Tag: Hurricane Katrina
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The Republican Party is looking for a few more loonies
Every time I think Republicans cannot get any crazier, I am proven wrong. The latest example is of course Rep. Todd Akin (R-MO), who last week said that women who are raped have this heretofore clinically unknown ability to ward off rapist’s sperm, thereby not getting pregnant. But this can only occur in the case…
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Like moving an aircraft carrier with paddles
As you might expect on my forum we have been discussing Hurricane Katrina. Who is to blame? Who is not to blame? Some fault New Orleans mayor C. Ray Nagin for not having fleets of school buses ready to ferry citizens to safety. Others criticize the Louisiana governor Kathleen Blanco for not having an effective…
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The Illusion of Safety
It is not very often that I find myself agreeing with a Republican. Yet it happened recently. Moreover, of all the unlikely people I agreed with, it was Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert. Speaker Hastert suggested, at least initially, that the City of New Orleans should not be rebuilt. Asked whether it made sense…
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Thank God for Allies
At the United Nations, our unconfirmed U.N. Ambassador John Bolton keeps up the vitriolic rhetoric at the United Nations. You would think that after the worst natural catastrophe in the United States in most of our lifetimes that he might be a bit more demur. Sadly, this is not the case. We Americans are extraordinary…
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Time to take off the rose colored glasses
Like many Americans, I am trying to grasp the scale of the disaster inflicted by Hurricane Katrina. Words seem to be inadequate. News accounts, images on TV and in the newspaper go far beyond poignancy. It is hard to fathom the agony that many of my fellow citizens are dealing with. It is hard for…
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The Prisoner: Classic TV with Modern Echoes
Since I don’t watch much TV it was not surprising that I first saw the TV Series “The Prisoner” (starring “Secret Agent Man” Patrick McGoohan) in a theater. The year was 1976 and the place was the University of Central Florida. For a number of successive Friday nights we dorm rats would traipse down to…
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