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Yep, George Bush was yukking it up with the locals who've managed to move back to NOLA today, saying incredibly useful things like "you can't rebuild until you remove the debris." Well...duh.
Somebody give this woman a huge tip:
But local frustration was also on the menu as a waitress took Bush to task over the botched government response to the killer storm, which ravaged the US Gulf Coast and killed more than 1,500 people and nearly drowned this party city.As Bush tried to squeeze his way through narrow spaces between tables, waitress Joyce Labruzzo asked him: "Mister President, are you going to turn your back on me?"
"No, ma'am," Bush said, with a laugh and a pause. "Not again."
Joyce Labruzzo got to ask George Bush the question that a whole lot of folks have been thinking since his Administration took office. And his "Not again." response is altogether more honest on so many levels than I would ever have expected, isn't it? Too bad it was likely a slip of the tongue, and not some newly found awareness on his part. (H/T to Holden of First Draft for the link to this article.)
I swear, if I were in NOLA, I'd be having pancakes for breakfast every single day for a month, just to keep giving that woman a big ole tip.
And I kid you not, in his speech from New Orleans today, the proposed solution from George Bush? The big fix? More leases for offshore drilling. Heckuva job...oh, hell...I can't even say it any more. Disgust doesn't even come close to describing my mood today.
(At least we have thus far been spared more joking about the Shrub's days of drunken debauchery in New Orleans in his misspent youth. That's probably why they sent Pickles along in the sidecar.)
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Clusterfuck!
Oh, if only we had more people like her at these staged photo ops…
Having just forced myself to listen to the speech, I am now even more cranky than I was at the start of the day. Am feeling most grateful for a cuppa hot tea at the moment.
Christy Hardin Smith @ 3
The worst part about watching his speeches is knowing that there are people that take every word he says as truth. It is a bummer to listen to him for the educated.
I just heard the “stats” on NOLA from Christy Harvey on the Franken show. Sickening. Infuriating:
– Less than half of the city’s pre-storm population of 460,000 has returned, putting the population at roughly what it was in 1880.
– Nearly a third of the trash has yet to be picked up.
– Sixty percent of homes still lack electricity.
– Seventeen percent of the buses are operational.
– Half of the physicians have left, and there is a shortage of 1,000 nurses.
– Six of the nine hospitals remain closed.
– Sixty-six percent of public schools have reopened.
– A 40 percent hike in rental rates, disproportionately affecting black and low-income families.
– A 300 percent increase in the suicide rate.
Eighty-four percent of New Orleans residents rate the government’s recovery efforts negatively, while 66 percent believe the recovery money has been “mostly wasted.”
From Think Progress.
If photo-ops were horses then beggars would ride.
If life were a phot-op then maybe Bush really would be a good President.
And oh, by the way, “Photo-oping is hard. It’s hard.”
Hugh @ 7
(heh heh heh)
It’s all so freaking sad, controlled demolition of the down and out. Waitresses of the world, stand proud!
Christy Hardin Smith @ 4
Oh, your poor ears! I have to be extra-something (crazy? medicated? deaf?) to listen to an entire speech…know what’s worse, though? I can “hear” his voice when I read what he says…
If I had a way to get it to you, I’d send you some honey from my husband’s bee hives - really takes the tea to a whole new level of comfort…
Good for that woman!
You know that Bush didn’t give her a tip!
BTW, appropo of nothing in particular. Rita Crosby gives us the PERFECT pictorial representation of our nation’s press
thanks, mod
I don’t wanna be morbid, but do y’all remember one year after the tsunami, when the death toll went way up because all those souls who’d been missing were declared dead? Aren’t the “missing” souls from Katrina due for inclusion in the death toll, like, today? And why isn’t TradMed talking about this?
Oh, right, John Mark Carr. And, now, sparkly new news: Warren Jeffs has been captured!
Damn them.
Christy Hardin Smith @
4
I’ve dropped my daily stimulant down to chai cut with hazelnut milk, and even that is too stimulating for dealing with chimpy.
Listening to him feels for me like listening to psychotic patients with formal thought disorders (the sort of non-logic displayed by people with severe diagnoses such as schizophrenia).
The whole time chimpy is talking, some part of my brain is working to attempt to fill in the logical gaps. Exhausting work at times.
Thanks to our friends the plants for jasmine pearls green tea and spikenard berry tincture.
Makes even a morning of chimpy lies at his second-worst crime scene tolerable….and I can still look forward to the woods!
I must say though. I did enjoy CNNs botched mic thing during fartacus’ presser.
Let me just say for the record: listening to an entire Bush speech is not the way to make your headache feel better. Blergh.
twolf1 at 15 — yeah, what WAS that? It sounded like Kyra Phillips…wonder if the folks in the booth did it on purpose or if it was an accident? (Oooh, intrigue at CNN…news at 11…)
How waffle is this prez? Someone take a pix of this fabulous waitress, tag it with the “turn your back” comment, and paper the whitehouse walls!
Christy Hardin Smith @ 17
I dunno but I hope it turns up online. I’d like to get a better listen. I think it was Kyra too, talking to some unknown stage hand/producer.
I bet my nonexistent white stripes that it was Kyra.
It would be funny if it weren’t so infuriating, and then I start to feel my brain begin to soften and I have to change the channel.
OT - Ohio repubs no longer able to count on the farm vote.
http://www.ohio.com/mld/ohio/n.....386927.htm
EPU’d, here’s what I caught. I’m sure it was Kyra, I don’t recognize her hair anymore, but it was her voice for sure!
Bet she was talking about her new man! I wonder if she carried her live mike into the ladies’ room? Her tone had that secret kinda chatter aspect to it (I’ve heard!)
http://www.wonkette.com/politi.....197376.php
heh heh
My god, but this guy is offensive on so many levels. He just makes me, and many many people in NOLA angry and disgusted that he’s running the country.
America’s Least Wanted
wonder if she’ll have a job in the morning or if she’ll join sister Kagan in her ministries.
OT: Just received NARAL-America’s latest e-mail …
Connecticut recommendations are still (shockingly):
“United States Senate
Joe Lieberman (I)
United States House of Representatives
Robert Simmons (R-2)
Rosa DeLauro (D-3)
Nancy Johnson (R-5)”
Simply amazing.
horrible fucking stupid asshole president fratboy drunken shithole ratbag cheesebutt farthead scumwipe buttpimple poo-strangler piss-slatherer wipe-weenie sausage-head dingle-fucker rip-stank hiney-waggler perv-nostril mustache-walrus coulter-stradler bipedally-challenged knuckle-scraper nipple-brain pinky-brain penis-brain rectum-brain malkin-licker power-bottom vocabulary-challenged dork-wad pooh-face IDIOT!!
THE WORLD WANTS YOU TO GO AWAY NOW.
(And next time I’ll tell you how I really feel :-)
“It’s all that progress y’all cain’t see, ’cause it’s in-vizah-bull, see? Jus’ like in Eye-Rack, hard work!”
Below thread - Jim, 94
Neofascists? ;)
That “heh heh heh” thing. One, it is seriously un-presidential. Two, it is a “forced we” that tries to coerce listeners into laughing along. Three, it makes me feel like I am getting an unsolicited shoulder rub.
OT, but WaPo is saying Armitage was the source of the Plame leak to Novak.
Oh, and Rove confirmed it.
Is there a Plame-ologist in the house?
ooh! awaiting moderation — that’s a first!
guess i used some naughtee words there, heh ….
ok, futonia calls — see ya’ll on the flip …
astral - EPU’d - yup, I saw the gathering, but can’t make it this evening… (thanks!)
OldCoastie - just checking!
and - anyone else here, there is information on the last thread and on late night from SteveAudio about a Los Angeles firepup get together tonight.
Matt 112 below, quoting Gen. Caldwell,
Does that not sound like the Iranian nut, talking about us invading Iraq?
The only line I heard was the one about the Wetlands being rebuilt with oil and gas money. Great. I was so angry on so many levels that I went out and mowed. Atlanta right now is 88 with 63% humidity but exercise does wonders for the stress level. Christy you are amazing to be able to listen to the whole thing.
Bush’s repeated invocation of individuals and groups (especially “faith-based”) who stepped up has really gotten on my last nerve. The willingness and ability of individuals to help out in the recovery efforts does not relieve Bush and the federal government of its obligations.
Heroism on their part does not replace the failure on his part. It’s his failures that made much of their heroism necessary.
yeah, but Peterr, he believes he is singlehandedly responsible for the greatness and the goodness of these faith based groups…
Christy Hardin Smith @ 16
The cure: let twolf1 listen so you don’e have to. His liveblogging is much more entertaining, too.
:-)
preview is my friend
Old Coastie @141 below thread - Katrina Cottages - go look at Feingold’s HuffPo piece - he was all over the Katrina cottages option.
Excellent!
OT triple EPU!
kirk murphy - thanks for your reply on MX last night.
angie @ 38
I think that’s called a “messianic complex.” Last time I checked, most churches that call themselves Christian already had a messiah, long before Dubya came along.
Grrr . . .
Did Darkblack do that photo? It’s amazing how he digitally inserted a black person along side Shrub.
shooogarp @
44
Tacky, tacky, tacky !
Highlights: The clip starts with what sounds like “ASSHOLES.” Then Kyra talks about, presumably, a boy of some sort: “No ego… you don’t understand., just a really passionate, compassionate human being. And they exist! They do exist. They’re hard to find—”
http://www.wonkette.com/politi.....197383.php
Peterr @ 38
The abdication of governmental responsibility implied in that suggestion…
How’s about we just turn over our police & fire departments, prosecutor’s offices, schools, libraries, highway construction and national security to “faith based” groups?
The worst is, the current administration would probably find that a Cracker Jack idea.
For all musicians- check out this music/politics analogy. Look at the infamous Katrina -era photo of Bush ‘playing’ the guitar given him by Mark Wills. From what I can tell, he’s fingering a G-major chord, but one fret too high. So it looks like he knows what he’s doing, but if you actually heard the reality, it would sound like shit. I leave it to clever writers to expound.
hmmm– seems after much discussion today that we do indeed have a very complex preznit– afflicted by NPD, sociopathy, and messianic delusions.
If I knew about the mic snafu, I might have listened to the whole speech. Somebody needs to ask Kyra why the woman is always the control freek and bitch. Does she have inside knowledge of that. The link to Wonkette sure can brighten an otherwise dull day.
angie @ 49
stupidity…
shooogarp @ 51
alcohol dependence and cocaine abuse
left blogostan is reading WAY too much into the “not again”. There is no way the bushliar-criminal was referring to not protecting NOLA during Katrina or supporting NOLA since. He was merely recognizing that the waitress is not intimidated by his fearsome presence and not someone to turn your back on. The “again” referred to the moment of the situation. (It’ll be a cold day in hell when the bushliar-criminal ever acknowledges in any small way any failings on his part or accountability for the destruction he has caused.)
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kirk murphy @ 52
and cognitive impairment! (lest we forget)
Mary4evah @ 41
Good for Russ! this shouldn’t be so complicated! we’ve got the talent (look how beautiful those cottages are and the excellent plan to make them expandable)… now, all is needed is the equipment and some cash to get this all rolling… disgusting that it’s been a year…
kirk murphy @ 54
flatulence
still catching up belowthread
ccmask - thou art genius typing.
How perfect is that? “So Mr. President, your military strategy [for the war in error] is based on The Wave?”
And his “Not again.” response is altogether more honest on so many levels than I would ever have expected, isn’t it? Too bad it was likely a slip of the tongue, and not some newly found awareness on his part.
Oh, I doubt it had anything at all to do with answering her question about Katrina, inadvertent or not. I suspect as he was squeezing his way thru the tables his back was turned to her. When she asked the question he turned around to face her and then attempted to make one of his lame jokes — he wouldn’t “turn his back” on her again. Heh. Heh.
Mary4evah @
29
If you’re willing to backtrack, see previous “Rummy” thread, and my #173.
1,256 DAYZ AND THE KILLIN’ GOEZ ON AND ON AND…
Citizen Hardin Smith:
OT but some time ago you responded to a question of mine regarding Fitz and the traitorgate investigation by sayin that you were in contact with some “sources” and stuff was brewin…that was a month er so ago, do you have anything further?
KEEP THE FAITH AND DON’T LET THE BASTARDS IN YER YARD!!!
Old Coastie @55 - yep, he focuses on problem solving. Also on realities - like the fact that FEMA can’t really competently be a long term housing coordinator, but we do have a dept already existing that can has some of the right expertise — HUD. He’s got a bill - he’s so good.
shooogarp at 56 -
FARTACUS!
From another forum I sometimes frequent, here’s a right wing nutjob’s reaction to the Brian Williams show on Katrina:
“Did you see the show.. my statement was dead on. Whitey Doesn’t get it. Whitey screwed us over and now Whitey is the reasons for all the problems in NO.
What happened to personal responsibilty. State and Local responsibilty? Federal Responsibilty. As near as I can see…the American People were the ones to the rescue… that includes White, Black, Asian, Hispanic, etc…
For Brian Williams to promote the fact the Americans are Racists…Deserves nothing more than to be slapped across his pathetic little minded head.
The more the story gets promoted as a “Racist” situation.. The Least I care about it. If that is empathetic than so be it.
When the Tsunami hit India and Sumatra.. was that story told as a “Racist” Story..No! So we have a hurricane that hit an an area largely populated by Blacks.. A Hurricane that there was ample warnings…Nearly a week…
and it gets turned immediately into a racial issue. I’m quite shocked that Brian Williams and his guests just did not come right out and state “Katrina was a racists hurricane!” Yup.. Those Swirling Clouds were White on that Radar Screen. That hurricane was indeed..Racist!”
These people live among us….
I swear, if I were in NOLA, I’d be having pancakes for breakfast every single day for a month, just to keep giving that woman a big ole tip.
Well, according to the article, her name is Joyce Labruzzo, and she works at Betsy’s Pancake House. Here’s the address, per http://neworleans.citysearch.com/profile/4432197:
Betsy’s Pancake House
2542 Canal St
New Orleans, LA 70119-6408
(504) 822-0213
Perhaps we should send her a tip…
shooogarp @ 56
fondness for kissing men on the floor of Congress
if you’re interested, Eugene Robinson has a great chat up re NOLA — he ain’t impressed by the preznit either.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/.....00604.html
shooogarp @ 56
dysinhibition of speech and voluntary sphincter control
(in chimpy’s case, this appears to reflect disruption of a single anatomic locus. most likely etiology is approximation of oral cavity and external sphincter seen in torodial syndrome, rectocephalic variant)
Is that like Rectal-Cranial Inversion?
bwahahaha, kirk murphy!
shesh @ 53
Like so much of what he says, it is inadvertently funny or ironic. Insipid he does on purpose.
I didn’t listen but saw Miz Laura…does she now know it was Hurricane Katrina, not Corinna?
If Kyra was talking about her sis-in-law & millions heard it, I wouldn’t want to be in her shoes..the next family get together may be a little awkward.
kirk murphy: (in chimpy’s case, this appears to reflect disruption of a single anatomic locus. most likely etiology is approximation of oral cavity and external sphincter seen in torodial syndrome, rectocephalic variant)
Anal cranial inversion?
Christy Hardin Smith @ 16
I know it’s bad, but long ago I stopped listening to that man’s voice. Like…after he was elected the first time. I have gotten to the point that mute does not suffice. A different station or the off button are the only things that keep my bile from rising.
tokorode @
48
If true, the inversion is fascinating: a first position G chord bracketed with sub-dominant roots (the Ab on the 1st and 6th strings) as well as a flat VI (Db) voiced on the A string. I’m reminded of some of the extraordinary voicings of Oscar Alleman from his 1930s recordings (in which dissonant notes of passing chords would be extended as a melodic device to great effect), as well as Syd Barrett’s magnificent 1/2 step drop of a first-position E in “Astronomy Domine,” which, though a simple device, suggested enormity and inevitability.
Given the complexity of the harmonic intervals, as well as the ringing tone of the “open” strings, the total effect would sound like nothing less than total shit.
It’d be innerestin’ to see if there’s a spike in FDL Paypal action ’cause you put up “Tip Jar” as the post title. (top of the righthand sidebar, people) :)
Mary4evah @ 61
and Yes! FEMA should not be a long term housing coordinator… never should have been considered one… but it should be coordinating the clean up… their sense of “sequencing” seems so screwed up… no common sense in Fartacus’ world…
OJ - Read it. LOL Can I get a large drink with my McFascism to go?
Seriously, there are IMO (and I know this doesn’t sound as hearts and flowers as it should) some elements of fascism in fundamentalist Islam. I think that about most fundamentalist religions - where state and corporation merge in the Mussoline def, some recipes do call for adding religion to taste as well. Islam, in the fundie aspect, is about an all encompassing system, where goverment and law is subsumed and made one with religion. OTOH, that’s a fairly fundie Christian aspect too. Let the Old Testament set the law.
It’s so very odd that people who froth at the concept or content of anything “liberal” think that they have any alternative to offer to radical islamic fundamentalism. What do they think combats fundamentalism? Even buying into their “islamofascist” terminology - isn’t liberalism pretty acknowledged to be the “anti-fascism?”
Ugh.
I was kind of getting at neocons, though, and “new” (neo) kind of fascism. *g*
kirk, 67:
(in chimpy’s case, this appears to reflect disruption of a single anatomic locus. most likely etiology is approximation of oral cavity and external sphincter seen in torodial syndrome, rectocephalic variant)
You took the words right out of my mouth! Thief!
shooogarp at 56 -
the flooding? it was just a message problem with the pumps: flat-shoe-Luntz
Wouldn’t worry about more oil leases off of Louisiana, nor care if they throw a pittance into wetland development. (I know that’s not the point of your mentioning this crass comment of W’s).
There are no end of offshore facilities off of La. And wetland development is a complete boondoggle. (Florida on the other hand should fight this crap toth and nail because they actually have beaches and depend on tourism. Even Jeb gets that.)
Didn’t see W’s speech. But some are suggesting that some heckling occurred, and that W had a frustrating time with this little photo op. Did you hear any of that?
Cuz, I don’t see why W wasn’t confronted by an army of angry New Orleanians at every turn.
pol @ 64
I’m mailing Joyce a five dollar bill. Lincoln: a true American President.
Twisted Martini @ 68
Dr. Bong @ 71
In most human primates, the gut is home to the second largest aggregation of neurons in the body. Chimpy’s baseline performance is consistent with a reversal of this usual ratio… and hence in his case the syndrome may be most accurately construed as a net increase in neuronal density.
For this reason, the term “elevation” - though paradoxical with respect to local gravitational norms - may best describe the functional result of chimpy’s unique variant of toroidal syndrome.
Alhtough medical nosologists will - as ever - have the final say in the matter, “rectal-cranial elevation” or “anal-cranial enhancement” may best describe 43’s unique approach to his Presidential orifices.
See why here.
So, correct me if I’m wrong, but doesn’t more offshore drilling promise to further screw up the wetlands? (Sorry if this has already been answered. If I read all the previous comments, there’ll be 100 by the time I get to the end. I’m just not that fast a reader. Thank God my retention is good.)
Cozumel @
46
More CNN and Kyra nonsense here…
http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITI.....index.html
The Yes Men strike again! This time in NOLA just a couple of days ago. If you click the link, be sure to watch the CNN video and see a brilliant example of subversive civil disobedience.
Bit NOLA– no heckling audible, unfortunately. What we heard was a mic “problem” with Kyra Phillips talking over Fartacus.
orangejumpsuit @ 77
You took the words right out of my mouth! Thief!
guilty as charged - if i return the words, can i return the mental picture, too? trying to visualize a bush neuron is emotionally shattering - such aching loneliness….
kirk murphy @ 81
Don’t be using those big libral words, man’s got his head up his ass
Booman has an article up - very interesting read:
of course, when the man took the info to the proper authorities, he was threatened with being fired… why am I not surprised?
punaise @ 80
the flooding? it was just a message problem with the pumps: flat-shoe-Luntz
Did you mean massage problem?
http://www.thevoiceofreason.co.....geBush.htm
shesh @ 53
Bingo.
1,256 DAYZ AND THE KILLIN’ GOEZ ON AND ON AND…
Mary4evah:
Now you’ve got it girl!! But what we got here ain’t NEO-fascism, it’s the old tried and true Nazi kind with the corporations firmly in front of the oligarchy. In the late 20’s and early 30’s, the oligarchy, upperclass families and corporate bosses thought they could control the paperhanger…by the time they found out that he was pushin’ ‘em over a cliff, they had already helped ‘im to dismantle the democratic political structures that could have turned ‘im out. The only difference here is that the rulin’ class is united behind our “fartblossom” and there is no possiblitity of a split in the corporate front…but we do still have democratic mechanisms in place, we just hafta use ‘em er lose ‘em.
KEEP THE FAITH AND PASS THE AMMUNITION, THIS IS NOT A DRILL!!
Norske -
I was thinking you the other day…this liberal bought his first gun. Might come in handy when they cancel the 2008 elections and declare martial law.
I’m just saying.
shooogarp @ 82,
Me, too.
pol @ 95
Right On! Everyone send Joyce five bucks!
And since I’m in a giving mood today, I’m gonna go over to ActBlue and give Ned $20.
OT but wrt to fascism here is a great read, imho– T had asked for links in the last thread.
http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0828-23.htm
shooogarp @ 94
Done… with linky to fdl
Ann at 83, your partially correct, shipping channels and water diversion for building did the rest. Our Pres believes in the faith based cure, that the wolves can guard the hen house as long as they are born again.
tokorode @
49
Not a very clever writer, but I’ve played guitar for close to forty years now, the last thirty professionally. And as someone who knows how that fingering would sound just by reading a verbal description, I still maintain that it would sound a lot better that any of his attempts at speech.
It’s all dischord, no matter how you look at it.
Re: Bonkers……someone posted this HUD speech earlier but I failed to get to the video footage. Ah the Yes Men. Would that it were so simple. Those guys are brilliant. Subversive Civil Disobedience indeed. The people we have been waiting to appear in office. Can you just imagine a USA that actually responds to crises with innovative thinking!! Wow.
Rick DeVille: It’s all dischord, no matter how you look at it.
dischord, datchord… still sounds like shit.
:-)
I almost forgot here is my next act today.
#10 envelope
belly button lint
Joe Lieberman
10 Alston Avenue
New Haven, CT 06515
One First Class Stamp (even though he doesn’t deserve it)
shooogarp @ 103
lol, tape the lint to a postcard, it’s cheaper ;)
NorskeFlamethrower @ 91
damn straight, Norske - and just what I was hearing from very rural farmers in Indiana and Oregon this summer. “red” towns my ass - what a corporate lie - the only “red” these life-long Republicans showed was in their faces when they talked about the corporate rulers in DC and how that’s what their fathers’ fathers fought in WWII, when they went up against the third reich.
don’t think the picture looks so good for Rove’s Republican Fourth Reich - they’ll be in the dock within a thousand days. Presidential pardons don’t trump international war crimes trials.
There’s your secure location, Mr. Cheney - the Hague’s prisons. Better than Abu Gharaib - better than what you and Chimp deserve - but international law is too important to deform for your crimes.
thank goddess.
and off to the woods, firepups…
happy tuesday!
OT -
Just happened to check HuffPo for headlines and noticed Elliott calling Jane out in the “Most Recent Posts” section
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/.....28272.html
Congrats Jane, he’s now promoting you to “character assassin” == which character of those three characters has any character anyway? (I’m not sure which one you rubbed out)
So…
When I was looking up Joe Lieberman’s campaign address on google for my lint donation, I ended up with this:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=donate to joe leiberman campaign&btnG=Google Search
Note: click through the “Did you mean?” link. LOL!