Reporter Miller Testifies About CIA Leak

Reporter Miller Testifies About CIA Leak

Honor and dignity? You've got to be out of your mind. There's no honor or dignity in politics. It's naive to think that there could be.

Whiter N.O.: HOORAY FOR THE GOP

HUD chief foresees a 'whiter' Big Easy

Well, maybe their not racist. Ignorant? Maybe they just hate the poor. Let them eat cake, right? So, perhaps Alfonso mistakenly believed that black and poor were synonymous.

It's a good thing that in order to be in the GOP you have to be loyal no matter what happens (it becomes the evangelical preaching ground, it embodies corporate interest groups, it launders money, it lies to the people consistently about everything). Otherwise comments like these and Bill Bennet's would have an impact on party membership.

Bill Bennet: Conservative Hero

CNN.com - Bennett under fire for remarks on blacks, crime - Sep 30, 2005

I believe it's conservatives who are saying that liberals are racist these days? The bias of low expectations and all that. We'll good thing Republicans are just old-fashioned racist! We don't have to come up with fancy think-tank terms like "bias of low expectations" when the GOP is just plain in favor of eugenics.

Well, this clearly shows what an accepting, wonderfully tolerant group conservatives really are. This is the kind of person that they breed, clearly. Someone who won't appologize for saying that all black babies, if aborted, would reduce crime. That sounds just like Hitler's eugenics programs.

Thanks Bill, for letting us know what your conservative GOP really stands for: racism and intollerance. See, conservatives cannot exist in a free society, because they DON'T BELIEVE IN FREEDOM. They believe in some perverse evangelical homogonized dystopia. It's getting clearer by the day.

Bill Frist: Bringing Honor And Integrity To the US Sentate

Link:

Gosh, Bill Frist sure is an honorable guy! Jeez, the whole GOP is pretty honorable -- what with both leaders of the house and senate under investigation. One by the SEC and one by a Big Bad Democratic Partisan in Texas. Is this the honor and integrity we've been voting for my conservative friends?

It's so good to know that although all memebers of the GOP refuses to have sex with anyone except their wives (with the exception of Newt Gingrich, the now dead Strom Thurmand, and just a few others) -- and then only to procreate -- they certainly have strong stomachs for things that actually hurt people: ripping people off; laundering money; starting wars that now turn out to have justifications that could have bolstered invading virtually any country in the Middle East, in Africa, in South East Asia, in South and Central America, and China; allowing pollution controls to be loosened (see the unreported toxic waste spill top limit going from 500 pounds to 5000 pounds); and many more.

Is this progress? Is this better?

No. It isn't. We can do better. Much Better.

Miller Agrees to Testify in CIA Leak Probe - Yahoo! News

Miller Agrees to Testify in CIA Leak Probe

Now we'll see what bringing integrity and morality back the white house really means, won't we? It means distributing classified information to reporters for your own political gain, right? It means selling your country down the river to special interests and coorporate thugs. It means doing whatever it takes to divide this country on religious and party lines.

If GWB is conservativism embodied, our world can have no part of it. It's incompatible democracy and free society.

Patriots and Your Republican Friends

A patriot must be ready to defend his country against his government
- Edward Abbey


How on earth can any republican these days call themselves a patriot when they allow their government to lie to them, cheat them, and steal from them? They rah rah rah the gov't while it steals the money from their wallets to give to the rich.

Democrats are no better: maybe only better because they believe that the environment matters, the poor people may be poor for a reason other than laziness, and that there is a possibility that human beings will make mistakes and need to own up to them . . .

whatever.

Media Finally Sees Through Bush's 'Number 2 Man' Myth

LINK: "'If I had a nickel for every No. 2 and No. 3 they've arrested or killed in Iraq and Afghanistan, I'd be a millionaire,'"

Yeah, why is it that we can arrest and kill every number two and number three? I've begun to notice that for a single organization, thee definitely have a very horizontally organized group: how many number 2 men can you get such that it causes disarray and dismantles the power structure of the group -- only to find that days later, it didn't really make a difference.

I'm not one for conspiracies but these guys are like the ace in the hole.

Just to be clear, the problem I'm pointing out here is that the Bush administration has no credibility anymore. I want us to suceed in Iraq and in Afghanistan now that we're there. However, the Bush administration has a track record now of exagerations (see mission accomplished), out and out lies (I'll fire anyone involved in this leak), and half-truths (see actual environmental policy vs the admin's spin on it) that I can no longer trust anything they say.

Worse yet, they say these things like "we killed number 2 in Iraq" and all it does is charge these lunatics. "Bring it on" says GWB. Thats helpful. Thanks.

When it Comes to Accountability -- Blame Everyoone Else!

Blanco Goes to D.C. to Answer Brown Charge - Yahoo! News:

"During testimony before a special House panel yesterday, Brown defended his handling of Hurricane Katrina. And he laid blame for what went wrong on Blanco, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin and even the White House."

A democrat he ain't . . . so why is he pointing the finger at everyone else but himself? Because he's a Republican and that's what republicans do. They blame everyone else for everything because they can't understand that it's possible that they did wrong. Republicans don't like liberals because liberals are willing to acknowledge that it's possible that they did things incorrectly and try and make improvements.

Remember when Bush was asked way back when about if he thought he's made any mistakes in his presidency and what did he say . . . nothing.

Conservatives: unable to take the personal responsibility they demand of others. It should be their slogan.

Flying Spaghetti Monster

Open Letter

You know, honestly, I'd prefer that my child learn that most adults are obsessed with a dream that they'll live on past their deaths than about any religion in particular.

Can't we just have a religion class that teaches about all religions. that'll expose the real value, won't it?

Credit-card delinquencies hit record: Bush Cronies Look for Payback In Form of Bankruptcy Law Change

Credit-card delinquencies hit record - Sep. 28, 2005

While you worship at the altar of oil and gas, you find that your President's closest friends profit from your misfortune. And thanfully, he changed the law so that you can never ever escape your debt . . . 'cause everyone needs to get paid. Well, everyone but you.

Fact is, Republicans hate people. They want everyone to suffer. Well, everyone but themselves. And they also want a religious war, but that's the previous post.

Hardly a Conspiracy Against Delay

Conspiracy charge a possibility for DeLay

Democrats have sex, pardon assholes, and lie. Republicans do that too (see Newt) and then sell their souls and constituents to companies and lie and make money doing so (see Delay).

Live Like a Caveman

Texas vs Louisiana: It's All About Who Reports

Apparently, Rita isn't oh so much better for poor people than Louisiana. The difference is attention and concentration. Attention, because no one is paying attention to Rita victims who got screwed. Concentration because all the poor people don't live in once city.

Disaster suck, but they're made worse by bickering politicians who care more about poll numbers than what is actually right. This is not a time for "people should be more independant and not looking fir a goddamn handout." This is a time for predicting and indentifiing need and dealing with it.

I wouldn't expect any better than what we've gotten so far from this government: finger pointing, ideological ramblings about personal responsibility, and endless irrational and irrelevant comparisons between Rita and Katrina based on the totally unreliable wandering eyes and focused agendas of our media outlets.

Revised Science Textbooks for Christians

Revised Science Textbooks for Christians

Wal-Mart's Ads

The Blog | Robert Greenwald: Wal-Mart's Ads: Made to Be Mocked | The Huffington Post:

"a nearly $4 million-a-day ad budget (which happens to be roughly what they spend on their 1.6 million employees' health care). "

Now I'd love to hear about how spending 4 million a day on ads is somehow better than just spending that 4 million on your employees and actually having the goodwill factor propell you . . . that and having people other than politicians in search of ever more tax dollars sing the praises of your business. Of course, it still doesn't overcome the fact that having a Wallmart in your area completely kills of any other business, thereby destroying emploment and your taxbase . . . but whatever.

Lovely Quotes

The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern.
- Lord Acton

I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.
- Edith Sitwell

G.O.P. Split Over Big Plans for Storm Spending

G.O.P. Split Over Big Plans for Storm Spending - New York Times:

"The drive to pour tens of billions of federal dollars into rebuilding the hurricane-battered Gulf Coast is widening a fissure among Republicans over fiscal policy, with more of them expressing worry about unbridled spending."

So when it comes to actually spending money on your own people. Literally on your own poeple, you get a crisis of conscience. Conservatives are so outrageously compassionate, that they can't bear to spend any more of our money in a place where EVERYONE agrees we should. Only the typical selfish conservative is worried about spending when Americans go without food, health care, and shelter.

Compassion my ass.

Before you Blame State and Local Officials

Statement on Federal Emergency Assistance for Louisiana:

"Specifically, FEMA is authorized to identify, mobilize, and provide at its discretion, equipment and resources necessary to alleviate the impacts of the emergency. Debris removal and emergency protective measures, including direct Federal assistance, will be provided at 75 percent Federal funding."

This was two days before Hurricane Katrina hit NOLA. Two days. And FEMA was authorized to do whatever was needed to help those people and for some reason, they didn't.

Atheism - 1 :: Fire and Brimstone - 0

Atheist Gets Victory in 'Under God' Case - Yahoo! News:

"'Imagine every morning if the teachers had the children stand up, place their hands over their hearts, and say, 'We are one nation that denies God exists,'' he said.

'I think that everybody would not be sitting here saying, 'Oh, what harm is that?' They'd be furious. And that's exactly what goes on against atheists. And it shouldn't.'"

If only religious kooks cared about rationality and fairplay.

Bennett cartoons | The Christian Science Monitor

Cenk Uygur: Katrina Proves Conservatives Wrong

The Huffington Post:
"Have you heard one complaint that government was too involved in the rescue efforts? Or that private citizens should handle this matter on their own?"

"[...]"

"At least Rush has the courage to stick to his guns in the face of overwhelming American opposition. He is saying here that American citizens shouldn’t expect to have their government build levees for them or even to protect them. Rush actually believes in a government so small, it does nothing. That’s called anarchy."

That's not courage. That's stupidity. Complete and totally moronic -- his loyalty to his master is so strong that he can't spare any compassion for people who actually need the help such an enormous windbag could provide.

But this is a great editorial on what is actually happening in our country and how what conservatives espouse as core values flies in the face of what most compassionate people actually believe we need.

FEMA Chief Relieved of Katrina Duties

Relieved of Katrina Duties - Yahoo! News

At last. It looks like the president has made him a scapegoat, though. That's what being fired is. It's called being blamed for something. These guys never fail to astound me with their blind loyalty to someone who shows them none at all.

WITF FM 89.5 News

WITF FM 89.5 News:
"U.S. Senator Rick Santorum is suggesting that early mistakes in predicting the path of Hurricane Katrina may be a symptom of lost focus at the National Weather Service. Santorum, who introduced legislation earlier this year to curb the output of government weather forecasters, says tracking life-threatening weather must be central to what the agency is doing.

Asked about Katrina by WITF, Santorum described weather service warnings for Florida, where the storm first made landfall, as “not sufficient.' Santorum’s bill instructs the government to abandon weather prediction and data reporting efforts that duplicate private-sector activity. He came under fire when it was revealed that the head of State College-based AccuWeather, which would benefit, has given his campaigns thousands of dollars."

Another trustworthy Republican and his lies and exaggerations so that he can collect kickbacks. MMMM, delicious fodder for blogs. Obviously, the problem here wasn't information about the storm, it was the ultimate response to that information. Too bad voters won't ever punish such disgusting behaviour.

Across the red-blue divide

Across the red-blue divide: How to start a conversation | csmonitor.com

I agree, but for some reason, I can't help but want to throw it back in their face. Conservatives have been trampling over values and cogent, functional political philosophies for so long now it's practically a joke that they bother talking about them with a straight face ("How dare you insult the president!?" or "If you don't support war, you don't support our troops!" or "we don't need criticism right now! Obviously it was a failure at the local level").

I agree that on a man to man basis, you kinda do have to suck it up and let it go. Absolutism is a weapon of the weak minded and you have to have the integrative complexity to assimilate all the different kinds of people and viewpoints in the world in order to really survive. But, it's really so much more satisfying to vent on others sometimes and point out the egg on their face (that they can't even see).

A (Partially) Rational Conservative

AOL News - Powell Calls U.N. Speech a 'Blot' on His Record:
"Powell doesn't think race was a factor in the slow delivery of relief to the hurricane victims as some have suggested. 'I don't think it's racism, I think it's economic,' he told Walters.

'When you look at those who weren't able to get out, it should have been a blinding flash of the obvious to everybody that when you order a mandatory evacuation, you can't expect everybody to evacuate on their own. These are people who don't have credit cards; only one in 10 families at that economic level in New Orleans have a car. So it wasn't a racial thing -- but poverty disproportionately affects African-Americans in this country. And it happened because they were poor,' he said."

I can agree with all of this. Finally the people at the highest levels are coming out and instead of just being loyal to their president like a dog, their being loyal to their country by being honest about what actually happened (or at least as much as is politically possible).

Of course, the greatest think about a conservative is that they reserve their strongest vitriole for those in their rank with whom they disagree. I can't wait to see the reaction to this: he'll be discredited, written off as someone who is running for president and coming to the center, blah blah blah.

It's because of the way our whole system is set up today that you can't do anything without it being a political maneuver.

Michael Brown and the Den of Liars

TIME.com Print Page: Nation -- How Reliable Is Brown's Resume?

Hey! I'm beginning to notice a trend of this administration s-t-r-e-t-c-h-i-n-g the truth to suit their agenda. Have you noticed this too? I remember something about this with Iraq . . . hey, well, Clinton lied about sex, so I guess fair is fair. Especially when it comes (no pun intended) to our ever so important national security. Lying about sex and lying about FEMA Qualifications and war justifications are TOTALLY equivalent.

Of course, a conservative can't believe that another conservative would EVER lie about anything (given the conservative "I'm always right and you're always wrong" credo).

Poll: Most Say Abandon Flooded New Orleans - Yahoo! News

Poll: Most Say Abandon Flooded New Orleans - Yahoo! News:

"Almost two-thirds, 65 percent, say the country is headed in the wrong direction — up from 59 percent last month."

No WAY! Well the citizens of this country may not blame Bush for natural disasters, but they do recognize systemic incompetency when they're able to witness it with their own eyes. Unfortunately, we're really not able to see everything that happens in other countries we're involved in, because we often get to see them through the perverse PR prism of this administration ("War? What War? It's a freedom party in Iraq. Iraqis are loving the freedom to be car bombed right now"). Unfortunately, they can't suspend freedom of the press within our borders (no matter how much certain members of our government hate free speech)

BBC NEWS | Americas | Bush declares Katrina prayer day

BBC NEWS | Americas | Bush declares Katrina prayer day:

"US President George W Bush has declared Friday 16 September a national day of prayer and remembrance for the victims of Hurricane Katrina."

Wow. Every day we get closer and closer to a theocracy. Can't it just be remembrance? Prayer is scientifically/statistically proven to do nothing other than to give people false hope. If it's that important to you, instead of wasting your energy praying: literally help someone.

Principle Difference

So, I'd say, right now, the principle difference between a conservative and liberal right now is that a conservative, more often than not, is willing to take whatever public officials say at face value. Well, when I say public officials, I mean Republican public officials.

Ironically, it seems that liberals are engaging in the same silliness of trusting only their own.

The truth is, none of the them can be trusted. So, why does anyone listen to these bastards?

RIGHT FACE!

RIGHT FACE! - Patriot Outpost

So here's a perfect example of the kind of complete lack of self-reflection you can expect from many conservatives. This guy goes off on some high-and-mighty "I'm an educated and reasoned conservative and liberals are crazy and stupid" rant, and then goes on to do exactly what he lambastes liberals for:

"It shouldn't surprise me that one of the most striking differences between conservatives and liberals is the way they approach discussion.

Those on the right will present facts, well-reasoned opinions, and will often politely agree to disagree. But not the fringe left liberals. Show them facts and they blindly ignore them. Offer an argument to their precious tenets of faith (abortion on demand, we-hate-Bush, Freedom for Iraq is wrong, etc) and they resort to name-calling and whining.

I've had a good time the last day or so beating up on 'Jay' at 'One Way Or Another'. I can't really call it a debate, since it consisted of him making assertions, me knocking them down with documented facts and sources, and him deleting all the comments that exposed him as a completely clueless liberal wing-nut."

Liberal wing-nut, huh? Reasoned and using facts, huh? It seems like each side of this argument appears to have the truth on its side (because neither can see through the other's eyes). What a long way we've come as a nation.

This is why blogging sucks.

Religious Conservatives Are Silly Sometimes

Here are some choice selections from Leiviticus (the portion of the bible that contains the anti-gay conservative "no laying down with the same sex" rubbish). Obviously Hasidic Jews abide by many, if not all of these laws very closely, and don't pick and choose like it appear virtually all Christians do.

So it seems that the hypocrisy is pretty rampant in conservative religious beliefs as well as their politics. Let's look at some of the ones that are obviously not chosen by our Christian Conservative friends:

1. Lev. 25:44 a man may possess slaves, male and female, provided they are purchased from neighboring nations.

2. Lev. 15:19-24 no contact is allowed with a woman while she is in her period of menstrual uncleanliness.

3. Lev. 11:10 eating shellfish is an abomination.

4. Lev. 19:27 One should "not trim off the hair on your temples or clip the edges of your beards", it also later states they should be killed and punished for this. That explains the Hassidim having the paias and bushy beards.

5. Lev. 11:6-8 touching the skin of a dead pig makes me unclean.

6. Lev. 19:19 one cannot plant two different crops in the same field, nor can one wear garments made of two different kinds of thread.

I gotta say, a lot more people are sinners than the Chrisitians thought . . . Look no further than thyself, eh?

Restarting Pumps

Restarting Pumps Required Pluck and Luck - New York Times

You gotta hand it to the Army Corp of Engineers. At least they know what they're doing.

This is Working VERY Well For Them

Barbara Bush Says "Let Them Eat Cake"

So, in case you didn't think that conservatives were out of touch, here's some evidence to prove the contrary. Former First Lady Barbara Bush said the American equivalent of "let them eat cake" when she commented that having been evacuated was probably working very well for the citizens of this country.

This plays back into Rush's entitlement wind storm where he exposes what conservatives really think about poor people: they should be satisfied with the nothing that they're given (because they deserve nothing) and our government owes our fellow citizen nothing ever because entitlement is the worst of all evils. Babs thinks that because they were given anything at all (even if it was 4 days after they first really needed it), that they should be pleased as punch for the handouts that they're SO accustomed to getting in the wonderous "handout central" that's N.O..

That said, I contend that evacuation:
1. blows.
2. is really just the worst case scenario for everyone.
3. in fact, this isn't really working well for anyone, be they evacuated to a city or living in a city where people were evacuated to. It sucks on both counts. Just ask Baton Rouge.

Now, I will say that things are substantially better for evacuees now that the federal government finally got involved properly. But better is not "working well for them." It's the best of a bad situation.

Keep the UN : Remove Bolton

The Bolton backfire: Weaken UN, imperil Americans | csmonitor.com

"Yes, it's true that the UN itself is far from perfect. But at the end of the day, the United Nations is just that: a confederation of the world's largely independent nation-states. It has very little independent existence of its own, and can only ever be as strong as the commitment it gets from its members."

The world is what we as people make of it. If we want to be independent and rude to one another, that's what we can expect in return. If we want willing cooperation and help when there are problems, then the UN is the way to go.

People who believe that the UN is bad thing in principle must have been only children, unaccustomed to sharing or playing nice.

FEMA Head Bears the Brunt of Katrina Anger - Yahoo! News

FEMA Head Bears the Brunt of Katrina Anger - Yahoo! News

The former head of the International Arabian Horse Association. Enough said.

We've Witnessed the Utter Failure of the Entitlement Mentality and Big Government (?!)

America's Anchorman: We've Witnessed the Utter Failure of the Entitlement Mentality and Big Government

Oh contraire, mon frere. What we've actually witnessed is what happens in a city where there is no organization at all because there is no tax base. To blame this on a mayor or a govenor would be a typical conservative ploy:

1. They're Democrats.
2. They have no worthwhile resources to defend their reputations with.
3. They're probably politically inexperienced.
4. They're way too embroiled in the day-to-day with the world of shit they're in to even bother with what Rush Limbaugh thinks.

Rush believes that this is the failure of and entitlement mentality. Let's examine that idea:

1. Are people entitled to clean water (at least in an emergency)? I think they are. You'd think that conservatives might agree with that given their completely insane song and dance around Terry Schiavo.

2. Are people entitled to sustainance (at least in an emergency)? Again, I think they are. Again, you'd think that conservatives might agree with me considering their fatuous and phony defense of Terry Schaivo.

He also gets into this just stupidly inane comparison to Alabama and Mississippi and how they didn't seem to have this problem; obviously because MS and AL have Republican govenors, right? Wrong. It's because they actually had running water, weren't under 20 feet of water, didn't get the worst of the storm, and ultimately had less civil destruction per capita than that of New Orleans.

Well, then there's the excuses he makes for the Federal Government by saying that it was really no one's fault because no one expected it to be as bad as it was in time for it to have made any difference before hand. I'd kind of agree with that. That is, I'd agree with that if it weren't for the fact that we're the country from which all other countries should be taking cues on how to be run and yet we can't provide any support to our own people when they actually need it. Rush goes off on some stupid blow-hard tangent on how General Honore got 20K people out of New Orleans in one day . . . Well, that may be (and it isn't the General's fault), but that's a day late and 200 bodies, 3 rapes, and a dollar short.

Then there's this nonense about ballooning bureaucracies and how this is an indication of where they fail. Homeland Security is the example he gives. Isn't it FEMA that applies here?

Anyway, then he goes on to lay into Ray Nagin, the Mayor of New Orleans. He compares him to Rudy Guiliani. That's fair. New York, a city with roughly a factor of 500 times the tax base as New Orleans with more bureaucracy and social programs than God is somehow the paragon of Republican management. Talk about mental retardation. What he's really pointing out here is that someone with an immense amount of resources, wealthy private sector, with a huge public interest in the area will be able to respond to what amounts to a minor civic inconvenience (two buildings falling down), and an enormous social horror that scares the shit out of everyone.

Ray Nagin had to deal with:

1. No electricity for his entire city.
2. Flooding of 80% of his entire city.
3. No water for his entire city.
4. 1/3 of his law enforcement walking of the job.
5. The entire wealthy portion of the populace no longer being in the city.
6. The empowered political party at the federal level not being his own.
7. The worst natural disaster in a poor area of our country ever.

For Rush to even bother with this "line of logic" gives real credence the idiocy of conservatives. Not only that, but he has the gaul to say that this force of 1000 police officers should have nothing to complain about because, in his sarcastic words "they've had so much stress." Next time Rush actually gets off his ass and does something helpful for a victim of anything (other than oxycontin and Dorito abuse) is the day that he can slander anyone for being lazy.

He tries very hard to convince a caller that it's the city Government's fault for not evacuating people according to the plan. That may be. Let's look at what they say:

Evacuations in response to hazardous material spills or sudden severe weather are provided with little or no warning, and often have to be accomplished after the fact, and in a disaster response environment

Well, there was some warning. So perhaps they should have used all those buses. Big mistake by Ray. Not totally unexpected.

That said, it still doesn't account for the dour day lag in getting anyone water or food at these locations. I mean, it sounds like someone as brilliant as Rush would have identified the issue with Ray so long ago that he would have done something sooner. But no one did. Why?

Anyway, he goes onto talk more about entitlement and it not working. Of course he ignores examples like Canada, France, Sweeden, and Germany as places where people actually get a whole shitload of nice social services. And actually seem quite happy on the whole. He says that you can't expect your gov't to protect you. This conveniently ignores the largest Tsunami on record at the beginning of the year and the massive aid responses for all sorts of governments and aid agencies. Rush, should we have told the countries effected that they should forget about our government's help because we're not in the business of creating welfare states (starving bastards).

The stupid thing about his whole dum-shit argument is that no one is advocating anything other than taking care of your own. These are our people. We owe them better. Fuck a war in Iraq that was based on nonsense and lies that has now created another terrorist state in the Middle East. Focus on the fact that you're creating situations at home that are totally indefensible? How can you claim to be a part of the first world when this happens at home? How?

Now Is Precisely the Time for Finger-Pointing

The Blog | Arianna Huffington: George Bush, David Caruso, and Katrina: Why Now Is Precisely the Time for Finger-Pointing | The Huffington Post



Now that I've seen that the Bushie response to this is to blame state and local officials (because, you know how wealthy and organized Louisiana must be) and turn this whole thing into a states rights issue, I think it's only appropriate to turn around say what must be true: George Bush, Karl Rove, and Michael Chertoff don't care about people dying if it's in our country. Obviously, if they're willing to say, "well we would have done something if someone had asked," they must not actually care about people's lives.



Moreover, for them to even try to say that it's not in some way their organization's poor structure that is to blame here would be irresponsible. It is, clearly. Terrorist attacks come without warning. This came with plenty. If this is how we respond in a situation where we actually are given fair warning, I'm fucking terrified to see how they respond in an actual unexpected event. These people should all be fired.

Models predicted New Orleans disaster, experts say - Yahoo! News

Models predicted New Orleans disaster, experts say - Yahoo! News


WTF!! This is crazy. I don't agree with people turning this into a political issue right now, but this is insanse. Absolutely insane. In the end, those who didn't do what they were supposed to do, will get it (I hope), but now the focus should be on getting everything back into order.



It just makes me sick.

Editorial / Opinion - The Boston Globe

KR Washington Bureau | 08/31/2005 | Federal government wasn't ready for Katrina, disaster experts say

Pisses me off

The thing that just drives me up the wall about this is that the scenario that is playing out has been known about for decades. It's not like this is a surprise to anyone that this has happened. I mean, how staggeringly incomptent must the leadership be to have this gotten as far out of control as it has. Obviously certain members of the citizenry decided that it was more important to loot than to protect their city and fellow citizens (how out of touch with reality must you be to loot when your entire city is condemed and you can't live there anymore? Where are you going to put all your newly stolen goodies, dumbasses?).

On the other hand, this also illustrates the problem with allowing your society to become so completely polarized financially and socially. Why should any one of those looters care about New Orleans? It was already a dump to them long before any hurricane hit it. I'm not saying they're excused. I am saying that you gotta be crazy to think that these people came out of nowhere and there's no underlying cause for what they do.

Of course, a conservative will say that PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY (booming echo chamber voice) trumps it all. Leave it to a conservative to explain to us all that who you end up being has nothing to do with where you grow up, who you grow up with, and what you grow up learning from that experience. Talk about Stockholm Syndrome.