Via the AP Personal data, including the Social Security numbers of 28,000 sailors and members of their families, have been found on a civilian Web site, triggering a criminal investigation. The Navy said Friday the information was in five documents and included people’s names, birth dates and Social Security numbers. Navy spokesman Lt. Justin Cole […]
The number of people suffering from problems which resulted from bad air around the WTC site is increasing at an alarming rate: The number of people with medical problems linked to the 9/11 attacks on New York has risen to at least 15,000. The figure, put together for the BBC, counts those receiving treatment for […]
Homeland Security and FEMA’s failures in Katrina are now getting another round of attention from the President. Actually he is using the failures to support his long time plan of getting “faith based” and “community initiative” programs to take a larger roll in disaster relief. He did this by executive order today: By the authority […]
Looks like Florida’s 2004 voting is now in question: An examination of Palm Beach County’s electronic voting machine records from the 2004 election found possible tampering and tens of thousands of malfunctions and errors, a watchdog group said Thursday. Bev Harris, founder of BlackBoxVoting.org, said the findings call into question the outcome of the presidential […]
Well this is some disturbing information coming from the treasury: Treasury Secretary John Snow has warned that unless Congress raises the national debt limit, the US government will run out of cash to finance its daily work in two months. In a letter to Senate leaders Thursday, Snow said the statutory debt limit imposed by […]
Survey USA is reporting a dynamic “can’t win” situation unfolding for Bush. The Hurrieder President Bush Goes, The Behinder He Gets: 3 polling days after George W. Bush’s prime-time speech to the nation from Jackson Square in New Orleans, a “can’t win” dynamic is unfolding for the President, according to exclusive SurveyUSA data gathered Friday […]
President Bush’s speech last night appears to be nothing more than that, just a speech. He talked about a plan to rebuild the Gulf Coast and restore normalcy to the lives of those affected. He gave a speech that some have compared to a “FDR speechâ€ÂÂ. A real question lies now in the sincerity of […]
Bush has accepted full responsibility for the governments failed response in the days immediately following Katrina’s land fall. “To the extent the federal government didn’t fully do its job right, I take responsibility,” Bush said in a joint press conference with Iraq’s President this after noon. Bush did reaffirm his desire to find out “what […]
Last week Brownie was doing a “heck of a job” per Bush. This week apparently that job isn’t going so good and now he is being replaced as the head of the disaster in the Gulf. From the Associated Press: WASHINGTON – Federal Emergency Management Agency Director Michael Brown is being relieved of his duties […]
As people are being rescued, the questions are pouring into the catastrophic breakdown in our government’s infrastructure to handle such a disaster as we have seen unfold this week. New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson offered Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco help from his state’s National Guard on Sunday, the day before Hurricane Katrina hit Louisiana. Blanco […]