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Sunday, August 29, 2010
Skinheads Attack Crowd of 3,000, Kill 14-Year-Old
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A group of 100 Russian skinheads stormed a crowd of concertgoers on Sunday, reportedly killing a 14-year-old girl. Details are still sketchy, but local media is reporting that some 100 people were injured while police "were inactive or ran away."
What an awful day for people hoping to see "Russia's most popular rock bands" at the annual Tornado Festival in Miass, a city in the Urals. According to local news reports, a group of about 100 bare-chested skinheads wielding "batons, sticks and iron rods" rushed past festival security and just sort of... started beating people up, I guess.
News portal Chelnovosti.ru—the source of the report of the teenage girl's death, which it attributes to an anonymous police source—says that police and security just stood by and allowed the attack to happen, and in some cases had their nightsticks taken away by the skinheads, for the purpose of beating on people. The site has a bunch of photos that, yeah, seem to show police just sort of chilling, though it's pretty hard to tell what's going on, given that the photographer, for some reason, doesn't seem to have wanted to get too close to the large crowd of shirtless neo-nazis.
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Glenn Beck's Hypocritical Revival
Wonder how much gold he sold this weekend.
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The Rev. Glenn Beck staged a religious revival on the National Mall in Washington yesterday.
His “Restoring Honor” rally sidestepped politics, instead offering a tribute to the troops and calls for a new Great Awakening, proclaiming “We’ve got to go to God Bootcamp,” to the applause of hundreds of thousand of followers.
But the most striking thing about Beck’s heartfelt evangelism was its hypocrisy.
“We’re dividing ourselves,” Beck lamented. “There is growing hatred in the country. We must be better than what we’ve allowed ourselves to become. We must get the poison of hatred out of us, no matter what smears or lies are thrown our way… we must look to God and look to love. We must defend those we disagree with.”
It made me wonder if Glenn Beck has ever watched the Glenn Beck show.
The man offers a daily drumbeat of division for a living, earning $32 million last year selling his paranoid snake oil. It’s almost impossible to keep up with Beck’s serial fearmongering, though a stroll through Media Matters will give an authoritative sampling. Just a few of his greatest hits include:
• “We are a country that is headed toward socialism, totalitarianism, beyond your wildest imagination.”
• “There is a coup going on. There is a stealing of America… done through the guise of an election.”
• “The president is a Marxist... who is setting up a class system.”
• “The government is a heroin pusher using smiley-faced fascism to grow the nanny state."
• “The health-care bill is reparations. It's the beginning of reparations."
• And of course, speaking of President Obama, “I believe this guy is a racist” with “a deep-seated hatred of white people.”You can’t profit from fear and division all week and then denounce them one Saturday on the National Mall in Washington and hope nobody notices.
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What are your favorite fairy tales?
The ones that (a) never explain everything and (b) never really end.
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‘Volleyball’ From the Sky
Someone pissed off God.
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On July 23, 2010, a severe thunderstorm struck Vivian, S.D. — a quiet rural community of less than 200. While there was nothing unusual about a violent summer storm, the softball (and larger)-sized hail that accompanied it was extraordinary. In fact, it led to the discovery of the largest hailstone ever recorded in the United States.
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The 10 Greatest Fictional Inventors of All Time
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Eureka has been Giz's celebration of inventors of all stripe, from Tesla to Popeil. But some of the most memorable inventors of our time were actually invented themselves. Here are ten fictional innovators near and dear to our hearts.
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Fire Tornado in Brazil
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This awesome firetornado is filmed in Brazil where it hasn't rained for 3 months.
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5 Insane Scientific Charts You Won't Believe Actually Exist
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Everything needs to measured: Even things you don't want to touch, smell, look at, think about or even exist on the same physical plane as. Because sometimes, you just have to know what precise category of vomit you'd be covered in if you ate too much Subway, or got drunk and played on the merry-go-rounds (Scattershot Olive, is the answer).
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Mourners commemorate Katrina
Has it really been five years?
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Hundreds of mourners in the southern US state of Louisiana have attended a symbolic mock funeral to commemorate five years since Hurricane Katrina devastated the area.
The funeral on Saturday was one of dozens of events planned to mark the fifth anniversary of the massive storm that wrecked the US coast along the Gulf of Mexico.
Mourners dropped notes, cards and letters, many of them stained with tears, into a steel-gray casket.
One letter written by a child in red crayon said: "Go away from us."
Another note recalled one of the 1,800 victims of Katrina: "R.I.P. Gloria, I will always love you."
The casket was later interred under a dark sky as rain pounded umbrellas.
"I asked for no more suffering, for everything to come back to where it was," Walter Gifford, 47, said of his note.
Gifford rebuilt his home and moved back to the area near New Orleans after the storm. "I ask for the sadness for so many to end."
Nancy Volpe, 61, who moved back into her house in November, said she cried a lot while writing her letter.
"But I'm finally home. I can't tell you how much better I know the meaning of that word - home," she said.
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Google in talks with major studios to rent movies via YouTube
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The Financial Times is reporting that Google is in talks with major Hollywood studios to bring streaming movie rentals from their catalogs to YouTube by the end of the year. Citing multiple sources with knowledge of the plans, the FT claims that the YouTube on-demand video service will probably launch first in the US, and will offer movies, simultaneous with the DVD release, for about $5.
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The movies won't be downloadable, so you'll need a live Internet connection to watch them. But the lack of a download capability isn't as big of a deal as you might think at first. The recently launched Google TV platform, which brings YouTube directly to Internet-connected televisions, presumes a constant Internet connection, so the rumored streaming rental model is a perfect fit for it.
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Rose-shaped nebula is home to the amateur astronomer's favorite star cluster
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This dazzling image is of the Rosette Nebula, a rose-shaped nebula in the Unicorn constellation. The nebula's central star cluster is so bright that it was discovered a century and a half before the rest of the nebula.
The Rosette Nebula is located between 4,500 and 5,000 light-years away in the constellation of Monoceros, which translates to the Unicorn. The nebula's less flowery name is NGC 2237, and it's home to one of the brightest star clusters in the night sky. NASA explains:
At the center of the flower is a cluster of young stars called NGC 2244. The most massive stars produce huge amounts of ultraviolet radiation, and blow strong winds that erode away the nearby gas and dust, creating a large, central hole. The radiation also strips electrons from the surrounding hydrogen gas, ionizing it and creating what astronomers call an HII region.
This cluster is so bright that it was discovered a full 150 years before anyone noticed the nebula surrounding it. English astronomer John Flamsteed discoverd NGC 2244 around 1690, but it wouldn't be until 1840 that John Herschel was able to spot the much fainter nebula. The cluster remains a favorite of amateur astronomers, as it's easily visible with even a small telescope or decent pair of binoculars.
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The final blog post of Satoshi Kon
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Paprika and Paranoia Agent director Satoshi Kon passed away this week, but before he died, he wrote a final blog post to his friends, family, and anime colleagues.
Kon's post is a meditation on death and tying up loose ends. In one particularly sad passage, the director regrets that he wasn't more open about his upcoming robot "road movie," The Dreaming Machine. At one point, he meets with Madhouse Studios founder Masao Maruyama and realizes that the project is in good hands. It's poignant to read about Kon letting go of an endeavor he had planned so meticulously; it's also heartening to see that his colleagues will do it justice:
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The next season of Doctor Who will be split into two parts
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At the Edinburgh International Television Festival, Steven Moffat revealed that the upcoming 13-episode season of Doctor Who would be split down the middle into 7-episode spring arc and a 6-episode autumn storyline.
Moffat divulged that the break next season wouldn't be the dreaded mid-season hiatus, but rather a split between two distinct stories:
Looking at the next series I thought what this show needs is a big event in the middle [...] I kept referring to a mid-season finale. So we are going to make it two series – seven episodes at Easter building to an earth-shattering climax, a cliffhanger we could never normally do because it would be too long before it came back. An enormous game-changing cliffhanger that will change everything. The wrong expression would be to say we are splitting it in two. We are making it two separate series [...] With an Easter series, an autumn series and a Christmas special, you are never going to be more than few months from the new series of Doctor Who [...] Tart that I am, we will now have two first nights and two finales, twice as many event episodes as we had before.
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Wallace To Beck: ‘Do You Have Any Credibility Talking About Reclaiming The Civil Rights Movement?’
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Yesterday, right-wing “rodeo clown” Glenn Beck preached to reported 87,000 supporters at his “Restoring Honor” rally on the National Mall. Pitching the event as a “non-political” reclamation of the civil rights movement, Beck cultivated an air of revival and sold the crowd on “a religious brand of patriotism.” “America today turn’s back to God,” he proclaimed.
Today on Fox News Sunday, host Chris Wallace waded into Beck’s psyche to try to clarify Beck’s true beliefs. Noting Beck’s claim that “divine providence” allowed him to reclaim the civil rights movement from “racial politics,” Wallace asked Beck about his previous declaration that President Obama was racist and wondered if he has any credibility “reclaiming the civil rights movement” because of that statement:
WALLACE: You said recently that the reason that a growing number of Americans don’t think President Obama is a Christian is because they don’t recognize the faith that he is practicing and in fact you even called it a perversion of the gospel of Jesus Christ. And you know I respect you and I say this affectionately but who made you the God Squad?
BECK: Oh, nobody made me the God Squad. The pope even said, this is Pope Benedict, that it is demonic not divine when theology crosses into the line of doing that which only the divine can do. He was speaking specifically about liberation theology.
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Fire at Tenn. Mosque Building Site Ruled Arson
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Federal officials are investigating a fire that started overnight at the site of a new Islamic center in a Nashville suburb.
Ben Goodwin of the Rutherford County Sheriff's Department confirmed to CBS Affiliate WTVF that the fire, which burned construction equipment at the future site of the Islamic Center of Murfreesboro, is being ruled as arson.
Special Agent Andy Anderson of the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives told CBS News that the fire destroyed one piece of construction equipment and damaged three others. Gas was poured over the equipment to start the fire, Anderson said.
The ATF, FBI and Rutherford County Sheriff's Office are conducting a joint investigation into the fire, Anderson said.
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Subscriber growth suddenly stops for cable TV industry
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The number of people shelling out for cable TV is on the decline, possibly opening the door for newer TV models to finally break through to the mainstream. According to data gathered by market research firm SNL Kagan, cable companies saw a noticeable drop in the total number of subscribers during the second quarter of 2010, a first for an industry that has thus far seen nothing but growth.
The number of cable subscribers dropped by 711,000, according to SNL Kagan, with six out of eight cable providers reporting their worst quarterly subscriber losses to date. Other parts of the industry were able to add just enough subscribers to make the net loss more like 216,000. Cable's share of the pay-TV market dropped slightly too, from 63.6 percent to just 61 percent during the quarter.
What's behind this apparent exodus from cable TV? For one, the second quarter of the year is typically slow thanks to housing turnover in college towns, but that's not all that's contributing to the drop. "Although it is tempting to point to over-the-top video as a potential culprit, we believe economic factors such as low housing formation and a high unemployment rate contributed to subscriber declines in the second quarter," SNL Kagan analyst Mariam Rondeli said in a statement.
Even if online video isn't the main culprit, there's still a prime opportunity for the Internet to swoop in and snatch up some of those that have shunned cable. With the public introduction of Hulu Plus imminent, Netflix's growing stable of streaming movies and shows, and increased availability of shows from the likes of iTunes, Xbox Live, and Amazon video on demand, TV addicts have plenty of online content to choose from.
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Glenn Beck: Conservatism's Snake Oil Salesman, Pt. 1
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The circus sideshow that was CPAC folded its tent and left Washington weeks ago. However, its apparent ringmaster and chief snake oil salesman still sweats, struts, and sobs across the "stage" of conservative media — that medicine show never stops rolling and never stops hawking its "solutions" to Americans who are in desperate need of something to ease their economic aches and pains, and heal their political maladies.
And like the medicine shows of old, Glenn Beck — and others like him — peddle magical "miracle cures" that either poison directly by filling the body politic with toxic bile, or indirectly by distracting us from actual solutions, and aren't intended to "cure what ails us" so much as to make us think that we feel better even as the illness progresses. Case in point is Beck's latest attack on the very idea of social justice.
On one hand, where there are issues of social justice that are beyond the scope of individual and community action, the government may act. On the other, where there are issues of social justice that are beyond the scope of individual and community action, they government may not act. And in Glenn Beck's works, where there are issues of social justice that are beyond the scope of individual action, neither the government nor the community may act.
The difference is that between a world with the possibility of community and a world without community.
That's the snake oil Glenn Beck and others like him are selling to an America suffering all the symptoms of financial crisis — blight, foreclosure, homelessness, hunger, joblessness.
That's the poison that Beck and others are selling: that none of us is responsible to or for anyone else, and that we'll get out of this crisis without having to be.
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Friday, August 27, 2010
Tea Party Rocks Primaries
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There’s nothing in the world more tired than a progressive blogger like me flipping out over the latest idiocies emanating from the Fox News crowd. But this summer’s media hate-fest is different than anything we’ve seen before. What we’re watching is a calculated campaign to demonize blacks, Mexicans, and gays and convince a plurality of economically-depressed white voters that they are under imminent legal and perhaps even physical attack by a conspiracy of leftist nonwhites. They’re telling these people that their government is illegitimate and criminal and unironically urging secession and revolution.
The Fox/Rush/Savage crowd in the last 18 months has taken the anti-Muslim fervor that launched a phony war in Iraq, carried George Bush to re-election, and pushed through the Patriot Act, and re-directed that anger at a domestic nonwhite enemy. In doing so they’ve achieved a perfect storm of political cross-purposes: they’ve almost completely succeeded in distracting the public from the real causes of their economic misfortune (i.e. Wall Street corruption), they’ve re-energized a Republican party that was devastated by eight years of Bush-era corruption and incompetence, and, as usual, they’ve made Rupert Murdoch a shitload of money.
I’m convinced that none of the key actors here – the Wall Street banks shrieking about government takeovers and advertising on Rick Santelli’s CNBC, the Republican Party’s career hacks who have been scheming for a new horse to ride ever since Bush imploded, and the right-wing TV and radio networks – none of these actors is pushing this crazy movement out of any real desire to stoke a race war. For these institutional leaders and patrons of the Tea Party movement, this is all about material expediency: overcoming the real threat of new financial regulations after the crash, winning elections, and making TV profits. It’s just our bad luck that driving frustrated/broke white suburbanites into a race-hatred frenzy happens to be good business for these folks. And all of this is race-baiting-for-cash is borne out of the same short-term, indifferent-to-consequence thinking that we saw from the Wall Street guys in recent years -- who created mountains of deadly leverage capable of destroying the global financial system for the sake of a few one-year bonuses.
The fact that Fox and co. are doing what they do for these dreary commercial reasons makes it even worse, of course; at least Hitler really hated Jewish people. But that also means there's a bright side. One of the few positives in this Tea Party phenomenon is that it's shown how quickly masses of Americans can be convinced to completely change their minds about shit. The same Americans who six or seven years ago were looking skyward in search of poison-distributing Saddam-drones and buying duct tape and bottled water to protect themselves against imminent Muslim attack are now probably not spending five minutes a week worrying about Muslim terrorists -- and instead arming themselves against the coming black-Mexican-leftist-communist state. To me that indicates that if Fox and Glenn Beck can be induced to jerk off to some perhaps similarly profitable but less toxic hate-fantasy (midgets from New Zealand are taking our jobs!), all of this – well, it maybe won’t go away, but it won’t have us steaming toward widespread racial violence like we are now.
I'm beginning to wonder why effective boycotts against these hate-media channels, and particularly Fox, haven’t been organized yet. Why not just pick out one Fox advertiser at random and make an example out of it? How about Subaru and their unintentionally comic “Love” slogan? I actually like their cars, but what the fuck? How about Pep Boys and that annoying logo of theirs? Just to prove that it can be done, I’d like to see at least one firm get blown out of business as a consequence of financially supporting the network that is telling America that its black president wants to kill white babies. Isn't that at least the first move here? It's beginning to strike me that sitting by and doing nothing about this madness is not a terribly responsible way to behave.
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GOP plans wave of W.H. probes
Missing from the list: fixing the economy, rebuilding decaying infrastructure, providing health care, getting tax relief for poor people, and ending the war in Afghanistan. But hey, TAX CUTS! And maybe they'll form a committee to determine if President Obama is a sekrit furriner Mooslim.
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If President Barack Obama needed any more incentive to go all out for Democrats this fall, here it is: Republicans are planning a wave of committee investigations targeting the White House and Democratic allies if they win back the majority.
Everything from the microscopic — the New Black Panther party — to the massive –- think bailouts — is on the GOP to-do list, according to a half-dozen Republican aides interviewed by POLITICO.
Republican staffers say there won’t be any self-destructive witch hunts, but they clearly are relishing the prospect of extracting information from an administration that touts transparency.
And a handful of aggressive would-be committee chairmen — led by Reps. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) and Lamar Smith (R-Texas) — are quietly gearing up for a possible season of subpoenas not seen since the Clinton wars of the late 1990s.
Issa would like Obama’s cooperation, says Kurt Bardella, spokesman for the ranking Republican on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. But it’s not essential.
“How acrimonious things get really depend on how willing the administration is in accepting our findings [and] responding to our questions,” adds Bardella, who refers to his boss as “questioner-in-chief.’
That’s feeding anxieties within the West Wing — even if administration officials won’t admit it publicly.
“I actually think it will be even worse than what happened to Bill Clinton because of the animosity they already feel for President Obama,” says Lanny Davis, a deputy White House counsel who lived through Clinton’s trials. Read more at dyn.politico.com
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Biden pushes green spending projects in grim economy
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Calling federally funded weatherization of private homes a "no-brainer," Vice President Biden gave Republicans a new opening to criticize the lack of jobs created by stimulus spending
At an event in New Hampshire, Biden said the administration is about one-third of the way to realizing President Obama's goal of weatherizing 600,000 homes.
"If we keep up the current weatherization pace, we'll lessen our dependence on foreign oil by 1.5 million barrels, the equivalent of going out today, waving a wand and taking 107,000 automobiles off the road permanently, saving consumers a lot of money," Biden said.
Republicans noted that last year, Obama and Biden promised the stimulus funding would weatherize at least 2 million homes.
And Biden's claim that weatherizing homes was a jobs generator also drew detractors, noting the recession took 8 million jobs and the $814 billion stimulus has created at most 3.3 million jobs.
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Thursday, August 26, 2010
Facebook sues social media site with ‘book’ in name
One more reason why I should never revive my nuked Facebook account.
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Teachbook.com has two employees and fewer than 20 users signed up for its free Web community. The site has yet to officially launch.
But the Northbrook, Ill.-based company, which provides tools for teachers to manage their classrooms and share lesson plans and other resources, has been thrust into the spotlight by social networking giant Facebook, which sued the start-up for using “book” in its name.
“We’ve been sitting here scratching our heads for the last couple of days,” Teachbook’s managing director, Greg Shrader, told the Tribune on Wednesday. “We’re trying to understand how Facebook, a multibillion-dollar company, feels this small enterprise in Chicago is any type of threat.”
Facebook, which was founded in 2004 and has more than 500 million users, filed its trademark infringement lawsuit in U.S. district court in San Jose last week, asserting that the “book” part of its name is “highly distinctive in the context of online communities and networking websites.”
“If others could freely use ‘generic plus BOOK’ marks for online networking services targeted to that particular generic category of individuals, the suffix BOOK could become a generic term for ‘online community/networking services’ or ’social networking services,’” Facebook argued in the lawsuit. “That would dilute the distinctiveness of the Facebook Marks.”
Suing similarly named companies for trademark infringement is well-worn territory for technology companies. EBay, for example, locked horns with an e-commerce site called PerfumeBay for years before the other company changed its name to Beauty Encounter.
“As companies mature, it becomes common that they start bringing trademark enforcement actions against people with names that bug them,” said Eric Goldman, associate professor at Santa Clara University School of Law and director of the school’s High Tech Law Institute.
Shrader said the term “book” is a natural fit for his website, since it relates to teachers and education.
But the Palo Alto, Calif.-based company felt Teachbook was unfairly riding on its coattails by using the suffix “book” to reference the larger site’s established reputation.
“It’s not that they are using ‘book’ — we have no complaint against Kelly Blue Book or others,” Facebook said in a statement. “However, there is already a well-known online network of people with ‘book’ in the brand name.”
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Chertoff delayed federal response, memo shows
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WASHINGTON — The federal official with the power to mobilize a massive federal response to Hurricane Katrina was Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, not the former FEMA chief who was relieved of his duties and resigned earlier this week, federal documents reviewed by Knight Ridder show.
Even before the storm struck the Gulf Coast, Chertoff could have ordered federal agencies into action without any request from state or local officials. Federal Emergency Management Agency chief Michael Brown had only limited authority to do so until about 36 hours after the storm hit, when Chertoff designated him as the "principal federal official" in charge of the storm.
As thousands of hurricane victims went without food, water and shelter in the days after Katrina's early morning Aug. 29 landfall, critics assailed Brown for being responsible for delays that might have cost hundreds of lives.
But Chertoff — not Brown — was in charge of managing the national response to a catastrophic disaster, according to the National Response Plan, the federal government's blueprint for how agencies will handle major natural disasters or terrorist incidents. An order issued by President Bush in 2003 also assigned that responsibility to the homeland security director.
But according to a memo obtained by Knight Ridder, Chertoff didn't shift that power to Brown until late afternoon or evening on Aug. 30, about 36 hours after Katrina hit Louisiana and Mississippi. That same memo suggests that Chertoff may have been confused about his lead role in disaster response and that of his department.
"As you know, the President has established the 'White House Task Force on Hurricane Katrina Response.' He will meet with us tomorrow to launch this effort. The Department of Homeland Security, along with other Departments, will be part of the task force and will assist the Administration with its response to Hurricane Katrina," Chertoff said in the memo to the secretaries of defense, health and human services and other key federal agencies.
On the day that Chertoff wrote the memo, Bush was in San Diego presiding over a ceremony marking the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II.
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Not Even Christina Hendricks Is Safe From Photoshop
Seriously, GTFO. This is a woman known for her curvy features (she's on a popular TV show, fer cryin' out loud), and they did this. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot.
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We cover lots of Photoshop disasters, but this one really stings: We'd ordinarily applaud the company for hiring a curvy, voluptous model instead of the usual rail-thin types we're inundated with. But why would London Fog choose an actress known for her fantastic, fleshy figure — and then change that figure into a less wide and therefore more "acceptable" shape? We haven't the foggiest. Showcasing Christina Hendricks' body in the media sends a message that there isn't just one way — lanky, thin, runway model-esque — to be sexy. And with the wave of a mouse in Photoshop, London Fog negates that message.
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Mad Men's Christina Hendricks Can Even Make Boring Raincoats Look Sexy
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Busty bombshell Christina Hendricks is the new face of staid outerwear brand London Fog. We think the lusty execs on Mad Men would approve of the campaign, even though we're thinking more about what's underneath than the raincoat itself.
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