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Report: Hurricane Tax Aid Does More for Wealthier Survivors By Mary Dalrymple The Associated Press Tuesday 20 September 2005 Washington - Tax breaks designed to help Hurricane Katrina victims get their hands on needed cash could do more for higher income survivors than for the neediest, a congressional report says. The Congressional Research Service, an office that provides nonpartisan legislative analysis to lawmakers, pointed to several items in virtually identical bills that passed in the House and Senate last week. One helps hurricane victims get access to their savings...

Should we start discussing global warming now? Two hurricanes that should have died off at Florida (as in the past) trucked on through into the unseasonably warmer waters of the Gulf. Only to be refueled and grow larger... Gulf coast, I hardly knew ye....

anyone interested in joining a fantasy hockey league should contact me. regan @ somewherequiet.org...

mac humor. click to read the whole thing......

after reading jeff taylor's latest post, I ask: where are the ben gibbards' of christian music?...

Friday, Aug. 26: Gov. Kathleen Blanco declares a state of emergency in Louisiana and requests troop assistance. Saturday, Aug. 27: Gov. Blanco asks for federal state of emergency. A federal emergency is declared giving federal officials the authority to get involved. Sunday, Aug. 28: Mayor Ray Nagin orders mandatory evacuation of New Orleans. President Bush warned of Levee failure by National Hurricane Center. National Weather Service predicts area will be "uninhabitable" after Hurricane arrives. First reports of water toppling over the levee appear in local paper. Monday, Aug. 29: Levee...

Obviously faked, these pictures really sum up how many Americans are feeling about the government response to Hurricane Katrina and the suffering thereafter. While President Bush was in San Diego posing in a cheesy ass country music photoshoot, Americans were clinging to cars and suffering greatly. I guess you shouldn't expect much from someone who takes August completely off for vacation....

I don't understand why everyone is having such an orgy of positive thinking concerning the possibility of landing the Bush Library. It's Lubbock, TX if you've forgotten. So here's how it going to go down, we're going to foolishly throw a couple hundred thousand dollars at it, and it's going to end up on the banks of the Brazos at Baylor, or maybe SMU, or wherever. In the mean time, health insurance and gas prices are breaking wallets and backs. Public education isn't funded nor even a topic that anyone...