I wondered what happened to the Civil Defense System where citizens were assigned a local shelter to report to for a free ride to safety by the National Guard if needed. Turns out the system developed by men who actually served in battle to protects civilians was dismantled by another not a soldier, but played one on…

Well, that’s the thing! So many snarky comments about people :”refusing to leave,” when, unless you have a car, gas money, and are excused from work, you CAN’T LEAVE. But if they declare mandatory evacuations, the State or City has to pay to bus people out, no matter how poor or brown they are. Hence the lack f…

More than half of Rockport’s 9,500 residents HAD evacuated before the storm hit. In order to not be liable for having to evacuated the civilians, most areas did not declare a mandatory evacuation order. Just advising people to leave without providing the means for those without the resources to leave is a total…

Why would you inflict such a torment on Obama?

Ted Cruz also wanted to block federal aide to Sandy.

And all but one with constituencies off the coast: Midland, Waco, Lufkin, suburban Dallas, Lubbock, Amarillo, rural West Texas. Only Randy Weber has a district on the coast (the area hit by Ike in 2008), but he assumed office after that, and since Republicans have the memory of a gnat and no capability for shame...

It’s the Gulf conundrum: it provides oil and hurricanes. Oil -> oil jobs -> climate change denial -> more hurricanes.