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And I'm not looking forward to this trip.

Dude, it's going be such a bummer.

― O'so Krispie (Ex Leon), Friday, 2 September 2005 17:16 (twenty years ago)

http://www.evilkid.com/pd/images/hang.jpg

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 2 September 2005 17:17 (twenty years ago)

I like this line too: My dad and Bill Clinton are going to raise money for governors' funds.

AWWW THE PRESIDENT HAS A DADDY

― Stormy Dr. Glen Y. Abreu (dr g), Friday, 2 September 2005 17:18 (twenty years ago)

What about nuclear weapons? Have you heard of those?

― Andy_K (Andy_K), Friday, 2 September 2005 17:18 (twenty years ago)

Oh, wait...

― Andy_K (Andy_K), Friday, 2 September 2005 17:18 (twenty years ago)

how long til Bush sends the Navy to bomb random sections of water in the Caribbean and the Air Force to destroy threatening looking clouds in the Atlantic?

― gear (gear), Friday, 2 September 2005 17:23 (twenty years ago)

My dad, Bill Clinton, told me I was pwned.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 2 September 2005 17:24 (twenty years ago)

Oh dude unpleasant images of Clinton and Barbara Bush, dude, stop that.

― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Friday, 2 September 2005 17:25 (twenty years ago)

He would probably go for it, too.

― O'so Krispie (Ex Leon), Friday, 2 September 2005 17:27 (twenty years ago)

for all we know, PP could be the CEO here, and Stewart is JUST an "Account Executive." At least, I hope so...

― donut Get Behind Me Carbon Dioxide (donut), Friday, 2 September 2005 17:29 (twenty years ago)

Oh dude unpleasant images of Clinton and Barbara Bush, dude, stop that.

-- 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.

― Jimmy Mod Loves Alan Canseco (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Friday, 2 September 2005 17:29 (twenty years ago)

Stewart: http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:F45PmxW24HIJ:www.aaronsnitzer.com/images/articles/20041027164148145_1.jpg

― gear (gear), Friday, 2 September 2005 17:30 (twenty years ago)

Someone explain who this clown is:

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

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 2 September 2005 17:33 (twenty years ago)

I stab Mother Nature wit da Lettah Openah Of Def!

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 2 September 2005 17:35 (twenty years ago)

Well, Guiliani was a better leader than Bush was after 9/11, you know.

― donut Get Behind Me Carbon Dioxide (donut), Friday, 2 September 2005 17:35 (twenty years ago)

Someone explain who this clown is:
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 PRESIDENT BUSH is 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

fixed.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 2 September 2005 17:36 (twenty years ago)

http://us.news3.yimg.com/us.i2.yimg.com/p/ap/20050901/capt.msjb10309010003.hurricane_katrina__msjb103.jpg?x=380&y=265&sig=iPRtaYZvcpeCkD.IfUMXCw--

― kingfish 'doublescoop' moose tracks (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 2 September 2005 17:37 (twenty years ago)

Ah, so that's what Trent Lott looks like these days.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 2 September 2005 17:40 (twenty years ago)

Is there any information about this oil spill that supposedly occurred? Some kind of "huge, huge" spill, upwards on the Mississippi but I don't see anything about it.

― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Friday, 2 September 2005 17:41 (twenty years ago)

posted on a friend's livejournal:(this is correspondence from somebody who needs to remain anon)

...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.

― kingfish 'doublescoop' moose tracks (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 2 September 2005 17:41 (twenty years ago)

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.

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.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 2 September 2005 17:41 (twenty years ago)

jaymc you ass he's not looking forward to the trip cut him some slack

― Stormy Dr. Glen Y. Abreu (dr g), Friday, 2 September 2005 17:44 (twenty years ago)

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.

oh man wtf

― gear (gear), Friday, 2 September 2005 17:44 (twenty years ago)

he's not looking forward, TRIP!

― donut Get Behind Me Carbon Dioxide (donut), Friday, 2 September 2005 17:45 (twenty years ago)

walking is hard work man even a segway scooter can't help you with that one

― Stormy Dr. Glen Y. Abreu (dr g), Friday, 2 September 2005 17:46 (twenty years ago)

Nicely done, Pleasant. (And feel free to post his whining response if there is one.)

I'd repost it here, but I think that we have enough fuel. Suffice to say, he managed to call me unAmerican, said that NBC can't be trusted since they fingered Richard Jewell, and of course, the word "Waco" came up.

I replied and told him to never speak to me again. I also cc'ed it to my boss.

The coolest thing was that some of my co-workers who I suspected were Red-State voters wrote me back saying that I -quote - ROCK. See? You can go to church AND be disgusted by George W. Bush.

I'm not the CEO. Trust me on that one.

Thanks for the praise, but sadly, hitting that Reply All button was about the most courageous thing I've done in six months.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 2 September 2005 17:49 (twenty years ago)

good luck

― President Busch (dr g), Friday, 2 September 2005 17:51 (twenty years ago)

Sometimes it's all about standing your ground, sir. Don't knock yourself.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 2 September 2005 17:53 (twenty years ago)

Any more news on the explosions?

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 2 September 2005 17:55 (twenty years ago)

You did the right thing, dude. If YOU get in trouble and HE doesn't for his little diatribes, well hey lawsuit.

― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Friday, 2 September 2005 17:55 (twenty years ago)

I would also like to apologize for conjuring up the image of "fingered Richard Jewell".

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 2 September 2005 18:07 (twenty years ago)

You do rock, Pleasant. I've been itching to write to some idiots over on another message board, and I think you might have just given me the courage.

Anyway, apologies if this has been posted already (I looked for it but didn't see it): the NO Mayor Ray Nagin interview with CBS affiliate WWL-AM. I caught the last three/four riveting minutes on CNN earlier this afternoon, but the whole thing is worth a listen (long, though):
http://audio.cbsnews.com/2005/09/02/audio813006.mp3

― Surfer_Stone_Rosalita (Surfer_Stone_Rosalita), Friday, 2 September 2005 18:09 (twenty years ago)

Oh, dammit, didn't see the link to the transcript above. So sorry... Good to listen to, anyway.

― Surfer_Stone_Rosalita (Surfer_Stone_Rosalita), Friday, 2 September 2005 18:14 (twenty years ago)

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

― renegade bus (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 2 September 2005 18:36 (twenty years ago)

Can we get an update on exactly what ILXers aren't accounted for?

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Friday, 2 September 2005 18:45 (twenty years ago)

i believe everyone in that area has checked in here.

― renegade bus (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 2 September 2005 18:47 (twenty years ago)

I think I speak for all New Orleanians when I say that Nagin has been amazing throughout this whole thing. I hope he decks Bush when they finally meet. Or at least spits on him. Bush's lack of action throughout all of this is just sickening. Truly sickening.

― Fetchboy (Felcher), Friday, 2 September 2005 18:54 (twenty years ago)

Like the end of Die Hard, right?

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 2 September 2005 18:59 (twenty years ago)

Um, I hate to break it to you guys, but go over to www.cnn.com right now and look at the photo.

― k/l (Ken L), Friday, 2 September 2005 19:01 (twenty years ago)

Mayor Nagin doesn't look exactly happy with the Pres.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 2 September 2005 19:03 (twenty years ago)

But sadly, no decking.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 2 September 2005 19:03 (twenty years ago)

• Watch: Mayor to feds: 'Get off your asses' | Transcript

― donut Get Behind Me Carbon Dioxide (donut), Friday, 2 September 2005 19:06 (twenty years ago)

Distant x-post I've been thinking a lot about Saramago's "Blindness," too, which seems all the less metaphorical now that its scenario has more or less actually played out.

― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Friday, 2 September 2005 19:07 (twenty years ago)

"It is reported that black hurricane victims in New Orleans have begun eating corpses to survive."

― President Busch (dr g), Friday, 2 September 2005 19:10 (twenty years ago)

Mayor Nagin doesn't look exactly happy with the Pres.

yeah, he looks pissed off.

― renegade bus (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 2 September 2005 19:13 (twenty years ago)

BTW, where the fuck has Dick Cheney been for the past, oh, since the election? They should send him down to New Orleans and use him as a rescue raft, buoyed by the space where his soul should be. Then they should bury him and let his decomposed body turn to fuel and enrich future Bush descendents when they drill in the swamp that once was New Orleans.

God, all this stuff makes me so angry.

― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Friday, 2 September 2005 19:13 (twenty years ago)

I'm a little suspicious of that cannibalism claim... otm about "Blindness" though. jesus, I hadn't even thought of that but its totally prescient.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 2 September 2005 19:17 (twenty years ago)

(mostly because you can go for weeks without food. its water thats the immediate need, and you won't get that from eating a corpse. why would people resort to cannibalism...? it doesn't make sense)

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 2 September 2005 19:20 (twenty years ago)

Well, when this all plays out, I guess Bush will prove himself the ultimate uniter. Per a recent "Slate" piece, 100% against him.

I'm really hoping that once the water recedes or is pumped out, things won't get worse than they already are. I mean, what if they have to level 80% of the city and start over? Where will all those people go for months?

― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Friday, 2 September 2005 19:20 (twenty years ago)

(mostly because you can go for weeks without food. its water thats the immediate need, and you won't get that from eating a corpse. why would people resort to cannibalism...? it doesn't make sense)

http://www.boston.com/globe/search/stories/health/how_and_why/011298.htm

― renegade bus (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 2 September 2005 19:24 (twenty years ago)

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