The Movie: Ronnie Earle, on a Mission from God

Byron York, NR White House Correspondent
September 30, 2005, 5:38 p.m.

The Texas DA is inspired by the Bible to prosecute Tom DeLay.


A new film featuring Travis County, Texas prosecutor Ronnie Earle as he pursued the investigation that led to the indictment of House Majority Leader Tom DeLay portrays Earle less as a partisan figure than as a messianic leader on a mission to rid American politics of the "evil" influence of money.

A copy of the still-unfinished film, entitled The Big Buy, was obtained by National Review Online Friday.

On several occasions in the film, Earle engages in monologues on what he believes is the sinister effect of money in politics. "The root of the evil of the corporate and large-monied interest domination of politics is money," Earle says as he takes the filmmakers on a nighttime drive around Austin. "This is in the Bible. This isn't rocket science. The root of all evil truly is money, especially in politics. People talk about how money is the mother's milk of politics. Well, it's the devil's brew. And what we've got to do, we've got to turn off the tap."

I Love This Woman!

Jewish World Review Sept. 29, 2005/ 25 Elul, 5765
Ann Coulter

"It's not like Bush owes Harris or anything. If Harris were as pathetic as the typical Republican supported by Bush, she would have defied the law during the 2000 election crisis and proclaimed Gore the winner just to get the media to love her. Gore would be president now, and Harris would have her own show on MSNBC. I'd be storing away all my summer burkas and, accompanied by a male relative, taking my winter burkas to the dry cleaners to be freshened up."

Ronnie Who?

"The District Attorney should fight crime and hold himself to the highest ethical standards. These are two areas where Earle has not excelled." –Jim Dedman, Daily Texan Columnist. Originally Published in The Daily Texan on October 3, 1996



Ronnie Earle - The Partisan Democrat District Attorney


Ronnie Earle, Defender of the Public Virginity against possible assaults by a neo Mussolini Black Shirt merger with Texas businesses.

T.A.B., Mussolini: Earle Can't Tell the Difference
Amy Smith

"Finally, Earle recounted Mussolini's definition of fascism as the merger of state and corporate power, and suggested that T.A.B. would contribute to a similar merger in Texas unless stopped in its tracks." –The Austin Chronicle, April 11, 2003
You are probably guessing that in Ronnie Earle’s partisan fanatic mind Tom Delay and the Republicans would be the neo Mussolini and his Black Shirts. You are right. But, who is this evil T.A.B. (Texas Association of Business)?



The noble Ronnie Earle has prosecuted more demoracists than Republicans

Defenders of Earle like to point to the red herring that Earle has prosecuted Democrats, as well as Republicans, over the years. What they don't mention is that those Democrats were clearly guilty of serious violations (the cases were open and shut), and those prosecutions happened decades ago, when Texas was essentially a one-party state (controlled almost entirely by Democrats).
The real issue here is a failure on the part of Democrats to cope with the loss of political power they held in Texas (and elsewhere) for so many generations. Because Democrats have been so ineffective at the ballot box, and because DeLay is, in part, responsible for that failure, he must be destroyed.



As pseudo intellectual progressive liberal demoracists go Ronnie Earle is a real peach. Could this man be a ethical paragon?

"Dollars for Dismissals"
Byron York, NR White House Correspondent
The prosecutor in the DeLay case dropped charges in exchange for cash to pet cause.


Ronnie Earle, the Texas prosecutor who has indicted associates of House Majority Leader Tom DeLay in an ongoing campaign-finance investigation, dropped felony charges against several corporations indicted in the probe in return for the corporations' agreement to make five- and six-figure contributions to one of Earle's pet causes.
A grand jury in Travis County, Texas, last September indicted eight corporations in connection with the DeLay investigation. All were charged with making illegal contributions (Texas law forbids corporate giving to political campaigns). Since then, however, Earle has agreed to dismiss charges against four of the companies — retail giant Sears, the restaurant chain Cracker Barrel, the Internet company Questerra, and the collection company Diversified Collection Services — after the companies pledged to contribute to a program designed to publicize Earle's belief that corporate involvement in politics is harmful to American democracy. –The National Review Online, June 20, 2005



"This case is not just about Tom DeLay. If it isn't this Tom DeLay, it'll be another one, just like one bully replaces the one before." --Ronnie Earle

The Real And Present Danger

Throw the posse comitatus law in the ditch. Put the Federal Government in absolute control and take away the states' right to govern their own affairs. This is a prescription for disaster right up there with attempts to make us unarmed and docile citizens. Despite what the pseudo intellectual progressive liberal demoracist social engineers believe the Federal Government and Godless schools are not the answers to what ails this nation.

The co-conspirator's in this ridiculous scenario is the media. Yeah, right, like they have a clue as to what is going on in the world. The demoracists and the media are a Category 6 storm of ignorance threatening this great Nation.

The progressive liberal demoracists and the mindless media are purposely overlooking the difference between the Great State of Texas' responses to Hurricane Rita versus the State of Louisiana's response to Katrina. Don't tell me that Texans learned from Louisiana. That would be obviously true, but, it still does not explain the difference. We have been responding, effectively, for decades to threatening hurricanes. Big Bubba during the 1970s was a member of the staff at Hq, Fort Sam Houston. One season I participated in our operations to support the evacuation of Corpus Christi Naval Air Station. I was aware of specific details of other evacuation plans. I attended Austin meetings of state and local officials for disaster planning. I mention all of this not as a brag, but rather to support my statement that Texas has been doing it right for a long time.

Just because a herd of progressive liberal demoracist Louisiana politicians had their head stuck up where the sun don't shine is not a valid reason to change our National policies, criticize President Bush, or claim FEMA was responsible for all the failures.

Note: At this very moment I was listening to Fox News Live. The Fox News talking head was repeating many of the unproven allegations mentioned in the story at the link above.

From The Big Bubba E-Mail Files

Two Arab mothers are sitting on the porch chatting over a pint of goat's milk. The older of the mothers pulls her bag out and starts flipping through pictures, and they start reminiscing.

"This is my oldest son Mohammed. He's 24 years old now."

"Yes, I remember him as a baby" says the other mother cheerfully.

He's a martyr now though" mum confides.

"Oh, so sad dear", says the other.

"And this is my second son Kalid. He's 21."

"Oh, I remember him" says the other happily, "he had such curly hair when he was born".

"He's a martyr too" says mum quietly.

"Oh gracious me..." says the other.

"And this is my third son. My baby. My beautify Ahmed. He's 18", she whispers.

"Yes" says the friend enthusiastically, "I remember when he first started school".

"He's a marty also," says mum, with tears in her eyes.

After a pause and a deep sigh, the second Muslim mother looks wistfully at the photographs and says....

"They blow up so fast, don't they?"

I Love This Picture!

Why don't we have us a good old fashioned picture naming contest?



The gravitas candidate for President, John Forbes Kerry, bursting through a diaphragm after personally testing the new full body birth control protection suit. Notice the tampon string. Whew! That lady must be huge!

O.K. y'all, now that you have the rest of the story what do you suggest for a caption?

GLOBAL BARBARA STREISAND EMERGENCY

WARNING!! Barbara Streisand can be dangerously ignorant trying to impress the imbecile, low grade moron and mindless twit segments of the global populace. This brain dead twit is best rebutted with derisive laughter.

George W. Bush National Hero, Savior of His Nation

Governor Kathleen Blanco diddled while Mayor Ray Nagin dawdled and the national media geniuses, pseudo intellectual progressive liberal demoracists, and professional Bush haters blamed President Bush for the Louisiana Hurricane Katrina disaster. Now with Hurricane Rita looming large over the coast of Texas, the government officials and good citizens of the Great State of Texas seem to be doing everything right. With evacuations, closures and shutdowns proceeding apace the only remaining President Bush accusation is that he caused it all because he (and about 80 percent of the sane population of this nation) are not Global Warming True Believers.

Big Bubba will be the first to admit that the Great State of Texas has a leg up on our next door neighbors in Louisiana. Unlike the coon asses we do not have a long standing history of government corruption, incompetence and blame shifting. We know that our Aggie governor, Rick Perry, is going to be right in the thick of it making the right decisions for Texans. The governor making the right decisions and government officials right on down the line to mayors like Galveston Mayor Lyda Ann Thomas are all making the right decisions. Is President Bush a genius or what? Lyda Ann Thomas had Galveston school buses lined up to carry an estimated 900 poor or homeless citizens to safety. Gulf Coast nursing home residents are being air evacuated to safety. Genius, George, sheer genius!

I admit that I am not sure what President Bush had to do with all of this, but, I was equally unsure what he had to do with the poor decisions of the Louisiana clowns. Fair is fair. If President Bush is blamed for everything that went wrong with Hurricane Katrina he should receive credit for everything going right with Hurricane Rita.

How to Win Friends and Influence Our European Allies

19 September 2005

EXCLUSIVE: UP IN FLAMES

Tons of British aid donated to help Hurricane Katrina victims to be BURNED by Americans

From Ryan Parry, US Correspondent in New York

HUNDREDS of tons of British food aid shipped to America for starving Hurricane Katrina survivors is to be burned.

US red tape is stopping it from reaching hungry evacuees.

Instead tons of the badly needed Nato ration packs, the same as those eaten by British troops in Iraq, has been condemned as unfit for human consumption.

Update On The Misanthropundit

I have bought a template, but I will confess having some problems getting started with it. As soon as I have a better understanding of how to manipulate it I will be up and running.

I have already decided upon a new direction. My first effort is going to be Big Bubba's Neighborhood. Many of the participants in this Blog seem to be interested in Art and Culture. Part of Big Bubba's Neighborhood will be devoted to the Art and Culture of San Antonio.

Muralismo

Architecture

And if Hillary is elected in 2008 her veep,

Big Bubba Is Certainly Not Surprised

It has been obvious for quite a long time that William Jefferson Clinton's honor and integrity were totally lacking. Most pseudo intellectual demoracists believe that those two qualities are not necessary due to the superiority of their knowledge. They also tend to believe that others are stupid enough to believe their stunning whoppers like implying that the current administration is the only one that ever borrowed foreign funds. I know that ol' William Jefferson not only personally accepted foreign funds (political donations) his administration did their share of borrowing foreign funds.


Clinton launches withering attack on Bush on Iraq, Katrina, budget

Sun Sep 18, 4:03 PM ET

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Former US president Bill Clinton sharply criticised George W. Bush for the Iraq War and the handling of Hurricane Katrina, and voiced alarm at the swelling US budget deficit.

Breaking with tradition under which US presidents mute criticisms of their successors, Clinton said the Bush administration had decided to invade Iraq "virtually alone and before UN inspections were completed, with no real urgency, no evidence that there were weapons of mass destruction."

I Love This Woman!

ACTUALLY, 'JUDICIAL ACTIVISM' MEANS 'E=mc2'

by Ann CoulterSeptember 14, 2005

Democrats are so excited about Hurricane Katrina, they're thinking of moving "Camp Casey" to an area outside the National Weather Service. What they haven't figured out yet is how Richard Perle and the "neocons" cooked up a hurricane that targeted only black people. Meanwhile, rescuers in New Orleans have discovered a lower-than-expected 424 dead bodies or, as they're known to liberals, "registered Democratic voters."

In liberals' defense, they've got a better shot at convincing Americans that Bush is responsible for a hurricane than convincing them that John Kerry was fit to be commander in chief. Compared to Kerry, Katrina is a blowhard they can work with.

Thus Spake The Brahman

Hanoi John has enlightened the masses with a press release. He informs us that, "Leadership isn't a speech or a toll-free number. Leadership is getting the job done.” So, Hanoi John fancies himself a leadership expert?

• Shot home movies of the valiant warrior, Hanoi John, to document his exploits.
• Received three Purple Hearts for three owies and requested to go home eight months early.
• Hanoi John - a study in heroism under fire.
• One of the organizers of Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW).
• Participant in the Jane Fonda funded Winter Soldier Investigation.
• Outrageous liar.*
• John Kerry's photograph hangs in the War Protestors Hall of the War Remnants Museum in Ho Chi Minh City.
• "I have been to Paris. I have talked with both delegations at the peace talks, that is to say the Democratic Republic of Vietnam and the Provisional Revolutionary Government......" --Hanoi John Kerry
• "I would think that if you understood what communism was, you would hope, you would pray on your knees that we would someday become communist." --Hanoi Jane Fonda best friend of Hanoi John Kerry.
• "I do not believe John Kerry is fit to be Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces of the United States." -- Rear Admiral Roy Hoffman, USN (retired)

Hanoi John leadership expert? Indeed! This stuff is more fun than two for one sample day at the Ted Kennedy Hip Flask Museum. Speaking of Kennedy. Hanoi John reportedly informed his boat crew, in Vietnam, that he would be the next JFK. It must have been very frustrating to try and attain that stature and fall short by being caught manufacturing a phony war record.

If Hanoi John thinks that Vietnam Vets will ever forgive, or overlook, his poor leadership he is delusional. If he thinks that we honestly believe that he is a leader he must have been overcome by fumes on his last Ted Kennedy Hip Flask Museum visit. I look forward to the day when Hanoi John simply goes away and ceases annoying us with his traitorous presence.

*Kerry testified before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations on April 22, 1971, telling the Senators and a national audience that American troops "...had personally raped, cut off ears, cut off heads, taped wires from portable telephones to human genitals and turned up the power, cut off limbs, blown up bodies, randomly shot at civilians, razed villages in fashion reminiscent of Ghengis Khan, shot cattle and dogs for fun, poisoned food stocks, and generally ravaged the countryside of South Vietnam..."

President Bush Not Only Smiles, He Goes Potty

Reuters Photog Captures Bush at U.N. With 'Bathroom Break' Note

By E&P Staff

Published: September 14, 2005 7:35 PM ET updated Thursday 9:30 AM
NEW YORK

In what seems destined to become one of the most joked about photos of the month, a well-known Reuters photographer on Wednesday captured President George W. Bush scribbling a note to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice during a session at the United Nations. On the note is a message revolving around the need to take a "bathroom break."

The word favored by pretentiously ridiculous, pseudo intellectual mental defects, "gravitas,” comes to mind. Is this what they mean by "gravitas?" This is important news from the U.N.? Let's call it for what it is, folks. Juvenile potty humor intended to ridicule President Bush.

Here's A Surprising Thought

Could the media be guilty of propagandizing the news to conform to their personal prejudices and beliefs? According to "The Image of the Truth" by Caroline B. Glick in the Jewish World Review, Sept. 12, 2005, that may be true. Big Bubba has always been puzzled by our national aversion to government information that is perceived to be propaganda while weaker minds gleefully accept the propaganda peddled by the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, CNN and others, as being the gospel truth.

JWR On Blogging Ethics

Blogging Ethics
By Rabbi Dr. Asher Meir

Is the blogger responsible for defamatory posts?

This article was not quite what I thought it would be as implied by the sub-title. Perhaps my mind was substituting inflammatory for defamatory.

For The Already Disturbed

More disturbing news for my already disturbed readers. I have added word verification to the comments section. Yes, I know that it can be very annoying. I am, however, more annoyed by dumba** blog spammers. Despite my dislike of the blog spammers I dislike even more trash canning their posts. It is just so close to censorship. I will continue to trash can any blog spammers who get through the word verification. I think that most of these annoying people use automated programs to spread their refuse and word verification will block that. Sorry for the inconvenience, disturbed ones.

Why Colin Powell Will Never Be President

Powell Says U.N. Speech a 'Blot' on Record
Sep 08 6:04 PM US/Eastern

By BARRY SCHWEID
AP Diplomatic Writer

WASHINGTON

Former Secretary of State Colin Powell said Thursday his prewar speech to the United Nations accusing Iraq of harboring weapons of mass destruction was a "blot" on his record.



Too many old soldiers remember a "spineless" rap from the Vietnam Era. Seems to still be in place and functioning.

Let The Games Begin!

Will a smiling George Bush kick off the games? I don't think so. All it takes is a problem, any problem, and the pseudo intellectual, progressive liberal demoracists will kick off the festivities. Want to divert millions from disaster relief? Why not? What better way to use the taxpayer’s money than to showcase Washington showboating politicians.

Am I the only one to have heard all of this repeatedly, year after year?

• Local officials are responsible for local affairs. Their first call for outside assistance is to the state authorities.
• State officials are responsible for affairs within the borders of their state. When outside assistance is necessary the Governor contacts the President.
• The President awaits the call of the Governor and based on the call provides assistance and declares an emergency. The President, because of law and protocol, cannot lift a finger until the Governor requests help.
• The National Guard is activated by the Governor of the State and serve as directed by the Governor. The Governor can order the National Guard to exercise police powers.
• National Army units assisting State authorities have absolutely no low enforcement ability because of the posse comitatus law.

The same points year after year yet the national media never seems to understand, or remember, the points above. The ignorance of the general population is obvious, but the ignorance of the media is incomprehensible.

The average citizen has absolutely no comprehension of what is involved in the emergency evacuation of a major population center. Big Bubba was aware, and involved, in emergency planning by the military in the 1970s should it become necessary to evacuate San Antonio. San Antonio has far fewer geographical obstacles than New Orleans. I still have doubts about the ability to evacuate San Antonio, or any major metropolitan area, in a timely manner. Large mass movements of disciplined military forces with a functioning command and control structure can be very difficult. Convincing civilians to do anything with a purpose is laughable.

Everybody thinks they are a genius compared to Cousin Smilin' George, but, Big Bubba knows better.

President Bush Not Only Smiles, He Goes Potty

Reuters Photog Captures Bush at U.N. With 'Bathroom Break' Note

By E&P Staff

Published: September 14, 2005 7:35 PM ET updated Thursday 9:30 AM
NEW YORK

In what seems destined to become one of the most joked about photos of the month, a well-known Reuters photographer on Wednesday captured President George W. Bush scribbling a note to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice during a session at the United Nations. On the note is a message revolving around the need to take a "bathroom break."

The word favored by pretentiously ridiculous, pseudo intellectual mental defects, "gravitas,” comes to mind. Is this what they mean by "gravitas?" This is important news from the U.N.? Let's call it for what it is, folks. Juvenile potty humor intended to ridicule President Bush.

Relief Efforts at Texas A&M

-----Original Message-----
From: President Robert M. Gates [mailto:president@tamu.edu]
Sent: Monday, September 05, 2005 2:47 PM
To: undisclosed-recipients
Subject: Relief Efforts at Texas A&M

To: Faculty, Students and Staff

Subject: Relief Efforts at Texas A&M

Any Aggie of any age who believes the Spirit of Texas A&M is waning should have been at Reed Arena over the past three days.

Under an agreement with local government officials, Texas A&M has made Reed Arena available as a temporary shelter for a little over two hundred or so evacuees from New Orleans through September 9th. Probably like many parents and others, I was deeply concerned about security given what we all had read about violence in New Orleans. I only agreed to the use of Reed after being assured that the evacuees would be vetted, processed and security wanded at a facility elsewhere in Brazos County, wanded again upon arrival at Reed, and that University police and other security would be present at all times at Reed. Students who park at Reed Arena (mostly freshmen) will be parking elsewhere on campus for the week. The evacuees are escorted by non-students wherever they go.

I asked the Commandant of the Corps of Cadets, Lt. General John Van Alstyne, to take charge of this endeavor, in no small part because one of his last responsibilities at the Pentagon was taking care of displaced military families after 9/11. I also wanted a no-nonsense person in charge. He has told me that he is quite comfortable with the security arrangements. Either he or his chief of staff are at Reed 24/7.

Now to the best part. With little advance notice, Aggies sprang into action last Friday. The Corps of Cadets was asked on Friday afternoon to set up several hundred beds on the floor of Reed Arena; to help establish a structure for processing the evacuees; to make arrangements for them to shower and get new clothes; to help develop a process for medical checks; and so on. (Contrary to some rumors, the Corps was never asked or expected to provide security.) Lt. General Van Alstyne asked the Corps Commander, Matt Ockwood, for 300 volunteers to do these tasks. 900 cadets volunteered, and Reed Arena was ready after the cadets worked all night.

The first evacuees began to arrive around midnight Saturday. They had boarded busses in New Orleans that morning, had been driven to Dallas and then finally to College Station - all in one day. Of the more than 200 arrivals, most were families, including some 40 children and a number of elderly. They arrived exhausted, dirty, hungry and many in despair.

They then encountered an Aggie miracle. Clean beds (not cots but surplus beds from a refurbished Corps dorm), showers, hot food, medical treatment, baby supplies for mothers, toys for children and more. But most of all, what they encountered were a couple of hundred compassionate, caring Aggie cadets and other volunteers. The cadets escorted them to their assigned beds, and not only saw to their individual needs, but sat on the side of their beds with them, talked with them - treated them like they were a member of the family. The cadets made them feel welcome and cared about.

Sunday, when I visited Reed, I learned that the women of the Aggie Dance Team had organized and were running a distribution center for pillows, towels, bedding, personal hygiene kits, baby food, diapers and much more; that sorority women were running a child care facility for dozens of children, well supplied with toys, juice, coloring books and cartoon videos; and that plans were under way for other student leaders and students to replace the cadets, some of whom had been at Reed for more than 50 hours. Plans were underway for some of our athletes (and escorts) to take some of the evacuee boys ages 10-16 to the Rec Center to shoot hoops - boys perhaps including one I met who had treaded water under a bridge for 11 hours before being rescued by a helicopter. There is a communications room where the evacuees can use both telephone and internet to try to reach relatives and friends. The Red Cross, United Way, and other community organizations are right there on the Arena floor, and the Salvation Army is serving three meals a day. Escorted trips are being organized throughout the day to laundromats and stores. Area physicians, supplemented by the Aggie Care Team and the Health Science Center are available. Being treated with dignity, respect and compassion, our guests have responded accordingly.

Many other Aggie students are involved in the relief effort on campus, in the local community, and at our Galveston campus. Sunday afternoon, students organized a massive collection effort to gather canned food and clothes as part of the MSC's Open House. Student Government, led by Student Body President Jim Carlson, is planning other relief- associated activities, including helping organize more volunteers to work at Reed Arena the rest of this week.

By agreement with Brazos county officials, Reed Arena is a temporary location for these evacuees, and during this week, we are assured that most, if not all, of the evacuees will move to longer-term housing.

Aggies need to know that the past few days have been a high point in the history of Texas A&M as we have responded to this terrible disaster named Katrina. Seeing the desire to serve, the organizational skill, the willingness to work, the caring and compassion, and more, on the part of the Corps of Cadets, the Dance Team, the sororities and so many other students who have worked incredibly long hours - has been a profoundly moving experience. I do not know a single University official who, having watched our students over the past three days, does not choke up with emotion out of pride in these amazing young people.

And it's not just the students who have been amazing. It is also our staff, including those who today began admitting and helping up to 1,000 students displaced by the Hurricane. Faculty and administrators have volunteered as well, and also put in long hours to ensure that these displaced students can be processed into Texas A&M and their classes with speed and efficiency. I visited the processing center this morning and met many of the parents and students; I know now that they will never forget our generosity and warm welcome to Aggieland. Aggies often speak of "the other education" here. My original intent had been to keep the evacuees entirely isolated from our students. Once assured of the safety of the students, that would have been the wrong decision. I have no doubt that the Aggie students who are participating in this extraordinary humanitarian endeavor will never forget it -- or what they are learning from it about crisis management and, far more importantly, about their own humanity and character. Nor do I doubt that the evacuees, all of whom are now wearing Texas A&M t-shirts, will always remember how these young people treated them and cared for them.

The hearts of every Aggie should swell with pride in what this University is doing for fellow Americans in trouble, and especially in what our students and staff are doing, to help those devastated by Hurricane Katrina. I thanked a University policeman inside Reed yesterday for what he was doing, and he looked at me with tears in his eyes and replied, "It's an honor to be here, sir."


Robert M. Gates
President, Texas A&M University

This Picture Especial For The Duck

Mr. Ducky, these are school buses that failed to move an inch to get people out of harms way. Never mind FEMA, the Federal government and President Bush. New Orleans government failed their citizens miserably. Below is a picture of Mayor Nagin who is now calling for the Feds to 'Get off your asses'.



".....need reinforcements, I need troops, man. I need 500 buses, man. We ain't talking about -- you know, one of the briefings we had, they were talking about getting public school bus drivers to come down here and bus people out here." --Ray Nagin, Mayor of New Orleans

Notice his repetitive use of the word man. He is quoted as telling the President, "I need everything." I think I am beginning to understand why the buses didn't move. The actions of the New Orleans defenders of public law and order is a whole 'nother story. Here's a little pearl of wisdom from former Drill Sergeant Big Bubba to upper management of the New Orleans police force - "the maximum effective range of an excuse is 0 meters." Your folks broke ranks and ran. No excuse. period.

Victimology 101

washingtonpost.com
'To Me, It Just Seems Like Black People Are Marked'

By Wil Haygood
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, September 2, 2005; A01

BATON ROUGE, La., Sept. 1 -- It seemed a desperate echo of a bygone era, a mass of desperate-looking black folk on the run in the Deep South. Some without shoes.


Jackson Blasts Bush Over Katrina Aid
Sep 02 3:48 PM US/Eastern
By DOUG SIMPSON
Associated Press Writer

BATON ROUGE, La.

Racism is partly to blame for the deadly aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, the Rev. Jesse Jackson said, calling President Bush's response to the disaster "incompetent."

"Today, as the President comes to Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi for his ceremonial trip to look at the victims of the devastation, he would do well to have a plan more significant than a ceremonial tour," Jackson said Friday.

Black lawmakers angry at Bush response to Katrina

CTV.ca News Staff

African American lawmakers have expressed outrage and blamed U.S. President George W. Bush for the "slow and incomplete response" to the devastation wrecked by Hurricane Katrina.

Members of the Congressional Black Caucus, along with members of the Black Leadership Forum, National Conference of State Legislators, National Urban League and the NAACP, told a news conference in Washington D.C. Friday that the response from the federal government was slow because most of those left behind were poor.

Chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus, Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md, said residents of the stricken areas had gone far too long without clean drinking water and asked why "the differences between those who live and those who die are poverty and skin color?"

Project 21 Responds to Congressional Black Caucus Criticism of Hurricane Katrina Relief Efforts
9/2/2005 3:03:00 PM

To: National Desk

Contact: Ryan Balis of Project 21, 202-543-4110 ext. 19 or rbalis@nationalcenter.org

WASHINGTON, Sept. 2 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Members of the Congressional Black Caucus held a press conference today in which it was that asserted God "cannot be pleased" with the Bush Administration's response to Hurricane Katrina and suggested race is a factor affecting the likelihood of a person's survival in the aftermath of the hurricane.

Speaking at the press conference, Rep. Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.), said "To the President of the United States, I simply say that God cannot be pleased with our response." Cummings also said: ""We cannot allow it to be said that the difference between those who lived and those who died in this great storm and flood of 2005 was nothing more than poverty, age or skin color."

Members of the black leadership network Project 21 have blasted the Congressional Black Caucus -- whose elected members are charged to serve the best interest of all Americans -- for racially politicizing a natural catastrophe.

Why Are We The Only Nation That Purposely Avoids Energy Self-sufficiency?

Running on Empty: Toward a New Energy Policy - Statistical Data Included
American Enterprise, April, 2001 by Diana Furchtgott-Roth

With higher gasoline, home heating oil, and utility prices, the prospect of natural gas shortages on the horizon, and rolling electrical brownouts in California, the election of President George W. Bush, former oil driller, and Vice President Dick Cheney, former CEO of an energy company supplier, comes at a fortuitous moment. It says something about our country's priorities, however, that these two men's experience in the energy industry was more frequently derided than praised during the presidential campaign.

For although Americans are the world's biggest consumers of energy, we are the only nation that purposely avoids self-sufficiency in energy. Much of the public looks down on energy production as a dirty business best kept out of sight. We're ashamed of our magnificent drilling rigs and refineries, and think of coal and nuclear energy as darkly dangerous. Reflecting this public taste, the federal government has raised numerous roadblocks to the development of our energy resources--with the result that we are now perilously vulnerable to energy shortages.



Big Bubba Observation: Five years later and very little has changed. No new refineries, substantial areas off shore off limits, no new Alaskan oil drilling, no new nuclear power plants, and many many more onerous restrictions on energy production. Are we crazy? Did the oilmen, Bush and Cheney, fail us, or is it rather a failure of our national intellect to understand that our economy runs on oil, not magic?

This Just In From Matt Drudge

Eyewitness: Sec of State Condi Rice laughs it up at 'Spamalot' while Gulf Coast lays in tatters.

Big Bubba: Should we call for all comedy based entertainment to cease until we recover from Katrina? Should Vegas close down? What should Condi do? Don widows weeds and hide out until New Orleans is rebuilt?