Hurricane Katrina Devastates The Gulf Coast.

[Wingspan]

i just had my own body dump scandal in the mens room while reading TMQ

[rjs246]

i just had my own body dump scandal in the mens room while reading TMQ

That took long enough.

[PhillyGirl]

As if I needed another reason to hate this mother farger...I hope he dies

As thousands of hurricane victims went without food, water and shelter in the days after Katrina's early morning Aug. 29 landfall, critics assailed Brown for being responsible for delays that might have cost hundreds of lives.

But Chertoff - not Brown - was in charge of managing the national response to a catastrophic disaster, according to the National Response Plan, the federal government's blueprint for how agencies will handle major natural disasters or terrorist incidents. An order issued by President Bush in 2003 also assigned that responsibility to the homeland security director.

But according to a memo obtained by Knight Ridder, Chertoff didn't shift that power to Brown until late afternoon or evening on Aug. 30, about 36 hours after Katrina hit Louisiana and Mississippi. That same memo suggests that Chertoff may have been confused about his lead role in disaster response and that of his department.

[PhillyGirl]

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[PoopyfaceMcGee]

But according to a memo obtained by Knight Ridder

[Wingspan]

Another story about how the aftermath just isnt a bad as predicted, as the likes of CNN droned on about for days.

where are those $5/gallon prices anyway?

i hate the news.

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

Just to throw some "equal time" into all of this, I figured I'd share this blurb my dad sent me from a segment on the sexual harasser's show with former Clinton aide Dikk Morris...

Guest: Fox News analyst Dikk Morris

"I'm in a rather uncomfortable position of having to defend President Bush, who's being battered by partisan propaganda over Hurricane Katrina. The president was late reacting to the storm and his hand-picked leaders did not do the job, but I just can't sit here and let rank propaganda go unchallenged. On Sunday Bill Clinton said this to George Stephanopoulos: 'We know what works, and we had a program that was drastically reducing poverty and they got rid of it.' What is Mr. Clinton talking about? What program did Bush get rid of? Stephanopoulos sat there like a mummy, challenging nothing. Here are the facts: Black home ownership is up under President Bush; poverty spending is significantly higher; education spending for poor school districts is higher; and the poverty rate, which was 13.7% halfway through Clinton's tenure, is now 12.7%. Federal tax revenues will be higher this year than at any time during the Clinton administration. Why? Because business is booming. Capitalism is working, and the more money corporations and workers make, the more taxes roll in. As for President Bush, he owes me big. I want a pen."

Some of those numbers were surprising to me.

For the record, I still think Bush scr00ed the pooch on Katrina.

[Cerevant]

Another story about how the aftermath just isnt a bad as predicted, as the likes of CNN droned on about for days.

Fecal coliform bacteria — bacteria from feces released when the sewer system was overwhelmed — numbered about 1,000 to 10,000 per 100 milliliters of water, Pardue said. Safety limits for recreational waters are set at 200. "Normal New Orleans storm water has a bacteria count of around 1,000," he said.

It isn't as bad as expected because New Orleans is always[/i] this nasty

[MadMarchHare]

[Charlton Heston]"It's feces!  We're drinking feces!"[/Charlton Heston]