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Chris Christie had a lot to say about House Republicans blocking Hurricane Sandy relief.

But if you watch one clip today, watch this.

(via hpoffthebus)

Two bodies found in areas hit hardest by Hurricane Sandy suggest that wreckage from the storm has created inviting spots for killers to dump bodies.

NY Times

We’re not going anywhere. And you’ve got a homeboy [Pres. Obama] in the deal who gets it.
They want Hurricane Isaac to hit New Orleans, and they want disaster. They want floods. They want homelessness. They want despair. They want human misery, so they can contrast that with the Republican convention. They want to split screen it, and that’s the key.
Everything’s gone. My life is gone.
KORY O’HARA, whose family business of five generations, O’Hara’s Service Station, in Prattsville, N.Y., was destroyed on Sunday during Hurricane Irene; the Catskill community suffered some of the worst damage. - Time

Gotham Rainmakers

Irene’s N.Y. minute was bang-up business for many amid B’way bust

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Two young filmmakers went out during Hurricane Irene to document their Manhattan neighborhood. 

Gawker

Obviously she was saying it in jest.” - Michele Bachmann’s press secretary, Alice Stewart told TalkingPointsMemo Monday.

washingtonexaminer:

“I don’t know how much God has to do to get the attention of the politicians. We’ve had an earthquake; we’ve had a hurricane. He said, ‘Are you going to start listening to me here?’ Listen to the American people because the American people are roaring right now. They know government is on a morbid obesity diet and we’ve got to rein in the spending.” -Michele Bachman

This photo is real: Highway 12 along Outer Banks in NC breaks apart  (via @stephanieabrams)

Mayor of New York Michael Bloomberg says city has “dodged the bullet” of Hurricane Irene

@SkyNewsBreak

He always seems to get gun control in there somewhere. yup.

President Barack Obama received an update on Hurricane Irene in the Situation Room of the White House, August 27, 2011. Clockwise from left, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood; Richard Reed, Special Assistant to the President for Homeland Security; Nick Shapiro, senior policy advisor to John Brennan; John Brennan, Assistant to the President for Homeland Security; and Chief of Staff BIll Daley. Onscreen are FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano. Joing by phone are Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and Energy Secretary Steven Chu.

CNN Political Ticker

Ultimate New Yorker Window-Boarding Job

via Boing Boing

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