Yes, I know that events have overtaken this non-story, but she'll be back.

Here's the excellent John Leo column on the media deliberately covering for Cindy Sheehan in order to protect her as a speaker of "truth to power."

Posted by: Ace at 06:47 AM | Comments (4)
Post contains 57 words, total size 1 kb.

I hear that's the going rate for betrayal.

Microsoft and Yahoo! Present "Collaborating With Evil 101", coming soon to a laogai near you! Remember - attendance is mandatory.

Posted by: Harry Callahan at 09:28 PM | Comments (9)
Post contains 38 words, total size 1 kb.

Let's bayonet the wounded while we're at it.

Even in my most jaded, cynical moments, I never really considered that there would be moonbat kool-aid drinkers so bewitched by Bush Derangement Syndrome that they would protest at military hospitals. I suppose that was quite silly of me not to realize that everything, and I do mean everything, can and will be used to attack Bush, and that absolutely nothing is off-limits.

On the other hand, when the pro-terrorist crowd takes up protests at military hospitals, they're as much admitting that they only care about vitriol and spittle, and not actually persuading people.

I await the inevitable picketing at military day-care centers that blame intestinal knotting caused by despair at [insert random Bush complaint] for the children's potty problems.

Posted by: Harry Callahan at 08:56 PM | Comments (12)
Post contains 138 words, total size 1 kb.

I seem to be having a big day without any huge links. And so does virtually everyone else.

Did SiteMeter change the way it records hit to capture and log more of them? Why is everyone up 20-50% today?

Posted by: Ace at 07:54 PM | Comments (41)
Post contains 49 words, total size 1 kb.

Everybody remember the scene from Monty Python and the Holy Grail when the French taunt the Knights of the Round Table?

Well somebody should teach the Vichy that you Don't Mess With Texas!

Please don't make him taunt you for an eighth time you tiny-brained wipers of other people's bottoms!

``I'm thinking it's the best way,'' to anger the French, he told the newspaper. ``I'm exercising every day.''

Posted by: Tanker at 05:04 PM | Comments (16)
Post contains 86 words, total size 1 kb.

Well, the NYT doesn't quite say that. Instead, it implies that Blanco and Nagin were blameless and the finding of fault with them is entirely "spin" by a White House obsessed with politics and disdainful of the value of human life.

Posted by: Ace at 03:42 PM | Comments (59)
Post contains 55 words, total size 1 kb.

From an AP story one day before Katrina hit.

Down the memory hole. There are, after all, more important stories, like how Bush was so passive and disengaged from the coming tragedy.

And what about all those buses left wheelwell deep in floodwater? Junkyard Blog dubs them "The Ray Nagin Memorial Motor Pool."

Punny because it's true.

Thanks to the Blogometer, which has a veritable cornucopia of left/right finger pointing. Posted by: Ace at 11:31 AM | Comments (56)
Post contains 90 words, total size 1 kb.

Today's guest will be blogger and screenwriter Robert Avrech, writer of A Stranger Among Us with Melanie Griffith.

He'll be talking about recently coming out as conservative in Hollywood. And also the inappropriate sexualization and vulgarization of "Young Adult" books, and his start-up publishing company, Seraphic Press, designed to combat that.

Click on the graphic and look for "Channel One" at or after 4PM ET to listen.

Posted by: Ace at 10:38 AM | Comments (17)
Post contains 81 words, total size 1 kb.

Some of the rumors of rape and child-murder are looking like urban legends.

Smells like teen insurgents: A Wisconsin paper has banned the use of the word "looting," deciding the nonjudgmental "taking" is appropriate in all cases... even when it obviously is looting.

Apparently Govenor Blanco doesn't have any juice with the CIA. Mayor Nagin just began pointing fingers at her:

NOLA Mayor Nagin interview w/Soledad O'Brien in which he says Gov. Blanco told the President she needed 24 hours to make a decision for Federal aid.

NAGIN: The president looked at me. I think he was a little surprised. He said, "No, you guys stay here. We're going to another section of the plane, and we're going to make a decision."

He called me in that office after that. And he said, "Mr. Mayor, I offered two options to the governor." I said -- and I don't remember exactly what. There were two options. I was ready to move today. The governor said she needed 24 hours to make a decision.

S. O'BRIEN: You're telling me the president told you the governor said she needed 24 hours to make a decision?

NAGIN: Yes.

S. O'BRIEN: Regarding what? Bringing troops in?

NAGIN: Whatever they had discussed. As far as what the -- I was abdicating a clear chain of command, so that we could get resources flowing in the right places.

S. O'BRIEN: And the governor said no.

NAGIN: She said that she needed 24 hours to make a decision. It would have been great if we could of left Air Force One, walked outside, and told the world that we had this all worked out. It didn't happen, and more people died.

Nice takedown at Human Events Online:

First out of the gate were the Holy Men of the Cult of Global Warming, who couldnÂ’t wait for the first dead to wash up before they declared the Hurricane irrefutable proof of Global Warming and a direct responsibility of George W. Bush.

Next up were the racial ambulance chasers, always looking for another grievous injury to add to their political caseload. Looking at the Sea of Black faces abandoned without transportation, food, water or protection, they somehow managed to look past the CityÂ’s Black Mayor, Black Police Chief, Black City Council members and all the other Black office holders that run the 67% Black city, and found that the whole thing was: white folksÂ’ fault. Yet another example of racism at its worst.

This opened up a torrent of Bush-bashing, since he was the closest Republican that had any responsibility for the City. The Democratic Governor of Louisiana -- though white -- was merely a victim of the whole thing it seems, just like the Mayor of New Orleans. Nobody has any power in this world other than George Bush. Nobody has any responsibility. George Bush is now the navel of the world for his enemies. If a butterfly flaps its wings in Central Park, itÂ’s George BushÂ’s fault. And the butterfly is racist. And it was blown there by Global Warming.

David Frum on the dispiriting eruption of vicious racial politics, yet again.

Stating the obvious, but well: FEMA is not a first-responder. That's on the local police and government (duh!).

I would note that Rudi Giuliani and George Pataki didn't wait for George Bush before sending rescuers into the Towers (and then the rubble of the Towers).

Drudge picks up on New Orleans' message to its citizens: "You'll be on your own." It has just become incrementally harder for the LLMSM to ignore this story.

And Iran picks up the storyline from the LLMSM: Katrina response proves Bush racist.

Posted by: Ace at 07:44 AM | Comments (31)
Post contains 615 words, total size 4 kb.

One of John From Wuzzadem's best sketches yet, this time taking on CNN's disaster coverage... and Fox's too.

Hey, Fox has Geraldo.

Posted by: Ace at 07:35 AM | Comments (3)
Post contains 28 words, total size 1 kb.