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too little, too late
Budget cuts delayed New Orleans flood control work: “It’s clear that we didn’t do everything we could to safeguard ourselves from this hurricane or from a natural disaster such as Katrina but hopefully we will learn and be more prepared next time,” said Landrieu spokesman Brian Richardson. The levee defenses had been designed to withstand …
CNN calls Brown on bullshit
The official version; then there’s the in-the-trenches version: Uncollected corpses Brown: That’s not been reported to me, so I’m not going to comment. Until I actually get a report from my teams that say, "We have bodies located here or there," I’m just not going to speculate. Segal: We saw one body. A person is …
don’t work for zeda
insensitive pricks: A manager at a Hull IT company told staff they could not observe the two-minute silence for victims of the London bombings, unless they deducted time from their lunch break.
coke is teh suck
look what’s happening in India: Despite severe water shortages in India, Coke continues to soak up 500,000 liters a day there to make its sugary beverage.
genocide in darfur
BeAWitness.org
wtf mate?
Man faints, dies after seeing epidural.
A Letter To The Terrorists, From London
What the fuck do you think you’re doing? This is London. We’ve dealt with your sort before. You don’t try and pull this on us. So you can pack up your bombs, put them in your arseholes, and get the fuck out of our city.
this could be a good thing
Courts may close Kansas schools.
yay ireland
Here’s something you probably didn’t know: Ireland today is the richest country in the European Union after Luxembourg.