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/
