New Orleans’ recovery is the picture of what happens when you have a culture entrenched in corruption with a welfare entitlement mentality.  There is no one to blame other than themselves and I’m tired of hearing them whine.  When you have people who continually re-elect corrupt officials they get what they deserve. 
Here’s a commentary […]

After I got past the initial news of the 35W bridge in Minneapolis my thoughts were this is what happens when you have a state that spends it’s highway funds on anything but roads and bridges.  Minnesota has a billion dollar light rail which runs at a deficit every year.  And like Congress they love […]

From Immigration Watchdog:
Many of the family members don’t speak English, so Huntington Mayor Hilary Gordon said she hugged them, put her hands over her heart and then clasped them together to let them know she was praying for them, she said.
“Past experience tells us these things don’t go very well,” said Gordon, whose husband is […]

Think of how a grain of rice in a salt shaker absorbs the moisture to keep the salt from clumping together. DARPA sought a method to create water for troops to reduce the logistics burden. Considering it costs $30 per gallon to fly in water on C-130’s this method reduces the cost to […]

I heard this on Phil Valentine’s radio program yesterday as I was driving in rush hour traffic. I have to tell you it didn’t help me much in controlling my traffic rage. Actually I was doing a slow burn while listening to the program.
The corrupt, moronic, Democrats of Louisiana thought $185 million of Federal taxpayer […]

WaPo has an excellant expose on Farm Disaster Aid or the Drought Aid bill from 2002. This is nothing more than porkbarreling by Congress. By 2003 anyone with farmland practically could get taxpayer dollars for no reason. To be fair to many of the farmers mentioned in this piece, the farmers weren’t looking for government […]

How asinine is this? Rename a Federal agency where the acronym sounds like Osama! Aside from that imbicilic message, how much will it cost the agency to enact this name change? Forms? Uniforms? Letterhead? etc….. Guessing how bureaucrats operate it wouldn’t surprise me if the dollars ended up in the hundreds of millions.
It was a […]

The helicopter that crashed last January with International Aid Workers returning from assisting with earthquake victims in Pakistan was recovered by a U.S.A. High Altitude, High Angle Rescue and Recovery Team. 

Transportation officials from Afghanistan, Turkmenistan and Pakistan have searched for the missing helicopter since its disappearance. The aircraft, located June 1 by local Afghan villagers, crashed along the eastern […]

Here’s what big government produces - dependence! Hey, afterall, FEMA will come in and pay won’t they? And if they don’t, well, blame the government instead of themselves for being irresponsible.
Californians have built vast metropolises atop seismic faults, but 86 percent of the state’s homeowners have no quake insurance, a proportion that has […]

During the Katrina disaster it was interesting, there was a Red Cross shelter set up in Franklin, Tn. The NAACP complained there weren’t enough Black workers at the shelter. I guess there now has to be quotas for volunteering to satisfy the NAACP.

Although most of this doesn’t surprise me (shows how jaded and cynical I am) the depth of corruption and malfeascence does stagger me. Seems to me Schumer and Clinton should be called on the carpet for their LYING about funds needed by NYC.

Well, this certainly didn’t take long!
The uncle and father of a Louisiana lawmaker have won three no-bid contracts worth 108 (m) million dollars to provide temporary housing for Hurricane Katrina evacuees even though their motorcycle shop didn’t have a license to sell new trailers until after the first deal was signed.
Lawmaker’s father, uncle got $108 […]

Washington Post
Before I write anything about Clinton and his Tsunami Ambassadorship, who exactly is buying the former President’s clothes?? Mustang23 currently has a naming contest going where the former President is wearing a suit with a hot pink tie and now this picture with the hot pink shirt. Has anyone bothered to tell the former […]

The Diplomad
The Diplomad has another update on all of the great work the US and Australia and other nations are doing —- oh, I mean the UN is doing. They’ve got their matrices all down and are excellant at meetings and taking credit for what everyone else does. I’m trying real hard right […]

Scott Hogenson asks a really great question in this article.
All this military power - most notably the efforts of 13,000 sailors, soldiers, marines and airmen - isn’t cheap, and the Pentagon Thursday noted that the American military role in the humanitarian effort adds up to about $6 million a day. Over the course of the […]

The Diplomad
This is just too good to pass up.
The post below reports on the impending arrival of Ms. Margareeta Wahlstrom “United Nations Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator and the Secretary-General’s Special Coordinator for Humanitarian Assistance in Tsunami-affected countries.”
She has spoken! At a large meeting this afternoon, she and the local UN rep, Mr. Bo “Please Wear […]

The Diplomad
Just unfreakin’ believable! Not only is the UN a sham but Egeland the gent who called the US stingy is now taking credit for work done by hard working people at USAID and the Aussies and State.
Excerpt:The UN is taking credit for things that hard-working, street savvy USAID folks have done. It was USAID […]

I think this is just wonderful. President Bush has done a work around and the UN is being “undermined”. You know what I think (errrr well tough, you’re gonna hear it anyway) I think the UN can join the Fockers and take a hike. Oh so the UN is the only one who has the […]