Katrina Roundup
am 10.09.2005 von http://www.aktenvermerk.at
Ein paar Links zum Thema, über die ich in den letzen Tagen gestolpert bin. Hauptsächlich um sie für mich selbst zu ordnen und zu sortieren, aber vielleicht findet sie ja noch jemand brauchbar.
Bush lifts wage rules for KatrinaPresident Bush issued an executive order Thursday allowing federal contractors rebuilding in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina to pay below the prevailing wage.
The Uses of Disaster — Notes on bad weather and good government in Harper’s Magazine.New Orleans, of course, has long been a violent place. Its homicide rate is among the highest in the nation. The Associated Press reports that last year “university researchers conducted an experiment in which police fired 700 blank rounds in a New Orleans neighborhood in a single afternoon. No one called to report the gunfire.
New Orleans Begins Confiscating Firearms. Teils hitzige Debatten:So there you go, go ahead and grab your pocket-sized copy of the constitution and tear out Amendment II. It should be the first one on the page, because if you’ve been keeping track, Amendment I should have been torn out years ago. I don’t mean to make this a debate about guns, but what I want is for the law to be the law, and that means if the we don’t like Amendment II anymore, we need to just go ahead and repeal it, not ignore it. If we just start ignoring the Amendments, we never know what rights …
Google Earth and New Orleans
Handakte WebLAWg / I recently started using Google Earth, and one of the first places I looked at was New Orleans, and I couldn’t make sense out of what I was seeing — it looked like the city had completely recovered from Katrina. I knew that it hadn’…
Links roundup
Transblawg / While I’m busy elsewhere, here are some more parasitical offerings: Babelport: There’s a new translation portal out, Babelport. I didn’t bother to look at it at first because these things are springing up like nobody’s busines…
100 Zitate - Folge 1
Heimspiel / “I feel sorry for people who don’t drink, because when they get up in the morning that’s as good as they gonna feel for the rest of the god-damned day. Ain’t nothin’ gonna help them.” - Frank Sinatra, 1915-1998…
Timber framing/Fachwerk
Transblawg / It’s very frustrating when you’re translating a long text and you realize it has hundreds of references to timber framing and you don’t know enough to handle it fluently. But things could be worse. “It’s frustrating if…
Take your head out of the mud baby
Vertretbar Weblawg / Viel gescholten, für mich eines der besten U2-Alben: And I have no religion And I don’t know what’s what And I don’t know the limit The limit of what we got […] No particular place name No particular song I’ve been hid…
There aint no sanity clause
Transblawg / When I started this blog, I was thinking of calling it No Sanity Clause. It had the ideal link between law and Mar(ks)x. But then I realized that not many Germans would understand that. Perhaps it’s just as well, since this name has since been…
» The Uses of Disaster (Harpers.org)
This essay on the relationship between disasters, authority, and our understanding of human nature went to press as Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast. The excerpt below is followed by a postscript, available only on the Web, that specifically addr…
» Bush allows Katrina contractors to pay below prevailing wage - Sep. 9, 2005
President Bush issued an executive order Thursday allowing federal contractors rebuilding in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina to pay below the prevailing wage.
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