Month September 2005

What I think

From Sue: Blacks, dogs, and foreigners are left to fend for themselves. Babies die in their parent’s arms from illness and heat exhaustion. Pets are ripped away from weeping hurricane victims by soliders and left to starve. Doctors and nurses,…

US Army calling those in NOLA, ‘insurgents’

From Zeni Jardin at Boing Boing whose reporting on New Orleans has been incisive and quite amazing. An article in the Army Times is referring to American citizens in New Orleans as “the insurgency”. While some fight the insurgency in…

People, get ready

The idea of $100-a-barrel oil, which was scoffed at as recently as two weeks ago, is now not so far-fetched. And its effect would be substantial. Other financial wreckage Will the banks let the mortgages slide for those whose homes…