"All this talk about how McCain flip flops and no one has mentioned how Ron Paul does the same thing.

Why?"

-- qnirxngm

I was so into getting to see Pedinska, Mona and Holly doing the nude Hully Gully.

Thanks a lot, Moron!

"Maybe because Ron Paul isn't the candidate for president?"

Ah, yes.....that would be the Hon. Bob Barr - he of the Defense of Marriage Act.

Now there's a whopper sized flipflop.

"I bet you thought we wouldn't notice. ;-}"

Au contrare, My Dear Pedinska. My position in the chorus line is to the rear. There's a much better view back there.

-- bahhummingbug

"You know, I used to think that Glenn was not very funny, but I've come to realize that he is a great straight-man. Good mind, too :)"

If there's one thing Glenn has never, ever claimed to be it's a straight man.

I am in the process of recruiting ladies of a certain age to join a dance troupe.

If you're interested, please contact me at BR-549.

Thanks.

Elsewhere, here on Salon, is an excellent article about what happened in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. I urge all of Glenn's readers to read this article if you want to know what really went on in those hectic days.

Click my signature for the link.

As is usual, you are simply incorrect and are attempting to deflect blame from where it belongs.

There were many folks denied access to New Orleans during the first 2-3 days after Katrina but it wasn't the National Guard who ordered them stopped. It was FEMA. FEMA, you see, controlled the purse strings and if FEMA didn't issue a "pass", you simply didn't get in. Another good example of this sort of thing is a group of volunteer fireefighters from New England (I want to say Rhode Island but am not sure and don't want to take the time to look it up - it doesn't matter). These folks traveled toward New Orleans but were told they could not enter the city unless they had a pass from FEMA and to get that pass, they needed to register - in Atlanta, enroute. They were forced to endure 2-3 days (again, exact duration is not important) of sensitivity training from FEMA before receiving their passes. Many volunteers from across the State and the Nation were denied access by FEMA.

FEMA controlled access to the City, Shooter, and they controlled it with their control of funding. Every dime of Federal assistance had to be approved by FEMA. Still, there was a grand total of 1 (one) FEMA employee in the City of New Orleans during the first several days after the federal levees failed. Brown and his cohorts were in Baton Rouge and Brown, actually ignored the reports from his single employee on the scene for 2 days.

Nagin and Blanco made many mistakes in the aftermath of Katrina but denying access to the City by relief workers wasn't one of them.

Please learn to read.

is a wonderous sight indeed.

I'm somewhat confused here.

If Comcast is a cable provider, don't they primarily just re-broadcast the product of other organizations?

If so, why can't the ad be placed with one of the local television stations that are NOT owned by Comcast? Wouldn't Comcast then have to actually delete the feed from that local station to keep the ad from being "aired" on its cables?

"Comcast reserves a certain fraction of advertising time for local ads on myriad of the stations it carries. Not just local news which reaches a limited audience. Have you never seen an ad for some car dealership in your area while watching, oh, say, The Weather Channel?"

I understand that, Mom. But if a television station which is also carried by Comcast or any other cable provider accepts and runs this ad, would not Comcast be obligated to run that ad as a part of its rebroadcast of that particular station? Unless they used their "reserved" advertising time to replace the offending ad, wouldn't the ad still be carried by Comcast as a part of their rebroadcasting of the local station's programming?

Even if the ad does make it through Comcast's refusal to run the ad directly as part of their "reserved" time, the customers of Comcast should still be able to view the commercial via local channel access.

If that's not the case, I'd like someone to tell me how Comcast can refuse to "air" the ads as provided by one or more of their local channel lineup.

"Hugs and kisses,Ma"

I must be undergoing some sort of mind warp because I still don't see how Comcast can effectively embargo these ads in the local area they are aimed.

I'll sleep on it (with the neat blankey you gave me) and see if it makes more sense tomorrow morning.

Would you like a gherkin for your merkin for Christmas?

You might want to have your Acme Snark Detector™ recalibrated.

You, too.