Hurricane Katrina Devastates The Gulf Coast.

[JTrotter Fan]

I watch this and I just can't believe this is our own country. I can't believe that the government could let our own farging citizens sit there for FIVE days before sending food and rescue. I tossed and turned AGAIN last night over this. I just feel helpless, because other than dontating money, what else can we do? 

I'm so farging sick of hearing this. In a different world, this catastrophe could have been avoided beforehand. Yes, the government, or some other group, would have already fortified New Orleans/Mississippi/all other victim states against a hurricane of this caliber. Well, guess what? In a perfect world, the streets are made of gold, worries don't exist, and the Wicked Witch is dead. shtein happens, and we deal with it.

This is what I'd like to see: I'd like to see all you iceholes that are placing blame on FEMA, on the Government, on anyone, you don't care who, just to bitch and place blame, farging stand up, get out of your farging air conditioned homes, away from your "I can do whatever I want, eat what I want, and bitch about whatever I want" lives, and actually put forth an effort towards what you "believe in".

I am so farging tired of listening to people whine and moan and complain about this and that, about how our people shouldn't be over in Iraq or Afghanistan, how the government didn't prepare for the Hurricane. Well, you know what? Join the Military, move up in the ranks, and go ahead and change it. Go out with the National Guard, the Marines, the volunteers. Go to the hurricane ravaged areas. Save people. You're doing nothing by bitching about what should have been done.

Realize what is being done, iceholes, and appreciate it. You'll never see anything greater.

You want to know what you can do? Well, take these people for example. http://www.meridianstar.com/articles/2005/09/03/local_news/news_stories/a1-volunteers.txt. Now, go do something and make a difference or shut the farg up.

Either someone didn't get laid last night or they just got their panties in a bunch.  Who are you to tell everyone to shut the farg up?

[Eagles76ersFan]

Yeah, and I'm awful sick and tired of idiots like you apologising for the rich, wealthy, powerful leaders, while preaching that critics shouldn't speak their mind about the total, lethal failure for which these dirtbags are responsible.  So blow me, Nationlist Pig.  Better yet, blow Bush and Chertoff.  Their "Progress is on the March" spunk should suit your tastes just fine.

What would have you done? Seriously, what the farg would you have done?

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WEATHER/08/28/hurricane.katrina/

"Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco said that New Orleans could expect a complete loss of electricity and water services as well as intense flooding.

Federal Emergency Management Agency teams and other emergency teams were in place to move in as soon as the storm was over, FEMA Undersecretary Michael Brown said.
President Bush announced Sunday that he had issued disaster declarations for Louisiana, Mississippi and parts of southern Florida.

Sunday was before the storm hit so Bush was offering federal aid and assistance before the storm hit. FEMA teams were in place and ready to go. Coast Guard was on scene the next day among others. Seems like they had some planning done already.

Jesse St. Amant, the emergency management chief for Louisiana's southernmost Plaquemines Parish, said nearly 95 percent of the parish's 27,000-plus residents had fled by Sunday afternoon. Those who remained were being told that they are "gambling with their own lives."

"I think they just don't believe something of this nature can ever happen in their lifespan, and I think they're going to be wrong," he said.

If you stay, you might die. They told people this. From the beginning. Hmmm...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050828...rricane_katrina

As many as 100,000 inner-city residents didn't have the means to leave, and an untold number of tourists were stranded by the closing of the airport. The city arranged buses to take people to 10 last-resort shelters, including the Superdome.

Where's the heat for your boy, Mayor Ray Nagin? Why weren't these busses used?

The 70,000-seat Superdome, the home of football's Saints, opened at daybreak Sunday, giving first priority to frail, elderly people on walkers, some with oxygen tanks. They were told to bring enough food, water and medicine to last up to five days.

WHY DID THEY NEED FOOD, WATER, MEDS, ETC ETC? Because they didn't follow instructions. They should have had their own. When people don't follow instructions, people can die. But, this is America and we don't force people to evacuate.

It seems to me that there was enough help and information put out there but idiots chose not to listen.

[Diomedes]

FEMA chief's principal qualification for gettitng the job: Judge and stewards commissioner of the International Arabian Horse Association.   He got his job because he is a loyal friend to Bush and Co.  Now people are dead because of it.  It can't be stated more plainly: Bush put an unqualified man in a life or death position based on politics.

Chicago Tribune

For the decade prior to joining the Federal Emergency Management Agency, , Director Michael Brown was commissioner of the International Arabian Horse Association, a Colorado-based group that organizes breeders and horse shows. Then he was asked to resign.

"He didn't follow the instructions he was given," then-IAHA President William Pennington confirmed Saturday.

Less than five years after that dismissal, Brown, 50, finds himself heading the federal agency charged with responding to one of the nation's worst disasters.

Brown has been one of the leading public faces of a federal response sharply criticized as too little and too late. His statements and sometimes even his demeanor under the camera's glare have been questioned by critics--and often divergent from the grief-stricken reality on the ground.

During one of his first televised news conferences Wednesday, when violence and chaos were spreading in New Orleans and bodies were beginning to be seen floating in the water, Brown laughed and joked as he took reporters' questions.

At points last week, he described security in New Orleans as "pretty darn good." He said he had received no reports of "unrest," nor any information about uncollected corpses. And on Thursday night, he told CNN the agency had just learned that thousands of people had huddled at the New Orleans Convention Center, even though the city had directed them to go there, and journalists had been reporting their plight.

Boston Herald

The federal official in charge of the bungled New Orleans rescue was fired from his last private-sector job overseeing horse shows.
And before joining the Federal Emergency Management Agency as a deputy director in 2001, GOP activist Mike Brown had no significant experience that would have qualified him for the position.
The Oklahoman got the job through an old college friend who at the time was heading up FEMA.

[Eagles76ersFan]

Either someone didn't get laid last night or they just got their panties in a bunch.  Who are you to tell everyone to shut the farg up?

I'm not allowed to speak, but all the finger-pointing liberals are. Makes sense.

[Eagles76ersFan]

FEMA chief's principal qualification for gettitng the job: Judge and stewards commissioner of the International Arabian Horse Association.   He got his job because he is a loyal friend to Bush and Co.  Now people are dead because of it.  It can't be stated more plainly: Bush put an unqualified man in a life or death position based on politics.

Chicago Tribune

For the decade prior to joining the Federal Emergency Management Agency, , Director Michael Brown was commissioner of the International Arabian Horse Association, a Colorado-based group that organizes breeders and horse shows. Then he was asked to resign.

"He didn't follow the instructions he was given," then-IAHA President William Pennington confirmed Saturday.

Less than five years after that dismissal, Brown, 50, finds himself heading the federal agency charged with responding to one of the nation's worst disasters.

Brown has been one of the leading public faces of a federal response sharply criticized as too little and too late. His statements and sometimes even his demeanor under the camera's glare have been questioned by critics--and often divergent from the grief-stricken reality on the ground.

During one of his first televised news conferences Wednesday, when violence and chaos were spreading in New Orleans and bodies were beginning to be seen floating in the water, Brown laughed and joked as he took reporters' questions.

At points last week, he described security in New Orleans as "pretty darn good." He said he had received no reports of "unrest," nor any information about uncollected corpses. And on Thursday night, he told CNN the agency had just learned that thousands of people had huddled at the New Orleans Convention Center, even though the city had directed them to go there, and journalists had been reporting their plight.

Boston Herald

The federal official in charge of the bungled New Orleans rescue was fired from his last private-sector job overseeing horse shows.
     And before joining the Federal Emergency Management Agency as a deputy director in 2001, GOP activist Mike Brown had no significant experience that would have qualified him for the position.
     The Oklahoman got the job through an old college friend who at the time was heading up FEMA.

Once again, you just play the blame game. Why don't you offer something else, other than blame?

[Diomedes]

"That's not been reported to me, so I'm not going to comment. Until I actually get a report from my teams that say, "We have bodies located here or there," I'm just not going to speculate." - Michael "the Arabian Horse" Brown.

[JTrotter Fan]

Either someone didn't get laid last night or they just got their panties in a bunch.  Who are you to tell everyone to shut the farg up?

I'm not allowed to speak, but all the finger-pointing liberals are. Makes sense.

Noone said you couldn't talk...i'm just saying who are you to tell everyone to shut the farg up.  I'm pretty sure that's exactly what i wrote too.  Yep, i see it up there in the quotes. 

[Eagles76ersFan]

Yeah, that is a dumb quote but that has nothing to do with anything.

Let me guess? This is Bush's fault. It's Bush's fault that this person refused to listen after numerous warnings and is now floating? How much more can a person do, other than say "You need to get the farg out of New Orleans/Mississipi/other states. Drop the furniture and farging leave because you will be farged." At what point, do others take the blame for their own stupid actions?

[JTrotter Fan]

I didn't say anything about that.  I was just pointing out that it seemed like you woke up on the wrong side of the bed this morning Mr. Grumpypants! 

Right now, i put a lot of blame on the idiots that refused to leave their homes.  They didn't think about their children.  They were stupid and now they are paying for it.  I still see morons on MSNBC refusing to leave their homes when people get to them.  They are just plain dumb.  They don't realize that they will get no food or water for a month or two and the water won't be going anywhere. 

[Diomedes]

[Eagles76ersFan]

Either someone didn't get laid last night or they just got their panties in a bunch.  Who are you to tell everyone to shut the farg up?

I'm not allowed to speak, but all the finger-pointing liberals are. Makes sense.

Noone said you couldn't talk...i'm just saying who are you to tell everyone to shut the farg up.  I'm pretty sure that's exactly what i wrote too.  Yep, i see it up there in the quotes. 

And who are these people to lambast Bush and everyone else? What have they done that warrants them the right to bash the government. It goes both ways.

[JTrotter Fan]

I'd say that's a DOA.  And Big Momma on the bridge.

[Eagles76ersFan]

Diomedes, what the farg, dude?

I'm convinced if an asteroid were to smash into downtown San Francisco, you'd blame Bush for not building our own Battlestar Galactica to fight aliens and meteors.

[Diomedes]

Diomedes, what the farg, dude?

Oh, don't mind me.  Go back to apologizing for the leaders.  It suits you.

[Diomedes]