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03 September 2005
More on the Presidents photo op
It's now coming out that the presendital visit staged by the white house not only tied up vital personel and equipment. It was all an elaborate plan to fake progress for political cover. Senator Landreiu
“Yesterday, I was hoping President Bush would come away from his tour of the regional devastation triggered by Hurricane Katrina with a new understanding for the magnitude of the suffering and for the abject failures of the current Federal Emergency Management Agency. 24 hours later, the President has yet to answer my call for a cabinet-level official to lead our efforts. Meanwhile, FEMA, now a shell of what it once was, continues to be overwhelmed by the task at hand. How unbelievably uncalled for and embarassing. If Mr. Bush was in front of my face right now I'd spit on him, and I'd spit on Michael Brown GDM-hfiend 9:39 PM // Blogroll AE // Email // Rejoice the bibles are coming
This is from the free republic via Public Domain Progress and the Gadflyer
The Gideons International are sending 40,000 Personal Witnessing Testaments (New Testament, Psalms, Proverbs) to be distributed at the Astrodome and other relief centers in Houston. How nice they're sending toilet paper. 5:09 PM // Blogroll AE // Email // Gillard is brilliance
What I've seen these past few days is shocking. I can't even think of a time in my life where I felt as bad and as useless as I do right now. I am so ashamed right now that I am scared to enter my feeling and beliefs into the public record. But for some of the raw anger, the pent up masses of rage I hold, I give you Steve Gillard.
We have been screaming for two years that Bush and his team sucked. That they had no clue. They sent soldiers to be wounded in Iraq without armored anything. And you idiots cheered him on from the safety of your keyboards. We told you he was fucking up Iraq. But no, we supported Saddam, we were racist, we blamed America. Yeah! Well, motherfuckers, and that means you, fat ass Goldberg and your master, Rich Lowry, PNAC Bitch Beinart, the racist wannabe white Malkin and the little fucktards at LGF, Bareback Andy and "Diversity" Instacracker, all you backstabbing, fag hating uncle tom ministers, you can see Dear Leader in action. America's largest port is gone, maybe forever, gas is $5+ a gallon and FEMA is coming. Whores come faster with old men than FEMA is getting to NOLA. Amen. A - FUCKING - men! This is not my country! Recent events are familiar in the third world, and when footage makes it here I question everything I have; I picture how much I might lose but how much better an equal world might be. This is happening in my neighborhood; to my peers. It has been happening since 29 August 2005 and that is entirely to long. Republicans and Democrats, you have failed the test; I will not take this. "Can I get another Amen? There's a flag wrapped around a score of men." Mr. Bush, you're not the only one wearing the flag anymore. BTW, the request for federal aid went in on the 28th of August. Any appoligist that spins otherwise can fuck off! GDM-hfiend 2:51 AM // Blogroll AE // Email // 'F' FactCheck.org
Just got this
Some critics are suggesting President Bush was as least partly responsible for the flooding in New Orleans. In a widely quoted opinion piece, former Clinton aide Sidney Blumenthal says that "the damage wrought by the hurricane may not entirely be the result of an act of nature," and cites years of reduced funding for federal flood-control projects around New Orleans. That is incorrect. The current levees were made to take a Cat. 3. Numerous requests were made to fund further precautionary projects to exceed the Cat 3 limit they had. I'm not saying that the levees would have made it, it wasn't the levees that failed; but the soil that connected the levees (or locks if you will). But to say that the proposed improvements would have only amounted to protection from the surge of a Cat. 3 storm is completely inaccurate and prompts serious questions about the legitimacy of the factcheck.org crew. GDM-hfiend 2:14 AM // Blogroll AE // Email // 02 September 2005
Oasis? This is no oasis!
I would never have thought, especially after the test of 11 September, that my country would be so inept at protecting and rescuing citizens in need. This is a complete failure of our government; all flavors and all levels.
But every disaster deserves its photo-op. I'm so glad they could spare the helicopter for this, I'm sure no one minds waiting an extra hour while Bush uses rescue equipment for a backdrop. GDM-hfiend 3:07 PM // Blogroll AE // Email // 01 September 2005
Religious Right On Point Yet Again
"Although the loss of lives is deeply saddening, this
act of God destroyed a wicked city. From 'Girls Gone Wild' to 'Southern Decadence,' New Orleans was a city that had its doors wide open to the public celebration of sin. May it never be the same." -- Michael Marcavage, director of Repent America Hmmm...reminds me how Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson Let's reminisce!: Falwell said, "What we saw on Tuesday (9/11), as terrible as it is, could be miniscule if, in fact, God continues to lift the curtain and allow the enemies of America to give us probably what we deserve." Robertson replied, "Well, Jerry, that's my feeling. I think we've just seen the antechamber to terror, we haven't begun to see what they can do to the major population." Falwell said, "The ACLU has got to take a lot of blame for this. And I know I'll hear from them for this, but throwing God...successfully with the help of the federal court system...throwing God out of the public square, out of the schools, the abortionists have got to bear some burden for this because God will not be mocked and when we destroy 40 million little innocent babies, we make God mad...I really believe that the pagans and the abortionists and the feminists and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People for the American Way, all of them who try to secularize America...I point the thing in their face and say you helped this happen." Robertson said, "I totally concur, and the problem is we've adopted that agenda at the highest levels of our government, and so we're responsible as a free society for what the top people do, and the top people, of course, is the court system." Now I ask you this. What kind of God are these radical right maniacs talking about? Sounds like some bloodthirsty vengeful Aztec diety. I may not know Jesus as well as Falwell, but what I know of the guy is that he'd generally be against widespread death and destruction...right? Jesus! -Bill S. 11:07 PM // Blogroll AE // Email // Cooper vs. Landrieu 11:04 PM // Blogroll AE // Email // The Republican right wing... ...would move heaven and earth to save the life of one White Woman in Florida to combat the very idea of euthanasia (which technically it was not). A woman that a decade earlier had lost her ability to so much as ask for help, much less have coherent thoughts about the quality of her own life. Heh. The culture of life...? 10:55 PM // Blogroll AE // Email // Ground zero, no order
From CNN (via Atrios)
Spellman: Right now, and for several hours, a stream of people have been heading down Canal street heading for the the convention center looking for help. The Convention Center is along the Mississippi river on the southern side of town. They'll be shocked at what they see when they get there. It's thousands and thousands of people who havew been there all night sleeping out on the streets on the sidewalk wherever they can find a spot. No FEMA! This is exactly what the first responders have been preparing for since 11 September 2001. This disaster is the same, just a natural disaster rather than terrorism, as a dirty bomb or a Chem/Bio attack in many respects. How can there be no authority? What have we been doing for the last four years? Where are the air drops, the water, the resources? All we have are talking heads blaming people for not leaving NOLA! Well what if you can't; what if your poor with no car, credit or a solid family to aid you; then what? So the guy at the head of FEMA is Mike Brown... A native of Oklahoma, Mr. Brown holds a B.A. in Public Administration/Political Science from Central State University, Oklahoma. He received his J.D. from Oklahoma City University's School of Law. He was an adjunct professor of law for the Oklahoma City University. Does a man with these credentials belong at the head of FEMA? He was an estate planning lawyer and clearly unprepared for this event. More of a timeline at the Washington Monthly. And how 'out of touch' is Bush? He said, "I don't think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees." Now this is not true and was for the most part common knowledge to, well, anyone. 12:41 PM // Blogroll AE // Email // 31 August 2005
Finally, Iraq is about oil
So once it was WMDs, but that was wrong. Then the al Qaida link, which never existed before March 2003. After a while and some truth it drifted into a human rights war. Now that the human rights spin is failing under the weight of an Islamic Republic, the reasoning is oil. Moreover, it is a war to protect oil from the terrorists that we pulled into the country.
Gdm-hfiend 1:42 PM // Blogroll AE // Email // 30 August 2005
Unbelievable destruction and chaos in NOLA
not to mention where Katrina actually made landfall!
This is from Steve Gregory's Consultant blog at the weather underground 40,000-50,000 people in the superdome, including seriously injured people, and evacuees from the Hospitals. There are no running water or sewage facilities -- and no power. Temperatures are in he 90's within the building. One man just committed suicide by jumping. 'Unrest' is growing within the superdome - there are now military as well civilian police on the scene. 6:56 PM // Blogroll AE // Email // Col. Lang on the Iraqi constitution
Pat writes a great analys of where that constitution is at his blog here. The problem is that both sides have indicated that they reject the constitution. So their may not be a positive milestone but the point where an uncovential civil war spills out into the streets; into a nasty and brutish state of nature. So what of the conistution? The Sunnis are against it. Moqtada al-Sadr is against it. His Eminence Al Sestani rejects federalism.
The constitution? Irrelevant at best, destructive at worst. GDM-hfiend 6:31 PM // Blogroll AE // Email // 29 August 2005
Bolton ineffective at UN
Bolton was appointed during recess by President Bush without the confidence of the Senate and the populace. As expected, and as I have maintained, the international community will not accepted him without either. The story below may be a symptom of the distrust, just bad American policy, or a combination of the two. From the Guardian
Britain will join an international alliance to confront George Bush and salvage as much as possible of an ambitious plan to reshape the United Nations and tackle world poverty next week . GDM-hfiend 5:08 PM // Blogroll AE // Email // The revolution is complete
The Iranian revolution that is...
(VIA Iran Focus through Col. Lang) Decades after the revolution ended its attempt to secure Shi'a Iraq for the envisioned greater Islamic state, the clerics have their victory. A senior Iranian cleric welcomed on Friday the establishment of an Islamic republic in Iraq and hailed the countryÂs new constitution as one based on "Islamic precepts". Whether or not you think there was a plan by Iran to gain de facto control of Iraq, the outcome, as appears now, certainly favors Iran. Look out for some interesting backpedaling and backstabbing in the coming years; God forbid decades. GDM-hfiend 12:34 PM // Blogroll AE // Email // 28 August 2005
Katrina will land at at least a cat. 3 if lucky [UPDATED]
. Anyone reading this in the NOLA area, or on their way out, that needs a place to shack up there is a rapid response thread here at dKos. This is a serious storm and the superdome is not a good idea. Please consider leaving immediately!
[UPDATE] This is now the strongest hurricane ever in the Gulf of Mexico. I (this is Dr. Masters) put the odds of New Orleans getting its levees breached and the city submerged at about 70%. This scenario, which has been discussed extensively in literature I have read, could result in a death toll in the thousands, since the evacuation order was given too late to get all the people out of the city. I recommend that if you are trapped in New Orleans tomorrow, that you wear a life jacket and a helmet if you have them. High rise buildings may offer good refuge, but Katrina has the potential to knoick down a high-rise building. A 25 foot storm surge and 30 - 40 foot high battering waves on top of that may be able to bring down a steel-reinforced high rise building. I don't believe a high rise building taller than six stories has ever been brought down by a hurricane, so this may not happen Monday, either. We are definitely in unknown waters with Katrina. More info: [UPDATE] As if this couldn't be any worse; there are few Nat'l Guard in LA these days, they are in Iraq. http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/8/28/11339/2233 [UPDATE] http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/8/28/132749/044 Steve Gregory Hurricane Katrina is now as strong as Hurricane Camille in 1969 - but this storm is larger, and will cause more extensive damage, and if it strikes New Orleans at 'just the right angle' - will no doubt MAY lead to the greatest loss of life from a land falling hurricane in nearly 100 years. Dr. Jeff Masters Katrina is in the midst of a truly historic rapid deepening phase--the pressure has dropped 34 mb in the 11 hours ending at 7am EDT, and now stands at 908 mb. Katrina is now the sixth strongest hurricane ever measured in the Atlantic. At the rate Katrina is deepening, she could easily be the third or fourth most intense hurricane ever, later today. further posts will cease until this storm makes landfall and dissipates. Sorry for being an alarmist but this is the big one. I'm located in North Charleston, SC and offer any help in this comment here. I encourage others to leave contact info in the comments here but more importantly in the rapid response thread at dKos (above). Primarily those closer to groundzero, but out of any threat from the storm; which will be rather large as this storm strengthens. Thank you and Godspeed! 1:46 PM // Blogroll AE // Email // The difference between the pro- and anti-war crowds
Pro-war people fire shotguns in the air, careen their trucks through symbolic representations honoring dead warriors desecrating an American flag in the process, heckling anti-war crowds shouting obscenities and telling them to go home, claiming that they are traitors, and displaying signs like this;
ad hominine attacks are the Republican specialty, no? Now they get in fist fights, like the true war mongers they are. Meanwhile, anti-war protestors grill out, have concerts, maintain a family atmosphere, wave at the pro-war crowds, and openly accept the existence and beliefs of those supporting the war because this is America. Two Americas? You bet! You can clearly see who is the more civilized, focused, and righteous group. Cindy's message has never wavered, while it is unclear what exactly the pro-war crowd is doing there; aside from personally attacking the anti-war crowd, it is unclear what else they are rallying around. Are they rallying to support the fixing of intelligence or the destabilization of a country; do they support government lies? I think they are holding on to the dream that this war was the right thing to do. GDM-hfiend 10:20 AM // Blogroll AE // Email // The true extremists strike again
This time it is Fred Phelps in Tennessee
Members of a church say God is punishing American soldiers for defending a country that harbors gays, and they brought their anti-gay message to the funerals Saturday of two Tennessee soldiers killed in Iraq. What a horrible pastime to hand down to your children. If God truly feels this way then I want nothing to do with him/her/it. This is in addition to this and this. GDM-hfiend 10:05 AM // Blogroll AE // Email // NOLA in a world of trouble - > Cat. 3 (click to enlarge) Let us hope that the Mayor or Gov. or whoever made the call to evacuate the city did it in time; although Dr. Masters isn't to optimistic New Orleans finally got serious and ordered an evacuation, but far too late. There is no way everyone will be able to get out of the city in time, and they may be forced to take shelter in the Superdome, which is above sea level. If Katrina makes a direct hit on New Orleans as a Category 4 hurricane, the levees protecting the city will be breached, and New Orleans, which is 6 - 10 feet below sea level, will fill with water. On top of this 6 feet of water will come a 15 foot storm surge, and on top of that will be 20 foot waves, so the potential for high loss of life is great. Given the current track and intensity forecast, I'd put the odds of this at about 20%. I remember seeing a documentary about this exact disaster some time ago. At the time there was talk of fotifying the city further against stour surge. I wonder how a security like this can get such opposition (money I'm sure). I wonder how many will be kicking themselves in the ass after this is over. GDM-hfiend 12:12 AM // Blogroll AE // Email // |
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