Category Archives: Media Criticism

Katrina On The Hudson

“We are living like animals.”

They told me if I voted for Mitt Romney that we’d have a president completely indifferent to the suffering of the middle class. They were right.

And at least with Katrina, people didn’t have to worry about freezing to death.

[Update a few minutes later]

Comment of the day:

FEMA, while it is a clusterfrig of titanic proportions, could not cause this much misery on its own. Although they FAILED to have emergency generators at key fuel distribution points (read gas stations) and although they FAILED to have any kind of plan to move food and fuel to the affected areas, and although they FAILED to even have a forward based supply of bottled water and ran out last Friday, even these gold plated MORONS couldn’t have frigged things up this badly alone.

No, there’s plenty of blame to go around, but primarily, the failure is a one more sign of breakdown of the blue-state model.

And FEMA shouldn’t actually be expected to take care of things like this (and after these continued failures, I hope that people start to realize this). It is not a federal responsibility. The blame lies with Bloomberg and New York and New Jersey politicians who go along with corruption and the unions, in addition to instilling a dependency on the state that can’t help, instead of self reliance.

NASA’s New “Moon Mission”

Sadly, this is typical of reporting on this stuff:

…astronauts likely won’t head straight to a space rock when SLS and Orion are ready to fly together in 2021. In the last year, word has begun leaking out that NASA wants to explore Earth-moon L2, a point in space that lies beyond the moon’s far side, as a precursor.

Exploration of Earth-moon L2 could get started as early as 2021 with the first manned flight of SLS and Orion, which NASA calls Exploration Mission 2.

Emphasis mine. I don’t think that word means what you think it means.

And the comments over there are generally stupid, as usual, including a NASA-faked-the-moon-landing type.