Ugly.

One economist said "the light at the end of the tunnel" is really a "freight train headed our way" and that it is only gonna get worse.  Frightening stuff.

Also the media is turning on Palin with respect to lack of accessibility.  I even saw the boys over at Fox complaining about this.

Fed to Give A.I.G. $85 Billion Loan and Take 80% Stake

In fact, the only way that Palin and her doddering partner can prevail in this election is by stealing it, as Bush and Cheney did (both times). Certainly the ground has been prepared for yet another stolen race, Bush/Cheney's party having made enormous strides in sabotaging our election system (while the Democrats just sat there, whistling). Now, from coast to coast, it's far more difficult (for Democrats) to register to vote, and far more difficult (for Democrats) to cast their votes, while countless (Democratic) voters have been stricken from the rolls, through purges carried out by the Department of Justice.

That is what it takes to steal elections in America--all of that, and also something else: a quick-'n-easy explanation for the outcome. For if those final numbers are surprising, there must be some rationale that can (apparently) account for them. And that is why the Bush machine put Sarah Palin next to John McCain. By arousing the hard core of vocal Christianists, they prepared the ground for the eventual redeployment of the same canard with which they justified their last unlikely "win": that millions of believers did the trick.

I tried to get further by hitting buttons but it disconnected me.

So, we are starting to get reports that there are about 1500 dead bodies stuck in trees and floating in the Galveston area.

And the Army is taking all cameras and the local governments will not talk to the press.

Not for nothing, during the immediate post-landfall coverage during the day Saturday, after the worst of the storm had passed, I was watching MSNBC and they apologized a couple times for being unable to get helicopter videos of the damage, and what we were able to get were pictures of boats on streets and such.  Their excuses were basically that they could not get to the Galveston area because the airspace had been closed to all except rescue flights.

It's been the better part of a week, and still, no pictures.

I think the reports of thousands of dead are, likely, true.

Now this is an intelligent, sophisticated man.  And he thinks that we can just ignore how the Muslim world reacts to us, and can ignore their resistance to our aggression. (He also didn't have an answer to why Bush let OBL escape to Pakistan in the first place, or why he didn't chase him there when we first invaded Afghanistan, when there would have been far more international support for such a move.)

Anyway, the point of my rambling is that media coverage of the situation in Pakistan may not affect all voters the way that we expect it too. It surprises me, but in even liberal NYC, there are some people who actually support the continuation of a cowboy foreign policy.