George Bush to shun New Orleans again

Our Commander in Chief, President George W. Bush, has just announced that he does not intend to visit New Orleans to check on the preparations for Hurricane Gustav. He said that he did not want his presence there to interfere with the process of evacuations and such. Interfere? I thought he was the Commander in [...]

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Sarah Palin – You’re no Hillary Clinton

With his astounding announcement that Sarah Palin is his pick for Vice President, John McCain proved once again that he has us all fooled. Here I was thinking that Johnny was just a befuddled old man who couldn’t count his houses, didn’t know the difference between a Shiite and a Sunni, and couldn’t use a [...]

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U.S. Disaster Response Corps Ready for Hurricane Gustav

As Hurricane Gustav menacingly approaches the Gulf of Mexico, threatening to grow into a Category 5 storm capable of unleashing horrific gales and torrential downpours upon the hapless residents of the U.S. southern coastline, the newly formed U.S. Disaster Response Corps is springing into action. Thousands and thousands of highly trained men and women have [...]

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New Orleans in the crosshairs again?

Let’s face it; our government’s ability to respond effectively to a natural disaster is pretty close to zero. The reason I bring this up now is that Hurricane Gustav is now projected to enter the Gulf of Mexico in a few days as a category 3 storm. It could then build up over the warm [...]

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The USA – A redneck nation?

About a year ago some European friends of mine asked me whether I thought the next President of the United States would be Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton. I thought for a moment about the last two elections and how the nation had elected, twice in a row, a man who is universally considered to [...]

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