A white person (at left) interacting with black people
Of course, if that’s the prevailing standard of evidence, race relations in America are quite friendly indeed (please scroll).
Next up: “Rock the Casbah” video shows how Jews and Arabs are actually party buds.
First it was Hiroshima, now this from Bob Williams in the Wall Street Journal:
As a former state legislator who represented the legislative district most impacted by the eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980, I can fully understand and empathize with the people and public officials over the loss of life and property.
It is most famous for a catastrophic eruption on May 18, 1980. That eruption was the most deadly and economically destructive volcanic eruption in the history of the United States. Fifty-seven people were killed and 200 homes, 47 bridges, 15 miles (24 km) of railways and 185 miles (300 km) of highway were destroyed.
That’s total of course — not all (we guess) in Bob’s district.
Economic losses in the State of Washington have been estimated officially at $860 million, down substantially from earlier estimates. The largest loss, reported to be $450 million, was standing timber in areas affected by the lateral blast and mudflows. [link]
Bob’s got things figured out anyway:
However, if citizens expect FEMA to be a first responder to terrorist attacks or other local emergencies (earthquakes, forest fires, volcanoes), they will be disappointed. The federal government’s role is to offer aid upon request.
Hey, Bob, send some fucking help last week, ok?
In the event of a terrorist attack, natural disaster or other large-scale emergency, the Department of Homeland Security will assume primary responsibility on March 1st for ensuring that emergency response professionals are prepared for any situation. This will entail providing a coordinated, comprehensive federal response to any large-scale crisis and mounting a swift and effective recovery effort.
…let’s check out this fine article by WND’s Jerusalem correspondent, Aaron Klein:
Did God send Katrina as revenge over Gaza?
Eerie parallels between forced evacuations spark speculation
By Aaron Klein
? 2005 WorldNetDaily.comJERUSALEM ? While most religious authorities seem to agree one cannot discern the intentions of God, there has been talk in some circles here and on the Internet the storm that turned parts of the Gulf Coast into a disaster zone, prompting hundreds of thousands to evacuate their homes and possibly causing upwards of 10,000 deaths, was thrust upon the U.S. for its support of the Gaza evacuation.
Because no one’s more qualified to discern the will of God than commentors on the Internet.
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It’s September, and that means WorldNetDaily’s Whistleblower Magazine has just published its annual “sex issue!” The theme of this year’s edition seems to be that most people never think about sex (or even know what sex is) until they reach college, where they’re forced to take golden showers from their professors while copulating with gay potted plants.
Here’s WorldNetDaily’s EXCLUSIVE summary:
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Hi, Bill Whittle!
Bill posts a long essay on why he and people like himself — his ‘tribe’ — are good, strong, brave, noble, and all that stuff, while certain other people recently in the news are not.
Only a few minutes ago, I had the delightful opportunity to read the comment of a fellow who said he wished that white, middle-class, racist, conservative cocksuckers like myself could have been herded into the Superdome Concentration Camp to see how much we like it. Absent, of course, was the fundamental truth of what he plainly does not have the eyes or the imagination to see, namely, that if the Superdome had been filled with white, middle-class, racist, conservative cocksuckers like myself, it would not have been a refinery of horror, but rather a citadel of hope and order and restraint and compassion
…Of incredible, entitled whining with petulant appeals for middle-class amenities until it slowly became shockingly clear that there was no food, water, or electricity for real, and that the doors were locked — leading to barbarity and bloodletting ? la J.G. Ballard, with guys and girls like Bill trumpeting their usual call of “Survival of the fittest! Natural law! Free market!” and ‘competing’ for resources with the elderly and infirm, with weaker peers, and children, while hatching zany plots to rescue everyone with their superior minds, or with Kung Fu ninja powers and/or firearms.
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The winner of the latest contest, the Strange Day When Everybody Either Thought of the Exact Same Stuff We Did, or Sneakily Stole All Our Material Without Linking, While Going, “Heh Heh Heh, You’ll Never Catch Me” Contest, is…
What a weird day. …Oh no — the air strikes! Back to base, kittens! Back to base!
“Reeow! Oops! Hspftht!”
It’s almost time to officially start feeling sorry for Michael Brown.
“[Michael Brown has] done a hell of a job, because I’m not aware of any Arabian horses being killed in this storm,” said Kate Hale, former Miami-Dade emergency management chief. [link]
Moving up through the storm’s flotsam, the crew couldn’t believe the scene.
“We saw a lot of dead animals, dead horses, floating cows, dead alligators,” said Rodney Blackshear, LCU-1656’s navigator. [link]
Also, no word yet as to whether these are the ones being beaten 24-7 by administration spokespeople.
Was at the game tonight. David Ortiz is my hero. Will be back tomorrow with an exciting post about wingnut sex. Peace.
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Our pals at Powerline keep posting posts every day.
Busy beaver John Fartknocker
So here’s this thing about how Paul Krugman made stuff up about aid not arriving in NOLA.
Now, if there’s one thing we’ve learned over the past however-many, it’s that John Buttraker is never right about anything, ever. His version of ‘being right’ is to temporarily control the discourse on an issue, such as the famous Dan Rather memos, so that the dumb people who read his blog can go, “Hur-hur! That settles that!” and wander blindly to the next point of controversy.
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The New York Times reports:
A leading British research institute said today that Iran was at least five years away from producing sufficient material for “a single nuclear weapon” – but only if it chose to ignore international reaction and “throw caution to the wind.” The International Institute for Strategic Studies…
Memories, like the corner of my something, something, mumble mind:
In June this year [2002] we determined that the evolving debate over Iraq was crying out for objective information on Iraq’s current likely capabilities, and that the IISS had an obligation to put before a wider public the best available information. […]
In conclusion, war, sanctions and inspections have reversed and retarded, but not eliminated Iraq?s nuclear, biological and chemical weapons and long range missile capacities[.] […]
A reasonable net assessment is that Iraq has no nuclear weapons but could build one quickly if it acquired sufficient fissile material. It has extensive biological weapons capabilities and a smaller chemical weapons stockpile. It has a small force of ballistic missiles with a range of 650km, that are capable of delivering CBW warheads, and has prepared other delivery methods for CBW, including manned aircraft and UAVs.
Ah yes, attack of the drones. 
Somehow we can’t help but think that the Institute is to this type of research what the Human Fund is to philanthropy.