. The previous message read "The preceding program was brought to...
