The New York Times—amid re-“reporting” some already discredited boilerplate that blames a shortage of LA Guard troops in NO on Iraq deployment, and blames FEMA for not sending in more personnel before the hurricane hit (so that presumably they, too, could find their resources under 15 feet of water)—does let slip this interesting tidbit: When the water rose, the state began scrambling to find buses. Officials pleaded with various parishes

Billy Joel:  “Well, we lived for a while in a very nice style, but it’s always the same in the end.  We got a divorce as a matter of course and we parted the closest of friends.  Then the King and the Queen went back to the Green, but you can never go back there again –” Former supermodel Christie Brinkley: “– Wait a minute, pal. I had no problem

“Court: ‘Dirty Bomb’ Suspect Can Be Held”: A federal appeals court Friday sided with the Bush administration and reversed a judge’s order that the government charge or free “dirty bomb” suspect Jose Padilla. A three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the president has the authority to detain a U.S. citizen closely associated with al Qaida. Notes Bryan Preston at JunkYardBlog, “Of course he does.

From the Washington Post: City officials said Friday that the death toll from Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath may be far lower than originally feared, as troops and police shifted their attention from rescue of the living to recovery of those who died here in the past 11 days. The mayor had warned previously that the number of dead in New Orleans could be as many as 10,000, but other

Novelist Stephen Elliot, writing at The Huffington Post, takes a “progressive” look at Wal-Mart’s hurricane relief efforts and decides (surprise!) that it’s just not socialist enough for his tastes: Now think about this. Wal-Mart’s sales in for 2003 were $245 Billion. Lee Scott, The CEO of Wal-Mart receives an annual paycheck of $30 million, twice what the company donated to the Bush-Clinton Katrina fund. Wal-Mart employs 1.6 million associates, the

…has a honkin’ new website and a spirited call to arms: The time has come. It’s time to stay on point. The blogs need to unite around a rallying cry of “IMPEACH BUSH.” As of this post, the term “impeach bush” is the third most popular search term at Technocrati. President Bush has totally and utterly failed the American people. Almost every day we are presented with further proof why