As the seventh anniversary of Hurricane Katrina’s landfall approaches, New Orleans — and much of the Gulf Coast — is preparing to put into practice the lessons learned from that defining storm. Tropical Storm Isaac is following a path eerily similar to Katrina’s in 2005. [CNN] TAMPA IS safe, but New Orleans is not.
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Republicans Forced to Highlight Puerto Rico, Guam and Samoa to Find Diversity for the TV Camera
IT’S A MAKE or break week for Mitt Romney. The message is critical, but the presentation is as well. Who will deliver it, what will it look like and will the TV audience peeking in see people with whom they can relate? It’s a big problem when Republicans have to go to Puerto Rico, Guam, [...]

Duopoly Convention Entertainment: Act I, The Tampa Tea Party
Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. I’ve written about the 2012 Republican and Democratic Conventions for a while now, as a focus of planned Occupy and related protests, as a part of the Duopoly system, and most recently, as related to security in Bipartisan Police State Planning for Party Conventions. Among [...]
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