Hurricane Katrina Devastates The Gulf Coast.

[Rome]

Speaking of right-wing smear factories, FauxNews has been at it for days now.

Man, it's like the Goebbels propaganda machine working on all eights anymore.  They don't even try to hide their blind allegiance to BushCorp. any longer.

[rjs246]

I heard that same thing the other day and just about drove off the road.

I just turned the channel and listened to some really bad hip hop on a station who's musical director is a goofy Italian dude that I play poker against. He should be fired.

[MURP]

I have a better conspiracy.   Bush waited to do anything so this all blew up and took away all coverage of Karl Rove and Valerie Plame. 

word.

[rjs246]

My theory is that Bush doesn't like boobies and wanted New Orleans to just go away so that his friends would stop emailing him pictures of his daughters making out with each other on Bourbon Street.

Please note: this theory is rock solid.

[Diomedes]

holla!

[Diomedes]

Snopes on the buses that Bush apologists point to as some kind of proof that Nagin hates America.

in other news

Katrina Confusion: Right City Name, Wrong State

Emergency officials in South Carolina are scratching their heads over some post-Katrina confusion.

Dozens of medical workers rushed to a hangar in Charleston, S.C., Tuesday, to prepare for 180 injured evacuees. But the evacuees' flight was actually headed to Charleston, W.Va. It was the second time the federal government told South Carolina officials to be ready for a plane full of people, only to have it end up hundreds of miles away.

No one's been able to explain the confusion so far.

A triage unit to evaluate patients will be kept at the Charleston Air Force Base through the week because officials think injured evacuees will eventually make it to the city along South Carolina's coast.

[Butchers Bill]

Speaking of right-wing smear factories, FauxNews has been at it for days now.

Man, it's like the Goebbels propaganda machine working on all eights anymore.  They don't even try to hide their blind allegiance to BushCorp. any longer.

Aren't you the one who likes to bitch when people talk about "left" and "right".  Have you heard any of the "lefts" rants on the NOLA issue??  If they could, they would blame Bush for making the hurricane happening and manipulating the jet stream to push it directly towards New Orleans.

All the pundits, left and right, can suck my sack on this one.  Everyone farged this up, left, right, local, state, and federal. 

[Rome]

I just call 'em like I see 'em Bill.   

I agree that everyone is to blame in this fiasco and that Bush and his cronies are no more or less at fault than any other governmental agency in this instance.

[Butchers Bill]

More proof everyone (left and right) was at fault:

Clinton cut aid to NOLA too

A $120 million hurricane project, approved and financed annually from 1965 was killed by the Clinton administration after being approved by the Army Corps of Engineers. It was designed to protect more than 140,000 West Bank residents east of the Harvey Canal.

[Diomedes]

Typical Bush apologist, pointing at Clinton.  You know, he got a blow job, too.

Bush is in charge, has been for five years.  His party has held congress the entire time.  Bush appointed unqualified people, based on their political allegience to his regime and ideology, to lead FEMA.   Bush cut funding five years running.  Bush vacationed while the worst natural disaster in U.S. history, and the most collosal failure of government, tore away at the south.  Where does the buck stop? 

With the president.

Or so it should.  Under Bush, the buck stops with the scapegoat...invariably the lowest possible official or troop in the line of fire.  Abu Graib?  isolated incidents (lots of them), all because of lowly people disobeying.  Plame?  Nothing to do with anyone important, some low level aid must have....  Faulty intel re: Iraq...not the guys in charge.

Heavy is the head that wears the crown.  But we can't count on our leader to bear the weight.  He's completely incompetent.

[Butchers Bill]

Typical Bush apologist, pointing at Clinton.  You know, he got a blow job, too.

Point to ONE post in this thread where I said that Bush was innocent in this mess...wait I'll save you some time...it doesn't farging exist.

YOU sir, are the one who has continually brought up the funding situation with Bush and NOLA, pointing to it as a possible cause of at least some of the devastation, and even as a reason for his impeachment!  I am simply pointing out that the lack of funding has been going on for much more than the past 5 years, but that doesn't fall in your agenda does it Dio?  You have your pink panties all in a bunch because you think you finally have "him" dont you?  You can wail all you want about Bush, and he has plenty of blood on his hands with this, but to blindly attack him while frothing at the mouth weakens your agruments.

You have been reading too much DU lately.  Any luck on re-opening the JFK assassination investigation?  (For those who don't read the DU, they believe that GWB the First was not only complicit in the JFK assassination, but present at the scene as well).

[Diomedes]

Froth froth froth. 

[Sgt PSN]

You two need a timeout.  Now go sit in the corner. 

[Diomedes]

You two need a timeout. Now go sit in the corner.

Okay.  I had my time out, mom.  Can I go back to my game now?

Speaking of those crazy patriots at DU, here's an interesting link about the Bush regime I just picked up over there, thanks for the tip Joel!  Turns out the top three FEMA bosses boast only ties to Bush and the GOP as qualifications for their life and death responsibilities.

NY Daily News

FEMA packed with W's pals
Campaign pros get top jobs

By KENNETH R. BAZINET
DAILY NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU

WASHINGTON - The three top jobs at the Federal Emergency Management Agency under President Bush went to political cronies with no apparent experience coping with catastrophes, the Daily News has learned.

Even if Bush were to fire embattled and suddenly invisible FEMA Director Michael Brown over his handling of Hurricane Katrina, the bureaucrat immediately below him is no disaster professional, either.

While Brown ran horse shows in his last private-sector job, FEMA's No. 2 man, deputy director and chief of staff Patrick Rhode, was an advance man for the Bush-Cheney campaign and White House. He also did short stints at the Commerce Department and Small Business Administration.

Rhode's biography posted on FEMA's Web site doesn't indicate he has any real experience in emergency response.

In addition, the agency's former third-ranking official, deputy chief of staff Scott Morris, was a PR expert who worked for Maverick Media, the Texas outfit that produced TV and radio spots for the Bush-Cheney campaign. In June, Morris moved to Florida to become FEMA's long-term recovery director.

"The Bush administration has apparently transformed FEMA from a professional, world-class emergency responder into a dumping ground for former campaign staff and political hacks," said Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-Manhattan).

So let me get this straight..the top 3 guys at FEMA have no emergency qualifications, but they do have lots of ties to GOP fundraising? Something's fishy here.  Or am I just repeating a wild commie consipracy theory?  Maybe it's very hard to be a horse judge?  Maybe being an "advance man" for a campaign IS comparable to saving lives in an emergency?

It's Bush's government, those are his guys, and these are the results.  We've seen the same utter failure in Iraq.  But since the poor dark people who die there aren't Americans, people don't care.  Well, now the poor dark people dying are our own, and some people DO care about them, even some repuglicans.  Not Bush, clearly.  Unless the camera is rolling.  Kayne was right about that.

Impeach!

/froth froth froth

[rjs246]

My questions is this. If Dio and BB were locked in a room for an hour, how many poo-babies would result?

I'd have to go with 7.