The White House said Obama informed Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal of the emergency declaration in a phone call. The declaration makes federal support available to save lives, protect public health and safety and preserve property in coastal areas.

Jindal, a Republican, shot back late Monday in a letter to the Obama administration that the declaration fell short of the help he was requesting.

Awww. Maybe a tax cut would help?

"We appreciate your response to our request and your approval," Jindal wrote. "However, the state's original request for federal assistance ... included a request for reimbursement for all emergency protective measures. The federal declaration of emergency only provides for direct federal assistance."

In other words: give us a blank check, we want the federal government to pay for everything.

Gee Bobby...

Maybe you should've purchased Hurricane Insurance?
Maybe you should Rebuild It Yourself?
Hey, let the market work!
Are your bootstraps not long enough?
Don't want to drown in that bathtub?
Well, at least it's not a volcano!

Best of luck, LA.
Fuck you, Jindal.

Long, and a bit repetitive: 5 Stars!

The Black Heart

Little Face Mitt

The Northern Cities Vowel Shift

While he moans about how liberal American movies and popular culture are, Chait mentions:

In the last presidential campaign, Obama was labeled a “celebrity” by John McCain,

And yet, up until he lost the election, John McCain had appeared on The Daily Show more than any other guest. Seems like something only a celebrity would be able to claim.

And, old news aside... what's so liberal about Hollywood's undying love of gratuitous violence ? If movie and TV producers are so bound up with the liberal ethos, shouldn't there be a hell of a lot less gun violence in what they make? And fewer murders? And more vegetarians?

Nutters
Pliocene
Spoilage
Reinvade

I just started a game of FB Scrabble with four consecutive bingos. Maybe this time, I'll finally get the better of that Malaysian person who knows every word in the Scrabble dictionary.

In other Apex Scrabble news...

About “I Don’t Like Mondays”

Bunny Gets Reprieve From John Goodman

A story about the JFK assassination, in which an actor (Tom Hanks, for example) plays both JFK and Oswald. They're played by the same actor because, in this story, Oswald thinks he is JFK, and is so troubled by seeing this alternate version of himself making political decisions that he disagrees with, that he needs to kill the JFK-Oswald out of guilt. Of course JFK is not really Oswald's alternate incarnation, but we see everything from Oswald's point of view, so they have to be the same actor.

Or, was something like this a movie already? Sounds like it should have been, if not.