Katrina's aftermath

If it's wrong, I don't wanna be right.

Shout! Factory's site doesn't say anything about it, but Chuck's been in touch with them, and says it's so.

hahahahahaha

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still, he proably does want his country to love its people, the way they love it.

Cash Rules My Country?

He walked through the debris with the woman and a girl, his arms around their shoulders, and told them to "hang in there."

Ah, compassionate conservatism. That pain really is felt.

Planning to return? Roll up your sleeve.
Friday, 11:45 a.m.

People who are planning to return to Louisiana should consider getting
tetanus shots first, according to the state health department.

Adults need boosters every 10 years, spokeswoman Kristen Meyer said,
but if more than five years have passed since the last tetanus shot,
people should get another inoculation after being cut or injured,
especially while cleaning up after Hurricane Katrina or working in dirty water.

The question about shots has been the dominant query from callers to
the department's emergency center who are planning to come back, Meyer
said.

"It's a good thing that people are trying to find out," she said.

He walked through the debris with the woman and a girl, his arms around their shoulders, and told them to "hang yourself over there."

The accumulation of 40 years of compromises of that sort resulted in a mixture of grief, frustration and defensiveness from the corps, which has long been given a mission far broader than its budget.

Ultimately, the corps is directed, along with 15 other agencies, by the Federal Emergency Management Agency. "It is FEMA who is really calling the shots and setting priorities here," General Strock said.

He defended the Bush administration against the charge that spending on the war in Iraq had diminished the capacity to deal with domestic threats like the hurricane.

"I do not see that to be the case," General Strock said. "We deeply regret the loss of life associated with this. We are committed to doing whatever we can right now to stop the flow of waters and get the city on the road to recovery."

Alfred C. Naomi, a senior project manager in the New Orleans district of the corps, said the New Orleans protection system was a vexing mix. It met the standards that were agreed on long ago, but was known to be inadequate.

"This storm was much greater than protection we were authorized to provide," Mr. Naomi said.

Current and former local officials expressed anger at the lack of preparedness.

"I'm just shocked," said Martha Madden, who was the Louisiana secretary of environmental quality in the late 1980's and is now a consultant in strategic planning in Washington and New Orleans.

The Corps of Engineers, Ms. Madden said, should have arranged access to supplies like sandbags and concrete barriers, the way environmental planners reserve access to materials for oil spills.

Anyway:

12:50 P.M. - SAN ANTONIO (AP): The first of 25,000 Hurricane Katrina refugees ticketed for San Antonio arrived today at the old Kelly Air Force Base aboard nine buses from Louisiana.

A staging area's been set up at what's now called KellyUSA in southwestern San Antonio. There, the refugees will be checked in and given living arrangements.

They'll be staying in a 325,000-square-foot warehouse that was part of the old air base. Medical and mental-health care will be available -- as will showers and meals.

It's not clear how many refugees are expected to arrive this first day.

And added, "Now may be the time to start a medical savings account. You should plan ahead for disasters."

I want to congratulate the governors for being leaders. You didn't ask for this, when you swore in, but you're doing a heck of a job.

I'm sure he can relate. Being a leader is hard work.

And I'm not looking forward to this trip. I got a feel for it when I flew over before. It -- for those who have not -- trying to conceive what we're talking about, it's as if the entire Gulf Coast were obliterated by a -- the worst kind of weapon you can imagine. And now we're going to go try to comfort people in that part of the world.

Dude, it's going be such a bummer.

AWWW THE PRESIDENT HAS A DADDY

-- Allyzay knows a little German (allyza...), September 2nd, 2005.

I think that Clinton would tap that dry-ass shit just for the story to tell.

12:58 P.M. - WASHINGTON (AP): Rep. John Sweeney, R-N.Y., urged President Bush to appoint former New York City mayor Rudolph Giuliani or two former military officials to run the ground response in the Gulf Coast, saying local authorities are not up to the task. Sweeney suggested Giuliani or retired generals Colin Powell and Tommy Franks could take charge of the much-criticized hurricane relief efforts

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...Orleans deputies were out on the roof tops, ordering them not to jump into the water, and that they would be shot if they did. well, they ended up shooting and killing about 100 prisoners who would not listen.

...They told us that the Sheriff of Orleans Parish, and his top brass, all evacuated the area for the storm, and told them to just handle things while they were gone.

...We weren't told where, or what we would be doing. When we got to the Convention Center, we heard shots being fired like popcorn.

...Our SWAT team came up on a group that was inside looting, took them down, and started searching them. Out of about 20 people they detained, the first 5 they searched were NOPD officers!!! These idiots are going right along with the other crooks, taking stuff that doesn't matter. I could understand if they were breaking into places to get food and water, but they are going for designer clothes, perfume, jewelry, and other junk. There were dead people laying in there, mostly from gunshot wounds, and the other thieves would just walk right over them and never pay attention to them.

To me, the bizarre part about this quote is the phrase "in that part of the world" -- which I know is a locution that Bush uses all the time to refer to Iraq or whatever, but seems inappropriate in this context, with the effect of distancing himself from the situation. It's not like he's making a special trip to the Sudan -- this is YOUR COUNTRY. YOU SHOULD'VE ALREADY BEEN THERE.