Someone previously posted, but Warner Brothers will double your contributions through Ellen's link: [link]

Tom, I love you, but I hate the phone. If you want email I got your back.

Holy shit, the local NBC news broadcast is just RIPPING the feds. Amazing. Jay DeDapper (the reporter) is just about tearing up.

"If the networks could figure out getting all their people and supplies in by Saturday night, why is it taking the federal government until Friday?"

if they're talking about the new low from last week, or the newer, lower low from this week.

this and the eating babies x-post really made me chuckle today. thanks!

Tom, You know I don't like phones much. Is it okay if I pester you on AIM, via the video chat?

from dailykos:

his would be funny if we weren't talking about real suffering. From this CNN video of Bush in Biloxi. Bush is talking to two sobbing African-American women who have lost their house, and a white guy:

Bush to women: "There's a Salvation Army center that I want to, that I'll tell you where it is, and they'll get you some help. I'm sorry.... They'll help you.....

Woman 1: "I came here looking for clothes..."

Bush: "They'll get you some clothes, at the Salvation Army center..."

Woman 1: "We don't have anything..."

Bush: "I understand.... Do you know where the center is, that I'm talking to you about?"

Guy with shades: "There's no center there, sir, it's a truck."

Bush: "There's trucks?"

Guy: "There's a school, a school about two miles away....."

Bush: "But isn't there a Salvation center down there?"

Guy: "No that's wiped out...."

Bush: "A temporary center? "

Guy: "No sir they've got a truck there, for food."

Bush: "That's what I'm saying, for food and water."

Bush turns to the sister who's been saying how she needs clothes.

Bush to sister: "You need food and water."

The Air Force is gathering water an the response is tremendous.

WHY do we not have an emergency stash ready? In various places around the country? To be mobilized in case of an emergency? t starts smacking head on things

Ouch! The Roosevelt Island trams are stalled! Where is Spidey?

I do see a difference here though, Steph, in that the press isn't rolling over and playing dead nearly as much as they did in the other situations.

I agree. The press is possibly dropping the wrong headed notion that it is unamerican to slam the president. He really is in a position where if he hides away he looks like the uncaring @%^$& he is, and if he appears in public he looks like the uncaring @%^$& he is. About time.

The time to "cut short" the vacation was 3 days before the hurricane, not 3 days after.

I actually wrote a letter to the editor today. Huh. It did help to get some of my frustration out.

This is an excellent essay (editor of Left Turn journal) from someone who was evacuated, is articulate, loves New Orleans and is pissed. I found it kind of life-affirming.

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Yeah, and once you DO 'cut short' go to the disaster, not your favorite photo-op spot on San Diego harbor. He loves those battleships.

I actually wrote a letter to the editor today. Huh. It did help to get some of my frustration out.

Last night (after probably freaking out other people stopped at the light for yelling and banging on the steering wheel- just doing my job to further the impression all B'more drivers are insane!) I felt compelled to write to NPR to thank Siegel & Burnett for doing their jobs, and possibly (as several other sources were reporting it at the time, but they didnt' have Chertoff on the line ) a teeny portion of the job of FEMA and that is So Wrong, but thanks, I'm glad you did it.

um, goodness. I don't think that's a sentence.

I also laid on the horn, but that was more about alleviating frustration with the stupid drivers.