Did someone already post this? I don't remember seeing it and, somehow, I think the stupidity would have stuck with me. From the Times-Picayune:
Bush visit halts food delivery
By Michelle Krupa
Staff writer
Three tons of food ready for delivery by air to refugees in St. Bernard Parish and on Algiers Point sat on the Crescent City Connection bridge Friday afternoon as air traffic was halted because of President Bush’s visit to New Orleans, officials said.
The provisions, secured by U.S. Rep. Charlie Melancon, D-Napoleonville, and state Agriculture Commissioner Bob Odom, baked in the afternoon sun as Bush surveyed damage across southeast Louisiana five days after Katrina made landfall as a Category 4 storm, said Melancon’s chief of staff, Casey O’Shea.
“We had arrangements to airlift food by helicopter to these folks, and now the food is sitting in trucks because they won’t let helicopters fly,” O’Shea said Friday afternoon.
The food was expected to be in the hands of storm survivors after the president left the devastated region Friday night, he said.
I saw it, but I don't remember if it was here or elsewhere. Every time I think that I have reached the limit of how much my mind can be boggled, something else comes along and boggles it more.
I'm just a big boggle myself these days. Shake me up and see how many words you can spell.
In unrelated news, isn't the phrase "BTK Killer" redundant?
Um, yep. I think it's something like "with au jus."
Am I the only person who wants to know if Karl Rove was in the vicinity of the Rehnquist household today?
In a weird way, I'm bummed that this didn't happen before Bush's was up for re-election, so we could have seen Bush's ass handed to him on a platter.
Of course, all the conservative commentators would say that for Democrats to criticize Bush's response to the hurricane (and preparation beforehand) would only serve to embolden our hurricanic enemies.
Eh, they'll probably say that anyway.
Am I the only person who wants to know if Karl Rove was in the vicinity of the Rehnquist household today?
If he was, we should behead the corpse of Rehnquist to be sure he won't come back as a vampire.
Libkitty and Kristen are me. Just when I think I am boogled out, I get reboggled.
Latest Times-Picayune story: "New Orleans Left To The Dead and Dying."
The people that haven't been evacuated are the ones who are too sick and frail. In short, the people who should have been evacuated first, four days ago.
There's no doubt in my mind the death toll is going to be in the thousands. I don't think it'll get into the 10,000s, but I'm getting a sense of about 4,000 or 5,000.
The question is: how many died because of the complete failure of the federal response. And I'm thinking that more than half of the deaths could have been prevented. That they happened well after the hurricane. Certainly many because of the flooding itself, but so many many more because relief efforts were delayed and poorly coordinated.
Lotta dead people.
