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Supreme Court Chief Justice Rehnquist Dies Chief Justice William Rehnquist, who helped shift the U.S. Supreme Court toward a more conservative ideology and strongly supported states' rights during his three decades on the bench, has died. Rehnquist was diagnosed with thyroid cancer in October 2004, not long after the 2004-2005 court session began, and received outpatient radiation and chemotherapy treatments....
Posted: Sat, Sep 3, 2005 8:31pm PDT
FEMA Incompetence: Michael Brown's Background Was Not Disaster Relief (video/x-ms-wmv 2.6MB) ...
Posted: Sat, Sep 3, 2005 7:43pm PDT
Bush was warned LAST YEAR in a hurricane Ivan report about a looming New Orleans disaster! I am angry at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), now part of the Department of Homeland Security. I am angry at George W. Bush. I am angry because they were warned last November that New Orleans was one of the “Disasters Waiting to Happen” – and did nothing about it. Consequently, hundreds, if not thousands, of people are dead. Needlessly....
Posted: Sat, Sep 3, 2005 8:29am PDT
Over 10,000 may be dead, says Republican Louisiana senator (as reported by UK papers) http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,11069-1762944,00.html
As corpses rotted in the toxic waters, David Vitter, a Republican Louisiana senator, said he believed that 10,000 people may have died in his state alone, most in New Orleans. A huge chemical explosion spewed acrid smoke across the city....
Posted: Fri, Sep 2, 2005 7:45pm PDT
FEMA Directing Donations to Pat Robertson The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is the lead federal agency in the rescue & recovery operation at work in New Orleans and the Mississippi gulf coast....
Posted: Fri, Sep 2, 2005 6:45pm PDT
Can you create a petition to call for Bush's impeachment or resignation over Katrina?? ....city and state officials and the Corps of Engineers had repeatedly requested funding to strengthen the levees along Lake Pontchartrain that breeched in the wake of the flood. But the Bush administration rebuffed the requests repeatedly, reprograming the funding from levee enhancement to Homeland Security and the war on Iraq. ....Work on the 17th Street levee, which breached on Monday night, came to a halt earlier this summer for the lack of $2 million. "It appears that the money has...
Posted: Fri, Sep 2, 2005 4:02pm PDT
Emergency Rally Today! Rescue not Repression in New Orleans! - 4 pm - Powell & Market Emergency Rally Today - Friday - at Powell and Market 4 PM.
We Demand Rescue, not Repression!
The World Can't Wait - Drive out the Bush Regime!...
Posted: Fri, Sep 2, 2005 3:35pm PDT
The relegious right responds to Hurricane Katrina A truly awe-inspiring monument to Bigotry, Stupidity, and Small mindedness....
Posted: Fri, Sep 2, 2005 2:07pm PDT
US military doing calisthenics while people died in New Orleans and elsewhere "On Wednesday," said an editorial in The Sun Herald in Biloxi, Miss., "reporters listening to horrific stories of death and survival at the Biloxi Junior High School shelter looked north across Irish Hill Road and saw Air Force personnel playing basketball and performing calisthenics. Playing basketball and performing calisthenics!"...
Posted: Fri, Sep 2, 2005 11:46am PDT
Day 4: Looting cops, people dieing, 50,000 want out, and 40,000 troops requested A police officer working in downtown New Orleans said police were siphoning gas from abandoned vehicles in an effort to keep their squad cars running. The officer said police are "on their own" for food and water, scrounging up what they can from anybody who is generous enough to give them some -- and that they have no communication whatsoever. "There are multiple people dying at the convention center," Lawrence said. The city is "out of resources at the convention ...
Posted: Thu, Sep 1, 2005 5:18pm PDT
The Ship Of State Is Sunk For the good of what is left of the nation, George W. Bush must go....
Posted: Thu, Sep 1, 2005 3:14pm PDT
satellite views of New Orleans: before and after 
not sure how often google updates satellite photos but here's some very recent ones...
Posted: Thu, Sep 1, 2005 2:36pm PDT
Local official blames FEMA for ‘national disgrace’ Mob fears: “We were told don't drink or eat in public as it could lead to a mob situation,” NBC's Michelle Hofland said. “We were told that by sundown to get out of here.” Haley Barbour: “We’re trying to deal with looters as ruthlessly as we can get our hands on them.”...
Posted: Thu, Sep 1, 2005 1:37pm PDT
Day 4: Children, pregnant women, and thousands of others still have no water Mind you, this is 4 days into this disaster, and still thousands are barely surviving without major help from the federal governement. Some aren't surviving....
Posted: Thu, Sep 1, 2005 10:27am PDT
Both Democrat 2008 Presidential Contenders Support War - Let the Dumping Begin! Both Clinton and Biden are presumed presidential contenders in 2008. That leaves Democratic voters -- many of whom are anti-war -- with no choice if either wins the party nomination....
Posted: Tue, Aug 30, 2005 1:53pm PDT
Coalition for a Fair and Independent Judiciary Conference Call (audio/mpeg 4.9MB) Discussion of Civil Rights, Disability Rights and Women's Rights if John Roberts is Confirmed...
Posted: Tue, Aug 30, 2005 12:02pm PDT
Bush's secret dinner with the press, photo releases, Sheehan, Iraq, polls and more "several reporters expressed squeamishness about last night's event, particularly as the press-pool vans drove by antiwar protester Cindy Sheehan's "Camp Casey" site. And later, a small handful watched askance as the rest fawned over Bush, following him around in packs every time he moved."...
Posted: Mon, Aug 29, 2005 11:56am PDT
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