Posted on 09/06/2005 12:12:15 PM PDT by rface
Remember, also Rudy was a big name even before 9/11. Did anyone ever hear of Nagin before Katrina outside of New Orleans?
The following is simply a list of his works, to read go to the link here.....
Bernard Weiner's Internet Publications
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Bernard Weiner's Internet Publications
(Normally posted at other websites)
Dear Reader: For archival purposes, I have divided my long list of articles in two parts. One section contains straight essay and analysis articles; the other those that are written in different styles, ranging from satire/parody to insider-peeks into the diaries of the powerful to imaginary scenarios to conversations with the GOP mole "Shallow Throat." All are chronologically listed. Enjoy. -- BW
Humor/Satire/FantasiaThe "Diaries"/"Memos"
The "Shallow Throat" Conversations
The "Dummies"/"Primers"* Parodies
Fantasias & Parables
Essays and Analyses
The "Diaries"/"Memos"Karl Rove's Diary: Escaping the Lame-Duck Trap. (June 7, 2005)
Rove's Modest Proposal: How to Initiate a Stealth Draft. (January 4, 2005)
Rove's Election Diary: Taking Care of the Blue People. (November 8, 2004)
Rove's Campaign Diary: "Time for Those 'Surprises'!" (July 13, 2004)
Inside Karl Rove's Diary: Spinning the Web of Victory (January 13, 2004)
Inside Bush's Diary: "Things Are Spinning Out of Control!" (October 21, 2003)
Inside Karl Rove's Diary: "Things Aren't Going So Well" (September 2, 2003)
A Peek Inside Bush's Post-War Diary: "F Impeachment!" (June 16, 2003)
Paul Wolfowitz's Confidential Memo on Post-Iraq Plans -- A Satire (April 14, 2003)
Inside Donald Rumsfeld's Diary: Damn Powell! Let's Roll! (March 13, 2003)
Inside Saddam Hussein's War Diary: Hot Damn! It's Showtime! (January 16, 2003)
Inside Karl Rove's Election-Night Diary. (November 6, 2002)
Saddam 's Diary: "I Don't Have to Show You No Stinkin' Anything!" (August 8, 2002)
Inside Bush's Diary: The Sucking Sound of Quicksand. (July 25, 2002)
A Peek Inside Dick Cheney's Personal Diary. (June 20, 2002)
Confidential Memo from Kenny Boy to Georgie Boy: "Welcome to the Club!" (May 24, 2002)
A Peek Inside Colin Powell's Personal Diary. (May 3, 2002)
Another Peek Inside Osama bin Laden's Diary. (March 29, 2002)
Inside Bush's Diary: Bobbin' and Weavin' Over Enron. (January 29, 2002)
A Peek Inside Osama bin Laden's Diary. (January 9, 2002)
A Peek Inside Bush's Personal Diary: Notes on the War. (November 27, 2001)
The "Shallow Throat" Conversations
"Shallow Throat:" Wounded, Cornered Animals are Dangerous. (June 21, 2005).
"Shallow Throat": Reports from the Slimy Bush World. (February 22, 2005)
A Gleeful Shallow Throat Reveals "Rehnquist's Defeat-Bush Memo." (September 6, 2004)
Shallow Throat to Kerry: Don't Torture Bush, Just Abuse Him. (June 23, 2004)
Shallow Throat to Dems: "One Chance, Don't Blow It" (February 10, 2004)
"Shallow Throat" Tells How Bush Can be Defeated in 2004. (September 30, 2003)
"Shallow Throat" Advises Democrats to Bring It On Big-Time. (July 18, 2003)
"Shallow Throat" Returns to Tell Dems How to Take Bush Down. (May 12, 2003)"
"Shallow Throat:" Bush & Co. Arrogance Will Lead to their Undoing. (December 11, 2002)
"Shallow Throat" Savages Dem Leaders and Reveals Bush Strategy. (October 16, 2002)
"Shallow Throat" Reveals Bush & Co.'s Weak Spots. (June 9, 2002)
The "Dummies"*/"Primers" Parodies
A Current Events Primer, May-2005 Edition. (May 17, 2005)
A Primer in Quagmires: The Iraq & Vietnam Debacles. (January 11, 2005)
Bush's 2004 Scandals for Dummies. (June 8, 2004)
Current Events for Dummies. (November 18, 2003)
Us-Iraq Policy for Dummies. (April 28, 2003)
2002 Politics Summed Up for Dummies. (December 19, 2002)
Bush's War on Iraq for Dummies. (October 4, 2002)
The Bush 9/11 Scandal for Dummies (June 1, 2002)
The Intifadeh and Israel for Dummies (April 16, 2002)
"The Middle East for Dummies" (March 18, 2002)
"The 'War on Terrorism' for Dummies" (March 3, 2002)*Editors' Note: We recently received an email letter from John Wiley & Sons, publisher of the "...For Dummies" books, demanding that Crisis Papers stop using that title in our parodies. We have agreed to do so. We are listing the old titles here, as that is how they were published at the time both at Crisis Papers and on numerous other websites over which we have no control. John Wiley & Sons is the official holder of the trademarked title "For Dummies," and we now have so indicated on all the Weiner articles to which we have access that have used that term.
Fantasias & Parables
Flash: GOP Swept fro Power in 2006: Impeachment Looms. (May 31).
Rumsfeld Gets Grilled at Truth & Reconciliation Hearing, (March 22, 2005)
Probing for Answers to What Ails Us: The Incident (Fiction). (March 8. 2005)
Secret Rightwing Agenda Unearthed & The Liberal Resurgence (Fiction?) (February 15, 2005)
Bush's Inaugural Address -- After a Spritz of "B.S. Away!" (January 18, 2005)
The Great Pall & Its Fall: A Not-So-Grim Tale. (September 13, 2004)
Transcript of Bush/Cheney Testimony Before the 9/11 Commission -- A Satire. (April 27, 2004)
Up, Up and "B.S. Away!" (April 13, 2004)
"B. S. Away!" -- The Miracle Truth-Spray (February 17, 2004)
How War was Averted at the Last Minute: Bush's "Victory" Speech. (March 13, 2003)
Spot on the Johnny: The Latest Anti-Terror Weapon. (December 29, 2002)
Advance Draft of Bush's Astounding 9/11-Anniversary Speech. (August 22, 2002)
The "Alice Documents": Inside the Mideast Negotiating Room. (April 10, 2002)
A Candid Interview With President Bush: A Fantasia of Hope. (March 26, 2002)
The "Shallow Throat" Documents: A Pre-9/11 Scenario. (February 21, 2002)
GOP Anger at President Gore's War Actions. (November 15, 2001)
What Bush Should Have Said. (October 14, 2001)
Essays and Analyses
2005
Twenty Things We Now Know Four Years After 9/11. (August 30, 2005)
A Cancerous Tumor in the Body Politic: Time for Surgery (August 16, 2005)
U.S. Leaving Iraq? -- It's Still the Politics, Stupid. (August 3, 2005)
Rove-Plame Scandal Leading to Deeper White House Horrors? (July 19)
A Powerful Man Glimpses His Demons. (July 12)
Political Pot Pourri: Rove, Impeachment & The Supremes. (July 5)
15 Things Learned About Bush&Co.: An Impeachment List. (June 28).
Building a New "Movement": The Downing Street Memos. (June 14)
Open Letter to Troops Serving in Iraq. (May 3)
The 2006 Election Is Happening Right Now. (April 26)
Leapfrogging from the Sahara to Germany: What Does "Progress" Mean? (April 19)
Rove's Tricky Decoy Dump. (March 22)
Bush to U.N.: Screw You! -- Mad Dog Bolton's Nomination. (March 15)
Bush's Weird Tour: A Letter to European Friends. (March 1)
Taking on the American Taliban. (February 8)
Post-Inaugural Crimes & The Progressive Posse. (January 25)2004
Rummy's Gotta Go -- But Will Bush Hit the Delete Button? (December 21)
A Southeast Asia Diary: Post-Election Travels. (December 14)
Bush Heads for the Bunker. (November 30)
To European Friends: Explaining the 2004 Election Disaster. (November 23)
Let the Rumpus Begin! -- An Oppositional Strategy. (November 5)
The Three Faces of Election Eve: Choose Your Future. (November 1)
Seismic Shifts for Both Parties on November 2. (October 25)
Reflections on Loss: My Mom, My Country's Soul. (October 18)
Primer for the Undecided: Why It's Kerry. (October 11)
The Two Historical Paths on November 2 -- Choose One. (October 4)
Bush Rehearses for Debates: The Mysterious Transcript. (October 27)
25 Things We Now Know, Three Years after 9/11. (August 30)
The White House Horrors: Why a Kerry Vote is the only Rational Option. (August 23)
Bush's AWOL Scandal: Let's Break Through the Media Barrier. (August 9)
Letter to European Friends: America's Weird Election Dance. (July 26)
Learning from George & Martha: The Art of Slip-Sliding. (July 19)
Warning: Parallels Between Germany in '33 and America Today. (July 5)
Bush's Torture Deceit: What "Is" Is. (June 29)
No Other Way to Say This: Torture Memos Reveal Fascist Mentality. (June 15)
Quicker than Viet Nam; Worse than Watergate. (June 1)
Ellsberg's "Secrets" and Bush's War... (May 25)
Time Out! A Pause for Longer-Range Thinking. (May 18)
Horrid Thoughts about Horrid Leaders. (May 4)
Bernard Weiner: Bush Scandals Are Roiling: Turn Up the Heat! (April 6)
Bush&Co. Want Us to "Move On" -- So Why Not Take Him Up on It? (March 16)
The America I Live In: Notes for the Campaign. (March 2)
The Progressive Primary Dilemma: K, K or E? (February 24)
How We Got Into This Imperial Pickle: A PNAC Primer. (February 3)
Robert S. McNamara, Colin Powell and "The Fog of War" (January 27)
A Quick Pat on the Back -- Now Into the 2004 Trenches. (January 6)2003
My New Year's Revolutions. (December 23)
It's Time for Plame-Case Reporters to Out the Administration Leakers! (December 16)
East Coast/Left Coast: The Throbbing Political Pulse. (December 2)
Handicapping the 2004 Race: Wazzup, Democrats. (November 11)
There Is No "Road Map" to Peace, Only the Hard Road Not Taken. (October 14)
A Heartening Visit to Texas, Home of the Original Bush Whoppers. (September 20)
Bush's Foreign Policy: "There Must Be Some Way Out of Here" (September 20)
America Two Years after 9/11: 25 Things We Now Know. (August 19)
The Past Is Present: Watergate, Vietnam & Iraq. (August 5)
On the Advisability of Holding One's Nose When Voting. (July 14)
Re-Lighting the Torches of America's Soul. (June 30)
Germany In 1933: The Easy Slide Into Fascism. (June 9)
How We Got Into this Imperial Pickle: A PNAC Primer. (May 26)
Depression -- And Its Activism Antidote -- Will Lead to Bush's Downfall. (April 7)
Anyone Detect a Familiar Odor in the Air?: The Vietnam Connection. (March 31)
A Vietnam-era Dad Talks to His Protesting Son. (March 24)
Open letter to Bush: You are disgracing America: Resign or Be Impeached. (March 20)
How to Swagger & Bully Your Way to Disaster: Bush's Foreign Adventurism. (March 6)
Letter to the Grandkids: How Did We Get to War With Iraq? (February 27)
Bush Knows the Jig is Up: So Let's Hurry on to Baghdad. (February 20)
Artistic Sign Language: Signs of the Coming Bush Fall. (February 13)
Arrogance: What is it Good For? Absolute Disasters! (February 6)
The Five Fingers of Focus: Examining Bush & Co.'s Real Motives. (January 30)
Ellsberg's 'Secrets' and Bush's War: An Intersecting History. (January 9)2002
Through a Glass Lightly: 10 Hopeful Cracks in the Bush Facade. (December 5)
Open Letter to the Fledgling 'Movement' (November 22)
The Election Results: Which News Story Would you Prefer to Read November 6? (October 25)
It's Crank-It-Up Time! An Urgent November 5th Call to Action. (October 11)
An American Jew's Open Letter to Hanan Ashwari: Is Mideast Peace Still Possible? (September 2)
The Charnel House Future: Why Bush Must Be Stopped Now. (September 2)
Twenty Things We've Learned Nearly One Year After 9/11. (August 1)
The Tarantula Tango: Despair & Hope in the Body Politic. (July 9)
Talkin' About the F-Word (Redux). (June 24)
Why Is America Behaving This Way? -- A Letter to European Friends. (May 17)
Time Out! A Pause for Longer-Range Thinking. (April 25)
An American Jew Talks About His Shame. (April 3)
Focusing the Anger: An Open Letter to Democrats & Progressives. (February 8)
George W. and "The Vision Thing" (January 24)
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I had forgotten about him completely until August 27.
My point is simple, and remains the same - the task which Nagin is being faulted for failing to accomplish was far beyond the capacity of this municipal government or any other municipal government, and was far beyond anything undertaken by any municipal government.
Now, lugsoul. That's not an honest interpretation of what's being said. I do think that conservatives, and in fact most people of both parties, care about the disabled and people without resources being able to escape what was at the time a Category 5 storm.
Ick.
I did. Should I blame Bush for that too? :)
We'll just have to disagree on that. Could everyone have been saved? No, but I think the loss of life could have been much less, had the Mayor done a better job.
That being said, I'm sure there were people who wanted to leave, but couldn't. I just don't think that is a huge percentage of those who stayed. If they got NOLA down to 100,000 people before the storm hit, that is a huge evac.
Nagin says NOLA evac'd 80%.
Mayor of Biloxi says they evac'd 25-35%.
I have yet to see a single poster accuse the Mayor of Biloxi of committing homicide, negligently or otherwise. But similar accusations against Nagin abound.
I have yet to see a single poster criticize Gov. Barbour for the fact that there was looting on the MS Gulf Coast, or the fact that people had no food or water there for days.
The only differences between the two situations are that there was a lot more (a)water and (b) people in NOLA.
So if Bush is blamed for 10,000 deaths in New Orleans- does he get credit for 490,00 survivors?
Maybe that's because the Mayor of Biloxi hasn't blamed the Feds for his failure, and yes, the Mayor of Biloxi needs to be taken to task.
But he knows about the other guy....told him he ( the Weiner in San Francisco ) ... was about to get some heat....and he chuckled!
Will get my post # 136 deleted!
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And he is NOT on the UCLA Faculty!
I really have to run so just have a second to answer.
I think if the poor in Biloxi had wanted to go and a plan had been in effect to use buses and they weren't used, freepers would be ticked off at the mayor/Governor there as well.
I also think if the mayor/Governor in another state didn't effect his plan appropriately by at least offering the use of buses to those without resources, and then took to the public airwaves to blame the catastrophy on others - namely the feds - freepers would be equally upset.
And tens of thousands more would have likely left NO, whether they wanted to leave or not, if the evacuation was mandatory at some date prior to Sunday.
We haven't heard much about their actions, but believe me, if they were negligent, their turn will come.
Men who Cry.
I knew ya was out there somewhere!
And remember, the whole reason we are having this discussion is because the media is focusing solely on New Orleans, and is using it to solely place the blame on President Bush, and the DNC is piling on. Personally, I would have hoped we could have at least recovered all of the bodies before the finger-pointing started on either side, but the Democrats couldn't leave well enough alone.
wow just wow....
I can't imagine someone actually believing this stuff. You would think that amount of hate would eat someone up at a point...
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