According to cnn.com Rita — the powerful Category 5 storm plowing across the Gulf of Mexico – has become the third most intense hurricane on record, according to National Hurricane Center data. Long lines of cars Wednesday headed out of coastal Texan towns and Houston – the fourth most populous city in the country. Evacuating parents were told to take photos of their children and to give them identification in case they get separated. Oh no.
Think Progress » Right-Wing Myths About Katrina, Debunked Worth a look. (thanks Etherealgirl)
One last try on the Roberts issue. He is clearly smart – but here are my two main objections to him. 1) We just simply don’t know enough about him. It’s too important a job to hand to someone who has been cultivated as an unknowable. What are they holding back by refusing to release those papers? I think that the Senate should be able to see all documents related to Roberts’ government service before voting on a confirmation. What…
Ask the President & Congress to Appoint an Independent Nonpartisan Commission to Investigate Government’s Response to Katrina Common Cause calls on the President and the United States Congress to appoint an independent, nonpartisan commission modeled on the 9-11 Commission to investigate government’s response to the disaster caused by Hurricane Katrina. We believe it is critical that the commission be appointed soon. While the foremost priority now has to be the recovery of the affected areas and, especially, the dislocated residents,…
Urge the FDA to improve access to the morning-after pill Target: U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Commissioner Lester Crawford Sponsor: NARAL Pro-Choice America The Bush administration has broken its promise to make a decision on the morning-after pill by September 1. American women have waited more than two years for the FDA to decide whether women can purchase the morning-after pill over the counter. The Bush administration explicitly promised the U.S. Senate that the FDA would stop dragging its…
Kudos to Maureen Dowd for giving us the background on the “background” of Bush’s speech in New Orleans. It did look like he might have been speaking at Disneyland, in more ways than one. In a ruined city – still largely without power, stinking with piles of garbage and still 40 percent submerged; where people are foraging in the miasma and muck for food, corpses and the sentimental detritus of their lives; and where unbearably sad stories continue to spill…