I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
putzes.
morons.
Typo: It was an "unpresidented" news conference.
jackasses
Morning!
Good.
Swift descisive action.
A Bloody news conference.
Fuck fuck fuckity fuck.
Once again Bush being Bold.
Look Out.
There are a few things unprecedented in NOLA these days, but the press conference ain't it.
People are dying! fuckers!
Yeah, Kyra on CNN nearly blew a blood vessel out of her skull yesterday talking about the news conference and how 'unprecedednted' it was.
Meanwhile, people are stranded and the rescue operation is breaking down.
The only thing unprecedented was the level of lip service.
Well, one god thing: Dubyah asked Clinton to coordinate international relief efforts.
So we know at least one aspect of this will be done right.
Also not-so-unprecedented lying: Bush this morning with Diane Sawyers said that nobody could have anticipated that the levees would breach.
For contrary evidence,
see
Weaseling
Once again Bush being Bold
Bush should be Boiled. Or afflicted with Boils.
I can't be clever, this is just naked invective.
Ok. Now that I've blogwhored I can return to being a kind and gentle goddess and Atriot. 
It was unprecedented because, in this history of this great nation, never has a President named George Bush given a news conference several days after damage to Louisiana and Mississippi was caused by a Hurricane named "Katrina." President Bush had literally never held this news conference before.
You libruls is so cynical.
Also not-so-unprecedented lying: Bush this morning with Diane Sawyers said that nobody could have anticipated that the levees would breach.
Particuarly when you're golfing in Idaho. No one expects it to happen then.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/20...9/1/85657/
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DKos diary with more information on the suspension of helicopter and, apparently, bus, evacuations.
Can we say Bush is the Wanker of the Decade? It is only '05, however....
Buzzflash is calling Bush "Master of Disaster." Sounds about right.
HICA, ever-body!
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I grew up reading the Washington Post. It is the saddest thing to me what has happened to a once great newspaper. I'm not quite sure whom to blame (Bob Woodward?), but it is pathetic.
Here's my question: We keep hearing that there is no way to get into the center city of New Orleans, except by foot and helicopter.
What about by watercraft? If there are some impediments to boats going in there, why aren't be knocking those the fuck out of the way, so we can get relief and rescuers in there?
BTW, I seriously hope Howell Raines isn't around to describe the coverage as "flooding the zone."
Bush this morning with Diane Sawyers said that nobody could have anticipated that the levees would breach.
Did he really, I mean fucking really? I've been reading this, but I guess I won't believe it until I see it with my own eyes.
Then I'll probably have a massive stroke and die.
Bush gives term Wanker a bad name
DKos diary with more information on the suspension of helicopter and, apparently, bus, evacuations.
Bush will likely call up an immediate napalming of the area around the Superdome to keep those helos safe.
It was necessary to destroy a flooded town in order to . . . um, save it?
I think they cripped from Pravda's editorial on Stalin's address rallying the people after Operation Barbarosa.
>Also not-so-unprecedented lying: Bush this morning with Diane Sawyers said that nobody could have anticipated that the levees would breach.
That's right up there with Condoleeza Rice's claim that no one could have anticipated that terrorists would fly airplanes into buildings, when she had recently read reports that warned against exactly that specific threat.
Once again, a perfectly forseeable emergency, in fact one he was specifically warned against, has caught Bush with his head up his ass. Apparently, the Bush regime's corruption is only matched by their incompetence.
Then I'll probably have a massive stroke and die.
You're not the one who needs to have a stroke and die.
Or a massive coronary.
Famous Bush Boners [with Hesiod sotto voce commentaries]:
2001: "Nobody expected Al Qaeda to hijack airplanes and fly them into buildings. [At least no oin in thsi administration did. Well...Richard Calrk did, but nobody was paying atention to his lunatic rantings.]"
2005: "Nobody expected the New Orelans levees to fail. [Except every emergency management expert in the United States who's ever studied the issue. But we don't listen to experts around here -- unless they donated to my campaign. They are commie liberal terrrist symathizers.]"
Did he really, I mean fucking really? I've been reading this, but I guess I won't believe it until I see it with my own eyes.
SteveLG, he did. I listened to it four times. You can listen to the interview on the GMA website:
GMA
And the media just swallows.
I'm more disgusted than I have been since November of '04.
This may have already been noted...
Guess who wrote this:
Bush said he has not yet finalized plans to visit the areas of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama affected by the storm, but he is expected to go within days. Bush brushed off criticism that he did not return to Washington from his monthlong stay at his Texas ranch on Tuesday, in the immediate aftermath of the hurricane. Upon returning Wednesday, he held a meeting with top government officials guiding hurricane relief and made remarks in the Rose Garden.
If you said Nedra Pickler, you'd be right. "Brushed off criticism..." my eye.
Could there possibly be anyone left in America who buys this "who knew the levees would be breached?"
Most of America spent the whole weekend glued to their TVs, waiting for the disaster to strike, and listening to predictions of just this sort of thing.
Maybe Bush and his cabinet need to ewatch a little mor Weather Channel or something. Then they would have known about this whole levee thing.
"Nobody expected..."
The word hurricane was adopted into the language from the FIRST people that Columbus encountered at Hispanola (or whatever).
Then they died of disease and slavery. But at least we got a cool word out it.
There's a Marx Bros routine that goes something like this:
Groucho: And over there are the levees. Do you know what levees are?
Chico: Sure, that's where the Jews live.
Groucho: We'll pass over that one.
Btw, folx who ordered Curly DVDs a few weeks ago in DC, NY and VT -- those should all arrive no later than today... if the USPS is unaffected by gasoline shortages, that is.
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Other Great unexpected moments in history!:
Stalin: "Nobody expected Hitler to launch a surprise attack against us."
Michael palin: "Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!"
Anglo Saxons in 1066: "Nobody expected the Normans to inavde the British Isles!"
Hungary 1956: "Nobody expected the Societ Union to send in troops!"
Taliban, 2001: "Nobody expected the United States to invade!"
John Kerry, 2003/2004 -- "Nobody expected George W. Bush to actually INVADE Iraq."
Time for Center for American progress to compile a long list of news reports discussing the RISK that the levees in New Orleans might not hold PRIOR to Katrina hitting.
If they don't do it, I will in a blog post.
NYT editorial at least calls it as it really is. A non-preznit making an absurd "feel good" speech.
the taino had huracan as their devil and yukiu as their god
Good Morning America on August 28, 2005: "Good morning, Kate. New Orleans is waking up on this Sunday, realizing it is still the bull's eye for hurricane Katrina. This is Lake Pontchartrain. This is the north side of New Orleans. And this is one of the big concerns, as well as the Mississippi on the south, is that when the storm surge comes, a lot of water and the winds is going to push the water over the dikes and levees and flood New Orleans. That's why residents are being told to leave town."
Associated Press, 8/28/2005:
"When Hurricane Katrina hits New Orleans on Monday, it could turn one of America's most charming cities into a vast cesspool tainted with toxic chemicals, human waste and even coffins released by floodwaters from the city's legendary cemeteries.
Experts have warned for years that the levees and pumps that usually keep New Orleans dry have no chance against a direct hit by a Category 5 storm.
That's exactly what Katrina was as it churned toward the city. With top winds of 160 mph and the power to lift sea level by as much as 28 feet above normal, the storm threatened an environmental disaster of biblical proportions, one that could leave more than 1 million people homeless.
"All indications are that this is absolutely worst-case scenario," Ivor van Heerden, deputy director of the Louisiana State University Hurricane Center, said Sunday afternoon.
The center's latest computer simulations indicate that by Tuesday, vast swaths of New Orleans could be under water up to 30 feet deep. In the French Quarter, the water could reach 20 feet, easily submerging the district's iconic cast-iron balconies and bars.
Estimates predict that 60 percent to 80 percent of the city's houses will be destroyed by wind. With the flood damage, most of the people who live in and around New Orleans could be homeless.
"We're talking about in essence having - in the continental United States - having a refugee camp of a million people," van Heerden said."
AP story quoted abopve was IN THE WASHINGTON POST!
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When Hurricane Katrina hits New Orleans on Monday, it could turn one of America's most charming cities into a vast cesspool tainted with toxic chemicals, human waste and even coffins released by floodwaters from the city's legendary cemeteries.
Experts have warned for years that the levees and pumps that usually keep New Orleans dry have no chance against a direct hit by a Category 5 storm.
That's exactly what Katrina was as it churned toward the city. With top winds of 160 mph and the power to lift sea level by as much as 28 feet above normal, the storm threatened an environmental disaster of biblical proportions, one that could leave more than 1 million people homeless.
"All indications are that this is absolutely worst-case scenario," Ivor van Heerden, deputy director of the Louisiana State University Hurricane Center, said Sunday afternoon.
The center's latest computer simulations indicate that by Tuesday, vast swaths of New Orleans could be under water up to 30 feet deep. In the French Quarter, the water could reach 20 feet, easily submerging the district's iconic cast-iron balconies and bars.
Estimates predict that 60 percent to 80 percent of the city's houses will be destroyed by wind. With the flood damage, most of the people who live in and around New Orleans could be homeless.
"We're talking about in essence having _ in the continental United States _ having a refugee camp of a million people," van Heerden said."
Where's my tinfoil hat? Oh, yes, here it is. Ahem. Karl Rove. Martial law. President-for-Life.
/hat
Q: What's the difference between Soviet Pravda and Pravda on the Potomac?
A: Soviet Pravda didn't pretend to be independant.
Thank you, I'll be here all week. Try the veal.
Hesiod:
You forgot the caption to your quotes:
DUMB
2001: "Nobody expected Al Qaeda to hijack airplanes and fly them into buildings."
and DUMBER
2005: "Nobody expected the New Orleans levees to fail."
The problem with this disaster is the problems with all fuckups, the pampered media are too dumb, lazy, & uncompassionate to give a shit. Bush always has gotten a pass because the millionaire media don't suffer from no healthcare, lack of jobs, or attacks from IEDS. They don't know people who do either. When Bush claims that he couldn't prevent something or that he is doing something or that he has actually accomplished something, they take him at his word. It's only us lefty, unpatriotic haters who would be impudent enough to protest.
HOWEVER, if you have noticed, most of the media on the scene covering Katrina are actually seeing things the way they really are. They actually know this time that Bush is lying about the situation in LA/MS. Even stars who you wouldn't ordinarily expect to take potshots at the Bush administration, like Anderson Cooper and Shepherd Smith, are doing it. Maybe they've had enough of the all that "Who are you going to believe, me or your lying eyes." The eyes have it.
I really don't care for AAron Brown, but even though he's in NY, he's seen enough footage & heard enough tales of woe that he isn't trying to spin this into a 9/11ish let's rally around the presiden thing.
Quite naturally, its the MSM who still have their pampered asses in NY & DC & who aren't paying attention who are still treating this thing like one of Bush's staged campaign events--Tweety & Rita Cosby come to mind. Tweety is such a greedy , selfish pig that he'd probably have to live in the Superdome for 6 months before he'd join the reality based media, but most of the media boots on the ground in LA/MS seem to be there. It's a shame that it took a disaster of this magnitude for them to see the obvious about the callow Bush administration, but better late than never.
BTW: Can we give Jean Meserve the journalism award that was unawarded from Judy Miller?
I agree it was stupid. But, the editorial goes on to say this:
"This administration has consistently played down the possibility of environmental disaster, in Louisiana and everywhere else. The president's most recent budgets have actually proposed reducing funding for flood prevention in the New Orleans area, and the administration has long ignored Louisiana politicians' requests for more help in protecting their fragile coast, the destruction of which meant there was little to slow down the hurricane before it hit the city."
This background needs to be repeated, over and over, so America knows what Bush's priorites have cost us. The Army Corps of Engineers only needed a few million dollars but Bush chose to spend billions in Iraq instead.
Sad, sad performance by the WaPo editorial board. Just like their president's.
But there's nothing new about that-- the Post has been crawling into the bag for the Republicans since Reagan, and with the rise of GW, they finally went all the way in.
After reading the WaPo's editorial section this morning I was sickened. These guys give Bush a pass on everything and as of this morning have gone as far to telling outright lies to their readers. Say what you will about the NYT, but they had the balls on their editorial page this morning to tell what an incompetent FUCKUP Dumbya truly is. As of today I have removed WaPo.com from my Favorites list and e-mail headlines from the WaPo.com website. I can't stand to have my "beautiful mind" corrupted anymore by these shills of Karl Rove who go out of their way to shine a bright light on this fucking moron who is ruining this country.
When Bush fucks up in monumental, undeniable, obvious ways, the media resorts to a favorite script I call Praising with Faint Damns.
That is, acknowledge the minimum amount of screwedupedness, and oh so bravely, actually criticise the President. Then start minimising, putting words in his mouth (The Speech He Should Have Made) and tell us how much better he is going to do.
I hate that worse than straight bootlicking.
"A human disaster of this magnitude is hardly the time to devolve into partisan, political hackery…and childish and illinformed hackery at that."
And the Repugs would NEVER do THAT.
Give me a fucking break!
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