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what is going to be on
this side of the page in
the future?
Chertoff as inept. Is Brown in the clear?
an apology for all the horse-lawyer comments and jokes I've made about him these
last six months.
Excerpt:
WASHINGTON (AP) -- In dramatic and sometimes agonizing terms, federal disaster
officials warned President Bush and his homeland security chief before Hurricane
Katrina struck that the storm could breach levees, put lives at risk in New Orleans'
Superdome and overwhelm rescuers, according to confidential video footage.
Bush didn't ask a single question during the final briefing before Katrina struck on
Aug. 29, but he assured soon-to-be-battered state officials: "We are fully prepared."
The footage - along with seven days of transcripts of briefings obtained by The
Associated Press - show in excruciating detail that while federal officials anticipated
the tragedy that unfolded in New Orleans and elsewhere along the Gulf Coast, they
were fatally slow to realize they had not mustered enough resources to deal with the
unprecedented disaster.
Is it me or does that, "Bush didn't ask a single question" part sound a little like Judge
Thomas on the Supreme Court?
Four days after the storm Bush is quoted as saying, "I don't think anybody
anticipated the breach of the levees." When infact the video of the teleconference
celary shows experts talking about the possibility of levee failure. Sort of like when
Condoleezza Rice called the August 6th, 2001 memo warning of an impending attack
from al Qaeda a "historical document."
won't cut and run and then he cut and ran to?...
a big change from when Clinton visited India in 2000 and was showered with flower
petals, huh?
be impressed. That's what you get when you have basically declared war on poor
Muslims around the world (we do business with the rich ones) and you visit the
second largest Muslim country in the world, India.
The times, they are a changin'.
US Consulate in Karachi today. Well, good luck with that.
Found your site from Bartcop. Good start; love your viewpoint! If you
do this on a regular basis, you'll be as popular as Bart! (Maybe that's a
good thing?)
RLR
things in here to remind people to contact me about whatever; story ideas,
suggestions, critiques, whatever...
Bartcop rules and he knows I have all the love and admiration in the world for him.
When I get a few more dollars together I want to actually give it to him for being there
almost everyday posting and scouring the news sites. I am just hoping he does
another Bartfest this summer. It has been almost 4 years since the last one and I
had a blast.
Bart, you're awesome. Everyone go to his site right now: bartcop.com.
If you have any comments of any kind just send them to me immediately, without
delay. houstonwade@houstonwade.com
Act
because he already is getting away with warrant-less wiretapping. We made it 225
years as a country with out a stupid act granting huge invasions of privacy by the US
government. Is our foundation in Democracy that weak that we have to do this? At
least a little Compromise is coming out of this. Maybe someday it will get
compromised into oblivion... After the invasion by the ruling Chinese Empire in 2062.
of had him as his lawyer.
he legally had a responsibility to crush his opposition. The US was so retarded for
not wanting to bring this guy to the World Court at the Hague. Stupid, stupid USA.
Saddam and his team are making an absolute embarrassment out of this court.
Saddam might be evil but he is incredibly smart and is outwitting everyone involved.
He seamlessly and without fail still refers to himself as the president of Iraq, judges
have quit, the trial has been halted several times, even the beard and snappy suit
works.
Will this trial ever reach a point where a verdict can be reached? What happens
when civil war overtakes the country like it is starting to? A court-case is not going to
be high on the list of priorities once everybody is committing mass-murder.
BAGHDAD, Iraq — The sectarian cleansing that drove 68-year-old Abbas al-Saiedi
from his home may be as alarming a sign of a country on the brink of civil war as the
killings that have swept Iraq in the past week.
Masked gunmen carrying rocket-propelled grenade launchers and automatic rifles
kicked down the gate at his house, fired into the air and told the Shiite he had 48
hours to get his family out of the predominantly Sunni neighborhood in west Baghdad.
Iraq is so fucked at this point. All the major generals and military planners of this war
told Bush, Wolfowitz and Rumsfeld that they needed at least a same-sized force as
the first Gulf War (600,000 personel) if not more. What did they get? 135,000
soldiers; half of whom are weekend warriors, bankers, students, convenience store
clerks, etc...
Same thing is happening in Afghanistan where we still only control a third of the
country.
Time and time again we are confronted with the results of poor decision-making by
our elected leaders. There is no way the Republicans are going to keep congress
come this Fall.
the warlords. The warlords are fickle and can change sides at the drop of a hat.
What's the hat? Opium production. It is the only money maker the country has until
they can watch natural gas flow from Turkmenistan to Pakistan.
When that happens there will be plenty of jobs to repair the sabotaged line on a daily
basis. It seems that Bush wants to accelerate the pipeline-sabotage option just a bit
and is cracking down on the warlords' bread and butter, poppy flowers. I guess we
will find out how this all turns out, huh?
peace keepers in Africa during the 2000 debates?
released some hostages and no one is dead yet. Nigeria has been fighting its own
civil war off and on since the nation's inception. Add to this a debilitating AIDS
epidemic and a growing, angry, fundamentalist Muslim population in the north that
wants more control... How is Nigeria ever going to have surplus resources to help its
neighbors?
"I don’t know where he is. Nor — you know, I just don’t spend that much time
on him really, to be honest with you. I....I truly am not that concerned about
him."
-President Bush
So now it's back to tie up loose ends, Mr President?
Excerpt:
KABUL, Afghanistan - In a surprise visit under extraordinary security, President Bush
expressed unwavering confidence Wednesday that Osama bin Laden will be
captured despite years of fruitless manhunts for the elusive terrorist leader who ran
training camps in Afghanistan and plotted the deadly attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
Bush ordered Air Force One, on a flight to India, to make a secret detour to this war-
scarred country to show U.S. support for the fledgling democracy led by President
Hamid Karzai, whose authority has been weakened by suicide bombings and rising
violence by insurgents.
There are more than 18,000 U.S. forces in Afghanistan, and Bush said their mission
was "to help this new democracy not only survive but to flourish."
This is pathetic. We should have accomplished this 4 years ago instead of getting
distracted by poorly planning the current disaster in Iraq.
Yawn.
Lip Service.
kid is a badass.
decides to release a truck the size of planetoid in response to
consumers choosing smaller, fuel-efficient cars
Excerpt:
DETROIT - For the first time in nine years, all of the top picks in Consumer Reports'
annual vehicle guide are made by Japanese automakers. The Honda Civic is the
magazine's top small sedan, while the Toyota Highlander Hybrid is the top mid-sized
sport utility vehicle, according to results released Wednesday.
Vehicles from Nissan Motor Co. and Subaru, a division of Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd.,
round out the top picks in 10 categories.
When are US-based companies going to learn that making piles o' crap just doesn't
cut it any more?
across a chunk of Yellowstone. Cool. Batholiths are my favorite kind of geologic
process.
time it won't suck
to it. How come old Pearl Jam had intensity in their studio albums and turned into old
men around 1996? Their live shows still have fire--Vedder still yells and screams in
those--but the studio shit is so slow and boring. Eddie Vedder sounds like he's on
valium or something during the songs.
Anyway, it is coming out in May and we should start hearing songs from it on the
radio next week.
should see them back in the ranking again soon. Zach Clem is a
monster he should be a fairly high draft pick this year he just needs to
get some more hits to lift his average.
going to suck. Wally Walker sucks for the Sonics, Woody Woodward sucked for the
Mariners 10 years ago and Bill Bavasi sucks for the Mariners today.
me some more time.
famous. Thank You.
wigging you out?