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nothing matters after 2012 man. it's all about the mayan calendar. the world's over. it's all done but for the crying. the end of the world is neigh.

President Bush's Anti-Black Hurricane Maker wasn't fully operational until 2 months after the hurricane hit.

 

As for blaming Bush for the aftermath, not much he could've done. It was such a beauracratic mess, so much red tape. If you want to blame anything, blame the system.

if you're going to quote what i said, please keep the context of the entire sentence simply because the point was relevant. the reason that hurricane was so devastating was nothing slowed it down before it hit the mainland (such as wetlands -- a natural barrier that has been destroyed by our environmental policies under the last few presidents). these abnormally powerful natural disasters have a cause, and it's not angry gods. it's irresponsible resource management.

the red tape is in place DIRECTLY BY THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION!! remember hurricane andrew? FEMA (which wasn't stacked with cronies) responded quickly and fairly efficiently. The so-called red tape was bumbling and incompetent navigation of the channels of government. Also, there was a very real move to privatize as much of the relief as possible (naomi klein wrote a great article about this). in blaming the system, you are in fact blaming the bush administration. they moved fema to DHS and staffed it with non-professionals who couldn't find their asses with both hands and a mirror. that is the system.

while i liked the underdog cartoons possibly more than the next guy, i wouldn't confuse bush with simon bar sinister, although i'd not vote for either of them for county dog catcher.

I would love to know what countries were "offering" help and what type of help.

for one, cuba was offering to send in rescue workers and supply MUCH NEEDED rescue boats. katrina went over cuba as well, not one single person was killed.

And how maybe the best person to head up FEMA was someone other than the head of the Arabian Horse Association. And how maybe he wouldn

the hurricane was a natural disaster. it's debatable if the bush admin is responsible for that (shitty environmental record - although clinton's wasn't much better on wetlands restoration).

that said, most of the trauma from this was completely man-made and exacerbated by incompetence. there were offers to help immediately from countries we don't like, so we said no thanks and pretended that we could handle it. incompetence and politics killed people. that incompetence ranges from local to federal and all points between, but the ultimate responsibility for such a disaster is FEMA, a division of Homeland Security, a cabinet level position. "the decider" was playing guitar in a photo op while people were dying. added to reading about the pet goat on 9/11, it's a pattern of fiddling while rome is ablaze.

The last thing you need is a working dog on a xanax crash...

i hope this guy is the new AG. he seems to have strategy.

i wonder if they'll commemorate the two year anniversary of bush talking from jackson square in his photo-op of empty promises.

the superchunk song "slack motherfucker" is an anthem that's hard to top. that song along makes tossing seeds rank very high for me.

what kind of dog? both of my greyhounds are really bad about letting me trim their nails.

it's amazing the president said that he's leaving because people were dragging his good name through the mud for political reasons. wasn't this the guy who campaigned to bring accountability back to government? the gonzo confirmation hearings were the most contentious i'd ever watched. I'm reasonably sure they would have impeached him for contempt of congress had he not resigned.

let's hope for a competent replacement for the remainder of the term.

or unless they are a teenager in rural Illinois, want $ and not old enough to work at dairy queen.

me and you both, man! change IL to OH and the crop to green beans and we're there.

as long as suzie and johnnie teenager are so involved in seventeen million clubs and school sports teams (and NOT working), no one will do the traditional afterschool (i.e. shitjob) work. we're soft to an unforgivable degree. and i'm drunk. goodnight.

when repression is amended into constitutions, it creates problems. the 18th amendment was repealed, and eventually all the same-sex marriage bans will be repealed. constitutions are written with positive statements to protect rights, not negative statements to restrict citizens. a flag burning amendment is exactly wrong based on the template of the bill of rights. the government is restricted, the citizen is enabled.

that said, fetuses are not citizens, and we've got a pretty clear track record on how we afford rights to non-citizens in this country.

my cat died earlier this year of kidney problems. it wasn't because of chinese poisonous food, but that food causes the same issues my cat had. it's a horrible, wasteful disease and is hard to watch a pet deteriorate and dehydrate from this.

PLEASE be cautious, pet owners! we feed nutro dry food for our dogs (mixed with innova evo). these aren't chinese sourced.

i can't see purgering yourself as a good thing. i know i pay extra on my insurance for uninsured motorist coverage. i also pay a little bit (unvoluntarily) when I get license plates for the state's uninsured motorist coverage. if in doubt, play the plausible denial card the reagan and second bush administration made famous -- "i don't recall" goes a long way.

We were asked to show our receipt today on the way out of Best Buy, and oddly enough, did not feel the need to contact the ACLU.

it'll be YOUR fault when they set up checkpoints at city limits and ask to see your transit papers. YOU'RE FACILITATING THE POLICE STATE!!!!

at least the catholic church has loosened up on the whole geocentric universe model thing. give them a few hundred years to come around to rubbers (no pun intended).

the religious right would make it seem as if planned parenthood put a card like this in everyone's hand who walked past their office doors.

abortion in america (and unwanted pregnancy) tends to be a function of poverty. want to eliminate abortion? eliminate poverty.

he was pretty much all the talent in damn yankees.

I have a nice epi dot, an old lp studio (with covered pickups) and a few late 70s/early 80s made in japan knockoffs.

zing!

I believe the point was, nobody referenced Planned Parenthood in the original article, but did refer to abortion. "Planned parenthood" was Sarchi's euphemism...

my bad. i should read more.

i've heard the clips, but computer speakers kinda fail to do it right. thanks for your impressions. I'm torn on getting either another quad-x preamp (biggest regret selling that thing) or a vintage 16. i rarely use my belair because it's just too loud for my current setting.