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This thing with New Orleans is un-fucking-beliveable. How is it that we can give millions of dollars in aid to everyone else, but we can't pull one of our own cities out of the fire? Not to malign the National Guard, but where the fuck is the army?

(Oh, wait. They're fighting a war someplace else that no one on either side really wants them involved in, and the only thing the President is doing is smirking through a Barbara Walters interview, the son of a bitch.)

In addition to the main network news, PBS also broadcasts the BBC World News. Unlike other American news, BBC shows all the footage of refugees screaming things like, "Where is George Bush? Why the hell hasn't help come? etc." This makes me smirk because the networks don't show it, or really anything that would cast W in a negative light. It's all toned down.

Christ, this whole thing is heartbreaking.

You would think that with all the emergency planning, they would have planned for something BESIDES terrorism. Apparently, working out a flood scenario for New Orleans in case of a monster hurricane was on the list, but the White House said, nah, fuck that. We're going to spend millions of dollars on a color alert system that no one pays attention to instead. Oh, and New Orleans? By the way, you're not getting any funding to shore up your levees so they can withstand anything higher than a category 3 hurricane. Sorry.

/disgust

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This thing with New Orleans is un-fucking-beliveable. How is it that we can give millions of dollars in aid to everyone else, but we can't pull one of our own cities out of the fire? Not to malign the National Guard, but where the fuck is the army?

(Oh, wait. They're fighting a war someplace else that no one on either side really wants them involved in, and the only thing the President is doing is smirking through a Barbara Walters interview, the son of a bitch.)

In addition to the main network news, PBS also broadcasts the BBC World News. Unlike other American news, BBC shows all the footage of refugees screaming things like, "Where is George Bush? Why the hell hasn't help come? etc." This makes me smirk because the networks don't show it, or really anything that would cast W in a negative light. It's all toned down.

Christ, this whole thing is heartbreaking.

You would think that with all the emergency planning, they would have planned for something BESIDES terrorism. Apparently, working out a flood scenario for New Orleans in case of a monster hurricane was on the list, but the White House said, nah, fuck that. We're going to spend millions of dollars on a color alert system that no one pays attention to instead. Oh, and New Orleans? By the way, you're not getting any funding to shore up your levees so they can withstand anything higher than a category 3 hurricane. Sorry.

/disgust

Just watched W's disaster speech...

It was a disaster in and of itself. The man is fucking retarded, I swear to god. The thing that drove my mother, sister, and I nuts the most, though?

The whole "this part of the world thing."

THIS PART OF THE WORLD IS IN YOUR COUNTRY, FUCKWIT!!! "This part of the world" "That part of the world"- that's what you say when you're talking about somewhere else. Indonesia, Africa, wherever- not a place that's like, three hours or whatever from where you fucking grew up. He must have said the phrase "in this part of the world" five or six times.

Oh, yeah. The other real gem of his speech was the bit where he talked about having waaaay too much fun there in his youth, and he's sure that someday soon New Orleans will build itself up to it again.

If you want to say it, Georgie, say it. You can't wait for the city to get back on its feet so you can see women flashing their tits for beads every fifteen seconds, and then you can go get wasted with your cabinet members. Maybe if you get lucky, Condi will show you hers.

Fucker.

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Just watched W's disaster speech...

It was a disaster in and of itself. The man is fucking retarded, I swear to god. The thing that drove my mother, sister, and I nuts the most, though?

The whole "this part of the world thing."

THIS PART OF THE WORLD IS IN YOUR COUNTRY, FUCKWIT!!! "This part of the world" "That part of the world"- that's what you say when you're talking about somewhere else. Indonesia, Africa, wherever- not a place that's like, three hours or whatever from where you fucking grew up. He must have said the phrase "in this part of the world" five or six times.

Oh, yeah. The other real gem of his speech was the bit where he talked about having waaaay too much fun there in his youth, and he's sure that someday soon New Orleans will build itself up to it again.

If you want to say it, Georgie, say it. You can't wait for the city to get back on its feet so you can see women flashing their tits for beads every fifteen seconds, and then you can go get wasted with your cabinet members. Maybe if you get lucky, Condi will show you hers.

Fucker.

( And a meme! )