Tuesday, October 30, 2012

A Brief Reminder

For East Coast, Gulf Coast, West Coast people, people who live where it floods, blizzards, has earthquakes, or is facing the zombie apocalypse:  The states should do the emergency management.  (The campaign has of course walked that back--it's in the article, which points out the flaw in this particular statement.)

Mr. Brown (of Hurricane Katrina infamy fame) thinks Mr. Obama responded to Hurricane/Tropical Storm Sandy too quickly.  There might have been political reasons for quick action.  I seem to recall that the federal reaction to Katrina was somewhat glacial, but I'm sure Wikepedia will correct my misapprehension.

Stuff the "Christian" right wing (non-hockey)(oh, right, there's a hockey lock-out on) fears.
No matter how this election turns out, the endgame has already begun: America is becoming more multicultural, more gay-friendly and more feminist every day. But as every hunter knows, a wounded or cornered quarry is the most dangerous. Even as the white, patriarchal, Christian hegemony declines, its backlash politics become more vicious.

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