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13 September 2005 @ 10:50 am

Bush allies getting Katrina work: companies with ties to the White House among the first awarded reconstruction deals.

Deep-Rooted Incompetence: Hurricane Response Can Be Traced To GOP Mission.

World Opinion Roundup: America in Black and White.

KATRINA NEWS:
* So. Who will return to New Orleans?
* New Orleans police continue to face increasing pressure.
* How the rich are protecting their property in New Orleans.
* Ethnic media provides a different look at the disaster.

OTHER NEWS:
* Karzai says the US needs to reconsider their approach to Afghanistan.
* Transcript: Roberts' opening statement.
* More Guantanamo detainees join hunger strike.
* Affordable housing in DC disappears.
* The DC arsonist gets life in prison.
* As wealth and freedom boom in China, so does the divorce rate.
* Bush threatens to veto bill that would make the air cleaner by returning to older standards.
* Hubble provides a new map of Pluto.
* Distant cosmic blast sighted.
* The circuitry of stem cells.
* Baby born to braindead woman dies of premature complications.
* The public turns against reality TV.
* Tom Shales on "The Hardy Boys Go Ghostbusting."
* "Belly Dancers, Vampires, and Tony Curtis"
* "The Passion of the Penguins"?

How Curious George escaped the Nazis

What the fall batch of movies tell us.

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mediaprophet on September 13th, 2005 03:01 pm (UTC)

I like the China divorce thing.

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cheetahmaster on September 13th, 2005 04:27 pm (UTC)

How did I live before I read BBC News daily?

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asimplelife on September 13th, 2005 03:07 pm (UTC)

Eleven US children 'found caged'

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cheetahmaster on September 13th, 2005 03:21 pm (UTC)

Jah, waiting for more info on that, sounds fishy.

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lovellama on September 13th, 2005 03:43 pm (UTC)

Re: the Penguin thang. I like this quote:

Or as Laura Kim, a vice president of Warner Independent, put it: "You know what? They're just birds."

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pseudotheist on September 13th, 2005 03:44 pm (UTC)

I could have done without the baseball references, but otherwise a good opening statement.

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cheetahmaster on September 13th, 2005 04:28 pm (UTC)

Entirely acceptable, and the only thing worth reading from the opening day.

(The big secret: I don't see any reason he wouldn't make a good justice. Not enough bench experience for chief justice, IMHO.)

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pseudotheist on September 13th, 2005 04:51 pm (UTC)

The bigger secret: He can't be worse than Rehnquist from a liberal perspective.

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barovan on September 13th, 2005 05:59 pm (UTC)

Now Roberts is the non-"scary" one, from a Liberal point of view, the next one will be the real conservative justice that will be "scary" one. Should be a interesting fall.

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barovan on September 13th, 2005 06:03 pm (UTC)

I think one of the reasons for Roberts getting the nod is if another Justice was nominated then there would be three hearings. I could be wrong but I think a sitting Justice still much undergo hearings to move to Chief Justice. Also since I think Roberts is Bush's "moderate" appointment the administration felt it was better to get the easier one into the more important seat. The next appointment will be much farther to the right, the word I hear right now is Priscilla Owens. I have also hear Luttig, but I think it will be a woman like Owens, though very conservative.

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cheetahmaster on September 13th, 2005 06:14 pm (UTC)

I think one of the reasons for Roberts getting the nod is if another Justice was nominated then there would be three hearings. I could be wrong but I think a sitting Justice still much undergo hearings to move to Chief Justice. Also since I think Roberts is Bush's "moderate" appointment the administration felt it was better to get the easier one into the more important seat.

It also didn't hurt that Roberts' name was already out in the media, and hadn't garnered any real opposition.

But let's not kid ourselves, Bush was delighted at the chance to push the young, quiet, loyal conservative into the role of Chief Justice, a place that (barrin unforeseen circumstance) he'll hold for decades and decades to come.

The three hearings thing is correct, as well. But we have O'Conner until her repacement is named, so, no rush there.

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pseudotheist on September 13th, 2005 06:15 pm (UTC)

I personally think it's because Roberts is stil very young (as far as the Supreme Court is concerned), and Bush wants to put in someone who will run things for a good long time. At least I haven't heard anyone talking about Alberto "Mengele" Gonzales for the next Supreme Court opening. I think his approval rating after Katrina will force him to pick a respectable candidate, though.

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barovan on September 13th, 2005 07:50 pm (UTC)

His nomination will not be Gonzalez. As much as he is denigrated by the left, he is not all that conservative. And yes the youth thing is true and I have talked about it but forgot it here.

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cheetahmaster on September 14th, 2005 02:40 am (UTC)

IT cracks me up that neither the right nor the left want Gonzales, but Bush keeps bringing it up. It's like he's just trying to rile people up (OK, I think he is just trying to rile people up.)

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cheetahmaster on September 13th, 2005 04:34 pm (UTC)

"If I were running one of the cable networks, this is what I would have done yesterday. I would have told the Senate Judiciary Committee that if you want to devote hours to rambling opening statements from each and every member of the panel -- essentially much-rehashed stump speeches -- fine, but we're not going to cover it."
-Howard Kurtz

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asimplelife on September 13th, 2005 05:45 pm (UTC)

World Opinion Roundup: America in Black and White.

The comments here are really good.

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asimplelife on September 13th, 2005 05:48 pm (UTC)

Bush: 'I take responsibility' for U.S. failures on Katrina

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examorata on September 13th, 2005 08:08 pm (UTC)

Wait, he....admitted responsibility? I may have to lie down!

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cheetahmaster on September 14th, 2005 02:41 am (UTC)

If you watch the video, when he's doing it, he can't make eye contact with either the reporter who asked the question, or the camera. I'm serious, it's funny.

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examorata on September 14th, 2005 11:51 am (UTC)

I saw it last night! Hilarious! In a pathetic, awful way!

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lovellama on September 13th, 2005 10:01 pm (UTC)

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/091305I.shtml

The Story of Steve
By William Rivers Pitt

...

Finally, two Sundays ago, he said enough was enough. He told his boss that he was heading to New Orleans to find her, and his boss cut him two paychecks to help him. He called Linda's father and said he was going to find her and bring her back if it killed him. He hopped a plane to the closest available spot, and poured himself into the worst, most dangerous place in America, to find the woman he loved.

...

At some point, Steve got his hands on a flat-bottom boat and rowed around the city. He found dozens and dozens and dozens of people, and rowed them to shelters. He saved perhaps a couple hundred lives.

...

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cheetahmaster on September 14th, 2005 02:41 am (UTC)

Magnificent.

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lovellama on September 14th, 2005 12:03 am (UTC)

http://www.brokentoys.org/?p=6849

Katrina: The Gathering

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cheetahmaster on September 14th, 2005 02:43 am (UTC)

Oh. Wow.

These get their own posting tomorrow.

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lovellama on September 14th, 2005 04:08 am (UTC)

Go me! ;)

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