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This reporter should win multiple awards for his live reporting during the height of Hurricane Katrina. Amazing work. The link is spreading like wildfire in New Orleans so the server...
Posted on January 5, 2006 10:12 PM
The people of the Napa Valley are just stupid. Who would live in a place that floods every few years? If you've watched any cable news you know that Napa...
Posted on December 31, 2005 5:20 PM
I'm not an expert in the housing market but I bet I know more than the reporters who are writing of the bursting of the housing market "bubble" today. For...
Posted on December 29, 2005 4:19 PM
Long time readers might have noticed that I rarely post personal things. The reasons are twofold. First, I figure it would be boring. Second... It's noneofyadamnbidness ;-) -er um uh-...
Posted on December 27, 2005 12:22 PM
Well, the Democrats have shown their true colors. Republicans wanted to pay for the rebuilding of New Orleans with moines from drilling in ANWR. But for the Democrats, the bunnies...
Posted on December 22, 2005 11:19 AM
In a story Wizbang has been all over for months, it has now been confirmed by the National Hurricane Center that Katrina was a "Cat 1" when she hit New...
Posted on December 21, 2005 9:05 AM
Have you done all you could do to help? They urgently need volunteers in Lafayette, LA. The Cajundome is looking for volunteers to flush more than 200 toilets in the...
Posted on December 20, 2005 3:27 PM
If you've followed my Katrina coverage, you know that I give very little slack to the media when they get things wrong simply because they are not willing to get...
Posted on December 20, 2005 2:25 PM
It seems that Glenn Reynolds, Pajamas Media, the NY Times, and the LA Times are finally catching on to things we've covered at Wizbang for (in many cases) months. Since...
Posted on December 19, 2005 4:44 PM
Of all the myths surrounding Katrina -and there are thousands of them- the biggest one by far is that New Orleans flooded because it is below sea level. I know...
Posted on December 16, 2005 8:38 AM
The subtle persuasion is working and Washington is slowly starting to realize they are about to be on the hook to the tunes of billions of dollars if the lawsuits...
Posted on December 15, 2005 1:14 PM
[Spoiler: Every one is accounted for or I would not make this joke. And please - please for the love of God people read what this is filed under before...
Posted on December 14, 2005 3:29 PM
You know you are from New Orleans when you are late for an appointment because you are stuck in traffic behind a bulldozer driving down a city street with a...
Posted on December 14, 2005 1:31 PM
For the record, Wizbang has been all over this since before the breaches in the floodwalls were even closed. It was obvious to anyone with any knowledge of the situation,...
Posted on December 8, 2005 2:43 PM
heh- Over at Gateway Pundit I learned that Iraq is spanking New Orleans in the telecommunications department. TELECOMMUNICATIONS * Audited more than 1,200 km of the fiber optic backbone network...
Posted on December 4, 2005 11:08 PM
Well this has been predicted since the day after the storm.... The Secretary of State, who will probably be the next head of the Louisiana Democratic Party, wants to postpone...
Posted on December 3, 2005 9:53 AM
Why would anyone live on a volcano in the middle of an ocean? 44 Acres of Coastline Collapse in Hawaii HAWAII VOLCANOES NATIONAL PARK, Hawaii - About 44 acres of...
Posted on December 2, 2005 9:29 PM
In trying to get my life back in order after spending a month evacuated from the hurricane, I'm digging thru my cell phone bills and I noticed my minutes used...
Posted on December 2, 2005 5:02 PM
For reasons that escape me, the mainstream media has completely ignored the fact New Orleans was not flooded by a hurricane but by an act of negligence by the Federal...
Posted on November 30, 2005 12:12 PM
"I was in the wrong place at the wrong time, a lot of times. But that's all behind me now. I feel like the Lord, all the problems I was...
Posted on November 27, 2005 12:47 AM
I know there are a fair number of you are reading the blog... Probably more than before the storm. For those of you who missed it, the zoo opened this...
Posted on November 26, 2005 8:00 PM
So today I'm supposed to be thankful. I have no home and everything I own fits into the truck of a 1999 Mercury Sable. I lost my business I've owned...
Posted on November 24, 2005 7:49 AM
Surprise, surprise, 60 Minutes put a thinly researched controversial report on the air and based the whole thing on an "expert" of questionable veracity. On the surface, Professor Tim Kusky...
Posted on November 22, 2005 10:48 AM
What stupid people... Calif. May Build Tunnel in Quake Region ALISO VIEJO, Calif. (AP) - Traffic is so bad along the eastern rim of Los Angeles' suburban ring that regional...
Posted on November 12, 2005 8:51 PM
I've been giving this prediction to a few friends quietly for weeks but I have not posted it because you never want to give people ideas, but the gig is...
Posted on November 11, 2005 10:47 AM
With each passing day, it is becoming more evident that Hurricane Katrina did not flood New Orleans. This is probably the most bizarre thing I've ever blogged. It is completely...
Posted on November 11, 2005 9:03 AM
Now here's an odd one: Hunters won't be held to curfew Duck hunters who feared they wouldn't be able to reach the marshes of St. Bernard and Plaquemines parishes because...
Posted on November 11, 2005 9:01 AM
NBC's Brian Williams decided he didn't get enough face time during Katrina so he made a 30 minute TV special to highlight what a wonderful person he was. Ostensibly it...
Posted on November 8, 2005 11:44 AM
Chris Rose from the Times Pic is trying to steal my "You know your life is surreal when..." schtick. (Which I've renamed "You Know You're From New Orleans When...") Here's...
Posted on November 6, 2005 12:52 PM
You might not know it from watching the images on television but before Katrina, New Orleans had the highest number of Armani suits per capita of any city in the...
Posted on November 5, 2005 9:00 AM
"Please roll up the sleeves of your shirt...all shirts. Even the President rolled his sleeves to just below the elbow. In this crises and on TV you just need to...
Posted on November 3, 2005 1:52 PM
As part of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committees investigation into the preparation for and response to Hurricane Katrina, Chairman Susan Collins and Ranking Member Joseph Lieberman today held...
Posted on October 20, 2005 8:25 PM
Almost two months after Hurricane Katrina ravaged the state, Governor Kathleen Blanco sought today to address the shortage of Advisory Boards, Task Forces, Steering Committees, Rebuilding Commissions, Advisory Panels and...
Posted on October 17, 2005 1:33 PM
Sometimes you just have to shake your head. Council seeks to keep daylight a while longer Keep clocks ahead to work, city pleads If the New Orleans City Council has...
Posted on October 14, 2005 11:10 AM
I kept hearing reports about New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin's latest outburst, but I didn't believe it. I couldn't believe that what he said got so little play, so I...
Posted on October 13, 2005 11:00 AM
Louis Farrakhan plans on commemorating the 10th anniversary of his Million Man March with a Washington, DC march called Millions More Movement. The event is scheduled for October 15,...
Posted on October 9, 2005 5:07 PM
If you were the Mayor of New Orleans and you needed busses fast to evacuate the city, would you: A) Get on the radio and whine that the Federal Government...
Posted on October 7, 2005 2:16 PM
Remember this gut-wrenching picture? (AP Photo/Phil Coale) It was a picture of what was left of the Orleans Parish school systems bus fleet that was supposed to be used to...
Posted on October 4, 2005 3:40 PM
It's been getting more widely accepted that Katrina was NOT a Category 4 storm, especially by the time it hit New Orleans. Now we get more data that is just...
Posted on October 4, 2005 2:17 PM
Forget the Superdome and a few thousand people who were uncomfortable for a few days. The real story of Katrina has yet to be told. How did a "State of...
Posted on October 3, 2005 8:31 AM
Mayor Nagin, who owes his term in office to support from most of the white community in New Orleans, has officially told them to go to hell. Lakeview has 18,000...
Posted on October 2, 2005 10:49 PM
Well, Hizzonor the Mayor has establish a panel to rebuild New Orleans. The newspaper report does not give all the names of those involved but from what they do list,...
Posted on October 1, 2005 11:30 PM
The other day, I heard a Public Service Announcement from the Massachusetts Attorney General's office. They were warning consumers to watch out for used cars that had been brought up...
Posted on October 1, 2005 3:00 PM
If you've got a CDL, then you've got a job waiting in New Orleans. Just start on the west side of town and go east. Look for the hand painted...
Posted on October 1, 2005 2:06 PM
Last week, the Boston Globe ran a touching story of a Hurricane Katrina refugee. Dionne White, 37, who was pregnant when she fled, gave birth to a son that she...
Posted on October 1, 2005 1:30 PM
NBC's Lisa Myers found a set of 1998 court transcripts from a dispute over contract costs between the US Army Corp of Engineers and a New Orleans construction firm contracted...
Posted on September 30, 2005 11:51 AM
Leaving aside the fact that Salon doesn't even attempt to hide their decidedly liberal viewpoints, what passes as reporting is at times positively juvenile in it's ineptitude. Case in point,...
Posted on September 29, 2005 1:17 AM
The U-Haul Store in downtown Lawrence, MA is offering one free month of storage rental to any victim of Hurricane Katrina. It's rather rude of me, but I HAD to...
Posted on September 27, 2005 7:18 PM
Remember the good 'ol days (last month), when TV and print media were slapping each others back - congratulating each other on what great work they'd done in reporting on...
Posted on September 27, 2005 10:26 AM
Before reading this story, I thought the global warming crowd was the most wacky group stirred up by Katrina's winds.... It just goes to show, never underestimate the moonbats. Armed...
Posted on September 26, 2005 8:29 AM
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I've always been skeptical of Obama's "consensus-building" skills, wondering how he'll be able to bridge the divide between Republicans and Democrats when it seems as if he's unable to bridge the divide between Democrats.
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Drew Barrymore and Justin Long have broken up, her rep confirms to PEOPLE. "I can confirm the split with no additional comment," said the spokesperson. Barrymore, 33, and Long,...
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Former ESPN stars Keith Olbermann and Dan Patrick will reunite in September to call highlights for NBC's "Football Night in America" on Sundays. Olbermann and Patrick are legendary in...
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Oscar-winner Nicole Kidman gave birth on Monday to her first biological child, a daughter named Sunday fathered by her husband and country music star Keith Urban. Earlier this morning,...
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Matthew McConaughey and Camila Alves welcomed their first child into the world Monday afternoon in Los Angeles, his rep confirmed to Usmagazine.com. Alves, 24, gave birth to the as-yet-unnamed...
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The AFL-CIO officially endorsed Senator Barack of Illinois for president after representatives of the 56 member unions representing 10.5 million members voted on the General Board. During the primary process, these 56 member unions were split among support for Obama,...
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Just like Kobe Bryant did when he was caught cheating on his wife. But apparently the New York Yankees $350-million man Alex Rodriguez's didn't figure that out as his wife...
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Before your next party, consult the latest edition of Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, which now includes edamame (immature green soybeans), pescatarian (a vegetarian who eats fish), prosecco (a sparkling Italian...
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