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I know it was done with the best of intentions, but please be careful with those IAEA seals.
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Sometimes headlines just write themselves
Like this one from the Washington Post today: Ex-FEMA Head Starts Disaster Planning Firm
Michael Brown certainly has shown he can plan a disaster. Look at how awful Hurricane Katrina was. For preventing or fixing things afterwards, he's not so good.
Strom Thurmond Dies at 100
Story here .
Impressive for his longevity, intolerable because of his early views on race. Certainly a mixed bag.
"We cannot — and I shall not — give up on our mission to right the 40-year wrongs of liberalism," he said during his last campaign. "The people of South Carolina know that Strom Thurmond doesn't like unfinished business."
His voting record was pro-defense, anti-communist and staunchly conservative; his tireless devotion to constituent services was widely revered.
Wonder what Trent Lott will say? Keep the recorders handy, guys.
PBS and bias I've been following the PBS/NPR/Corporation for Public Broadcasting kerflufle for a few days. Basically, the chairman of CPB, Ken Tomlinson, hired a consultant to provide a report to him about liberal bias in PBS and NPR programs. Also, his report analyzed whether or not the shows were favorable of the Bush administration or not. I can almost understand wanting to make sure reporting was truthful, factual, and unbiased. But when they start rating shows based on favorability to the Bush administration, they stepped way over the line. PBS is not a propaganda outlet for the Bush administration. They've already got Fox News, for crying out loud. To prepare a report like this means that the administration may be trying to turn them into one.This and the recent appointment of Patricia S. Harrison , former Undersecretary of State and former Republican Party co-chair, as head of PBS, call the future of PBS and CPB into question. The Corporation was set up to shield...