September 8, 2005
I'm a day late with this one. I was up late last night watching Stephen King's The Stand (it's about 6 hours long).
Isn’t it interesting that when John Roberts was nominated to replace Justice Sandra Day O’Conner on the Supreme Court the argument by the left used against him, based on some nonexistent, never used before "tradition", was that even though “he is eminently qualified” was that since O’Conner was a “moderate” that she “had” to be replaced with a moderate and not a conservative. Now that Roberts is slated to replace the late “conservative” Chief Justice Rehnquist they are still opposing his nomination… I guess replacing like with like was never the real issue after all… DB
Daily Routine Helps Bipolar Disorder
Sep 7…Patients suffering from bipolar disorder who underwent therapy to help them maintain a regular daily routine and cope with stress were able to avoid relapses over a two-year period, a study has found... patients were taught how to keep to normal sleeping, eating and other daily routines…"This is really a disorder characterized by massive disturbances in the body's clock and in all the things the body's clock controls," said Dr. Ellen Frank... [a regular routine also helps insomnia and diet...] http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050908/ap_on_he_me/treating_bipolar_disorder
New Orleans: A Green Genocide
September 8, 2005 …mainstream Louisiana media outlet inadvertently disclosed a shocking fact: Environmentalist activists were responsible for spiking a plan that may have saved New Orleans. Decades ago, the Green Left – pursuing its agenda of valuing wetlands and topographical “diversity” over human life – sued to prevent the Army Corps of Engineers from building floodgates that would have prevented significant flooding that resulted from Hurricane Katrina... In the 1970s, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Lake Pontchartrain and Vicinity Hurricane Barrier Project planned to build fortifications at two strategic locations, which would keep massive storms on the Gulf of Mexico from causing Lake Pontchartrain to flood the city… An article in the May 28, 2005, New Orleans Times-Picayune stated, “Under the original plan, floodgate-type structures would have been built at the Rigolets and Chef Menteur passes to block storm surges from moving from the Gulf into Lake Pontchartrain.” ...Why was this project aborted? As the Times-Picayune wrote, “Those plans were abandoned after environmental advocates successfully sued to stop the projects as too damaging to the wetlands and the lake's eco-system.” …Specifically, in 1977, a state environmentalist group known as Save Our Wetlands (SOWL) sued to have it stopped… http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=19418
Senate Democratic leader assails Katrina response
Sept. 7, 2005 …In a letter to the Senate's Homeland Security Committee chairwoman, Reid, the Senate Democratic leader, pressed for a wide-ranging investigation and answers to several questions, including: "How much time did the president spend dealing with this emerging crisis while he was on vacation? Did the fact that he was outside of Washington, D.C., have any effect on the federal government's response?" http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/front/3343381
Louisiana State Emergency Operations Plan (EOP)
http://www.ohsep.louisiana.gov/plans/plansindex.htm
"[Hillary] Clinton unveils legislation to restore FEMA to independent cabinet level status and launch Katrina commission to investigate hurricane recovery efforts. …Senator Hillary Rodham is introducing legislation to restore FEMA to cabinet-level independent federal agency status to ensure that it has the authority it needs to effectively manage recovery efforts." [ http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newyork/ny-bc-ny--fightingoverfema0906sep06,0,7382781.story?coll=ny-region-apnewyork ] …So what Mrs. Clinton is saying FEMA is no good because it's part of homeland security…We've got to get FEMA back out of homeland security. Well, who[se]…idea was homeland security? …Joe Lieberman and the Democrats advanced the notion that we need a homeland security department… [and] Mrs. Clinton voted for all of this… So maybe we need to ask Mrs. Clinton, "Are you now admitting a mistake?" See, what these people in Congress want to get away with, folks -- …you got a disaster here, right, and so we're pointing fingers at the mayor and we're pointing fingers at a governor down there and a lot of people are pointing fingers at President Bush. But guess who gets to participate here as innocent bystanders? The United States Congress, the House and the Senate. .. If heads are going to roll here …who writes the legislation? [Congress] set up this system. ..Somehow it all gets blamed on executives: the governors or mayors or presidents, or heads of these departments. But somehow these members of Congress get total exemption from this… You know, 9/11 happens. They create the homeland security department. Katrina hits and they want to deconstruct it. Stop and think of what's happening...
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_090705/content/truth_detector.guest.html
Federal Money Flowed to Questionable Projects
September 8, 2005 During the five years of President Bush's administration, Louisiana has received far more money for Corps civil works projects than any other state, about $1.9 billion, the Washington Post reported on Thursday…Before Hurricane Katrina breached a levee on the New Orleans Industrial Canal, the Army Corps of Engineers had already launched a $748 million construction project at that very location. But the project had nothing to do with flood control. The Corps was building a huge new lock for the canal, an effort to accommodate steadily increasing barge traffic. Except that barge traffic on the canal has been steadily decreasing.
...Much of that Louisiana money was spent to try to keep low-lying New Orleans dry. But hundreds of millions of dollars have gone to unrelated water projects demanded by the state's congressional delegation and approved by the Corps, often after economic analyses that turned out to be inaccurate. Despite a series of independent investigations criticizing Army Corps construction projects as wasteful pork-barrel spending, Louisiana's representatives have kept bringing home the bacon. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/07/AR2005090702462_pf.html
Gov. Kathleen Blanco's Bureaucrats Blocked Food and Water
Sept. 7, 2005 The Red Cross was reportedly ready to deliver food, water and other supplies to flood-ravaged refugees who were sweltering inside New Orleans' Superdome last week - but the relief was blocked by bureaucrats who worked for Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco…the Red Cross had "trucks with water, food, hygiene equipment, all sorts of things ready to go . . . to the Superdome and Convention Center."…but the Louisiana Department of Homeland Security, Garrett said, "told them they could not go." "The Red Cross tells me that state agency in Louisiana said, 'Look, we do not want to create a magnet for more people to come to the Superdome or Convention Center, we want to get them out,'" he explained… "So at the same time local officials were screaming where is the food, where is the water? The Red Cross was standing by ready [and] the Louisiana Department of Homeland Security said you can't go." http://newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/9/7/235423.shtml
Gov. Blanco, Mayor Nagin at Each Others Throats
Sept. 7, 2005 Open warfare appears to have broken out between Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco and New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin, with Blanco challenging on Wednesday Nagin's authority to order a mandatory citywide evacuation. “The mayor certainly has ordered that, but the governor, and that would be me, will have to enforce it or implement it," said Gov. Blanco. The Louisiana Democrat said she wanted more time to determine "whether or not there's an absolute justification for that," saying she feared any forced evacuation could put people at risk for disease…Gov. Blanco's decision to pull the rug out from under Mayor Nagin follows by two days Nagin's account to CNN, where he blamed the governor for delaying federal rescue efforts last Friday… "I was ready to move today. The governor said she needed 24 hours to make a decision," he complained. http://newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/9/7/230054.shtml
Louisiana Officials Could Lose the Katrina Blame Game
Sept. 7, 2005 …more than ten years of research and reporting on hurricane and flood damage mitigation efforts in and around New Orleans indicate that local and state officials did not use federal money that was available for levee improvements or coastal reinforcement and often did not secure local matching funds that would have generated even more federal funding…The Orleans Levee Board, the local government entity that oversees the levees and floodgates designed to protect New Orleans and the surrounding areas from rising waters, bragged in a supplement to the Times-Picayune newspaper in December 1995 about federal money received to protect the region from hurricanes. "In the past four years, the Orleans Levee Board has built up its arsenal. The additional defenses are so critical that Levee Commissioners marched into Congress and brought back almost $60 million to help pay for protection," the pamphlet declared. "The most ambitious flood-fighting plan in generations was drafted. An unprecedented $140 million building campaign launched 41 projects." …The levee board promised Times-Picayune readers that the "few manageable gaps" in the walls protecting the city from Mother Nature's waters "will be sealed within four years (1999), completing our circle of protection." …By 1998, Louisiana's state government had a $2 billion construction budget, but less than one tenth of one percent of that - $1.98 million - was dedicated to levee improvements in the New Orleans area. http://newsmax.com/archives/articles/2005/9/7/90925.shtml
ACLU to Gitmo terrorists: Don't talk
...According to these sources, the ACLU lawyers advised the majority of the prisoners that they did not have to answer questions from military interrogators… http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=46208
Iraqi military: 200 insurgents arrested
Sep 8,2005 TAL AFAR, Iraq (AP) -- U.S. and Iraqi forces have encircled the insurgent stronghold of Tal Afar, and Iraqi authorities on Thursday announced the arrest of 200 suspected insurgents there - most of them foreign fighters. The Iraqi military said 150 of those arrested Wednesday in this town near the Syrian border were Arabs from Syria, Sudan, Yemen and Jordan. http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/I/IRAQ?SITE=NCAGW&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
http://www.freewill-predestination.com/
Isn’t it interesting that when John Roberts was nominated to replace Justice Sandra Day O’Conner on the Supreme Court the argument by the left used against him, based on some nonexistent, never used before "tradition", was that even though “he is eminently qualified” was that since O’Conner was a “moderate” that she “had” to be replaced with a moderate and not a conservative. Now that Roberts is slated to replace the late “conservative” Chief Justice Rehnquist they are still opposing his nomination… I guess replacing like with like was never the real issue after all… DB
Daily Routine Helps Bipolar Disorder
Sep 7…Patients suffering from bipolar disorder who underwent therapy to help them maintain a regular daily routine and cope with stress were able to avoid relapses over a two-year period, a study has found... patients were taught how to keep to normal sleeping, eating and other daily routines…"This is really a disorder characterized by massive disturbances in the body's clock and in all the things the body's clock controls," said Dr. Ellen Frank... [a regular routine also helps insomnia and diet...] http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050908/ap_on_he_me/treating_bipolar_disorder
New Orleans: A Green Genocide
September 8, 2005 …mainstream Louisiana media outlet inadvertently disclosed a shocking fact: Environmentalist activists were responsible for spiking a plan that may have saved New Orleans. Decades ago, the Green Left – pursuing its agenda of valuing wetlands and topographical “diversity” over human life – sued to prevent the Army Corps of Engineers from building floodgates that would have prevented significant flooding that resulted from Hurricane Katrina... In the 1970s, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Lake Pontchartrain and Vicinity Hurricane Barrier Project planned to build fortifications at two strategic locations, which would keep massive storms on the Gulf of Mexico from causing Lake Pontchartrain to flood the city… An article in the May 28, 2005, New Orleans Times-Picayune stated, “Under the original plan, floodgate-type structures would have been built at the Rigolets and Chef Menteur passes to block storm surges from moving from the Gulf into Lake Pontchartrain.” ...Why was this project aborted? As the Times-Picayune wrote, “Those plans were abandoned after environmental advocates successfully sued to stop the projects as too damaging to the wetlands and the lake's eco-system.” …Specifically, in 1977, a state environmentalist group known as Save Our Wetlands (SOWL) sued to have it stopped… http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=19418
Senate Democratic leader assails Katrina response
Sept. 7, 2005 …In a letter to the Senate's Homeland Security Committee chairwoman, Reid, the Senate Democratic leader, pressed for a wide-ranging investigation and answers to several questions, including: "How much time did the president spend dealing with this emerging crisis while he was on vacation? Did the fact that he was outside of Washington, D.C., have any effect on the federal government's response?" http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/front/3343381
Louisiana State Emergency Operations Plan (EOP)
http://www.ohsep.louisiana.gov/plans/plansindex.htm
"[Hillary] Clinton unveils legislation to restore FEMA to independent cabinet level status and launch Katrina commission to investigate hurricane recovery efforts. …Senator Hillary Rodham is introducing legislation to restore FEMA to cabinet-level independent federal agency status to ensure that it has the authority it needs to effectively manage recovery efforts." [ http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newyork/ny-bc-ny--fightingoverfema0906sep06,0,7382781.story?coll=ny-region-apnewyork ] …So what Mrs. Clinton is saying FEMA is no good because it's part of homeland security…We've got to get FEMA back out of homeland security. Well, who[se]…idea was homeland security? …Joe Lieberman and the Democrats advanced the notion that we need a homeland security department… [and] Mrs. Clinton voted for all of this… So maybe we need to ask Mrs. Clinton, "Are you now admitting a mistake?" See, what these people in Congress want to get away with, folks -- …you got a disaster here, right, and so we're pointing fingers at the mayor and we're pointing fingers at a governor down there and a lot of people are pointing fingers at President Bush. But guess who gets to participate here as innocent bystanders? The United States Congress, the House and the Senate. .. If heads are going to roll here …who writes the legislation? [Congress] set up this system. ..Somehow it all gets blamed on executives: the governors or mayors or presidents, or heads of these departments. But somehow these members of Congress get total exemption from this… You know, 9/11 happens. They create the homeland security department. Katrina hits and they want to deconstruct it. Stop and think of what's happening...
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_090705/content/truth_detector.guest.html
Federal Money Flowed to Questionable Projects
September 8, 2005 During the five years of President Bush's administration, Louisiana has received far more money for Corps civil works projects than any other state, about $1.9 billion, the Washington Post reported on Thursday…Before Hurricane Katrina breached a levee on the New Orleans Industrial Canal, the Army Corps of Engineers had already launched a $748 million construction project at that very location. But the project had nothing to do with flood control. The Corps was building a huge new lock for the canal, an effort to accommodate steadily increasing barge traffic. Except that barge traffic on the canal has been steadily decreasing.
...Much of that Louisiana money was spent to try to keep low-lying New Orleans dry. But hundreds of millions of dollars have gone to unrelated water projects demanded by the state's congressional delegation and approved by the Corps, often after economic analyses that turned out to be inaccurate. Despite a series of independent investigations criticizing Army Corps construction projects as wasteful pork-barrel spending, Louisiana's representatives have kept bringing home the bacon. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/07/AR2005090702462_pf.html
Gov. Kathleen Blanco's Bureaucrats Blocked Food and Water
Sept. 7, 2005 The Red Cross was reportedly ready to deliver food, water and other supplies to flood-ravaged refugees who were sweltering inside New Orleans' Superdome last week - but the relief was blocked by bureaucrats who worked for Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco…the Red Cross had "trucks with water, food, hygiene equipment, all sorts of things ready to go . . . to the Superdome and Convention Center."…but the Louisiana Department of Homeland Security, Garrett said, "told them they could not go." "The Red Cross tells me that state agency in Louisiana said, 'Look, we do not want to create a magnet for more people to come to the Superdome or Convention Center, we want to get them out,'" he explained… "So at the same time local officials were screaming where is the food, where is the water? The Red Cross was standing by ready [and] the Louisiana Department of Homeland Security said you can't go." http://newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/9/7/235423.shtml
Gov. Blanco, Mayor Nagin at Each Others Throats
Sept. 7, 2005 Open warfare appears to have broken out between Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco and New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin, with Blanco challenging on Wednesday Nagin's authority to order a mandatory citywide evacuation. “The mayor certainly has ordered that, but the governor, and that would be me, will have to enforce it or implement it," said Gov. Blanco. The Louisiana Democrat said she wanted more time to determine "whether or not there's an absolute justification for that," saying she feared any forced evacuation could put people at risk for disease…Gov. Blanco's decision to pull the rug out from under Mayor Nagin follows by two days Nagin's account to CNN, where he blamed the governor for delaying federal rescue efforts last Friday… "I was ready to move today. The governor said she needed 24 hours to make a decision," he complained. http://newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/9/7/230054.shtml
Louisiana Officials Could Lose the Katrina Blame Game
Sept. 7, 2005 …more than ten years of research and reporting on hurricane and flood damage mitigation efforts in and around New Orleans indicate that local and state officials did not use federal money that was available for levee improvements or coastal reinforcement and often did not secure local matching funds that would have generated even more federal funding…The Orleans Levee Board, the local government entity that oversees the levees and floodgates designed to protect New Orleans and the surrounding areas from rising waters, bragged in a supplement to the Times-Picayune newspaper in December 1995 about federal money received to protect the region from hurricanes. "In the past four years, the Orleans Levee Board has built up its arsenal. The additional defenses are so critical that Levee Commissioners marched into Congress and brought back almost $60 million to help pay for protection," the pamphlet declared. "The most ambitious flood-fighting plan in generations was drafted. An unprecedented $140 million building campaign launched 41 projects." …The levee board promised Times-Picayune readers that the "few manageable gaps" in the walls protecting the city from Mother Nature's waters "will be sealed within four years (1999), completing our circle of protection." …By 1998, Louisiana's state government had a $2 billion construction budget, but less than one tenth of one percent of that - $1.98 million - was dedicated to levee improvements in the New Orleans area. http://newsmax.com/archives/articles/2005/9/7/90925.shtml
ACLU to Gitmo terrorists: Don't talk
...According to these sources, the ACLU lawyers advised the majority of the prisoners that they did not have to answer questions from military interrogators… http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=46208
Iraqi military: 200 insurgents arrested
Sep 8,2005 TAL AFAR, Iraq (AP) -- U.S. and Iraqi forces have encircled the insurgent stronghold of Tal Afar, and Iraqi authorities on Thursday announced the arrest of 200 suspected insurgents there - most of them foreign fighters. The Iraqi military said 150 of those arrested Wednesday in this town near the Syrian border were Arabs from Syria, Sudan, Yemen and Jordan. http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/I/IRAQ?SITE=NCAGW&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
http://www.freewill-predestination.com/
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