Oh, for f*ck's sake...

[lagilman]

I didn't want to make another Katrina post. I really didn't.


So I'm just going to send you over to koimistress's post here.



Be angry, people. Be very, very angry.

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[las.livejournal.com]

Jesus. H. Christ.

[debg.livejournal.com]

I posted that one up yesterday, in my own online treehouse. I think jonquil did, here.

I am at present involved in a completely surreal conversation about the blame for this mess, with someone I generally love dearly. Right now, I've had to step away from the coversation; it sounds as if the victim's being blamed for the rape.

May I just say that sticking FEMA under Homeland Security, giving an organisation whose effectiveness depends solely on how quickly it can act, an entire level of blundering governmental bureaucraziness to cut through?

Worst invention since the hula hoop.

[sfmarty.livejournal.com]

Have you seen the links in cleolinda's Live Journal?

She is finding amazing stuff. Like the live video of Ms Neville's rescue of so many people and what the women are going thru.

More reasons to be infuriated

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

than even what Koi has up:

...but perhaps the greatest disappointment stands at the breached 17th Street levee. Touring this critical site yesterday with the President, I saw what I believed to be a real and significant effort to get a handle on a major cause of this catastrophe. Flying over this critical spot again this morning, less than 24 hours later, it became apparent that yesterday we witnessed a hastily prepared stage set for a Presidential photo opportunity; and the desperately needed resources we saw were this morning reduced to a single, lonely piece of equipment. (http://www.newschannel6.tv/news/default.asp?mode=shownews&id=8695) - From Senator Mary Landrieu, who only yesterday was falling over herself to thank President Bush on CNN.

ZDF News reported that the president's visit was a completely staged event. Their crew witnessed how the open air food distribution point Bush visited in front of the cameras was torn down immediately after the president and the herd of 'news people' had left and that others which were allegedly being set up were abandoned at the same time. (http://www.warandpiece.com/blogdirs/002485.html) - from a Dutch viewer, who watches both CNN International and ZDF News.

Re: More reasons to be infuriated

[darkesta.livejournal.com]

Well, at last Mary Landrieu seems to have grown a backbone. It's probably temporary and caused by the shock of what's happened (and of the smackdown she got from Anderson Cooper on CNN), but it's nice to see a "moderate Democrat" showing some spine.

Re: More reasons to be infuriated

[merlinpole.livejournal.com]

I keep hoping that Mr ConMan (Ponzi or whatever the name of the person who invented the Ponzi scheme, didn't hold a candle to the conflagration-level sleazoidness of the Occupant of the Oval Office, for conning people) has gone beyond the extreme level of gullibility so many have demonstrated acceding to his lame excuses and and the spin and sideshows and sleight-of-hand. Maybe this time his actions have gone beyond what even the vast majority of his partisans and syncophants and apologists find tolerable or excusable.

Gov Romney of Massachusetts last night arranged a TV news broadcast interview in which he condemned the handling of the diaster. Given that he's been acting a major Bush lickspittle since the campaign season started in 2004, that's a significant political signal. I think that what he's doing is trying to avoid being splattered by any bad publicity and associational taint--even though there is no apparently direct and almost no indirect tie between him and the goings-on with the disastrous disaster response (or pitiful response) and the consequences this past week. It very much looks like he's trying to avoid any political fallout from the criticism and any blame-assigning to come.

It looks right now like the Designated Fall Guy is Mr Brown, who looks like a political patronage hack put in place because it was treated like a patronage position. He's getting the heat, and being handed to the reporters to be interviewed and chewed up. The question of how he got to that position of what basis, and who appointed him and kept him there afer the distribution of tens of millions of dollars in bogus "hurricane damange" from Hurrican Andew in unaffected Miami/Dade County the news media seems mostly uninterested in discussing or investigating.

[seachanges.livejournal.com]

At this point, I think I'm beyond anger.

What. The. Fuck.