Holy Fucking Shit

Our President

via Crooks and Liars

for a little added fun, go to Google and search "failure".

If google says it, it must be true.

Rock'Em Sock'Em Clinton

I've been reading a lot of disheartening posts around the liberal blogs regarding this perception that Bill Clinton has been soft-pitching in his criticism of Bush lately.

Well reading this article I would have to vigorously disagree. Clinton not only hammers Bush on a number of issues, but he also shines a unique light on the Bush war machine (unique to me, anyway). This part really unseams the Bush song-and-dance

"What Americans need to understand is that ... every single day of the year, our government goes into the market and borrows money from other countries to finance Iraq, Afghanistan, Katrina, and our tax cuts," he said.

"We have never done this before. Never in the history of our republic have we ever financed a conflict, military conflict, by borrowing money from somewhere else."

Clinton added: "We depend on Japan, China, the United Kingdom, Saudi Arabia, and Korea primarily to basically loan us money every day of the year to cover my tax cut and these conflicts and Katrina. I don't think it makes any sense."

Never in the history of our republic have we ever financed a conflict, military conflict, by borrowing money from somewhere else.

POW!

Bush: Distempered, Charismatic or Primary Psychopath?

Here's a really great piece of blogging.

The blogger asks, "Which Type of Psychopath Best describes George W. Bush?"

I felt the choice was obvious (with a few bits of the Secondary type tossed in):

PRIMARY PSYCHOPATHS do not respond to punishment, apprehension, stress, or disapproval. They seem to be able to inhibit their antisocial impulses most of the time, not because of conscience, but because it suits their purpose at the time. Words do not seem to have the same meaning for them as they do for us. In fact, it's unclear if they even grasp the meaning of their own words, a condition that Cleckley called "semantic aphasia." They don't follow any life plan, and it seems as if they are incapable of experiencing any genuine emotion.

What a chowderhead.

"in Gulfport, a bar rations its cold beers"

My favorite headline of the week:

Potbellied pig resists evacuation; in Gulfport, a bar rations its cold beers

Having lived for a time in New Orleans, and marrying into a deep southern family, this part broke my heart

Biloxi's Beau Rivage casino reopened its bar and the longnecks even had cold sweat on them. They're rationed: three per customer.

Mike Van Grinsven wasn't completely happy. He said he'd lost a new $3,500 Gibson Les Paul Black Beauty and all his other guitars to a storm so fearsome "there were goats hanging in the trees near my house."

Glenn Fairley was nearly blissed out.

"It's nice to hear some music instead of news," he said.

Kandis Glasier of Saucier, Miss., enjoying a Coors Light, was near to swooning, too.

"You can kind of forget what it's like and remember what it used to be like," she said.

The storm was so fearsome "there were goats hanging in the trees..."

Another great headline

Fla. Pilots 'Counseled' for Rescues

but an infuriating story... read it. These guys were trying to, and succeeding in, saving lives for fucking christ sake!

And has this guy been smoking too much ice or is he one of the Bush pride?

Nichols said Udkow was in no way being punished by being put in charge of a temporary kennel in Pensacola for pets of military personnel who had been evacuated from hurricane-stricken areas.

"It's a collateral duty," Nichols said. "These guys don't just fly. They do other stuff."

what a creep. "It's a collateral duty"... Fuck you punk! People are dying and this retard is putting helicopter pilots in dog kennels!

Failure. Fraud. Fuck-up. Nincompoop!

Let's not forget phony.

Our president actually said this back in June:

My greatest responsibility as President is to protect the American people.

Who you trying to fuck whiteman?

To the president's credit, he got that part right... a president's number one responsibility is safeguarding the nation and it's people... however, he didn't mention whether or not he was living up to that responsibility. When I was 15 I knew my responsibility was to cut the lawn every weekend, but that didn't stop me from attempting to dodge that bullet every chance I got.

That's the impression Bush has always left me with: a manipulative child who always has an excuse for why he didn't do his homework or why there is a basketball sized dent in his father's car... the kind of kid that picked on all the weakest kids and never had a friend who didn't serve some purpose. The kind of kid who would slap your little brother around then adorn himself with sugar and smiles when you mother walked in.

President Eddie Haskel

What Would Clinton Do?

More appropriately, what DID President Clinton do?

Found this interesting piece over at Daily Howler

When hurricanes, much smaller than Kat, hit the US on Clinton's watch, FEMA was more than ready to hit the mats fighting:

USA Today (Steve Marshall, 7/11/96)

As Hurricane Bertha churned toward the Southeast coast Wednesday, a massive exodus of tourist havens began... Bertha's immediate effects:

- NASA moved the shuttle Atlantis off its Cape Canaveral launch pad to a hangar.

- Olympic officials in Georgia moved yachts inland.

- Navy officials ordered 54 ships out to sea to avoid being battered against the docks.

- President Clinton canceled appearances set for today in Orlando and Tampa.

And then there is this regarding the aftermath of hurricane Floyd in 1999:

Clinton was unwilling to be away from Washington when the storm struck the East Coast last week. He called off plans to golf in Hawaii after a five-day trip to New Zealand and returned to the nation's capital... Clinton took the highly unusual step of issuing disaster declarations for North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Florida even before the hurricane's high winds and rains hit the states.

Gosh, those were the days, weren't they?

Let's compare:
Clinton: Canceled appearances as a storm approached.
Bush: Took a nap, cleared some brush, then took a nap as Katrina was upgraded to a Cat 5. However, AS the storm hit, he went to California to a fundraiser, then pretended to play the guitar for Photographers (then he went home for another nap).

Clinton: "Clinton was unwilling to be away from Washington when the storm struck"... He called off plans to go to Hawaii... Hawaii!!!
Bush: What the fuck was he doing for four deadly days?

What do you call it when you are responsible for a death (or deaths) through incompetence or indifference? I think the police call it negligent homicide (I'm not a cop or a lawyer, I just like to watch other people pretend to be them on TV) so I don't know...

What do you call it if incompetence or indifference leads to the deaths of 40,000 people? And suppose the great majority of those people are members of a disenfranchised minority and you are the fuck-up oldest son of Old Moneyed White People?

Negligent Genocide?

Worst president ever? I would say yes... makes Nixon look sort of like a grumpy Jesus.

Bush, like Katrina, has been a disaster for the American people, our economy, our culture (think of the one of a kind culture, if not destroyed in New Orleans and the deep south, then dispersed and traumatized)... this president has been catastrophic to the core ideals we Americans supposedly hold so dear...

He has severely damaged the image and reputation of America.

He has defamed and disgraced his office, and used and manipulated the nation for his own purposes.

and we have never been so vulnerable as his policies and despicable leadership have baught us.

His basic understanding of his duties and his roll in the legacy he leaves for all of us, and all of our children for generations to come, are flawed and incompetent.

This cocksucker should fire his entire DHS staff, and bring in some grown-ups who know what they are doing.

As disastrous as the Bush presidency has been over the last four years, imagine the damage he has done to our national karma.

Is FEMA Ready for Another Catastrophe?

It's a question I don't think I've heard anyone ask yet.

If a terrorist organization executed a catastrophic attack in the coming weeks, is FEMA, or anyone in the White House or the Pentagon, prepared to protect American citizens? I think the evidence points to a dismal conclusion.

I want someone to ask the President, or any of those creeps, what they are doing to protect us from another event, which we may not see coming.

How can anyone think this chimp-in-a-suite is doing a good job? He is an extraordinary fuck-up.

Elect a fifty-year-old fratboy and this is what you get.

This IS America

UPDATED 9/8/05

New Orleans, September, 2005


Knight Ridder







Amazing.

What the Fuck is Tierney talking about?

...why are urbanites so much better prepared to cope with fire than with flooding? Mostly because they learned to fight fire without any help from the Army Corps of Engineers or the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

Seriously... what the fuck is he talking about? Is he blaming New Orleans for relying too much on the federal government? Sound like the typical conservative response to everything.

How can anyone witnessing this extraordinary event sit down and write such a scrambled mess?

Here's the bargain I'd offer New Orleans: the feds will spend the billions for your new levees, but then you're on your own. You and others along the coast have to buy flood insurance the same way we all buy fire insurance - from private companies that have more at stake than do Washington bureaucrats.

Asshole!

Holy Freaking Scumbag!

Hastert ranks near the top of the list of GOP scumbags (right up there with Cheney and Bush and the Bug Killer). The stinking punk actually said the following about New Orleans

"It looks like a lot of that place could be bulldozed... We ought to take a second look at it. But you know we build Los Angeles and San Francisco on top of earthquake fissures and they rebuild too. Stubbornness."

What the fuck is that supposed to mean, motherfucker?

Gov. Kathleen Blanco had this reply:

"To kick us down when we're down and destroy hope... I expect an apology as soon as possible."

Fuck the god damn apology. Tell him to go down there and say that to the faces of the hundreds of thousands of stranded citizens...

Read the article.

Bastards!

What He Said!

Two from AMERICAblog:

1. Breaking: Bush To Go On Helicopter Ride
(wish I came up with that headline)

2. White House: Don't Blame us, blame the hurricane

Has the Worm Turned?

Not to minimize the ongoing human disaster in New Orleans, I was just watching the morning news and it seems even the most banal segments of the Mainstream Media are in serious attack mode.

I just watched Katie Couric, of all people, grill Michael Brown, the head of FEMA, on Washington's mind scrambling failure to bring this thing under control. The storm hit Monday. It is now Friday. FRIDAY! and the scene is worse this morning than it was last night. When asked when he expects the Guard to restore some kind of order, and ease the suffering on the ground (in the water), Brown had the balls to say, with something like professional pride, this weekend.

THIS WEEKEND?? THIS WEEKEND?? One week after the event? Nine months ago we managed to airdrop food and water into fucking Thailand 2 days after the tsunami. Christ almighty!

To her credit, Couric gave Brown a lashing, and actually began probing him about the issue regarding the Fed's lack of funding for precisely this type of catastrophe.

If Couric is this viscous, let's how Timmy and the other Sunday jokers perform this weekend.

Bush is going down on this, and he should!

UPDATE : 7:42 a.m.

Harry Connick Jr. is being interviewed right now. Apparently he has been on the ground in New Orleans at the convention center and he has been on a tear... He is baffled about the scene there. He said he can't understand why the government can't drive a few trucks of food in there. He said he could drive a car load of water in there right now. He went on a 3 or 4 minute rant that was right on the money. Where is the help? How could it possible take so long within our own boarder!!! In a major American city.

WHAT THE FUCK!

If I had left Philly yesterday, my Prius filled with food and water, I'd still probably beat the feds into the city.

Holy shit... this is a total melt-down.

UPDATE : 8:02 a.m.

I'm hearing right now that a chemical plant has exploded about 3 miles from downtown New Orleans, a huge plume of smoke drifting over the city. The Fed's say it's non-toxic, but who can believe a fucking thing they say now!

A chemical plant has exploded

I'm not sure I can continue watching the news today... it literally makes me sick. So horrible.

This is America?

Am I having some sort of acid flashback?

I can not believe I have lived to witness this:

Announcing the arrival of 300 Arkansas National Guard troops in New Orleans fresh from service in Iraq, [Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco] said, "these troops are battle-tested. They have M-16s and are locked and loaded."

"These troops know how to shoot and kill and I expect they will," she said.

Granted, the Governor and the troops have no choice now, given the un-fucking-believable lawlessness.

This is America?

Anyone who has watched the scenes of mass despair, hundreds of people wading through flooded streets with whatever they can carry, Thousands upon thousands standing on highway overpasses or collapsed from unimaginable exhaustion. I lived in New Orleans for 4 years. My wife and family are from New Orleans. We go down there every Christmas to visit my wife's mother. I watch these scenes, I recognize some of the places where I spent a lot of time, and they are awash in such surreal human suffering and desperation...

And guess what... all the people are black. Every one of them. The only white faces you see are doctors, police, and soldiers. And every one of them looks just as freaked out as the displaced.

This is America?

The federal government has been criminally slow in getting the lead out on this. And if someone doesn't step up and just admit that they were caught with their pants down and that they are sorry, and they pledge the full power of American industry and science into easing the pain, supporting the refugees for as long as it takes, and rebuilding the city (not to mention all the smaller, yet no less humanly significant, towns along the Mississippi coast), no matter how much it costs... if someone doesn't just say, "ok, we fucked up", my head is going to explode!

This is America?

What an Olympian disgrace!

Turkey Shoot

Watching the horror down south this week one thought keeps ricocheting around my skull: if this pathetic excuse for a rescue effort and catastrophe management is the best we can do, god help us when the next terror attack hits. Doesn't exactly breed confidence.

Seriously, the most powerful nation in the history of mankind, and this is the best we can do?!?! If so, the next 911 should be a real turkey shoot.

Someone has a lot of questions to answer when this calms down... and unlike the last great disaster almost 4 years ago to the day, that someone won't have an impotent Arab dictator or cave-dwelling Saudi millionaire to attack.