I just caught some more of the coverage, and it just keeps sounding like things are getting worse and worse. I don’t know if the situation in some areas is actually getting worse, or if desperation is starting to set in. It is, however, starting to be clear that the City of New Orleans was …
Archives for August 2005
If This Is True
I am simply flabbergasted and speechless: When FBI supervisors in Miami met with new interim U.S. Attorney Alex Acosta last month, they wondered what the top enforcement priority for Acosta and Attorney General Alberto Gonzales would be. Would it be terrorism? Organized crime? Narcotics trafficking? Immigration? Or maybe public corruption? The agents were stunned to …
What Can You Do?
How this tragedy happened is something that can be resolved later. Right now, though, there is an immense human tragedy unfolding in the Gulf: Blanco said she wanted the Superdome – which had become a shelter of last resort for about 20,000 people – evacuated within two days, along with other gathering points for storm …
Police Involved In Looting
There are reports police themselves were taking part in the looting: Law enforcement efforts to contain the emergency left by Katrina slipped into chaos in parts of New Orleans Tuesday with some police officers and firefighters joining looters in picking stores clean. At the Wal-Mart on Tchoupitoulas Street, an initial effort to hand out provisions …
Hurricanes and Global Warming
This is interesting: Because hurricanes form over warm ocean water, it is easy to assume that the recent rise in their number and ferocity is because of global warming. But that is not the case, scientists say. Instead, the severity of hurricane seasons changes with cycles of temperatures of several decades in the Atlantic Ocean. …
Bush’s Poll Numbers
This is going to ‘fuel’ all sorts of irresponsible demagoguery regarding gas prices in the upcoming months: Rising gas prices and ongoing bloodshed in Iraq continue to take their toll on President Bush, whose standing with the public has sunk to an all-time low, according to the latest Washington Post-ABC News poll. The survey found …
The Fat Patient and Her Fat-Headed Doctor
Remember the patient I ridiculed for filing a complaint against her Doctor for telling her she is obese? Turns out there is more to the story: The state is investigating a doctor accused of telling a patient she was so obese she might only be attractive to black men and advising another to shoot herself …
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