WASHINGTON (Sept. 26) - President George W. Bush urged Americans to cut back on unnecessary travel to make up for fuel shortages caused by Hurricane Rita as he prepared to take his seventh trip to the Gulf Coast.Hey, idiot, gas is almost $3 a gallon if you haven't noticed. I know flying around on Air Force One and shit keeps you out of the loop, but most of us eliminated "unneccesary" travel long ago.
Armed dolphins, trained by the US military to shoot terrorists and pinpoint spies underwater, may be missing in the Gulf of Mexico. Experts who have studied the US navy's cetacean training exercises claim the 36 mammals could be carrying 'toxic dart' guns. Divers and surfers risk attack, they claim, from a species considered to be among the planet's smartest. The US navy admits it has been training dolphins for military purposes, but has refused to confirm that any are missing.
Above all, Exxon avoided responsibility and only wanted to control imagery. By April 2, the oil had fouled 8oo miles of beach, and President George W. Bush had declined to federalize the cleanup.
Early last month, the bureau's Washington Field Office began recruiting for a new anti-obscenity squad. Attached to the job posting was a July 29 Electronic Communication from FBI headquarters to all 56 field offices, describing the initiative as "one of the top priorities" of Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales and, by extension, of "the Director." That would be FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III.Unbelievable.
In this case, the use of organochlorines against termites – native and foreign alike – was something like channeling the course of a river. The water never ceased, it had to go somewhere, and when the dikes, seawalls, levees, and locks finally failed, the effect of releasing the water’s long contained energy was catastrophic.Dang.
SEARCY, Ark. - The time-consuming and methodical motion of searching for arrowheads on farmland and in riverbeds seems to appeal to methamphetamine addicts, a sheriff says...
"You get kind of wired on that stuff, and you need to have something to do," said Mr. Young, who is in the White County jail awaiting trial on methamphetamine charges...
Many nights Mr. Young found himself in fields full of fellow arrowhead hunters. Now he is in jail, surrounded by fellow inmates who say they also searched for arrowheads before they were incarcerated.
Born in the Delta town of Harmontown, he worked most of his life as a sharecropper and fisherman, only taking up music professionally when he was 65.
Mississippi Fred McDowell taught him to play in Chicago in the 1940s, and he performed in local bars for decades.
After signing to Fat Possum records in 1991, he recorded a dozen albums and toured worldwide. Matthew Johnson, owner of the record label that made Burnside famous, said he played guitar "just 'cause he wanted to. "He never really wanted a career, never said he did. We just sort of gave him one."
Burnside had been in declining health since heart surgery in 1999, and died in hospital in Memphis, Tennessee.
After growing up in the Mississippi Delta, Burnside moved north to Chicago in the 1940s, but came back south after his father and two brothers were killed in the city.
He returned to a country living, and served six months in jail after shooting a man Burnside said was trying to turn him out of his home. "It was between him and the Lord, him dyin'," Burnside remarked in a 2002 New Yorker article. "I just shot him in the head."
He first recorded in the late 1960s, and his sparse, one-chord blues style was documented by the folklorist George Mitchell. After playing in bars for decades, it was only when he became the first act signed to Fat Possum records in 1991 that Burnside achieved a wider fame.
In less than a decade he recorded a dozen albums, including "Bad Luck City" and "Too Bad Jim". His final CD, "A Bothered Mind", was released last year. He toured with a trio comprising his grandson Cedric on drums, and an "adopted" son, Kenny Brown, on guitar.
Burnside was popular with a number of younger acts, including the Beastie Boys and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.
Burnside and Spencer's band recorded the album "A Ass Pocket o' Whiskey" in a few days in an old log cabin, achieving a sound described by one observer as "Bo Diddley backed by the Stooges".
Some of his songs were remixed for labels such as Los Angeles' Bong Load records, which first released Beck.
Burnside is survived by his wife Alice Mae and numerous children.
President Bush issued an executive order Thursday allowing federal contractors rebuilding in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina to pay below the prevailing wage.
In a notice to Congress, Bush said the hurricane had caused "a national emergency" that permits him to take such action under the 1931 Davis-Bacon Act in ravaged areas of Alabama, Florida, Louisiana and Mississippi.
Most the people Cheney met with were friendly. Lynne Lofton, whose house further down the street was completely destroyed, was an exception.This was after, while doing a television interview, some dude yelled "Go fuck yourself!" Twice (video at Crooks and Liars). Ouch. When asked if he'd heard that much, Cheney responded, "first time I've heard it."
“I think this media opportunity today is a terrible waste of time and taxpayer money,” she said. “They’ve picked a nice neighborhood where people have insurance and most are Republicans.”
Laura Brown, a Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman in Washington, said she had no such report.
"We're controlling every single aircraft in that airspace and none of them reported being fired on," she said, adding that the FAA was in contact with the military as well as civilian aircraft.
Outside the Convention Center, the sidewalks were packed with people without food, water or medical care, and with no sign of law enforcement. Thousands of storm refugees had been assembling outside for days, waiting for buses that did not come.
At least seven bodies were scattered outside, and hungry, desperate people who were tired of waiting broke through the steel doors to a food service entrance and began pushing out pallets of water and juice and whatever else they could find.
An old man in a chaise lounge lay dead in a grassy median as hungry babies wailed around him. Around the corner, an elderly woman lay dead in her wheelchair, covered up by a blanket, and another body lay beside her wrapped in a sheet.
"I don't treat my dog like that," 47-year-old Daniel Edwards said as he pointed at the woman in the wheelchair. "I buried my dog." He added: "You can do everything for other countries but you can't do nothing for your own people. You can go overseas with the military but you can't get them down here."
Just above the convention center on Interstate 10, commercial buses were lined up, going nowhere. The street outside the center, above the floodwaters, smelled of urine and feces, and was choked with dirty diapers, old bottles and garbage.
"They've been teasing us with buses for four days," Edwards said.
