Is That His Hand or What?

The Truro Power Centre's 12-metre statue of Glooscap, legendary symbol of the Mi'kmaq, will soon lose an unwanted illusory protrusion.

Some motorists travelling Highway 104 toward Truro claim the statue looks like it has an appendage not intended by its sculptor emerging from its midriff.

Ribald humour and giggling 10-year-olds aside, the illusion is being taken seriously.

"We may have to take the arm off and get it bent up a little bit more and get his fingers on a staff with an eagle on the end of it, to take that illusion away," said Lawrence Paul, chief of Millbrook First Nation.

The chief said Monday that Atlantex Creative Works in Chezzetcook will make a staff to put in the statue's hand, thereby eliminating any illusion

Corrective surgery set for Glooscap

Her Baby is OK

This face and baby just haunted me after Katrina. She said she could not wake her baby up and a reporter last week said the baby died. I saw on Countdown with Keith that she and her baby are OK.

full story:
The eyes on the storm: Internet

David Drier May Become New Majority Leader

AP Reporting David Drier will become new House Majority Leader

Update actually it is Good 'ol Roy Blunt along with Drier to help him that is going to be the temporary Leader

Meet Roy: Beyond Delay the 13 Most Corrupt Members of Congress

Delay Indicted

Just announced on MSNBC:

Tom Delay Indicted

God or Drugs -- The Ashley Smith Story

Now we know that along with reading one paragraph from The Purpose Driven Life, Ashley Smith gave Crystal Meth to her captor Brian Nichols. Now one has to wonder did Ashley know Brian before this all began?. Is is more than a Coincidence that Ashley just happened to be going out for a pack of cigarette at 2 A.M. when Nichols just happened to be in her neighborhood? I have no idea, but now it seems more than a probability that perhaps they knew each other to begin with. WHAT IS THE TRUE STORY?


Celebrated Hostage Gave Crystal Meth to Captor

Cronyism part Deaux -- Brownie's Back

Good Lord, "Heck of a job" Brownie seems to still be on the payroll of FEMA according to Raw Story:

CBS News' Bob Schieffer just announced that the Federal Emergency Management Agency has rehired ex-FEMA chief Michael Brown-- as a consultant to evaluate the agency's response to the disaster!

CBS News says Michael Brown rehired as FEMA consultant

How to Make Martyrs -- Arrest a Mom who gave her son to America

I don't know about anyone else but arresting a Mom who sacrificed her son for Bush looks pretty bad to me:

Cindy Sheehan Has Been Arrested in DC

CNN Just reporting Cindy Sheehan has been arrested in DC



Here is the story:
Sheehan Arrested During Anti-War Protest

Rita Storm Update

My son who lives in the Houston Area suburps of Seabrook Tx returned home yesterday. It took a total of 8 hours of driving to go 140 miles. After 40 miles, one of their cars broke down and they towed it with jumper cables. They could find no stores open or any gas. When they were within 40 of home both jumper cables broke and they had a fourth of tank of gas. They left the broken down car and made it home, the last leg on fumes. The good news is their area was virtually undamaged and they had electricity. I am glad they are all safe.

Pat Tillman -- Still a Hero to the Right?

In an article on the former NFL player Pat Tillman who gave it all up to join the military after 9/11 to fight for his country, some new information is slowing emerging about this hero killed by friendly fire. It appears that Tillman disliked Bush, often read Norm Chomsky and told fellow soldiers they should vote for Kerry:

.....Interviews also show a side of Pat Tillman not widely known — a fiercely independent thinker who enlisted, fought and died in service to his country yet was critical of President Bush and opposed the war in Iraq, where he served a tour of duty. He was an avid reader whose interests ranged from history books on World War II and Winston Churchill to works of leftist Noam Chomsky, a favorite author......

.....Mary Tillman said a friend of Pat’s even arranged a private meeting with Chomsky, the antiwar author, to take place after his return from Afghanistan — a meeting prevented by his death. She said that although he supported the Afghan war, believing it justified by the Sept. 11 attacks, “Pat was very critical of the whole Iraq war.”

Baer, who served with Tillman for more than a year in Iraq and Afghanistan, told one anecdote that took place during the March 2003 invasion as the Rangers moved up through southern Iraq.

“I can see it like a movie screen,” Baer said. “We were outside of (a city in southern Iraq) watching as bombs were dropping on the town. We were at an old air base, me, Kevin and Pat, we weren’t in the fight right then. We were talking. And Pat said, ‘You know, this war is so f— illegal.’ And we all said, ‘Yeah.’ That’s who he was. He totally was against Bush......”

FAMILY DEMANDS THE TRUTH

Reflections on The Anti War Protests

I see they are saying between 100,000 and 150,000 thousand people marched in the big anti war rally in Washington DC on Saturday. I watched some of the speeches on C-SPAN, there were some really wack-o people there.

The organizers of the rally are some of the most far lefties out there read David Corn's The odd and troubling origins of today’s anti-war movement

This was no accident, for the demonstration was essentially organized by the Workers World Party, a small political sect that years ago split from the Socialist Workers Party to support the Soviet invasion of Hungary in 1956. The party advocates socialist revolution and abolishing private property. It is a fan of Fidel Castro’s regime in Cuba, and it hails North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Il for preserving his country’s “socialist system,” which, according to the party’s newspaper, has kept North Korea “from falling under the sway of the transnational banks and corporations that dictate to most of the world.” The WWP has campaigned against the war-crimes trial of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic. editorial declared, “Iraq has done absolutely nothing wrong..........

If there is to be a serious anti-war movement, it needs to focus on one thing, that THIS WAR was not the right war. Even Cindy Sheehan (whom I admire very much) has gotten off message when she talks about Israel and says that going into Afghanistan was wrong. Most of the American people are not pacifists. We feel that when attacked we attack back. So sending a message of peace at all costs will not make a lot Americans sign on to the cause

I probably would have not taken part in this rally, even though I am very, very against this war. Too many messages being sent, not enough focus on the original intent.

New Orleans Flooding Again

Hurricane Rita's steady rains sent water pouring through breaches in a patched levee Friday, cascading into one of the city's lowest-lying neighborhoods in a devastating repeat of New Orleans' flooding nightmare.

Rita Causes New Flooding in New Orleans

100 Mile Gridlock

Heeding days of dire warnings about Hurricane Rita, as many as 2.5 million people jammed evacuation routes on Thursday, creating colossal 100-mile-long traffic jams that left many people stranded and out of gas as the huge storm bore down on the Texas coast.

Acknowledging that "being on the highway is a deathtrap," Mayor Bill White asked for military help in rushing scarce fuel to stranded drivers.

......Officials also made matters worse for themselves by announcing at one point that they would use inbound lanes on one highway to ease the outbound crush, only to abort the plan later, saying it was impractical......

Miles of Traffic as Texans Heed Order to Leave

There is No Global Warming!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yea right we all believe that now!

Four Years of Nothing

I think I would laugh if I didn't want to cry. We have had four years to plan for disasters since 9/11. I figured at least if nothing else this administration was planning for attacks and disasters in our largest cities. I now know that was a really stupid assumption. With traffic at a standstill in Houston it appears no city was prepared for a disaster whether manmade or natural. What have we done with all that planning and money? With people on the roads who are traveling at 1 MPH it sure makes my soul feel safer. This is another New Orleans shaping up with travelers unable to proceed to safety. We have a non-government government that cares not one twit about its own citizens.

It is each man for its own and no wonder anarchy prevailed in New Orleans!

Houston Evacuates Traffic at a Standstill

Traffic came to a standstill and gas shortages were reported Thursday as hundreds of thousands of people in the Houston metropolitan area rushed to get out of the path of Hurricane Rita, a monster storm with 165 mph winds.

An estimated 1.8 million residents or more in Texas and Louisiana were under orders to evacuate to avoid a deadly repeat of Katrina.

Houston Area Evacuates Faces Gas Shortages

Al Gore Won in 2000

Former President Jimmy Carter says he believes Al Gore won the 2000 election according to Raw Story:

Former U.S. president Jimmy Carter delivered a shocker at an American University panel in Washington Monday: RAW STORY has learned he told the crowd he was certain Al Gore won the 2000 presidential election.

There is "no doubt in my mind that Gore won the election," the erstwhile President declared, saying the 2000 election process "failed abysmally."

He also snubbed the Supreme Court for getting involved, saying it was "highly partisan."

Really Scary Storm: RITA

How horrible another cat 5 hurricane, this time zooming in on Texas. My son who works at Johnson Space Center evacuated today. It took him almost 6 hours to go 140 miles north of Huston. He arrived there, thankfully, but can only camp out as all the hotel/motel rooms are already taken from Huston to Kansas City. Hopefully this storm will abate but who knows. If this devastates Huston and Galveston like they are predicting gas prices could soar to 5.00 a gallon. Who will be able to afford to live? Heating prices are predicted to triple and quadruple. What a mess.

We really needed to be spending 200 billion on Iraq when our own country is going down the tubes. I expect China to knock on the White House Door some day soon and say, "OK, give me the keys." We will all be wearing red cresents on our sleeves very soon.

Off the Wagon?

from The National Enquirer:

Faced with the biggest crisis of his political life, President Bush has hit the bottle again, The National Enquirer can reveal.

Bush, who said he quit drinking the morning after his 40th birthday, has started boozing amid the Katrina catastrophe.

Family sources have told how the 59-year-old president was caught by First Lady Laura downing a shot of booze at their family ranch in Crawford, Texas, when he learned of the hurricane disaster.

His worried wife yelled at him: "Stop, George."

full story:
BUSH'S BOOZE CRISIS

Ugh!

From Andrew Sullivan:

CORPSES FOR PORN? What on earth is this website doing? U.S. soldiers can post pics of the corpses of Iraqis killed in war on a website devoted mainly to amateur porn. I clicked through and saw just a couple of pics which are beyond appalling and distressing. The section for corpses - and it's not clear whether they are of insurgents or just civilians - has this introduction:

Pictures in this forum are submitted by U.S. Soldiers from over in Iraq and Afghanistan and will probably be a little gory. So if you get sick easy or have a problem with dead terrorists please don't look here.

If you send in pics of dead insurgents or Iraqis, you get free access to the porn part of the site.

Jack Cafferty on Tom Delay

"Has he been indicted yet?"

Even Wolf Blitzer had to laugh!

Can Killer Storms Be Made?

Weird article in USA Today on how these storms are being made by a cold war device:

An Idaho weatherman says Japan's Yakuza mafia used a Russian-made electromagnetic generator to cause Hurricane Katrina in a bid to avenge itself for the Hiroshima atom bomb attack — and that this technology will soon be wielded again to hit another U.S. city.

Meteorologist Scott Stevens, a nine-year veteran of KPVI-TV in Pocatello, said he was struggling to forecast weather patterns starting in 1998 when he discovered the theory on the Internet. It's now detailed on Stevens' website, www.weatherwars.info, the Idaho Falls Post Register reported.

full story:
Cold-war device used to cause Katrina?

We Have Lost Our Minds!!!!

UNDREDS of tons of British food aid shipped to America for starving Hurricane Katrina survivors is to be burned.

US red tape is stopping it from reaching hungry evacuees.

Instead tons of the badly needed Nato ration packs, the same as those eaten by British troops in Iraq, has been condemned as unfit for human consumption.

NEEDY: Evacuees from New Orleans

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And unless the bureaucratic mess is cleared up soon it could be sent for incineration.

EXCLUSIVE: UP IN FLAMES

Tons of British aid donated to help Hurricane Katrina victims to be BURNED by Americans

I Almost Feel Sorry for Him

If I thought he just had an ounce of compassion in the tip of his little finger this picture would make me feel sorry for him:

Ever Wonder What Important Notes Leaders Write at UN Meetings?

From Americablog:






U.S. President George W. Bush writes a note to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice during a Security Council meeting at the 2005 World Summit and 60th General Assembly of the United Nations in New York September 14, 2005. World leaders are exploring ways to revitalize the United Nations at a summit on Wednesday but their blueprint falls short of Secretary-General Kofi Annan's vision of freedom from want, persecution and war. REUTERS/Rick Wilking

Fema Rules are HORRIBLE

from Attytood:

This man almost died because of Bush's FEMA

read the whole story about FEMA rules that searchers are being told not to break into houses and this group broke the rules and found the poor gentleman close to death.

George Bush Doesn't Care about Black People

How George Bush does things:

from Think Progress:

Katrina: Another Excuse for Bush’s Failed Ideology

“SEPARATE BUT EQUAL” EDUCATION
The Wall Street Journal reports that Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings will ask Congress to waive a federal law that bans educational segregation for homeless children.

REFUSAL TO EXPAND ELIGIBILITY FOR HEALTH CARE:
....the Journal reports that the “White House appears cool to any expansion” of Medicaid for Katrina survivors....

LOWER WAGES FOR HURRICANE RECOVERY CONSTRUCTION WORKERS:
On September 8, 2005, President Bush suspended application of the Davis-Bacon Act, a federal law governing workers’ pay on federal contracts in the Hurricane Katrina-damaged areas.

LOWER WAGES FOR HURRICANE RECOVERY SERVICE WORKERS:
Washington Post reports, “the White House was working yesterday to suspend wage supports for service workers in the hurricane zone as it did for construction workers on federal contracts last week.”

Michael Moore For President

from Michael Moore.com:

Friends,

Last week I closed my New York production office and sent my staff down to New Orleans to set up our own relief effort. I asked all of you to help me by sending food, materials and cash to the emergency relief center we helped set up on the shores of Lake Pontchartrain with the Veterans for Peace. We did this when the government was doing nothing and the Red Cross was still trying to get it together. Every day, every minute was critical. People were dying, poor people, black people, left like so much trash in the street. I wanted to find a way to get aid in there immediately.

Read On...

Beware if you are a Democratic Governor

From USA Today Governors handle crisis in own ways


Governor Blanco (democrat) LA

She says that two days after Katrina, desperate for help, she couldn't get through to Bush and didn't get a callback; hours later, she tried again, and they talked.

Governor Barbour (republican) MS

Barbour hasn't had to wait hours to talk to Bush. In fact, Barbour said in an interview with USA TODAY, the president called him three to four times in the wake of Katrina. "I never called him. He always called me," he said

Good Lord!

IRAQ: 152 Killed, 548 Wounded In 12 Explosions, One Of Deadliest Days In Baghdad...

Funny Quote of the Day

"I'll send my sons if he sends his daughters. Put those two drunk bitches on a plane and let them go fight. At least I know my sons would be getting some on the way."

---Comedian Damon Wayans, quoted by the New York Daily News

Our National Insecurity

Well this is pretty scary, the guy in charge doesn't know he's supposed to be in charge:

The federal official with the power to mobilize a massive federal response to Hurricane Katrina was Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, not the former FEMA chief who was relieved of his duties and resigned earlier this week, federal documents reviewed by Knight Ridder show.

Even before the storm struck the Gulf Coast, Chertoff could have ordered federal agencies into action without any request from state or local officials. Federal Emergency Management Agency chief Michael Brown had only limited authority to do so until about 36 hours after the storm hit, when Chertoff designated him as the "principal federal official" in charge of the storm.

.....But Chertoff - not Brown - was in charge of managing the national response to a catastrophic disaster, according to the National Response Plan, the federal government's blueprint for how agencies will handle major natural disasters or terrorist incidents. An order issued by President Bush in 2003 also assigned that responsibility to the homeland security director.

But according to a memo obtained by Knight Ridder, Chertoff didn't shift that power to Brown until late afternoon or evening on Aug. 30, about 36 hours after Katrina hit Louisiana and Mississippi. That same memo suggests that Chertoff may have been confused about his lead role in disaster response and that of his department......

Chertoff delayed federal response, memo shows

What is 416 Million?

The number of poor people it takes to make the income of the top 500!

The poor get poorer

Worse Person in the World

This was Keith Olbermann's worse person in the world tonight, unbelievable this is from the Wall Street Journal online:



from JAMES TARANTO


"Looks just like a slave ship, doesn't it? Well, except that on a slave ship, he probably wouldn't have his arm around a white woman."

The Right Thing to Do

Today Bush took credit for the government failures in the Katrina Disaster, that was the right thing to do and I will give him credit for that:

"Katrina exposed serious problems in our response capability at all levels of government," Bush said at joint White House news conference with the president of Iraq.

"To the extent the federal government didn't fully do its job right, I take responsibility," Bush said.

Bush takes responsibility for blunders

Heck of a Job Brownie Resigns

CNN just announced Mike Brown Resigned

Hopefully This is Not True

Cover-up: toxic waters 'will make New Orleans unsafe for a decade'

Toxic chemicals in the New Orleans flood waters will make the city unsafe for full human habitation for a decade, a US government official has told The Independent on Sunday. And, he added, the Bush administration is covering up the danger.

My Dying Wish

Is that if I am a patience under these circumstances I will be taken care by this kind of doctor:

Doctors working in hurricane-ravaged New Orleans killed critically ill patients rather than leaving them to die in agony as they evacuated hospitals, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.

With gangs of rapists and looters rampaging through wards in the flooded city, senior doctors took the harrowing decision to give massive overdoses of morphine to those they believed could not make it out alive.

In an extraordinary interview with The Mail on Sunday, one New Orleans doctor told how she 'prayed for God to have mercy on her soul' after she ignored every tenet of medical ethics and ended the lives of patients she had earlier fought to save.

We had to kill our patients

Image? or Help the Victims

How sad, who else but this administration would not make the right choice:


There's an intense damage-control debate at the White House over whether President Bush should name a Katrina relief czar, and the idea's backers are pushing former mayor Rudy Giuliani as a dream candidate.

But some top Bush aides think a brand-name disaster boss like Giuliani, dubbed "America's Mayor" for his leadership after 9/11, or former secretary of state Colin Powell would remind Americans of the administration's sluggish initial response to the hurricane.

"You don't want someone overshadowing the President," said an official in the "ride it out" camp. "That leaves him looking weak."

Storm rages over Katrina relief chief

This Would Be Really Good

Filmmaker Michael Moore is considering a documentary critical of the U.S. government`s handling of hurricane Katrina, MSNBC reports.

'It has all the elements that made `Fahrenheit 911` such a powerful film,' a source told MSNBC`s 'The Scoop.' 'The political outrage, the human suffering and the incredible footage.'

Although there was no official comment from the Moore camp, MSNBC noted the filmmaker has been a vocal critic of government culpability on his Web site.

Source says Katrina `expose` considered

You are No FDR Bush

An idiot, he could have provided a living wage for people displaced by this disastor instead he does this:

President Bush issued an executive order Thursday allowing federal contractors rebuilding in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina to pay below the prevailing wage.

In a notice to Congress, Bush said the hurricane had caused "a national emergency" that permits him to take such action under the 1931 Davis-Bacon Act in ravaged areas of Alabama, Florida, Louisiana and Mississippi.

Bush's action came as the federal government moved to provide billions of dollars in aid, and drew rebukes from two of organized labor's biggest friends in Congress, Rep. George Miller of California and Sen. Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts, both Democrats.

"The administration is using the devastation of Hurricane Katrina to cut the wages of people desperately trying to rebuild their lives and their communities," Miller said.

Bush lifts wage rules for Katrina

A Picture Worth a Thousand Words!

I got this from Daily Kos:

Impeach Bush

From my backyard fence, I am going to slowly fill it up with a sign a week:

The True Feelings of the Victims of Katrina

You just gotta watch what happened on CNN while Cheney was addressing some victims, from the back of the crowd go f*** yourself Mr. Cheney, go f*** yourself:

Video

Press Black out in New Orleans?

While the King of the world plays Cover his A** it is looking more and more like they are getting their talking points out there to a public who only tunes in for about 5 minutes a day and will in the end no doubt believe their bull****.

This is really scary though; several people are reporting a press black out now in NO, here is a clip from NBC's Brian Williams:

"At that same fire scene, a police officer from out of town raised the muzzle of her weapon and aimed it at members of the media... obvious members of the media... armed only with notepads. ... Someone else points out on television as I post this: the fact that the National Guard now bars entry (by journalists) to the very places where people last week were barred from LEAVING (The Convention Center and Superdome) is a kind of perverse and perfectly backward postscript to this awful chapter in American history.""

FEMA accused of censorship

But on Tuesday, FEMA refused to take reporters and photographers along on boats seeking victims in flooded areas, saying they would take up valuable space need in the recovery effort and asked them not to take pictures of the dead.

Really Sad Quote of the Day

Spec. Frank Atkinson on New Orleans:

"It's just so much like Iraq, it's not funny, except for all the water, and they speak English."

Back From Iraq Find Another War Zone

Republicans Say the "Darnest Things"

Talking about the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina:

John G. Roberts Jr. can "be thankful that a tragedy has brought him some good."
---Pat Robertson, 700 Club, September 1st, 2005

"What I’m hearing which is sort of
scary is they all want to stay in Texas. Everyone is
so overwhelmed by the hospitality.

"And so many of the people in the arena here, you
know, were underprivileged anyway, so this--this (she
chuckles slightly) is working very well for them."
---Barbara Bush, September 5, 2005

“There May Be A Need To Look At Tougher Penalties On Those Who Decide To Ride It Out And Understand That There Are Consequences To Not Leaving”...
...Rick Santorum, Senator, September 6, 2005

Brownie, you’re doing a heck of a job...."
...George W. Bush, POTUS, September 4, 2005

had gone there (New Orleans) as a younger man to enjoy himself" occasionally too much,"
...George W. Bush POTUS, September 3, 2005

Take the Poll

Repub rag Newsmax has poll Is Bush to Blame <------ Click and do the poll they know that only wingnuts read them and figure all will be for their God and chief.

Brain Blow Out

From MSNBC Katrina Blog:

BOGALUSA, La. – Before we leave Bogalusa, an update on how FEMA is dealing with hurricane refugees at Red Cross shelters.

As noted here two days ago, the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s decision to ask evacuees to call (800) 621-3362 or browse to www.fema.gov to start the process of filing a claim for disaster assistance was greeted with disbelief by most relief workers we talked to, who noted that most of these people don’t have ready access to telephones.

It turns out, according to a Red Cross worker here, the response is even a bigger Catch-22 than I realized.

It turns out, according to the worker, who like the other aid workers spoke on condition of anonymity, that the call to the FEMA number does not open a claim; it results in a package containing the claim form being mailed to the address of the evacuee.

Since the evacuee is in a shelter, mail service has been suspended in many of the hardest hit areas and some of the homes are likely still under water, it seems clear that those claim forms won’t be mailed back any time soon.

What is FEMA Thinking?

It Boggles the Mind

A South Carolina health official said his colleagues scrambled Tuesday when FEMA gave only a half-hour notice to prepare for the arrival of a plane carrying as many as 180 evacuees to Charleston.

But the plane, instead, landed in Charleston, West Virginia, 400 miles away

Right city, wrong state
Add geography to the growing list of FEMA fumbles.

Horrors!!!

A co-owner of Shelbyville-based Gowen-Smith Chapel has been deployed to Gulfport, Miss., to help with recovery since Hurricane Katrina, and his business partner here has described the grim task there.

"DMort is telling us to expect up to 40,000 bodies," Dan Buckner said, quoting officials with the Disaster Mortuary Operational Response Team, a volunteer arm of Homeland Security.

Funeral director deploys to hurricane region

The Two Americas ~~ A Really True Reality!

It is pretty clear now that presidential hopeful John Edward's Two Americas was a fact, laughed at by some Americans who have never experienced class warfare.

I voted for this man in the primaries in my state. I knew exactly what he was talking about. But it must be hard to imagine by some like George W who was born with a silver spoon in his mouth.

Maybe now some Americans will see what this means by looking at the faces of those that were left behind in New Orleans. The poorest of the poor, who couldn't even begin to be able to evacuate themselves and their families from an immient disaster, BECAUSE THEY WERE TOO POOR!

Hopefully this will be a turning point for most Americans to see that a country as rich as we have THAT needs to help its poorest and weakest. If not I believe we are doomed.

It is time for American to wake up. We cannot sustain a society that only gives back to the richest of the rich while doing nothing for the poorest of the poor.

What We Could Have Had

President Al Gore (I wish) from Suburban Guerilla:

About 140 people – mostly elderly and infirm – arrived Saturday at McGhee Tyson Airport on a chartered mercy flight from hurricane-ravaged New Orleans, welcomed to East Tennessee by a bright sun and a host of medical professionals straining at the reins to help their fellow human beings without regard to whether they were on the clock.

The displaced hurricane victims came to Tennessee on a hastily arranged flight, accompanied by doctors and carrying whatever they had in boxes, bags or, in one case, an old suitcase tied up with rope.

Former Vice President Al Gore arranged the flight and was on board, but he declined to take credit for the airlift, fearing it would be “politicized.”

Labor Day Holiday Has become a JOKE!

What a joke the labor Day Holiday has become. The majority of the American People has been so propaganized to that they have no idea what Unions in America accomplished for the worker. The 40 hour work week, breaks, lunch hours, livable wages, overtime pay, safe working environments.

And the sad fact is that the non-union employee has no idea that they have these benefits only because of the union.

WAKE-UP America, we are going back to the 19th century, overtime pay has been cut for most of America by this administration, union busting began back in the 1980's with the Reagan administration, and continues today. The worker is the one who made this country what is is today. But it is the CEO that makes 1000 times the wage of worker. There would be no America if not for all of us poor Americans in the labor force.

What WE NEED; The New WPA , CCC Camps and The "New" New Deal

There are going be hundreds of thousands of people needed to rebuild the gulf coast and New Orleans, we need a "new" New Deal program likd FDR's WPA and CCC camps. Use the people who are displaced with no jobs to rebuild the south. This would give them steady work to rebuild their lives, the top priority should be to give anyone displaced by the hurricane the first bid to jobs in rebuilding their own communities..

And how to pay for this:
Repeal the tax cuts for the richest Americans,

Put the chapter 7 bankruptcy back in place

Do not pass the bill that would do away with the estate tax

I think it is very clear now that we cannot live in a capitalist society without some socialism (as stated by Alan Greenspan) "The income gap between the rich and the rest of the US population has become so wide, and is growing so fast, that it might eventually threaten the stability of democratic capitalism itself.)
Rich-poor gap gaining attention

Louisiana National Guard Wanted Equipment Home

August 1, 2005, 9:07 PM CDT

When members of the Louisiana National Guard left for Iraq in October, they took a lot equipment with them. Dozens of high water vehicles, humvees, refuelers and generators are now abroad, and in the event of a major natural disaster that, could be a problem.

"The National Guard needs that equipment back home to support the homeland security mission," said Lt. Colonel Pete Schneider with the LA National Guard.

full story:
LA National Guard Wants Equipment to Come Back From Iraq

Worse President Ever in The History of America

Press Release from Senator Mary Landrieu:

“But perhaps the greatest disappointment stands at the breached 17th Street levee. Touring this critical site yesterday with the President, I saw what I believed to be a real and significant effort to get a handle on a major cause of this catastrophe. Flying over this critical spot again this morning, less than 24 hours later, it became apparent that yesterday we witnessed a hastily prepared stage set for a Presidential photo opportunity; and the desperately needed resources we saw were this morning reduced to a single, lonely piece of equipment. The good and decent people of southeast Louisiana and the Gulf Coast – black and white, rich and poor, young and old – deserve far better from their national government.

Now They Bring in the Toliets

CNN just reported that now that the convention center in New Orleans was close to being emptied they had brought in truckloads of Port-a-potties. That's nice now that they are mostly all gone

Bush Visit Halts Food Delivery

From AmericaBlog (Thanks Melissa):

From the Times-Picayune (the story was on a breaking news page, it's now moved off, so I'm taking down the link, but it's for real, I copied it off the newspaper's web site)

Bush visit halts food delivery

Three tons of food ready for delivery by air to refugees in St. Bernard Parish and on Algiers Point sat on the Crescent City Connection bridge Friday afternoon as air traffic was halted because of President Bush’s visit to New Orleans, officials said.

The provisions, secured by U.S. Rep. Charlie Melancon, D-Napoleonville, and state Agriculture Commissioner Bob Odom, baked in the afternoon sun as Bush surveyed damage across southeast Louisiana five days after Katrina made landfall as a Category 4 storm, said Melancon’s chief of staff, Casey O’Shea.

“We had arrangements to airlift food by helicopter to these folks, and now the food is sitting in trucks because they won’t let helicopters fly,” O’Shea said Friday afternoon.

The food was expected to be in the hands of storm survivors after the president left the devastated region Friday night, he said.

Well Wouldn't Ya Know it -- Halliburton again

Halliburton gets Katrina contract, hires former FEMA director

Really Sick Quote of the Day

Agape Press Reliable News from a Christian Source:

“New Orleans now is abortion free. New Orleans now is Mardi Gras free. New Orleans now is free of Southern Decadence and the sodomites, the witchcraft workers, false religion -- it's free of all of those things now," Shanks says. "God simply, I believe, in His mercy purged all of that stuff out of there -- and now we're going to start over again."

---Rev. Bill Shanks, pastor of New Covenant Fellowship of New Orleans

Quote of the Day

"I don't want to see anybody do anymore more goddamn press conferences. Put a moratorium on press conferences. Don't do another press conference until the resources are in this city."

--Ray Nagin, Mayor of New Orleans

Clueless

From Michael Moore:

Vacation is Over... an open letter from Michael Moore to George W. Bush

Any idea where all our helicopters are? ......Where on earth could you have misplaced all our military choppers........

And the World Watches

The world has watched amazed as the planet's only superpower struggles with the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, with some saying the chaos has exposed flaws and deep divisions in American society.

"Anarchy in the USA" declared Britain's best-selling newspaper The Sun.

"Apocalypse Now" headlined Germany's Handelsblatt daily.

World stunned as US struggles with Katrina

Picking Your Priorities -- Well Hey It's Football

Hundreds of Katrina evacuees who fled to Tallahassee seeking refuge from the storm have been politely told by their hotels and motels to leave this weekend to make room for a football game: FSU vs. Miami.

Hotels to evacuees: Go before big game

It is Pretty Clear They Were Not Here -- BRING THEM HOME

OK People its pretty clear now that the one thing we depended on to help us in disasterous times were not here. The National Guard, the one thing we could always depend on in times like this. If there were enough guard in New Orleans they would have been there within hours like always. They were not there, they were in Iraq. Bush has doomed us to natural Castastrophy!, we do not have enough National Guard in our states to save us. Bring them home Bush!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Like Living in Baghdad

from TV Newser

Katrina: NBC News Hires Private Security For New Orleans Crews; "We've Never Been In A Situation Domestically Like This"

Where The Hell is the Government

Jack Cafferty on Wolf Blitzer excoriates Bush on the NO situation, "Where the Hell is the Government?"

It Breaks Your Heart

From CNN.com:

We saw mothers holding babies, some of them just three, four and five months old, living in horrible conditions. Diapers littered the ground. Feces were on the ground. Sewage was spilled all around.

These people are being forced to live like animals. When you look at the mothers, your heart just breaks.

The 'REAL' Looting

Condi Shops While Babies Die

From Gawker:

According to Drudge, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has recently enjoyed a little Broadway entertainment. And Page Six reports that she’s also working on her backhand with Monica Seles. So the Gulf Coast has gone all Mad Max, women are being raped in the Superdome, and Rice is enjoying a brief vacation in New York. We wish we were surprised.

What does surprise us: Just moments ago at the Ferragamo on 5th Avenue, Condoleeza Rice was seen spending several thousands of dollars on some nice, new shoes (we’ve confirmed this, so her new heels will surely get coverage from the WaPo’s Robin Givhan). A fellow shopper, unable to fathom the absurdity of Rice’s timing, went up to the Secretary and reportedly shouted, “How dare you shop for shoes while thousands are dying and homeless!” Never one to have her fashion choices questioned, Rice had security PHYSICALLY REMOVE the woman.

Breaking Condi Rice Spends Salary on Shoes

When the levee breaks

From Attytood:

It appears that the money has been moved in the president’s budget to handle homeland security and the war in Iraq, and I suppose that’s the price we pay. Nobody locally is happy that the levees can’t be finished, and we are doing everything we can to make the case that this is a security issue for us.

-- Walter Maestri, emergency management chief for Jefferson Parish, Louisiana; New Orleans Times-Picayune, June 8, 2004.

"I don't think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees."

George W. Bush, President of the United States, September 1, 2005

Zero Tolerance

A--Hole Scott McClellan was just asked if people who took food or water or shoes to walk through the debris would be considered looters, he said there would be zero tolerance for any people who stole things.

That is not stealing you jerk that is surviving, it's been 4 days you weird-o these people are hungry and thirsty their babies are dying. We should tie him up and make him go 4 days without water.

You make me sick.

Bush should resign, he is the worse president we ever had.

Where is Rudy Guliani?

Well I guess we all know now what would happen if we were attacked again! It would be utter chaos. We need Rudy Guliani. Who is going to fix this mess in New Orleans? It was announced Bush would be in NO on Saturday, what a joke, he would be killed.

I thought this homeland security had been planning for years how to handle a castastrophe, holding pretend disasters and video games. This is the real thing, what happened?

I know I sure feel better now about the safety of America

Just Horrible

Watching the scenes from New Orleans on MSNBC. What is wrong with our government, get these people some water. Drop it in from airplanes. This is America, not Indonesia or some third world country. Where is the help. This is just sick, help these people.