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Less important but still very lame was Warren Sapp's knocking over the Gatorade cups on our bench. Classy guy. Then again, what would you expect from maybe the most overrated player in NFL history?

But they can be aborted. If you're pro-choice, it's a women's rights issue. If you're pro-life, it's a human rights issue. Not that I care, since my contribution to the pro-life movement involves me not getting a woman pregnant until I'm married to her.

Not to mention that we put off D-Day for years because we were nowhere near prepared to do it right. Hence, the invasions of North Africa and Italy. So it was nearly 3 years in the making from the start of the war. Then you consider that we had begun building up our armed forces even before Pearl Harbor so the real preparation for D-Day began even before that.

So when Laura Bush was getting her shoes, was she making troops wait while people were stranded on rooftops? If she wasn't, it's not even close to being as offensive. Actually, the real reason it's funny is that the people with the D next to their names are the race baiters trying to sell the idea that the response would have been faster had it not been poor, black people stranded in NO. And, oh look, there's a black congressman abusing his power and using resources while people were stranded.

Link Obviously Rep. William Jefferson, D-La., doesn't care about black people...... What the hell was he doing in there for an hour? Taking a crap? Watching porn? Posting on TSW? What?

People are having a hard time coming to terms with the fact that the government can't protect them at all times and take care of everything for them. The best part is referring to "The Government" like it's some ominous, shapeless blob (or maybe like "The Force" in Star Wars). "The Government" is made up of people, and those people need to be mobilized in order to help you and have to work very hard to help you if you need help. So don't sit on your ass and expect them to do all the work just because you had the misfortune of being in trouble. It's just ridiculous how many people realized they were in trouble and responded by simply throwing their hands in the air and saying "Well? Where's Bush when I need him....?"

I went searching for it, couldn't find it, and ended up finding something just as pathetic (which plays right into what you just said). Idiot Letters This woman feels an extra special attachment to NO because she bought her aspirin there. No kidding. I think the sentence in the middle sums up everything wrong with America these days:

I don't think it was an "expert." I'm pretty sure it was a newscaster or some idiot celebrity like Jesse Jackson. All I know is that I was in awe that the self-proclaimed "Most Trusted Name in News" thought they needed to interview someone who was actively promoting an idea that would kill off hundreds of American paratroopers almost instantly.

No matter how obvious that is, no one wants to come right out and say it because it looks like you're blaming the victims for the hardships they endured. It's true, though. The Mayor told them to bring 3 days worth of supplies. That implies that they knew it would take up to 3 days for help to arrive. Why the outcry when that was the case? Also, maybe there is something to the "entitlement society" concept. Those were poor people and you have to wonder how many spent their entire lives with the government providing for them? Even in the face of, to them, Armageddon they still basically said "OK, where's the government on this?" If my life were on the line, I'd be doing everything I could on my own to survive before hoping for any outside help.

Bush choose his words carefully but of course it wasn't reported that way. He basically said he would take responsibility for whatever mistakes were made and, like most Americans, understood the importance of finding out what went wrong. That, of course, is much different than saying "We failed misearably and it was my fault," which is basically how CNN, the AP, and everyone else posted the story. Basically he admitted that mistakes were made but did not say how many or how grave these mistakes were. Pretty innocuous. Then again, Pres. Bush has about the worst PR people that a President can have so it's not surprised that they'd have him do something like this.

One of the idiots on CNN was whining about why we didn't drop paratroopers on NO the day after the levees broke. Paratroopers! Now even if we had paratroopers ready to be deployed in the United States, dropping them into a flooded city is probably only going to result in a lot of families finding out that their paratrooper sons and daughters drowned in NO. You don't drop paratroopers into the water. One of the Nazi defenses in France prior to D-Day was to flood areas so that paratroopers who landed there would drown. And if we told our paratroopers to pack light (and not be weighted down), basically all we'd achieve by successfully putting them in NO is add a few thousand more people with guns and little to eat or drink. And that's assuming paratroopers are trained and prepared to quell riots (which I sincerely doubt they are).

It might be the most valid point and the least reported.

That means you missed her psyche evaluation of the looters: "Dese people, day never have anything in deir 'ole lives and they just want to touch these things in the stores! Let them! Let them feel what day rest of us 'ave." (arms flailing the entire time and tears streaming down her face)

Uh huh, so it's realistic to get thousands of troops into a flooded, underwater city "immediately"? It's amazing how much you know about all this. You must be an expert when it comes to troop deployment and the military. It's been the most successful rescue operation in world history and you still find room to complain. Amazing, but not unexpected. "Do it faster. ummmmmm.....somehow....."

"Officer, there's a body over there. Can't you do anything? Officer! OFFICER!! OFF-I-SIR!!!! There's....there's....just no law and order here." Don't forget CNN's hard-hitting interview with Celine Dion. "Why didn't we have KAYAKS?!"

When it comes to disaster response, you don't need any experience to be an expert and talk about how "clueless" the President is. Amazing how many people are spouting off about what the end result of the first few days should have been but have exactly zero idea what would have been necessary to bring that end result about.

So, in the "first few days" we should have been able to drain all the flooded areas and have "immediate" help by way of thousands of troops on the ground? Yeah, that's realistic.

Yeah, it's also the best any country on the face of the earth could do. Unless we perfect the technology behind teleportation any time soon, there will never be such a thing as "immediate" help when three states are flooded and in ruins.

Only if you consider badly distorting the reality of what happened a "purpose."

"Oh my God, it's the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man......."

No problem. Everyone needs to read that.

But, but, that was probably because in the first couple days after the levees broke, the last thing anyone wanted to hear was how incompetent someone was. But, but, people probably wanted some reassurance that things were being taken care of (which they were, despite what CNN thinks). But, but, if President Bush had said anything negative about anyone, you would've broken a finger or two in your mad dash to post about him shifting blame away from himself. "Brownie" lost his job because there's no excuse for lying on your resume. Oh....yay.....a HALLIBURTON! reset. HALLIBURTON!!! FLIGHTSUIT!!! GOAT STORY!!! BROWNIE!!!

That was the same link I posted yesterday. Gosh, I wish I could've quoted the entire article. It was full of gems like that.

The problem isn't that they showed human suffering, the problem is that ALL they showed was human suffering without providing any hard information as to what was going on at the local, state, and federal levels to help people. And the media just talks about the federal response like it's a hard fact that it was an unmitigated disaster when that is the exact opposite of the truth. CNN isn't asking "Was the federal response slow compared to previous natural disasters?" No, the graphic at the screen this morning was "Who is to blame for the government's slow response?" This morning MSNBC's graphic was "Bush responds to criticism for sluggish federal response." No one in the mainstream media has the balls to ask if what they're "reporting" is even true. When your job is to sit behind a desk and read a teleprompter, I don't know if I need your opinion on how disasters should be handled.

Yes, but as my link points out, the results are the greatest rescue and relief effort in world history. It was not a federal screw-up despite the compulsion by many on the Left to portray it as such (heck, everyone who does it talks about it like it is an undisputed FACT that the federal government did a horrible job when the truth is the exact opposite). Human suffering happened but that was because of a hurricane and poorly designed levees (and a poorly designed evacuation plan that was executed even more poorly), not the federal response.