Category Archives: natural disaster

Meltdown Rundown

Doc Fix

Baby Doc showed up in Haiti without a passport.  Seems he’s down to his last $6 million, and that’s frozen in a Swiss bank account.  Former Georgia congressman Bob Barr feels his pain, “He’s a man that cares very deeply about his country. He’s hurt deeply as we are when we see the devastation and utter waste of money, U.S. taxpayer money.”

Read more: http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2011/01/25/baby-docs-friendly-mouthpiece-by-way-of-u-s-congress/#ixzz1C5MJtReI

Earth Birth

101013bokloresChile accepted help from all over the world to rescue the miners.  It was a drill bit from Pennsylvania that did the job but I thought the coolest items were copper socks from Virginia to prevent foot infections. This story in The Week has the rundown of American contributions.

The Mother Of All Clean-Ups

100806bokloresHow do you lose 200 million gallons of oil? Apparently Mother Nature cleaned it up.  Maybe she’ll sell it on the spot market.

Insubordinate

100623bokloresSalazar is going to fight a federal judge’s ruling that strikes down a 6 month ban on deep water drilling. A panel of experts says Obama misrepresented its views to justify the ban in the first place.