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Latest images of Hurricane Sandy
More amazing shots of Hurricane Sandy from NOAA, part of the federal government. You can see in the photos that Sandy is about to come on shore – it’s just off of the states of Virginia and Maryland:...
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Superstorm Sandy takes out Huffington Post, Gawker, Buzzfeed
Three of the biggest news sites on the Web got taken out this early evening by Superstorm Sandy. At this hour, the Huffington Post, Gawker and Buzzfeed are all offline. Clear this is storm-related,...
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NYC is under water: A collection of shocking photos of the City via Twitter
A walk through of Tweets about the flooding in NYC this evening. Just horrifying photos. And when these photos were taken, Monday night, flooding wasn’t even at its worst yet. New Yorkers are...
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Romney, Ryan use hurricane for campaign event while NYC drowns
Update: Reporters are tweeting from the Romney “hurricane relief charity event” this morning, and they’re horrified at the politicking they’re seeing. Romney campaign videos are being shown, the...
View ArticleSix Hurricane Sandy deaths in NY, two more reported in NJ
Just the news, and it’s hard to report. According to the CBS New York website (my paragraphing): Superstorm Sandy is being blamed for six confirmed deaths in New York State, including two children in...
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NYT burns Romney for saying he’d close FEMA, Ryan for trying to gut it
Republicans are feigning outrage after the New York Times slammed Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney in an op-ed for saying he’d eliminate FEMA, which provides life-saving aid and equipment to...
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Reporters blast Romney’s “Hurricane relief” stunt
I wrote last night about how it seemed that Mitt Romney was planning on using Hurricane Sandy to camouflage a political event today in Ohio (and similar ones in WI for Paul Ryan). It turns out I was...
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Red Cross had to divert staff to deal with Romney’s phony “relief effort”
Please Ignore the Black Man on the T-shirts As we warned earlier, because the Romney campaign preferred a political stunt to actually helping Hurricane Sandy victims, the Red Cross is now busy wasting...
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GOP House hopeful mum on campaign manager’s incendiary, false tweets about...
Chris Wight For Congress Owes New Yorkers an Apology There were a lot of amazing tweets last night about the increasingly dire situation in New York City during the height of Hurricane Sandy, including...
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Romney bought $5k of food for people to “donate” back to him at phony...
You See Victims, Romney Smells “Opportunity” OMG. It IS Paul Ryan and the soup kitchen! From McKay Coppins at Buzzfeed: But the last-minute nature of the call for donations left some in the campaign...
View ArticleGore, Bloomberg, Cuomo: Hurricane Sandy impacted by Climate Change
While New York Republican mayor Bloomberg has at least mentioned the words “climate change,” he’s an unusual exception in today’s GOP. For the rest of the Republican Party, climate change doesn’t...
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Romney campaign slows down hurricane relief for Ryan photo opp
Message: Paul Ryan Cares (When the Cameras Are Rolling) Yes, we wouldn’t want someone to rush aid to one of the largest natural disasters in American history if it meant Paul Ryan would miss his chance...
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Touching video: Obama comforts distraught marina owner in NJ
I just saw this on MSNBC and had to find the video. This is the best I can find, if you turn your speaker up you can just hear the woman speaking. Her name is Donna Vanzant, and she owns the marina...
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A tale of two hurricanes: Obama comforted victims, Bush ate cake
A reader mentioned that we ought to dig up the old photo of President George W. Bush, when, in the hours after Hurricane Katrina struck the US mainland on October 29, 2005, George Bush flew to...
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Romney rally jokes about Hurricane Sandy flooding NYC
Yes, that whole thing about over 100 people dying, and billions of dollars of damage from Hurricane Sandy, is hysterical. This man is a top Romney surrogate. He spoke at the Republican convention....
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Red Cross issues annoyed statement about Romney “relief” donations
Well. It seems the Red Cross wasn’t entirely pleased to receive Mitt Romney’s busload of donated food and supplies that the Red Cross’ own Web site says they not only do not need, but such supplies...
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Conservative pundit: Romney wants to abolish FEMA, now flip-flopping
“A lot of people don’t think that’s a good idea” Conservative writer and commentator Debra Saunders admitted today on CNN’s “Reliable Sources” that Mitt Romney wants to abolish FEMA, and that now he’s...
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Pre-Sandy climate warnings: North America will have world’s most extreme...
Now that the worst of Hurricane Sandy has passed — the actual storm, not the cleanup — I thought it would be good to review this. It’s recent, but pre-Sandy. Joe Romm at ThinkProgress (my emphasis;...
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Unwanted Hurricane Sandy donations, like Romney’s, now a “disaster” for Red...
From AP we learn that the deluge of disaster relief donations following Hurricane Sandy, that include things the Red Cross said it does not want – such as goods instead of money – has caused a “second...
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Fire Island sand dunes destroyed by Hurricane Sandy
We had the good fortune of spending a few days on Fire Island about ten years ago. A friend rented a house out there in the summer, and he invited us to join him while passing through New York. When...
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