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Bush Kinda Sorta Takes Responsibility

Bush Kinda Sorta Takes Responsibility

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CNN.com – Bush: ‘I take responsibility’ for U.S. failures – Sep 13, 2005 The headline is clearcut, but not the actual statement. “Katrina exposed serious problems in our response capability at all levels of government and to the extent the federal government didn’t fully do its job right, I take responsibility.” Well, I’m really really glad to see that that, you know, to the extent that “the federal government” didn’t, um, FULLY do its job RIGHT – Bush is willing…

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Small Cause, Big Effect

Small Cause, Big Effect

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The blackouts in the Los Angeles area took my host’s network off-line for several hours on Monday afternoon. My work site and email were down too. You mean to say that our electrical network is so poorly planned that a couple of workers could accidently take down much of LA for hours just by cutting a cable? The internet is reliant on its hardware, which is in turn reliant upon electricity. When my work website and email were down, we…

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Katrina Anti-Profiteering Petition

Katrina Anti-Profiteering Petition

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Sign it here. Halliburton Corporation — Vice President Dick Cheney’s former company — received a $30 million contract to clean up after Hurricane Katrina. Lobbyists are lining up to grab profits for their clients without having to competitvely (sic) bid for Katrina reconstruction work. Some contracts will be worth hundreds of millions of dollars, maybe even billions. Companies like Halliburton shouldn’t be able to cash in on their political connections to steal a profit after Hurricane Katrina. Send a message…

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Laura Bush – Corinna Corinna

Laura Bush – Corinna Corinna

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Laura Bush (and again, what drugs do they have her on?) referred to the hurricane Katrina as “Corinna” twice. It wouldn’t bother me so much except that: 1) It occurred to me that it was a Freudian slip. Whoopi Goldberg may be the only black person that Laura can think of, and she is assocated with a killer hurricane? What does that imply? Some sort of “they brought it on themselves” idea? Or should we look at the movie itself,…

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Top War Profiteer Doug Feith Retires

Top War Profiteer Doug Feith Retires

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OpEdNews.Com Progressive, Tough Liberal News and Opinion A must read on Doug Feith, cooked intelligence, the Iraq war, and profit players. Here are just a couple little tidbits. Read the whole thing. The DPB is a group of 30 people, who for the most part were chosen by Rumsfeld and Feith, that advises officials on whether to go to war or not. Many of its members are literally making a fortune off a war which they had been promoting for…

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New Orleans Reversal

New Orleans Reversal

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Brian Williams checks in on the big reversal. Daily Nightly: That sinking feeling – Nightly News with Brian Williams – MSNBC.com At one fire scene, I counted law enforcement personnel (who I presume were on hand to guarantee the safety of the firefighters) from four separate jurisdictions, as far away as Connecticut and Illinois. And tempers are getting hot. While we were attempting to take pictures of the National Guard (a unit from Oklahoma) taking up positions outside a Brooks…

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