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brown refuses to play the blame game, but it's all Louisiana's fault posted by Wally 11:35 AM In typical bush administration fashion, brown is taking the blame for his for his pitiful performance in the Katrina disaster and laying it squarely at the feet of 'Dysfunctional' Louisiana. That mother fucker. How many times did this sonofabitch say let's not play the "blame game?" How many times did we hear how inappropriate it was to point fingers and (I'll say it again, since we had to hear them say it 4,000 times) "play the blame game." And now, the first thing out of his mouth at the hearings is "it's all their fault!" Typical bush administration response. Just like everything else that they do, or that happens on their watch - it's always somebody else's fault. Hey asswipe, just blame it on Clinton like you guys do for everything else. brownie said "My biggest mistake was not recognizing by Saturday that Louisiana was dysfunctional." Hey Einstein, they may have been dysfunctional, but that kind of thing happens when you're under 20 feet of water, waiting for the help to arrive that you requested FOUR DAYS AGO. Your biggest mistake was not getting off your lazy ass to do your job until 2 days after the storm hit. Maybe, had you been paying attention to... well, to ANYTHING, you wouldn't have been caught off guard by a category 5 hurricane that had been building in the Caribbean and drifting across the Gulf of Mexico for a freaking week. I mean, it was only on every newscast in the nation for 5 days before it hit. But for one who "knows what he's doing" like you, who's "overseen over 150 presidentially declared disasters" I guess a storm that is merely 2/3 the size of the Gulf of Mexico, with 170 mph winds, looming over New Orleans, that every model for the past 30 years has predicted will drown the entire city of New Orleans isn't such a big deal. I mean, you've seen entire trailer parks wrecked by tornadoes! You've seen whole orange orchards damaged by frost! How could this compare to such horrors? No biggie. Sleep in. Deal with it in the morning. Maybe noonish. You fucking prick. "I know what I'm doing and I think I do a pretty darn good job of it." Maybe you should "think" again, because if you know what you're doing, you're sure doing a helluva job of hiding that fact from the rest of us. Did you also "know what you were doing and do a darn good job of it" as a horse trader? Is that why they FIRED your sorry ass from that job? I'm guessing the only thing you ever did a "pretty darn good job at" in your entire life was being Joe Albaugh's college roommate. And I don't even want to know what happened behind those closed doors. What's worse, through your incompetence, apathy, laziness, stupidity, arrogance, and callous disregard for human life in overseeing FEMA, you have made the entire agency look bad. All those people busting their asses doing everything they could to rescue and help out those in need, in spite of your astonishingly prodigious ineptitude, now have the stain of your incompetence emblazoned on their government issues jackets. For all you low-level FEMA heroes and grunts in the field and flood, (not to mention the police, firefighters, emt's, volunteers, etc etc) away from home, risking yourselves and putting yourself out to help others, a hearty thank you! I can never say enough good things about you, and I hope songs are written about you and statues erected in your honor. As for your boss brownie, on the other hand.... Congratulations, douchebag, you have officially been awarded a seat on Wally's Fantasy Plane Crash! With three more years of bush, I'm going to have to start fantasizing about a bigger plane. Wally Permalink :: 0 comments :: Post a Comment

Republicans to the poor: How can I use Katrina to ream you? Let me count the ways. posted by Wally 11:35 AM So unka kkkarl is using Katrina as an excuse to push through the guest worker program, while the republican leadership in Congress is simultaneously pushing for still more of their typically draconian benefit cuts to those who are already desperately in need of assistance. This is the same game they played so successfully after 9/11, using their utter failure to protect us to enact the Patriot Act and other legislation to rob us of our rights and liberties. Now they are using another absolute failure - the destruction of an entire region, to rob the poor of what little they have left. But will they ever touch the humongous tax cuts for the top 2% richest people in the country? HELL NO!! That would be unfair! Unfair? UNFAIR? These guys must have a different definition of unfair in their dictionary than I do. These guys are Robin Hood in reverse. Hopefully this time a democrat or two will find the stones to smack them down and point out what they're doing before it's too late. Don't hold your breath on that. Here's some of the deets, as I see them (which you could get from reading the articles on our main page on 9/23). rove is trying to take advantage of the confusion of the Katrina aftermath to push through more shitty proposals to screw everyone except the richest of the rich. And by the way, am I the only one who sees a pattern here? Allow confusion to reign after a disaster, or even encourage it, and then use that confusion to ramrod shitty controversial legislation through that would otherwise be ridiculed for being completely retarded (kind of like Dookie and I do to Clyde). This time, he is once again bringing forward the "guest worker program" that, a year or so ago, was pretty much laughed at as ludicrous by Congress, the media, and even the illegal immigrants it was "supposed" to help. This would allow illegal immigrants to stay in the country for up to three years before being stuffed in to containers and shipped back home. This dovetails nicely with the rich spoiled, cry-baby-in-chief rescinding the Bacon-Davis Act last week (Bacon-Davis guarantees that contractors pay the prevailing local wages to their workers on government jobs). How convenient that now Halliburton can legally hire illegal immigrants rebuild the Gulf Coast, legally pay them minimum wage (or less), and reap billions in profits (on the taxpayer tab, of course). What happens to all the people who live along the Gulf Coast, in the devastated regions, who need good paying jobs to get back on their feet and put their lives back together? What happens to the refugees when they return to the shambles of their homes in hopes of rebuilding? They, apparently, can all go to hell. Once they go bankrupt - oh wait, they can't declare bankruptcy anymore thanks to the new republican bankruptcy law (written by the credit banking industry) that goes into effect October 10 - so once they lose their homes and everything they own, bush's rich pals can buy up all the primo land for a song and hire the illegals at minimum wage or less to build their huge plush new vacation mansions. Then they can hire the poor (and often black) people who used to live there to be their housekeepers, cooks, maids, and servants. Gosh, it'll be just like in the old days, won't it? Add to that the spending cuts (past and proposed) on healthcare and medicare and head start and after school programs and Pell grants and welfare benefits and social security and... fuck... can it be any more obvious how the republicans are screwing the poor, especially in these devastated areas, in every way possible. After these people lost everything they've got, the republicans are determined to take even more from them. Meantime, where the fuck are the filthy rich sonsabitches in this equation? What is cheney sacrificing in his (ahem) service to his country? What has dumbya sacrificed? Hell, he won't even cut short his goddamn vacation. Let's see some examples of sacrifice from our alleged "leaders." All we've seen so far is pathetic attempts at lip service. They tell us WE need to sacrifice for the good of the country, while we watch dickhead playing golf and guitar, and we try to figure out if cheney's dead yet, and if he's not dead, where the fuck is he in this time of national disaster? Pop quiz: those of you who still have jobs - if your boss had no clue where you were for weeks at a time, how long would you be employed? cheney works for US, the citizens of the United States. We pay his salary with our tax dollars. It's about time we fire his sorry lazy greedy arrogant smirking ass for excessive absenteeism. bush too for that matter. Meantime, the impoverished U.S. citizens are getting help, without even asking for it, from Hugo Chavez of Venezuela, in the form of cheap heating oil for poor neighborhoods. How pathetic, sick, twisted, and disgusting is it that citizens of the wealthiest nation in the history of the world have to look to foreign countries to help them make it through the winter? It's enough to make me sick. Where's Clyde and Dookie? I need a fucking drink. Permalink :: 0 comments :: Post a Comment

bush takes responsibility? Well, not really. posted by Wally 11:34 AM When I first heard the words "I take responsibility" emanate from the mouth of the Blithering Idiot in Chief, my brain went into a series of mental contortions that would have impressed M.C. Escher. The first response was shock and disbelief. Stunned would be a good word to describe it. After reading the words two or three times and letting the comprehension sink in, my first thought was "well dip my balls in sweet cream and squat me in a kitchen full of kittens, the sonofabitch has finally taken responsibility for something." This would quite possibly be a first time event in his life. Certainly a first since I've been watching him. Once the first few moments of initial shock passed, however, logic and reason returned. After 5 1/2 years of these snake oil salesmen in control, it was completely beyond belief that they would actually take responsibility for anything. It had to be a trick. Unka karl put him up to this, wrote down the line for captain clueless to read, and made him stand in front of a mirror and practice saying it over and over until he got it right, paying special attention to the word "re-spon-si-bi-li-ty" because it's a long word and it might be hard work to pronounce it. But still, bush, accepting responsibility. What's the catch? There has to be a catch. That's when I went back and re-read the whole statement: "Katrina exposed serious problems in our response capability at all levels of government, and to the extent that the federal government didn't fully do it's job right, I take responsibility." Sure, he takes responsibility, but that is one holy mother of a "qualifying statement" attached to that responsibility. "to the extent that the federal government" (not me, the other parts of the federal government - THOSE guys over there) "didn't fully* do it's job right"* (define "Fully" doing it's job right - he's leaving himself miles of wiggle room here). The first part of the statement is also rather telling: "problems in our response capability" (not in our execution of the response, but in the capability) "at all levels* of government"* (the state and local guys didn't have the capability, and that caused the feds to not be able to execute their part fully). He's not taking responsibility at all. He gave himself a half dozen outs in the way he worded that statement. Yet, he used the word responsibility. He said "I take responsibility" so that all the freepers and dittomonkeys can now rave about what a great leader he is and how accountable and heroic he is, how he is taking responsibility for other people's failings. How many hours or days will it be until we hear him being compared favorably to Harry "The Buck Stops Here" Truman on the radio and TV? How long until his poll numbers climb back into the 40's? That's what this is all about. It's not about responsibility, it's about P.R. It's about covering his sorry ass. It's about pretending to be large and in charge in order to try to regain the trust of the right wing christo-fascist nazi brigade. His speech on Thursday night will be more of the same. "I take responsibility - sort of. Just like I did after 9/11. Remember 9/11, 9/11, 9/11, freedom, democracy, terror, sacrifice, spreading freedom, compassion, 9/11, freedom, democracy 9/11" and by the end of the speech the brainwashed freepers will be crying in their kool-aid over what a great leader he is. The rest of us, who have the intestinal fortitude to watch it at all, will be busy mopping up our own vomit. The boy-king is once again being manipulated by his puppet masters. Soon (if it hasn't started already) the right wing freakshow (rush, oreally, hannity, etc) will be singing his praises to the adoring masses. They will in turn blindly follow along like good little nazi's in the belief that, although it appears at first glance that the emperor has no clothes, that tiny little tassel dangling below his navel is really an adornment on a new outfit. I'm sure they'll think it looks "fabulous." Wally Permalink :: 0 comments :: Post a Comment

gee dubya, the "overkill" president posted by Wally 11:33 AM Looking at this article Revised US nuclear doctrine outlines preemption strategy, all I can think of is, with bush's twitchy trigger finger on the button, this scares the shit out of me. I can see him giggling to himself, jacking himself off in orgasmic glee as he nukes the shit out of a city or two of brown skinned people, because they have the desire to some day develop weapons of mass destruction. Do you think that, if he had been allowed to use nukes in Iraq, that he would have hesitated for a moment? He'd have splooged all over himself at the very thought of being able to blow up such big, powerful, pretty fireworks. And if a bunch of "ferners" got blown up with it, oh well. Like rummy says, sometimes war is messy. Besides, he'd never see the outcome anyway, except for the pictures of the pretty explosion, since they won't let news crews anywhere near the site. They wouldn't want any of us to see what's left of the bodies anyway, unless some of our soldiers smuggle digital cameras along with them. This psychopath shouldn't be allowed to play with sharp objects, let alone explosives. Now let's talk about nukes. Historically, ever since Hiroshima and Nagasaki, nukes have had the sole purpose of "deterrent." If you attack us, we will blast you back into the stone age. And they've worked very well to deter nations from attacking us, and from attacking Russia, and China, and other nuclear powers. Everyone who has them knows that the destructive power is overwhelming, completely nondiscriminatory (there is no such thing as a "precision" nuclear explosion - civilians, women and children, livestock, crops, pets, everything gets it), and long lasting - the blast sends dust and debris into the atmosphere, so that everyone and everything on the planet can enjoy the fact that the half life of uranium and plutonium will make the radioactive hangover last for millennia. Good plan George. The sole purpose of the nuclear arsenal is as a deterrent. The first time a nuclear weapon is used, it has, by definition, failed in its purpose. Deterrence works great against nations, since they have an address. Not so good against the likes of Al Qaieda. What are you going to do, drop a nuke in the desert at a camp and waste a billion dollar bomb and fuck up everything in a 10 mile area and blast radioactive dust into the atmosphere to sterilize an area with a couple dozen tents and a herd of camels? g.w. bush - the overkill president. He might like that nickname. It has the word "kill" in it. Wally Oh, and I just found out that he didn't know that brown had resigned. Is this guy TOTALLY clueless about everything? It boggles the mind. Permalink :: 0 comments :: Post a Comment

Force them out of their homes, or put them to work? posted by Wally 11:33 AM Watching and reading about the forcible removal of people from New Orleans, I can't help but be torn about how I feel. I'm definitely of two minds on this issue. On the one hand, there is the disease and hazard situation, putting themselves and others at risk. Risking their own lives is thier own business, but if they have to be rescued, they also put the rescuers at risk, and the police who have to protect them (although they could come to an agreement that they're on their own as far as that goes - I would be surprised if they are not well armed). Also, if they contract a serious illness and have to be hauled out to a hospital, they risk contaminating all those with whom they come in contact. That is a legitimate concern. On the other hand, we're dealing with adults. They know the risks - or they can be easily educated about them. They are New Orleansians. They don't mind living with risk - they're comfortable with it - that's why they live there. Life is a little edgier there than most other American cities. If they wanted to live someplace "safe and secure" (pronounced "boring") they'd move to a suburb of Des Moines and drive tan Subaru station wagons from their 3 bedroom split level cookie cutter house in their nice little Mayberry subdivision to their cubicle jobs and then to the kids' soccer games. I've seen and heard interviews with people down there who are vehement about staying. People who LOVE New Orleans, who live and die with it and by it, who simply will not leave. They are going to have to be dragged out of the city in cuffs, by cops who also love the city and understand what they're doing to these people, which won't make anyone happy. These people do not want to leave their homes, and by "home" I mean the house in which they live, and the city that they love. That is also a legitimate concern. So, I have a proposal. Instead of dragging them out kicking and screaming. Instead of arresting them, HIRE them. There is no shortage of work to be done down there. There is no shortage of unemployment either. How about a nice solution to both. Let them stay. Train them and give them jobs. You don't even have to pay them well. Feed them, house them, give them some money to hit the bar after work (yes, there are still bars in the French Quarter that are open. What, you thought a little hurricane and flood was going to stop New Orleans from partying? Have you been drinking?!). They can help with cleanup. They can help with rebuilding. They can help with whatever they can help with, including cooking for the mass influx of workers who are going to have to come to New Orleans to clean and rebuild the city. Who better to work to restore their home than the people who call it home? Think of the pride they will have walking down the street in a year, or two years, or 5, whatever it takes, knowing that THEY brought the city back to life, that they were there breathing life back into it when it was knocked flat. For the love of all that New Orleans represents, let these people help! They want to stay. They are GOING to stay. You can fight it, or you can take advantage of it. You can piss off everybody, or you can make things work out to the benefit of everyone. Is it really that hard of a decision? Permalink :: 0 comments :: Post a Comment