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Hot Headlines, September 2005

9/10/05
The Election of a Buffoon: The Complicity of the Media | Craig Crawford: We Now See George Bush For Who He Really Is | "A Nixon Feel"
FEMA's Michael Brown Removed From Hurricane Recovery, Sent Back to DC to Shuffle Papers | Brownout! | Al Gore airlifts victims from New Orleans | Why Bush Didn't Meet with Black Hurricane Victims on First Visit: You Can't Make This Up! | "Bush has made it abundantly clear that he has no heart for those suffering" | After Katrina; America's Political Crisis | 2004 Simulation Predicted Breeched Levees, "Catastrophic Mass Casualty/Mass | Those who are staying have nowhere to go | Compassionate conservatives in action - post Katrina | Savagery: Cops from other cities blocked fleeing New Orleans residents | Katrina probe coverup: More Republican projection as they fear the truth that will be revealed | Debit card brainwave lasted all of two days | Gut Check Time, USA | GOP Continues to Hit Jarring Notes About Katrina and Its Aftermath | Bush suspends minimum... er, prevailing wage in recovery area | Nursing home operator refused transport | Insurers call storm 2 events, avoid payment | Updated Katrina Timeline from Think Progress | Military using Katrina to Recruit | Vietnam donates $100,000 for Katrina | 6 year old leads five toddlers to safety | Bush turns down 'extensive' Israel aid | Bush: "Detached and Unaware" | It's all about politics: Bush Links Hurricane, 9/11 | "N.H. Dem blasts storm response" | $51B in aid, but it's bottled up | Guardsmen back from Iraq go home to La. | Bush sneaks more union busting into Katrina relief bill
Paul Krugman: Point Those Fingers | Finger Pointing Crises: Ken Mehlman Is On The Case
Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid: Drownie Still Heads FEMA | FEMA problems continue with evacuees | Michael Brown Should Have Been Fired in 2003 | Transforming FEMA | More on FEMA | FEMA Backgrounders | Coinkydinks | Top FEMA managers qualified at nothing but spin! | You Call That Resume Padding? Drownie as a Kerik rerun | Today and GMA Foolishly Blow Story on FEMA Head Brown | Michael Brown's Resume Chock Full Of Lies | How did Drownie get his security clearance? | Michael Brown's accountability moment | The Good News: Brown’s Dishonesty Jeopardizes His Law License | Brown Out: A day late and a dollar short | FEMA contractors arrested for looting | Disaster plan 'failed to recognize' local probs | Michael Brown is Joe Allbaugh's legacy | Storm rages over Katrina relief chief
Karen Hughes's latest outrage: It was the looting, not the incompetent response, that hurt more and tarnishes nation's image
Judge slaps down Bush regime, votes against "zero press access" in New Orleans | Glenn Beck called hurricane survivors in New Orleans "scumbags," said he "hates" 9-11 families | Watch this! C-list right wing talker Mark Williams sinks to a new low | John Stossel is an ass | The Cone Of Silence: Conservative bloggers over a barrel | Man who cursed out Cheney arrested | Scotty Lies Again About News Coverage Of Hurricane Katrina | Man who said 'f@#k' to Cheney sells video on eBay | Watch this! Idiotic Pickles Bush speaks about "Hurricane Corrina" | Following White House's lead, Special Report investigation into Katrina response shifted blame to state, local officials | Morton Kondracke called Democratic opposition to GOP-led Katrina probe "abusive" and "bordering on disgraceful," ignored context of Pelosi's criticism of Bush | Kyra Phillips: Is she CNN's most biased newsmodel? | Watch this! Ralph Peters rips Bush for "no leadership." | Media Presence Essential for Katrina Rescue Effort
The Governor of Louisiana declared a state of emergency on FRIDAY, so why are Bush surrogates now saying the governor didn't act immediately? | Bush Administration Bungled Post-9/11 Economic Relief | Dem: Carter or Powell should lead rebuild | From Blame Game to Numbers Game
Sen. Rick Santorum Tries to Blame National Weather Service For Katrina Damage | Weather service union rips Santorum | Santorum has had it in for the National Westher Service for a while
WAR AGAINST JUDICIAL EXTREMISTS --
Conservative Insiders: Gonzales Really Is A Wingnut | Alberto Gonzales again emerges as Supreme Court contender
CRIMES OF DeLAY -- DeLaying the inevitable?
HOT POLITICS -- Tom Daschle grows a spine: "I don't think we should pay a whit of attention to administration criticisms" | Dean Calls for Moral Leadership | John Edwards Calls for New America Initiative | Kentucky: Gov is not just corrupt, he's stupid | Karen Hughes Lays Down the Law | Bush breaks through 40 percent floor | Berger fined for swiping papers | Has-been Newt Gingrich signals the GOP: "The Values Fight Is Over" (Translation: It's been pushed as far as it can go)
QWAGMIRE -- Iraq Clusterfuck: Gee, who's running the war? The mercenaries? | Luttig Says Bush Can Detain Americans as Enemy Combatants | Iraq withdrawal gains steam | Iraqi reconstruction stops as money runs out | US court upholds enemy combatant's detention
WIDE WORLD OF TERRORISM -- Could Bush Defend And Protect America During a Terrorist Strike? | Moroccan Dane held on terror charge
MEDIA MONKEYSHINES -- Murdoch expands web presence | Attend Moonie Times sponsored "patriot" event, get fake dog tags! | Hunter Thompson's 'suicide note'
WHAT A RUSH! -- Rush Limbaugh: Racist Pig
HOMELAND HIJINKS -- Gov't Loses Patriot Act Decision
ELECTION THEFTS -- Texas Fires Lawyer After Story About Rove's Personal Election Fraud Emerges
$MIRKONOMICS -- GOP to cut food stamps, Medicaid | The "death tax" lives
UNFUNNY BU$INE$$ -- Greenspan exit likely 1/31/06
OH, GOD! -- Religious idiot's lawsuit dismissed with prejudice
ENERGY SCANDALS -- Demand for Fuel Seems to Be Falling
HEALTH DEBACLES -- Senate Approves Anti-Meth Bill
WEIRD SCIENCE -- Human Brain Still Evolving, Scientists Discover Two New Genes...
TRASHING NATURE -- World Bank: Katrina is climate change alarm

9/9/05
Watch this! American ruins Dick Cheney's New Orleans photo-op: "Go f$#@ yourself!" | What goes around comes around
Cops Set to Forcibly Clear Out New Orleans | "The entire community is now a toxic waste dump" | Best. Picture. EVER! | As police throw looters in the Greyhound Bus Station and residents sift through toxic mud, rescuers call out for survivors in vain | La. Governor’s Office Says New Orleans Was Like Dying Man Who Obviously Needed Federal Help | Racist Congressional Republican Richard Baker: "We finally cleaned up public housing in New Orleans. We couldn't do it, but God did." | Calling Sen. Landrieu: Want a Katrina Investigation? Block Roberts. | New Orleans Begins Confiscating Firearms as Water Recedes | Team Hate America: The Congressthugs who voted against aid for the Gulf coast | The Competence Question | Poll: Most Say Abandon Flooded New Orleans | Reid criticizes amount, direction of relief funds | Miss. Residents Say Health Warning Lacking | U.S. turns down Israeli offer of extensive humanitarian aid | Mark Fiore Flash editorial cartoon | Water Pumps Working To Empty New Orleans Slowed...By Body Parts | Senator Landrieu Bears Witness And Bares Emotions | Scared Southerners buy guns at fast pace | The problem: White House says Bush 'in charge' | Jaron Lanier: Katrina's Idiot Accomplices | Pickles Bush disgusted that average Americans dare criticize her dry-drunk husband's leadership | 2,000 postal workers missing in flood zone | Gulf War III: Why is Blackwater USA patrolling New Orleans with M-16s? | Powell critical of Katrina response | Maine Hate Group Blames Gays for Katrina | Indefensible: How the military failed in Katrina's wake | AmericaBlog's Kyle reports from New Orleans | Protesters, survivors 'shame' Bush | Tom Kean: “The same mistakes made on 9/11 were made over again, in some cases worse" | Texas Gov. Perry Directing Katrina Donations To His Own Foundation | UN shocks: Parts of U.S. 'third world' | Tom Tancredo: Screw the victims | Harry Reid: “Katrina makes it clear this government has failed.” | Dr. Dean nails it | Robertson 'cashes in' on Katrina | Eulogy For The American Dream | Dem leader Reid, Louisiana senator Landrieu unveil Katrina bills
Burying the Lede: Bush had no excuses, the failure is his, and Blanco had nothing to do with it | Bu$hCo quick to respond to finger pointing crisis | Watch this! David Gregory calls out Scotty McClellan on blame spin | Attack and Divide: Why Bush's Spin Isn't Working This Time | White House continues to blame Blanco | Latest patronizing White House spin: The "chick governor" excuse | "Man of the People" Bush: Spin more important then chemotherapy | 10 Days Later, Scott McClellan: "Ultimately The President Is In Charge" | Enough -- the Misadministration's spin is spun, and failed
A TIME investigation reveals discrepancies in FEMA chief Michael Brown's official biographies | Three FEMA contractors arrested for looting in Plaquemines Parish | USA Today: Bush Responsible For FEMA's Disastrous Failure | CNN: "TIME: FEMA director's online bio contains false info" | Michael Brown's Padded Résumé | Patronage during wartime: 5 of top 8 FEMA heads are completely unqualified | The Mike Brown Story | Just remember, the buck doesn't stop at Brown - it stops at Bush | Michael Brown lied, thousands died | 42 Minutes of Shame: How Joe Lieberman enabled Michael Brown to head FEMA | Watch this! The Daily Show on FEMA |
National Guard already interfering with media access in New Orleans | Where is media outrage over purported government attempts to restrict Katrina coverage? | National Guard Points Gun At NBC's Brian Williams And Staff In New Orleans | Watch this! Nancy Pelosi Slaps down CNN Bush plant Kyra Phillips | Time Mag. Editor Says "To Not Take Pictures Of Dead Bodies Is Not Something We Can Heed" | Who is Bob Williams, and why is he on TV talking about Hurricane Katrina? | AP carries water for the Misadministration | Right-wing Bozoette Ann Coulter asks why MoveOn hasn't provided aid for Katrina's victims -- when in fact they already have! | Jack Cafferty continues his criticism of Bush's incompetence | Why Isn't The Media In Court Today Demanding Access To New Orleans? | Is GOP media partly responsible for New Orleans disaster? | The clampdown
TRAITORGATE -- Arianna Huffington: Is Judy Miller Getting Ready to Sing? | Plame leak investigation drawing to a close
CRIMES OF DeLAY -- Josh Marshall: Tom DeLay met with DA Ronnie Earle | Grand Jury Indicts DeLay PAC
HOT POLITICS -- After Katrina, America's Political Crisis | Tight Constraints on Pentagon's So-called "Freedom" Walk | Poll: focus on America & government can't handle safety of US | WV-Sen: Capito might want to stay in the House | Bush's new polls are a... disaster. He's now losing conservative | Republican Laffey enters Senate race against Chafee | PA-Sen: Santorum on the defensive on Katrina | Court: Lying in political ads is okay | Giuliani backs born-again right winger in Ohio | Bush approval rating again lowest ever
QWAGMIRE -- Steve Cobble: Rep. Lee's Resolution of Inquiry | Powell Calls U.N. Speech 'Painful' | Court May Join Base Closings Fray | US considers 'decisive' strike in Iraq | US, Iraqi Forces Arrest 200 Suspected Insurgents...
MILITARY TORTURE SCANDAL -- Judges Question Lack of Prisoner Rights
MEDIA MONKEYSHINES -- NPR's resident idiot Mara Liasson wants a feel-good, me-too, dittohead media | Carl Bernstein In October's Vanity Fair... Deep Throat, Woodward, And Media: "The Press Is Under Assault As Never Before" | An Ann Coulter speech? Thanks but no thanks
WHAT A RUSH! -- Rush Limbaugh: Using the "N" word?
FAULTY INTELLIGENCE -- Key CIA Clandestine Service Official Retires, Claims No Confidence in Leadership
UNFUNNY BU$INE$$ -- Sept. 11 relief loans went to unaffected firms | Audit Examines Links Between Campaign Contributions, Tax Cases | Writer says dropped for panning Subaru | News Corp. acquires Internet publisher
RACISM AMERICAN STYLE -- Documents Further Smack Down Michelle Maglalang
ENERGY SCANDALS -- Republicans Eye Expanding U.S. Offshore Drilling
HEALTH DEBACLES -- F.D.A. Panel Endorses Inhaled Form of Insulin

9/8/05
The Bush era will be remembered as a time of crisis -- too bad that, in a pinch, the president is such a coward
"What didn't go right?": Bush's absurd question underscores the arrogance of an administration whose "limited government" agenda is responsible for the disastrous federal response to Katrina | Officials Ready 25,000 Body Bags... | Open Season On Bush Over Katrina | Katrina Timeline | They won't let people take their pets on the buses out of New Orleans | Katrina: "Rape, murder, beatings" in Astrodome, say evacuees | Dems On Bush's Katrina Disaster: He's "Oblivious, In Denial, Dangerous,"... | Mayor says last holdouts may be forcibly removed | Re-evaluating the Bush administration’s response to Katrina | Howard Dean: Race Played a Role in Katrina Deaths | White House defends Barbara Bush jokes | Macabre reminder: corpse on Union Street has been decomposing in broad daylight for 4 days | UN Hits Back at US Saying Parts of America are as Poor as Third World | The perfect storm of incompetence, poverty, and cronyism | Gulf Region Infrastructure Slowly Revives | MS, AL evacuation plans: Poor? Car-less? Tough Luck | Money Flowed to Questionable Louisiana Projects | Chertoff Draws Fire on Briefing; Some Dems Walked Out | Internet Brimming With Post-Katrina Scammers | W's Katrina Thought Process | Hey, Goldberg and Derbyshire: the other Roger Ailes got your looter right here… | FOX News, FEMA and George Bush are right... | "It's The National Security, Stupid" | Katrina: So, will $2000 stave off bankruptcy? | The Department of Changing the Subject from Katrina: When Bush said, "Send cash money," he wasn't kidding, was he? | Rep: 100 died waiting for warehouse rescue | The Democrats ask: Where was Bush? | Harry Reid asks about Bush vacationing during Katrina | Robertson 'cashes in' on Katrina | Concentration camps for the urban poor: Katrina suvivors fenced in | KRT didn't get the memo about dead people | Stephen Elliott: A Good Time To Not Invite The Casinos Back | Supremacist fakes Katrina donation site | GOP to announce fake rubber-stamp commission to investigate Katrina | AMERICAblog hires on-the-scene hurricane correspondent | No Chemo for You | 3 die in NO from infected water | Congressman John Conyers calls on Congressional Research Service to review the law around disaster response | Bankruptcies and Katrina | Thousand are dead across the south and the Pentagon is throwing a cool party in DC! | Rumsfeld says we have too many troops? | Sen. Kyl was for federal funding for disasters before he was against it | Even Capitol police can't aid survivors | Watch this! Jon Steward has no mercy for the Misadministration | A French Tourist's Three Days In Hell | Administration's relief figures faulted | New Laws Make Life Harder For Storm Victims | Navy Pilots Who Rescued Victims Are Reprimanded | The Long Hot Summer, the Long Cold Winter | Blog questions AP on Katrina shootings | Katrina could cost 400,000 jobs
Congress opts for GOP-controlled Katrina investigation | "When this administration begins an internal investigation, it means a whitewash in which no one important is held accountable and no real change occurs." | GOP's inquiry into Katrina response will be "an investigation of the Republican administration by a Republican-controlled Congress... like having a pitcher call his own balls and strikes” | Republicans block efforts to amend relief bill, hold vote without providing copy of bill
James Lee Witt to FEMA boss Brown: 'I'm going to make you do your job.' | FEMA accused of censorship | Durbin calls for FEMA director's resignation | NMA Calls Response to Hurricane Katrina a 'National Disgrace' | Frustration, boredom for Pa. troops on Gulf Coast: 2,300 going unused | Customs Tells Workers to Stop Helping FEMA | FEMA Chief Preventing Scores Of Police, Firefighters From Entering New Orleans | US Customs tells employees to stop helping FEMA | Former FEMA chief Allbaugh in the middle | Two Florida recount aides hired to top FEMA posts | CREW Files FOIA Requests with DHS, FEMA, State Department | FEMA disciplined an administrator | Bush's Visit Stopped Three Tons Of Food From Being Delivered To Starving | FEMA: About public relations, not emergency management
Where Turd Blossom Goes, A Talking Point Blooms | "Blame Game" | Finger Pointing | The "blame game"? You can play along at home
"Hurricane Katrina is George Bush's Monica Lewinsky" | Bush banning all media from New Orleans | The Media Jackals | Watch this! Hillary Clinton wants an investigation into Katrina | What Cafferty said today | Watch this: Keith Olbermann's Katrina timeline | Plan to ban the media from New Orleans during recovery effort? | Brian Williams: Authorities barring reporters from New Orleans? | The camera doesn't lie | Bob Scheiffer refuses to see b.s. | Media provide forums for administration officials and conservatives to spread falsehoods about hurricane relief efforts | At long last, David Gregory has had it with Scott McClellan's liesWatch this! Pelosi: Fire Brown | Larry Johnson: Sorting out opinion from fact on Katrina | Fox's lying liars Brit Hume and Brian "Slip" Wilson take cue from conservative blogs, repeat outright lying lie that Bush "pleaded" with New Orleans mayor to evacuate city
Freeper Myth Exposed! Nagin Never Spoke to Bush Before Ordering Evacuation
Cindy Sheehan: Back on the Road Again
WAR AGAINST JUDICIAL EXTREMISTS -- Rehnquist's Legacy: A Partisan Court | Supreme Court watch: The president jokes, the right panics
COINGATE -- Another top official loses job at BWC
HOT POLITICS -- Parties Scramble for Post-Katrina Leverage | Republicans furious as Hillary Clinton dares criticize incompetence of Vacation Boy and his FEMA cronies | Give to worthy charities, like for instance, Rick Perry's reelection campaign | Democrats and Labor Get Redistricting Vote on Ohio Ballot | A Failed CEO | Under Cover: GOP Plans to Push Social Security Piratization Through by Tacking It On to Katrina Bill | OH-Ballot: Say Hello to Our New Friend RON | Despite tragedy, GOP fundraisers continue | The Other America Is Still With Us | The perfect storm?
QWAGMIRE -- Storm's Devastation Fans Antiwar Flame | US let Iraq nuke material leave | Gold Star Mothers Accepts Non-citizen | Suicide Bomber Near Baghdad Hotel Used by Foreign Security Agents | "But screw your courage to the sticking-place, and we'll not fail" | Lawyer: Saddam did not confess to mass killings - lawyer | U.S. hostage freed after 9 months in Iraq
WIDE WORLD OF TERRORISM -- What if al-Qaida attacked now?
MILITARY TORTURE SCANDAL -- White House Wants Gitmo Appeal Rejected
MEDIA MONKEYSHINES -- The growing influence of liberal blogs | Fox News Affiliate Won't Air An Ad Depicting Bush On A Naked Torso | We're All Helen Thomas ... For Now | The top ten most important stories the corporate media ignored over the past year
PUNDIT PAYOLA SCANDAL -- Hurricane Katrina Erases Job Gains | Boston Most Expensive City Beating NYC, DC | Armstrong Williams Had Plenty of Company
ELECTION THEFTS -- State of Texas won't probe Karl Rove's voter fraud
$MIRKONOMICS -- Let Them Eat Estate Tax Repeal
UNFUNNY BU$INE$$ -- Unsafe even parked and turned off: Ford recalling 3.8 million vehicles for spontaneous combustion defect | Saudi Royal Hearts Rupert, Prince Confirms 5.46% News Corp Cl B Stake | Let the crony contracts bonanza begin!
ENERGY SCANDALS -- Exxon's $10 Billion Fill-Up: Cashing in on Crunch | Energy Department Says Natural Gas Prices Could Skyrocket This Fall | Experts: $4 a gallon gas coming soon | Jamie Court: Memos Show Oil Companies Closed Refineries To Hike Profits
GAY IN AMERICA -- Arnold To Veto Gay Marriage Bill | Socially Liberal Republicans? No Such Thing! | Maria Shriver, where the fuck are you?

9/7/05
New Orleans drains; 140,000 homes destroyed | New Orleans Mayor Orders Forced Evacuations To 10,000 Left As Flood Waters Recede | Water Filled With Sewage, Corpses, Chemicals and Infected With E. Coli | Contaminated Water May Cause Massive Environmental Disaster For State's Wetlands | Worst-case scenario? Homeland Security tells Mortician: 'Expect Up to 40,000 Bodies' | Superdome may be torn down | Plans to airlift evacuees on hold | Bush Jr. proposes $40 billion for Gulf relief… | … but, in another instance of Bush's fuzzy math, administration's figures on response don't appear to add up | Congress could spent $200 billion on relief | New Orleans has been taken over by the United States Government | Senator Jon Kyl: Didn't have insurance? Screw you! | Storm's toll on children could be far-reaching | Diversion of resources: So is President Bush still going ahead with his September 11 party on the mall, concert and all? | While the Gulf Coast was being destroyed, Rummy was at a ball game | The truth: Bush stayed on vacation and played politics | OJ's going to find the real killer! | No hesitation over the "blame game" | Sen. Ted Stevens: Clueless | Mayor: Death toll 'will shock the nation' | Damage exposure will 'wake America up' | Santorum Wants to Fine Hurricane Victims | Steve Gilliard: I have never been more proud of Americans or more ashamed of my government | Clinton Calls for Katrina Commission | This is how Katrina should be investigated | What’s Allbaugh Doing For Halliburton? | The looters you should be worried about: GOP patronage "contractors" | New Orleans Times-Picayune: “Mr. President…Our People Deserved Rescuing. Many Who Could Have Been Were Not. That’s To The Government’s Shame” | GHWB: Stop picking on my kid | AFL-CIO blasts Bush on Katrina
TEAM BUSH SPINS KATRINA'S FALLOUT -- How the Conservatives Will Blame Liberals | FEMA Wants No Photos of Dead | The President uses firemen as props in media blitz | The Bush approach in a nutshell -- make messes, then take credit for boldly tackling those messes | More Photo Ops for Team Bush | Bush has another episode of delusional behavior during latest photo-op | Kicking the crap out of Scotty | Underprivileged, anyway:' Bush mom | The Swiftboating of Aaron Broussard begins | How to Avoid Being Shot by Right-Wing Pundits | It's a Classic Rove Campaign | Sen. Landrieu: Bush staged relief for photo-op | Howard Dean on Bush visit: "It seems clear that President Bush's visit today is just another callous political move crafted by Karl Rove."
The Katrina Media Hall of Shame | You know it's bad when Chris Hitchins roasts the President | The Bankrupt Establishment Media Will Never Report the Full Truth About the Administration's Failure to Prepare For or Respond to Hurricane Katrina | Media largely ignored relief delays caused by Bush's New Orleans visit | Liars: Fox's Hume, Wilson take cue from conservative blogs, repeat unfounded claim that Bush "pleaded" with New Orleans mayor to evacuate city | Jonah Goldberg, Second Generation Racist | Watch this! Jack Cafferty: "Mr. Brown, you failed in your assignment. You're out of here. Go away." | BBC news crew becomes part of New Orleans stpry | Watch this! Tim Russert blasts Government over handling of Katrina | Newsweek prints more sloppy lies about Bush's heroism
Why FEMA failed | Take a careful look at FEMA's top three people: Bush turned first response agency into a PR mill | Before Present Post, FEMA Chief Michael Brown Was Commissioner Of International Arabian Horse Association, No Experience In Disaster Management | Fire Brown! | Coverup: DeLay-controlled House cancels Katrina hearings | Foreign aid donors still waiting for clearance | FEMA flew evacuees to wrong Charleston | Brown Waited Five Hours After Storm Made Landfall To Ask For Help, Called Storm "Near Catastrophic Event" | Fire Brown Now | Prescient Warnings of New Orleans' Fate Were Numerous | Arianna Huffington: Now Is Precisely the Time for Finger-Pointing | FEMA puts firefighters to work -- as props for Bush | National Hurricane Center Chief Max Mayfield briefed Bush | 9 million meals sat unused in Gulf ships | FEMA Chief Sent Help Only When Storm Ended | Joint Chiefs Chairman General Myers lied, said DOD didn't offer Katrina relief because the Tuesday papers said everything was okay! | So Long, Mike? | Sen. Ken Salazar: Fire Brown | Frustrated: Fire crews to hand out fliers for FEMA | The Four Official Bush Regime Excuses ® | Unqualified Michael Brown got FEMA job through cronyism | Scott McClellan “refused to directly answer questions about whether President Bush would fire FEMA Director Mike Brown” | No Protocol Or Collection Points For Thousands Of Dead Bodies, FEMA’s Plans “Are Not Being Released Yet" | First responders warned of change in training (more towards terrorism)
WAR AGAINST JUDICIAL EXTREMISTS -- Ralph Neas: John Roberts Unfit to be Chief Justice of the United States | Rehnquist Funeral Wednesday | Bush mentions Gonzales for high court | Mourners Pay Respects To Rehnquist; Rehnquist casket becomes prop to promote John Roberts' nominations | Washington Post Papers Over Roberts Ethics Controversy | Senate Dems. Will be tougher on Roberts now | But what about O'Connor's seat?
HOT POLITICS -- MO-Sen: Rasmussen poll | So Much for Mending Fences in Europe | CBS Poll: Little Trust In Congress | Where's the bounce?
QWAGMIRE -- Four American Contractors Killed in Basra | Iraq President: Saddam "Should Be Hanged 20 Times'" | Sunnis give blood for Shi'ites in Iraq | Zarqawi Insurgents Take Control Of Iraq Town, Enforce Strict Islamic Law
WIDE WORLD OF TERRORISM -- The White House can't explain how it's going to keep us safe from a major terrorist attack
MEDIA MONKEYSHINES -- David Brock spanks WaPo for using liar as a source | Saudi Prince Makes "Pro-Murdoch" Investment, Buys 5.5% Voting Stake in News Corp
ELECTION THEFTS -- Karl Rove registered to vote illegally in Kerr County, TX
$MIRKONOMICS -- US Economy To Take "Unprecedented" Hit... | Housing Bubble Update | DeLay: Gas Tax Good, Estate Tax Bad? | Study: if you lose your job, not only is your income permanently lowered but your children have permanently lower incomes too
ENERGY SCANDALS -- Group: Internal memos show oil companies limited refineries to drive up prices | Where's the conservation? | Amnesty accuses oil firms of overriding human rights
HEALTH DEBACLES -- Study: Smokers 'Twice As Likely To Lose Their Sight In Later Life'
GAY IN AMERICA -- California Legislature Approves Same-Sex Marriage

9/6/05
1 Million People Can't Go Home for Months | New Orleans Deputy Police Chief: "This city has been destroyed. It has been completely destroyed." | Hurricane Katrina: The Headlines Tell The Story | Bill Clinton: "Our Government Failed Those People" | Outplacement firm CEO calls for Gulf Region"Marshall Plan" | The coming plague | Clinton, Bush Sr. launch new fund to help flood refugees | Donna Brazile's sister found alive | Rescuers find 22 bodies lashed together in St. Bernard Parish | National Guard Unit To Return From Iraq To Deal With Katrina Devastation | Aaron Broussard asked Bush for funding in June | Six-year old saves toddlers | Bush greeted by storm backlash | What If Another Disaster Strikes? | U.S. asks NATO, EU for Katrina aid | Russell Shaw: My Proposal for a 9-Step Hurricane Katrina Debtor Relief | Jim Lampley: 10 Katrina Items Of which Conservatives Can Be Proud (…Not!) | "Time" Magazine: Bush is dipping his toes into disaster | Rep. Charles Boustany (R-LA) Flip-flops | Bush, Blanco avoid each other on 'tours' | New Orleans faces public health risk | Louisianans return, survey damage | High Possibilities That More Hurricanes Could Pummel Gulf Coast This Season | Boussard Warns of Massive Death Count | "The water has washed away the scales from our eyes and now we have seen where our decisions have led us." | Texas Hospitality: Gov. Rick Perry Orders Refugees To Leave | Iran, 'axis of evil,' offers Katrina aid
Now hear this: Barbara Bush opens mouth, insert silver foot! | Explaining Barbara's big mouth | Once again, Barbara Bush says something contemptible
Rescue helicopters grounded for Bush visit | How many dead babies for a Bush photo op? | Bush seeks to cut Blanco out of his Monday visit | Senator Mary Landrieu hits Bush's relief 'photo op'
Watch this: If you see only ONE video clip today, see this one -- Keith Olbermann on the inexcusable botching of Katrina's aftermath | Has Katrina saved US media? | Arianna Huffington's Memo to the Media: Stop Enabling the White House | Now hear this: Call for help from the flood zone | Newsweek: No correction after they get lied to by Bush Administration official | Wolf Blitzer loses his mind on CNN | And The Bigots Played On | Watch this! 60 Minutes: Interview with New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin | Was one "rescuer" racially profiling the people he was helping? | "President Bush, for yet another time, once again showed a lack of instant immediate leadership." | Now hear this: Kenner mayor Phil Capitano lashes out | NBC anchor Brian Williams: They knew this would occur | Media Failures, Media Truths
"Bush's policies have crippled disaster response" | Homeland Security Admits They Denied Red Cross Access to New Orleans | Heroes: College kids in van do a DIY evacuation | Bush Tries Palming Off Blame On Local Authorities | Blog created just to reveal truth about FEMA | Did the Bush team ignore their own National Response Plan? | Military criticizes Bush on Katrina relief | Huge Navy relief ship in Gulf was never used | Rescue 'ticket' -- how bad are things in America? The poor think they need a ticket to be rescued! | More excuses: misusing Posse Comitatus? Well, no… | Lott admits federal government let red tape get in the way | What Homeland Security should've been doing | Right-wing blogger calls for Bush to fire FEMA boss Michael Brown | Why FEMA Was Missing in Action | Rural Louisiana Communities Criticize Delayed U.. Response | Can FEMA Do Anything Right? | When Katrina hit there apparently wasn't enough of any stature still in charge | Bush's Latest Excuse: "State Red Tape" | Will BushCo "Swift Boat" the NorthCom Commander? | New Orleans paper: Fire all of FEMA | The fate of FEMA | When the spin becomes a lie | Vacation Doesn’t Matter, Right?
WAR AGAINST JUDICIAL EXTREMISTS -- Appointing John Roberts as chief justice is insane | Roberts hearing postponed | Craig Crawford: Laughing All The Way To The Supreme Court | Early opposition for John G. Roberts
COINGATE -- Sylvania CPA's link to Noe paid political dividends
HOT POLITICS -- "The struggle for the soul of America is gathering pace...." | Cheney still AWOL in Wyoming | Who really represents the "ownership society" and who's a wimp? | Russ Feingold Could Be First Antiwar Candidate | What the Katrina, Rehnquist, and Intelligent Design stories have in common: Bottoms Up! | Katrina looks "set to become" election issue? Oh, it already is…
QWAGMIRE -- 30 gunmen assault Iraq Interior Ministry | Mission accomplished! U.N. chief: Iraq new epicenter for terrorism | Iran nuclear weapons "years away" | Iraq constitution hit over religious rights | But at least Iraq is going well
$MIRKONOMICS -- Frist finally postpones vote on repeal of Paris Hilton tax | Katrina Likely To Curb Economic Growth In 2006&
EDUCATION IN THE SMIRK AGE -- Utah slaps down a Christian Circus Clown
OH, GOD! -- Religious extremist Fred Phelps to picket funeral of judicial extremist William Rehnquist

9/5/05
Karl Rove, Dan Bartlett enact post-Katrina political strategy to blame state and local authorities | Officials Deal With Katrina's Political Fallout by Pointing Fingers | Bloomberg Rips Feds | "Mr. President, get off your dead ass" | Larry Johnson: Criminal negligence and Katrina? | Anne Rice: Do You Know What It Means to Lose New Orleans? | Max Blumenthal: Blaming Katrina on Gays, Israel, and Man-on-Horse | Steve Gilliard: The capability to act -- Kayne West and the American Nero | CIA Leaker Now Leading Campaign to Blame Local Officials for Katrina Aftermath | Be Patient, the Drowning Are Told -- Condi's Response to Katrina: Oh Crikey, She's a Bible-thumper With Thousand-dollr Shoes | Randall Robinson: The Lessons of New Orleans | 1993: Gore Book Warns Louisiana of Flood Risk; 2000: La. Electoral Votes Provide His Margin of Defeat | Katrina reveals there are two Americas | In Katrina’s Wake, Race and Class Still Not Being Addressed | Many New Orleans police walk off job | Katrina roils presidential politics | Jesse Jackson and other black leaders picked up 150 evacuees at the squalid New Orleans Airport and headed into the night | NY Times: Bush Severely Damaged National Guard | Police Try to Keep Order in New Orleans | Deborah Rappaport: Leaving behind the children of Katrina | US accepts UN hurricane aid | Just horsin' around | Eric Boehlert: What Relief Effort is David Broder Watching? | Is Katrina Bush's Tet? | New Orleans Died for Bush's Sins (IV) | Death Toll in New Orleans Grows | Blame game begins for Bush | "This is not mere incompetence, but dereliction of duty. The press should call it by its proper name" | Kuwait Gives $500 Million - Can we have the other $75.6 billion now? | US Navy ship with food, water, doctors has been sitting off New Orleans | Insurance Industry Faces $40B Of Claims | Washington Failed To Fund Levee Projects, "Gambled" On Short-Term Political Gain For Admin. vs. Long-Term Safety | Several Thousand Still Stranded In New Orleans... "They Just Left Us Here To Die"... | Biloxi shelter closed, possible dysentery | 240,000 refugees strain Texas capacity
WATCH THIS! -- Aaron Broussard: "We have been abandoned by our country" | Mary Landrieu to Bush: "I'll Punch Him" | Celine Dion pleads for help for Katrina's victims | Wolf Blitzer's "Black" Moment | Bob Schieffer Blasts Team Bush | Michael Chertoff blames the media for his failings
LYING LIARS -- WaPo lied to by "senior source" on Bush team about Louisiana state of emergency -- will WaPo burn the source? | Chertoff is a Liar: The Department of Homeland Security Was Preparing for "Two Catastrophes" in New Orleans | Chertoff is a Liar: Hurricane Center Director Tells Paper He Briefed Brown and Chertoff on Danger of Severe Flooding | Did Newsweek get spun too? | Chertoff's Insane Spin: Holding the White House Accountable Will Hurt Katrina Victims
MISERABLE FAILURE -- Why FEMA Was Missing In Action | "For Days, Bush's Top Advisers Argued Over . . . Who Was In Charge" | Fed Response to Katrina Gets Thumbs Down | Experts: Homeland Security Was Off Guard | Bush's Incompetence Keeps Doctors Ready To Help Away From The Sick | Slow Response Exposes Holes In Planning | George Bush Is Solely Responsible For Abandoning The Levees | "Our nation’s bureaucrats spent days after last week’s hurricane wringing their hands" | Chertoff Learned of Levee Failure 36 Hours After Mayor Nagin? | Times-Picayune Calls For Firing Of FEMA Chief... Cites His "Bald-Faced" Lie | Bush failed by even his own standards | Now IS The Time to Ask Why Everything Got Screwed Up | August 27, 2005: Statement on Federal Emergency Assistance for Louisiana
WAR AGAINST JUDICIAL EXTREMISTS -- Bush Nominates Roberts To Succeed Rehnquist As Chief Justice | Desperation move: Bush wants John Roberts as Chief Supremo | Bush is trying to shove Roberts in while New Orleans dies. | A Rove-engineered distraction from Katrina | Democrats respond to Rehquist death | Rehnquist's replacement: John G. Roberts? | Alan Dershowitz: Telling the Truth About Chief Justice Rehnquist | David Corn: The Rehnquist Death and Hurricane Katrina: A Connection | Rehnquist's death, and what comes next
HOT POLITICS -- The Progressive Century
QWAGMIRE -- Sunni rescuer hailed as Iraq hero | Soldiers warned again about Internet postings | 13 Suspected Taliban Killed in Afghanistan | Christopher Hitchens gives 10 reasons why Americans should be proud of the Iraq war -- and goes 0 for 10 | 1,999 US troops and workers killed in Iraq | Israel-Pakistan meeting isolates Iran
$MIRKONOMICS -- Howard Dean blasts Frist, Bush for push to end Paris Hilton Tax
OH, GOD! -- Chavez accepts Robertson apology
RACISM AMERICAN STYLE -- Mallard Fillmore, bastion of racism
ENERGY SCANDALS -- John Conyers plans bill on gas price gouging
GAY IN AMERICA -- Halliburton not protecting gays

9/4/05
Way Worse Than 9/11: Death toll in Louisiana ALONE could be above 10,000 | New Orleans Left to the Dead and Dying | Bodies Are Strewn 'Like Roadkill' | As White House Anxiety Grows, Bush Tries to Quell Political Crisis | White House Shifts Blame | Bush Panicking Over Political Fallout | LA Gov. Blanco Hires Former FEMA Dir. James Lee Witt as Liaison to Clueless Bush Team | Frank Rich: Falluja Floods the Superdome -- Mr. Bush's Variously Incompetent, Diffident and Hubristic Mismanagement of Katrina | New Orleans police become the roaming mob and threaten Canadian photojournalist | Eyewitness: "I saw the babies literally dying in the streets, bodies being dumped in the dumpsters outside the Morial Center…" | American Caesar: George W. Nero fiddled while Rome burned | Sen. Frist Becomes Medical Volunteer -- and Blasts the Response | Republicans Say Katrina Threatens To Undermine The Party's Long-Term | Harry Shearer: Failing Upward | Dumbest GOP Idea Ever! | The Military Is Frisking Little Children Before Rescuing Them | No Escape from The Super Dome | New Orleans Evacuation May Have Come Too Late for Many | Levees' Fate Sealed in Washington | Canadians donate over $1 million for Hurricane Katrina relief | What do we do now? And how will we pay for it? | New Orleans to stay shut for at least nine months | Landrieu slams FEMA | Rumsfeld cancels Letterman appearance | NAACP says poor people hurt by slow response to Katrina | Another Storm Possible in Hard-Hit Region | Help for the Victims of Katrina — “Finally” | Mississippians Worry They're Forgotten | Hastert Skipped Katrina Relief Vote to Attend Congressional Fundraiser | Black Fury at Bush Over Rescue Delay | Cheney cancels his vacation | Watch this! Anderson Cooper with Trent Lott | National Guard insists Iraq war not hampering hurricane response | Gay and Lesbian Fund gives 1 million to hurricane relief | Rapes, killings hit Katrina refugees in New Orleans | Pete Fountain missing in New Orleans | Qatar gives 100 million dollars for US hurricane relief | Some New Orleans refugees heading to Arizona | Hastert Tries Damage Control After Remarks Hit a Nerve | United, not divided | America stripped bare | Bush sends 7,000 US troops for Katrina relief
FEMA was FUBAR | Storm Exposed Disarray at the Top; Bush Destroyed FEMA | "My Pet Goat, The Sequel": This time, during a catastrophe, the president did not merely dither for seven minutes, but for three days, and his top advisors followed suit | The Michael Brown debacle: this man should never have been made head of FEMA | New White House storyline: It's all Louisiana's, New Orleans' fault | In Saturday news conference, Michael Chertoff outright lied to justify Bush's failure | Congressman Melancon couldn't get Bush on the line | Away from the coast and cameras, victims cope without much help | Copy Desk Kudos: WaPo Online gets it right for a few minutes | National Guardsmen reportedly "played cards" while people died | Last Saturday Bush gave FEMA the authority to do WHATEVER was necessary | Blame game begins for Bush | FEMA's Deputy Political Hack on CNN taking no responsibility | the response to the hurricane on the national scale was beyond incompetent, beyond indifferent, and unforgivable | July 2005 article reveals New Orleans told poor: 'You're on your own' | Michael Chertoff: We're On Trial | Cronyism: More on Michael Brown | Reid rips relief; Landrieu blasts "serious problems" with initial fed response | Trent Lott Thinks Bush Is Doing Dandy | Oops. Dept of Homeland Security Web site claims FULL responsibility! | And Bush had no idea it would get this bad | Virginia police told Louisiana doesn't need your help in New Orleans | The Questions A Shocked America Is Asking Its President | FEMA's Michael Brown faces destruction, criticism | This is an example of what not to do' | Yes, we do need James Lee Witt again | Halliburton gets its share, but where has Cheney been? | Superdome evacuation restarts | Brown's Prior Emergency Services Experience: Assistant City Manager | Fraud Alert: FEMA Items Stolen
Michael Chertoff's claim that "Katrina scenario [hurricane then levy failure] did not exist" is complete hokum
Larisa Alexandrovna: Troops Begin Combat Operations in New Orleans?
Ghoulish Photo-ops: More BushCo Tragedy Fakery? | Politicizing A Tragedy: BushCo Fakes Levee Repairs for Photo-Op | Bush faked levee repair for photo op yesterday
What Happens to a Race Deferred | Racism is alive and well in the South -- and Katrina's victims become victims a second time | Latest right-wing lie: "The average poor person in America owns a car." | AP Stands by Caption in 'Looting' Photo Controversy
New Orleans Died for Bush's Sins, Parts II | and III
William Rehnquist, segregationist who became capo of the Supremos, is dead
WAR AGAINST JUDICIAL EXTREMISTS -- Congress Should Reject ALL Bush Supreme Court Nominees and Recommend Their Own Picks | Roberts Supported White South African Rule of Namibia | Roberts Hearings: Specter The Key
HOT POLITICS -- Report: Government Secrecy Grows, Costs More | Rove Not Entitled to D.C. Homestead Deduction -- Did He Commit Voter Fraud?
QWAGMIRE -- At least 19 Iraqi policemen and soldiers killed by rebels | Michelle Pilecki: Oh, Yeah -- Remember Those WMDs? | Targets and Timelines | Charlie Cray: A Pentagon Watchdog's Mangy Tale
$MIRKONOMICS -- Consumer Confidence Falls to 30-Month Low
OH, GOD! -- Welcome to Willy World

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