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If thousands of people weren't dead right now, I'd be laughing my ass off at that.

KO is so pathetic you'd swear he's a Karl Rove plant there to discredit the left. The funny part is that he (and his "black helicopter" rants) are on TV because the people at MSNBC really believe in him. I missed his daily meltdown today but I'm sure it was something like: "Isn't it a little too convenient that this hurricane happens at a time when Cindy Sheehan has President Bush on the run and things are heating up on the Supreme Court? I for one think we need a full Congressional investigation as to whether or not Karl Rove can control the weather and if it was in fact he who designed the levees that failed in New Orleans! We need to know the truth!" Gotta love the 'mainstream' media.

Did you even see what he was responding to?

Probably because they have some sense of class and responsibility. Let the bloggers point out Mayor Nagin's fleet of underwater buses or Governor Blanco's hesitance to call for the evacuation of the city. The Feds and the administration are busy getting things done. After the fact, Nagin is busy trying to convince everyone that it's not his fault and that they should still vote for him next time around.

To be fair, the people doing all the looting and raping had to survive the hurricane in order to have that opportunity and most will probably get away with it. The bad fortune went the way of all the old folks, disabled people, and little kids who drowned. Of course, reading her post, you get the sense she could name a few people she believes DO deserve to die in a horrible flood.

We'd all be better off if that were true... 429902[/snapback] There goes your Christmas card this year, tough guy...... And I don't know if ALL of you would be better off had I been aborted by blzrul back in 1980. Maybe a couple people, but definitely not everyone. Maybe after the NO and Supreme Court things blow over, we'll have a PPP poll to see how many people wish I had been aborted. Or maybe SkyNet could send a cyborg back in time to kill my mom before she gives birth to me.

It's especially important for me because it's one of the few Bills games I'll get to see from the comfort of my home in Austin, TX. So, hells yeah, it's must win. I'd also prefer we win when we wear our "Bills" jerseys this year instead of the "Broncos" jerseys we've been wearing most of the time lately.

Reminds me of the time you said you wished you were my mother so you could have aborted me.

Isn't that what's happening? Nagin and Blanco are the ones passing the blame and Bush and co. are the ones taking responsibility even when they don't have to. The Feds are the only ones not pointing fingers at this point and they probably have the least to be sorry for.

You're right. Bush should have waved his Presidential Magic Wand and had things taken care of in less than an hour. That's usually how unprecedented natural disasters play out. Bush showed really bad leadership when he finally convinced the Governor of LA to order the mandatory evacuation and even worse leadership when he didn't go door to door to make sure everyone actually left.

I won't be surprised if Nagin's local popularity actually increases after all of this. He had the balls to say that it was because of his crazy rants that things actually started getting done in New Orleans. Which is basically like me going outside my apartment around 8pm, screaming about how hot it is outside, and then taking credit when the sun goes down.

Guess that would explain the "Escape from N.Y." situation in New Orleans most of the past week - it literally *was* "Escape from N.Y."!!

Funniest thing I heard Nagin say was something like "I don't know if it's the governor or the President, but someone has to take control and get things in order down here." In other words, "I don't know whose fault it is, but it's not mine." The guy is scum. He makes Buffalo's leaders look good.

Stop disrupting nozzlenut's attempt to make everything political and act like a 12 year old while attacking the President. There was a lot of insight in that "great hair" blast.

Those pictures of the submerged buses are the most damning evidence of who is to blame just yet, and that includes the Washington Post article yesterday that said Gov. Blanco refused to order an evacuation until Pres. Bush basically made her do so. Nagin for President? CNN already loves the guy because he goes on crazy rants. Of course, he's so incompetent that he makes local leaders in Buffalo look good by comparison. As for the people who refuse to leave, that says something about the city's mentality going into this disaster. How many people died because they were just plain stupid?

It'd be weird to suddenly have the "Los Angeles Angels" and the "Los Angeles Saints." Maybe they could rename the WNBA team the "Los Angeles Nuns"... People in LA really don't want an NFL team. There are so many people there who are from somewhere else and they appreciate all the out of town games they get on TV. LA basically has 2 baseball teams, 2 basketball teams, and 2 NHL teams, and that doesn't include college sports. I'm not convinced the city really needs the NFL anymore.

I think we've agreed for the most part from the start. I certainly think someone needed to step up. I don't know for sure (is it OK to admit that in 2005?), but it seems like a lot of people blew a lot of chances to get things right.

What a !@#$ing idiot. EDIT: Here are some pictures. Link

Green Day's "American Idiot" being praised as the rock record of the year basically proves how far rock music has fallen. High school students in an AP English class could write better lyrics than those guys.

No idea on any of that. I'm an engineer too and I know all about designing with plenty of room for error and a focus on redundancy. They knew that these levees failing would basically destroy a major U.S. city so why were they designed with only Cat 3 in mind? If we're talking about hundreds of thousands, if not millions of lives, why not design it for some sort of fictional Cat 6 storm? A disaster like this takes an old bad design and decades of neglect to happen. Then you take into account how poor the city's plan was for this event, which is another story.... We may have the perfect storm of stupidity and neglect here.

Story after story about the victims having to wait for help isn't really useful information at some point. I'm more interested in finding out what relief efforts are mobilizing and what they're doing than hearing Jesse Jackson or the mayor of NO on TV again pointing fingers at everyone and telling me how bad things are. Seriously, it's one of the worst natural disasters in U.S. history and I have an imagination so I really don't need another talking head telling me stories they heard. The hurricane made landfall a week ago today and I have yet to hear any constructive criticism on the news. I've heard a lot of race baiting and I've heard a lot of reporters on the ground try to out-do one another in the melodrama department. I don't think any constructive criticism is going to come out of the 1st week anyway. I have. But I've been making an effort to look for that. I wonder how many other people know what's going on and how many are going with the Kanye West "Bush doesn't care about black people" theory. Every time I turn on CNN or FOX it's more belly-aching about how terrible everything is. CNN and MSNBC are interviewing Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton around the clock and every time they try to make this about race, the newscasters nod their heads and say "interesting point." I wonder how many Americans think the bottom line is that the government didn't care about black people and just let them die there because they didn't care. Basically the mainstream media has taken a bad situation and made it about a million times worse. As BiB pointed out, people around the world watch our media and they're forming opinions about America from this. Right now America looks like a racist country full of rapists and criminals just waiting for a natural disaster to take out the police. In reality, we're probably the only country that could rescue as many people as we have. Too bad that story will go untold. I don't know what to say to that. Yesterday at church, our priest asked if there were there was anyone from NO present. There was about 2 dozen of these people and the reception they received from the Austinites was amazing. That's the America I remember. A week of MSM's coverage of this disaster had basically made me forget this is what most of us are like. I'm disgusted by that.

Ben Stein made an interesting point. If our media put as much effort into raising poeple's spirits as they did into trying to make everything seem as awful as possible, we'd all be a lot better off. Sadly, it's important to them that everything look horrible and everyone in the government look incompetent. Basically there's been no praise for people taking care of the refugees, no praise for the search and rescue teams, and no praise for ordinary people who helped one another survive this thing. As weird as it sounds, there's a lot of good work being done. The rescue effort may have taken longer than people wanted, but how many countries could do better? How many countries could do it at all? In other words, the big complaint from CNN/FOX/MSNBC is "it took too long."

If the levee was built for Cat 3 and NO got hit with Cat 4, then why shouldn't it have failed? The parts that failed were recently upgraded, supposedly. The locals knew they were only safe for Cat 3, but 20% of the city ignored a mandatory evacuation and the governor was reluctant to even call for that same evacuation. There's your problem right there.

Tell that to all the women who were raped in the Superdome.

After watching days of hysterical, shrill whining from people who can't comprehend that our government can't fix everything right away and that the people who survived one of the worst natural disasters in our history have to live the they're in a third world country (the horror) when they might consider how lucky they are to even be alive, I'm about ready to pull the plug on this whole country. Kanye West thinks this is because "Bush doesn't like black people." Jesse Jackson thinks using the word "refugee" is racist for some reason. Carol Moseley Braun thinks the National Guard isn't treating everyone they've rescued nice enough. I am so embarassed to be an American right now.