Things just keep getting worse. News organizations are reporting a huge 4.3 after shock that just rocked the battered capital of Port Au Prince, complicating rescue efforts.
Campbell Brown breaks down on the air after hearing the story of an 11 year old Haitian girl who died after being rescued from the rubble. (h/t Aravosis)
Leave it to Limbaugh to muster up the kind of inner hatred that would scare the living crap out of any normal human. Today he managed to do just that by comparing Haiti relief to death panels: Will someone ask Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, who is Rahm’s brother and one of the lead White House people […]
President Obama just announced that tomorrow former presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton will be at the White House to discuss the Haiti relief efforts the two former presidents will lead. It’s great to see our leaders put politics aside to focus on the humanitarian crisis underway in the battered nation of Haiti, especially […]
Actually the White House budget director gives a very sound and reasonable explanation: A big reason why the government is inefficient and ineffective is because Washington has outdated technology, with federal workers having better computers at home than in the office. This startling admission came Thursday from Peter Orszag, who manages the federal bureaucracy for […]
And the “ultra-Liberal” John Stewart even went after Rachael Maddow on comments she made. This is a great run down of the politicization of the horrible disaster. The takedown of Pat Robertson was absolutely perfect.
Hearing more and more people from the tea party crowd and right argue that we shouldn’t help out Haiti is truly appalling. We aren’t talking about some unknown nation on the other side of the globe. We are talking about our neighbors, separated by only 300 miles of ocean. For me I think of it […]
Google Earth has released an update file you can download here that will allow you to view post-earthquake satellite images in Google Earth and Google Maps. Here’s a view of the National Palace. Click on it to enlarge and you will see the sea of people in the streets around it. (click to enlarge)
There was so much outrageous crap coming from the right wing extremists yesterday that I totally missed this one: LIMBAUGH: Would you trust the money’s gonna go to Haiti? CALLER: No. LIMBAUGH: But would you trust that your name is gonna end up on the mailing list for the Obama people to start asking you […]
Chuck Todd reported on MSNBC this morning that President Obama called former President George W. Bush last night and asked him to help former President Clinton with Haiti, much the same way his father helped Clinton. Bush has said he will do “whatever is necessary”. In a time when our nations is so polarized, it’s […]