CNN remembers Michael Brown, the criminally incompetant Bush FEMA appointee for the period during hurricane Katrina.
Newsweek poll:
“Almost one year after Hurricane Katrina struck, are you generally satisfied or dissatisfied with the progress that has been made in rebuilding the city of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast?”
Only 28% are satisfied.
“All in all, do you think George W. Bush has followed through on his promise to rebuild New Orleans and the […]
The Yes Men (see the documentary about them if you haven’t already) impersonated Bush Administration officials and announced what should have been announced long ago. TPM Muckraker:
Posing as fictitious senior HUD official Rene Oswin, Andy Bichlbaum — a member of the Group the Yes Men — promised big (and unlikely) changes in New Orleans to […]
NBC Nightly News last night had a retrospective at the end of their program about which showed hurricane Katrina through the eyes of several of its journalists who were covering the disaster, one year ago. Some of it is rather tough footage to watch. Tougher still to know that this truly incompetent government wasn’t helping […]
Eugene Robinson of the Washington Post delivers again, this time with a piece on Katrina.
Last year, with most of the city still underwater, George W. Bush stood in Jackson Square and promised to rebuild New Orleans. He could have made good on that promise — this is the United States of America, after all, and […]
I wrote this paper this past spring for my final exam in a natural disasters course in college. As dictated by the assignment, I read the paper aloud to the class, and when I was finished everybody just looked stunned and then slowly broke into loud applause. Later, the professor pulled me aside and told […]
Associated Press reports that a year after Katrina, the President says that only now is rebuilding “beginning.”
President Bush said Monday the huge job of rebuilding from Hurricane Katrina was just beginning a year after the massive storm but expressed hope that the $110 billion of help sent from Washington would be enough.
Trying to erase the […]
ThinkProgress has one of the best hurricane Katrina timelines on the internet.
Wikipedia also has an excellent entry on the hurricane as well.
On this anniversary, let’s not forget:
School children across the United States have raised more money for Katrina relief efforts than many major U.S. corporations, according to a non-profit group, RandomKid, which has tracked donations by children.
Over $10 million was raised by school kids through bake sales, lemonade stands, car washes and other fundraisers, according to […]
Get ready for a day full of hurricane Katrina anniversary posts.
Who would have thought, a year ago, that House Majority Leader Tom DeLay’s seat, in the reddest part of Texas would end up going to a Democrat this year? Well, DeLay resigned in disgrace, and now a Democrat is poised to win the race, according to Congressional Quarterly, a nonpartisan political analysis group.
The Texas Republican […]
Let’s not forget that it was former Democrat Joe Lieberman who headed Michael “Heck of a job” Brown’s 46-minute Senate confirmation hearings. Brown, who served as head of FEMA during Hurricane Katrina had no experience in emergency management until he was appointed by President Bush to the top job in the field. Brown’s previous job […]
The Emmys were on last night. I didn’t watch them.
“I think this year you actually made a terrible mistake, but thank you.”
Jon Stewart makes his living speaking the words on all of our minds, and he didn’t take a vacation Sunday night just because he was on the Emmy Awards. The shrinking number of television […]
I first saw this video several months ago, though I don’t think I linked to it then. Very funny animated music video about bombing Iran. It’s set to the tune of the Beach Boys classic “Barbra Ann” in case you were wondering where you recognized it from. Check out the creator’s website here.
I don’t even need to make a comment about how incredibly ironic this is:
In an ironic twist, legislation that would open up the murky world of government contracting to public scrutiny has been derailed by a secret parliamentary maneuver.
An unidentified senator placed a “secret hold” on legislation introduced by Sens. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., and Barack […]
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