Posted on 09/06/2005 5:56:44 PM PDT by bobsunshine
I just wrote them a nice note canceling my subscription and told them they could all go piss up a rope...
"If we are going to ask for resignations we should start with the governor and the mayor they are the real idiots here."
Agreed
FEMA is not a first responder, and has repeatedly stated they are 96 hours away from responding to a disaster. The federal system worked. It was the idiots in the state and local gub'mint that screwed things up.
"I witnessed Brown making the following televised comments on 9-01-05:
5:05p.m.: FEMA's Michael Brown says that any reports of not enough food in the Superdome are incorrect. He said 5,000 people are in the New Orleans convention center and food is being delivered. He said he hasn't heard any reports of widespread violent unrest in the city. He said flood waters are going down. In a news conference aired by cable news outlets, Brown said the U.S. and Louisiana government were dealing with an "ongoing disaster. "We'll continue to meet every need the state puts upon us," he said. source Wall St Journal"
Worth Repeating
Throwing around cracks like "fellow liberal media hacks" puts you in the same mud slinging barge with the rabid liberal pinkos, since they use the same tactics.
Want some examples? Hit your personal ping queue and read replies to them. Then do a search on Spanalot's post and do the same. Those corrections should keep you busy for quite a while. (Of course we both know you have no intention of even looking...)
Maybe Eagle Eye or Jane Austin will be kind and re-post some of their articles and the like for you, but I'm sick of you intellectually dishonest witch hunters. I'm not going to any extra effort.
The facts have been shoved in your face again and again. Continue to ignore them. Fine by me.
I smell hacks, federal pencil pushers that will not own up. This is beyond belief.
This squares with my personal observation that those zombies who have spent every waking hour since landfall watching CNN think the feds are at fault while literate people who obtain their news from the print media understand what "not a first responder" means.
If only FOX had had better coverage, the sheeple would now understand.
Just when we thought CNN was dead, its baaack!
"Keep spamming your lies, need some addresses of MSM outlets to send your resume"
I se you are not familiar with my posts - Re: the MSM and Hollywood, I think the decision to let the MSM/Hollywood icons in before the Red Cross has set back conservative efforts tremendously.
It has taken 50 years to put Hollywood in its place and it is painful to see them handing out tetenus and insulin before the Red Cross.
It has taken 75 years to put the MSM in its place and now we have the Geraldos at the disaster before the Red Cross.
On Monday when the storm hit, the consensus was that New Orleans was spared and Mississippi took the brunt, isn't it possible that FEMA was expecting to be in Mississippi when all hell broke loose in NOLA?
Who stated FEMA's duty is to respond prior to state and city officials when a natural disaster strikes a city?
"Huh, those "icons" bring one personal photgrapher(i.e sean penn) and not truckloads of supplies "
Are you surprised by this Marxist maneuver?
Ever hear of Duranty and the Ny Times and the Pulitzer he won for covering up the Genocide of 10 million in 1932?
Don't you know this is how they operate - by fabricating "truth" Of course the Penns and the Oprahs did nothing but the MSM and Hollywood don't deal inthe truth.
""Nevertheless, it is indefensible for Chertoff to claim that he did'nt know there was a problem till Thurs.
What is your defense of his statement.""
"Uh because NO is a cesspool and the local and state govts. were putting up roadblocks along the way,"
I don't understand your answer - how do you defend Chertoff's not KNOWING about the Convention Ctr problem until Thurs?
"Then why not focus on the The Louisiana Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness and their two Directors: Major General Ansel M. Stroud and Major General Bennett C. Landreneau. They were responsible for refusing to let the Red Cross in."
Fine - lets get rid of them too
We only have to reflect on 9-11-01 to know he would have responded far differently, in a positive way on behalf of his public.
You are absolutely correct. I'm a Louisianian. If they had done their job like they were supposed too...every word since, and up too now would not have taken place. Every murder, rape, looting, the pack mentality, mayhem, I am ashamed of my state. For this to be broadcast around the world is the most humiliating thing I have ever experienced.
This entire calamity is on the heads of the local and state politicians.
We have seen our share of hurricanes here, and never in my life have I witnessed such a grand *uckup by the states leaders. They need to be brought up on charges immediately. They are the reason for the deaths and chaos that reigns here. It's not the federal governments fault. It's not Browns fault, it's not Bushs' fault. It is Governor Blank-0, Mayor Nagin, Senator Landrieu's fault. These are the most crooked politicans since Huey P Long, but he was better than them. He gave electricity to the rural areas, highways, schools, hospitals.
We now have politicans who dance in the street of NO with the dregs of society, the southern decadence particptants. Good Lord, I'll stop, I'm getting on a soap box. It's their fault and no one elses.
"Throwing around cracks like "fellow liberal media hacks" puts you in the same mud slinging barge with the rabid liberal pinkos, since they use the same tactics."
I wonder who the trolls are - these folks are certainly not friends of Conservative Republicans that are openly critical of FEMA and Homeland.
Just an addition: I read the FEMA was prepared to concentrate on LA until the storm turned and hit MS hardest; they then started to shift their resources to MS. And it was after that NO became the focus because of the levee breaks.
(Just because it doesn't seem to go anywhere else: the story in today's WSJ reports a consensus that the big levee break was indeed caused by a barge that came unmoored.)
One thing nobody points out that with all the problems with the NOPD, those had been around for years, everybody knew it. How long was Mayor Nagin in office to do something about it? And the excuse that none of the previous mayors didn't do a thing about it won't fly here.
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