Only geeks will appreciate this, but for them it's a hoot! LOL!
Saturday, September 03, 2005
What Ever Happened To Sir Mix-A-Lot?
After he blew up with that big butt song, he had another great CD called "Chief Boot Knocka", but the one after that, "Return of the Bumpasaurus", was so whack - abandoning his witty rhymes and beats for G-Funk retreads - I sold it and that was it for him.
The last I heard, he was doing something called Symposium with the guys from Presidents of the United States of America (?!?!?) and the demos played on NPR were sweet, but they never got a deal and POTUSA are back doing new music.
Reason I axe is that "One Time's Got No Case" just rolled by on the iTunes Party Shuffle and whenever I hear his old stuff, I wonder where he went. I knew he was doing some acting and Chris Rock had a brilliant line about him, but what's new?
Any info, post it in comments. Thanks.
Friday Fiver: We took the funny out of Friday
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Wait! WHO requested that New Orleans be evacuated?!?!?!?!?
Since the media has the Memory Hole running 24/7 while they mint new memes to make Katrina and the fate of New Orleans all Dubya's fault, here's an item that's going to be washed away like a weak levee:
Mandatory evacuation ordered for New Orleans
8/28/2005, 10:48 a.m. CT
Take a look at that date - that is LAST SUNDAY MORNING. Continuing...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — In the face of a catastrophic Hurricane Katrina, a mandatory evacuation was ordered Sunday for New Orleans by Mayor Ray Nagin.
Acknowledging that large numbers of people, many of them stranded tourists, would be unable to leave, the city set up 10 places of last resort for people to go, including the Superdome.
The mayor called the order unprecedented and said anyone who could leave the city should. He exempted hotels from the evacuation order because airlines had already cancelled all flights.
Gov. Kathleen Blanco, standing beside the mayor at a news conference, said President Bush called and personally appealed for a mandatory evacuation for the low-lying city, which is prone to flooding.
"There doesn't seem to be any relief in sight," Blanco said.
WHOA!!!! What was that two paragraphs back?!? Rewind....
Gov. Kathleen Blanco, standing beside the mayor at a news conference, said President Bush called and personally appealed for a mandatory evacuation for the low-lying city, which is prone to flooding.
Hold on a gosh-darned second here!!! That says WHAT?!?!?!? Roll that back and turn it up!
President Bush called and personally appealed for a mandatory evacuation for the low-lying city, which is prone to flooding.
I thought that Dubya was playing golf and ignoring that there was even a storm in the Gulf until this afternoon, when he finally said, "OK, send some water to the white folks, but shoot those guys like I saw on the Time cover. He gave me the willies."
Just as ABC news reported that Saddam and Osama were cozy, the MSM is going to toss the fact that Dubya told Nawlins peeps to get their people out before it was too late down Ye Olde Memory Hole and sell the Big Lies that we're seeing in TV now.
Pathetic.
The storm surge most likely could topple the city's levee system, which protect it from surrounding waters of Lake Pontchartrain, the Mississippi River and marshes, the mayor said. The bowl-shaped city must pump water out during normal times, and the hurricane threatened pump power.
Previous hurricanes evacuations in New Orleans were always voluntary, because so many people don't have the means of getting out. Some are too poor and there is always a French Quarter full of tourists who get caught.
"This is a once in a lifetime event," the mayor said. "The city of New Orleans has never seen a hurricane of this magnitude hit it directly," the mayor said.
He told those who had to move to the Superdome to come with enough food for several days and with blankets. He said it will be a very uncomfortable place and encouraged everybody who could to get out.
Nagin said police and firefighters would spread out throughout the city sounding sirens and using bullhorns to tell residents to get out. He also said police would have the authority to comandeer any vehicle or building that could be used for evacuation or shelter.
The Superdome was already taking in people with special problems. It opened about 8 a.m. and people on walkers, some with oxygen tanks, began checking in.
In a neighborhood in central city, a group of residents sat on a porch. It was almost a party atmosphere.
"We're not evacuating," said Julie Paul, 57. "None of us have any place to go. We're counting on the Superdome. That's our lifesaver."
She said they'd spent the last couple of hurricanes there. They would wait for a friend who has a van to take them, because none has cars.
At a nearby gas station, Linda Young, 37, was tanking up her car.
"I'm really scared. I've been through hurricanes, but this one scares me. I think everybody needs to get out," she said.
She said they planned to leave Saturday but couldn't get gas, and didn't want to go without it, so got up early and got in a gas line.
In the suburbs, evacuations were under way.
"That sun is shining too bright for this to be happening," said Joyce Tillis, manager of the Holiday Inn Select at the airport in the suburbs as she called the more than 140 guests to tell them the hotel was under a mandatory evacuation. "It's too nice a day."
Tillis lives inside the flood zone in the community of Avondale. She said she called her three daughters and told them to get out. "If I'm stuck, I'm stuck," Tillis said. "I'd rather save my second generation if I can."
Remember this story, because the media will pretend it never happened.
(Hat tip: Power Line)
Kanye West: Unamerican Idiot
I've been unimpressed with Kanye West since he made a petulent acceptance speech at the Grammys when he won for Best New Artist. He'd been snubbed at the earlier American Music Awards and made an ass of himself complaining about it and didn't do himself any favors at the Grammys, coming off as a sore winner.
His album, "The College Dropout", was a big deal, but to me it was more "big deal". It was too long and the sped-up samples were too gimmicky, but overall it was better than most of the crap that has turned hip-hop into a shadow of its former self. (Rap has sucked after NWA and PE fell apart in the early- Nineties, but that's another post.) Anyways, his new joint dropped and he made the cover of Time magazine last week:
That's right: In racist AmeriKKKa, black people don't get nothing, do they?
Anyhoo, tonight during NBC's Americathon, he went off script and started spewing racial grievance bullsh*t that is rapidly becoming the prevailing meme in the media in lockstep with the race hustlers. With the War, Cindy Sheehan and Global Warming all flopping as the Killer Lie to destroy Dubya with, they're trying one that failed when white buffalo Randi Rhodes, but may get traction coming from this jerk: Dubya does not care about black people.
As reported here via the AP and shown here at MS-NBC, West went off with a stunned Mike Myers standing next to him, looking as if he feared getting singed in the imminent lightning strike. West rambled, stammered and then announced that Dubya had given orders "to shoot us" - an absolute lie, but what's the Truth but just another person's opinion?
Any interest I had in checking out his new album evaporated and I can't wait to see the Dixie Chicks backlash hit him upside the head, because as the Time article wrote, "Statistics consistently show that 70% of hip-hop is consumed by young white audiences, but a century of anecdotal evidence is similarly irrefutable: white kids think it's cool to be black".
I wonder how they'll feel to be called murderers by a guy who's pictured rapping with Jay-Z wearing an "iced-out" platinum medalion. In Time magazine. A lot of predation on parade there, I'll tell ya. [rolling eyes]
What's so scurrilous about this garbage is that once again, Dubya is being forced to disprove a negative and it's going to be used as a deflection maneuver by the failed Democratic mayor and governor down there to face up to their share of responsibility for this disaster. But instead of facing questions, they'll play this race card and it's ALL Dubya's fault. Very convenient and a nice tactic to stop the blacks from fleeing the Dem Party, who've done nothing but make them slaves dependant on government largese. People didn't leave because they were waiting for their checks to come on the 1st. Even Chris Rock joked about "the 1st and 15th" in an old special. Real funny. Dems keep indentured voters and are now going to turn them into a race war army.
By any means necessary to regain power, right?
Remember what Rodney King asked so long ago? Then, as now, the answer remains: HELL NO!!!
ADDITIONAL THOUGHT: KANYE WEST IS THE SMARTEST MAN IN POP MUSIC? [Warren Bell]
Maybe that's what's wrong with pop music. Meanwhile, Live 8 fans will remember Kanye's statement there about AIDS: "It's a man-made disease in the first place that was placed in Africa just like crack was placed in the black community to break up the Black Panther party." Whatever happened to the good old days of educated, well-informed rappers?
That was then; this is not then.
AN EVEN BETTER IDEA: Instead of giving your money to this prick and his record label, if you were thinking of picking up his new album, give the money to the Red Cross instead. He seems to think the people down South need help and certainly doesn't deserve another cent.
Friday, September 02, 2005
The next time a liberal bores you with how compassionate and caring they are...
...ask the about this Democratic Underground post and the hateful replies in support:
I had no idea how deeply my hate for that man ran. My lack of an interaction, with a * supporter is still haunting me a couple of hours later.
I was on my home and was on the ramp getting off the highway. I saw a mini-van on the side of the road. There was a lady standing next to the van and in her arms she held her child. I can only assume her mini-van had broken down. I don't know, perhaps with so many gad stations being out of gas, she had also run out. I slowed down and started to pull over to offer her a ride. At the very last second I noticed a "W" sticker on the back of her vehicle and I sped up and drove off.
I feel really bad as a human being. That child is not responsible for their parent's belief system. They are innocent and do not deserve to be out in the heat. (It is warm but not so bad that they would even break a sweat) I try not to punish people for what they believe.
On the other hand, so many hateful thoughts went through my head. I wondered how a person could see what was going on in NO and still have one of those awful stickers on their car. How could they support an awful excuse for a human being that has let our country down and is letting Americans die after they have made it through the storm? How can someone be so blind and so stupid?
I thought that if she loves * so much, maybe he would come along and help her the same way he is rescuing all of those poor people in the weather stricken part of our country. Let's see what her hero can do for her.
I never did go back. I was so upset with that sticker and with the fact that someone would support an idiot who is so clearly running our country into the ground.
So why am I writing this? It is not to boast, I really feel bad about passing this child and not picking up their mother. Perhaps it is for a catharsis of sorts? That would be an educated guess. I suppose it is because I feel conflicted and I am writing this to try and sort through what I am feeling. There are two emotional sides, for me, on this incident and neither seems completely right or wrong to me. Even writing this, I am still not able to work through what happened. I feel like I am floating between right and wrong and am unable to grab either side.
Thanks for listening.
When Michael Savage wrote "Liberalism is a Mental Disorder" he wasn't kidding, was he? They call it "Bush Derangement Syndrome" around and about, but let's call it what it is: Sub-human hate and insanity.
If that child perishes, thanks to this motherf*cker's political vendetta, I hope it haunts this beast until they're driven mad and eat a f*cking shotgun load!!!
New Orleans: A Geopolitical Prize
Interesting article posted on the Corner:
By George Friedman
...
During the Cold War, a macabre topic of discussion among bored graduate students who studied such things was this: If the Soviets could destroy one city with a large nuclear device, which would it be? The usual answers were Washington or New York. For me, the answer was simple: New Orleans. If the Mississippi River was shut to traffic, then the foundations of the economy would be shattered. The industrial minerals needed in the factories wouldn't come in, and the agricultural wealth wouldn't flow out. Alternative routes really weren't available. The Germans knew it too: A U-boat campaign occurred near the mouth of the Mississippi during World War II. Both the Germans and Stratfor have stood with Andy Jackson: New Orleans was the prize.
Last Sunday, nature took out New Orleans almost as surely as a nuclear strike. Hurricane Katrina's geopolitical effect was not, in many ways, distinguishable from a mushroom cloud. The key exit from North America was closed. The petrochemical industry, which has become an added value to the region since Jackson's days, was at risk. The navigability of the Mississippi south of New Orleans was a question mark. New Orleans as a city and as a port complex had ceased to exist, and it was not clear that it could recover.
The Ports of South Louisiana and New Orleans, which run north and south of the city, are as important today as at any point during the history of the republic. On its own merit, POSL is the largest port in the United States by tonnage and the fifth-largest in the world. It exports more than 52 million tons a year, of which more than half are agricultural products -- corn, soybeans and so on. A large proportion of U.S. agriculture flows out of the port. Almost as much cargo, nearly 17 million tons, comes in through the port -- including not only crude oil, but chemicals and fertilizers, coal, concrete and so on….
The oil fields, pipelines and ports required a skilled workforce in order to operate. That workforce requires homes. They require stores to buy food and other supplies. Hospitals and doctors. Schools for their children. In other words, in order to operate the facilities critical to the United States, you need a workforce to do it -- and that workforce is gone. Unlike in other disasters, that workforce cannot return to the region because they have no place to live. New Orleans is gone, and the metropolitan area surrounding New Orleans is either gone or so badly damaged that it will not be inhabitable for a long time….
The displacement of population is the crisis that New Orleans faces. It is also a national crisis, because the largest port in the United States cannot function without a city around it. The physical and business processes of a port cannot occur in a ghost town, and right now, that is what New Orleans is. It is not about the facilities, and it is not about the oil. It is about the loss of a city's population and the paralysis of the largest port in the United States….
Who knew?
Gee, why weren't these buses used to evacuate New Orleans?
An aerial view of flooded school buses in a lot, Thursday, Sept. 1, 2005, in New Orleans, LA. The flood is a result of Hurricane Katrina that passed through the area last Monday.
UPDATE: Junkyard Blog want to know, too.
An angry Terry Ebbert, head of New Orleans' emergency operations, watched the slow exodus from the Superdome on Thursday morning and said the Federal Emergency Management Agency response was inadequate. The chaos at the nearby New Orleans Convention Center was considerably worse than the Superdome, with an angry mob growing increasingly violent and few options for refugees to leave the scene.
"This is a national disgrace. FEMA has been here three days, yet there is no command and control," Ebbert said. "We can send massive amounts of aid to tsunami victims, but we can't bail out the city of New Orleans."
Ebbert's job is to coordinate New Orleans' response to emergencies. Somebody should show him this picture and tell him to stop blaming everyone but himself:
But since no one mobilized these buses before the storm--ahem, Mr. Ebbert--since no one mobilized them before the storm, the poor in New Orleans had no way of getting out. And now the buses are waterlogged and useless. All 205 of them. They will go on the expense side of the ledger instead of the asset side. That's your fault, Mr. Ebbert. The blame rests with you, sir. You knew the city owned those buses, you knew where to get them, where to fuel them and you probably had a list of the drivers who operate them. Yet there they sit, half submerged.
One emergency manager with half a clue and a couple hundred drivers could have more or less saved New Orleans from turning into Mad Max territory. Terry Ebbert can blame everyone else all he wants, but this crisis is almost entirely his fault.
Now that National Guard and probably true federal troops will be put into New Orleans to quell the violence, and since the city is crawling with journalists and videographers, we're liable to get something on our TVs that will look like a cross between Waco circa 1995 and Tiananmen Square circa 1989. But with the added twist of a racial component. Great.
And it all probably could have been avoided with judicious use of a couple hundred school buses--those inside the frame above as well as the probably dozens of others outside it.
On the Brighter Side....
While there is such senseless misery, it's good to know there's still some senseless beauty in the world:
More on the Logistics of the Situation
An e-mailer to The Corner writes:
I am seeing and reading all the commentary about the "slow" Federal response
to Katrina and, perhaps its my background as a military logistician (retired
now for a number of years), but I'd like to offer a few observations. While the shameless mayor of New
Orleans sounds off like an aggrieved pimp on the radio, a military
operation, involving both Guard and active duty, that dwarfs our invasion of
Panama has been gathering and underway since Tuesday. I saw the first alert
orders go out Tuesday. (The President, BTW, issued disaster emergency
declarations even before Katrina made landfall.) The first order of
business for any operation, relief or military, is assess needs, routes of
ingress and egress, etc. We're looking at a disaster area covering 90,000
square miles--this is not just New Orleans. Moving the right supplies and
people to the right area in the right order is complex, even with a fully
functioning communications net and an intact road network. Here we are, 96
hours after landfall, and thousands of troops, tons and tons of supplies,
and a fleet of warships are there or due to arrive shortly. This is no
small feat.
It should be noted that Gov Blanco was slow to ramp up the LA Guard--you
don't simply call a Guardsman and tell him to report in two hours. By law,
they can take as much as 72 hours to report so that they can get their
affairs in order. If they show up sooner, great, but the point is, while
all media--and some at the Corner--obsess over the Fed's performance, the
flaccid response of local and state authorities in Louisiana made a daunting
task even tougher. The Guard and military, for example, rely on local
authorities to provide some idea of where victims are, and, as we have
heard, Nagin's office didn't bother telling FEMA that Nagin had directed
people to the NO Convention Center. Likewise, CSAR and medical units are
not combat outfits. Having to bring in more troops to quell the animalistic
behavior of some (and that behavior, BTW, broke out before the rains even
stopped, though Blanco and Nagin didn't seem to care) means the flow of
supplies and evacuees is slowed.
In any event, I hear a lot of people talking about the unprecedented scope
and scale of the disaster, and, in the next breath, wonder what's taking so
long. There is always room for improvement and this is not to say the Feds
shouldn't take their share of knocks, but I've spoken with a number of
military officers from other nations, including Third World states, who are
studying here, and they are bemused by the spectacle of hand wringing and
media panic.
Where are the Guardsmen?
"Right where they ought to be" according to James S. Robbins on National Review Online. This is the antidote to Michael Moore's latest Big Lie about the war and the hurricane. (Look it up yourselves. His fat site shouldn't be hard to miss.)
So is the war in Iraq causing troop shortfalls for hurricane relief in New Orleans?
In a word, no.
A look at the numbers should dispel that notion. Take the Army for example. There are 1,012,000 soldiers on active duty, in the Reserves, or in the National Guard. Of them, 261,000 are deployed overseas in 120 countries. Iraq accounts for 103,000 soldiers, or 10.2 percent of the Army.
That’s all? Yes, 10.2 percent. That datum is significant in itself, a good one to keep handy the next time someone talks about how our forces are stretched too thin, our troops are at the breaking point, and so forth. If you add in Afghanistan (15,000) and the support troops in Kuwait (10,000) you still only have 12.6 percent.
So where are the rest? 751,000 (74.2 percent) are in the U.S. About half are active duty, and half Guard and Reserve. The Guard is the real issue of course — the Left wants you to believe that the country has been denuded of its citizen soldiers, and that Louisiana has suffered inordinately because Guardsmen and women who would have been available to be mobilized by the state to stop looting and aid in reconstruction are instead risking their lives in Iraq.
Not hardly. According to Lieutenant General H. Steven Blum, chief of the National Guard Bureau, 75 percent of the Army and Air National Guard are available nationwide. In addition, the federal government has agreed since the conflict in Iraq started not to mobilize more than 50 percent of Guard assets in any given state, in order to leave sufficient resources for governors to respond to emergencies.
In Louisiana only about a third of Guard personnel are deployed, and they will be returning in about a week as part of their normal rotation. The Mississippi Guard has 40 percent overseas.
The New York Times has called the military response “a costly game of catch up.” Catching up compared to what, one wonders. National Guard units were mobilized immediately; 7,500 troops from four states were on the ground within 24 hours of Katrina — a commendable response given the disruptions to the transportation infrastructure. The DOD response is well ahead of the 1992 Hurricane Andrew timetable. Back then, the support request took nine days to crawl through the bureaucracy. The reaction this time was less than three days officially, and DOD had been pre-staging assets in anticipation of the aid request from the moment Katrina hit.
Moreover, it is simply not plausible to use the situation to critique the force structure in Iraq. The Guard is demonstrating that it can fulfill both its state and federal responsibilities, as it was designed and intended to do. Of course, it is impossible to win in these situations; critics will always find a way. A year ago after Hurricane Charley, the president was accused of responding too quickly, allegedly to curry favor with Florida voters. Back then only a few fringe characters tried to make the Iraq/Guard connection. It is a shame that the Times has drifted in their direction.
Will this Truth be reported or will it be sacrificed on the "Get Dubya" meme altar?
Beaten With The Club They Gave Their Enemies.
While driving in, I heard Bill Bennett carping about how the media was begging Haley Barbour to slag Dubya over disaster relief and thought someone was being a little defensive in the face of some serious failure on the part of the Feds.
Then I heard Dubya's feeble announcement from yesterday when turned the tag-team of Poppy & Bubba loose to beg for money - didn't we all give at the office, seems it went to buy pork? - and make another faint promise that help was on the way as if people weren't dying NOW!!! When you're dying of thirst and reporters are waking up near dead people to tell the tale, promises don't mean sh*t, Dubya!!!
Then I hit the office and see this Jonah Goldberg post on The Corner on National Review Online and it sums up the dire political situation Team Dubya and the Stupid Party are in.
The VWRC will mobilize to defend against the scurlious liars like Rhodes, Kennedy, Moore, Sheehan, Blumenthal, etc. but THEY WILL NOT PROTECT THEM FROM THE CLEAR FAILURES THAT ARE MULTIPLYING!!!
As I think about what the finger-pointers are likely to say in the aftermath of all this it's hard not to credit some of their complaints. For years, Democrats complained that we needed to spend more on "first-responders." I took this for what it often was: an attempt to pad municipal budgets with pork. But, one must concede it wasn't entirely about that either. And while it's likely this disaster would have presented many if not most of the challenges we're seeing this week, even if all that money had been spent as the Democrats wanted, it remains hard to dispute that it would have been better spent than much of the garbage in recent budgets.
And that's the point: The choice isn't between a lean, fiscally responsible, Republican budget and a porcine Democratic budget which included money for first responders. The Republican Congress has proven to be just about as disgusting in its spending as a Democratic Congress might have been. Sure, perhaps Democrats would have spent a bit more, but Republicans are supposed to be against bloated government and the stealing of tax dollars for personal projects and missions. So whatever pennies we've hypothetically saved with Republicans, their hypocrisy and betrayal of principle more than compensates.
So the question is, would the money have been better spent if the Republicans hadn't gotten their way? And, though it sickens me to say so, that is at best an open question. I have the utmost faith in the kleptocratic and dysfunctional governments of New Orleans and Louisiana to waste and steal money. But, we were supposed to be preparing --at the national level -- for a major terrorist attack for the last four years. I just don't see much evidence of that preparation. Congress re-assembled lickity-split to deal with Terri Schiavo -- a decision that didn't and does not bother me the way it bothers some. But however you define the issues involved in that case, in terms of real human suffering they are very hard to stack-up against what's happened in New Orleans. Congress should have convened yesterday and rescinded the highway bill. It should have broken-open the farm bill like a piñata and reallocated the monies therein.
For supporters of the war, this spectacle is going to be particularly hard to accomodate because it is in the interests of the political classes to keep their pork and it is in the interests of the antiwar left to frame this as a choice between Baghdad and New Orleans. That should not be the choice. The choice should be between the highway bill, ag subsidies and the like. The Don Young Highway should at least be renamed to the "Go Suck Eggs New Orleans Highway."
The next post was from Andrew Stuttaford and read:
Dead right, Jonah, and, when it comes to the question of the wasted money, the other ugly question (and one that NR has asked before) concerns the responsibility of the President who failed to veto any of this spending.
That was followed by:
EVERY SENATOR ON TV OR RADIO TODAY [Kathryn Jean Lopez]
should be asked about that highway bill. A senator who voted against it (Cornyn?--from Texas, a Bushman, he has the clout) should tell his colleagues he will make it an issue if they don't get it together to ditch it.
No one is going to ask about the highway bill and the politicians are far to greedy to give up the pork - they'll just add this to the national tab, but one thing you can count on the media to harp on is: Why didn't Dubya stop the hurricane and immediately fix everything. Sure, it's an unfair reach, but even if you roll the questions back to reasonable limits - What's the frigging hold-up in dropping off water from choppers? - there's plenty of 'splaining to do on the part of Team Dubya.
Chrenkoff: Hurricane exploitation - the quotes
Just read 'em and weep. Nothing I can pile on top of their already fetid rhetoric can make them sound any worse than they do. Check out the one who wouldn't give a dollar, but still bought themselves a candy bar. Vile scum.
Thursday, September 01, 2005
Evil Corporations Give, Will Celebrities?
I see that Wal-Mart has given $15 million to relief efforts and Leona Helmsley $5 mil. and Shell Oil, $3 mil. and performing as part of the NBC benefit concert tomorrow night are Faith Hill, Tim McGraw and Harry Connick Jr. Pretty Red State lineup there.
Gee, where's U2 and Bruce Springsteen and all the Live 8 performers? Don't they and Hollywood care about need in America or is their hate more important?
Duh.
The Thin Veneer of Civilization Falls and It's Not a Pretty Sight.
I've always thought that there is only a thin veneer of civilization hiding the true nature of people and the true state of affairs and watching a city collapse into anarchy befitting a Third World nation shows what's been lurking under the veneer.
While pampered liberal pundits have been using this tragedy for cheap partisan purposes because that's all they ever think about - how to gain power - what remains unanswered is what the f*ck is the holdup on getting aid to the people dying in NO?!?! When people are crying and begging for aid - food, water, medicine, ANSWERS - and wondering why we've got aid for Iraq but none for them, that's powerful stuff and something Team Dubya is going to have to answer for.
Dubya didn't create the hurricane and isn't to blame for New Orleans' corrupt Democratic machine that totally failed to have a disaster plan and to react to things, but the mishandling of the aftermath WILL be on his head and anyone who thinks that the justifiable manure storm that is sure to come is unfair is kidding themselves.
I've always been annoyed that the Lying Left chose to attack Dubya on phony things, not the actual sins he's committed. They make up crazy fantasies about conspiracies and ignore his profligate spending with his supposedly "conservative" Stupid Party cronies. THAT'S what's wrong with Dubya, not the insanity of Cindy Sheehan and Randi Rhodes.
They're going to vote $10 billion in relief tomorrow, but where's the money gonna come from? How about they repeal those pork-bloated energy and transporation bills and transfer the money to this? C'mon....we're all Americans here - can't you sacrifice that Bridge to Nowhere for the Cause? Please?
THEN FUCK YOU IN YOUR STUPID FUCKING ASSES, YOU STUPID FUCKING FUCKS!!!!!
What's most revolting is that people will take away the wrong lessons from this mess. They'll think, "We'll just toss out the Reublicans and vote for Democrats. Problem solved." Nevermind that the CITY and STATE governements in Louisiana are deeply Dem and extremely corrupt - even by usual Dem crook standards. Nope, they'll toss out the Elephant bums and toss in the Donkey bums. That'll fix things.
Since the veneer is off, shouldn't we take a good long look at the ugliness that's always been underneath? Looting of stores, not for food or water, but for blue jeans and Nikes. (Randi Rhodes encouraged looters to hit the more upscale places - get the good stuff. Fucking whore cow! She needs to get ass cancer and die!) Yeah, right. You gonna drink those Levis and drink those sneakers, Bub? Liberal apologists say that the downtrodden are naturally rising up against social inequity?!? WTF?!?!? Society is breaking down, so go get some of The Man's shit?!?!?
When disaster struck, instead of helping one another, the mob degenerated into Darwinian madness, No discipline, no desire beyond base selfishness, no motivation but to make an already horrible situation worse. The veneer is off and it's time to look at the ugliness because a lot of other people will be looking and deciding how much help "those people" merit when they reacted so badly. Some will excuse it as "desperation", but isn't it a sign of priorities? Not to survive. Not to overcome. Nope. It was time to be as ugly as they wanted to be.
I'm watching Dateline's coverage of this debacle and the refugees within our national borders and it's like watching a "Road Warrior" movie. No gas, no shelter, little hope. And it's in the same time zone as I am.
I topped off my tank this evening at Costco. I waited about 20 minutes to get to a pump - they had half the parking lot taped off so the lines could go across the lots. Gas was $2.999 - let's say it was three bucks even - and it cost about $25 to top off. I used to FILL IT UP for $33 and when I crunched the numbers for this UAV, I figured the math at $1.80/gal. This was in JUNE. Getting a econogolfcart wasn't an option, but it's nice to see that the great deal I got is going into the tank.
As part of the odd isolation in which we live in a time of war and disaster, the guy behind me in line in the store plopped down two shrimp rings and some honey-glazed ham sacks. Civilization remains in tha D, but it makes you wonder what would happen if the Dearborn-based al Queda cells dirty-bombed Detroit? How civilized would we remain?
The veneer of civilization is off. Take a good long look.
Sidney Blumenthal's Hurricane of Lies Debunked!
Non-wifebeater Sid was one of the first out of the box to blame everything about Katrina on Dubya. Of course it was all lies, but we're going to have to seek the Truth ourselves, not count on the MSM to fisk these rotten liars.
The hurricane of hatred that the left has unleashed at President Bush in the wake of Katrina has taken many voices, but the most telling might be Sidney Blumenthal's. His latest effort demonstrates that even though Bush could have done little to mitigate the damage of the worst natural disaster in American history, this hurricane gives the left an opportunity to vent all their accumulated greivances over Bush's environmental policies.
[snipped the total thrashing ol' Sid got - go read it, it's so choice]
While the left is stooping low to exploit this tragedy, Blumenthal is positively hugging the ground. What the hell do condom shortages in Uganda have to do with homeless people in New Orleans? If you belong to the cult of Bush hatred, you already know the answer.
Listened to the Mad Cow, Randi Rhodes, tonight about she was braying about how Dubya wants to "kill us all." Madness and all you need to know about the inhumanity of liberal-fascists.
Liberal Hate Unleashed: "No Money For Red States!"
Gloves off time!!! Those motherfuckers who call themselves "progressive" while claiming that Dubya is "pitting races/classes/states against each others - he's a divider, not a uniter" need to fess up and admit that they're petty hateful assholes who don't give a shit about anyone who doesn't support their fascist policies!
As posted on THE BRAD BLOG: "Katrina: Yes, You CAN Blame Bush", this craven monkeyfucker seems to forget that the City of New Orleans is overwhelmingly Democratic with Dem control of the city govt. and statehouse, yet he thinks that because the state had the poor judgement to vote for Dubya instead of the Feckless Crapweasel, then the rich folks on the Blue States - gee, what happened to liberals being for the "little guy"? - should ignore the misery of this disaster to make a political point. I'm sure the people dying in the ruins of NO will appreciate being sacrificed on the altar of liberal revenge.
FLIP THE SCRIPT: What would've happened if Red America told NYC and D.C. to suck rope after 9/11, since they voted for Gore?
Liberals have finally sunk to the level of the Islamofascists and have identified themselves as being unfit for rational civilization.
Katrina and Disgusting Exploitation
James Glassman lays the smack down on the Big Liars seeking political gain from tragedy.
Tragedies happen, and my daughter and her family are happy just to be alive. Their losses and those of hundreds of thousands of other innocents deserve mourning, prayer and respect.
That is why the response of environmental extremists fills me with what only can be called disgust. They have decided to exploit the death and devastation to win support for the failed Kyoto Protocol, which requires massive cutbacks in energy use to reduce, by a few tenths of a degree, surface warming projected 100 years from now.
Katrina has nothing to do with global warming. Nothing. It has everything to do with the immense forces of nature that have been unleashed many, many times before and the inability of humans, even the most brilliant engineers, to tame these forces.
[snipped stuff about how hurricane strength is DECLINING despite the Big Liars lies - read it all]
Not only has the intensity of hurricanes fallen, but, as George H. Taylor, the state climatologist of Oregon has pointed out, so has the frequency of hailstorms in the U.S. (see Changnon and Changnon) and cyclones throughout the world (Gulev, et al.).
But environmental extremists do not want to be bothered with the facts. Nor do they wish to mourn the destruction and death wreaked on a glorious city. To their everlasting shame, they would rather distort and exploit.
Of course the Left lies: They have nothing of merit that people (non-fascists, that is) would willingly support. With nothing to offer but fear, it's natural that they'll exploit fear to catapault themselves into power over the chumps on hand when the rains started.
The Storm After the Storm
As the craven Democrats and liberals already jockey to blame everything from Katrina to the flooding to the looting to God-knows-what's-next on Dubya - because everything that's bad from natural disasters to the Detroit Lions eternal sucking is his fault, right? - it might be useful to read David Brooks' New York Times column today.
Hurricanes come in two waves. First comes the rainstorm, and then comes what the historian John Barry calls the "human storm" - the recriminations, the political conflict and the battle over compensation. Floods wash away the surface of society, the settled way things have been done. They expose the underlying power structures, the injustices, the patterns of corruption and the unacknowledged inequalities. When you look back over the meteorological turbulence in this nation's history, it's striking how often political turbulence followed.
Civic arrangements work or they fail. Leaders are found worthy or wanting. What's happening in New Orleans and Mississippi today is a human tragedy. But take a close look at the people you see wandering, devastated, around New Orleans: they are predominantly black and poor. The political disturbances are still to come.
That the Left is more interested in reaping political reward than offering succor to the benighted of New Orleans reveals everything that is dark and evil about liberalism and its false claims of concern and compassion.
UPDATE: A textbook example of the Blame Dubya meme can be found here. Be sure to read the shrill hysterics in the comments section as the smug liberals ignore reality to bray about how STOOPID Dubya/Red Staters/Christians/Etc. are compared to them.
In the Fantasyland of liberal madness, what would they have said if Dubya HAD signed Kyoto (thus crippling the American economy); HAD given the levee project all the money it had wanted....screw that, WHAT IF AL GORE OR JOHN KERRY HAD WON, IMPLEMENTED EVERY FASCIST-LIBERAL SCHEME THEY DESIRED AND NEW ORLEANS WAS STILL DESTROYED BY A HURRICANE?!?!?!?
Laura Ingrahm was talking this morning about how if the Democrats were in power and Republicans made a peep that varied from the "let's pull together as ONE nation" songbook, they'd be pilloried for it, but since it's the other way around, the Dems are going to tear at Dubya like the venal hypocrites they are.
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