Barbara Bush on Hurricane Katrina victims. I love the way CNN merely said that she was “getting attention for some of her comments” but neglects to say another word about it after that. What are these people afraid of?
I’m still working so I’ll have to hunt down the audio clip for this [...]
…from the BBC. An excellent timeline of events that led up to the catastrophe, right through to the horribly botched emergency responses, which was the responsibility of everyone from the President right down to the Mayor of New Orleans.
A summary of the events of the past couple of days. This is incredibly long, so click the more link to see it.
I did, however, want to bring two things forward from this long post, and put them here on the main page.
Click these links and give them your full [...]
Because earthquakes scare the piss out of me, I keep a tight eye on shit like seismic activity in southern California. I have my boingy star and I belong to a few earthquake lists from sites such as the California Integrated Seismic Network which, aside from sending me “shakemail” whenever there’s any kind of [...]
No details as yet, except for one:
We are in big fucking trouble. :(
From somewhere on LiveJournal comes this blurb:
“As Hurricane Katrina was approaching New Orleans, most of the smart people left. A few stayed behind, either because they’re idiots, or couldn’t leave, or had some reason to be there. In this particular case, a webhosting company evacuated its entire staff – except for a few who stayed [...]
I’m posting this entire article here, even though it’s on CNN, because they frequently change the story subtly to take out the ruder bits they left in before they are pressured by either upper management or politicans to tame it.
Michael Brown, the director of FEMA, should be in jail on charges malicious and wilful [...]
