Day October 7, 2005

Light blogging

We’re still on vacation. Off to Mass. MOCA today, a fine art musuem in an old mill factory on the Mass./Vermont border. Then dinner in Northhampton after some wandering around. Full blogging resumes Tuesday.

Bush in the danger zone. Zombies in Congress

As Bush slides to 37%, Rove now concerned he may face charges. On a day when Bush’s approval rating hit a new low of 37% in a CBS News poll, with 59% now wanting our troops out of Iraq immediately,…

Maybe so the US can’t expropriate them?

Chavez 1, Bush 0. “Venezuela has moved its central bank foreign reserves out of U.S. banks, liquidated its investments in U.S. Treasury securities and placed the funds in Europe, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Friday.” (Source)

Reason 837 why the government is clueless

Levees not being built to deal with another Katrina Col. Lewis Setliff, the engineer overseeing the levee repairs for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, said the Corps only has the authority to rebuild levees to the strength they were…