Posted on September 12th, 2005 by Gavin M.
Because honestly, it’s almost depressing. Ed Morrisey is ‘Captain Ed’ at Captain’s Quarters, another always-wrong wingnut poodle act — apparently they all like to cite one another a lot, in circlical fashion. So take it away, Claremont Institute Fellow John Hinderaker:
Ed Morrissey vs. the New York Times
It is, of course, no contest. Ed takes the Times to task for its reporting on “bus problems” in Louisiana. At one point, the Times quotes Governor Blanco “burst[ing] into the state’s emergency center” and yelling, “Does anybody in this building know anything about buses?” Blanco knew nothing about buses, and neither, apparently, do the Times reporters.
But everyone who reads blogs–conservative blogs, anyway–knows about the hundreds of buses that were available to the local authorities, were supposed to be used by the local authorities to carry out the evacuation of New Orleans, but were not used by the local authorities. Here are some of them; probably nearly all of our readers have already seen this and similar photos of the unused buses:
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Posted on September 11th, 2005 by Gavin M.
Lost at Tora Bora
By MARY ANNE WEAVER
Published: September 11, 2005
Well past midnight one morning in early December 2001, according to American intelligence officials, Osama bin Laden
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Posted on September 11th, 2005 by
Gov. George Pataki on CNN’s Late Edition with Wolf “The Bearded Wonder” Blitzer a few minutes ago:
The 9-11 Commission issued its report at least three years after the attacks because they took time to look at all the facts.*
Well, the Commission’s report was issued nearly three years (July 22, 2004) after the attacks, but it sure as fuck wasn’t because of that:
The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (known as the 9-11 Commission) was created by Public Law 107-306, signed by the President on November 27, 2002. P.L. 107-306 originally required the Commission to report to the President and Congress 18 months after enactment, or no later than May 27, 2004.
Given that Pataki’s response came in the context of “there will be time down the road” to look at what went wrong, we’re guessing that Republicans’ idea of the right time is “How about never? Is never good for you?”
* We’ll update the exact quote when the transcript is up.
Posted on September 11th, 2005 by Gavin M.
I’m doing this one totally off the cuff, without even reading the Powerline post first. All comments guaranteed to be in real-time.
The Smart vs. the Stupid
Posted by John at 09:26 PM
Eternal Booboisie, digitally-enabled. Hurrah, Hoover!
…Because we already know who the stupid is. Ready? Here we go.
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Posted on September 11th, 2005 by Brad
If they had an award for “The Wingnuttiest Lede in a Renew America Column,” this would probably win:
With Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s pending veto of gay marriage legislation it appears that God will not destroy the state of California for at least a little while yet.
And with that, I’m going out for a drink…
Posted on September 10th, 2005 by Gavin M.
According to an upcoming Newsweek poll, President Bush’s approval rating has sunk to 38%.
Yes, this is the poorest recorded popularity of an American president in the history of presidential popularity polling. Pass the popcorn, and prepare for pleasing pageantry from panicking politicians, pundits, and the press!
Update: My mistake; not the lowest rating at all. Truman, surprisingly, rated the lowest.
Of course, there might still be a terror scare at the Nuremburg rally Freedom Walk tomorrow. We haven’t had a nice, distracting politically-motivated Orange Alert in quite some time. Wonder why they stopped doing that?
Posted on September 10th, 2005 by
It’s all about Barbara today:
An attack on the president is a direct attack on those who voted for him, putting the blame for everything that goes wrong on President Bush, and by extension, his supporters.
And when Barbara gets attacked, Barbara gets angry!
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Posted on September 10th, 2005 by Brad
Yes, I turn 26 today. As my present to you, the Sadly, No! reader, here’s a nifty little article from AgapePress:
Family Advocate Claims ACLU Seeks to Turn Kids Into Pro-Homosexual Activists
By Jim Brown
September 9, 2005
(AgapePress) – An Ohio pro-family activist warns that the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is disseminating information in an effort that is creating confrontational pro-homosexual student activists. A website for the organization’s Lesbian and Gay Rights Project offers students a “Know Your Rights” card and refers to laws that purportedly protect homosexual behavior.
Here (PDF) is the ACLU’s dreaded “Know Your Rights” document for homosexual students. I’ll quote a few passages here just to show you how insidious it is:
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Posted on September 9th, 2005 by
Now seems like a good time to start referring to the Bush White House as the “No one had ever imagined anything like this Administration (NOHEIALTA):”
The debate began after officials realized that Hurricane Katrina had exposed a critical flaw in the national disaster response plans created after the Sept. 11 attacks. According to the administration’s senior domestic security officials, the plan failed to recognize that local police, fire and medical personnel might be incapacitated.
According to the Department of Former Bush Campaign Staffers Homeland Security, the national response plan is intended to handle two things:
terrorist attack,
natural disaster; and
other large-scale emergency
Three things, the national response plan can handle three things! Amongst their weaponry: Nuclear Incident Response, and dealing with weapons of mass destruction (the real, non Judith Miller Variety.)
Given what they’re supposed to be preparing for, what kind of a fuckstick doesn’t plan for the possibility that “local police, fire and medical personnel might be incapacitated”? Are they supposed to be nuclear explosion proof?
Do you enjoy being exposed to thermal pulse, neutrons, x- and gamma-rays, radiation, and electromagnetic pulse?* Then the New Orleans Police Department has a job for you!
Is your body immune to the effects of low hydrolyse acetylcholine and the resulting accumulation of excessive concentrations of acetylcholine in such areas as the smooth muscle of the iris, ciliary body, bronchial tree, gastrointestinal tract, bladder and blood vessels; to the salivary glands and secretory glands of the gastrointestinal tract and respiratory tract, as well as to the cardiac muscle and endings of sympathetic nerves to the sweat glands? Then call your local fire station!
There is nothing that is dumb enough, sufficiently dishonest, or abundantly false for anonymous senior Bush Administration officials not to say to the press. (And there’s no sentence incomprehensible enough that we won’t write it.)
Posted on September 9th, 2005 by Gavin M.
