Donna went over my house in 60 and Charlie 3 years ago --- please, they were nothing compared to New Orleans. A town under water is a different mater all together.-- bucky1

Then you know the real reason for filling bathtubs with water. Sorry, but considering that New Orleans existed below sea level, flooding is not a surprise. I have no doubt that you know exactly the risk you are taking living in a hurricane area. I also have no doubt you know how to handle an emergency. But even after two years of work by the Army Corps of Engineers it still wouldn't survive another Katrina
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/21/us/21orleans.html?ex=1184385600&en=a020fb4d69476dc6&ei=5070

More importantly, incompetence and corruption are the best description of their recovery...
http://www.waterintegritynetwork.net/page/375

The part that really galls me though is the demand that Feds are responsible for local prevention and recovery. That and the tape of people at the Superdome whose misery is blamed on Bush rather than the Governor who blocked relief agencies from giving them aid.

Most of New Orleans current misery is self inflicted. I can well empathize with the shock of a natural disaster but at some point, one has to take responsibility for one's circumstances, rather than blame someone else for indifference.

* I saw nothing judgmental in Carlson's quotes other than an oblique reference to age i.e. "taking advantage of". Doesn't that blow the premise of the post?

* I understand that Glenn writes about what interests him, but then we have to ask why bitching out Carlson is more interesting to Glenn, than Sanchez of the House proposing to try Miers for contempt.

* The left is going to have to decide whether to have principles or continue as opportunistic scavengers of political gotchas. Does sex matter or not?

* Was it OK for Clinton to have an affair because nothing better was expected from him? Or IOKIYAD? That was the certainly the case when comparing Foley to Studds.

* The easiest way to avoid predicaments of hypocrisy is to have low or no standards. Is that a good thing for leaders and citizens?

You folks are upset that Bush refers to the murdering Muslims in Iraq by the same name as the murdering Muslims in Pakistan?

Oh darn, oh gosh, oh gee willikers, what a problem! LOL. Perhaps you folks should demand that the various groups shooting and bombing Americans wear insignia so we can tell them apart from each other.

I for one am confident, that the murdering Muslims are gravely concerned as to whether they are fighting the Alabama National Guard troops or the New York National Guard troops. Heh.

Not particularly, Shooter. It's only upsetting when he makes the claim that those folks shooting at our troops in Iraq are the same folks who drove those planes into the WTC and Pentagon in order to dupe the public into believing that his illegal invasion of Iraq was somehow warranted by 9-11.

So your point is that we should now invade Pakistan? Or that invading Afghanistan (who didn't attack us) WAS warranted?

Wouldn't it upset you if Glenn referred to you as being the same as the moron who calls himself the Major? -- Jebbie

LOL. You mean as opposed to all the other names I'm called here? Do you think Glenn would be able to distinguish a bullet fired by a Paki Al Qaeda from a bullet fired by an Iraqi Al Qaeda? Of course not. This is exactly the kind of thing that gives "nuance" a reputation for being a synonym for "stupid". Any murdering Muslim (as opposed to a non-murdering Muslim) who kills people as a matter of theology fits the description of Al Qaeda as far as I'm concerned. They are all the "same folks".

This comes via Mark Thoma, who draws a more plausible straight line through the data over at his site and finds that as tax rates go up, so does tax revenue.

Yet he doesn't explain how the US with nearly highest rates generates some of the lowest tax revenue percentages of the countries listed? Why is that I wonder?

Well, that's one big reason we're in the fix we're in. They all look alike, don't they?
Maybe some Iraqis should go bomb Iceland in revenge for the killing of their family members by Americans. Iceland's a "Christian nation" too, isn't it? -- Svensker

If they had the capacity, what makes you think they wouldn't? Theologically, the only good Christian is a dead Christian.

Do you just throw anything out there and hope no one will call you on it? -- Scientician

Actually I throw stuff out there and hope people DO call me on it.

Huh? The Taliban were actively sheltering Al Qaeda, who did attack the US. That's a reasonable causus beli.

Then you would have to agree that Israel invading Lebanon was by reasonable cassus belli. Lebanon didn't attack, a group it was "sheltering" (Hizbollah) did.

Here's a good example of the problem with "nuance". One of the grand objections to the Iraq war was that Iraq didn't attack us, or more directly Saddam and the Ba'ath party didn't attack us. Who was in charge of Afghanistan? The Taleban, yes? Did the Taleban attack us? No. But according to you it "sheltered" a group that did. Then obviously any country "sheltering" a group that attacked us is open for invasion, yes? Iran loosely fits that description doesn't it?.