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9th Ward is Flooding

AP

COASTAL STORM SURGE FLOODING OF 15 TO 20 FEET ABOVE NORMAL TIDE LEVELS…ALONG WITH LARGE AND DANGEROUS BATTERING WAVES…CAN BE EXPECTED NEAR AND TO THE EAST OF WHERE THE CENTER MAKES LANDFALL. TIDES ARE CURRENTLY RUNNING ABOUT 2 FEET ABOVE NORMAL ALONG THE LOUISIANA…MISSISSIPPI AND ALABAMA COASTS IN THE AREAS AFFECTED BY KATRINA. TIDES IN […]

ABRAMOFF USED ROVE TO HELP TYCO

Excuse me while I repeat this:

ABRAMOFF USED TIES WITH ROVE TO HELP TYCO

Washington Post

Meanwhile, Rove is working on a new plan: legalizing millions of “guest workers”.

Nuns Looted to Help Dying Nursing Home Patients

22 people died at Lafon Nursing Home in New Orleans, not 14 as previously reported. They died of dehydration, not drowning.

OK National Guard Gets New Barracks

The New Orleans Convention Center – be sure and tell this to any Okie kid you know who is in danger of recruiters.

Saudis: Iraq “Hurtling Toward Disintegration”

Douglas Brinkley, one of the NYT’s best reporters.

NO WAY OUT

AP–

Wilma Skinner would like to scream at the officials of this city. If only someone would pick up their phone.

“I done called for a shelter, I done called for help. There ain’t none. No one answers,” she said, standing in blistering heat outside a check-cashing store that had just run out of its […]

$37 billion for Agriculture Attachés?

The “Operation Offset” plan trumpeted by the GOP to pay for hurricane rebuilding is based on the idea that we currently pay $37 billion per year for agricultural attachés.

37 billion dollars.

Knock-Only Rule Rescinded

On Day 23, for the first time the recovery crews were allowed to do more than just knock on doors to get into homes. How many people died in their attics and bedrooms while rescue workers tied to a knock-only rule stood outside in the previous 22 days?

The Katrina Administration

A speech which contains this quote, a very interesting one considering what the National Enquirer (the same company that was paying Schwarzenegger $8 million) published about Bush this week:

I know the President went on national television last week and accepted responsibility for Washington’s poor response to Katrina. That’s admirable. And it’s a first. As […]