ruined this video for me

HOW CAN THIS HAPPEN????? WTF????

Why the fuck did that brain frazzled IDIOT not take command of the situation and get the things done that needed to be done?
If the Mayor was overwhelmed and the local and State Parliamentary members were out of their league then the President should have taken charge and ordered an evacuation, military hospitals and have Field communication stations setup, he should have had people on the ground communicating directly back to him telling him what needed to be done.

None of this happened, he just sat back and let the New Orleans drown!!!

Please guy’s, I know you are doing a lot but Bush has to go! For the sake of world peace, for the sake of the middle and working classes, for the sake of “just giving a damm about someone else” this fool and his corrupt cronies need to be brought down and brought down hard.

I’m sorry that I’m so pissed off, but I honestly don’t believe that we can have a peaceful world where everyone has an opportunity while people like Bush, Cheney and Rumsfield are in power.

Good Luck and THank You Jane, this is my favourite Blog!

Buy a damned house on elevated ground in western Pennsylvania, central Ohio, Tennessee or other places where the worst you may have to deal with is an occasional tornado.

I have a bunch of family in central and western Pa, out in the little mountain towns. They have several problems. The almost countless old coal mines are destabilizing (old wooden beams rotting away) and folks homes are falling into sink holes. Maybe people shouldn’t live in areas in which mining once or still occurs? Also, outside of Pittsburg and its suburbs, there has been a shortage of jobs for decades. The mills and factories are largely closed and the soft coal mines are tapped or no longer mined. It’s a lovely area (now that the trees have overgrown the boney piles and tipples) and I enjoy visiting my family, but hardly is it haven.

Scout Prime has done amazing work on this issue, and this video just left me with an enormous amount of sorrow in my heart. I’m looking forward to reading her updates from NOLA while she is down there.

Christi please ask her for some video of those same streets today. Those pics would make a remarkable political ad for anyone running from the Democratic Party or anyone whose opponent voted NO on Katrina bills. That money is appropriated. Why haven’t they spend it? If they’ve had no money to rebuild, I’d imagine that it looks like it did in the video with some of the debris cleaned up. Disgusting!

I’ve been listening to Bill Bennett and Laura Ingram over the past two weeks. Why? I want to hear their take on things and listen to their remarkable !@#$ about Iraq, the NSA wiretap case, etc. Wow, they can spin. Both of them are masters.

Today or yesterday on Laura’s show she brought up the topic (no references – sorry) that there are a lot of problems in Houston with drugs, crime and ya da ya da in Houston that can be directed back to the arrival of Katrina victims upon their evacuation.

So was she saying “…the black folks who didn’t die in the hurricane came to Houston and now crime is up?” She didn’t say “black folks, but it was implied. The stupid $%&*$%^!!!

Any member of the House or Senate who has VOTED NO on any aspect of Katrina spending should be removed from his or her seat without an opportunity to speak. In my opinion, that both Dems and Repubs.

We should broadcast that all over the world to show them what the hell kind of administration we have running this country.

I’s like your permission to speak for every American who cares, “Please forgive us.”

S, my momma taught music in the Picayune high school right after she graduated from “the Dubya.” Was there long enough to learn a mean shrimp Creole and to date a boy from the J.C. Higgins family, who took out speedboat-riding on “the Guff,” I hear. But pretty quickly she went on back up to Amory and met my daddy. I still have a soft spot in my heart for Picayune, though, and remember with fondness savoring my very first po’boy there, on our way to my very first look at NOLA … call it 45 years ago.

SC, that’s just almost too much to take in in one sitting, isn’t it? And I haven’t heard a fraction of your family’s trauma yet. Times how many hundreds of thousands? My God.

Both of y’all, thank you, God bless, and please let me know how they’re all coming from time to time, okay?

SoulCatcher 81, your story takes my breath away — I was right in that car with you on 49 and coming into Gulfport. The bit about your lost niece/nephew-to-be was especially stark and moving. Jeeminey.

How and where are they all now?

-ck- 91, how lovely (now I know why violet is one of my fave colors, eh?).

Thanks again to you both.

lotus, there’s alot to relate about where all my relatives are. My account covers a small piece of the ordeal.

Here’s a rundown of the experiences of my relatives and a fellow employee (the ones that suffered). By the way, I live in Memphis, TN and have for about 11 years now but I have lots of relatives in Gulfport, etc.

1) One aunt (from my mom’s side) in New Orleans, who had retired two weeks before Katrina came in, had water in her house up the ceiling. She lost everything. Fortunately she was on vacation when Katrina hit. Her house was gutted and stripped down to the framing and sold to a young couple. She did get some insurance money. She’s living with my uncle in Gulfport and she’s trying to come up with money, etc to buy some land from my cousin and build a house north of Gulfport.

2) Another aunt and her husband in New Orleans evacuated before Katrina hit…but they came to stay at my uncle’s (the one above). Not the best of moves. Fortuantely they were renting their house so they *only* lost all their possessions that insurance covered for the most part. She’s trying to do something similar to my other aunt. However, she just got some new bad news: she was diagnosed with Hogkin’s Lymphoma, stage 2.

3) My brother and sister-in-law were lucky and suffered no damage but they sold their home and moved to Pulaski, TN.

4) A fellow co-worker who lived in Long Beach had his house suffer major damage. He’s just about done fixing things and is about to sell. He’s moved to Nashville with his wife and kids.

Apart from that most everyone else has been in good shape except for simple home damage. One of my cousins (up in Saucier) had no damage at all except for losing a few shingles and having one tree fall down.

I didn’t lose anyone which is the good thing.

Have you been to Picayune, and if so, how bad is it?

Hi,

My friend Karen’s entire family lives in Picayune. She grew up there. I’m not sure how it must appear to those living there, but when she showed me the book of pre-and-post Katrina photos the local paper compiled, we both cried.

-S

weeder @ 48

Strategerie,

A list from HBO with, hopefully, local input:
http://www.hbo.com/docs/progra…..urces.html

Weeder, thank you so much. I’ll definitely look into those possibilities.

-S

Evil Parallel Universe says
August 23rd, 2006 at 12:20 pm*

I posted over the weekend – late night on Saturday I think – in response to Astralplame’s question of whether FDL had changed. Since I’ve been here a relative long time, I responded that I thought it had: that it is too self-congratulatory and hagiographic and that “facts” are simply accepted as true without support; and not in good ways.

I agree with all that Immanentize wrote, but think the issue goes beyond ad hominim attacks – but that disagreement with the opinions expressed in an article are met, even without ad hominims, with derision if not contempt from some of the commentariate, whose self assumed role these days is to cheerlead and “protect” the authors – and I am not simply referring to attacks on trolls, who deserve what they get.

With the result being a self-referential cool kids’ clique snidely making derisive jokes and comments about the dimwitted masses and how dumb everyone else is if they dont get it or agree.

I’m not against humor or snark, or contempt and derision when due – but not in place of, or at the expense of, the honest and open discussion of ideas.

I haven’t been around much the past couple of weeks b/c I felt the need to hold my tongue fingers. That if I expressed the opinion that I didn’t think a post was as snarkoliciously brilliant as the rest I would simply be ad hominimally (is that a real word) attacked; or if I questioned the consistency of what the commentariate finds offensive and why the same thing would happen. And like Imm, it is not that I can’t be as harsh or crude as the next poster in the thread (I’m actually confident in my ability to be harsher and cruder), but that’s not why I first started coming here or commentating, or why I stayed.