Wolfram, after FEMA has cut telephone lines, I am not giving them the benefit of the doubt.

Oh hell no, don't give them shit. I'm happy to jump on the FEMA fucked up bigtime bandwagon. I just bristle at the (possible) misuse of the C word.

Remember Michael D. Brown of FEMA? The one Bush thinks is doing a great job at FEMA?

You mean good old Brownie?

I've been hearing the stories and looking at the pictures. The National Guard was treating the people in New Orleans as the enemy - criminals rather than victims, opponents rather than some of their own.

I'm reminded of the times when dictators have set the army against people opposing them, with orders to shoot, and the soldiers have looked at crowds and seen their own people - their own families. those dictators have fallen. Bush is secure - the NG doesn't seem able to see the people of New Orleans as their own.

You mean good old Brownie?

ION, I have a new idea for a cop show: Brownie and Turd Blossom.

'''I said because of all that went wrong, of all that didn't go right last week.' And he said 'What didn't go right?'''

Bob Bob was telling me last night how Ari Fleischer (sp?) "pioneered" the use of bald-faced lies as Press Secretary. That shit actually seems to work-- I mean, what's Nancy going to say to him above? It would require an answer way too complicated for the circumstances, and so he pretty much gets away with the "Who me?" routine. I am honestly flabbergasted at the breathtaking audacity of the Rove regime, and how it seems to be consequence-free.

Heh. From The Onion:

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White Foragers Report Threat Of Black Looters

NEW ORLEANS--Throughout the Gulf Coast, Caucasian suburbanites attempting to gather food and drink in the shattered wreckage of shopping districts have reported seeing African­ Americans "looting snacks and beer from damaged businesses." "I was in the abandoned Wal-Mart gathering an air mattress so I could float out the potato chips, beef jerky, and Budweiser I'd managed to find," said white survivor Lars Wrightson, who had carefully selected foodstuffs whose salt and alcohol content provide protection against contamination. "Then I look up, and I see a whole family of [African-Americans] going straight for the booze. Hell, you could see they had already looted a fortune in diapers." Radio stations still in operation are advising store owners and white people in the affected areas to locate firearms in sporting-goods stores in order to protect themselves against marauding blacks looting gun shops.

He's just getting on a deputy to take over operational control of the search-and-rescue and recovery efforts along the Gulf Coast.

Too bad this guy wasn't given control a couple weeks ago. The deputy, that is.

I know it shouldn't be surprising, but -- Rick Santorum wants to penalize people who "chose not to heed the warnings" to evacuate.

Pure evil.

Yay! My proposal has been given to the President of the company!!

what? More than losing their houses and being a hair-breadth from death? Yikes.