The Storm, Again – NYTimes.com

The Storm, Again – NYTimes.com

“Between 2010 and 2012, House Republicans forced a reduction of 43 percent in the primary grants from the Federal Emergency Management Agency that pay for disaster preparedness. That is $1.8 billion that will not be available for evacuation equipment and supplies, communications gear that lets first responders speak to one another, and training exercises. (House Republicans tried to cut $354 million more in this year’s homeland security spending bill, but Democrats restored the money in a conference with the Senate.)”

Heck of a job GOP, heck of a job.

I, like many others across this great big country of ours I imagine, am watching that much gentler storm bear down on the Gulf Coast and seeing in my minds eyes the indeliable pictures of trauma and suffering during the aftermath of Katrina.

New Orleans is, in many ways, my home and the memory of wacthing in numb, powerless horror as her people were turned on by the police and forgotten by the government in their time of dire need pushes tears down my cheeks as I try to focus on Isaac.

Please, please, please Army Corp of Engineers, please no shoddy work this time!

…Luckily the Prez is in a reelection campaign so if anything does happen I’m betting he’ll get his ass down there a lot quicker than he did for the oil spill. Or better yet, send Michelle. she’s better with connecting with people on the fly.

Romney: My views on abortion rights are clear – CBS News

Romney: My views on abortion rights are clear – CBS News

As clear as a river of molasses Willard, and no less viscous.

You’re about as solid on that issue as you up front about your true wealth and level of taxation over the last twenty years.

PS, your house in NH is a bit spendy. That’s another way a Granite Stater might suggest something leaned towards the gauche side. Which come to think of it, ties in neatly with your Bahamas Swiss Bank Account problem. I don’t think you planned this out for as long and as well as you could have.

No courts-martial in Marine urination scandal – Navy News | News from Afghanistan & Iraq – Navy Times

No courts-martial in Marine urination scandal – Navy News | News from Afghanistan & Iraq – Navy Times

Not good enough.
People in the Middle East don’t give a shit about these men’s careers.
We need to show the world that we realize this is unacceptable and we will not tolerate it from our service people.
They should have gotten criminal hate crime convictions.
What a fucking bunch of BS, no wonder everything we do in the middle east falls apart.
We can’t even act when there is a clear cut purpose and mandate.
Fuck the Marine Corp, they fucked up big on this one and it will cost our country additional American lives.
Useless motherfuckers.