Posted on 09/02/2005 5:40:24 AM PDT by Dog
President to speak at 9am ...
[shaking head]
OMG .. did you just hear JJ compare this to 9/11
And how on 9/11, the President stood on a mound of rubble and said The people responsible for this will hear from us
And that President Bush when he visits NO today .. he should stand on a pile of rubble, look up in the sky and tell God that he will hear from us
What time was that??
Walking into the hangar to get briefing.
I turned them off...........you should flip this on...
http://www.streamaudio.com/stations/asx/KLIF_AM.asx
Ah jeez not this sh*t again...
Rush - The Weapon
We've got nothing to fear -- but fear itself?
Not pain, not failure, not fatal tragedy?
Not the faulty units in this mad machinery?
Not the broken contacts in emotional chemistry?
With an iron fist in a velvet glove
We are sheltered under the gun
In the glory game on the power train
Thy kingdom's will be done
And the things that we fear are a weapon to be held against us...
He's not afraid of your judgement
He knows of horrors worse than your Hell
He's a little bit afraid of dying
But he's a lot more afraid of your lying
And the things that he fears are a weapon to be held against him...
Can any part of life be larger than life?
Even love must be limited by time
And those who push us down that they might climb
Is any killer worth more than his crime?
Like a steely blade in a silken sheath
We don't see what they're made of
They shout about love, but when push comes to shove
They live for the things they're afraid of
And the knowledge that they fear is a weapon to be used against them...
Rush - The Weapon
We've got nothing to fear -- but fear itself?
Not pain, not failure, not fatal tragedy?
Not the faulty units in this mad machinery?
Not the broken contacts in emotional chemistry?
With an iron fist in a velvet glove
We are sheltered under the gun
In the glory game on the power train
Thy kingdom's will be done
And the things that we fear are a weapon to be held against us...
He's not afraid of your judgement
He knows of horrors worse than your Hell
He's a little bit afraid of dying
But he's a lot more afraid of your lying
And the things that he fears are a weapon to be held against him...
Can any part of life be larger than life?
Even love must be limited by time
And those who push us down that they might climb
Is any killer worth more than his crime?
Like a steely blade in a silken sheath
We don't see what they're made of
They shout about love, but when push comes to shove
They live for the things they're afraid of
And the knowledge that they fear is a weapon to be used against them...
In previous periods of serious trial, I have noticed large numbers of posters with very early signup dates. I thought at the time that someone had figured out a way to sign up and fake the date.
In the US, the Eastern Standard Time is the default time given for the President's speech. The Eastern Standard Time includes Washington, New York, and Miami.
None, nada, zip. Only food and water brought in originally was from the NG.
Tell it to the media whores who are already claiming that Bush "has dropped the ball". They know who to look at when they want to hand out blame. Since all they get from LA 'leadership' is the "deer in the headlights" blank stare, they are more than willing to do the blame game to cover for the incompetence.
IMO, he acted and sounded like a man with considerably more on his mind than the usual mindless, unending, rapidfire accusations from the left.
But what if there plan included a cache of supplies nearby that is also under water now because of the magnitude of this storm?
The problem with forward staging is that it can be hit by the storm. The roads were impassable, the airports shut down.
Emergency management HAS to be driven from the bottom up. Each person is in charge of their personal preparedness. Each building should have a person responsible for the building. Someone in charge of the convention center, someone in charge of each pumping station, someone in charge of each hospital.
The President can't be the one to have to worry about whether a hospital in N.O. put it's generator in the basement where it would flood.
The President has to count on advance plans to work. If they don't, it takes days to coordinate new plans.
It sounds from reports that local government, attempting to sound re-assuring, promised people if they just did what they were told it would all work out. So they did, and now 2 days later the buses they were promised aren't there, and they have no food or water.
Rush - Witch Hunt
The night is black
Without a moon
The air is thick, and still
The vigilantes gather on
The lonely torchlit hill
Features distorted in the flickering light
The faces are twisted and grotesque
Silent and stern in the sweltering night
The mob moves like demons possessed
Quiet in conscience, calm in their right ---
Confident their ways are best
The righteous rise
With burning eyes
Of hatred and ill-will
Madmen fed on fear and lies
To beat, and burn, and kill
They say there are strangers, who threaten us
In our immigrants and infidels
They say there is strangeness, too dangerous
In our theatres and bookstore shelves
That those who know what’s best for us ---
Must rise and save us from ourselves
Quick to judge
Quick to anger
Slow to understand
Ignorance and prejudice
And fear
Walk hand in hand
About 1/2 hour ago. hovered for 5-20 minutes. circled a few buildings, hovered again. Wasn't military, but still pretty strange.
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