from CNN: "Supplies for Katrina victims went to Mississippi. FEMA stored $85 million worth of supplies meant for Katrina victims, CNN learns...Supplies given in February to federal agencies and 16...
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Just how much longer do we have to suffer the most immoral, moronic government in recent U.S. history, if not ALL history? From Abbie Boudreau and Scott ZamostCNN Special Investigations UnitFederal officials vastly overestimated the value of hurricane relief supplies given...
Even knowing he was facing a basically hostile audience, Sen. John McCain pledged increased education support for low-income schools and African-American communities. McCain, known for his "shoot straight" approach,...
Global Warming Led to 'Black Hawk Down' By Albert N. Milliron, Editor, Politisite.com The writer, while in the US Army, can't remember in my mobilization orders that we had a war on Global warming, ...
" Katrina Hodge is a part-time model and a soldier in the British Arm A female soldier who once fought off a suspected Iraqi insurgent has won a place...
Employees working on the tainted FEMA trailers issued to victims of Hurricane Katrina were suffering from nose bleeds, dizziness and bleeding ears, all effects of formaldehyde exposure - months before they sold them. A new report by the House Oversight and Government Reform...
If you live in the New Orleans area, you're no doubt aware that the Essence Music Festival was held this past weekend from July 4-6, 2008. The annual festival of black music and culture has been running since 1995...
OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorA "Convenient Excuse" as a side dish to Al Gore's "Inconvenient Truth"? granted immigration is beneficial to the "Buffet of Cultures" served equally...
As NowPublic member dunkelberg reported on Friday, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) gave away about $85 million in household goods [that were] meant for Hurricane Katrina victims". Now, FEMA's director has defended the decision to give away the "surplus...
One Citizen's Opinion by Lee Dunkelberg You see, it's this way. No one told us anyone needed anything and we didn't ask. That's about how it boils down in FEMA latest buterfingers handling of the much-dropped Katrina...
"Convention party to focus on recoveryFriday, June 06, 2008By Bruce AlpertWASHINGTON -- New Orleans and its hurricane recovery efforts will get star billing at the Democratic National Convention in Denver.Denver's 2008 Host Committee and Democratic National Committee...
A man was killed in New Orleans today after a 10-hour standoff with police. His neighbours said he suffered from mental illness for most of his life, but that it got much worse since Hurricane Katrina." Eric Minshew,...
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Am I the only one who can see that the figures just don't add up? Why do they need $600 million to fix $50 million worth of damage?Besides the total unethicalness in the first place. "Last week, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Alphonso Jackson approved a plan that...
It's the disaster story that will not go away..."BAKER, LA. -- Curtis Westbrook cut a lonely figure as he sat outside his trailer this week, chain-smoking as workmen hauled another empty trailer away.He had already...
Just weeks after Hagee tried to calm the political storm over his calling the Catholic Church "the great whore," now revelations that in the 1990's he also preached that Hitler was doing "God's work" by exterminating...