IMproPRieTies: reax Of all the tedious media coverage of reaction to the SOTU I saw, I most respected Renee Montagne’s visit to three New Orleansians in a FEMA trailer in the darkened eastern sector of the city. These people watching the Bone tossed from the House, sailing through the deluxe mediascape, landing with an thud in that dark abandoned wreck of the town. Hearing the President ignore not just the city, but his federal administration’s obscene failure to address the city, and now the failure to address that obscene failure, which is apparently the only way Mr. Bush knows how…
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…all the really interesting news items begin to appear. BBC NEWS | Americas | US military plans for ‘long war’ The US Defence Department has released a long-awaited report on how the US military will organise and equip itself in the face of “new and elusive foes”. The quadrennial defence review will be presented to the US Congress next week. The document opens with the words: “The United States is engaged in what will be a long war.” It describes what the US military must do to defeat current and future enemies – flagged as “rogue powers, terrorist networks and…
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Yahooo! the Daily Herald published the article about Holy Moly today! They were really interested in the blog part of the site. I told him that it was really just because I couldn’t stand to work with Front Page for another moment, and switched the church site over to static pages, while leaving the blog piece working. I’m so happy! I hope the work is finally paying off. Will try to ping AKMA about this.