Katrina's POLITICAL aftermath (keep the political discussions HERE)

I'll have the video in a little while.

During the concert for Hurricane Relief, Kanye West and Mike Meyers were celebrity narrators during the segment, West said: (rush transcript)

...I hate the way they are portrayed in the media. Black families it says they are looting, white families it says the are looking for food....They've given them permission to go down there and shoot us"

"George Bush doesn't care about black people."

Mike Meyers was floored...

What's Jon Stewart going to say about this? the next Daily Show airdate is Tuesday, according to Comedy Central.

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Satisfied??? Good grief.

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yeah, that's the thing. it's like they could easily do a two-hour show every night for a week with nothing but video from the last 3 days.

The "Rhymin' and Stealin" remakes have so much potential

this has potential to become a galvanizing force in progressive/left politics, completely separate from the Dem Party, which remains woefully out of step with its actual base, especially in the South, where the Dem Party is blacker and more liberal than in the DLC North. This and the Cindy Sheehan rally in Washington could be a political powderkeg.

could kanye be arrested as a clear and present danger?

add tucker carlson to the white paranoid list.

Halliburton subsidiary KBR will also perform damage assessments at other naval installations in New Orleans as soon as it is safe to do so.

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/business/3335685

This is monstrous.

DK has a diary on it that insists that the Red Cross is being kept out of New Orleans deliberately, in effect, to starve out the survivors. If this turns out to be true.... i just don't know.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Agh, they cut it? Bastards! Fucking pricks!

(right as Mike is about to react)

Okay, Larry King just asked... jesus, this could be a major policy fuckup decision w/serious blowback....

it's like friendster being in "beta" mode for like a year until everyone got bored with it and moved on to myspace.

it won't get reported for a little while after it happens(maybe 24-48 hours), but stories will get out.

If this is confirmed as truth, the man's life is forfeit. He could never walk the streets of America unprotected.

check this shit out. This is a comment on Interdictor's LJ tonight:

I am a 65 yr. old, white, republican, male, pissed taxpayer.

First I am pissed at the racial crap. Anybody that can look at a human being in torment and care about pigment ain't worth a damn. Has anybody noticed that most of the first responders are white and most of the victims are not? Do not even think about telling me that crap in person.

Second I am pissed at the inconceivably impotent efforts by our Federal Government. I am absolutely furious. I just watched on TV a baby that has been in the convention center for SIX DAYS with inadequate EVERYTHING. I am a real hard old man and I felt tears roll down my face. The Mayor of New Orleans ought to be horse whipped. The Governor of Lousiana ought be tarred and feathered. The President of the mightiest nation on earth ought to be cleaning toilets.

I am one of them well off middle class whites that pays a LOT of taxes. I count it a privledge. I take pride in the response of my home state, Texas, to the refugees.

It ain't about race, it is about stupid and incompetent and arrogant.

If the thin blue line is REALLY this inept, we are ALL in for a lot of misery.

Ray

Something big is happening. People are getting increasingly angry & frustrated, and they're not even in places affected by this.

and they're still gunna vote on repealing the estate tax on tuesday.

oh yeah, and another comment:

Mr. Brown is starting to sound like the former Iraqi Information Minister . . . "No problems there, everything is swell."

Chertoff was a political attack dog in that job, indicting and convicting a raft of Democratic officeholders. But one who Chertoff deliberately let get away was his big buddy, Bob “The Torch” Torricelli, forced to resign his U.S. Senate seat from Sopranoland in a major corruption scandal. Nick Acocella, editor of the respected insider newsletter New Jersey Politifax, recalls that, at the height of the Torricelli scandal, and while Chertoff was U.S. Attorney, he saw The Torch and Chertoff together at a South Jersey Jewish banquet where they embraced and huddled intimately “like twins separated at birth.” One would have thought a federal prosecutor would have kept his distance from a target of criminal investigations that were making daily headlines in the Jersey press.

When Chertoff was named by Bush to head the Justice Department’s Criminal Division--partly because he was a skilled political hitman, who’d also raised a ton of money as financial vice-chair of Bush’s Garden State campaign in 2000-- it’s an open secret in Jersey that he squelched an indictment of Torricelli as a reward for The Torch’s support of key Bush legislation the Democratic Party leadership opposed, including tax cuts for corporations and the very rich. (Many of the fat-cats Chertoff shook down for Bush had also been huge givers to The Torch.)

i keep having flashbacks to Half-Life or something.