Congressman Murtha is getting kickass enough that I think it may be time for him to stop flying in small aircraft.

Awesome: Reid vows to stop future congressional pay raises until congress rasies the minimum wage. Seems fair. After all, they've had "cost of living" pay increases amounting to $31,600 in the last nine years. That's pay increases ( Read more... )

++ The world sees America as a bigger threat than Iran, which is pretty fucking depressing.

++ Related: The world in general still hates us. Thanks, Bush administration!

++ Anti-war activists jeered Hillary Clinton for supporting the war. I don't know WTF she's thinking by still supporting this catastrophe.

++ A professor in Utah was let go ( Read more... )

My friend, the lovely txvoodoo, received this image & accompanying text in a forwarded email yesterday.


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AP calls it:
NEW ORLEANS - Mayor Ray Nagin, whose shoot-from-the-hip style was both praised and scorned after Hurricane Katrina, narrowly won re-election over Lt. Gov. Mitch Landrieu on Saturday in the race to oversee one of the biggest rebuilding projects in U.S. history.


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AP says the New Orleans Election Is Too Close to Call.
NEW ORLEANS - Voters in this hurricane-stricken city were deciding Saturday whether to allow incumbent Mayor Ray Nagin to continue overseeing what will be one of the largest reconstruction projects in U.S. history or to oust him in favor of Lt. Gov. Mitch Landrieu ( Read more... )

++ Stuff I Already Knew Part 1: American Health Care is in shambles.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - More than 40 percent of Americans making between $20,000 and $40,000 a year went without insurance for at least part of the year last year, according to a study published on Tuesday. The research by The Commonwealth Fund also found that 20 percent of ( Read more... )

Must control fist of death...
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A Louisiana congressman says e-mails written by the government's emergency response chief as Hurricane Katrina raged show a lack of concern for the unfolding tragedy and a failure in leadership.

Rep. Charlie Melancon, whose district south of New Orleans was devastated by the hurricane, posted a ( Read more... )

Via Sploid:
About 60 Hitler fanatics from the "American Socialist Party" got all the trouble and attention they wanted on Saturday when they walked through North Toledo, Ohio, shouting insults at blacks.


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Well, fuck.
NEW ORLEANS - Hurricane Rita's steady rains sent water pouring through breaches in a patched levee Friday, cascading into one of the city's lowest-lying neighborhoods in a devastating repeat of New Orleans' flooding nightmare.

"Our worst fears came true," said Maj. Barry Guidry of the Georgia National Guard.

"We have three significant ( Read more... )

I know that all you guys have BoingBoing on your must-read list, but I had to point these two articles out in case you missed them.

1. Parody article: Pat Roberston Blames Katrina on Ellen Degeneres' Lesbianism:
Pat Robertson on Sunday said that Hurricane Katrina was God’s way of expressing its anger at the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences ( Read more... )