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Best Live Reporting Ever

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…

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Idiots in Napa Flood AGAIN

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…

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Housing Bubble Bursting… Or Not

Housing Bubble Bursting… Or Not

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…

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Telling The End of the Story First

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-…

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Democrats: Bunnies in Alaska More Important Than People of Louisiana

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…

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Confirmed, Katrina Cat 1 In New Orleans

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…

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URGENT- Volunteers Needed To Help Katrina/Rita Recovery

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…

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WORST. KATRINA. STORY. EVER.

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…

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No Longer a Voice in the Wilderness

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…

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Debunking the "New Orleans Flooded Because it is Below Sea Level' Myth

Debunking the "New Orleans Flooded Because it is Below Sea Level' Myth

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…

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Washington Gets a Clue on New Orleans Levees

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…

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Dam Busts in Southern Missouri, People Washed Away

[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...

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You Know You're From New Orleans When…

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…

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Katrina- A Man Made Disaster

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,…

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To Envy Iraq

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…

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Top Louisiana Dems Want To Rig Elections

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…

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44 Acres of Coastline Collapse in Hawaii

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…

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The Month I Spent on the Phone

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…

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Hello? Mainstream Media??? Are You Awake?

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…

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Quote Of The Day – Shooting Star Edition

"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…

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Inside Joke For New Orleans Locals

Inside Joke For New Orleans Locals

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…

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Quote of the Day- Thanksgiving in New Orleans Edition

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…

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60 Minutes Newest "Expert" is Sinking Faster Than New Orleans

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…

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California to Build Tunnel in Earthquake Zone

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…

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New Orleans Burning

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…

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