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After Bush, the Deluge!

September 4, 2005

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DON’T MISS THE ALL-IMPORTANT DISCUSSION OF ONE OF THE WORST MAN-MADE DISASTERS IN AMERICAN HISTORY.
Even the very conservative Chicago Tribune points the finger squarely at Bush’s mismanagement of FEMA as the reason so many people suffered
Katrina is not a natural disaster. It is a man-made one. And the man who made it is our current President of the United States and his vicious “help-only-the-rich-campaign-donors” so-called Republican Party.
Bush and his party have consistently decided that sending Americans to fight and die in Iraq was more important than protecting American lives at home.
And now the City of New Orleans lies underwater and practically obliterated. All because Bush refused $300 million — or about $1 per American citizen — to protect the city from the disaster everyone knew was coming. And now the cost of this “error” will likely be at least 50 times that amount: $15 billion or more, not to mention the lives lost and irreparably destroyed.
Hey, Bush-loving rich people! Aren’t you glad you got that tax cut? Or would you have given one dollar of that cut to save hundreds, if not thousands of lives, and billions in lost property damage? When will we learn that “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure”? (We haven’t learned it in health care. And just wait until we get the bill for the National Debt.)
Two questions for the New Orleans Republican Party: Do you still hate the Government? Why hasn’t your corporate private enterprise filled the holes in those levees? Oh wait, I remember. The corporations are doing their share by filling the flood waters with toxic waste….
New Orleans wasn’t the only danger waiting to happen. We have nuclear and chemical plants underdefended too while we fight, supposedly for the people who don’t want us there in Iraq.
I’m filled with 1 part desperation, 2 parts intense sadness, and 3 parts rage.
Let’s discuss this week how Republicans caused the Deluge of New Orleans and whether America will finally, finally see that New Orleans is more important than Baghdad and that Government aid should be directed first at saving lives than building a bridge to an Alaskan island where 50 Republican campaign donors live. $300 million to repair the New Orleans levee? Or $213 million for Don Young’s Way? You decide.
Is it any coincidence that the victims of New Orleans are disproportionately poor and black?
And to think that Louisiana voted for George Bush. WAKE UP!

The Battle of New Orleans

September 1, 2005

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Guest: Eric Holdeman, Director of the Office of Emergency Management for Seattle and King County, Washington
Today, a discussion of religious philosophy, along with politics.
With the horrible devastation of Hurricane Katrina, there are some who naturally blame God. Why do bad things happen to good people? How is that consistent with an all-powerful, all-good God? This question, which the philosophers call “theodicy”, is the great unanswered and some say un-answerable question of religious faith.
My response: I don’t blame God. I blame Man.
“It appears that the money has been moved in the president’s budget to
handle homeland security and the war in Iraq, and I suppose that’s the
price we pay. Nobody locally is happy that the levees can’t be finished,
and we are doing everything we can to make the case that this is a security
issue for us.”
— Walter Maestri, emergency management chief for Jefferson Parish,
Louisiana; New Orleans Times-Picayune, June 8, 2004.
For more information, see the sites below:
Details on the Failures of the Bush Administration to Protect New Orleans
Several articles from the New Orleans Times-Picayune warning of the danger to come from a Category 5 hurricane
Even the very conservative Chicago Tribune points the finger squarely at Bush’s mismanagement of FEMA as the reason so many people suffered
Eric Holdeman’s op-ed in The Washington Post
Picture of Bush fiddling as New Orleans flooded

The 9/11 Conspiracies

August 31, 2005

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Today’s guest, Jim Marrs, an author and reporter who has previously examined topics such as the Kennedy Assassination, UFOs, clairvoyance, and secret societies, has in recent years turned his attention to 9/11. His 2003 book, The War on Freedom: The 9/11 Conspiracies, argues evidence of U.S. Government complicity in the 9/11 attacks. His follow up, Inside Job: Unmasking the Conspiracies of 9/11 is now available in paperback.
What do you think? Was I too tough on him today? Or not tough enough?

Debate Tuesday

August 30, 2005

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Guest: Jim Parmelee, Chairman of the Northern Virginia Republican Political Action Committee and President of Republicans United for Tax Relief
Shouldn’t even die-hard Republicans reconsider whether continuing Bush foreign policy is helping or harming America?
1) Treatment of detainees — Is indefinite detention without charges or trial an American value? Is torture an American value? How again does this help spread democracy and freedom throughout the world? Does this help America be a “light unto the nations:?
2) The War on Iraq — Isn’t it time to admit that continuing to occupy Iraq makes us LESS secure? Not just because we can’t deal with the serious threats in North Korea and Iraq and Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia. But because leaving Iraq to civil war/anarchy now is better than leaving Iraq to civil war/anarchy 10 years later after several thousand more Americans are dead and tens of thousands more wounded (not to mention countless Iraqis)?
Do you have an opinion or a question for Jim or me? Post it on the blog or call in.