A 18 yr. old kid in New Orleans commandeered a school bus, circled the area until he gathered 100 victims of Katrina and then drove it to Texas. He (Jabbar Gibson) had never driven a bus before. The kid is more man that Bush ever was, and deserves to be awarded a huge golden wheel barrow. I think he should be appointed director of the evacuation effort. He did a better job in 7 hrs than the Homeland Insecurity Department did in 4 days.

Hi, WP. Fill us in later...maybe. Glad you're back!

Sam - I second that!

George Bush and his spoiled brat administration never did one scrap of "work" in their lives --- they never learned how --- AND THEY NEVER WILL --- GET RID OF THE USELESS, SELFISH GREEDY BASTARDS NOW!

Even Tim Russert, who tried to fry the Homeland Insecurity Czar, keeps missing the point. He let Chernoff (a.k.a. jerkoff), try to put the blame on the state.

FOLKS LISTEN AND LISTEN CLOSELY ... by law the Corp of Engineers has jurisdiction of the levees. Only they can repair, maintain, and build them. It is federal property, not state property.

They knew the danger and asked for scores of millions of dollars to bring the levees up to par.

The White House (a.k.a. jeffie's whore house) OPPOSED IT!

There is only one great error in this mess and that is the federal government, from the top down, neglecting the american people and infrastructure.

Exclusive jurisdiction means exclusive guilt. To blame those they refused to take care of, help, and assist, is ghoulish madness at its worst.

Halloween is coming and the masks should be neoCons ... the face of Bush, Cheney, Jerkoff, and the rest of the death dealing pigs.

Actually, Dredd, I spent some time over at LGF last night, and got my head screwed on straight: the whole problem is the two hundred school buses that weren't used for evacuation. And now they're leaking motor oil and gasoline into the floodwaters.

It's that simple. So Robert Parry won't need to write a book called, "Who Lost New Orleans." It's very simple. It was Mayor Nagin (a black) and the Louisiana governor (a woman) who screwed up.

Now, about this upcoming Saddam trial...

There's something fishy about the shooting stories.

Ask yourself this question: "Who doesn't want people rescued?"

The answer is NOT criminals and looters!

I don't know what the answer is. But, this story reeks!!! There's NO WAY regular people, or even criminals and looters, are shooting at rescue workers. That is BULLSHIT!!! I don't believe it.

Fresh Able Danger stuff.

Does anyone know when approval ratings are published? what the latest one is for bush? It has to have fallen considerably in the last week.

That latest AOL online poll had 75% of people giving Bush's response to the catastrophe a POOR rating. That is just amazing.

The loonies like to always assign a reason "God" unleashes a natural disaster. So how about this one: God has had enough of the Bush regime and has delivered to the US a situation in which the regime's heinousness cannot even be ignored by the mainstream media.

There it is in the LA Times yesterday: a massive two-page spread: RESPONSE WIDELY CRITICIZED. Wow.

The 1-2 punch: leave us not forget Mr. Fitzgerald who may drop his indictments any time. And that should be enough to make most Republicans in the Senate turn their backs on Bush for fear of being dragged down by association.

The wild card: the rumored impending "terrorist attack" within the next 3 weeks. Could be a smart way for Bush to show "leadership," for FEMA to show their "competence" and to generally stifle dissent all over again.

ok Peg re #2 here's the inside skinny about the crossed wires ... last Friday, David and I received e-mail from Brad saying "please hold off on blogging; I have a few items I want to post soon" ... or words to that effect ... he does that sometimes to warn us when he has some "good stuff" coming, to make sure it doesn't get buried in a rash of guest-blogged pieces ... and so we sat quietly, waiting for the "ok" to resume normal operations ... until very late Saturday night, when I realized that Brad hadn't blogged very much since he put up two new items Wednesday followed by a big one on Thusday morning ... and then I looked at the e-mail again and saw that it had been sent out early in the day on Wednesday!! ... wtf? ... it turns out that Brad's e-mail server was down ... and even though he sent it on Wednesday, it didn't reach us until Friday ... so when Brad read his e-mail Sunday morning, there was a message from WP saying "may we resume now?" ...

That's how we got all fupped uck.

And of course our friend Murphy was there, as he always is when things get fupped uck, and so the fuppuck became multi-dimensional, as it were; we got fupped uck in more ways than one ... because of course, the good stuff --- for which Brad had wanted to clear the decks --- got absolutely buried [!] and then everyone sat around waiting for the good stuff, not realizing that it had already happened. My oh my.

Meanwhile the country has been hit by a disaster the scale of which we still have no idea, I think ... and getting news about it has been mighty frustrating [which was one of the reasons why I was so ... animated ... when I blogged this item] ... and in some ways it feels wrong to write a chatty comment about something so trivial at a time of such immense loss .... especially when the loss seems to have been accompanied by an astonishing number of examples of "incompetence" of the grossest sort, so that there is a rare degree of anger swirling around amongst the grief ... and yet we know that laughter is a great healer, especially in times of great loss.

So even though my heart is breaking, not just for New Orleans, or for the southeast, but for all of America, and for America's friends in the rest of the world as well ... and even though my hands are clenched in fists of rage [so to speak!], I still want you to laugh, if you can.

And why not laugh at us?? Look over here! That's me!! and here are my co-conspirators! We're an artful trio if ever there was one --- a formidable triumvirate of mighty guest-bloggers. Ta-dah!! And my oh my did we ever get fupped uck!!

For WP (Thought you could have some fun with this!)

How to Identify Misinformation
by the Masters of Dis/Misinformation!

Unreal #5 Did you flunk government 101? Here is a terse quote for your denial:

"In 1879, Congress got into the act and turned over the responsibility for flood control to the Army Corp of Engineers. After studying the problem, the Corp determined that the levees, if properly constructed and maintained, would do the job." (emphasis added, link here)

That began in 1879, so its not like it is an event that only happened this month. This is not news that you, the president, FEMA directors, nor anyone else of minimum competence would be unaware of.

Congress has no jurisdiction except where federal matters are concerned. I suppose you also do not know that all navigable waters, up the the highest high tide line, are federal property and jurisdiction.

Where there is federal jurisdiction and failure of those "levees [which] if properly constructed and maintained, would do the job" there is federal guilt.

And that is the central locus of the guilt. The bu$hit admin budget, and the scamators and misrepresentatives lowered the money going to the Corps for levee repair and upgrade more than any other budget year on record. Guess when that happened? Can you comprehend the term this year?

They needed to make up for the $5,000,000,000 CASH they gave to Iraqi warlords ... and which was "lost". Lost billions, lost life, and lost respect are what the neoCon bu$hit gang have reaped. Lets not mention the $300,000,000,000 billion for destroying and rebuilding Iraq. I mean hell, what is Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama, and Florida compared to Iraq?

Trying to pass the buck onto Mayors and State Governors, of whatever race or creed, is just more lame bu$hit ... of which americans have had enough.

Some of theses pigs will be tried in the Court of Public Opinion before Sadaam is. Sadaam, after all is not from "that part of the world" like the "refugees" from the federal levees are.

To Brad:

Howsabout the idea I came up with of starting a thread for the fourth anniversary of the 9/11 inside job for us to post the mountain of evidence that shreds the "official" 9/11 story? Your blog is the perfect place for it as people here speak the truth freely unlike some fake "liberal" blogs that I've found to be operated by the right wing to manage liberal discourse and keep it within certain parameters, like the awful "BuzzMachine" abomination.

Jeeze, Dredd! I was being facetious!

I was mocking those fools at LGF!

I've already written to my Dem. Senator demanding that Chertoff and Brown be fired, and Bush be impeached for failing to follow the National Response Plan that HIS administration put into effect last year. A plan which not only permitted Presidential intervention but OBLIGATED it.

Don't shoot me down with friendly fire!

re #11 Thanks, Bushw@cker ! That's fabulous!!!

re #13 That's a great idea, Kraig. It's a Sunday, right? We've got a few days to make a plan ... why don't you send me some e-mail? wp112263 at hotmail dot com

Re #6 Big Dan you said it, man! I couldn't agree more!!

To Winter Patriot re #15:

I think it is a Sunday. I'll e-mail you tomorrow (well, technically it's already "tomorrow" but I mean in the daytime) with some documented points I've found that shred the "official" story. On a similar note, in November of last year a Los Angeles citizens' grand jury (which carries no legal weight but plenty of symbolic weight) heard six full hours of evidence regarding 9/11 and at the end of it unanimously decided that the Bush regime was behind it. This hearing of evidence and symbolic trial got basically zero coverage in the mainstream media however. But it's no surprise that they shrank from covering it, as they still cling to the "nineteen hijackers" crap even though it came out in foreign news media a couple weeks after 9/11 that at least seven of the accused "9/11 hijackers" turned up alive and well days later. For a couple sources see:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/.../middle_east/1559151.stm
http://www.worldmessenger.20m.com/alive.html
...And aren't they already on their SECOND "20th hijacker", considering for the longest time they said Zacharias Moussaui [sp.?] was the fabled "20th hijacker who was unable to participate", now they are peddling some other fellow as the so-called "20th hijacker", in true Orwellian fashion never missing a beat and neglecting to mention the discrepancy, Moussaui just zips down the "memory hole" to oblivion.

Remember from '1984'?
"We are at war with Eurasia; We have always been at war with Eurasia".

Where is Dick Cheney?

Y'all MUST READ this incredible story about the "refugee camps" where they are locking up the victims of the hurricane. I am stunned and my head hurts:

http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/fema.html

"A 18 yr. old kid in New Orleans commandeered a school bus, circled the area until he gathered 100 victims of Katrina and then drove it to Texas. He (Jabbar Gibson) had never driven a bus before. The kid is more man that Bush ever was, and deserves to be awarded a huge golden wheel barrow. I think he should be appointed director of the evacuation effort. He did a better job in 7 hrs than the Homeland Insecurity Department did in 4 days."

a few of us decided that we should try to do something for Mr Gibson. Not just because he did the right thing and acted bravely in a bad situation but because, well, because we can't do something for all the people who acted heroically during Katrina. Mr Gibson has become our symbol.

Please see our petition;

Petition to honor Jabbar Gibson

http://www.petitiononlin...om/JG0007Q/petition.html

"We have been extraordinarily moved by the story of Jabbar Gibson, and the initiative he displayed in commandeering a bus to drive Hurricane Katrina victims out of New Orleans. We were very alarmed to hear that he was at one time in danger of prosecution. Mr. Gibson declared to the news media, "I don’t care if I get blamed for it, as long as I saved my people." But WE care if he gets blamed for it."

[snip]

" We request that this young man be awarded appropriately with a Presidential Medal of Freedom and a full four-year scholarship to the college of his choice. For we truly believe that Jabbar Gibson as an individual, exemplified the courage and the spirit that is the best part of America and in so doing became emblematic of the actions many others who responded bravely and selflessly in the face of this disaster. He is someone we should support, encourage, and see prosper in this great nation. Jabbar Gibson and those like him are the future of America!"