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I spent the afternoon at Sheehanapalooza in D.C. under overcast skies, in a haze of hemp-scented paranoia, steeped with fetid Bush hatred. Am uploading a bunch of photos of moonbats in action at my Flickr site. Here’s a sample:

The face of the anti-war movement: YEARRRGH!

A stylish member of Code Pink

Grieving anti-war mom Cindy Sheehan

Moonbat in [...]

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Landfall came around 3:30amEDT last night. Latest from Bloomberg here:
Hurricane Rita swept ashore in Louisiana, just east of the Texas border, with sustained winds of 120 miles per hour, pushing a storm surge as high as 20 feet into coastal communities.
Rita’s center struck land at about 2:30 a.m., 5 miles east of [...]

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Credit: AP
Galveston, nearly empty, is reporting three large fires engulfing historic buildings. Via Reuters:
A large fire broke out in downtown Galveston on Friday night, engulfing three buildings and sending flames shooting into the sky as the first winds from Hurricane Rita began whipping the coastal island.
Fire crews attempted to fight the blaze [...]

And so it begins. KHOU reporting…
When Houston-area residents heeded warnings to flee Hurricane Rita, they left behind nearly abandoned neighborhoods and stores.
And a potential playground for thieves.
By Friday morning at least three people had been arrested on charges of looting. Houston school district police arrested three juveniles Thursday night who were accused of going room [...]

You’re going to love this. This morning, I posted a follow-up item on DemCreditScam, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee’s dirty trick against Maryland GOP Lt. Gov. Michael Steele. (Send your suggestions for naming the scandal to Hugh Hewitt). I wondered why the NYTimes has failed to print a single article about the scandal, engineered [...]

Lots of readers have been e-mailing me about Dyn-O-Gel, an absorbent material that can apparently be used to slow down hurricanes. I thought it was a joke. But apparently, it is real and is just one in an entire line of “environmental absorbent products.”
Who knew?
Background on Dyn-O-Gel’s limitations here.

Pork Jerky, Alaska-style
Glenn Reynolds, N.Z. Bear and the rest of the pork-busting blogosphere are doing a fabulous job shedding light on all the dripping fat in Washington. I think Alaska GOP Rep. Don Young deserves a targeted blog pressure campaign all his own.
Via the liberal website Think Progress, Young continues to squeal about bipartisan [...]

Via AP:
NEW ORLEANS — Water poured over a patched levee Friday, cascading into one of the city’s lowest-lying neighborhoods and heightening fears that Hurricane Rita would re-flood this devastated city.
“Our worst fears came true. The levee will breach if we keep on the path we are on right now, which will fill the area that [...]

Via Tax Prof Blog, Al Franken–talk show host on the foundering Air America radio network–will be lecturing today at Yale Law School.
The Business School laughed him off.
If you happen to be in the area, please stop by and ask Franken how the Air America panhandling is going, whether he plans to donate any of the [...]

Via WFAA in Dallas, a bus carrying elderly Rita evacuees exploded early this morning and has killed an estimated 20 passengers. Just awful:
An intercity passenger bus carrying evacuees from Hurricane Rita was destroyed by fire on Interstate 45 in Wilmer early Friday, killing an estimated 20 passengers and injuring a number of others. A Dallas [...]

Via Paul Mirengoff at Power Line, more bad news:
We’ve been unhappy lately with some of President Bush’s appointees. Generally, the problem has been lack of relevant experience and, perhaps, cronyism. Today, though, I want to focus on a Bush appointee who makes me unhappy precisely because of his relevant experience. I’m referring to the [...]

The Washington Post editorializes about the Dems’ dirty trick against Maryland GOP Lt. Gov. Michael Steele. The editorial board can’t bring itself to just condemn the act on its own without also mentioning that Republicans do bad things, too. But at least the paper has weighed in on the matter:
As political dirty tricks go, snooping [...]

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Hurricane Rita has weakened a bit–downgraded to Category 4. Latest National Hurricane Center assessment is here. Weather people are testing a new computer model for predicting the intensity of the hurricane. The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency will use spy imaging to record the storm.
Meanwhile, bloggers and readers report some glitches in hurricane preparations [...]

This just in. Hat tip to Dave Logan:
A Lodi man previously charged with lying to the FBI about his alleged involvement with terrorist training camps in Pakistan was charged Thursday in a new federal indictment with providing material support to terrorists, according to the indictment obtained by The Bee.The new indictment alleges that starting in [...]

Patterico explains.
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Update: Paul Mirengoff at Power Line dissents.
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Related:
Hillary, McCain to Meet with Cindy Sheehan (Hat tip: Lorie Byrd)

The editors of National Review come out against the Julie Myers nomination. Excerpts:
Given the importance of the position and a history of mismanagement in the immigration service, Congress took the unusual step of inserting a statutory requirement that nominees have a minimum of five years of experience in both management and law enforcement. Even a [...]

Have you heard what Democrats working for Sen. Charles Schumer at the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee tried to do here in my home state of Maryland to bring down Republican Lt. Gov. Michael Steele?
Steele, a rising star in the party, is considering a Senate bid. Two of Schumer’s staffers, including a former researcher for [...]

Stuff it with cash, please!
Al Franken’s liberal radio network, Air America, is now scraping the bottom of the barrel for investors. Having taxed the patience of deep-pocketed liberal sugar daddies, Air America execs have cooked up a new campaign to hit up their own listeners for cash donations.
My investigative blog partner Brian Maloney and I [...]

Lt. Gen. Russel Honore has inspired the Stuck on Stupid blog, which its founder says will be devoted to covering MSM reporters who deserve Honore-type lashings. His blog motto:
“Everyone is entitled to be stupid, but some abuse the privilege.”
Sounds promising.
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California Conservative reports that Honore’s retort has inspired the state Republican Party.
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Don’t get stuck on stupid

The passengers on that crippled Jet Blue flight found out about the plane’s problems by watching MSNBC on their personal Direct TV screens. Mccannta reflects on the totally post-post-modern moment.

- CNN reporting that a tornado is moving toward Minneapolis-St. Paul.
- Jet Blue Flight 292 is having landing gear problems and is circling around Long Beach, CA airport. *919pm EDT update* Plane has landed safely, thank goodness. Good piloting.
Gathering info…
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More on the crippled plane via AP:
A JetBlue airliner with faulty landing gear was headed for [...]

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Via Houstonblogger Jason Smith (bookmark him), the pictures say it all:
Houston…

New Orleans…

Liberty’s Blog in Galveston:
Our local government has been planning for this for many years. Preparation isn’t going to save much property, but it is going to save lives and prevent some misery.
The Houston Chronicle is launching a blog experiment called Storm [...]

This touched my heart:
GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas — After losing a home to Hurricane Katrina, the Chimento family relocated to Texas only to discover that one of its youngest members has a deadly illness, reported KXAS-TV in Dallas.
Within days of reaching safety in Dallas, Mike and Sherry Chimento found out after a routine doctor’s appointment that [...]

Oh, this should be good Saturday night entertainment:
Rather to sub on Larry King Live
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Whither Dan Rather?
So long, farewell, adieu, adieu, adieu
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As you’ve likely read, the Pentagon blocked members of the Able Danger data mining project from testifying today before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee:
Bryan Whitman, a Defense Department spokesman, said in a statement that open testimony about the program “would not be appropriate - we have expressed our security concerns and believe it is simply [...]

August 17, 2005:
Sen. Patrick Leahy says Supreme Court nominee John Roberts holds “radical” views and has been an “eager, aggressive advocate” for policies of the far right.
While stopping short of announcing his opposition to the appointment, the Vermont Democrat’s written statement Tuesday was by far the most critical he has made since President Bush nominated [...]

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She’s Category 4.
Laurence Simon has a growing list of local Texas bloggers who are tracking Hurricane Rita. Galveston residents are on the move.
The latest from weatherblogger Jeff Masters is here.
The Weather Channel’s blog is here. More from WeatherGuide here.
Engineers are racing to patch the levees in New Orleans. Oil prices up; more rigs [...]

My new column on the boneheaded Julie Myers nomination is up.
The Roanoke Times weighs in against the nomination.
Maureen Dowd tries to do her best impression of a liberal who cares about border security. No need to pay or register. Just look at the headline and summary.
And via AP, there’s this news of how dense Democrats [...]

Radioblogger has the transcript of the press briefing that has vaulted Lt. Gen. Russel Honore into pop culture and political superstardom.
The Political Teen has video.
I know Lt Gen. Honore’s remarks were aimed at the MSM, but could someone please put this slogan on wallpaper and plaster the Oval Office with it?
‘Cause they are stuck on [...]

The moonbats’ big anti-war rally, spearheaded by the far-left group A.N.S.W.E.R., is coming up this weekend in Washington, D.C. Americans who support our troops and their mission aren’t going to let this one pass.
Move America Forward is sending a caravan from California to the nation’s capital to counter the protesters:
Debra Johns of Northern California Marine [...]