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Sean, I hear you on the outrage. I've turned it inward and it's probably not very healthy. I should asscap it before I explode.

I sense that you are upset Sean.

Somebody said online "If there are no atheists in foxholes, there are also no libertarians when the levee breaks."

Sadly, this is proving false.

I sense that you are upset Sean.

Huh. I thought I was keeping it under wraps pretty well.

Which subtle face tic gave it away?

It's that vein in your forehead!

Sean, I am so there with you. I just spent fifteen minutes on the phone ranting to a friend who's now in shock because he's never heard me go off before.

Want more outrage? Bush Suspends Minimum Wage in Recovery Area

An Executive Order from the White House Web site:

(b) The wage rates imposed by section 3142 of title 40, United States Code, increase the cost to the Federal Government of providing Federal assistance to these areas.

(c) Suspension of the subchapter IV of chapter 31 of title 40, United States Code, 40 U.S.C. 3141-3148, and the operation of related acts to the extent they depend upon the Secretary of Labor's determinations under section 3142 of title 40, United States Code, will result in greater assistance to these devastated communities and will permit the employment of thousands of additional individuals...

And, as to such contracts to be performed in such jurisdictions, I do hereby suspend, until otherwise provided, the provisions of any Executive Order, proclamation, rule, regulation, or other directive providing for the payment of wages, which provisions are dependent upon determinations by the Secretary of Labor under section 3142 of title 40, United States Code

AmericaBlog's reaction:

Let me break that down for you. At a time of national crisis, and the President already having signed $61 BILLION in disaster relief, we as a nation can't afford to pay $9 an hour to laborers? ...

This isn't about employing more people, this is a disgusting cash grab the likes of which has never been visited upon our nation...

Question Mr. President - why are you trampling on state's rights to have a minimum wage higher than your Government's pittance? While pointing fingers at the state for not doing enough for itself? Is it state's rights or not? You can't have it both ways.

Every time I think it can't get more outrageous....

And Sean, I think our differences are more stylistic than substantive. I'm more likely to keep it in.

Michael Brown was recalled to Washington to pick up his medal. Only, he really, really, really screwed up, so apparently they're going to have to create an award above the Medal of Freedom just to honor his greatness.

Or something. "Recalled to Washington" is something normally associated with embassy personnel or players on the AAA New Orleans Zephyrs.

Did a speed edit on a 44-page document today. It's the same publication we've put out for years running, but EVERY SINGLE YEAR there's a period that appears after a URL, and every year I take my red pen and cross it out, and every year the publications person takes it out, and every year it's out of the blue line, and every year it's out of the printed version, and still IT JUST KEEPS COMING BACK IN NEXT YEAR'S PROOF.

Children with a peanut allergy (PA) are faced with food and social restrictions due to the potentially life-threatening nature of their disease, for which there is no cure or treatment.

A little late to the discussion, but I heard there is a vaccine that can be given to a PA child at 6 years old that would increase his/her resistance significantly.

WRT Brown and FEMA, there's no way he remains director after this fiasco. His reassignment is the old "cat on the roof"* to his eventual replacement. And besides, who reassigns the director of an agency in his own agency?

• I'll be happy to relate if you don't know that joke