Political Tidbits and Barbie's Secret

It appears that city council members are choosing to pursue a bike safety study rather than moving forward with an law requiring cyclists to wear a helmet.
The five redrawn congressional districts are now open and ready for political mayhem with multiple candidates running for office in each district.
Democratic goobernatorial candidate Chris Bell thinks that Rick Perry is catering to "polluters who write big campaign checks." In other completely unrelated news, a campaign contribution to Perry from the North Texas utility's political action committee is arousing suspicion.
Bush is marking the anniversary of his administrations complete failure in dealing with the aftermath of hurricane Katrina by paying a visit to the gulf coast.
A government watchdog group is claiming that Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert illegally named four officials from his political party to key positions in his administration. We are as surprised as you to find out that this report came from Fox News.
Mattel, creators of Barbie and kickass Star Wars action figures, is reportedly threatening to sue a Brazilian artist for portraying Barbie as a lesbian. Can you really blame Barbie given that Ken is lacking certain key parts?

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By zachary in News on August 28, 2006 10:01 AM 0 Comments

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odam

paaco, the governor of Louisiana was and is a woman. kathleen blanco.

your mom won an emmy

zach

Too true. We're certainly not blaming him completely, although it is hard to get past his Michael D. Brown nomination.

Paaco

I may not agree with the Bush administration, however, they were not the main culprit to blame in the Katrina aftermath. It is law that the US government has to receive the permission of the state before sending in troops to help out with national disasters. This is a states' right issue that our system created. The governor of Louisiana is to blame first and foremost. He did not seek the help of the federal government right away as did Mississippi. President Bush could not send in troops to Louisiana until the governor approved it. Why didn't the governor get his act together?

Unfortunately, this was a result of federalism and a state's government's mishaps. By the way, Louisiana received a lot of federally alotted funds to fix the many levies that failed during Katrina years before the hurricane struck. However, the state used those funds to build roads and whatnot. The federal government cannot take sole blame for this unfortunate event.