Posts from ‘August, 2005’

Those lowlifes taking advantage of the catastrophe in New Orleans are doing a lot more and a lot worse than stealing goods.
We’d say they ought to be shot on sight, except we’re quite sure that would amount to a death sentence for some 12-year-old dummy and a few desperate mothers seeking provisions for their [...]

President Bush, after refusing such suggestions for months, today ordered the release of some oil from the nation’s well-stocked reserves. That move should moderate somewhat the upward spiral in fuel prices bedeviling America’s driving public.
Not that easing consumers’ pain at the pump was Bush’s primary motive:

The Bush administration agreed Wednesday to release oil [...]

Today’s grim reports bring a better understanding of how thoroughly hurricane Katrina devastated coastal Louisiana and Mississippi, and especially New Orleans.
The breadth and severity of this calamity is evident not only in the scenes of wrecked structures, fires and a flooded city where helicopters pluck desperate people from rooftops. You could see it in [...]

For more than a century, presidents from both political parties have seen fit to preserve our natural parks in a mostly wild, unspoiled state. In a land so extensively transformed — for better and worse — by relentless development, exploitation and pervasive commercialism, preservation of at least a few million acres of natural park lands [...]

Hurricane Katrina has left several million Americans in a bad way tonight. Most will have to deal with damage to home and business, but some are in mortal danger.
Let’s pull for every one of them, saying a prayer or just keeping a good, hopeful thought.
In so many ways these days our society [...]

Quote: “And what exactly is our task? Mr. Bush’s current definition — “as the Iraqis stand up, we will stand down” — could not be a better formula for quagmire. . . .”

On June 17, 2004, President George W. Bush addressed a gathering of the National Federation of Independent Business. Among his remarks:

I know you know this: You’ve got friends on Capitol Hill — you have a friend in the White House, too. There is a practical reason why I’m your friend. One of the practical reasons [...]

Quote: “It’s a lot of sound and fury, but to find the significance, you have to go back to the question Sheehan wants to put to the president. And to recent polls indicating more and more of us are beginning to ask the same thing. . . .”

Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer says his coal-rich state can meet U.S. demand for gasoline, diesel and aviation fuels for 40 years, based on the equivalent of a $32-a-barrel oil price.
Oil traded at $67 a barrel earlier this week, at a time when we paid $2.68 a gallon for regular unleaded.
Schweitzer’s bright idea is [...]

The U.S. is not alone in taking action to keep domestic clothing producers from being ruined by tidal waves of Chinese imports.

Barred Chinese clothing shipments are piling up at European ports, prompting warnings of retail stock shortages and higher store prices just weeks after the EU moved to stem an import surge deemed [...]