-- President Bush is requesting $1.5 billion more to help make the levee system in New Orleans, Louisiana, stronger than it was before Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast.

Ok, this just lowered my opinion of Bush.

Why the F@#$ is the FED spending any money on this? This is the responsibility of LA. I understand there are benefits (oil processing, etc) to the country as whole, but it's not the job of the rest of America to protect LA. from water.

So let's see, we have the raise tax and spend liberals, and now the lower tax and spend republicans.

CNN.com - White House asks?for $1.5B billion more?for levees - Dec 15, 2005

BRISBANE, Australia (AP) -- A French woman who is terrified of flying admitted in an Australian court Monday that she drunkenly tried to open an airplane door mid-flight to smoke a cigarette

HAHAHAHAHAH Stupid french people. AHAHHAHAH.

Dude, wtf.

CNN.com - Smoker tried to open airliner door - Nov 21, 2005

undiscovered and commercially untapped.

Man, I wish this type of story was told more often. Unfortunately, there are too many anti-american complainers out there trying to only tell the bad stories from Iraq.

Kurdistan - The Other Iraq

As Thursday's edition of the Guardian reported in London: ''French youths fired at police and burned over 300 cars last night as towns around Paris experienced their worst night of violence in a week of urban unrest.''
''French youths,'' huh? You mean Pierre and Jacques and Marcel and Alphonse? Granted that most of the "youths" are technically citizens of the French Republic, it doesn't take much time in les banlieus of Paris to discover that the rioters do not think of their primary identity as ''French'': They're young men from North Africa growing ever more estranged from the broader community with each passing year and wedded ever more intensely to an assertive Muslim identity more implacable than anything you're likely to find in the Middle East. After four somnolent years, it turns out finally that there really is an explosive ''Arab street,'' but it's in Clichy-sous-Bois.

Cool, at least someone has it right.

Wake up, Europe, you've a war on your hands

Hmm...

Noone wants to call them muslims? They are pirates...

ABC News: Ship's Passengers Recount Pirate Attack

'US does not torture,' Bush says

That depends the definition of torture I guess. I for one gain from others frsutration. For example, when liberals hear Bush speak - I feeeed off the feelings libs generate. Oh man it's good.

Honestly, if it weren't for the reactions and comments on most liberals, I would probably be one. But it's not that I agree with Repbulicans, it's because the liberals make me hate them so much I have to side with the lesser of two losers.

BBC NEWS | Americas | 'US does not torture,' Bush says

Michael Steele wishes Maryland Democrats would live up to Martin Luther King’s standard of judging people by their character and not the color of their skin.

What an idiot. He is a black republican - and he expects that black democrats will treat him with respect? OMG - they are tossing Oreo cookies at him. I expected no less from the dems.

Yeah yeah, and Condi Rice isn't a "real" black, and neither is Powell. That is, unless they changed their political affiliation of course.

Michael Steele Calls Critics Racist

Democrats Defeat Online FOS Act

Oh great. Now let's shut down all talk radio shows too because they are against your agenda.

Hell, then let's not let Republicans or Libertarians vote too.

Slashdot | Democrats Defeat Online FOS Act

WASHINGTON — At least 21 detainees who died while being held in U.S. custody in Iraq and Afghanistan were killed, many during or after interrogations, according to an analysis of Defense Department data by the American Civil Liberties Union (search).

So sad... awwwwww Hey MikeTheUsurper - please cry for them. :)

FOXNews.com - U.S. & World - ACLU: 21 Killed in U.S. Custody

NASA competition designed to lay the groundwork for futuristic space elevators has ended with no one scooping the two $50,000 top prizes

Yeah, this is probably quite a few years away.

New Scientist Breaking News - Space elevators stuck on the first floor