Saturday, September 10, 2005

NEW BAGHDAD Some officials assured us on tv that no violence is being used during the evacuation of the remaining citizens of New Orleans. But people are being handcuffed, soldiers are entering houses Baghdad-style and dogs are being shot. The physician who told Cheney to go fuck himself, was detained and cuffed by Cheney's M-16-carrying goons. Remember that Mr Cheney himself once told a senator on the Senate floor to go fuck himself? Screwing people is of course a privilege of the Bush administration. AboveTopSecret: "Jesse Jackson was right when he said 'refugees' was not the appropriate word for the poor souls dislocated due to Katrina. But he was wrong about why it is not appropriate. It's not appropriate because they are detainees, not refugees." "Rep. Baker of Baton Rouge is overheard telling lobbyists: 'We finally cleaned up public housing in New Orleans. We couldn't do it, but God did.'" So many republicans will be praying to thank God for the hurricane??!! There are a lot of conspiracy theories going around, but what worries me is this: MemoryBlog: "There are two Level-3 biolabs in New Orleans and a cluster of three in nearby Covington. They have been working with anthrax, mousepox, HIV, plague, etc. There are surely other labs in the city." Republicans are pushing their own agenda and instead of thinking about the welfare of the hurricane victims they are trying to profit from it. The Democrats are right in asking more money for community initiatives. The neocon Bush administration is a bunch of thugs. "Republicans are talking about suspending environmental, workplace safety and contracting rules to spur recovery. Undoing decades of federal regulations has long been a primary Republican goal. Senate Environment and Public Works chairman Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., said Congress would need to waive a law that limits federal emergency road building funds to $100 million per state per emergency and that limits full federal funding to 180 days. The House unanimously passed a bill allowing the Department of Education to waive the repayment requirement for low-income college students who received Pell grants. Normally if a college student drops out of school, he must pay back the unused portion of his Pell grant. On Thursday, Bush suspended the Davis-Bacon law on all federally financed construction in areas hit by Hurricane Katrina. That law requires the federal government to pay the 'prevailing wage' on construction projects, which is often higher than the local minimum wage. Suspending Davis-Bacon will allow the government to pay lower than prevailing wages, and Bush said, 'will result in greater assistance to these devastated communities and will permit the employment of thousands of additional individuals'. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas, saw a need for a new energy bill as a result of the hurricane. 'When one hurricane, as massive as it was, can knock out about 20 percent of our (oil and natural gas) facilities, it shows how vulnerable we are,' he said. In order to expand the long-term U.S. oil and gas supply, DeLay wants to open parts of the country that are currently off-limits to oil and gas drilling. Large swaths of the Atlantic and Pacific Coasts are under a federal moratorium on oil and gas exploration until the year 2012." RawStory: "The Republican Leadership in the House of Representatives limited floor consideration of the $52 billion Katrina relief bill proposed by President Bush and voted to reject any Democratic efforts to amend the bill to include a wider array of relief measures." AlterNet has a list of all the Bush administration lies. 11:37:33 AM

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