Anonymous Report This Comment Date: September 16, 2005 06:03AM
Yo aDCBeast! You're the fucking loser..........you voted him in......LIVE WITH
IT SUCKER!!!
Anonymous Report This Comment Date: September 16, 2005 06:18AM
Yeah, Bush caused Katrina.
McSugarman Report This Comment Date: September 16, 2005 06:47AM
No, that would be Mother Nature, you dumbass.
aDCBeast Report This Comment Date: September 16, 2005 07:19AM
Anonymous@10829
I voted him in ? In your dreams bitch!
Anonymous@90130
The holding up of federal resources prior to the the hurricane was Bush's fault.
Chertoff (Homeland Security chief) held off on sending the federal resources to
save lives because Bush had pulled all money for the illegal occupation of
Iraq.
Bush fucked up again. He left the US financially suspectible to an event like
Katrina. Nice move.
Anonymous Report This Comment Date: September 16, 2005 09:25AM
Please try to be nice. Just because you hide behind a computer doesn't mean you
have to be a total ass to someone you've never met.
Anonymous Report This Comment Date: September 16, 2005 11:19AM
aDCBeast@68212 - your full of shit! quit smoking weed and get a life dude!
Anonymous Report This Comment Date: September 16, 2005 11:40AM
DCBeast are you still goldbricking at your government job?
Anonymous Report This Comment Date: September 16, 2005 12:05PM
Learn to spell. None of the whiners here could do any better. It's the state
government's responsibility to call in help when it's needed. They'd still be
sitting there hungry if Bush hadn't stepped in.
Mr_Sarcasm Report This Comment Date: September 16, 2005 02:08PM
That's right! Bush rushed to their aid. 8 days later.
aDCBeast Report This Comment Date: September 16, 2005 02:18PM
Anonymous@20262
Can't smoke weed dude. Drug testing.
Anonymous@9144
Nope. Still holding people in government accountable for poor performance. I
can't give people a pass when their poor performance led to loss of life.
Anonymous@90130
I'm hiding behind my computer ? that must be an awfully big computer.
Truth_from_Georgia Report This Comment Date: September 16, 2005 03:12PM
Thomas Hobbes' theory of government (any college-educated person should know
who Thomas Hobbes is -- and yes, he was the inspiration for the naming in the
comic series Calvin & Hobbes) is that all of us voluntarily give up a degree
of personal freedom in exchange for mutual protection against disorder and
violent death at the hands of others. Government is therefore a necessary evil
to prevent the excesses and inefficiencies of chaos and anarchy (see, for
example, Haiti and present-day Iraq -- not exactly business-friendly or
citizen-friendly places).
We as Americans have certainly given up rights and freedoms, and so it is not
surprising that we are upset that our government (be it state, local or
especially national) did not provide the security and safety net for which it is
created. As Bush himself said, a good deal of that can be laid at his feet.
Besides, what is the logic in arguing out of one side of the mouth that
evacuation, protection and supply were local responsibilities not federal, and
then out of the other proclaiming that the federal government will provide the
vast majority of funds for rebuilding. If disaster response is a local issue,
shouldn't rebuilding be the same? If our federal government had no role in
preparing for the disaster and executing emergency response plans, why should I,
in Georgia, be asked to pay to clean up the mess afterward?
I am not arguing with the bill, since I believe that the federal government does
have a role here, but I will tell you, it sure does give life to the old adage
"a stitch in time saves nine" -- or in this case $2 billion in levies
saves $100 billion in post-storm repair.
Anonymous Report This Comment Date: September 16, 2005 06:47PM
"To ABC's Surprise, Katrina Victims Praise Bush and Blame Nagin"
Posted by Brent Baker on September 16, 2005 - 00:50.
ABC News producers probably didn't hear what they expected when they sent Dean
Reynolds to the Houston Astrodome's parking lot to get reaction to President
Bush's speech from black evacuees from New Orleans. Instead of denouncing Bush
and blaming him for their plight, they praised Bush and blamed local officials.
Reynolds asked Connie London: "Did you harbor any anger toward the
President because of the slow federal response?" She rejected the premise:
"No, none whatsoever, because I feel like our city and our state government
should have been there before the federal government was called in.” She
pointed out: “They had RTA buses, Greyhound buses, school buses, that was just
sitting there going under water when they could have been evacuating
people."
Not one of the six people interviewed on camera had a bad word for Bush --
despite Reynolds' best efforts. Reynolds goaded: "Was there anything that
you found hard to believe that he said, that you thought, well, that's nice
rhetoric, but, you know, the proof is in the pudding?" Brenda Marshall
answered, "No, I didn't," prompting Reynolds to marvel to anchor Ted
Koppel: "Very little skepticism here.”
Reynolds pressed another woman: “Did you feel that the President was sincere
tonight?" She affirmed: "Yes, he was." Reynolds soon wondered who
they held culpable for the levee breaks. Unlike the national media, London did
not blame supposed Bush-mandated budget cuts: "They've been allocated
federal funds to fix the levee system, and it never got done. I fault the mayor
of our city personally. I really do."
Anonymous Report This Comment Date: September 16, 2005 08:54PM
aDCBeast - I liked the picture of you!
aDCBeast Report This Comment Date: September 16, 2005 09:16PM
Anonymous@121121
Who did the people killed by Katrina praise ?
Of course most living victims of Katrina don't know that they could have been
kept out of harms way and been in much better health due to Bush's Homeland
Security chief poor decisions.
John_Stone Report This Comment Date: September 17, 2005 05:07AM
Reynolds pressed another woman: “Did you feel that the President was sincere
tonight?" She affirmed: "Yes, he was."
Ok, this woman is a bit blind, but whatever. When have presidents /ever/ been
sincere? We can probably count the number of times on one hand.
It sure looks like ALL the "leaders" -- local, state, federal -- are
to blame for not bothering to evacuate people in time. Bush for taking money
from reinforcing the levées 2-3 years ago, Nagin, and Blanco for not getting
buses in place to evacuate people; FEMA for not responding in time; the Army
Corps. for not "pre-placing" sandbags ... etc. etc. etc. The local
cops for being totally mean to people who were trying to self-organize for
safety and food/water.
Overall, I think this proves that America is crumbling from within. We can't
face a fucking disaster without stumbling all over ourselves, and then blaming
each other for the bad response.
Friends, we are sinking as a nation. The next catastrophe will be economic, and
we will all suffer. Stock up on 2 weeks worth of food and water, help ain't
coming our way.
slslea Report This Comment Date: September 17, 2005 11:18AM
That is why I don't vote lol.
Anarchia Report This Comment Date: September 17, 2005 08:43PM
Bush Resignation Hailed by World Leaders
Saturday, September 17, 2005
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[Washington] The surprise resignation of the forty-third President of the
United States, George W. Bush, just after the fourth anniversary of the
terrorist attack on America, was hailed by chiefs of state throughout the world.
Mr. Bush announced that after, "four years of bloodshed, economic
devastation, and spreading fear in America and abroad," he saw no choice
but to accept that, "I have held a title which I did not win, and for which
I have proven unqualified."
The text of the former President's September 11 address to the nation
follows:
"My fellow Americans:
I come to you tonight with a heavy heart. Four years ago, thousands of innocent
Americans were murdered by terrorist maniacs.
In the script I've been handed, I'm now supposed to tell you that America is
safer today, and that the world is kinder and nicer and happier, because of I'm
such a brilliant general in the War on Terror.
But who are we kidding? Yesterday, Osama released his new hit video. The
terrorists are having a picnic ever since I turned over our foreign policy to
Saudi Arabia and Exxon-Mobil.
And here's the point in my speech where my handlers would have me tell you about
how I've been praying hard, making it sound like I just got off the phone with
the Lord. I don't know about you, but I find it pretty darn offensive,
downright blasphemous, to drag the Lord's name into every cheap campaign speech
and chest-pounding war threat. Osama says he talks to God too. Let's leave Him
out of the politics from now on, OK?
Look, in my speech this past Sunday, I used the word "democracy" about
11 times when talking about Iraq. It's democracy Florida-style, I suppose.
Except we're not fixing the vote this time … we aren't letting these people
vote at all. "Iraqis aren't prepared for democracy." That's what
Dick Cheney and Saddam Hussein told me.
So we're blowing 100 billion bucks we don't have to colonize a country we don't
want. Rummy tries to explain it to me each morning -- oil this and oil that --
but I just don't see it. And one of our kids dying there every day - where are
their parents, anyway? My dad didn't let that happen - he got me out of the
service. Didn't I look neat in that fly-boy suit?
And, let me tell you, I just looked at our nation's piggy bank. Uh-oh.
When I arrived, the last guy left me $4 trillion and said, "Be careful with
all that cash in this neighborhood." Well, I have to level with you,
America: It's all gone. The cupboard's bare and this year alone we blew half a
trillion more dollars than we have in our bank account. Man, I can't believe I
went through all that dough stone sober.
And what did we get for it? A Fatherland Security Department that's trying to
read the labels on everyone's underpants. Think about it, all this Total
Information Awareness KGB stuff: two years ago Americans were the victims - but
my government has made Americans the suspects. I don't know about you, but this
guy Ashcroft scares the bejeezus out of me.
And today I'm told that over nine million Americans are out of work. That's not
so bad: I haven't done much work in my lifetime either. But my mama explained
to me that not everyone's daddy can lend them an oil well to tide them over.
It's like I can't get anything right. The lights are going out in Ohio and the
North Pole is melting. I don't get it. I appointed all those regulators that
Ken Lay told me to, and I got rid of all the rules that got in the way of
patriotic Polluter-Americans …. and what's the upshot? America the Beautiful
is looking like she's had a pretty rough night. Won't be long before the whole
country smells like Houston.
And now the stock market's floating face down in the swimming pool - despite
everything I've done for those guys on Wall Street. Even my plan to give every
millionaire an extra million seems to have backfired. Greenspam says I've
created "business risk." Says I spook investors. But when I asked
Greenspam for a solution, all he did was hand me a bag of pretzels.
Hey, I can take a hint. OK, I'm over my head on this one. I look back over
these last years, and what have I got to show you for it: two years of
bloodshed, economic devastation, and spreading fear in America and abroad.
When I ran for this office, I said the issue was, "character." And
just look at the characters around me. I've gotten all their resignations
today. And while I've got some character left, here's my own good-bye note too.
Let's face it: I have held a title which I did not win, and for which I have
proven unqualified. You know it. And I know it.
It's at this point in the speech where I'm supposed to say, "And may God
bless America." God better, because Dick Cheney won't. Don't panic: I'm
not turning over this sacred office to Mr. Contracts-R-Us.
Instead, I've petitioned the United States Supreme Court to pick a President for
us. Those guys picked the last one, why not the next one?
And so, my fellow Americans, you can take this job and …."
Here, Mr. Bush's words became unintelligible.
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