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Absolutley Essential?

Tom Delay has said that all of the BILLIONS of dollar in the highway bill are absolutley essential!! Well you know what Tom, I live in Bozeman and that parking garage is not essential. The library is not essential. Rebuilding the Gulf Coast and New Orleans IS essential.

Give back the pork!

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If you are in favor of giving up pork money for UNECESSARY projects go to www.leaderswillfollow.org and sign the petition!

Shelter v. Prada

Tracy V. has come up with the idea to forgo our Pork money, since their are higher priorities right now, and I have been thinking about it a lot, and I first had to establish what pork is. Is it necessary, does it serve any specific function besides getting politicians re-elected? Yeah it nice, I mean as I was cruising around trying to find a parking spot in dowtown Bozeman, a parking garage MAY have come in handy, but so what? I don't need it, I am surving without, and from the amount of people I see in dowtown Boz. it is a safe bet that it is surviving without a parking garage.

Richmond, Indiana is going to receive $3 million for a new hiking trail because of pork too. (Do not even get me started why a hiking trail is going to cost $3 million.) Do the folks in Richmond NEED this trail? And if so, do they NEED it the way the citizen of New Orleans NEED their homes rebuilt? I guess they could. I mean in all honesty the citizens of Richmond could be suffering due to their lack of hinking. The suffering could be so bad, that they can't eat and decide to live on the streets. I don't know, I live in Bozeman, so I don't realize how the hiking situation is in Richmond. But I do know the parking garage situation in Bozeman and its ridiculous. There are many other things way more important for Bozeman to have, say I don't know, some relief for this winter when heating bills are projected to rise by about 70%.

This is not the time for this country to be wasting money. If this was a situation facing a family, and their choice of buidgeting was between paying their mortgage so they have somewhere to live, or buying a whole new Prada wardrobe for the entire family, what would tbe smart choice be? Hmmm, that is a head scratcher. Shelter or Prada?? Hmmm.

The bottom line is that America is LOUSY at budgeting. Our representatives do not know the first thing about prioritizing, and now is not the time to be buying parking garages, or trails or god knows what else is out there. We are at war and our Gulf Coast has been almost wiped out. What should the priorties for America be??

Tracy V.

Whether you agree with her idea or not, Tracy V. is getting some major attention for her ideas providing relief to New Orleans. The Bozeman Comical even picked up on it today (www.bozemandailychronicle), and she will be on NPR's program "Here and Now" TODAY.

Even if her idea is not picked up on, she is showing how people thousands of miles away can help their neighbors, and my thought is that I hope it works, because I have never liked the idea of a parking garage in dowtown Bozeman anyway, I would like to see better public transportation instead.

I guess we will just have to wait and see what will happen......

About Time

This just in..........."Federal Emergency Management Agency Director Michael Brown is being removed from his role in managing the Bush administration's Hurricane Katrina relief efforts and is returning to Washington. Brown, who has been under fire for the federal government's slow response to the storm that devastated much of the Gulf Coast region, will be replaced by Coast Guard Vice Adm. Thad W. Allen, who was overseeing New Orleans relief and rescue efforts".

Now the AP article did not say that he has been fired as FEMA director, but at least they are getting his incompetent ass out of New Orleans and back to Washington, where he can go back to not knowing how to do his job.

The bigger man

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is going to ship boatloads of extra oil to the United States to help "soften the impacts of Katrina....hmmm..

didn't Pat Robertson just call for the assisination of Chavez?

doesn't the Bush administration have terrible relations with him?

It just shows you that generousity can come from very unexpected places, and that maybe just maybe this evil that the right wing nutcases believes in just doesn't exist..

oh how I love irony!

Something fishy is going on

So as I was out perusing the internet seeing what fun information I could find, I stopped by the Gallatin County Republicans website (www.gallatinrepublicans.com) and it appears as though they are endorsing a candidate for the city commission race coming up in November. They only have a link for one of the candidates Eric Henyon, the guy who has been living in Bozeman for two years and wants to be mayor by winning the most votes. Can anyone say carpetbagger??

Nonetheless, the city commission race is non-partisan and by the GCR only having a link for Mr. Henyon appears to be an attempt to put an R behind his name. On the other hand the GCD website has links for all 6 of the candidates, not just the ones who may be known Dems. This race is going to get nasty no doubt, but the repugs should at least have the courtesy to put links of all the candidates on their website, because this race is non-partisan...

Another interesting note on MR. Henyon, he has not been at any of the local meetings regarding garbage privatization, which is a pretty big issue right now, and very well could be a determining factor in the race. But I guess that is okay cuz he is going to be mayor, and mayors never have to go to those important meetings.

Sean Penn Redeems Himself

I have very mixed feelings about Sean Penn, I mean the guy cannot take a joke. (Remember the Oscars when he got pissed that Chris Rock was making fun of Jude Law)

However, Sean Penn took his personal boat down to New Orleans and is saving people. Sean Penn!! Yet it is too hard for FEMA to get people out.

On the subject of FEMA, the head has said he did not know that there were people at the Convention center without food and water. They just found out, even though every journalist has been reporting from there for almost a week. This just goes to show that political operatives should not be responsible for the safety and well being of Americans. They should all be fired and Sean Penn could do their job!

Anderson Cooper is my Hero

I do not like CNN, all too often they pay attention to trivial news such as the so-called runaway bride, but I have always admired Anderson Cooper. He is smart, funny, and is not afraid of those in power. Check out what he said to

COOPER: Joining me from Baton Rouge is Louisiana Senator Mary Landrieu. Senator, appreciate you joining us tonight. Does the federal government bear responsibility for what is happening now? Should they apologize for what is happening now? Check out how he ripped Sen. Landrieu after she started making false claims...

SEN. MARY LANDRIEU (D), LOUISIANA:....Let me just say a few things. Thank President Clinton and former President Bush for their strong statements of support and comfort today. I thank all the leaders that are coming to Louisiana, and Mississippi, and Alabama to our help and rescue.We are grateful for the military assets that are being brought to bear. I want to thank Senator Frist and Senator Reid for their extraordinary efforts.Anderson, tonight, I don't know if you've heard -- maybe you all have announced it -- but Congress is going to an unprecedented session to pass a $10 billion supplemental bill tonight to keep FEMA and the Red Cross up and operating.

COOPER: Excuse me, Senator, I'm sorry for interrupting. I haven't heard that, because, for the last four days, I've been seeing dead bodies in the streets here in Mississippi. And to listen to politicians thanking each other and complimenting each other, you know, I got to tell you, there are a lot of people here who are very upset, and very angry, and very frustrated.And when they hear politicians slap -- you know, thanking one another, it just, you know, it kind of cuts them the wrong way right now, because literally there was a body on the streets of this town yesterday being eaten by rats because this woman had been laying in the street for 48 hours. And there's not enough facilities to take her up. Do you get the anger that is out here?

And it got even better...

Yes Anderson Cooper is my hero, and he needs to be thanked for defending those who truly need help.

Liberal Blogosphere for Hurricane Relief



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Katrina and Bush

They are awfully alike aren't they??

While New Orleans, a city that has a dear friend of mine who I am still trying to contact is in a hell like state, all Bush has done is say they will "survive" and did so in one of the worst speeches of his life. Check out the New York Times article about it at http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/01/opinion/01thu1.html

And please, if you have not done so already, please give as much as you can to the Red Cross. This is by far one of the worst tragedies to occur in our country, and everyone mothers, kids, animals, students, grandparents, and so on needs all they help they can get.

Peace

Also, check out www.dailykos.com for inspirational messages of hope.

No place left for the "dangerous criminals"

Alas the extravagant new jail that was priced at around $100,000 per bed has failed by 564 votes, and all I can say is...DUH! With all the bull that has been going down in the good old county offices can anyone really blame the folks of Bozeman for rejecting the "best offer" for the jail.

Bozeman needs a new jail, I am not going to argue about that but come on, it was price tagged at 20 million, and other counties around the state have built jails larger than the proposed Bozeman jail for way less. Jails should not be fancy, or pretty, or anything they should be jails..which in Bozeman are mainly used for DUIS anyway.

Here is a radical idea. Get a bus system for Bozeman that runs late over the weekends, I know many many people who would totally use a bus when going out on the weekends. I know I would. Or instead of a bus why not have more cabs? Right now Bozeman has two, count them two cabs on the weekdays, and two more on the weekends when MSU's Cat Cab runs. Another radical idea, stop giving public drukeness tickets to people stumbling home from the bars, nothing is more absurd than punishing people who chose not to drive when they are in less than sober conditions.

All I have left to say to the county is that people are not stupid, and you can't put something with a bad smell in front of them and expect them to eat it.