- Josh busts Politico | Michael Tomasky
This is one of the must-read blog posts of all time, by Josh Marshall about the Politico. Contained within it: everything that goes wrong with the Politico, which I basically respect (and certainly read) but which too often is too eager to Drudge-ify its copy so that Drudge gives them prominent links; and everything that's excellent and necessary about TPM. And by the way, happy tenth anniversary to TPM. I've been reading it since the beginning. I don't read many things and think, that is exactly what I would have done. But TPM is pretty much exactly the site I would have created. The difference is Josh did, and I didn't.Anyway, as to the substance of the matter, there are two jaw-dropping things about the story: 1, that Republican aides are today spinning it in a way that is completely divorced from the facts of what actually happened (well, now that I put it that way, I see that it is not remarkable at all); 2, that Politico ran with this so blithely.I don't want to start a whole debate about the media again. Well, maybe I do. Those of you who insist the media are liberal-liberal-liberal are of course describing things as you honestly see them, but I think you're failing to make a crucial distinction, which is as follows.The media are generally liberal when it comes to social values. Christian conservatives and tea partiers are indeed painted as a little loopy. Transgendered athletes and so on are generally portrayed sympathetically. No denying that form of general bias.But when it comes to capital-P Political stories, the capital-P political media have two chief characteristics: one, they mostly go with the flow; two, they want conflict.In 2008, the flow was with Obama. Now it's mostly against him. In 2002, the flow was decidedly with Dubya. Then, after Katrina, it w これは、-政治についてのジョシュマーシャルのすべての時間のブログの記事を読まなければならないの一つです
- Barack Obama visits New Orleans
US president joins residents marking five years since floodwaters driven by hurricane Katrina inundated the city
出水は、ハリケーンによって駆動カトリーナが街を浸水から米大統領は、住民を5年間マーキング結合
- The census numbers | Michael Tomasky
So the new census numbers are out today, and politically, it's all good short-term news for the Republicans, because of the gains in the (grrrrr) South. Ezra Klein has a list, which actually comes from Dave Weigel, showing the number of House seats gained and lost by certain states:The gainers: Arizona +1Florida +2Georgia +1Nevada +1South Carolina +1Texas +4Utah +1Washington +1The losers:Illinois -1Iowa -1 Louisiana -1Massachusetts -1Michigan -1Missouri -1New Jersey -1New York -2Ohio -2Pennsylvania -1You can see that most of the gainers are GOP controlled, and most of the losers are Democratic-leaning states. And even the most heavily Republican state on the losers list, Louisiana, is losing its seat because of the post-Katrina exodus; in other words, it lost city dwellers, so the one heavily Democratic area of the state is the area that shrank.I should say that we don't yet seem to know exactly where these gains were inside these states. For example, if the Texas pickup is largely the result of Latinos, that may mean more Democratic seats in Texas. However, this will now give Texas 38 electoral votes next time around instead of 34, and those votes are certainly going to the Republican in 2012 .The way I count it, and I'm honestly not sure if I'm doing this right, based on these changes Obama is down 12 electoral votes from 2008 if every state votes the same. Right? States Obama lost gain six seats, while states he won lose six seats. Well, 12 is a lot. That's a problem. Of course he's starting from a rather large cushion. He got 365 electoral votes last time, and you're no less the president if you get 300 or 282 or even 270.Could it be that northerners are moving down south and changing the character of the place? Good God, let's hope so. That certainly seems to have 新しい年の国勢調査番号だから、今日からは政治的には、（grrrrr）南の利益のために、共和党のすべての良い短期的なニュースだ
- Bahia emerald ownership to be decided by Los Angeles court
Boulder-sized gem, one of largest ever discovered and worth £252m, is at centre of con-job and theft accusationsThe curious case of an enormous emerald weighing as much as a horse has opened in a Los Angeles courtroom for a judge to determine precisely who owns it. Dug up in Brazil in 2001 and tipping the scales at 381kg (60st), the boulder-sized Bahia emerald is one of the largest gems ever discovered.Tony Thomas, who claims to be the rightful owner, says he bought the emerald from a Brazilian gem dealer for $60,000 (£37,896) shortly after it was excavated. Its worth has since been appraised at almost $400m (£252m). Lawyers for several other interested parties say Thomas's claim should be dismissed because the emerald was never delivered to him.After he arranged to have it shipped home, Thomas says, he was tricked into believing the emerald was stolen. He says it vanished after he gave it to people who were supposed to ship it to him and, now that it's been found, it should be returned.After it vanished the gem's journey became muddled. At one point it wound up in a warehouse in New Orleans that was flooded during hurricane Katrina.Among those claiming ownership is a man who says he was retained by the Brazilian owners to sell it. Another claimant has said he received it from a gem dealer as collateral for a shipment of diamonds he paid for but never received. He was trying to sell the gem in Las Vegas when authorities seized it.The Los Angeles county sheriff's department now has the emerald under lock and key.United Statesguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds
ボルダーサイズの宝石は、史上最大の価値ポンド252メートル発見の一つは、CON -ジョブの盗難accusationsThe奇妙な事件の中心にある巨大な正確に決定するために馬は、裁判官のためにロサンゼルスの法廷にオープンした限り計量エメラルド誰がそれを所有しています
- 3 officers convicted in post-Katrina death
A former New Orleans police officer was convicted Thursday of fatally shooting a man in Hurricane Katrina's aftermath and another officer was convicted of burning the man's body in a case that exposed one of the ugliest chapters in... 元ニューオーリンズの警官は、致命的なハリケーンカトリーナの余波で男を撮影木曜日有罪判決を受けた他の役員は、ログイン醜いのいずれかの。露出場合には男の体を焼くの有罪判決を受けた..
- Louisiana Fishermen Return to Check for Oil Spill's Progress
Boatmen worry oil contamination could be worse than damage from Hurricane Katrinain 2005 船頭の心。油汚染はハリケーンKatrinain 2005年から被害よりも悪いことができる
- Hurricane Katrina before and after
Before and after images of the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina on the five-year anniversary of the disaster
前と荒廃ハリケーンカトリーナによる災害の5周年に発生した画像の後
- New Orleans elects new mayor
New Orleans has elected its first white mayor in 32 years, ushering in hopes of a new era in a city still trying to rebuild five years after Hurricane Katrina. ニューオーリンズの32年間で、新たな時代を願って、市内では、ハリケーンカトリーナ後の5年間を再構築しようとして切り開いたその最初のホワイト市長に当選しています
- Mourners rid grief in Katrina burial
Hundreds of mourners have dropped notes, cards and letters into a steel-grey casket in a symbolic burial of Hurricane Katrina. 会葬者数百人は、カードをノートを落としていると文字ハリケーンカトリーナの象徴的な埋葬の鉄。灰色の棺に挿入します
- Storm damage
Five years after Hurricane Katrina laid waste to New Orleans, the US still feels the pain of its failure to save its own. ハリケーンカトリーナがニューオーリンズは、米国への廃棄物を置いて5年後もその失。独自を保存するの痛みを感じている
- Ugly truth of the chaos of Katrina
NEW ORLEANS: In the days after Hurricane Katrina left much of New Orleans in flooded ruins, the city was awash in tales of violence and bloodshed. ニューオーリンズは：日ハリケーンカトリーナが殺。遺跡の多くのニューオーリンズの左後で、市は、暴力の物語であふれと流血した
- Taste of New Orleans Returns
Five years after Hurricane Katrina, famous French Quarter restaurants are making a comeback ハリケーンカトリーナ、有名なフランスのクォーターレストラン5年ぶりの復帰を作っている
- Cat returns after five years
Five years after wandering away in Hurricane Katrina's aftermath, a grey and white cat named Scrub has been reunited with his Mississippi family.The local Humane Society says Scrub was identified by an implanted microchip. The... 五年ハリケーンカトリーナの余波、スクラブ注入マイクロチップによって識別されたという彼のミシシッピfamily.TheローカルHumane Societyさんと再会されているグレーとスクラブという名前の白猫で離れて放浪の後に
- Obama praises New Orleans spirit
Five years after the ravaging storm, President Barack Obama celebrated New Orleans's revival from Hurricane Katrina today and pledged common purpose with residents in the continuing struggle to protect and rebuild the Gulf Coast.Obama... 荒らす嵐の5年後、バラクオバマ大統領は、今日ハリケーンカトリーナからニューオーリンズの復興を祝って、継続的な努力を保護し、湾岸Coast.Obamaを再構築するの住民と共通の目的を約束...
- Lower Ninth | Theatre review
Trafalgar Studios, LondonThe Donmar Warehouse has moved into this Whitehall studio for a 12-week season to promote the work of young directors. Charlotte Westenra, the first beneficiary, has come up with a fine, well-acted production of a 70-minute play by Beau Willimon. However, though set during the trauma of Hurricane Katrina, it ultimately lacks real drama.Willimon appears to have taken a hint from Paul Chan's alfresco Waiting for Godot, performed in the hard-hit ninth ward of New Orleans. He shows us two African-Americans stranded on a rooftop, hoping for rescue, the corpse of a friend at their feet. Malcom, a tough guy turned Bible student, and his young companion, E-Z, bicker, banter and play guessing games to pass the time. What emerges is an uneasy father-son relationship, relieved by Malcom's occasional retelling of Bible stories – the best of which offers an alternative version of the Flood in which Noah becomes the ultimate black survivor.But Willimon resorts to one particularly desperate dramatic device, easily guessable from the programme, to keep the situation going. And it strikes me as bizarre that his two characters hardly refer to the one subject that would be uppermost on their minds: the staggering federal and civic incompetence that saw so many lives sacrificed.The pleasure lies in the performance. Ray Fearon as Malcom displays a formidable power that suggests he could have punched something more than a Bible in his time, and Anthony Welsh is full of raw anger as the younger man. Despite Westenra's vividly atmospheric production, though, Willimon's play is a self-conscious piece that tells us little about the criminal negligence behind the disaster.Rating: 3/5TheatreHurricane KatrinaNatural disasters and extreme weatherMichael Billingtonguardi トラファルガースタジオ、LondonTheドンマーギャラリーは、若い監督の作品を促進するための12週間は、シーズンに向けて、このホワイトスタジオに移動しています
- American graffiti: How New Orleans' residents used spray paint to voice their feelings about Hurricane Katrina
My subject has long been our civilisation's relationship with nature, so when Katrina happened, I was compelled to be there. For the first month or so, from the Mississippi Gulf Coast to the Lower Ninth Ward in New Orleans, it was like being in a post-apocalyptic movie. As I drove along, there was devastation in every direction and there were vast areas of New Orleans where I never saw another human being, with the exception of three National Guardsmen. In some areas, the smell of death permeated the air. The tragedy of it all was almost overwhelming. While I found empty, mould-infested houses in New Orleans, there was hardly a home left standing on the Mississippi Coast. The first day there I got eight nails in my tyres. There was garbage everywhere; timber, furniture, appliances. There were stairways leading up to nothing, mile after mile. The trees that remained were festooned with debris. It was surreal. 私のテーマは、長い自然と我々の文明の関係をされているので、時カトリーナが起こった、私はそこに余儀なくされた
- 'In a terrible way this is a portent of things to come and a warning'
The author of Wild at Heart, Barry Gifford, whose books are set in the American South, talks about the man-made horrors that have ravaged the Louisiana coastWhen Hurricane Katrina wrecked the Louisiana coast, it wasn't the wind that created disaster in itself, but the floods which surged over the levees and washed across the wetlands in its wake.Now the region has been hit by a second disaster, an oil slick. A different kind of flood this time, a thick, black flood of crude oil that approaches the coastline, threatening the wildlife and the fragile ecosystem of the wetlands of Louisiana and the Mississippi Delta.For years I lived in New Orleans, right in the French Quarter. It's a very special place and unique for its cultural mix, derived from the people who have settled there over the centuries.And I've spent a lot of time along the coast; spent summers there fishing. I have fond memories of St Bernard Parish, of Delacroix Island in particular. It's a famous place, an area of outstanding natural beauty where the Spanish Cajun settled to become planters and fisherman.These places will never be the same.They say that the well could take months to plug, that the spill could eclipse the Exxon Valdez disaster, which devastated Alaska in 1989. And to have this new disaster visited upon the same residents as were hit by Hurricane Katrina, an area that even today looks like it has been hit by some nuclear holocaust – well, one might ask: What does God have against New Orleans? But God has nothing to do with it. This accident was entirely man-made.We court disaster every time we drill offshore. Such accidents are always a possibility with this kind of construction, yet the oil company responsible has had to throw its hands up and turn to the government. It just doesn't know wh ハート、バリーギフォード、書籍、米国南部ルイジアナcoastWhenハリケーンカトリーナを破壊した人間が作った恐怖についての協議で設定されてルイジアナ州の海。難破の野生の著者は、それ自体が災害を作成風でしたしかし、堤防上に急増し、湿地全体のwake.Now地域は、二次災害により、油膜をヒットされている洗。洪水
- Man charged with post-Katrina hate crime
NEW ORLEANS - A white man accused of shooting and wounding three black men in New Orleans in Hurricane Katrina's aftermath has been charged with a federal hate crime.A five-count indictment on Thursday accuses 47-year-old Roland... ニューオーリンズは - 白人の撮影と非難し、ハリケーンカトリーナの影響で、ニューオーリンズの3つの黒人男性が負傷した日連。憎悪crime.A 5カウント起訴で起訴されている47歳のローランドを非難...
- Sperm-donor children seek rights and respect
Katrina Clark and Lindsay Greenawalt have much in common. Both are bright women in their 20s, raised by single mothers ... and keenly curious about the men whose donated sperm helped give them life.Clark's search for her father... カトリーナクラークとリンゼイグリーナウォルは多くの共通点を持っている
- Super Bowl fever swamps storm-ravaged New Orleans
Win or lose on Sunday, the New Orleans Saints will return from their first-ever Super Bowl to a hero's welcome, complete with their own Carnival parade, from a long-suffering city still rebuilding from Hurricane Katrina.Super Bowl fever has swamped the Big Easy, where everything from Mardi Gras parades to church services has been rescheduled to make sure fans can catch the kickoff of their team's first-ever shot at the National Football League championship spectacle. 勝つか、または30日、ニューオーリンズセインツは史上初のスーパーボウルの英雄として歓迎さ、自分のカーニバルパレードを完了するために、長期的苦。市内からはまだハリケーンKatrina.Superボウル発熱ビッグ殺到して再構築から復帰さを失う簡単にここで、マルディグラのパレード、教会のサービスに至るまで必ず、ファンがチーム初のナショナルフットボールリーグチャンピオンシップ光景で、ショットのキックオフをキャッチできるようにスケジュールされている
- Stage set for Super Bowl drama as parties begin
Super Bowl 44 rivals Indianapolis and New Orleans conducted final walkthrough sessions as tensions built for Sunday's National Football League title showdown and parties began across South Florida.The Saints, playing in their first Super Bowl after 43 futility-filled seasons, will try to win a title for devoted New Orleans fans still rebuilding in the aftermath of the devastation from Hurricane Katrina in 2005.Practice sessions have allowed Saints star quarterback Drew Brees to to replace his nervous excitement with poised confidence. スーパーボウルの44のライバル、インディアナポリス、ニューオーリンズの緊張日曜日のナショナルフットボールリーグ優勝の対決やパーティー用に構築として最後のチュートリアルセッションを実施した韓国Florida.The聖人間で、初のスーパーボウルで43無益後に再生を開始したが、勝利しようとする季節記。献身的ニューオーリンズのタイトルはまだハリケーンカトリーナ2005.Practiceセッションからの荒廃の余波で構え自信を持って彼の神経の興奮を交換する聖人つ星のQBドリューブリーズ許可されている再構築のファン
- Haiti's plight can bind US and Cuba | Steve Clemons
Following the earthquake in Haiti, the US and Cuba should cast aside their differences to help their troubled neighbourIn Latin America, Cuba stands out as one of the most effective deployers of soft power. Rather than exporting revolution, Cuba today exports doctors – with more than 30,000 Cuban doctors working in more than 100 underdeveloped countries around the world.Cuba has become a marquis provider of catastrophe-related medical assistance around the world, particularly after tsunamis, hurricanes and earthquakes – and no doubt will send large contingents of medical personnel to earthquake-ravaged Haiti. Moving beyond the cold war stasis in US-Cuba relations is a priority of Barack Obama's administration, and the devastation in Haiti provides a platform to provide relief for a desperate nearby nation and build collaboration between Cuba and the US.Many great American voices from Brent Scowcroft and George Shultz to Jackson Browne and Bill Richardson have argued that the US-Cuba embargo makes no sense as foreign policy, that the right of Americans to travel anywhere in the world should not be suspended in the case of Cuba, that Cuba's exports of doctors rather than arms should be more than enough reason to strike Cuba off America's watch list of state sponsors of terror.But to effect change in a relationship as historically toxic as that of Fidel Castro's Cuba and 11 US presidents will require certain narratives.One such narrative could evolve from tying American resource co-ordination and financial support in a regional multilateral effort with other Latin American nations – particularly Cuba's deep bench of natural disaster-experienced medical corps.After Hurricane Katrina pounded New Orleans and southern Mississippi, Fidel Castro offered relief support from a 1,6 ハイチ、米国とキューバでの地震の後に問題を抱えたneighbourInラテンアメリカを支援する、キューバの1つのソフトパワーを最も効果的なデプロイヤとして際立っている、その違いはさておきキャストする必要があります
- Patrick Cockburn: Haiti destabilised before quake
The US-run aid effort for Haiti is beginning to look chillingly similar to the criminally slow and disorganised US government support for New Orleans after it was devastated by hurricane Katrina in 2005. Five years ago President Bush... ハイチの米ランの援助活動後、2005年のハリケーンカトリーナによって大きな被害を受けた冷えには刑事とニューオーリンズのdisorganised、米国政府のサポートが遅いようにし始めている
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