petition for an independant commission

"Congress must establish an independent Katrina Commission, modeled after the 9/11 Commission, to unflinchingly assess the failures and successes of government responses to the disaster and make us safe."

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Petition

And this is quite an illuminating article from Newsweek:
How Bush Blew It

I think the most stunning knock-me-back-on-my-ass information was that Bush doesn't read the papers or watch the news. "He prides himself in ignoring the distracting chatter, the caterwauling of the media elites, the Washington political buzz machine." As a result, he truly was clueless about what was going on at the Gulf Coast. His lackies, in a dither about how to bring this to his attention, made a dvd from the news and gave it to him to watch while in Air Force One while they did that flyby on his way back to DC on Thursday. No one tells him bad news, so he truly thought things were going swimmingly while more people died of neglect.

I'm speechless with frustration, so I'll say no more, except GO SIGN THAT PETITION if you're a US citizen!

New paypal phish scheme

And I almost fell for it. I got an email that looked very official and it stated that I had recieved a payment from someone in the UK. Huh, I thought. That's odd. For details of the transaction, all I needed to do was click on the link. I did, but balked when I was to put in my password. I closed everything down, and went back to paypal via my bookmark and low and behold, there is no transaction.

Tricky, tricky, tricky!