Gov. Kathleen Blanco called the looters "hoodlums" and issued a warning to lawbreakers: Hundreds of National Guard troops hardened on the battlefield in
Iraq have landed in New Orleans.

"They have M-16s and they're locked and loaded," she said. "These troops know how to shoot and kill, and they are more than willing to do so, and I expect they will."

Now, whatever the dire need for law and order in New Orleans right now, is it really necessary to have a governor engaging in the worst sorts of fearmongering and calling for the execution of its citizens?

• The upcoming housing bubble
  
• An inaccurate unemployment number
  
• The fact that countless jobs have been replaced by McJobs
  
• The fact that increasing numbers of techincal jobs are only available in conscience and soul destroying military-industrial complex fields.
  
• Constantly increasing offshoring and outsourcing

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And so, given his utter omission of the sick hatred this comany finances 24/7, at the risk of going slightly overboard, I wrote him this email to see if I couldn't see what he was (or wasn't) thinking:

    "* The focus is on results - making our air, water, and land cleaner." Winner: Most Vacuous Statement of the Year Award
    "* We need to employ the best science and data to inform our decision-making." Translation: unchecked hostility towards all science that doesn't say that "things are geting better" no matter how much living systems worldwide are in an accelerating decline

Can you stomach more?

We've been raised on "reduce, reuse, recycle", which is all fine and good except one problem. It's an approach that tries to fix a fatally flawed model rather than redesigning it to work. That model is "cradle-to-grave". We need an economy based on a "Cradle-to-cradle" system. More below the fold...

He replied to my letter with the following whopper: "She's an awful, and I don't take back a word."

Gale Norton, the "moderate" Republican, took to a snowmobile at Yellowstone to try and overturn a Clinton law that would prohibit snowmobiles.

So here it is... even in our most treasured wildnerness you'd better duck and cover if you don't want to get in the way of the "traffic".

Environmentalism needs a jump start. I propose this be two pronged: one) consolidate all the gains made  by concerned citizens and groups, i.e. fight to protect existing regulation, remove outmoded and harmful subsidies, and most of all encourage dialogue on how to keep environmental policy fresh, exciting, and relevant. After all, what's more exciting than the prospect of a beautful, healthy, peaceful planet.

As I'm sure most people here won't doubt, the grand strategy of Bush/Rove/Cheney Co is one of war (and oil). Well, now that we've got Iran sandwiched in by  puppet regimes in Afghanistan and Iraq, Iran is no doubt getting up to high alert. So how do we know Iran is next despite the muted though ambiguous and slight backpedaling?

Your vote today for Gonzalez has confirmed what many people already realized from your countless attempts to sell out the Democratic party on Faux News: you are a traitor. A traitor to party AND country, a traitor to the Jewish people, and a traitor to humanity. Especially, to be Jewish and vote for a torturer is akin to voting for a Nazi, for both share the same ideology. For you to buy into this crap about how AG is a minority with an "impressive story" is the weakest, most insulting and shameful cover-up imaginable.

Now, is it me, or is that one of the most half-witted, empty, assinine phrases you've ever heard; especially by an 'independent' entity that is charged with elucidating the facts out of a 'controversy'. Is anyone else here smelling fascism?

I can't believe that major media are covering this, quoting that ridiculous phrase, and keeping a straight face.

I feel Goldberg's response is further proof that blowhards have nothing to back up their hot air. We need to keep calling them out on this, and I figured this diary might serve as a good place to talk about this delicate balance of critizing current leadership without sounding too accusatory, as it relates to the way she stood up against the system. For those unfamiliar with the story, Guerilla News Networks new book True Lies illuminates it quite nicely.