"Times are changing for the better," Bush said. "People's lives are improving. And there is hope."
The sentiment isn't shared by many who live along the storm's brutal path -- particularly in New Orleans. Much of the city is in ruins, crime has soared and health care is limited. Large numbers of residents are so frustrated they are thinking of getting out for good.
MSNBC article on the president's visit to Long Beach, Mississippi, to tout the progress made in restoring that area after 2005's hurricane Katrina. Long Beach is approximately 74 miles (1 hour and 18 minutes est. travel time) from the continuing devastation of most of New Orleans.
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Marines don't collectively bargain over whether they're, you know, going to end up being deployed in Anbar province or Baghdad.
Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, arguing against proposed legislation that would allow federal airport screeners to negotiate the terms of their employment.
A little bit of truth from the head of the Army Reserve, speaking to a Government Executive breakfast:
Another beauty from the Denver Post:
Reaffirming the existence of the "culture of corruption" that most of us see swirling around places under Republican control, there's Jefferson County, Colorado.
Just imagine how much good this kind of money could actually do for families struggling financially....
From a FoxReno report on a bill in California to extend "domestic partnership benefits" to heterosexual couples:
I don't watch the Oscars, really, I couldn't give a tinker's goddamn about watching the Hollyweird crowd congradulate themselves over, well, in most cases, crap I'd as not watch, period, however...
Yeppers, the gap between robber barons and the poor widens ever still...........
WTW long ago reported on the lone remaining contested congressional race from last November, in Florida's 13th Congressional district.
I think I've finally found the bottom...you know, that place where the bottom feeders feed. It's where Tom DeLay is standing. Wherever Tom DeLay is standing.
