Re: [Biofuel] Is Katrina the end to Bush's brand of 'conservatism'?
If you watch the main stream media, it seems that black people are portrayed as looters while white people are presented as scavengers J Wermont wrote: Good articles, but I sure wish people (who are mostly progressive and should know better) would stop referring to people who are taking food and supplies, in order to survive, as looters. It makes them sound like violent savages, when in fact, they are barely surviving in a hell hole, with little help from their government services. Joyce W On Sun, Sep 04, 2005 at 01:34:58PM -0400, John Hayes wrote: Very interesting. While the folks at redstate.org are already counter-spinning hard due to the supposed bias in the MSM (Mainstream Media), more intellectual folks are starting to ask if Katrina represents a tipping point for the current administration and their worldview. I first noticed it with Fukuyama's recent column about Iraq on Tuesday. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/31/opinion/31fukuyama.html Then Brooks wrote an interesting history of Floods and US politics. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/01/opinion/01brooks.html The same day Douthat wrote an eye-opening piece on the neo-con world view and how it deals with 9/11 versus Katrina. http://www.theamericanscene.com/2005/09/anti-911-on-september-11-there-was.php Noam Scheiber at the New Republic replied to Douthat's piece. http://www.tnr.com/etc.mhtml?pid=2764 Tom Bartnett said the Bush admin makes Jon Stewart's job such a frickin' cakewalk that the man should send his Peabody's to the White House as a thank-you. http://www.thomaspmbarnett.com/weblog/archives2/002244.html And then today Brooks essentially said we've already reached the tipping point since the Bush adminstration lacks competence. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/04/opinion/04brooks.html Very interesting times we live in. jh ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
[Biofuel] Is Katrina the end to Bush's brand of 'conservatism'?
Very interesting. While the folks at redstate.org are already counter-spinning hard due to the supposed bias in the MSM (Mainstream Media), more intellectual folks are starting to ask if Katrina represents a tipping point for the current administration and their worldview. I first noticed it with Fukuyama's recent column about Iraq on Tuesday. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/31/opinion/31fukuyama.html Then Brooks wrote an interesting history of Floods and US politics. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/01/opinion/01brooks.html The same day Douthat wrote an eye-opening piece on the neo-con world view and how it deals with 9/11 versus Katrina. http://www.theamericanscene.com/2005/09/anti-911-on-september-11-there-was.php Noam Scheiber at the New Republic replied to Douthat's piece. http://www.tnr.com/etc.mhtml?pid=2764 Then Tom Bartnett said the Bush admin makes Jon Stewart's job such a frickin' cakewalk that the man should send his Peabody's to the White House as a thank-you. http://www.thomaspmbarnett.com/weblog/archives2/002244.html And finally, today Brooks essentially said we've already reached the tipping point since the Bush adminstration lacks competence. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/04/opinion/04brooks.html Very interesting times we live in. jh ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
Re: [Biofuel] Is Katrina the end to Bush's brand of 'conservatism'?
Good articles, but I sure wish people (who are mostly progressive and should know better) would stop referring to people who are taking food and supplies, in order to survive, as looters. It makes them sound like violent savages, when in fact, they are barely surviving in a hell hole, with little help from their government services. Joyce W On Sun, Sep 04, 2005 at 01:34:58PM -0400, John Hayes wrote: Very interesting. While the folks at redstate.org are already counter-spinning hard due to the supposed bias in the MSM (Mainstream Media), more intellectual folks are starting to ask if Katrina represents a tipping point for the current administration and their worldview. I first noticed it with Fukuyama's recent column about Iraq on Tuesday. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/31/opinion/31fukuyama.html Then Brooks wrote an interesting history of Floods and US politics. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/01/opinion/01brooks.html The same day Douthat wrote an eye-opening piece on the neo-con world view and how it deals with 9/11 versus Katrina. http://www.theamericanscene.com/2005/09/anti-911-on-september-11-there-was.php Noam Scheiber at the New Republic replied to Douthat's piece. http://www.tnr.com/etc.mhtml?pid=2764 Tom Bartnett said the Bush admin makes Jon Stewart's job such a frickin' cakewalk that the man should send his Peabody's to the White House as a thank-you. http://www.thomaspmbarnett.com/weblog/archives2/002244.html And then today Brooks essentially said we've already reached the tipping point since the Bush adminstration lacks competence. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/04/opinion/04brooks.html Very interesting times we live in. jh ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
