While it goes without saying that Rush Limbaugh’s comments about Haiti were hitting a low even for him, his defense of those remarks may be a close rival. Yesterday he suggested that Obama’s listing the Red Cross web address on whitehouse.gov was an attempt to divert the money and pad his own mailing list for […]
Everyone in Haiti is beginning to fray – the Haitians, the relief workers, and particularly Diane Sawyer who is going to be kicking ass and taking names if they don’t start distributing food and water pretty soon. What she’s seeing is sure hard to watch for all of us. The Washington Post has a really […]
Bankers Without a Clue New York Times By PAUL KRUGMAN January 14, 2010 The official Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission — the group that aims to hold a modern version of the Pecora hearings of the 1930s, whose investigations set the stage for New Deal bank regulation — began taking testimony on Wednesday. In its first […]
US says aid flows limited by Haiti infrastructureAFP01/15/2010 The United States said Friday that Haiti’s small airport and other poor infrastructure was preventing all of the current aid supplies from reaching the people who need them. "We have a lot of stuff geared, poised to flow. The limitation right now is the inherent infrastructure in […]
January 15, 2009
Watching CNN’s non-stop coverage of the cataclysm in Haiti isn’t easy, but it’s too compelling to turn off. I think it’s going to be easier to watch tomorrow because the massive amount of aid flowing into the country might finally begin to be distributed to the people that need it. That’s been the frustrating part, […]
Rush Limbaugh: No More Aid for Haiti U.S. News and World Report By John A. Farrell and Thomas Jefferson January 14, 2010 Did he really say that? I guess so. I checked his web site. He’s not even ashamed he said it. For Rush Limbaugh, the deaths of thousands of Haitians in a natural disaster […]
I think I’m going to like Obama: The Second Year a lot.