Un-f#cking-believeable! I cannot comprehend how this could happen in America!

Jesus Christ. Why isn't the head of FEMA in handcuffs?

Welcome, Al Qaida. Do your worst. We can't handle it.

Its incomprehensible....news crews can get in but rescue crews can't ? In the flooded areas, they are using jet ski's...has anyone thought to use bullhorns to call out...people without water and food for days are passing in and out of consciousness.

In the impassable areas, if any are...helicopters could get in and out.

What is the problem?

The whole republican party that voted to slash Corps of Engineers money should be tried for treason, or for that matter, every politition that voted to short change that shit

Dangerous Incompetence
-- a message from Cindy Sheehan

The whole republican party that voted to slash Corps of Engineers money should be tried for treason, or for that matter, every "politician" that voted to short change that shit (my bad)

Notice that the government lowered the flags to half-staff now that Chief "Justice" Reinquist died... Old white Reinquist who lived a long life of privilege...But weren't lowered to half-staff for the THOUSANDS of dead who drowned, dying untimely deaths because of government criminal negligence from Hurricane Katrina...

Despicable.

Hi, Floridiot #4 - Yes, a list of names of who voted "for and against" needs to be made and published, so that everyone is informed every day right up to ELECTION DAY! Maybe then a few lemming-like Republicans might have the fear of God strike them, or the fear of death from another "Bush" failure strike them, and they might vote for the MOST QUALIFIED PERSON WITH THE BEST POLICIES FOR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, WHO DOES NOT HAVE A TRACK RECORD OF LYING, instead of behaving in the typical brainless fashion.

Please come to Washington September 24. Let's make the demonstration as big as the 1963 civil rights demo. These criminals have to go.

Watch, their going to use Marshall Law to hold down the body count, what you can't count don't matter, (like votes ?)

I'll bet, even Tauzin (sp?) voted against his own district on Corps expenditures, because it probably had some Big Oil cleanup law in the bill

I am totally smelling not just incompetence but outright malice. CUTTING the emergency phone lines...WHAT ARE THEY TRYING TO DO ? They caused two more individuals, that could be out doing evacuation or rescue, to be taken off point so they can guard the phone lines. Coast guard says come and get fuel so you can run generators and equipment, burn fuel just to make over to dock, only to find out FEMA says no. Wal-Mart sends water and FEMA says they don't need it. I AM AMAZED!!!!! I also heard a man in Biloxi was registered with FEMA in case of a natural disaster, because he has a meat warehouse. He called for two or three days but they never came........he was already registered and he called and called and called but they never even tried to come. The meat just rotted. It could have fed 20,000 people for three days, according to him. It is criminal, heads should roll including the almighty GWB.....just because he kissed a poor, black lady doesnt mean he really cares. He only began to care when it became apparent he was losing percentage points on polls.....what a lame, spineless, dimwit....the blood of thousands more now cover his hands.

I read in another editorial today (can't remember where) that we should know that Louisiana isn't far behind Mississippi as the most corrupt state in the Union, with more political and law-enforcement people in jail or under indictment than anywhere else. Where do you think these relief dollars are going to go?

Sorry, Hi Peggy,(so pissed off I didn't read up before posting)

Day 6 A.K. (After Katrina) --
People are STILL trapped in Attics, on Rooftops, Flooded In Homes & DIEING --
AND the Federal Authorities are STILL PROMISING the "CAVALRY IS COMING"
WHAT SORT OF A DISASTER RESPONSE IS THIS??
WHERE WAS THE HURRICANE PREPAREDNESS??
WHY HAS IT TAKEN (6) DAYS AND STILL SOME AREAS HAVE NOT SEEN ANYONE FROM THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT?
WHY WERE La OFFICIALS LEFT TO FEND FOR THEMSELVES??
WHAT DO WE PAY FEDERAL INCOME TAXES FOR??
Why did the President ONLY refer to LA as "...in your part of the WORLD"?? (As though Louisiana is in some Third World Country!!)
Why has FEMA been TURNING DOWN OFFERS of Help from other Countries as well as from Americans?? (City of Chicago offered FEMA Rescue Squads, Policemen, Trucks, other Equipment --- FEMA STILL hasn't called them back!!??)
The ONLY thing that seems to be working well is the National Guard (finally arrived on Friday) & LOCALS TAKING THE INITIATIVE & TAKING CARE OF OUR OWN!! These FEMA officials obviously had no clue how to deal with a well-anticipated disaster that's been predicted for years. I am a New Orleans native and currently live on the fringe of the impacted area. I just saw the officials from Plaquemines and St. Bernard parishes (completely under water since the storm hit) on local TV saying they only saw federal officials in their parishes yesterday. St. Bernard is using the Canadian Mounties (they know how to get the job done!) and State Wildlife and Fisheries personnel to assist with house to house search and rescue. They have 4 National Guard in Plaquemines Parish who rode out the storm with them. It is day 6 and the federal help is just starting. They are just starting to find the people who died in their attics over the last 6 days. Could the feds be any more incompetent if they tried? Or are they deliberately this incompetent? Was Rumsfeld in charge?

It is heartbreaking to hear Cindy's narration. Again, there is something we can all do. Donate and IMPEACH! If bush and co. are left to their devices, more people will die! We all know the evil in power now. IMPEACH is the answer!

I am enraged!

This administration must be forcibly removed before one more american dies.

I am ready to march into Washington and physicaly drag these bastards out.

They should spend the rest of their natural lives imprisoned for the horrendous crimes they are perpetuating on our citizens.

Sign me up. I'll bring my own pitchfork!

Department of Peace – Conference September 10-12

"Operation Genocide II" is the name of this diaster

If George Bush was CEO of any company, he would have been fired a long time ago for gross incompetence. Why is he still CEO of the U.S?

Impeach??!!! Impeach??!!!!

My good American friends, this Man who I've been dishonoring in every post that I have written in the past 2 years should be locked up with the likes of Saddam Hussein for the rest of his natural life!!!

Him, the FEMA director, and the rest of these giggling lying murderous sociopaths you have in power right now!!!

I have seen so much goverment incompetence at all levels it makes me wonder why do we even have a government. I'm not just talking at the federal level either. The City of New Orleans left in a flooded parking lot about 200 buses that could have been used to evacuate citizens out of the area.

Doesn't matter Will,
FEMA told them they would be there, and they didn't show
They(Feds) froze every independant operation that was going on at the time and didn't really start gearing up until after the photo-ops

Incompetence maybe one way of seeing the State's behavior in this situation. I see the feds as being outright harmful, not stupid, not ill-prepared but malicious. Why would they cut the phone lines? Why would they turn awat trucks with water? It is murder! They murdered those people and we witnessed it....we have video tape of it...and I pray to God that we never forget it. GWB and all of his political hacks are murderers and I will never forget it.

there is too much information out there now for this to be described as "incompetence" - that's too simple of a solution. Just like with 9/11, WMD, etc. our "leaders" got faulty intellegence, government agency's "dropped the ball", "failed to communicate" with each other.

As George W. Bush once said, "Fool me once, shame on ....me.....fool me again...."

As it is hard to believe that 9/11 was a result of our entire government/military/air defense/CIA/ FBI all being simultaneously incompetent - so too is the current scenario.

Just as with NORAD on 9/11, I believe that a "stand down" order was issued or implied here.

Simultaneous across-the-board incompetence (to me) doesn't seem as plausible as purposeful wanton neglect/disregard/call it what you will.

I agree with Floridiot (#19). If this were happening in Darfor, Cambodia, (insert 3rd world country here) - what would we be calling this?

Let me get this straight. We had a Category five hurricane bearing down on a city that was many feet below sea level. Experts have predicted a catastrophe in New Orleans for decades.

People were told to evacuate or die. They chose to stay and die.

We are shocked and outraged. Damn that GOVERNMENT!!!!!

They (the poor) didn't have the cash to get out,
end of the month and all, paid their rent and they were tapped out, I was even suprised for NO that the poverty level is as low as it is, even with a service economy
Don't spin the "blame the poor people" too much, it won't fly here, that's just neo-con spin to me

There is so much wrong it is hard to know where to start! But I would like to know if the multi-billion dollar corporations that own those nursing homes considered EVACUATING THEIR RESIDENTS! And I'm kind of wondering where the CEO and directors were? That goes for the hospitals too....

Horses Arse #26

Wrong on all points. You are as aware as you need to be to lead FEMA or Homeland Insecurity.

Read the facts sometime once you find out where they come from.

Clue: it is not from dorky talking point memos of sycophantic incompetents.

It is from levee scientists and engineers ...

As powerful an indictment of the ruling red elite this is, what immediately follows on the show is the other shoe dropping. Russert cuts away from Broussard to give him time to compose himself, and picks up with Haley Barbour. Barbour's demeanor and party line endorsement of the Federal response is stark enough contrast to Broussard, but then he says (not an exact quote) "I don't know about Louisiana, but Mississippi bore the brunt of the storm" in an unconscionable attempt to trivialize Broussard's tale.

The show's director put up a great split screen shot showing Barbour's aloof attitude, while Broussard was sobbing at the human tragedy. Can there be a better example of the Republic disconnect?

Is this really happening in the country that calls itself the world's only superpower? Many countries in Europe immediately offered help, but this was declined almost a week ago. Today, America has swallowed its pride and asked Europe for help so we are sending food and water (500,000 food packs are leaving the UK tonight).

The damning part of the interview with the President of Jefferson Parish is prehaps the point that Walmart sent a truck (and we presume it wasn't a pick-up but a large one) full of bottled water to the area, and it was turned back with the FEMA saying it wasn't needed. At least Walmart tried to help with the one thing that is vital to life, just like European countries did a week ago.

Alas, America, which does not have too much credibility in the rest of the world, has a lot less now.

You Americans are nice people, but your leaders, the elite are evil bastards, offspring of murderers and rapists. They are conducting themselves as the selfish pricks they were brought up to be. i believe that they are trying to provoke you, the 'poorer class' (anybody that makes less than 1 mil a year) so that they can kill you off, claiming self-defence. Please be careful, Americans, and know that the world is watching too. there is much to be learned from Mahatma Ghandi, whose peaceful principles brought the entire economy of his country to a standstill, and outraged the world, forcing the brutal overlords out.
i am praying for you all.

Did the indigent in nursing homes choose to stay? Did those bed-ridden in hospitals choose to stay? How were those without cars supposed to get out?

That argument is just naive. Sure, there were probably a few people who chose to stay for whatever insane reason - there always is. But the bulk of the people there - the poor, the sick, the elderly - had no options. The buses could have arrived prior to the storm to help these people out. They didn't.

Our government basically abandoned them to their fate, with people like FEMA chief Brown spewing the same line of logic - we told them to leave. They bear some of the responsibility.

It's disgusting.

This is just heartbreaking. I could not believe the clarity, certainty and forcefulness of this incredible human being (Broussard). And to watch him lose it while relating that final story was beyond words.

I agree with most of the comments posted here, The witchdoctor at the top of the totem pole that Broussard talked about is obviously George W. Bush. The words of “comfort” that he had to offer during one of his photo-op press conferences (“…I look forward to sitting on that porch (of Trent Lott’s fantabulous new home that’ll rise out of the ashes of this national disaster...”) surely comforted the starving, dehydrated survivors, waiting for the promised relief from this administration, who’s heads are so far up their assholes they can’t smell the hopelessness, death and despair they have wrought to the region. Yes, Mr. Broussard, this totem pole must be chain sawed off at the TOP, along with all the incompetent cronies who were hired by this criminal, who have killed thousands upon thousands of Americans through their negligence and opportunistic priorities.

Broussard’s emotional plea, when he scolded the Secretary to JUST SHUT UP and SEND US SOMEBODY, along with Mayor Nagin’s admonishments on Friday are the clearest, most heart wrenching condemnation I’ve heard yet of Bush & company’s incompetence, negligence & malice. Bureaucracy has indeed committed murder, and this totally avoidable tragedy was caused by the same administration that allowed 3,000 American deaths in New York in 2001 and 2,000 American deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan the past two years, almost smacks of GENOCIDE. Why would FEMA cut Broussard’s emergency communication lines? Why would FEMA turn back a truckload of bottled water from WalMart? Why did FEMA order the Coast Guard to deny Broussard the shipment of diesel fuel from a barge in Jefferson Parish? Why is the Red Cross not being allowed into the area? Indeed there needs to be a Congressional investigation into these matters, and I suspect that all roads will lead to Rome in these disasters: That this administration is criminal, and deserve to be tried for treason and put behind bars (or worse).

Broussard said it all when he said “We need strong leadership at the top of America RIGHT NOW!” Then he expertly cut Russart to the bone and left him speechless when he replied to Russart’s accusations of blame towards the Mayor of New Orleans and the Governor of New Orleans (what an idiot!) when he gave the three examples of FEMA’s incompetence (or malice?) listed above.

Broussard ends the interview in tears, crying “Nobody’s coming to get us…Nobody’s coming to get us” which left me in tears as well. And that about sums up how the unelected “leadership” in Washington is “representing” the people of this country: by abandoning them in their utmost moment of need. Too busy playing golf and congratulating themselves. I have never seen a government more disconnected from reality, and it’s costing us the lives of thousands upon thousands of our citizens. Bush reducing funding for critical governmental programs like FEMA (and the civil engineering projects in New Orleans that were underway to shore up the levy system) to fund tax cuts for the rich and an illegal war in Iraq are criminal acts, and he needs to be held accountable for these tragedies, along with all the criminals he’s hired to run this government.

And by the way, where the hell has Vice President Cheney been through all of this? Never mind, I don’t really want to know because I suspect he’s gearing up Halliburton to figure out how to make to most profit out of this disaster, after Halliburton was awarded another contract to rebuild naval facilities damaged by Hurricane Katrina. (See http://www.halliburtonwa...s/hurricane_katrina.html )

There is only one solution to this nightmare of government, and we cannot afford to wait any longer for this administration to cause more devastation to our country. They all need to be impeached and tried for treason. How much more can we tolerate?

My heartfelt condolences go out to all the people from the Gulf Coast affected by this disaster. I cannot fathom the suffering and abandonment you must be feeling and I've made the meager donation I can at this time to assist you. I just don't understand why my tax dollars aren't reaching you.

Jeff J,
AMEN brother

Seriously, I know you lieftist types love centralized power, but do you think EVERYTHING happens in Washington?

The feds said that NO must be evacuated on SATURDAY.
The mayor of NO waited until SUNDAY to declare an evac.

Why?

Why were hundreds up on hundreds of NO city school busses left abandoned when they could have evacuated the poor?

You should find out the answers to this before you start squaling about the feds.

PS: It took NINE days for fed help to arrive after hurricane Andrew.

PPS: This storm hit a HELL of a lot more places than NO. Do you know how well the recovery is doing there? Do you care about those people if they can't be used to further your political dreams?

You know we sure talk a lot in America, but we never do anything. There is plenty of evidence to suggest conspiracies on our voting system that put Bush in America. There is plenty of evidence to suggest conspiracies, along with the LIES of Iraq. There is plenty of evidence to suggest conspiracies over 9-11. There is evidence to suggest conspiracies, on New Orleans, because in the USA it does not take the military 4-5 days to bring AID.

And it is a FACT that our Constitutional rights are being stripped away on a daily basis.

What I want to know is if, ONE most Americas realise the OATH a solider takes in the USA?

It is to defend the Constitution of the United States against ALL enemies FOREIGN and DOMESTIC.

Are we trying to say that we do not have enough evidence to try someone here in a court of law, or bring justice to our country against a Domestic enemy?

If you do not know this, then we better start waking up, because the evidence is overwhelming.

PEOPLE, it is time to WAKE UP, and take this country of ours back. Personally I'm tired of all the talk, Americans 150 years ago would of had more sense, taken up arms, and taken back their land from the CORRUPT man.

Does not anyone realise that America is a land:

FOR THE PEOPLE AND BY THE PEOPLE

My God when will we wakeup???

I am glad to read the comments on the blog calling for
impeachment for all these incompetent, malicious,
selfish, mendacious bastards running this country.
Call your congressperson and demand that articles of
impeachment be introduced. Or we could just march on
the White House and confront this wicked power on
September 24th...Also, visit:

http://checksnbalances.b...ceedings-to-impeach.html

The ImpeachBush movement headed by Ramsey Clark has
the draft of articles of impeachment prepared,
although the failure to his regime to protect the
people of the gulf coast through cuts in funding to
the Corps of Engineers and FEMA and the gross
mismanagement of the crisis in New Orleans, must still
be added to the bill of particulars...

He should be strung up and hanged.

Death to tyrants out of touch with reality.

______________________________________________________
Click here to donate to the Hurricane Katrina relief effort.
http://store.yahoo.com/redcross-donate3/

Sept. 24, I'll be there, and I'll be glad to rush the fucking White House w/ a pitchfork. Seems to me like lynching might not be such a bad idea, in the case of these thugs.

This is genocide. It doesn't have to be called a conspiracy theory. A good friend of mine knew a black woman brought up in NO, Like a high priestess in voodoo. Healed the community of ANY illness. Went to church. Good soul. The voodoo on this administration for killing these people and destroying NO is going to be something to see.

This is heartbreaking.

I talked to the local coordinator for our relief effort just a few minutes ago. Last time I talked to him, he said, "We are making a schedule, we'll let you know when we need you." This time he said, "Look, we're there, day and night, and we are swamped - just come".

My heart is broken and I am tired, but yeah, I'll show up - just like hundreds of others will show up. I still don't know how many more are coming from the coast - I'm not sure anyone does - but we'll find a place for them, and we'll feed them, and we'll comfort them. I think all of us realize we're not really that far from being in the same position - our place in this world is fragile - our lives can change forever in just a heartbeat.

I got a notice through a homeschooler's network, they're going to the shelter just to play with the kids - something so simple, but so important in this time of sadness.

I'm holding my family close to me tonight - well, as close as a 13 year old will allow. I suggest everyone else do the same - and as we eat our evening meals, consider how fortunate we are.

To those who are giving donations of time, money, and food - thank you...thank you sooo very much. You have no idea how important your efforts are, and how much they are appreciated. And please, forgive my outburst on another thread, I was tired and frustrated but that's no excuse for bad manners, and I'm sorry if I offended anyone with my language.

I'll be busy for the next few days - actually for as long as they need me - at the distribution center and shelters. I'll try to check in to see what's going on, but if I don't get to post, I'll simply ask that you just please, please, keep giving - you are saving lives.

Let me know if anything exciting happens, y'all know how to find me..well, some of you do - and the rest can figure it out

Keep watching, and keep making noise!!!!

Bush's government has in its design, cuts to render public services (FEMA for instance) impotent. Going back to the Guilded Age, where government serves the rich, like they think it should, because they pay more taxes. There are no mistakes here, with the 9/11 response and the Hurricane Katrina response...

For Want Of A Nail

I haven't heard one Bush supporter say "Thank God Bush is in office instead of Gore" like they did on 9/11. Those assholes are in hiding now and they better stay there. Lousy hypocrites. Jesus just told Bush He never wanted Him to be President - it was the devil Bush heard whispering in his ear. Intelligent design failure.

Pardon me if this has been posted before. I didn't get a chance to read all the comments. This article is scary.

An emerging power struggle

Washington Post Sept. 4, 2005

~snip~

Behind the scenes, a power struggle emerged, as federal officials tried to wrest authority from Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco (D). Shortly before midnight Friday, the Bush administration sent her a proposed legal memorandum asking her to request a federal takeover of the evacuation of New Orleans, a source within the state's emergency operations center said Saturday.

The administration had sought control over National Guard units, normally under control of the governor. Louisiana officials rejected the request, noting that such a move would be comparable to a federal declaration of martial law. State authorities suspected a political motive behind the request. "Quite frankly, if they'd been able to pull off taking it away from the locals, they then could have blamed everything on the locals," said the source, who is an adviser and does not have the authority to speak publicly.

Blanco made two moves Saturday that protected her independence from the federal government: She created a philanthropic fund for the state's victims and hired James Lee Witt, Federal Emergency Management Agency director in the Clinton administration, to advise her on the relief effort.

There are some relevant links over on another thread, and it looks like they are from different commenters than are on this thread. So, you may want to read this, this, this, and this.

To paraphrase Palonius, "...If this be incompetence then there is method in it". Strange how nicely this disaster parots the 911 disater: bush low in the polls, bush needing a Pearl Harbor event, bush in the clear skies of Nebraska pictured with his phone at his ear, bush the 'hero'--and in the wake of Katrina: bush low in the polls, bush needing a 911 event, bush in the clear safe skies pictured looking out at the disaster 2000 feet below.

Everything was 'stand down' in 911, allowing the event to go as 'planned'.
Everything was (is) 'stand down' with Katrina, allowing the storm to produce maximum devistation.

A giddy george becomes a 'war pResident' after 911.
A giddy george becomes a comforter-in-chief after
Katrina.

A giddy george reads a child book while 911 plays out.
A giddy george Guitars while Katrina plays out.

"Watch this swing!"

That's the short version, there is so much more!

anybody heard about people having their cameras taken so no pictures can come out ?

Criminal negligence!

I'll say it again!

IMPEACH BUSH !!
IMPEACH BUSH !!
IMPEACH BUSH !!
IMPEACH BUSH !!

AMERICA NOW IS THE TIME TO WAKEUP!!

GOD BLESS THE AMERICANS WITH BALLS TO STAND AND FIGHT!

New Orleans is a city that is 6 to 13 feet below sea level. In order to keep the city dry on regular days there are massive generators pumping out the water every second of the day and night.
There is only so much man can do.
We are not in control. We are not G-d.
I'm not saying this is G-d's fault, no.
But I don't think it's right to blame anybody either.
It's no secret that New Orleans has been in trouble for a long long time.
I realize that many people in this situation are poor and didn't have enough money or a vehicle to get out. But on the other hand, they don't seem too poor to have lots of kids they cannot afford either. Where are the people's priorities? I think the government should sterilize them all!

I would like to thank Aaron Brousard for telling how he helped his fellow citizens. There was also a gentleman in a row boat (flat boat?) who saved more than 400 neighbors stranded in flooded houses. He is a hero. This population needed help immediately when the levees broke. I was horrified to see that two hospitals were not immediately evacuated due to loss of power, food, and water. Those who participated in saving lives are terrific--thank you. Communication seemed lacking. The military drops flyers telling what is going on in an emergency situation--the news media knew more than the people of New Orleans knew during this after-the-storm evacuation. My heart goes out to those impacted by Katrina. I was glad to see the food and water drops occurring--basic human needs (as seen on TV). Thanks to those who are helping now and in the many months to come in helping these people get back on their feet. We love you.

Too bad ole king George had to cut his vacation short to fly over the devastated area!
The WX people spend a lot of time trying to warn people of WX events such as these in advance.
I say George had the power and knowledge to do something in advance but did nothing... A real leader would have said Damm the torpedoes and got the help on their way before the cane ever hit.
Get rid of the pretender. I can't stand to even listen to him because he can't even make a good speach.

We need to motivate folks - particularly Congresscritters - toward snuffing the spin cycle before it gets up any steam. I don't want the media to allow false claims by "a senior WH official" to be published without challenge, and - if those "senior White House officials" are purposely lying - I want their names demanded so the public and media will know they have been lied to.

I've already started some degree of this.

Congressman Conyers has an entry on his blog, "Better late than never", where he's looking for more actions that Congress can take to help the victims of Katrina and ensure that such never happens again.
(http://www.conyersblog.us/archives/00000229.htm#comments)

I posted the following:
__________________________________

Congressman - Please post in all locations to which you have access (Here, DailyKOS, TPMCafe, BradBlog, AlterNet, wherever) a short and simple statement condemning the attempts by the Administration to shift blame to the Louisiana officials. WaPo and Newsweek both recently failed to validate (purposely?) stories reporting that the Governor of Louisiana failed to declare a state of emergency.

She not only declared one, she did it before the storm actually hit.

Here's the link to the declaration on the State of Louisiana site:
http://gov.louisiana.gov...ncy-HurricaneKatrina.pdf

Joshua Micah Marshall over at Talking Points Memo relates the facts. Here's the link:
http://www.talkingpoints...ek_2005_09_04.php#006416
(the previous two items by him also elaborate on it.)

Please help kill the spin.

Only by direct, factual contradiction by yourself and any other Congressional members can the type of misleading malfeasance be nipped in the bud.

Without the help of you and your peers, and without calling for the revelation of the identities of those who planted these stories as well holding the media over the fire for not verifying them, more disasters on the scale of New Orleans cannot be avoided.

To all others who read this:

Help kill the spin. Spread this around.

This must stop. We must no longer permit the leadership and politicians to lie and make it sound legal and legitimate by misnaming it as "spin". They must now be held accountable.

We have let it go this far, but no further.

C'mon, people - help kill this spin cycle before it really gets off the ground.

And demand the identity of those "senior WH officials" who are lying to us. Tell the media that if it's Rove - particularly in light of Plamegate - then he needs to be exposed. And arrested.

This is complete insanity, what is happening on the gulf coast. I am sick and tired of the citizens of New Orleans being called refugees. America may treat them like third-world citizens but they are not. I can get out of my head the lady at the convention center cleaning up in the hopes that someone will come and help them. I say it now America is dead and revolution begins.

"Notice that the government lowered the flags to half-staff now that Chief "Justice" Reinquist died... Old white Reinquist who lived a long life of privilege...But weren't lowered to half-staff for the THOUSANDS of dead who drowned, dying untimely deaths because of government criminal negligence from Hurricane Katrina...

Despicable."

I noticed that, too. Oh man, my blood was fucking boiling.

Something else I found to be a clear view of how the government feels about the poor. When they came back from their recess the first order of business was to repeal the estate tax....before the supplemental aid for the katrina disaster was voted on. Let's take care of our rich buddies and ourselves then we'll think about what can done to save those poor people that are drowning and starving and being raped and shot and held hostage by the national guard. Fuckers!!!!!!

And still it continues.....

http://www.wral.com/news/4935449/detail.html

Valley Girl #46

Just the other night I watched a show on cable - I believe it was on National Geographic Channel. They were showing a documentary on the levees etc in New Orleans and the potential for this disaster. The time reference was up to 20 years in the future. It pretty much laid out everything that actualy happened very accuratly.

Within the doc