“Freedom Walk” website already taken down

Interesting.

The Pentagon has already yanked the official website of the staggeringly unfree stick-the-DoD-employees-in-matching-T-shirts-and-call-it-a-rally Freedom Walk, less than 48 hours after the event concluded.

You sort of figure if it had been anything other than a near-total waste of taxpayer money, they’d be posting aerial photos of the giant crowds and self-congratulatory tributes and thanks to Clint Black.

You’d figure.

The merest grip on reality must be stopped


How could Laura Bush possibly not know the name of Hurricane Katrina?
The merest grip on reality only strengthens the terrorists

569
  49.8%
 
She gets her information directly from Mike Brown at FEMA

315
  27.6%
 
"Katrina" is just a Democratic slur; starting tomorrow, the real name is "Corrina"

186
  16.3%
 
Never removed the earplugs from the day George played guitar

73
  6.4%
 

Strangely, Bush’s singular inattention to the impending destruction of an entire American city has only knocked his poll numbers down a few points.

So what, exactly, would it take for Bush’s base to start rethinking things?  New poll at upper left.

England win the Ashes

For the roughly ten percent of you in the UK:

Hats off to Kevin Pietersen, whose maiden century clinched for England their first Ashes win in a generation.

I hope you’ll celebrate with an extra beverage on my account.  I won’t
even made a crack about his total inability to catch a batted
ball or the polecat he wears on his head for a haircut.  (Except that
one.)  Truly spectacular show.  The whole team played well; Freddie
and Simon Jones were particularly good, and Vaughn did a fabulous job
with the captaincy.  It’s a fine night for the Barmy Army.

As an Australia supporter, I hate to write this, but well-deserved.  Of course, if Warney makes that catch at first slip, I still think we’ve still got a chance today.  Sigh…

Congrats, dear Poms.  Well played, top to bottom.

To those of you reading from Oz: just please keep Warne and McGrath
healthy for two more years.  I intend to be there, screaming my lungs
out beside you next time.  I’m hoping we can all yell BLEAAAAAAAAAUUGGGGGGHHHHHH together.

And to the sudden flood of Kiwi visitors in the last 24 hours:
welcome.  I saw my first cricket match
ever at Eden Park.  I adore your country, and will miss seeing King Carlos and
Justin Marshall’s faces amid the All Blacks.

If any antipodean visitor is looking to hire a creative
complainer, please do pass my name around.  I wouldn’t mind an extended visit.

Bush didn’t know his own FEMA chief had resigned

First, Bush needed days to realize how bad Katrina was (although he’s lying
when he recites the already-discredited talking point about the media
saying NOLA "dodged a bullet"); he said today he was relaxing even after the levees had been breached.

Bush’s head of FEMA didn’t even know there were thousands of people at the Convention Center.

Bush’s wife was still struggling to play Name That City-Destroying Horrific Disaster more than a full week after it had been in the news every single minute of every single day.

And now today Bush doesn’t even know who works for him.  (Watch the video.)

Calling for Bush’s resignation would be redundant.  America doesn’t even have a president.