A few facts are in order:

Truth Be Told

A few facts are in order:

• President Bush declared Louisiana a disaster area two days before the hurricane struck the New Orleans area.
  
• President Bush urged New Orleans Mayor C. Ray Nagin and Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco to order the mandatory evacuation that was issued on Sunday, August 28.
  
• First responders to a disaster are always state and local emergency agencies. FEMA is there to supplement the state and local activities.
  
• The hurricane threatened an area as large as 90,000 square miles covering three states. Immediate relief could not possibly have been delivered to all the places that required attention.
  
• An AP photo showed a large fleet of New Orleans buses soaking in six feet of water. The mayor apparently had the means to evacuate many of the folks who ended up stranded at the Superdome and the convention center.
  
• FEMA began its activities immediately, not expecting the magnitude of the flooding, the non-response at the city and state level, and the anarchy that resulted.
  
• The local and state governments had rehearsed for a different scenario. Disaster drills in New Orleans had taken place, but with a false assumption that the levees would hold.
• Both the law and protocol prohibit the president from ordering military troops into a state without a formal request to do so from the governor of the affected state.
  

From: The Left Coast Report
A Political Look at Hollywood
by James Hirsen

It wasn't my idea...

In a haze these days
I pull up to the stop light
I can feel that something's not right
I can feel that someone's blasting me with hate
And bass
Sendin' dirty vibes my way
'Cause my great great great great Grandad
Made someones' great great great great Grandaddies slaves
It wasn't my idea
It wasn't my idea
Never was my idea

- From Ben Fold's "Rocking The Suburbs"

although everyone in my part of the South was too dirt poor to own any slaves...

Here we go again - They'll cut off their nose...

A little lesson from the past...

-David Skinner on the David Souter hysteria:

It's the summer of the second year of the Bush administration, trouble is brewing in Iraq and a seat has come open on the Supreme Court. I'm talking about 1990, of course. But the similarities are suggestive, and one lesson to be taken from that year is that a Republican president can nominate an actual liberal for the High Court and the left will still go nuts.

The National Organization for Women, People for the American Way, and the NAACP all screamed like cuckoo birds when President George H.W. Bush nominated David Souter, a little known New Hampshire state supreme court justice. But as we can easily see in retrospect, Souter was the ultimate "stealth candidate," his great attraction being that not even his backers knew what he really believed. Souter seemed to have practicedl aw almost in secret. This lack of a paper trail helped turn the discussion to his also nonexistent private life.

"This is a man who has never been married, never had children," noted one widely quoted observer, a prominent lawyer who, reported R.W. Apple Jr. in the New York Times, "asked not to be identified because he practices from time to time before the Court." Thellawyer continued: "This is a man who has spent only a minimum of time in the public sector, who lives in a village of 2,000 people, almost all of whom are white, far from the crises of crime and drugs, in a state that is notorious for its social and political quirkiness. Is he really equipped to deal with great national questions?"

This statement was quoted and alluded to so often that Souter soon became pegged as the Curious Bachelor from New England. Harvard law professor Duncan Kennedy commented at the time: "It would be a delicious and amusing twist in the play between liberals and conservatives, if the liberals started proclaiming that only a married man with 2.3 children living in a suburb was qualified for office."

But the left did not stop there. Calling Souter "at best, very weird"--as NPR's Nina Totenberg did--was only the beginning. Feminists were particularly agitated. "Almost Neanderthal" is how Molly Yard, then-president of the National Organization for Women described Souter, whose "constitutional views are based on the 'original intent' of the Framers 200 years ago, when blacks were slaves and women were property of their husbands." (So that's what strict constructionism means!) "David Souter would be the fifth vote" for outlawing abortion, said Eleanor Smealof the Fund for the Feminist Majority. "We find him a devastating threat." . . .

Lyric of the Day

I dont need no one
To tell me 'bout heaven
I look at my daughter and i believe
I dont need no proof
When it comes to God and truth
I can see the sun set
And i perceive

From LIVE's - "Heaven"

The more gov't does, the bigger mess we have.

From Radley Balko as written on foxnews.com

If Talent and Feinstein (Congressional Bill) get their way, it will soon be impossible to buy common cold and allergy medication containing pseudoephedrine at stores that don’t have pharmacies. At stores that do, you’ll be asked to present identification and sign a registry, which will be monitored. Buy too much, and you could find yourself subject to investigation. Between sniffles, if your head’s clear enough, keep in mind that these hurdles lawmakers have thrown between you and cold-allergy relief will do little, if anything, to curb the actual use of illicit methamphetamine.
So long as we’re getting hassled, I suppose, at least we know that our lawmakers are doing something. Never mind that what they’re doing is misdirected, ineffective and likely to create more problems than it solves.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,159713,00.html