Archive | August, 2005
A caption says a thousand words?
Image 1 Caption: Two residents wade through chest-deep water after finding bread and soda from a local grocery store after Hurricane Katrina came through the area in New Orleans, Louisiana. Image 2 Caption: A young man walks through chest deep flood water after looting a grocery store in New Orleans on Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2005 Hmmm.
Continue reading...RFK’s Hurricane
31. August 2005
It’s always interesting to me when someone I admire so clearly gets something wrong. A recent post by Robert Kennedy Jr. at the Huffington Post links the devastating hurricane that impacted the South to the global warming policies of Republicans, specifically Mississippis’s governor, Haley Barbour. In the broad sense, of course, he is right. Global warming [...]
Continue reading...McCain-style moderatism
28. August 2005
Oh, how presidential politics can destroy someone that I used to respect. Remember the John McCain of 2000? The day before Virginia’s GOP primary, John McCain accused some in his party of pandering to Christian right leaders “on the outer reaches of American politics.” Ah, now it appears that Mr. Straight Talk himself is one of those pandering [...]
Continue reading...Which Side is Using the Soliders for Politics Again?
23. August 2005
I keep hearing about the way the Left and Cindy Sheehan are politicizing the deaths of soliders in Iraq, but then I read stories like this from the AP today, which makes the point that even the tombstones of our dead soliders are being politicized by the Pentagon. The families of soliders, who should have [...]
Continue reading...Democratic Challengers to Burns
21. August 2005
A great post by Wulfgar about the lack of specificity among the Democratic candidates seeking to unseat the Senator for the Saginaw Chippewas, Conrad Burns. He highlights one of the problems I am having in choosing a candidate to support–I don’t really have a great reason to support one of the front-runners based on the [...]
Continue reading...You Just Can’t Make This Stuff Up
21. August 2005
Mark Noonan, over at Blogs for Bush, is concerned about the recent Alaska trip made by John McCain and Hillary Clinton–and its implications for spending on global warming. The article cites a claim in the Irish Independent that bring global warming to and end will cost half the world’s GDP…no warrant, no support, but a [...]
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