And I Quote....

Making an actual sacrifice is less painful than listening to Bush talk about it. - Joan Vennochi, Boston Globe



We depend on Japan, China, the United Kingdom, Saudi Arabia, and Korea primarily to basically loan us money every day of the year to cover my tax cut and these conflicts and Katrina. I don't think it makes any sense. - Bill Clinton



Thus, for me, in the bad part of this event there is also the hope, for many citizens, of seeing that the world is greater than the United States -Arch Bishop Paul Cordes, Pope Benedict XVI's envoy to the USA



How many places will be in shambles by the time the Bush crew leaves office? - Maureen Dowd, A Fatal Incuriosity



The occasion is piled high with difficulty and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves and then we shall save our country. - Abraham Lincoln



So many of the people here . . . were underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them. - Barbara Bush



It took us 125 years to use the first trillion barrels of oil. We'll use the next trillion in 30. -Chevron



The man who benefited more than anyone in history from safety nets set up by family did not bother to provide one for those who lost their families. -Maureen Down/NYT

Bob Dylan: The Ghost Of New Orleans

Good quick reading

Burn This

Apparantly the Brits sent the United States a boatload of MRE's (from the supply that goes to troops in the middle east) for the katrina victims but they have been incorrectly processed by our FDA and now will be burned, literally, without helping anyone. Inhale the ugly truth right here