Can't blog

My brain is swamped in a toxic stew of chemicals, all prescripted to me by Dr. Nick. Every year in September I get a sinus infection and this one is the worst in years. My comments will be limited to two or three sentence observations, followed by block quotes. Anything more than that would probably be nothing more than gibberish.

This is good news

Sept. 19 (Bloomberg) -- North Korea agreed to give up its nuclear arsenal and rejoin a global treaty to halt the spread of such weapons, ending a three-year dispute with the U.S. in return for security guarantees.

North Korea vowed to dismantle its arms and admit United Nations inspectors to verify closure of nuclear facilities, according to a statement signed in Beijing with the U.S., China, South Korea, Japan and Russia. The U.S. promised not to attack North Korea and affirmed it had no nuclear weapons in the South.

But will President Bush get credit for it? For persuing a multi-national strategy that included all of North Korea's neighbors? No, of course not.

It's hitting the fan

Apparently, some officials from the Louisiana State Office of Emergency Preparedness are under indictment for mis-appropriating millions of dollars earmarked for flood control. They should probably be charged with manslughter for the death surrounding Hurrican Katrina. Power graf:

Much of the FEMA money that was unaccounted for was sent to Louisiana under the Hazard Mitigation Grant program, intended to help states retrofit property and improve flood control facilities, for example.

It makes me mad and should make you mad too. Prediction 1: there will be people in prison in the aftermath of Katrina. Prediction 2: they will all be democrats.

How to screw OPEC

One word: bio-diesel. All my vehicles from here on out will be diesel (save my Saab). Go here and read all about it. If only President Bush would mandate this, we could save good bye to every Middle Eastern thug-ocracy. Not that the rest of the world would pour buckets of money into their coffers. No, we just wouldn't be petro-junkies anymore.

Do want to know New Orleans was never evacuataed

Because they never really had a plan -- despite the fact the Congress mandated that FEMA come up with one. Instead, the money allocated for the plan's development somehow ended up in study for a bridge over Lake Pontchatrain. Power graf:

As far back as eight years ago, Congress ordered the Federal Emergency Management Agency to develop a plan for evacuating New Orleans during a massive hurricane, but the money instead went to studying the causeway bridge that spans the city's Lake Pontchartrain, officials say.

A study in corruption. Gov. Kathleen Blanco (D) belongs in prison.