Josef Goebbels would have been happy with much of the mainstream media in the past few weeks since Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast. Goebbels, for those of you too young to know, was Hitler’s propaganda minister. He is credited with creating the concept of The Big Lie. The idea was that if you tell [...]

First Ivan, then Dennis, then Katrina. This is what my backyard looks like.

OTOH, perhaps there’s a market here for filming a "Blair Witch" type movie.

Tags: hurricanes, katrina

W steps up to the plate
President Bush for the first time took responsibility Tuesday for federal government mistakes in dealing with Hurricane Katrina and suggested the calamity raised broader questions about the government’s ability to handle both natural disasters and terror attacks.
He’s proving he is the bigger person. Will the mayor and the govenor do [...]

Even those on the left have a lucid thought here and there:
The fetid aroma of hindsight - Los Angeles Times
Obviously — obviously in hindsight, that is — we should have spent the money to strengthen the New Orleans levees. President Clinton should have done it. Presidents Bush the Elder and Reagan should have done it. [...]

No shame
Journalists who are long on opinions and short on knowledge have no idea what is involved in moving hundreds of tons of relief supplies into an area the size of England in which power lines are down, telecommunications are out, no gasoline is available, bridges are damaged, roads and airports are covered with debris, [...]

Don’t know what this is, but if it had dropped down on me, I probably would’ve squealed like a bitch…

Katrina Search at Yahoo
Way to go Yahoo, which has introduced a people search which combines the missing persons sites and news services
Update: Google joins in.

Tags: hurricanes, katrina

Dean: Racism played a role in Katrina death toll
Dean told the annual meeting of the National Baptist Convention of America in Miami that the nation must “come to terms with the ugly truth that skin color, age and economics played a deadly role in who survived and who did not.”
Wrong. This is what played a [...]

A short, but powerful piece about history, unity and what could’ve been…
Disasters, says the cliche, usually bring out the best in people. But the cliche doesn’t take into account the current generation, our current understanding of how government works, our current understanding of our place in the world or even our current understanding of right [...]

Here are some headlines from Google news:

Bush panics and sends in the marines - Scotland
Bush gears up but too late for New Orleans - India
Bush Admits Inadequate Aid Efforts - Turkey
Congress Likely to Probe Guard Response - UK
US South drowns in bitterness - India
Katrina takes a toll on Bush - India
Survivors’ fury at relief efforts [...]