Posted on 09/03/2005 4:55:53 PM PDT by TASMANIANRED
Did you check our the links?
"Moral of the story, don't hire a Democrat for any important job."
So can we go fire the teachers?
"I know many of us expected the authorities to be able to immediately help these people, but it wasn't possible."
I would revise that to say I know many of us expected the Louisiana authorities to be able to immediately help these people evacuate before the storm, but it just didn't happen.
"i can see it now a michael moore movie on the bush secret plan to destroy blue states one by one he wii tie it to the saudis as well.Poor cindy she ham no one there to listen to her ravings blaming Bush for the actual hurricane.what loon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Hear he blows:
Got this email from a friend who also likes to keep an eye on the blowhard.
From our dear friend, Michael Moore. Hear, hear Mr. Moore!!!
Vacation is Over... an open letter from Michael Moore to George W. Bush
Friday, September 2nd, 2005
Dear Mr. Bush:
Any idea where all our helicopters are? It's Day 5 of Hurricane Katrina and thousands remain stranded in New Orleans and need to be airlifted. Where on earth could you have misplaced all our military choppers? Do you need help finding them? I once lost my car in a Sears parking lot. Man, was that a drag.
Also, any idea where all our national guard soldiers are? We could really use them right now for the type of thing they signed up to do like helping with national disasters. How come they weren't there to begin with?
Last Thursday I was in south Florida and sat outside while the eye of Hurricane Katrina passed over my head. It was only a Category 1 then but it was pretty nasty. Eleven people died and, as of today, there were
still homes without power. That night the weatherman said this storm was on its way to New Orleans. That was Thursday! Did anybody tell you? I know you didn't want to interrupt your vacation and I know how you don't like to get bad news. Plus, you had fundraisers to go to and mothers of dead soldiers to ignore and smear. You sure showed her!
I especially like how, the day after the hurricane, instead of flying to Louisiana, you flew to San Diego to party with your business peeps. Don't let people criticize you for this -- after all, the hurricane was over and what the heck could you do, put your finger in the dike?
And don't listen to those who, in the coming days, will reveal how you specifically reduced the Army Corps of Engineers' budget for New Orleans this summer for the third year in a row. You just tell them that even if you hadn't cut the money to fix those levees, there weren't going to be any Army engineers to fix them anyway because you had a much more
important construction job for them -- BUILDING DEMOCRACY IN IRAQ!
On Day 3, when you finally left your vacation home, I have to say I was moved by how you had your Air Force One pilot descend from the clouds as you flew over New Orleans so you could catch a quick look of the disaster. Hey, I know you couldn't stop and grab a bullhorn and stand on some rubble and act like a commander in chief. Been there done that.
There will be those who will try to politicize this tragedy and try to use it against you. Just have your people keep pointing that out. Respond to nothing. Even those pesky scientists who predicted this would happen because the water in the Gulf of Mexico is getting hotter and hotter making a storm like this inevitable. Ignore them and all their global warming Chicken Littles. There is nothing unusual about a hurricane that was so wide it would be like having one F-4 tornado that stretched from New York to Cleveland.
No, Mr. Bush, you just stay
the course. It's not your fault that 30 percent of New Orleans lives in poverty or that tens of thousands had no transportation to get out of town. C'mon, they're black! I mean, it's not like this happened to Kennebunkport. Can you imagine leaving white people on their roofs for five days? Don't make me laugh! Race has nothing -- NOTHING -- to do with this!
You hang in there, Mr. Bush. Just try to find a few of our Army helicopters and send them there. Pretend the people of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast are near Tikrit.
Yours,
Michael Moore
MMFlint@aol.com
www.MichaelMoore.com
P.S. That annoying mother, Cindy Sheehan, is no longer at your ranch. She and dozens of other relatives of the Iraqi War dead are now driving across the country, stopping in many cities along the way. Maybe you can catch up with them before they get to DC on September 21st.
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What did I miss about the press acting badly?
You know, come to think of it, who died and gave them the authority to mold public opinion to their way of thinking?
BTW, before I forget, I loved your work. Thank you.
If you aren't liberal you aren't enlightened, don't ya know.
Haven't quite gotten here yet...
But I am now, so I'm going to see what I've missed!
Good research, Lady.
It's all there, you did a good job of putting it all together.
There's more...The Bataan was on station on Tuesday, I believe, running rescue missions.
The poor stranded people at the Convention Center are crying for someone to come help them while the US Navy is still pulling people from their homes. Pretty selfish, if you ask me.
Mayor was trying to run things from elsewhere.
He abandoned the city and many of the cops quit.
What we've seen is a case study in how not to run a city.
Total failure of leadership.
Those closest to the disaster failed.
feel free to add my pics to your well-written indictment of Nagin.
don't feel bad - I only just now found them and stole them from Polybius
That was exactly the analogy I drew while listening to the tirades of the Mayor and Police Chief. The Mayor was upset because he knew he was responsible. The Police Chief, though, seems to live in a perpetual state of ignorance-------maybe blissful, maybe not.
There's a lot to blame on this one, but hopefully there will be more "Indians" and not so many chiefs soon.
*shaking head in dismayed unsurprise*
Blanco and Nagin beginning to look like aspired to delusions of incompetence.
It's one thing to elect a crook, it's another to elect a congenital moron.
Thanks for putting this together. This will be a valuable resource in the weeks to come. I hope they put it somewhere handy on the site so we can refer to it.
Yeah but so what ... it's Bush's and the Republican's fault.
http://www.motherjones.com/news/update/2004/09/09_414.html
September 24, 2004
Very informative. Seems as though Ivan was a dry run for the incompetent leaders of Lousiana, so they could botch it big time for Katrina.
I tried to post this as a separate thread but the mods pulled it.
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