Holy. Fucking. Shit.

[WilliamPitt]

Tens of thousands of people are counting on THIS goddam spluttering goofball to help them? He can't even complete sentences. We must...help the...helicopters and food...smurf buckle arglebloo...

Dude, I have no idea what you just said. Your lips were moving, but that was perhaps the finest strain of pure gibberish I have ever seen on my television. This one's for you, George:



Fat lot of good you do. You act like someone just stroked you one in the back of the head with a lead pipe.

Clinton got jumped on good and proper here yesterday, but I gotta tell you, I remember Bill after Oklahoma City. I remember a guy who could TALK and communicate INFORMATION and wrap the country in his arms.

Christ. *Now* I'm scared. This asshat is really an amazing piece of work.

[Nickster]

1. Will, you're just NOW scared?

[WilliamPitt]

3. I was holding on

Managed to miss the other press conference in the Rose Garden. It is scary but I wasn't *scared*, if you get me. That little show just cashed that check.

[Nickster]

8. You're a stronger man than I. :-)

[Nikki Stone 1]

11. You missed the worst speech in American history

And the most inadequate response to a disaster EVER!

[still_one]

2. thousands of people lives depend on him too

why can't someone do something???

[texpatriot2004]

4. Well said, WilliamPitt. Well said. He was awful, worse than he

usually is. And would not answer one question that chickenshit chickenhawk. I got the feeling he wasn't even buying the bullshit babbling that was coming out of his own mouth.

[GreenPartyVoter]

75. Seriously? He's coming apart visibly? I hope the press latches on to that

-----------------------------------------------------
Save New Orleans, then save this country!
http://timeforachange.bluelemur.com/electionreform.htm

[elehhhhna]

Is GW starring in a new reality-tv show? He's on every day.

Bet that's cutting into his partying and biking. Uh oh.

[JuniperLea]

20. And cake eating

and guitar playing...

[berni_mccoy]

5. I, like you, just can't believe

This complete and utter DIPSHIT is our president... and when his TRUE moment of truth arrives, he gets squashed on the windshield like a bug...

Well said Mr. Pitt.

[colbushwhacker_2000]

6. He is totally disconnected

from reality.....my gawd, how much more must this planet endure before this stupid fuck is out of office ?????

[JuniperLea]

27. Can you spell "sociopath"?

How did this nut-job get in control? Oh, wait, by stealing votes and kissing rich ass. Now I remember.

[ElectroPrincess]

33. While you're at it, try spelling "presenile dementia"?

[Media_Lies_Daily]

109. Swiss-cheese brain lesions caused by WAAAAAY to much coke.

[tavalon]

116. Bingo

Sadly, that will get him plausable deniability.

[matt819]

7. I think that bunny has some pretty good ideas.

Certainly better than * could come up with.

[jus_the_facts]

9. Explosions Fill New Orleans Sky With Smoke...Washington Post

Explosions Fill New Orleans Sky With Smoke...Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/20...

Friday, September 2, 2005; 7:23 AM

NEW ORLEANS -- An explosion jolted residents awake early Friday, illuminating the pre-dawn sky with red and orange flames over the city where corpses rotted along flooded sidewalks and bands of armed thugs thwarted fitful rescue efforts.

Congress was rushing through a $10.5 billion aid package, the Pentagon promised 1,400 National Guardsmen a day to stop the looting and President Bush planned to visit the region. But city officials were seething with anger about what they called a slow federal response following the devastation left by Hurricane Katrina.


At 4:35 a.m. Friday, an explosion rocked a chemical storage facility near the Mississippi River east of the French Quarter, said Lt. Michael Francis of the Harbor Police. A series of smaller blasts followed and then acrid, black smoke that could be seen even in the dark. The vibrations were felt all the way downtown.

"They have M-16s and they're locked and loaded," she said. "These troops know how to shoot and kill, and they are more than willing to do so, and I expect they will."

[Theres-a]

30. Oh no....

[WePurrsevere]

86. Hmm... I STILL don't see them handing out WATER and FOOD

:grr:

[hunter]

124. I want to see him cleaning superdome toilets... with his tongue.

Almost any random nine year old kid could be a better president than this pathetic little man.

[TOhioLiberal]

94. Jesus!

Looks like Baghdad of Fallujah...except it's US. :cry: What the hell have we come to?

[julianer]

107. It looks like apartheid

South Africa

[mzmolly]

129. People without food/water and they're more prepared to shoot to kill

then deliver life sustaining goods. Priorities are in order.

[yvr girl]

10. But being President is HARD work

How do you expect him to be in top form...his recent vacation was cut short for crying out loud.

[SpaceCatMeetsMars]

12. All the people that are pretending that he is not nuts,

like the press, are just as crazy as he is, I guess.

[onecent]

13. So many voted for this illiterate to keep them safe from terror.

We are VERY UNSAFE...this man is dangerous...BE VERY AFRAID.

[seemslikeadream]

14. BUSH'S PLAN FOR PEACE IS THE PEACE OF THE COMMON GRAVE

BUSH'S PLAN FOR PEACE IS THE PEACE OF THE COMMON GRAVE

EVERY DEATH CREATES NEW ENEMIES

MORE TERRORISTS

MORE DANGER

MORE DEATH

AND REMEMBER...

HE IS JUST GETTING STARTED...

BUSH'S PLAN FOR PEACE

IS THE PEACE OF THE COMMON GRAVE

http://www.bushflash.com/pax.html WATCH THIS VIDEO

"The George W. Bush Legacy"


Wumpscut
Totmacher

sie ahnten nichts von mir
von meiner wilden gier
doch als du kamst zu mir
da wurde ich ein tier
kein gedanke an danach
als ich dir die knochen brach

tot tot tot ich mache dich tot
tot tot tot von blut alles rot

tot

fuer mein naechstes leben
schoepfe ich neue kraft
ich bin dem toeten ergeben
in der einzelhaft

tot tot tot ich mache dich tot
tot tot tot von blut alles rot
tot tot tot ich mache dich tot
tot tot tot von blut alles rot

ein dahinsichen
von gottes hand
ich kann dich riechen
und das denken verschwand

tot tot tot tot tot tot tot ich mache dich tot
tot tot tot von blut alles rot tot tot tot tot

ich mache dich tot ich mache dich tot
ich mache dich tot ich mache dich tot

sag mir was du willst
dass du meine sehnsucht stillst
ich mache dich tot fuer immerdar
von blut alles rot auf gottes altar

tot tot tot ich mache dich tot
tot tot tot von blut alles rot

ich mache dich tot fuer immerdar
ich mache dich tot glaub mir es ist wahr
ich mache dich tot fuer immerdar
ich mache dich tot auf gottes altar

[SammyWinstonJack]

15. hEY give the moran a break, he's hepin'. He's gonna send hep!

LOL :rofl: Stupid son of a bitch!

[JuniperLea]

31. It's hard werk!

I'm ready for another peaceful candlelight vigil of mass proportion.

[SammyWinstonJack]

54. It would be more than Jr is doing. nt

[JuniperLea]

64. One more reason

to protest this moran out of office. There's a lot of protest sign fodder here.

Waiting for the Friday news dump... how are they going to spin this ignorance this time?

[jane_pippin]

16. But Will, he's lookin forward to workin' hard and makin' progress with the

folks!

Come on, that's reassuring, right? That's effective leadership. He just got back from vacation. Cut him some slack.

:sarcasm:

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

17. What would be interesting:

A blood toxicology report from the stumblebum right now. It would likely read like War & Peace.

[punpirate]

18. For those of us blessed with the absence of television...

... was this one of those "Idon'tgiveashitmymedshaven'tkickedinyet" moments where he's talking about putting food on the family?

A quote, please (or the closest approximation of one that's possible from a Bush extemporaneous remark)....

[WilliamPitt]

24. Worse

He looked euthanized, totally disconnected, disjointed, rambling, barely awake, torpid, dumb, stoned, hung over, bellyful-of-Bennies kind of fucked up.

[punpirate]

34. Thanks...

... I'll skip the computer video on this one. I trust your judgment....

See what happens when the guy doesn't get his full thirty-five days of vacation?

[JuniperLea]

47. The only thing keeping me from hoping he binges on coke and booze

is the thought of Cheney being in charge. Oh wait, he is. 'Scuse me:)

Where is that bloated freak anyway?

[tavalon]

118. In the bunker as usual

Don't wanna risk being near the riff raff. That's the figurehead's job.

[Art_from_Ark]

130. It's not even the figurehead's job

if the riff-raff isn't hand-picked and screened beforehand

[Pacifist Patriot]

91. I concur.

[Peace Patriot]

96. Is it Cheney yet? n/t

[jmowreader]

104. I don't think he looked euthanized

Right about now there are 'bout three million people in NOLA who'd be happy to euthanize him; with Bush gone we might get someone in there who knows how to manage a disaster.

[Dhalgren]

19. Say what you will about Clinton,

but when the chips were down he came through. He got on top of things quick and stayed there. In short, Clinton was not a fuck-up, at least not in regards his country. Isn't it truly sad that Bush has brought us to the place where "not a fuck-up" sounds like a sterling endorsement?

[Inland]

21. Be scared.

We all know the dangers are out there: terror, contagion, weather. We presumed that with the billions of dollars and thousands of people dedicated to planning and prevention full time, these risks were being addressed.

Now we know.

They've got nothing. They haven't a clue or haven't a care.

[tavalon]

120. We did?

I didn't. I knew they were just stealing all that money. As a medical professional, I've been involved in those supposed disaster drills that FEMA was sponsoring. Disaster was the operative word.

[HereSince1628]

22. Republican pResidents are just empty store fronts n/t.

[peekaloo]

23. Idiot Wind! nt

[Ripley]

25. Ever since 2000 THIS THING OF A PERSON HAS RUINED OUR COUNTRY

And No you dumb observing freeptwit, I don't think he caused the hurricane to bare down on NO.

But I can not even imagine what hell lies ahead in the next three years if this is how bad it can get in 5.

[Peace Patriot]

111. "I don't think he caused the hurricane..."

Global warming scientists have been predicting these kinds of impacts for some time now--more extreme storms, flooding of coastal areas. Bush's failure to join with all the other countries of the world in the Kyoto Treaty, to address the causes of global warming, and his doing the bidding of the polluters and natural resource profiteers, may well have a relationship to this hurricane happening (and so many other hurricanes in this region and other global impacts--such as the melting of the polar ice caps) and to New Orleans' and other regions' lack of preparedness for such events.

I was thinking of another issue yesterday. Someone on AAR was saying that the president should place an emergency cap on oil prices. He absolutely should--if he gave a damn about our country or its people. Oil company price gouging is equivalent to looting. The Bush regime's policy is to shoot poor people who are without recourse and are stealing food and water, and others who are just petty robbers, in a situation of pre-planned chaos (much like Baghdad) but to let the oil companies steal billions of dollars in jacked up gas prices, at a time when the people and their government are going bankrupt. The actions of the oil companies are unconscionable, and any president with even a shred of decency would reign them in.

I guess this is what comes of Diebold and ES&S selecting our leaders.

[moobu2]

26. Just let some other country come in and rescue those poor people..damn

[Just Me]

28. I can't look at or listen to him 'cause I get a headache.

People are dying because this administration has failed to mobilize delivery of food and water. Fucking pitiful!!! There is no excuse. None!

[WilliamPitt]

32. This one didn't hurt

It was weird. To crib a line from Harper Lee, listening to that left me with the sensation of sinking slowly to the bottom of the ocean.

[Nikki Stone 1]

37. And it was really short. About a minute or so.

It was like someone told him he had to say a few words and he took it literally.

[woodsprite]

51. Saw a video of Clinton helping Poppy Bush down

from a set of steps. Lets hope idiot son doesn't need these guys to do too much more PR work for him cause neither one looked in great shape.

[jane_pippin]

38. He wasn't on long enough for it to hurt.

It was irrelevance and incompetence personified, and that's what scares me.

[Just Me]

49. Sheesh. That would be a very weird sensation.

",...sinking slowly to the bottom of the ocean." ((eek))

[EFerrari]

35. I can't look at or listen to that POS

posing as our president because it makes my head explode. And that gets expensive. :)

[Art_from_Ark]

132. You too, huh?

[CottonBear]

29. I'm scared too. Do you think he'll even land on the ground today?

I think he'd better not land anywhere near any of those angry refugees.

Our family down there in St. Tammany Parish (Lacombe) is totally out of contact with the world right now. They are alive but that's all we know.

Bush has blood on his hands.

[Ripley]

36. Glad to hear you know they are alive.

I'm waiting to hear from people in Miss.

I don't care if this is against the rules or not. Someone needs to do a regime change real fast or we are all gonna end up like those poor suffering people along the coast. ON OUR OWN.

I've never owned a gun, except a bb gun and I feel I must now buy one.

[CottonBear]

61. We are so glad they are OK. We still have not spoken to them by phone.

They sent out a message via ham radio to our neice in KY who called us. Then the neice heard from her brother the next day. He drove to Baton rouge to use a pay phone because it will be 6-8 weeks before they have electric and phone service.

Regime change now.

I'm going to the gun range soon to learn to shoot. I've shot a BB gun and shot at skeet 30 years ago. I'm going to learn to shoot a shotgun and a handgun and a rifle.

[Ripley]

76. I cannot believe this is happening in my lifetime.

I never thought I'd feel forced to buy guns for my home as the prudent cautious thing to do, since I feel like I currently live in a safe place and don't even have an alarm system on my home. In fact, today I'm going to buy a locking gas cap for my old truck I have to park on the street.

How did the world get so bad so fast?

[CottonBear]

83. The world's been getting bad but it fell right over the edge this week.

We have crossed a line that I never imagined that that we would cross.

We need regime change now.

[tavalon]

121. The world has been so bad for a long time

It's just a new sensation to have the third world land on our shores. But it won't be new for long. This is our future thanks to the robber barons.

[Imagevision]

127. Due to Bush administration, I would feel safer with a hand gun

and I hate to sink to this level but feel it to be the necessary thing to do.


http://downingstreetmemo.com/

[KyndCulture]

40. Yeah somewhere nice and safe like a deserted beach.

I just want him to fly low enough in NOLA to smell the stench of rotting death, get a good wiff of what he caused.

[ElectroPrincess]

43. So are my In-laws CottonBear! My heart goes out to you and yours ...

:grouphug:

We are converting our study and family room into bedrooms. Four of our six family members' homes in the New Orleans have been are flooded and/or destroyed. :cry:

Bless you and stay strong Dear Heart! :hi:

[CottonBear]

70. Oh no! Your poor family. How awful.

That is devastating. My god. :cry: :grouphug:
I can not imagine being in your situation. :cry:
Take care of your family and yourself. :grouphug:

My in-laws have their homes-no electricity or phone and tree damage but no flooding by some miracle. They are in Lacombe, west of Slidell. My neice's in-laws are w/ her in KY. They live in Slidell and may not have a home to go home to. :cry:

Mr. CB is NO native and grew up in Slidell. I had family (now passed on) who lived in Orange Beach, AL, Mobile and NO too! I'm glad they're not here to see this disaster. We are heartsick. We love NO. We were supposed to travel there this weekend. :cry:

[ElectroPrincess]

103. Thank you ... we love NO also

Everyone is is shock now, but we will survive.

As they say - One day at a time.

Thank you and Warm Regards :pals:

[SaveAmerica]

110. More blood, I used to think it was bad enough that people who

voted for him have the blood of our soldiers and innocent Iraqis on their hands, but now this. They're all guilty.

[CottonBear]

143. Guilty. Guilty. Guilty. Bu$h will burn in hell for all of this. n/t

[Michydem]

39. Don't you thik he will get crucified if he steps out in the public???

I know he is flying over NO but he is supposed to make "stops" at Biloxi and Gulfport today..and if those people see him they are going to go OFF??? am I right?

[KyndCulture]

42. No cause you KNOW they will find 10 freepers who lost nothing

to come and suck his sorry ass for 20 minutes...

[WilliamPitt]

44. They won't let anyone near him, I guarantee it

I agree with the Secret Service completely on this one if they decide to quarantine his dumb ass away from the folks. He'd be in some trouble otherwise.

[jus_the_facts]

48. If he tours New Orleans he'll be chokin' on the chemical fires....

...that're burning near the French Quarter now. :nopity:

[Laurab]

112. I guess that's their job

and they have to do it, but he SHOULD be in some trouble, and I'd love to see him stroll amongst the people...

[Pallas180]

41. Did ya hear the reporter say"if this had been a terror attack, we'd all be

dead" ?

maybe it was Soledad or someone she was talking to...another female reporter.

BTW, this is the perfect time for a terra attack you know...we've shown the world we don't have enough military at home, or at Iraq, and we're disorganized and limping along.

Giuliani long ago turned into a plick, but he could organize and command. ( I knew him before he was a plick :) )

[ElectroPrincess]

50. Bullshit! Guiliani was a posturing PAPER tiger ...

The right wingers fell for that bullshit, I hate to consider that we'd buy into his empty rhetoric.

Without his entourage, Guliani is a worthless POS. :puke:

WTFU ... please!

[Gormy Cuss]

128. You know, I agree about Rudy.

His posturing at least sent out the message of someone in charge, and for that I thank him. Otherwise he pretty much was just talking a good game.
W, Chertoff, Brown, the whole gang have had days to come up with a strong posture of control and a plan to recover. Instead they've come out of the blocks blaming the victims and playing dumb to the possibility of just this sort of event in NOLA. They're not even pretending to be in charge.

[Michydem]

52. soledad is on a roll today she let Mike Brown have it this am

she said "this is friday sir, we had food drops in 2 days for Tsunami victims...this is day 5..." he just kept yapping about how he knows the frustration is there and people are being fed NOW...totally missing what she was saying..is that NOW is a little later than 2 days after the freaking storm

[DoYouEverWonder]

45. Why would anyone launch a military response

to a natural disaster? The only reason anyone would do this is if they WANTED a lot of people to die. This is the fundies idea of birth control.

So much for the sanctity of life.

[WilliamPitt]

46. I dunno

The mayor specifically asked for "troops" in that interview. I'd give him what he wants. Pretty sure he's not part of some conspiracy.

[ElectroPrincess]

53. How about the KISS Principle? How about some fresh drinking WATER?

[WilliamPitt]

56. I'm not sure what you're driving at

Troops have good boots and tough vehicles. They have large cargo trucks to carry water.

[ElectroPrincess]

65. Where are they? Where IS the WATER? I saw troops but NO WATER /eom

[WilliamPitt]

67. You saw cops

in riot gear. They're in the soup with the rest of them, and a lot of them are quitting to go help their families. The city needs help from the outside, and military forces/vehicles/helicopters/ships are the best way to get it there.

You have a better way to do it, I assume.

[ElectroPrincess]

99. Yeah, I do ... Drop WATER, like DRINKABLE WATER ...

That's a real simple concept Will.

[dxstone]

139. I don't think Will gets it, Princess...

I see he still hasn't responded to this most simple and expedient answer you've offered; perhaps he's mulling it over... but I find it strange he hasn't at least concurred that you JUST MAY HAVE AN IDEA THERE...

Part of the problem for so many of you, the reason you continually post WTF!s over and over again, is cuz you don't wanna look at the plain simple evidence before your eyes that you are dealing with a cabal of soulless conscienceless killers intent on world domination, EVEN at the price of the DESTRUCTION of the prize. Will's SURE that the mayor's not part of some conspiracy... well, you wouldn't HAVE to be part of a conspiracy to be mowed down by it, would you?
THIS is how conspiracies work: KEY people in KEY positions of REAL POWER pull the strings. From the TOP down, the mayor is ADVISED that he NEEDS troops, so he asks for them. The troops (ALSO NOT PART of the conspiracy) are given orders to shoot at the water until it goes away, and are told that if anyone gets in the way, they are TERRARISTS, COMMUNISTS and other assorted muckabillies... being 'good' troops, they do their duty and obey orders; later on, they are court-martialed and hung out to dry, literally and figuratively, for doing so. They don't get to tell their side to the press, who wouldn't report it if they did... because the press is one of the most important elements of the conspiracy; there are MANY MANY key players in positions of power there, though they are ultimately mere well-paid lackeys to the greater overlords in the Grand Game.

I'm GLAD that Will has FINALLY come to the realization that W is not REALLY President Evil:



but simply a puppet whose head is filled with sawdust--when it's not being used to smuggle black-market diamonds into Houston...



Yes, Butch IS retarded. Makes him the PERFECT puppet, actually...
...but Pitt is apparently still missing the important point that there ARE people of REAL intelligence, limited though it may be, who STAND BEHIND THE PUPPET and make it dance.
And who's behind Cheney? Why, Pappy Bush, of course...
And who's behind him? Others much like him; other old-money landed aristocracy, both here and abroad, who have been playing this game not for centuries but millennia...
Actually, if you ask me, so MANY of you are coming to this realization VERY VERY LATE in the game...
The time for victory seems long-past to me now; when Americans stood down and let this PESTILENCE be installed in the White House--and not once, but TWICE--I knew we were well and truly fucked.
We have forgotten our own history. We have forgotten what a general strike is. We have forgotten how to fight to defend our freedoms. We are waiting for a hero... but we HAD one in Clinton, and we let them sell his ass down the river, we stood by and watched them beat him to a PULP, and they're still doing it, and we're still standing by and watching it, but now it's just the abuse of a corpse...
Go home, America. Go home and kiss your wife and love your children and know that it's all just about over now, and that you're actually LUCKY that this is the case.
What value survival, in this hideous paranoid insane backwards-sliding future? What old glories can be regained from this chaos?
It was all empty and meaningless from the beginning... and we as a people have PROVEN that we are not fit to be free; we are fit only to be meat for the endless meat-rendering machine that is American culture in all its depraved, deluded, narcissistic, selfish, stupid, self-limiting, bone-headed wonder.
Listen, don't listen to me. I'm ranting. I'm mad, I tell you... quite, quite mad.
I am UTTERLY POWERLESS to effect the drama in any way; I can see clearly what is happening, but I might just as well be watching a made-for-tv movie.
And I can't even switch it off.
As I said in a pm to a friend with family on the line down there:
...unlike Butch, I have absolutely no power, nothing to share with anyone except the contents of mmy brain... this is insanely frustrating to me, this sense off utter powerlessness and uselessness... I just hope you know that I've been VERY concerned for you since I first heard of this, and wish I could do something to help...
If I had money, I'd try to get down there myself...
I hope you're well. I hope your mom laid up some good supplies.
Goddamn this evil fucking cabal of lunatics. God damn them.
d

ps: I can't believe the stupidity of Americans... I just can't believe it...
When Butch first took office, eveyrone should have gone on an immense general strike: DON'T go to work, DON'T do anything but go out into the streets and start overturning anything not nailed down.
That's what the French would've done... and we call THEM cowards?
If you ask me, it's looking more and more as if we truly got the government we DESERVE.

[KoKo]

141. Read your rant....agree with some parts of it...

understand your frustration...not as hopeless as you are... Because..there's "Faith."

Because they are becoming SO OBVIOUS...that it's hard to miss them these days...Because their "One Trick Pony's" are getting tired of jumping through the same hoop,because Americans ...in the end...are STILL SMARTER, than all of us our despotic Dem Leadership and the Repug Crooks give us credit for.

It's not fast, quick and in warp speed like the Internet...but this "old battleship" does turn...slowly and grudgingly...but it turns.

Just a note of hope...because there are still a few rays seeping through the cracks.

[dxstone]

142. Well thanks, KoKo...

I try to be positive here mostly; come to think of it, that's about as hopeless a post as I've ever actually put up on DU... I know everyone is wiggin' lately, not just me...
I try to point out to others as much as possible that where there is life, there is ALWAYS hope...
So thanx. For reminding me.
:hi:
d

[Ripley]

55. Thank you.

The conspiracies are absurd. Are all of the black leader in NO in on this whitey conspiracy to commit genocide? :sarcasm:

marcus b has a thread in here with transcript of Mayor's interview. there is violence people and he wants help to stop it. No one says all the people stuck there are violent criminals! But those that are, are making the Hell NO has become a DEADLY Hell.

[ElectroPrincess]

58. If you don't think that both Classicism and Racism are NOT a big part

of this ULTRA-SLOW response time, think again?

It's not a conspiracy when it is TRUE.

[Ripley]

63. You know, I'm tired of words being put in my mouth about this.

Where did I say classism and racism are not a part of some of the reporting and the incompetent relief efforts?

the conspiracy is that the black Mayor, the black head of Police, the black leaders of the city are in on this because they are begging for NG units to help them!

[DoYouEverWonder]

77. That is the problem, the National Guard are all in Iraq

The National Guard are trained for NATURAL disasters. They don't come driving in with guns. They drive in with food and water. Now we have troops fresh back from Iraq who only know about security. Food and water? What's that?

[Ripley]

82. Do you think I'm stupid?

I guess a lot of you do. I'm sorry I ever gave that impression.

Honest to the Gods, I want the water and food and baby formula dropped from planes/helicopters LAST MONDAY! I don't think it is an either or situation - necessities and security. I think the Mayor understand his situation better than I do.

That's all I'm saying.

[DoYouEverWonder]

84. It shouldn't be an either or situation

But the only response they are getting are armed troops. They are not getting the most important component of the response which is food and water.

Yesterday Armored Vehicles rolled into the Superdome site. Did they bring water trucks and Porto-potties? No all they brought were guns and then stood there guarding the people. A few troops handed out water. They did not need 100's of guys lined up doing nothing but looking mean.

They could post armed guards at key vantage points to watch the crowd and the rest of those troops should have been getting people feed and ready for evacuation. They could have filled those buses in a half hour if they had sorted the people out ahead of time. Instead they waited for the buses to come and took hours figuring out who could go on which bus.

[rateyes]

95. They knew this was coming....

Bush even declared it a disaster area BEFORE the damned hurricane hit land. Why wasn't there choppers FULL of food and water sitting on a tarmac somewhere in Dallas, Houston, etc. just waiting for the order, as soon as the storm was over to start shipping, dropping supplies in?

Better yet, why didn't they get those people evacuated BEFORE the storm hit? It would have been a hell of a lot easier to do it then, than it is now.

We need LEADERSHIP in this country to start paying attention to things before they happen, and start planning for response.

* said, after 9/11, "if I had had any idea that they were going to fly airplanes into buildings, I would have moved heaven and earth to try to prevent it."

Well, * DID KNOW about Katrina beforehand (and, yes, I know he knew about 9/11, or at least the possibility of it beforehand, I'm making a point here)--why wasn't he "moving heaven and earth" to prevent this human suffering? He is WORTHLESS as a leader--I wouldn't hire him to take out my damned garbage.

[tavalon]

122. I'm sorry, but

this is neither classism nor racism, it's stupidism. You don't think they're going to get a free pass on this one because most of the people they are murdering are black, do you?

[DoYouEverWonder]

73. The mayor has been asking for aid since Monday

asking for troops is his last resort. No one else has come.

I was referring to the BushCo response to the disaster. Did you know that yesterday they announced that the PENTAGON had taken over running the response? All Rummie and his dickheads know about is guns. Before we sent all the National Guard to Iraq they would have gone in with food and water. You rarely saw armed guardsmen in a disaster. Now we have this heavy military presense and no food and water. Soon Rummie will be planning bombing runs over NO to get things under control. Just like Fallujah.

[Peace Patriot]

113. Rumsfeld, ye gods! "Looting = freedom." "Stuff happens."

[Sugar Smack]

57. Yup. He's trumped his "trifecta", buddy-

And speaking of gibberish, do you think he knows where he's being flown? All he could manage to muster was "uh...the affected areas" and "uh...the affected people in those affected areas". For instance, if they flew him over Lake Michigan, do you think he'd know the difference?

[WilliamPitt]

60. They're going to fly low over the Potomac for a while

He'll be napping.

[Sugar Smack]

68. I just got the most amazing visual

of that twat curled up in the fetal position, sucking his thumb and rolling his eyes back in his head.

[Telly Savalas]

69. They'd do best to fly him into a TV studio and do a blue screen effect.

Ya know, kind of like when Ed Helms reports from Baghdad on the Daily Show.

[Sugar Smack]

74. And get that boy a bib.

[Ilsa]

59. Haven't laughed this hard in weeks. Thanks. (I'm still scared.) Nominated.

[B3Nut]

62. Okay...we need a T-Shirt.

"Smurf Buckle Arglebloo!"
"Git 'er done!"

rofl...I needed a laugh...gack what a knobshine!

Oy oy oy,

Todd in Beerbratistan

[mtnsnake]

66. It's not Bush's fault. Didn't you just hear him?

As usual, he completely laid the blame on OTHER people. He said, and I'm not sure I got it right word for word..."The effort was there but the results are unacceptable."

So I guess he's blaming the people who tried. Just great.

[DinahMoeHum]

71. You'd think he couldn't sink any lower than "My Pet Goat". in 9/11/01

but then there came his performance on August 30 and 31, what with the cake with McCain and the guitar strumming in San Diego.

:argh:

I recall arguing with my brother (a Freeper in spirit) in 2000.
I didn't know an awful lot about Bush at that time, but I knew enough to say that I felt he was too lightweight in terms of background, intellect and leadership. And I said, in no uncertain terms:

"...Bush will fail us as a nation in a time of crisis."

:evilfrown:

Too bad I've been proven right, not once, but SEVERAL TIMES !!

9/11. The Iraq War. Hurricane Katrina.

Guy's an absolute abortion. Total scum.

Will no one rid us of this meddlesome "president"???

:argh:

[expatriate]

72. But Will - that there bunny has TWO pancakes on his head!

Every time I see Shrubini babbling I just cringe with embarrassment - and people in Australia ask me what the hell is wrong with him.

And yes, I'm scared too. Have been for a long time. But now I'm mad. My beloved home town is dying. My people are dying. My son is lost.

I want to scream and not stop until my brain cools. I don't think there is enough breath left to me in this life for me to scream enough.

[pointblank]

78. Hey, if anything else, don't forget...

Amurka will be stronger after this. :crazy:

[DoYouEverWonder]

80. We'll certainly be less populated

this is the fundie version of birth control.

[pointblank]

89. Bush said something to that effect...

when he spoke about the situation yesterday or the day before...just to clarify my post!

[emald]

79. you know

*'s father, no41, has got to be deeply embarassed by his son. He has enough brains to realize that his son has ruined amurika, has divided the people into sheeple and problems. Man oh man, what a monkey of a man.
I HATE THIS SON OF A WHITE HAIRED BITCH. HE IS THE WORST HUMAN BEING EVER IN POSITION OF POWER. FUCK GWBUSH.

[ElectroPrincess]

92. Don't cha know that's why Bush Sr. has adopted Bill Clinton? :P /eom

[seabeyond]

81. boy bush lectured yesterday that WE THE PEOPLE need to help

well asshole, we started helping, and setting of structure for danation and distribution before he got off his ass from vacation. really get me the man will arragantly stand there and tell me what my job is.

i was thinking this morning, and contribution grows here in amarillo, and thinking how we the people did, because of govt incompetence. their job is to get the people out. we are friggin takin care of the job once people are pulled out. all that is being asked of govt now, is save lives

and again they fail

so i say to myself this morning. if we cant count on govt to even saves lives, let us know. if i knew way back monday, govt would get in, i would have rented a van, and drove people out myself. day and night. and how many in america wouldnt have done the same.

next time we cant afford to count on asshole bush to even saves lives

we the people will haev to do that also

[bo44]

85. Bush is a SHITSTAIN on our Country

and half of our fellow Americans would eat a mile of his own shit just to sniff his asshole and declare it divine.

[symbolman]

87. Watch his jaw when he talks

shit for brains has a new stupid pet trick he does, a sort of jaw rocking every 30 seconds or so.. been doing it in the last 3 speeches..

if you go to http://www.cnn.com you can watch..

Looks like he got his with a brick and needed to respond with a can of Chef boy R Dee Ravioli..

luv the bunny, between that visual and Bush's verbal nonsense I feel like I'm having an acid flashback :)

[TrogL]

114. It's called facial dystonia

It's a side effect of cocaine use.

http://www.dystonia-support4u.co.uk/spotlight.php?number=35

[flygal]

88. I'm giving this no. 5 to get it on greatest

[graywarrior]

90. We are on our own. We need to appoint someone to fix this mess.

[Alizaryn]

93. What did I miss??

DON'T TELL ME ,,, THEY LET HIM TALK AGAIN?!?!?

[rateyes]

97. OK, I won't tell you

that he talked again before getting onboard Marine One for a trip to the region affected by the hurricane (won't land in NOLA though--scared shitless of what might happen.)

[unblock]

98. williampitt, you're just jealous

because you can gibber goodly like our president do.

it's a gift, really.

[LSK]

100. couldnt you have said the same thing in late 2000 when he was appointed?

[Generic Other]

105. Where were you? Will Pitt was the FIRST to shout the alarm in 2000

Sheesh.

[LSK]

115. sorry - wasnt meant to be an attack on William Pitt

Was more along the lines of you could see that Bush was a bumbling idiot way back then. I was always fearful of a major disaster under him or that he might start WW3. He probably would have if he went into Iran. I think with Katrina now, that will not be happening.

[Horse with no Name]

101. You are someone that I trust that can wrap their head around this

and remain sane. I, however, lost my sanity sometime on Sunday--I think when they were putting people INTO the Superdome, however, I digress.
As citizens of the US...what is the logical next step in this for us to do?
They won't let us close to New Orleans. Somehow...giving money and clothing just aren't cutting it.
What is the next step?

[Peace Patriot]

117. Well, yes, that IS the problem. We have a twice unelected idiot, puppet

of the war and oil profiteers, holding all of the authority in this situation, having bled FEMA dry for their war and having sent half of our National Guard to Iraq, and not giving a crap about the poor (permitting the idiot to attend a posh Republican fundraiser while our citizens are dying for lack of water and food!). (--fits their general message, I guess.) WHAT DO WE DO?

Throw Diebold and ES&S election theft machines into the levee, that's what! (i.e., 'Boston Harbor'). Our powerlessness--our disenfranchisement--has a direct cause: SECRET, PROPRIETARY programming code in voting machines and tabulators controlled by Bushite companies. That's WHY we have this president. And it IS fixable--if we act now, while we still have state/local power over election systems.

The bad guys are not waiting. They don't give a crap about New Orleans or its dying people. They are acting even now to spread these election theft machines to more areas. In early August, they held a hogfest at the Beverly Hilton in Hollywood--a week of fun, sun and lavish lobbying for election officials from around the country, sponsored by Diebold, ES&S and Sequoia election theft companies. (Diebold = CEO was Bush/Cheney campaign chair in Ohio. ES&S = funded by far rightwing billionaires. Sequoia = hired Repub former CA Sec of State Bill and Jones and his chief aide Alfie Charles to push their systems).

Really and truly, this is something we can do--and must do for the long term. Get rid of these voting-stealing machines!

In this powerless state, in which the government is no longer responsive to the will of the majority, there is not much we CAN do about the suffering in the Gulf coast, other than the obvious. Donate to the Red Cross and other nonprofits. Volunteer at Red Cross centers. And help prepare shelters and homes for the displaced. (For instance, find out what's needed--tents, clothes, food, toys, whatever--and where it needs to go, and help get it there.) And, if you know someone who is stuck in a disaster area, and can think of a way to get them out, do so. Try backchannels--ham radio operators, etc. Nola.com has a blog for each area in the NO region, helping people find each other, and reporting on conditions in given areas (from people on the ground). See the "Inside NOLA view" on the right side of the page: http://www.nola.com/weblogs/nola/

Also, pressure Congress on the aid bill, demand a Congressional investigation, and take other political action to force long and short term assistance, and to hold the Bush regime accountable.

[mod mom]

102. This is what happens when FRAUDULENT ELECTIONS put

an idiot in charge!

[defiant1]

106. I'm scared of George too....

:scared:

[Media_Lies_Daily]

108. Dictators have NO compassion for the common citizenry.

[novak goes postal]

119. You act like someone stroked you one in the back of the head

with a lead pipe.......This really nailed it..... He is down there now just play acting...What an ass clown.

[Swamp Rat]

123. Genocide

[ronnykmarshall]

125. If W was reading this ...

he'd say:

Hey Linda! Come'er and look at this bunny!

Laura: How many god-damn times to I have to tell you my name is Laur....... oh my now ain't that cute. How'd ya think they got that little feller to sit still with that flap jack on his head.

W: Heh, heh. Shore looks like he's a'gonna hop away don't he.

L: Well, you'd think so, huh? Jenna! Barbara! Come here and look at this bunny.

J: Ohmygawd that is soooooooo funny. Barb, remember the time we got stoned and made pancakes?

B: Ohmygawd don't GO THERE! You fuckin' ate so much you puked!

Condi: Um, Mr Husband .... I mean Mr. President we are waiting for you in the cabnet room. We need to ...... ahhhhhhhhhh! Isn't that bunny adorable!

L: Oh Condi, where did you get those lovely shoes?

[nickgutierrez]

133. !!!

:rofl:

[ronnykmarshall]

138. Glad you liked it.

I think it's pretty close to the truth.

[titoresque]

126. great post!

Damn I missed the press conf.

Anyone have a link?

[proud patriot]

131. To quote Willy Wonka

"Mumbler"

[Obamarama]

134. Still think the people of NO are going to have big, old party, Will?

eot

[WilliamPitt]

135. At some point, in some place,

count on it.

[Obamarama]

137. I hope you're right, pal.

I really do. And we ALL will party when the asshat criminal's reign comes to an end...if the rest of our country isn't in shambles by then.

[cal04]

136. Scary is when well educated teachers tell you how smart and

great he is
Everyday I just look at them and tell them that if he was in their fifth grade class they wouldn't be saying that.

[Kurovski]

140. Was Bush chewing gum during his photo ops?

did that help reduce the rate of that bizarre junky-jaw movement of his?

Did they shove a wad of cud in his mouth to purposely mask that strange jaw tic?

I'm asking because I was only half conscious and drifted off to sleep after being up all night--watching news and DU--when President Death appeared on the screen, trying real hard to look interested in all the things the white professional were telling him.

On top of everything else, he must have untreated ADD.