HULK SMASHED
Mine does too.
You are a chameleon.
It's blank for me. Is that a good thing? Maybe it is.
You'd buddha believe it...
what would the kingfish say:
make the big boys
and the fat cats pay.
start with the billionaires and their heirs....
File a wrongful death lawsuit.
This calls for more than just karma; it calls for instant karma!
NSTANT KARMA
(John Lennon)
Instant Karma's gonna get you
Gonna knock you right on the head
You better get yourself together
Pretty soon you're gonna be dead
What in the world you thinking of
Laughing in the face of love
What on earth you tryin' to do
It's up to you, yeah you
Instant Karma's gonna get you
Gonna look you right in the face
Better get yourself together darlin'
Join the human race
How in the world you gonna see
Laughin' at fools like me
Who in the hell d'you think you are
A super star
Well, right you are
Yikes! It's in the main stream press. How can we believe that...?
Well, it's something the NYT found it worth printing.
What's wrong with you people?
Don't you realize that the police were just doing their job.
Those people turned back didn't have the common decency to be able to properly sunburn.
My conservative freind today was talking about how she would have "walked out" of NO. I was glad to be able to tell her about this incident. She must have heard of it, as well, because she quickly changed the topic.
Here's a song I like:
Splashdown---Karma Slave lyrics
Artist - Titan A.E. soundtrack
Album - Titan A.E.
Lyrics - Splashdown---Karma Slave
Today I'll be spinning on a Wheel
I'm a slave to a Wheel
And there isn't any stopping
What mistake(s) could I have made?
I'm a slave serving time for a life that I've forgotten.
I'm a slave of Karma
Spin the Wheel and I'm a king reborn
I'm a slave to Karma
I'm coming back, yeah, I'll be coming back
But for the last time.
Today I'm a king on the Wheel
Still a slave to the Wheel
But this time around I'm smiling
Keep me cautious, keep me safe, just in case there's a chance
I can leave this Wheel behind me.
Stand in the Middle and you won't get dizzy
Stand in the Middle and you won't fall down
If you stand in the Middle you can keep your balance
Stand in the Middle while the Wheel spins round and round...
I'm a slave of Karma
Spin the Wheel and I'm a king reborn
I'm a slave to Karma
I'm coming back, yeah, I'll be coming back
But for the last time.
I'm a slave of Karma
Spin the Wheel and I'm a King reborn
I'm a slave to Karma
I'm coming back, yeah, I'll be coming back
But for the last time.
How do all the Wheels inside the Wheels revolving,
Go on, and on, and on, and on, and on...
Spinning on the Wheel the souls of One evolving,
Live on, live on, live on, live on, live on...
Anyone who claims that they know the answer's coming back again...
Who's at the center of the Wheel
The inventor of the Wheel
or another spinning servant
I'm the Master of my Wheel of my very own Wheel
Universal and recurrent
I'm a slave of Karma
Spin the Wheel and I'm a King reborn
I'm a slave to Karma
I'm coming back, yeah, I'll be coming back
But for the last time.
"...a suburban police officer angrily ordered about 200 people to abandon an encampment between the highways near the bridge. The officer then confiscated their food and water, the four witnesses said. The incidents took place in the first days after the storm last week, they said.
They had to confiscate the food and water so people would have to buy it later from price gougers, who are heroes because they made sure only people who really needed that food and water got it.
I’ve been mentioning the James Kroeger article, The Republican Nemesis, on the blogs because I feel so strongly about its potential to make the Democrats the majority party again.
It’s lengthy, but it’s packed with insights into why Democratic campaign strategists fail when they go up against the Republicans.
Here’s what others have been saying about The Republican Nemesis.
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My best friend, who lives in Italy, emailed me the entire affidafit of this experience this morning. I don't know how to link it and have asked my friend if she knows someone who does. I believe it is an historical document that requires recording in the halls of history.
If you have advice regarding how I can link it from my email I would be obliged.
wonder what the spin will be. by the way, not that it matters to me, but if this happened before the "looting," can the cops be blamed for creating a dangerous situation? they suck anyway, but how much do they suck? (by they i mean the cops who wanted to keep the southern parishes free of "undesirables") oh, and was broussard in anyway responsible for the actions of these officers? i understand they were trying to defend jefferson parish, which, i think, is broussard's parish.
Okay, was able to read the link.
I don't know what to say. Except maybe, I hope I wouldn't have behaved the same way.
Mob mentality on the side of the law. I'm thinking it's been this way for more years than I want to admit.
Worse yet, that story took place the night before George the Nitwit first came to New Orleans -- so it's after FEMA said everything was supposed to have been "okay" and that help was on the way.
That's really sickening. It tells you the media frame that everything was okey dokey was quite full of shit, doesn't it?
Honestly, the more we try absurdity and satire and sarcasm to cope with this administration's helming of the country... they just catch up with it.
Or: those sheriffs were just a few bad apples.
Isn't this the same kind of treatment the Okies got at the California border in like, oh, 1930?
Splashdown---Karma Slave lyrics
I wish I could find the lyrics for "Instant Karma Coffee House" by Loud Sugar...
A bridge too far.
Karma had delicious food.
the Bush Junta were paraody and reality meet?
sometimes i cannot tell, this misadmistration is so fucking awful.
Now we know where the remnants of the Rhodesian Army are stationed.
London brigde is falling down, falling down...
I shit you not:
Street by Street Bodies Found
Search for Corpses Expands
Cheney Upbeat About Relief Effort
That's AOL's main screen Top News Headline right now.
And what upbeat words of wisdom does Darth Veep offer:
Vice President Dick Cheney visited an emergency management center in Austin, Texas, and said the government was finally gaining control of the situation. "I think we are in fact on our way to getting on top of the whole Katrina exercise [emphsis mine]. We've got a lot of work ahead of us," he said.
Reuters' story, AOL link - sorry, but can't find that particular quote at Reuters' site yet.
File a wrongful death lawsuit.
Mr. X
You can believe there are personal injury lawyers lining up to find these people.
That town, and probably parish, are bankrupt.
OK, here's a quiz.
You can go back in history and kill any one person. Who would you pick?
Tonight, I'm going with St. Patrick.
God those fucking people are vile. May their gated communities rot and fester from within.
Perhaps the self-proclaimed culture mavens of the conservatard media should explore the racist aspects of a culture revolving around self-gratification for Jeebus; a white Christian ethos of fried Twinkies and pickup trucks.
Bastards.
wow, & we all read that story *last* week didnt we?
why does the nyt find it "fit to print" now?
not that im not grateful!!!!
Tonight, I'm going with St. Patrick.
Is the preznit a direct lineal descendant?
The sad thing is, the only reason people will believe this story is that it's verified by two paramedics.
Evening, freethinkers
Fucking hell. Looks like Dante will need to do some renovating, eh?
Hecate--Prescott Bush.
I think we are in fact on our way to getting on top of the whole Katrina exercise
The flood waters are in their last throes.
I think we are in fact on our way to getting on top of the whole Katrina exercise
The flood waters are in their last throes.
London brigde is falling down, falling down...
I'm reading a great book which looks at the history of various nursery rhymes and it explains that London Bridge did fall down and need to be rebuilt many many times. It's a fun book.
Did anyone see the guy on CNN in the rowboat with the American flag draped around his shoulders?
He was shouting to the reporters, "Government, phthew. FEMA, phthew. Bush better not show his face around here. Stupid bastard. And I voted for him. How stupid does that make me."
Ray of hope?
In the meantime crony capitalists with Bushco ties get juicy contracts to clean up and rebuild NO:
Firms with White House ties get contracts.......
While the man who would be President personally helps airlift 270 victims to Tennessee.
Gore airlifts victim out of New Orleans
Ah yes, please contrast the selfless liberal with the the compassionate conservative who just sees this as an opportunity to make money.
Note to Brit Hume: Buy more Halliburton, you'll really "clean-up" on this investment!
I just riffed on that very thing, Kay.
'exercise'??? Friggin idiot...
Hecate--Annotated Mother Goose rocks.
Lawson dumbfuck is on MSNBC
Gretna police chief on now. And may I just say- Grecian Formula for men!
Tonight, I'm going with St. Patrick.
Is the preznit a direct lineal descendant?
Ripley--aww, drink a beer and kiss a redhead 
It was really selfish of those fleeing people to starve and be black. They should be ashamed of themselves, if they're still alive.
Maybe this'll teach 'em to plan better and be born to rich white families next time...
So the sheriff has a story that there was some riverboat that had broken loose and they were afraid it was gonna bust their leevees, so they couldn't allow more people into town.
*cough*bullshit*cough*
Ripley--aww, drink a beer and kiss a redhead
I do not drink... beer. Send me a redhead, STAT!!!
Hecate-
St. Paul.
Note to Brit Hume: Buy more Halliburton, you'll really "clean-up" on this investment!
HAL Stock
8/29/05 – $57.80
9/9/05 – $66.10
Because I never tire of trying to shame them and the people who profit from them.
a white Christian ethos of fried Twinkies and pickup trucks.
I am SO stealing that.
I'm reading a great book which looks at the history of various nursery rhymes
'Ring around the rosie' has an interesting origin, doesn't it?
Eli--gotta find one first.
And Bush is going to observe Sept 11 tomorrow with a moment of silence before he leaves for New Orleans once again?
Does even Karen Hughes realize they have done milked that cow dry?
You can go back in history and kill any one person. Who would you pick?
hmmm St Peter
NTodd,
Much less, "Jill fell down and broke her crown."
Eli--gotta find one first.
You don't see any *anywhere*?
Hey, Sally! Hubba! and cheers!
Stupid bastard. And I voted for him. How stupid does that make me.
As Obi Wan sagely asked, "who is the more foolish? The fool, or the fool who follows him...?"
I posted this a couple of threads down, but wanted to make sure it gets some play... from tomorrow's Times:
The governor of Louisiana was "blistering mad." It was the third night after Hurricane Katrina drowned New Orleans, and Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco needed buses to rescue thousands of people from the fetid Superdome and convention center. But only a fraction of the 500 vehicles promised by federal authorities had arrived.
Ms. Blanco burst into the state's emergency center in Baton Rouge. "Does anybody in this building know anything about buses?" she recalled crying out...
...an initial examination of Katrina's aftermath demonstrates the extent to which the federal government failed to fulfill the pledge it made after the Sept. 11 attacks to face domestic threats as a unified, seamless force.
Instead, the crisis in New Orleans deepened because of a virtual standoff between hesitant federal officials and besieged authorities in Louisiana, interviews with dozens of officials show.
Federal Emergency Management Agency officials expected the state and city to direct their own efforts and ask for help as needed. Leaders in Louisiana and New Orleans, though, were so overwhelmed by the scale of the storm that they were not only unable to manage the crisis, but they were not always exactly sure what they needed. While local officials assumed that Washington would provide rapid and considerable aid, federal officials, weighing legalities and logistics, proceeded at a deliberate pace.
FEMA appears to have underestimated the storm, despite an extraordinary warning from the National Hurricane Center that it could cause "human suffering incredible by modern standards." The agency dispatched only 7 of its 28 urban search and rescue teams to the area before the storm hit and sent no workers at all into New Orleans until after Katrina passed on Monday, Aug. 29.
On Tuesday, a FEMA official who had just flown over the ravaged city by helicopter seemed to have trouble conveying to his bosses the degree of destruction, according to a New Orleans city councilwoman.
"He got on the phone to Washington, and I heard him say, 'You've got to understand how serious this is, and this is not what they're telling me, this is what I saw myself,' " the councilwoman, Cynthia Hedge-Morrell, recalled.
State and federal officials had spent two years working on a disaster plan to prepare for a massive storm, but it was incomplete and had failed to deal with two issues that proved most critical: transporting evacuees and imposing law and order.
The Louisiana National Guard, already stretched by the deployment of more than 3,000 troops to Iraq, was hampered when its New Orleans barracks flooded.
Partly because of the shortage of troops, violence raged inside the New Orleans convention center, which interviews show was even worse than previously described. Police SWAT team members found themselves plunging into the darkness, guided by the muzzle flashes of thugs' handguns, said Capt. Jeffrey Winn.
"In 20 years as a cop, doing mostly tactical work, I have never seen anything like it," said Captain Winn. Three of his officers quit, he said, and another simply disappeared.
On Saturday, officials said that ten people died at Superdome, and 24 died at the Convention Center site, although the causes were not clear.
Oliver Thomas, the New Orleans City Council president, expressed a view shared by many in city and state government: that a national disaster requires a national response. "Everybody's trying to look at it like the City of New Orleans messed up," Mr. Thomas said in an interview. "But you mean to tell me that in the richest nation in the world, people really expected a little town with less than 500,000 people to handle a disaster like this? That's ludicrous to even think that."
You can go back in history and kill any one person. Who would you pick?
hmmm St Peter
Could we kill Jebus before he made it big?
Just realized I don't know how to spell bridge.
Hecate, what is the name of the book you are reading?
I'd love to know the history behind the nursery rhymes I learned as a child and also taught my children.
"Ashes, ashes, we all fall down."
Much less, "Jill fell down and broke her crown."
That's not in the version I heard:
Jack and Jill went up the hill
To have a little fun.
Stupid Jill forgot her pill,
And now they have a son!
..."who is the more foolish? The fool, or the fool who follows him...?"
Who fools the foolmen?
I wouldn't buy any Haliburton. Haliburton gives off a really bad Enron vibe to me. And you're talking to a woman who held onto MicroStrategy all the way down. But I will not buy any Haliburton and not becuase of moral qualms. That's going to crash and burn and it's going to be ugly. Just my gut.
TAJIKISTAN: CRISIS OF INDEPENDENT MEDIA SPARKS INTERNATIONAL CRITICISM
Over the past year, Tajikistan’s independent media have suffered one setback after another. All the major opposition newspapers have been shut down, and recently the editor of one of those newspapers was jailed on what many say are politically motivated charges. The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) has now expressed concerns about Tajikistan’s media environment.
There are fewer sources of information in Tajikistan these days. Independent media, especially newspapers, have been hit hard. Two dailies have simply vanished -- a fact that has been noticed by those selling newspapers.
"The popularity of newspapers like ’Ruzi Nau’ and ’Nerui Sukhan’ was high among our customers, but they have not been putting them out lately. I hope they start again," one newspaper vendor says.
Readers agree the closings are unhealthy for the country’s political development. One reader in Dusanbe lamented the disappearance of "Ruzi Nau."
May their gated communities rot and fester from within.
Or at least may the spirits of the lost sit at the end of their beds every night.
I must say - Alien Apocalypse has some clever lines. Something about a Republician President allowing the invasion or something? Anyone watching?
"Ashes, ashes, we all fall down."
mer | Email | 09.10.05 - 7:28 pm
i think that one celebrates the fate of those medieval folks unfortunated enough to contract plague...
That stupid fucker keeps defending his horrible decision. What a Dick.
That's going to crash and burn and it's going to be ugly. Just my gut.
How can The Official Contractor Of The U.S. Government crash and burn? I mean, talk about a reliable revenue stream.
BTW, why did I think of NTodd when I saw this?
You can go back in history and kill any one person. Who would you pick?
Tough question. It'd be Hobsons choice between two abortions.
One in 0 century Galilee and one in 7th century Iran/Iraq/Saudi Arabia.
America to introduce ban on caviar
The United States is expected to impose a blanket ban very shortly on the import of beluga caviar from the Caspian Sea region, in a move designed to prevent the delicacy from vanishing forever from melba toasts and fine bone china dishes because of drastic environmental damage and over-harvesting.
Beluga has long been considered the tastiest and most aristocratic of caviars, especially in the United States, which accounts for almost 80 per cent of consumption. But, last year, the US officially placed the fish that produces the rare roe, the beluga sturgeon, on its endangered species list.
"The government has got to stop stacking senior positions with people who are repeatedly cashing in on the public trust in order to further private commercial interests," said Danielle Brian, executive director of the Project on Government Oversight.
But that's what the federal government *is* now: A giant funnel for a huge-ass slush fund. Nothing but.
Allbaugh's other major client, Baton Rouge-based Shaw Group, has updated its Web site to say: "Hurricane Recovery Projects -- Apply Here!"
It's all above-board, you see.
That CNN article is not bad.
So, I'm confused by the Police Chief.
Basically he's saying he doesn't regret making the decision he made on the bridge he says he wasn't even on that night?
The sad thing is, the only reason people will believe this story is that it's verified by two paramedics.
Memekiller
The media will believe this story because its told by two white people.
Police agencies to the south of New Orleans were so fearful of the crowds trying to leave the city after Hurricane Katrina that they sealed a crucial bridge over the Mississippi River and turned back hundreds of desperate evacuees, two paramedics who were in the crowd said.
And the dyed-hair sheriff just tried to offer the excuse that he was worried about his levee failing.
Then what would have happened to them, sez he?
Could we kill Jebus before he made it big?
Herod tried that. Didn't work.
"Ashes, ashes, we all fall down."
Interestingly, Snopes says the popular myth about that rhyme's origin is false. That one I'm not entirely convinced about based on the evidence they provide...
You can go back in history and kill any one person. Who would you pick?
Saul of Tarsus.
NO has long been the most corrupt in the country. That was thuggish to fire weapons over their heads and turn them away.
The media will believe this story because its told by two white people. When they gave their interview on MSNBC they were sitting in front of a large peace symbol. Their words are toast to the heartland of America.
NTodd: How' bout NORTH.
"You mean across the bridges that were blocked?"
NO, I mean the bridges that were open. Typical leftist habit, focus on one thing (1 bridge) "And how far north do you think they needed to go, given this was a regional disaster?" How about far enough so they wouldn't freaking drown, Baton Roufge maybe. Ever been to Louisiana? It ain't that far, even if every bus was packed and the congestion made it impossible to come back that would have been thousands out of there. Parse this, asshole. You too Steve Simels.
Hecate - I love the sound of the book you're reading about nursery rhymes. I am interested in children's games - I don't know if kids still play them, but when I was a kid, we played Red Rover and Little White House Over the Hill, and Kick the Can, and Swing the Statue, and on and on. Some of those games are really old.
And that's a frivolous topic for such a thread. I can't believe this shit - I honestly cannot believe it. Bush has dismantled this country's infrastructure just about completely. Goddamn - we have to stop this. We are coming apart at the seams.
...the only reason people will believe this story is that it's verified by two paramedics.
Well, the brownshirts were trashing them last night because they were two "socialists" from San Francisco.
They didn't want their bacteria colony coming into their bacteria colony clearly requiring limited resources.
The book is Heavy Words, Lightly Thrown: The Reason Behind the Rhyme: The seamy and quirky stories behind favorite nursery rhymes by Chris Roberts
Great fun, so far.
Well that's three for for St. Paul. Good enough for me. Fire up the time machine, NTodd!
From NYT (and up on Sully):
Some holdouts seem intent on keeping alive the distinct and wild spirit of this city. In the French Quarter, Addie Hall and Zackery Bowen found a unusual way to make sure that police officers regularly patrolled their house. Ms. Hall, 28, a bartender, flashed her breasts at the police vehicles that passed by, ensuring a regular flow of traffic.
The media will believe this story because its told by two white people.
Okay, turning away white people is just beyond the, um, pale.
...the only reason people will believe this story is that it's verified by two paramedics.
There were two others who confirmed it as well.
I missed a conversation string, evidently, but I'm curious if Wycliffe has ever walked from New Orleans to Baton Rouge.
I haven't.
BTW, Brownshirt W is particularly amusing tonight. Completely pwned, completely clueless, still thrashing about for dear life... I do love watching their death throes!
...the only reason people will believe this story is that it's verified by two paramedics
What about the white couple?
" You can go back in history and kill any one person. Who would you pick?
Saul of Tarsus."--
Central Scrutinizer
Agreed. Started the culture war override of Jesus' perfectly reasonable teaching.
Enough talk. Let's move.
Meet me at the Lexington Ave. stop of the N train. There I have hidden a time machine...
curse helloscan
Violent clashes erupt in Belfast
Several police have been injured and a civilian shot during loyalist rioting over the re-routing of a controversial Orange Order parade in Belfast.
The Chief Constable urged calm and said police who were shot at and attacked with explosives had returned fire.
Hugh Orde said the Orange Order must bear "substantial responsibility" for the rioting over the Whiterock parade.
DUP head Ian Paisley blamed the Parades Commission for not reviewing the route that barred it from a nationalist area.
The parade was re-routed to avoid the mainly nationalist Springfield Road area.
Reposted from last thread, didn't know there was an upstairs:
Abrams interview:
Gretna police chief: "We were not prepared to accept evacuees."
Oh, this police chief is full of shit. "Evacuees wouldn't have been better off. We kept them out of Gretna to protect THEM."
He calls the MRE and water theft "ludicrous, mistaken identity." "I was not on top of the bridge, I didn't take anything." "We will look into it."
Says it was STILL not a mistake to keep evacuees out of Gretna. Because Gretna's levee might have broken.
"Okay, turning away white people is just beyond the, um, pale." --
Eli
You. Go sit in the corner. Now.
Tena, it's too late.
It's over.
How can The Official Contractor Of The U.S. Government crash and burn? I mean, talk about a reliable revenue stream.
Well, it's a reliable revenue stream until it isn't anymore. Everyone said Enron was a reliable revenue stream.
I hereby give the medal of freedom to TRUTH SEEKER...JT
All prerequisites for the start of a pandemic have now been met save one: the establishment of efficient human-to-human transmission."
ok. then there's this from the c.d.c.
"The risk from bird flu is generally low to most people because the viruses occur mainly among birds and do not usually infect humans."
http://www.cdc.gov/flu/avian/gen...an/gen...-info/
facts.htm
-J.T.
**********************************
JT CORRECCCCCCCCTOPEOPLE TO PEOPLE TRANSMISSION WAS ....NOT SEEN!!!!!THEREFORE...NO PANDEMIC, I USED TO WORK IN A LAB!!! all you SKEERDY CATS....SELL YOUR SWINE period or get a VACINATION!!!geeze louise
sittenpretty | Email | Homepage | 09.10.05 - 7:29 pm | #
Mr. Bradshaw and his partner, Lorrie Beth Slonsky, wrote an account about their experiences that has been widely circulated by e-mail and was first printed in The Socialist Worker.
That's bullshit. It was first posted online here:
http://www.emsnetwork.org/
artman...cle_18337.shtml
But moved since then.
Hecate - I may pick that book up - I was intrigued by book The Witch Must Die: How Fairy Tales Shape Our Lives, but that one sounds like more fun.
Do you realize how disgusting it is that white people have to verify the abomination that took place in New Orleans to make it real?
That sheriff can go fuck himself with his hair dye-wand.
I am a corporate attorney working in Houston in the offshore diving/oil & gas business. Also, a Navy vet. Long story, but I have always been a liberal Democrat. However, I must confess that I am much more pissed off and politically active now as a result of GWB.
As you might expect, the people in my business are mostly right-wing Republicans and they just expect everybody else to be the same. In the past week, I have received two vile rascist e-mails from Louisiana-born white males, one from another employee of my company and the other from an outside attorney.
I have many friends from my Navy days that live up north, some Republican. I have tried to tell them just how vile these southern Republicans are, but they just can't comprehend it.
The sheriff is just another Democrat that enables Bush, just like Clinton and Dean.
"Fire up the time machine, NTodd!"
Damn it, spinoza, we can't all go back in time at once.
I propose a game of rock, paper, scissors.
Troops seize British-owned cattle ranch in Venezuela
Venezuelan troops have reportedly seized a huge British-owned cattle ranch as part of an agrarian reform programme targeting large estates that the government says it wants to redistribute to the poor.
Agroflora, a local affiliate of Vestey Group owned by meatpacking tycoon Lord Vestey, said in a statement on Thursday that a convoy of troops and cooperative farmers had arrived at the ranch, which is located in the south-western state of Apure.
Article continues
However, official confirmation of the events could not immediately be obtained.
The land redistribution plans are rooted in a new constitution, which was passed soon after President Hugo Chávez took office in 1999, and which defines large estates as being "contrary to the social interest".
aeon flux--oh yeah, we're there!
Marcia Brady-
Paper!
Why do they need Blackwater *security* forces in NO when they have evacuated most of the stinking town? Don't they already have enough thugs around like Sherrif Lawson (ironic name)?
I have tried to tell them just how vile these southern Republicans are, but they just can't comprehend it.
Good FSM. Just send 'em over to LGF or Freeperville -- they can read it and weep.
Interestingly, Snopes says the popular myth about that rhyme's origin is false. That one I'm not entirely convinced about based on the evidence they provide...
NTodd
They don't really provide any more evidence than the case for, and elsewhere on the same site they explain in exactly the same kind of theological "no data but hey look at our arguments" way that sing a song of sixpence was a similarly meaningful allegory, used by pirates to recruit.
Well, it's a reliable revenue stream until it isn't anymore. Everyone said Enron was a reliable revenue stream.
If I were a bit more amoral and had more money to invest, I would buy the shit out of Halliburton, then sell it all the second a Democrat got elected preznit.
Good luck, squid. Sounds like you're in for a rough 3 years there.
BTW, why did I think of NTodd when I saw this?
I'm typecast.
Kinda makes you wonder if outerlying backwoods communities would have been equally frightened about an exodus of urban New Orleans black and mixed race folk BEFORE the hurricane hit.
"Marcia Brady-
Paper!" --
spinoza
Damn, I threw rock...
No, wait, I meant scissors!
I have tried to tell them just how vile these southern Republicans are, but they just can't comprehend it.
squid696
I know what you mean... it's everywhere though. Even in CA.
spinoza,
Scissors!
I have tried to tell them just how vile these southern Republicans are, but they just can't comprehend it.
squid696
True redneck, rock-stupid southren Rethugs have to be experienced to be believed.
Ditka, I have the new location of the story. At least it worked yesterday:
EMT Story
Damn it, spinoza, we can't all go back in time at once.
I sense a disturbance in the Force.
i've been going back and forth with my bushbot relative who says tha t broussard's appearance was an act...in fact he said
"Broussard was hilarious!
he was reading from a script the whole time. the crying was a nice touch!"
i wrote him back that it was quite possible that he had gotten little sleep in the past few days and maybe he wrote stuff down so he wouldn't forget what he wanted to say.
then he sent me an email he got from a friend that was so full of crap. i googled key phrases from that email; sure enough, it came from free republic site. i was able to debunk most of it -- except -- (maybe you all could help me out) who is/was responsible for the maintainance of the levee system? the email said it was under local...all can find is army corp of engineers which is federal, right? i can't find anything where it says the local government is responsble. who is correct?
thanks
The sheriff is just another Democrat that enables Bush, just like Clinton and Dean.
He is indeed a Dem. The rest of your statement is complete hogwash. FOAD.
The sheriff is just another Democrat that enables Bush, just like Clinton and Dean.
He is indeed a Dem. The rest of your statement is complete hogwash. FOAD.
" Why do they need Blackwater *security* forces in NO when they have evacuated most of the stinking town? Don't they already have enough thugs around like Sherrif Lawson (ironic name)?" --
bigvic
They have to have someone there to guard the Macy's and intimidate the photographers.
And what upbeat words of wisdom does Darth Veep offer:
Vice President Dick Cheney visited an emergency management center in Austin, Texas, and said the government was finally gaining control of the situation
Bullshit! The red cross and the military are. Our government agencies haven't done squat.
Echidne--I have chocolate cake in the oven. I need the theobromines.
Hilarious. A men's hair-dye commercial on MSNBC.
The land redistribution plans are rooted in a new constitution, which was passed soon after President Hugo Chávez took office in 1999, and which defines large estates as being "contrary to the social interest".
Moonbootica
Excellent. We need more of that here. I'm voting for Castro/Chavez in 2008.
Good FSM. Just send 'em over to LGF or Freeperville -- they can read it and weep.
All they're going to do is harp on the fact that the two people who recounted the incident are from San Francisco and that the article was printed in some kind of leftist newpaper.
Do you remember when they (Toby our vile little racist troll to be specific) were undermining the account of the murder in the prison at Bagram air force base by harping on the fact the one of the people involved in uncovering it was an Arab?
Do you remember how they were trying to undermine Amnesty International by talking about how its director was a Muslim.
White, racist, conservatives are going to circle the wagons. Let's hope they're less than that 40% of the population Bush still has.
And 'redneck' is not limited to the South. Plenty of the little knee biters in IL and WI and IA.
Take away the accent and you've got the same snuff-dippin', racist, no-eyelid jerks. It's universal...
Tyburn Jig, I say.
Let tham all dance the Tyburn jig, on live TV, lined up on a long row of gallows stretching across the very bridge they tried to defend against that horde of looting jiggaboos.
I think it will either be that or an uprising the likes of which has not been seen in a looong time in this country, putting Watts and the Rodney King affair to shame.
I saw tham interviewing that Lawson pig just now -- "wouldn't have been any better off in Gretna" indeed!
Boy he was just the kind of fat-assed mustachioed cracker pig I expected him to be.
I want to see his eyes bulging out of his head as the lard is rendered from his body over a slow fire.....
Italy body to link Muslims, government
Italy's Interior minister has approved the creation of an advisory council to improve communication between the government and the Muslim community, the ministry announced.
The body will respond directly to the Interior Ministry, and will be responsible for counselling the government on facilitating the integration of Muslims in Italy.
Its members will be representatives from Italy's Muslim community and academics appointed by the ministry, officials said on Saturday.
"They will express opinions, and formulate proposals on questions indicated by the ministry," Minister Giuseppe Pisanu was quoted as saying by the ANSA news agency.
What has been the greatest threat to the Bush regime so far is that the wider bacteria colony of America, watching what happened following Katrina, now sense they're in danger. That's when the worm turned. It's acting out of its best interests now. Just like it rallied behind the regime following 911 for its percieved survival, now it will abandon it.
Karma police, arrest this man
He talks in maths
He buzzes like a fridge
He's like a detuned radio
who is/was responsible for the maintainance of the levee system?
The Army Corp of Engineers is responsible for maintaining all waterways that are used in interstate commerce.
That made the responsible for the levee system.
Wow, Atrios...it looks as if you've managed to purge any dissenting voices and now you are left with a vast Amen Chorus, peopled by mean-spirited, sophomoric dullards.
Not a dissenting voice anywhere....just the way you like it!