You mean a major corporation is siding with republicans? Fancy that! I don't think a company that helped china block access to information it doesn't want it's citizens to know about is in any position to side with the so-called "morality party". This is a company that still lets you download pictures of people doing it with horses if you want to!

I wonder how that is going to square with the people who normally vote republican? This whole thing is just another example of what a joke the culture war was to begin with!

Do you remember New Orleans 'Katrina' mayor Ray Nagin? The one that
tried to teach 1,200 buses to swim while his citizen's drowned? Once
again, he has
demonstrated his ability to deal with hard realities.

According to The New Orleans Times Picayune there were 50,000 vehicles
ruined in Katrina and abandoned by their owners.

The largest auto crusher east of the Rockies, K&L Auto Crushers of
Tyler,Texas offered to pay the City of New Orleans $100.00 per vehicle,
'as is, where is', an estimated $5 million net to the city. They agreed
to bring in 5 to 10 portable crushers, work 6 days per week and complete
the job in 15 weeks.

Of course, mayor Nagin knew better how to do the job and refused the
offer saying the city would do the job themselves. It seems that now it
will cost the City $23 million to complete the job. The vehicles are
still there today instead of being cleaned! d out 5 months ago.

Now, lets see if I have this correct. By doing it J&L's way the City of
New Orleans would net $5 million. Doing it Mayor Nagin's way costs the
city $23
million for a net cost to the City of New Orleans of $28,000,000.

This is the same mayor that wants The United States taxpayers to give
$50 billion to New Orleans and let him rebuild a "Chocolate City" his
way without any oversight or any control.

Brit Hume reported this on Fox News.

This is a true story... verified on
http://www.snopes.com/katrina/politics/carcrush.asp

Like everything else to do with Google, news items are chosen automatically by a comlpex -- and very imperfect -- algorithm. This is why you'll often see someone's blog (similar non-news-venue) posting listed first for major news stories.

There are enough ACTUAL right-wing conspiracies without Mother Jones releasing shrill, paranoid, and clearly ignorant postings such as this one.

Perhaps your blog needs an editor with some knowledge of the world outside of knee-jerk politics.

-M

Michael,
The fact that the piece on Google News wasn't my point, it was just an aside (note there was no mention of Google in my headline). I mentioned the placement because it meant the article would have high readership, not to purport any conspiracy notions. The post talks about Bush's (non) response to Katrina, is that shrill, ignorant paranoia?

Sorry, I was reacting to the majority of the post, rather than to the final paragraph. And I found this via Google News (although, looking around, will add it to my bloglines).

Of course Mr. Nagin's comments were insensitive, but to compare 9/11 to Katrina is a bit unfair. Over 100,000 dwellings were made unlivable by a storm, it pretty much destroyed four large cities (New Orleans, Slidell, Gulfport, and Biloxi) and many smaller towns (Bay St. Louis, Pearlington, Waveland, Pass Christian, etc.) whereas in 9/11 more people died, but as far as direct (not politically created) economic and social impact it doesn't come close.

As the one year anniversary of the storm has passed, I imagine people are looking at us wondering why we cannot rebuild with all the billions that have been sent down. It should be noted for the record that all that has been appropriated, not disbursed. Plenty went to friends of the administration for the trailers, debris removal, etc. To take two people who applied for homeowners grants, our family and a coworkers, recieved $124.61 and $0.87 respectively. The money is somewhere, just not in the hands of the homeowners.

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