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  • Didn't plan where to evacuate people to who had nowhere else to go.
  • Didn't begin to move food, water, and medicine toward the afflicted area for DAYS after the event.
  • Didn't put a significant number of National Guardsmen on notice to create a rapid response to the crisis.

Don't worry, I have it on good authority from the Slashdot Humanitarian crowd here that it's entirely the niggers' faults for not evacuating. Also, I assume its entirely the fault of all those critically ill patients who were literally dying in the hallways of hospitals that they didn't get up and march 45 miles to Slidell like some people apparently think they should have done.

Oh, and don't worry. Bush has "zero tolerance" for dying looters, so hopefully we'll just shoot those animals dead who are so crass that they would rob an abandoned Wal Mart to survive.

Yay America.

Don't worry, though. It's not like our the federal and LA state governments have been COMPLETELY inoperative. They DID:

  • Thank Bush a whole lot, presumably for playing banjo (or whatever) and eating birthday cake while the city died. Like father like son, I suppose. Bush I was just as big a bastard in Andrew.
  • Pat each other on the back for evac'ing the city into a death trap that much better resembles a concentration camp than a shelter.
  • Make a lot of excuses (especially FEMA directory Brown) for dragging their feet and CAUSING people, women, children, men, the elderly, to die.

Fuck them.

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  • Hey, it's not just the niggers they get to ignore. The shiftless lazy people are also finally getting their comeuppance. Oh, and fags. Let's see them queers get married now.
  • you know... this gets a bit boring there tmp. i think you are cool. really. but holy shit... this line of reason and bitching gets fucking tired and actually... aside from venting *your* spleen actually does nothing.

    oh well... its your journal... i still like you... i'll still keep reading... but really man. things are NOT as simple as you see them... and not everything can be blamed on whoever you feel is convenient to blame.

    but hey... i'm just venting my own spleen... and being useless as well.
    • aside from venting *your* spleen actually does nothing.

      Um....when have any of TMP's journals done anything else? :-)

    • Just out of curiosity.... who IS to blame when the most powerful nation in the world can't muster its massive resources to help people in this sort of misery in less than three days after a city is literally wiped off the map?

      Things ARE this simple: the government at every level, save maybe the local level, failed to do a damn thing. Not only did they fail to plan for the IMMINENT situation - displacement and damage from a hurricane - they clearly didn't even bother to take ANY precautions or set plans in
      • here's the problem with your argument. you assume all of the facts are in. you assume that there was "inaction" and that "departments meandered around in a fogy stupor"

        i'm not saying that isn't the case. what i'm saying is... you speak with such authority on the matter... when it hasn't even been a week.

        i've just been around long enough to know that things are never as clear and as simple as this... and it isn't the wisest thing start pointing fingers.

        i'm not excusing anyone from blame when the time comes.

        i
        • i'm not saying that isn't the case. what i'm saying is... you speak with such authority on the matter... when it hasn't even been a week.

          While this is a valid complaint, but on the flip side of the coin, this is also slashdot. I've made that point in the past: if I were writing some big, official document or trying to perform some legitimate function, the tone and tactic would be completely different from what you see here.

          And, while I DO have political bias, obviously, I also have a great deal of frustrati
  • What happened in New Orleans is a direct result of Republican policies. Republicans say that big government, big government spending, and big government projects are bad. So, big government's big spending projects such as replacing levees is bad as well. Replacing levees is just a "pork-barrel" project that "wastes tax payer money" that would be better spent cutting taxes. Nevermind the fact that replacing levees is not profitable, so that it's unlikely that anything other than big government will do th
    • Liberarianism is "intelectualese" for libertinism.

      The folks in charge are not realy managing any policy at all. They are looting the nation, an dspinning any occurrence to create a cover story, and exaggerate the enormous opportunity for profit.

  • Why are you blaming bush for being a crack brained figurehead designed to inspire the religious right to come out and vote? Blame THE MIND Numbed Voters who Just Don't Fucking realize, the Levies in ne orleans have been last rebuilt in the late 1930's, and since leavies by necesity must be made so they can be blown apart if needed, the kind of life span for the levies was engineered to be about 50-60 years. Would big talking democrats have done anything different? Clinton had 8 years in office before bus
  • comments in your last journal, I just tend to think you must not live someplace where you have to deal with this year in and year out. When the end of your summer plans consist of keeping one eye on the weather to see if you need to cancel a trip to prepare for the hurricane that may hit you, you may have something to talk about. When you consider yourself lucky to have to get smacked by a near miss Class 2 hurricane that brought a large chunk of life to a stand still for two weeks, you may have something t

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