The story of the good coordination and efforts by federal authorities from the national media is a complete misrepresentation. Use this article about Orange County as a microview of the entire California firefighting effort. Elsewhere in California the situation is much worse. We have nearly one million people evacuated. There have been over 1,660 homes burned with the number certainly to go up. 2 lives lost. A minimum one billion dollars in damages, if not more. And it goes...
Daily Archives: October 24, 2007 3:20 pm
The “Hitler Comparison”
The “Hitler comparison” should be shouted from the rooftops, as should the Goebbels comparison, the Himmler comparison, the Mengele, Stalin, Torquemada, Beelzebub comparisons and all the rest. If it struts like a Nazi, talks like Nazi, tortures like a Nazi and wages aggressive and illegal war like a Nazi… it’s not a duck. Eighteen months or so ago I wrote a post comparing Bush, Cheney and the boys from PNAC to Hitler, to the Nazi hierarchy and to the...
News Media Stupity
E&P reports today that former Sen. Rick Santorum is getting a ‘Philadelphia Inquirer’ column. Good gracious some newspapers will obviously give anybody ink including recently defeated former Sen. Santorum, known right wing nutjob. A press conference will be held at 1:30 this afternoon at the Philadelphia Inquirer to announce that it has added former Sen. Rick Santorum to its stable of columnists.Also hired is George Curry, the former editor of Emerge magazine. They will alternate the weekly spot. Sphere:...
Hey Big Spender
Move over LBJ… George W. Bush has officially won the title of the “biggest spending president.” McClatchy reports: George W. Bush, despite all his recent bravado about being an apostle of small government and budget-slashing, is the biggest spending president since Lyndon B. Johnson. In fact, he’s arguably an even bigger spender than LBJ. “He’s a big government guy,” said Stephen Slivinski, the director of budget studies at Cato Institute, a libertarian research group. The numbers are clear, credible...
Late Night News Roundup
There aren’t enough hours in the day to cover all the news some days. Here’s some of the top stories in the news and on the blogs: In the news: MSNBC: ‘We can’t stop it’ – Officials all but concede defeat to wildfires as estimated 1 million evacuate The Hill: Wildfires get personal for lawmakers Bloomberg: Clinton, Giuliani Overshadow Field for 2008 Race, Poll Shows ABC News: Giuliani Defends, Employs Priest Accused of Molesting Teens CNN Political Ticker: New...
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