Hmmm... I wonder...
...I wonder what $200 BILLION and 130,000 military troops could do for New Orleans and the Gulf Coast.
...I wonder if anyone else finds the following disturbingly ironic:
Thousands of pounds of contributions are being delivered to a Dallas Refugee Center — and they're being protected by armed policemen. Why? Because the materials meant for the homeless people in the wake of Katrina are being pilfered by HOMELESS people from Dallas. Welcome to the American Twilight Zone.
...I wonder where all the US GOVERNMENT resources are? I wonder why the government wasn't prepared for this. I wonder why the greatest US deficit in history is financing the rebuilding of Iraq — and thousands of people in New Orleans haven't had a drink of water in four days.
I wonder...
...Bush and Cheney only come out of their vacation bunkers when it's time to start a fake war or raise a few hundred million dollars for their reelection campaign. They're usually as hard to find as bottled water on the Gulf Coast. They're almost as scarce as gasoline in America, but hey, I can spit out my window and hit a request for CASH.
Here's the deal, America:
I can't donate to help with Katrina. And according to my tax returns, I already did.
So let the rich GOP fucks who got the big tax breaks donate.
Let Bush & Co tap into the $200+ billion being poured down that hellhole in Vietn...um, Iraq.
Send some Humvees to New Orleans instead of Hano...um, Baghdad.
Fuck Bush. It's day five.
Where the hell is he?
Where the hell are the US RESOURCES?
Why weren't they lined up Sunday night waiting to go in and do some triage on a major American city and a few dozen minor ones?
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You're right....I mean Left, but your arguement is blunt and correct. Couldn't agree with you more. I really feel for the law enforcement folks down there trying to deal with this mess. I don't understand why it's taking so long to deploy more of the National Guard to help out? They were able to organize relief efforts for the Tsunami disaster faster. It also seems that other countries have been slow to help the US deal with this. Perhaps some backlash for the Iraq nightmare? Makes you think.
2 - Nancy
Cowboy Bush the Clueless Fuckup rides again ... or doesn't.
3 - Al_HF
It is difficult to argue.
The fact is foreign countries offered their help the first day including France and Russia, but Bush politely refused their help saying everything is under control.
I beleived today some foreign help is allowed. Oops too late.
4 - Shark
The Mayor of New Orleans should have been trying to acquire "Weapons of Mass Destruction" -- maybe leak a note to Cheney's office about some Yellow Cake from Niger...
Then maybe Bush would send in the troops.
5 - Rich
If we don't politically revolt aganist our hijacked nation when will we?
Bush is the Frankenstein of our village we call America.
6 - John Bambenek
Emigrate.
I'm serious.
Get the fuck out.
Period.
Now.
Canada is calling.
7 - Duncan Avatar
I agree with John. Get out. Apparently the evil that is America and the democracy (ie; your hatred for voters for Bush) it stands for seem to really vex you. Perhaps emigrating to a country more friendly and powerful, say..... the communist workers paradise of Cuba? Perhaps you can find work there? Typical of those who have Bush Derangement Syndrome. Hate Bush, Blame Bush. Do everything but point out that the local and state governments failed their citizens. Good job. Your ideological blinders are working.
8 - billy
i was thinking the same thing about the neo-fascists just getting out if they hate america and democracy so much. in fact asking them to leave is not enough. we need to make them leave.
9 - Aaron, Duke De Mondo
i remember John Lydon talkin bout God Save The Queen. he said "you don't write a song like that becuase you hate England and the British people. you write it becuase you love them an you're fed up seeing them get fucked over."
I don't think democracy translates as If you don't like it, fuck off. I think it's more, If you don't like it, DO SOMETHING.
which Shark is doin in his own way.
and that's all i got for to say cause im a big yella belly commie bastard can't say a thing thout foulin up the conversation.
10 - BoyInTheDesignerBubble
The spin has already started. In a few weeks, it will all be the liberal democrats' fault. I'm getting to the point of saying, "Why bother"?
I'll help the good people of New Orleans by never giving the Republican party ever again.
11 - Jay
All I gotta say is...what a load of whiny crap! Its Bushs fault this, its Bush's fault that. Grow up! I don't have a job, its Bush's fault. There was a hurricane, it's Bush's fault. blah, blah, blah.
12 - Cao
Hell, I gather you can get a nice job as a contractor in Iraq--tax free. hehehe But that would make you part of the bushrovianconspiracycabal, nevermind. I just love to hear the leftist wailing--from the people who blame Bush for every little problem in their miserable little lives! In case you don't know what that mental disorder is called--it's Bush Derangement Syndrome.
I gather from some leftist that Bush, Cheney & Co have a secret laboratory underground somewhere-- where they have total control over the weather--that hurricane is proof! This is just another bushrovianconspiracycabal to create a nazi police state! Bushitler! No Blood for Oil! Halliburton!
bwahahaha
You idiots are all the same and the rhetoric doesn't even change from person to person. You're like little carbon copies of each other, parroting the same tired venomous rhetoric.
Permanent and corrosive dissatisfaction with the world they live in is the main thing that defines people as Leftists.
And doing the same thing over and over again but expecting different results is the definition of insanity. Ever think of doing some other kind of work? Getting a second job? Training for something else? Living in a shack under a bridge?
bwahahaha
13 - Bennett
Wow, CAO makes one hell of a point!
"You idiots are all the same and the rhetoric doesn't even change from person to person. You're like little carbon copies of each other, parroting the same tired venomous rhetoric."
and I've seen this comment from a hundred different republican bush suckers on BC in the klast three hours!
That's fuckin funny, if ya wanna know the truth.
Good stuff Shark, as always.
14 - billy
cao isnt even an american. if she is we should use the patriot act to strip her of it.
15 - Shark
I'm feelin' the love.
16 - Natalie Davis
I hear ya, Sharkie. I too am one of the 45 million. But heck, I gave my literal last dollar today to the Red Cross, along with old clothes. Spousal Unit gave blood. They wouldn't allow me to do the same because it turns out I am malnourished and anemic. Next time. Unless you have absolutely nothing, there is no excuse to not help. Especially when I know you do care about these people.
Sharkie, I don't disagree with much of what you say, but people are suffering even worse than we are. Yeah, I gave tax dollars too, but people are starving and dying right now. I would want someone to help me in the same situation. Wouldn't you?
On to the right-wingers...
You spew this "get the fuck out" crap again and again. Do you realize what it takes to expatriate to Canada, the hoops through which people have to jump, the need for sponsorship and attorney representation, the expense involved (not including travel and housing)? And the Canadian government has to approve it -- and if you are working poor and don't have money in the bank, Canada doesn't want you. People simply can not pick up and go, no matter if that is their most desperate wish, no matter how badly you want dissenting voices gone. So, please realize, dear love-it-or-leave-it proponents, that tossing out that cruel, anti-American epithet just shows your ugliness and cluelessness.
17 - kender
"and if you are working poor and don't have money in the bank, Canada doesn't want you. "
Ok, then get into canada the same way teh majority of immigrants get here...sneak in in the dead of night....just don't get caught because canada, and most every other nation will send you home instantly.
As for Cao? She is American Bred and born.
And BoyInTheDesignerBubble? Just say screw it and why bother. Everyone lefty that surrenders is one less idiot to wage war with.
Shark? Get retrained...go to school...work your way up...God's Teeth man, do something beside's whining "Bush stole my job..Bus stole my life..waaahwaaahfuckindumbassmewWAAAH!!!!
No wonder we call you guys crybabies.
18 - pia
Wow Natalie never try to talk to Cao as if she understands or listens to anybody but the lapdogs as I like to call Jay and Kender.
She sent them to my blog last winter because I had the audacity to say that Muslims aren't the only people who kill in the world.
They had to kill the Coptic Christian family in New Jersey because that fits Cao's view of the world.
She thought that the police were corrupt and arrested the wrong people because they were scared to arrest Muslims.
I had the nerve to say that the police arrested the right people, they kind of had to do a very thorough investigation so that they wouldn't be accused. And it was a formerly scandal ridden city so it had to be even more careful.
Cao once called me "the idiot pia" in a comment that had nothing to do with me
Don't ever expect Cao or the lapdogs to listen to reason.
i wrote about them last spring on Bring it on! and I had written about them in my personal blog, but I like to keep it reader friendly.
She thinks that anybody who wants to could get a good job with health insurance and a liveable wage.
She also used to say that Hitler was a Socialist. You know that famous Socialist party? The National Socialist...
Believe that she now calls him a Communist; can't read her, she's so warped.
She has many other theories that have nothing to do with reality. Truly sick woman and the one person I would love to see be deported under the patriot act, part deuce.
My friends are still hurting from the dual affects of 9/11 and Bush & co
It's hard for people to give money when they've spent much of their savings and their 401K for basic life necessities.
Things are going to get very expensive; pragmatically many people have to save for increased costs.
The costs of Iraq should be going to the hurricane--sure.
19 - Larry A. Sakin
Good article and comments.
I agree with those who've commented that the hurricane itself can't be blamed on President Bush. But the laggardly response time is certainly of concern. I wonder how quickly the National Guard and FEMA would've responded had it been the elite of Baton Rouge rather than the poverty stricken in New Orleans. We'll never know the answer to that.
It should also be noted that in reality, no government; local, state or federal really does a good job with advanced disaster planning. Whenever one bureaucracy is funding another, the funder usually will only pay for repairs that are currently indicated. Its much easier for various governments to treat symptoms rather than diseases, and a lot cheaper too.
Frankly, if we really wish to fingerpoint, the New Orleans Parish authority, the state legislature in Baton Rouge, and the fed in Washington all have had a hand in making this disaster worse than it needed to be. America's infrastructure is badly in need of reinforcement, whether its levees on Lake Pontchatrain or US Highway 8 in California. They've all been ignored for years. And it will take many more catastrophes the magnitude of the flooding of New Orleans before our leaders actually can identify a problem AND implement viable solutions.
20 - kender
Actually Pia, I found your blog on my own. (hey, how about that Pia, I didn't even call it a vapid blog)...you simply don't understand logic pia...well, that and you're a freakin leftist twit..and those qualities lead you to make assumptions about people that you don't know...let me also add that you are simply another bushater with no solutions and all complaints....
21 - Duncan Avatar
I am just tired of the left and their belly-aching over Bush. All they can do is grab a handful of crap, fling against the White House walls, and see what sticks. Iraq. The Price of Oil. Katrina. Plame-quiddick. Natalee Holloway in Aruba. SOMEBODY GIVE US SOMETHING ELSE WE CAN BLAME ON BUSH! That is all this is. The National Guard is supposed to be called in BY THE GOVERNOR OF THE STATE! NOT THE PRESIDENT! Relief efforts and planning should have been taken care of at the State and Local levels. Unfortunately, they dropped the ball and their constituents are having to pay for it. Considering the the National Guard is now mobilized and relief is now making its way into N.O., and we all wish it could have been done quicker, but I am just waiting for the next moonbat to blame Bush for the genocide against the poor blacks in New Orleans. Because after all, this is just part of Karl Rove's evil plan to take over the world.
Please, take your hate-filled heart, empty it of your loathing for all things Bush, and place blame where blame is do. But first try to do something constructive to help those people. Give money or donate some other way. But drop the tired old rhetoric.
22 - Natalie Davis
Mr. Avatar, you are assuming that those sharing their concerns about Bush haven't helped or aren't helping. Interesting.
23 - Larry A. Sakin
Duncan,
Your point is well taken. But keep in mind that the monkeys throwing shit are on both sides of the cage.
24 - Cao
hahaha I'm not American? Give me a break. I grew up in Park Ridge, of Hillary Clinton fame. My sister-in-law, as a matter of fact, graduated High School with her.
But that's neither here nor there.
Bennett, give me the links where you've seen that on other websites. I don't cut-and-paste my comments like people on the other side do--who apparently need to have someone write their comments for them, save them in a word doc or a text doc and then cut and paste them all over them web.
"listen to reason", pia? You make it sound as if I came up with those theories all by myself about the Coptic Christians who were murdered by the muslim extremists in New Jersey.
You ignore the facts--that Christians in Egypt are openly discriminated against, killed, murdered and tortured, and Coptic Christians in Egypt are murdered in the same way.
The terrorists were celebrating it on the jihadi message boards, but you discounted that. Their conversations were up at Jihad Watch, the New York Sun, and others...but you blindly dismiss that and attack me as if I made it up all on my own. I was just pointing out the hypocrisy of fighting terror but not being able to point out who the perpetrators were...and that law enforcement is part of covering that up. One user posted a photograph of Hossam Armanious and wrote, "This is a picture of the filthy dog, curser of Muhammad, and a photo of his filthy wife, curser of Muhammad. They got what they deserved for their actions in America."
It isn't only me who could connect the dots, pia. It was all about the facts and political correctness which has crept into our society (of which you are a part, apparently-supporting the terrorists who commit these foul acts)--which achieves the goal for the terrorists of being dismissed as something other than muslim extremism, and lets them get away.
They were killed in the same exact way that is shown on Al-Jazeera--it was a Halal butchery. The perpetrator, in a panic, left the country. But you discounted all that, too.
You're a classic example of blind moonbattery, pia, and we all laugh at you.
That's why I like to say...facts never bother leftists. And critical thinking isn't a component of your thought processes, either.
25 - Cao
Incidentally, pia, the things I point out on my blog are based on facts, not lies like your side vomits--like the guy who's claiming that people are eating dead bodies in New Orleans...or RFK saying that the Hurricane is Bush's fault because he didn't fall for the junk science that props the Kyoto treaty.