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  • Worst hurricane since the 1800s

    To watch the media tell the news you would think that this is the worst storm since the ear­ly 1800s, dra­ma and hype is part of the news cycle these days as most peo­ple know along with the polit­i­cal tam­per­ing with elec­tions and psy­cho­log­i­cal deroga­to­ry and defam­a­to­ry use of lan­guage. Indeed this may in fact…

  • over the edge or prepared?

    When you see a news sto­ry like this one you might think that some­one has been watch­ing too many movies. A group of like-mind­ed patri­ots, bound togeth­er by pride in Amer­i­can excep­tion­al­ism, plan on build­ing an armed com­mu­ni­ty to pro­tect their lib­er­ty. The group, named Citadel, intends to pur­chase 2,000 to 3,000 acres for the…

  • irene obamas katrina?

    Slow response? People Stranded? Sound familiar? Is Irene Obamas Katrina? That is a good ques­tion, because as of this AM, New Jer­sey, is wait­ing for help, from the Pen of Pres­i­dent Oba­ma, could there be a polit­i­cal bias at work here, just as many asked Pres­i­dent Bush about why it took so long to do…

  • blame it on bush?

    What, I know it is pop­u­lar to blame every­thing from Kat­ri­na to Glob­al Warm­ing on for­mer Pres­i­dent bush but this is two years now and still we have the white house blam­ing things on Bush, come on guys, but that is just well sick. It is some­times amaz­ing at the lev­el that some­one would go…

  • Ecological Diaster Oil Spill

    Is this worse than Kat­ri­na? You know this is a three ring cir­cus, why are they on capi­tol hill, insult­ing a cit­i­zen of a anoth­er coun­try when oil is still spilling into the gulf? Why is alleged­ly the Louisiana, coast guard, stop­ping attempts to clean up the oil spill, and alleged­ly because they had some…