Missed this a couple of days ago… faced with the prospect that the
U.S. Congress might just decide that New Orleans (and America) needs
Interstate 10 just a teensy bit more than this town —

— needs a bridge comparable to the Golden Gate, Alaska’s brilliant
Senator Ted Stevens (R-Pork), actually announced that if Ketchikan
doesn’t get the bridge a lot of people there don’t even want, he would stamp his feetsies and resign in a huff.

So, um, that would be a two-fer.

Original post on the subject, with more details and a diagram of the proposed bridge here.

And for a look at the relative porkiness of various senators on the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee, go here and scroll down.  Stevens wins!

Raw Story is reporting the pregnant-with-indictments investigation has something of a flow chart:

For those who’ve been following this weirdness, here’s
the White House statement on Federal Disaster Assistance due to Wilma. 
Note that it’s surprisingly rational, covering the parts of Florida a
sane person would expect.

Compare and contrast with initially declaring only the non-coastal areas of Louisiana during Katrina, and then even more weirdly, the entire state of Texas
for Rita.  (Note, incidentally, that the rest of Louisiana was
included, days later.  Please don’t point to that and pretend it
explains the earlier weirdness.)

When my back’s not killing me, I still really do intend to post a full
review, complete with FEMA’s non-explanation.  This is just a
place-holder for those interested in comparing Wilma.

One more post and I’m horizontal again.

Will be the new reason for slightly infrequent blogging here.  My back popped late Saturday night and so right now I’m moving a bit like an arthritic panda.

No worries; it does this sometimes, and I’ll be fine.  Just saying.  A little slow here.

Well, they didn’t use those exact words.  But that’s the gist.

The following should horrify any American who gives a damn about any remnant of actual democracy.

The nonpartisan Government Accountability Office,
the investigative arm of Congress charged with examining what the hell
is actually going on with our tax dollars, has issued a 107-page report confirming, among much else:

The above is from this Kos post by Rep. John Conyers (D-MI).  There’s more.  Go read.

While the report and Rep. Conyers are careful not to call any
particular election into question (cough cough OHIO cough), it is
absolutely clear that the use of these machines must end.