DOG BITES LEGISLATOR
"Bob Schwartz, who also is New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson's crime adviser and the author of a new state law that allows felony charges against owners of dangerous dogs was hospitalized over the weekend after his own dog attacked him."
(SFGATE, unearthed by Paul Whitehurst)

CHECK OUT GAS PRICES
Just plug in your zip code and check out the gas prices for your area.
(MSN, unearthed by Gary L. Blume)

LATEST ON "CAMP KATRINA"
Richard Dorman of the Cunningham, Bounds law firm reports: "Well, we took another loaded truck over on Sunday. Full of food and cleaning stuff. We also had a group who stayed and manned the distribution tent all day. I am getting way to old for all this lifting!! Things are only looking slightly better down there, but I didn't have time to ride down 90 to see if things were better down the road. I really don't know how it could be since I think electricity is still very spotty at best. With all the destruction only a massive rebuilding is going to make it look better.

In any event, we have delivered 6 truckloads over the last few weeks not including the meat truck your folks donated. Yesterday they cooked the ribs that were donated for lunch and they were great!! Unfortuantely,we have about reached our limit on resources at this time and do not plan another trip this weekend. Yesterday we handed out food to a constant flow of people for almost 6 hours. People were coming from everywhere and driving as much as an hour to come to the distribution center to get needed food and supplies. I asked people where they were from and many were coming over from Louisiana becuase they couldn't get the things they needed over there."

BLOOD WRATH: IRAQ WAR PROTESTERS FACE CRIMINAL CHARGES
Last year, Clare Grady, along with her sister and two others, were charged in county court with misdemeanors for their actions in a March 2003 anti-war protest outside Ithaca, New York. More than a year later, that trial ended with a hung jury. The federal government then brought its own case against the activists, now known as the "St. Patrick's Four." On Monday, they were found not guilty of the federal charges for conspiracy, which carry a maximum six years in jail and $250,000 fine, but convicted of misdemeanor-level trespassing and damaging government property. In January, they will be sentenced, with a maximum possible term of 18 months behind bars.
(VILLAGE VOICE)

FEMA'S BROWN RUNS INTO A FIERCE STORM OF CRITICISM
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi ordered a Democratic boycott of the House Select Committee on Hurricane Katrina hearing, calling it a "sham" and a "photo opportunity." But, as defrocked FEMA director Michael D. Brown can attest, Pelosi's concerns about a whitewash proved unjustified.
(WASHINGTON POST)

ACCURATE REPORTAGE WAS ANOTHER KATRINA VICTIM
Reports of body counts, especially at the Superdome and New Orleans Convention Center, were inflated. Some reported atrocities -- the rape and murder of a 7-year-old at the Superdome -- did not occur.
(INDYSTAR, unearthed by realclearpolitics.com which was suggested by John Furman)

NOT REBUILD NEW ORLEANS? ARE YOU NUTS?
Writing about his time in the Big Easy during the late 1980s, Bob Dylan had this to say:

"In New Orleans you could almost see other dimensions. There's only one day at a time here, then it's tonight and then tomorrow will be today again. Chronic melancholia hanging from the trees. You never get tired of it. After a while you start to feel like a ghost from one of the tombs, like you're in a wax museum below crimson clouds. "
(INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE, unearthed by Common Dreams)

MOVE TO CHANGE POSSE COMITATUS ACT IS WRONGHEADED
The Posse Comitatus Act is no barrier to federal troops providing logistical support during natural disasters. Nor does it prohibit the president from using the army to restore order in extraordinary circumstances--even over the objection of a state governor.
What it does is set a high bar for the use of federal troops in a policing role. That reflects America's traditional distrust of using standing armies to enforce order at home, a distrust that's well-justified.
(CATO)

STUCK ON STUPID
I don't agree with the clockwise spin of this post, but you have to love - and agree with the response of Lt. Gen. Russel Honore (the MAN IN CHARGE of disaster relief in New Orleans) and everyone's second most hated profession. (Lawyers top the list).

"You are stuck on stupid. I'm not going to answer that question. We are going to deal with Rita. This is public information that people are depending on the government to put out. This is the way we've got to do it. So please. I apologize to you, but let's talk about the future. Rita is happening. And right now, we need to get good, clean information out to the people that they can use. And we can have a conversation on the side about the past, in a couple of months.
(RADIOBLOGGER, unearthed by Tyler McShan)

WEBSITE COLLECTS VIEWERS' KATRINA PHOTOS
Webshots members are documenting the wrath of Hurricane Katrina. Share their experiences and even help out.
(WEBSHOTS, unearthed by CNet)

CLICK HERE FOR A PENSACOLA NEWS JOURNAL STORY ON KATHRYN'S PEARLINGTON EFFORT

PORK, THE OTHER WHITE MEAT
"At least two major corporate clients of Bush's former campaign manager (and a former head of the FEMA), have already been tapped to start recovery work along the battered Gulf Coast. One is Shaw Group Inc. and the other is Halliburton Co. subsidiary Kellogg Brown and Root.
(COMMON DREAMS)

THIS IS WHY THEY CALL IT THE BIG EASY
Attention shoplifters, Attention shoplifters, the cops are over at aisle three. Don't worry, though, they're helping themselves to the contents of an abandoned Wal-Mart store.
(MSNBC, unearthed by Gary L. Blume)

NOLA DOCTORS KILLED THEIR PATIENTS
The Daily Mail, a British newspaper (credibility unknown by me) claims that "Doctors working in hurricane-ravaged New Orleans killed critically ill patients rather than leave them to die in agony as they evacuated hospitals, administering overdoses of morphine to those they believed could not make it out alive," the story claims.
"One New Orleans doctor told how she 'prayed for God to have mercy on her soul' after she ignored every tenet of medical ethics and ended the lives of patients she had earlier fought to save."
(COMMON DREAMS)

BUT, CLICK HERE TO SEE THIS INTERESTING ARTICLE ON SUSPICIOUS NATURE OF THIS REPORT

KATRINA MEDIA PORTAL CREATED
Webcasters.org now serves as a streaming aggregation and information portal that provides the latest links to live Katrina Relief broadcasts and Gulf Coast radio and TV station, web audio and video feeds from news outlets, ham radio operators, and citizen journalists, as well as podcasts and even videoblogs covering the relief efforts in the Gulf of Mexico.
There are some nifty things on there.
e.g. CHECK THIS ONE OUT!
(Suggested by Ben Walls)