Wizbang: August 2005 Archives

Venice On The Bayou

Posted by Kevin · Published: August 31, 2005 · Comments (7)

Someone sent this photo to me, though I'm pretty sure it came from AP of AFP. More pictures available at Flickr under the Katrina and aftermath tags...... [Full Story]

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An island of normalcy

Posted by Jay Tea · Published: August 31, 2005 · Comments (4)

As Kevin mentioned, I'm working on a few ideas for raising money for hurricane relief. I'll have a few posted tomorrow, but I'm also going to keep up my normal postings. After 9/11, Art Buchwald wrote a book called "We'll Laugh Again." His point was that we must not diminish... [Full Story]

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Ping Problems...

Posted by Kevin · Published: August 31, 2005 · Comments (1)

Some off you had been mentioning that you were receiving throttling errors when sending trackback pings to Wizbang. At first I thought it was a problem at the site host, but it turns out to be a built-in "feature" of Movable Type. This post from last year by Phil Ringnalda... [Full Story]

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Announcing HurricAid.com

Posted by Kevin · Published: August 31, 2005 · Comments (1)

As a followup to Paul's earlier post about what bloggers can do to help out the Gulf Coast victims of the Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans flooding, we've setup HurricAid.com. It's a group authored blog where we'll address raising money for the victims of Hurricane Katrina, and (more importantly)... [Full Story]

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Pat Buchanan and the broken clock

Posted by Jay Tea · Published: August 31, 2005 · Comments (55)

I've written before how I don't care for Pat Buchanan. I think he deliberately caters to the worst in his readers, and he often throws bombs just to stir up the whackoes. That being said, his piece this week where he calls for the impeachment of President Bush hits a... [Full Story]

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HurricAid

Posted by Kevin · Published: August 31, 2005 · Comments (30)

If you've read some of Paul's posts about Hurricane Katrina you're probably aware that he's out of house and out of work. Several people have asked what, if anything, they could do to help. In both the short and long term what those displaced by Hurricane Katrina need most is... [Full Story]

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A Note to My Fellow Bloggers and the MSM

Posted by Paul · Published: August 31, 2005 · Comments (85)

To: My Fellow Bloggers and most of the MSM From: Paul at Wizbang on behalf of himself and serving as self-appointed spokesman for Hurricane Katrina victims everywhere. With all due respect guys and gals... Chill out. I've never seen one event inspire so many silly posts. Many of you need... [Full Story]

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Bonfire of the Vanities #113

Posted by Kevin · Published: August 31, 2005 · Comments (0)

The 113th edition of The Bonfire of the Vanities (a self-submitted collection of the worst posts by otherwise excellent bloggers) is hosted by Don Surber this week. Make sure you stop by and wish Don a Happy Birthday as well... Visit The Bonfire If you want to be reminded to... [Full Story]

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Boston Globe: "Let's you and him fight"

Posted by Jay Tea · Published: August 31, 2005 · Comments (13)

It's no great secret that the Boston Globe is no great friend to religion -- especially if that religion tends towards the conservative and traditional. But Tuesday they sunk to a new low. It's an open secret that Massachusetts' governor, Mitt Romney, is eying a run for the Oval Office... [Full Story]

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Dooms Day

Posted by Paul · Published: August 30, 2005 · Comments (11)

New Flash From WWLTV ****ALL RESIDENTS ON THE EAST BANK OF ORLEANS AND JEFFERSON [combined population ~1,000,000 ed] REMAINING IN THE METRO AREA ARE BEING TOLD TO EVACUATE AS EFFORTS TO SANDBAG THE LEVEE BREAK HAVE ENDED. THE PUMPS IN THAT AREA ARE EXPECTED TO FAIL SOON AND 9 FEET... [Full Story]

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Finally, a lawyer I admire

Posted by Jay Tea · Published: August 30, 2005 · Comments (5)

There's a great story in the Boston Glob (of all places) today. Back in 1996, a couple from Brooklyn were stopped in Israel by men wearing Palestinian Authority uniforms. They turned out to be 1) off duty, and 2) members of Hamas, and killed the couple. An Israeli court appointed... [Full Story]

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New Orleans Nearly Completely Destroyed

Posted by Paul · Published: August 30, 2005 · Comments (55)

Let me start by saying I rewrote the headline about 5 times and I still don't like it. Kevin wrote earlier today, New Orleans Avoids Total Destruction. That was sort of a reverse Mark Twain moment. Late news (midnight EDT) tells us a different tale. Mayor Nagin sat down with... [Full Story]

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Fresh eyes

Posted by Jay Tea · Published: August 30, 2005 · Comments (4)

I've often spoken about why I love living in New Hampshire. But there are a lot of little things that I overlook simply because I've lived here all my life. Certain things escape my notice simply because I can't imagine them not being there. It's like asking a fish to... [Full Story]

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Not So Great Moments In Live News Coverage

Posted by Kevin · Published: August 30, 2005 · Comments (8)

Round the clock cable news coverage, reporters clutching light poles to avoid being blown away, anchors being forced to improvise all makes for interesting (if uneven) news coverage. Two of the more notable screw ups: Fox New's Shepard Smith conducts a live interviews remotely with a New Orleans man. When... [Full Story]

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Some further thoughts about Muslim Americans

Posted by Jay Tea · Published: August 30, 2005 · Comments (30)

Yesterday, I spoke about the Muslim community of Lodi, California, and their apparent greater concern about an FBI informer who had been among them than a couple of their fellows who had allegedly joined Al Qaeda. This caused a bit of a heated discussion in the comments, including one person... [Full Story]

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Crush Story

Posted by Kevin · Published: August 30, 2005 · Comments (6)

Everything you ever said was brilliant.Anything you want to do is fine by me.This is much better than love, babe.This is a crush story. From the wildly under-appreciated band Too Much Joy's song, Crush Story [Listen (RealMedia)]One of the stories from my vacation is the one where the younger of... [Full Story]

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San Diego Marine Killed In Hit And Run

Posted by Kevin · Published: August 30, 2005 · Comments (9)

USMC Capt. Patrick Klokow was killed by a hit and run driver in San Diego last week, not far from where our family was staying. The story grabbed my attention since I traveled that same road during our vacation. What's got me so incensed about the story is how seemingly... [Full Story]

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Bonfire of the Vanities #113 - Reminder

Posted by Kevin · Published: August 29, 2005 · Comments (0)

Bonfire of the Vanities entries for this weeks edition (Week 112 hosted by Don Surber) are due by noon (Eastern), Tuesday August 27th - due to the lateness of this reminder. Send a link to your worst post along with any self serving excuses or clever self mocking to: bonfire... [Full Story]

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New Orleans Avoids Total Destruction

Posted by Kevin · Published: August 29, 2005 · Comments (10)

It appears that the catastrophic flooding of New Orleans that everyone feared has been avoided. The US Army Corps of Engineers shows near real-time measurements of the levy system on the Mississippi at RiverGauges.com. Here's the latest graph (with record high level in red): Click for full size graphic... [Full Story]

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American Muslims take sides -- and it's not ours

Posted by Jay Tea · Published: August 29, 2005 · Comments (60)

Over the weekend, I picked up on this story (courtesy Mike Pechar of The Jawa Report), about the militant Islamists awaiting trial in Lodi, California. It turns out that most of the evidence against the father and son accused of being part of Al Qaeda is tape-recorded conversations, and the... [Full Story]

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Hurricane Katrina May Disrupt Federal Payrolls

Posted by Kevin · Published: August 29, 2005 · Comments (13)

Among the tens of thousands of businesses located in the New Orleans area is one relatively obscure part of the US Department of Agriculture - the National Finance Center. Federal employees should be well aware of the functions of the NFC, since it is the payroll clearing house for the... [Full Story]

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The more things change, the more they stay the same...

Posted by Jay Tea · Published: August 29, 2005 · Comments (13)

One of the very first pieces I ever wrote for Wizbang, one of my auditions for the guest-posting gig, was about a Massachusetts man named Joseph Druce. Mr. Druce is currently a guest of the Commonwealth, and will remain so for the rest of his life after being convicted of... [Full Story]

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Absolutely Horrific If True

Posted by Paul · Published: August 29, 2005 · Comments (8)

I just turned on FOXNews for a minute before I tried to get a few hours of sleep. I missed the name of their guy in New Orleans but he said that he's been told (apparently by someone in the know) that 100,000 people are still in the city and... [Full Story]

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Why Push-Up Bras Never Go Out Of Style

Posted by Kevin · Published: August 29, 2005 · Comments (10)

In case you live in a cave, that's Desperate Housewives' Eva Longoria (left) at Sunday's MTV Video Music Awards [Evidentally they still play the occasional video when there are no Real World or Jackass episodes to re-run], and at Cannes Film Festival earlier this year (right). Regardless, she's still... [Full Story]

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Riding Out Katrina in the Superdome

Posted by Paul · Published: August 28, 2005 · Comments (53)

If you've watched the news, you've seen the long lines of people waiting to get into the Louisiana Superdome to ride out the storm. Nobody knows exactly how it will work, but here is an amalgamation of the most probable estimates on what these people will probably face. It's a... [Full Story]

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