Monthly Archives September 2005

Bush Admits Katrina Response ‘Not Enough’ – New York Times

”If we can’t respond faster than this to an event we saw coming across the Gulf for days, then why do we think we’re prepared to respond to a nuclear or biological attack?” asked former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, a Republican.

Wakey, Wakey…

Hmm. If this were a democratic president, he would have been lynched right in the Oval Office.
If you continue to support this man, you are suffering not only from terminal ignorance, you have an utter lack of even the most tenuous grasp of reality.
Incidentally, I’ve decided to just start posting the entire article from [...]

The Truth Will Set You Free.

New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin is my hero.

It just gets better.

CNN.com – FEMA chief: Victims bear some responsibility – Sep 1, 2005
That headline says it all.
“Things are going relatively well.” – Michael Brown, director of FEMA.
If he thinks this is going “relatively well,” I would fucking hate to be in what he considers a real disaster.
Chapter 37, in which we blame the victim for our [...]

Beautiful. Just Beautiful.

It’s not bad enough that it took George Bush three days to decide to break off his four and a half year “working vacation” and tour the disaster site on his way from Crawford to DC; what he saw from the comfort of his plush, air conditioned, cutting edge, highly secure private transportation (more commonly [...]

Death and Mayhem

It has been four fucking days, Mr President! Are these stranded survivors too black to merit immediate action? We had aid in Indonesia faster. What’s the story? Why the delay? These people are dying of hunger and thirst and exposure. Corpses are rotting in the sweltering glare of a [...]