So the Cowboys lost last night on Monday Night Football. On only 2 plays. Both for touchdowns. Dagnabbit!
I get way too involved watching football (at least, for football teams that I care about). The other day, UTEP (my alma mater) was on TV, looking terrible, and there I was, shouting "Oh no!" and "Yeah!" and other things. And this was at WORK! Lucky for me I went home at halftime and caught the rest there. At least THEY won.
The worst part of watching a team you like lose is the postgame funk. I'm not in a bad mood, just a disappointed one. Sigh.
-Zube.
Tuesday, September 20, 2005
Thursday, September 08, 2005
One more for today.
Very liberal friend of mine has been blogging about Katrina, she's very upset (rightly) and blames Bush (wrongly).
Bush spent $400 million on flood-control relief in 5 years. In 8 years in office, Clinton spent $200 million. In fact, Louisiana has received more flood-control money than any other state. Read.
The levee that broke had just been reinforced. Read. (You may need to subscribe).
The Red Cross was ready to deliver food and water to the Superdome refugees, but the Louisiana Department of Homeland Security, a state agency, wouldn't let them. They feared too many people would show up. Read transcript of an interview here.
Stories of rapes at the Superdome are not substantiated. Read.
N.O. had buses to remove low-income residents before the levees broke. They didn't use them. Picture.
As Ben Stein says, Get off his back.
-Zube.
Bush spent $400 million on flood-control relief in 5 years. In 8 years in office, Clinton spent $200 million. In fact, Louisiana has received more flood-control money than any other state. Read.
The levee that broke had just been reinforced. Read. (You may need to subscribe).
The Red Cross was ready to deliver food and water to the Superdome refugees, but the Louisiana Department of Homeland Security, a state agency, wouldn't let them. They feared too many people would show up. Read transcript of an interview here.
Stories of rapes at the Superdome are not substantiated. Read.
N.O. had buses to remove low-income residents before the levees broke. They didn't use them. Picture.
As Ben Stein says, Get off his back.
-Zube.
The political fallout. Or maybe not.
Interesting stuff I haven't seen in most news stories: Most people polled don't blame Bush for the disaster in New Orleans. So says one ABC/Washington Post poll and a USAToday/CNN poll (you'll have to dig deep in that story to find that tidbit). I also heard second-hand that Cox News Service either had their own poll or did an analysis of the numbers, but I can't find it.
ABC published a story on the numbers. I didn't see any Washington Post story on it.
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JUST got off the phone with Gannett News Service, asking why wasn't anthing done with the Bush poll numbers instead of a burial in a story that didn't make the wires? They didn't do a wire story about the numbers at first because they were going to write a story off some of the other numbers (rebuilding New Orleans), and then today they decided not to a story at all. So the interesting numbers will just get buried.
-Zube.
ABC published a story on the numbers. I didn't see any Washington Post story on it.
...
JUST got off the phone with Gannett News Service, asking why wasn't anthing done with the Bush poll numbers instead of a burial in a story that didn't make the wires? They didn't do a wire story about the numbers at first because they were going to write a story off some of the other numbers (rebuilding New Orleans), and then today they decided not to a story at all. So the interesting numbers will just get buried.
-Zube.
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