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Journal ellem's Journal: Come on, admit it... how many of you feel like this? 21

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It's OK I'll still love you. Come on cyranoVR I know you weren't really threatening my family... read this and admit you feel exactly like this guy:

"The lecture comes down to this: BUSH CAUSED THIS DISASTER.

And YOU caused this disaster, you southern soft-heads, because you voted for that ape.

Bush caused this disaster by ignoring global warming. He caused it by listening to quack pseudoscientists instead of real scientists.

Bush caused this disaster by un-funding SELA, a program designed to keep levees at proper strength in New Orleans. A simple fact of history: New Orleans -- the one major city in the south with culture and style -- was obliterated by Bush's refusal to fund hurricane and flood protection measures. Unforgivable!

Bush caused this disaster by squashing FEMA. Money was diverted from that agency to Iraq, leaving our emergency services impotent.

Bush caused this disaster by transferring the National Guard to Iraq, where they serve only one purpose: THEFT. Instead of protecting American citizens, our troops now protect Haliburton and other companies, who are carrying out their evil plan to buy up everything worth buying in that country. The money is being siphoned out of Iraq and into the pockets of Cheney, Bush and their greedy cronies.

Bush caused this easily-forecast disaster by not having troops on hand to evacuate citizens.

Bush caused this catastrophe by fiddling -- or GIT-tarring -- while New Orleans drowned.

That's the message you need to hear, you barbaric, Jesus-addled, Limbaugh-tomized red-state hicks.

And you will sit there and listen to it and say NOTHING in response. We blue-staters are sick to death of your arrogant lies and smears and fake science and supernaturalistic yawpings and ludicrous self-deceits.

You literally cannot continue to exist unless we blue-staters give you money. The situation is that simple. You have been leeching off of us for years, and now you depend on our charity for your very lives.

So if you Jesusmaniac simpletons really want that cash, you will just sit there and SHUT UP and not say ONE DAMN WORD in your defense.

BUSH CAUSED THIS DISASTER. YOU CAUSED THIS DISASTER BY VOTING FOR BUSH.

You don't like that message? Then don't take our money!

If I read ONE MORE article in which a science-hating red state pundit attacks progressives, I'm going to take the money I was going to donate to disaster relief and spend it on a nice Thai meal. And I'm going to suggest that all other progressives do likewise.

I'm going to say "DROWN AND DIE, YOU ARROGANT HILLBILLY SOUTHERN-FRIED LEECHES!!"

As Shakespeare said, you did make love to this employment. You inflicted your fate on yourselves -- by inflicting Bush upon the world." -- Joseph Cannon from Cannonfire

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  • i laugh when folks like that call themselves "progressive."

    it really is funny. pathetic and funny... and sad. oh well, remember... making a political point at anything and everyone's expense is way more important.

    progressives. don't make me fucking laugh.
  • of not actually answering the charges against Bush, and his handling of New Orleans.
      • Read it, what was the point? The whole thing could be condensed as such without losing anything of value:

        A couple people somewhere that I'm not going to reference in any way said this is all Bush's fault but I think he's great and it's not his fault!

        Also, I'd like you to now point out somebody of IMPORTANCE who has expressed the attitude from your JE. See, whereas there are a couple of stupid kids with blogs who call themselves "liberals" or "democrats" when they get home from school each day, YOUR side's m
        • interesting point, except for people like Dowd, Pelosi, and say... Dean.

          But I like your point. I hate that people like Robertson and Falwell appear to be talking for me because of course they don't. But at least they're not actually elected officials. Anymore than say Sean Penn is...
          • Fail.

            All I see from those three are a lot of complaints about the way Bush responded. His lollygagging, foot-dragging, back-patting, excusatory bullshit. Not a one of them blamed him for the disaster, just his thoroughly worthless response and utter failure to show any sort of measurable leadership.

            Unlike the right, I have yet to see an example of where a major social or political leader in the left has actually said that some major disaster was caused by a political foe.
  • All the finger-pointing, absolutely nothing in the line of posing alternatives or offering solutions. Typical of these "progressives".

    Where do you find these guys, ellem?
  • Is that some people actually believe this and think they have facts on their side.

    Kyoto would have accomplished squat. Full implementation of the accord would have decreased warming by about 0.5 C in 20 years. As in, the temperature still would have risen just not quite so fast.

    The levee that failed had actually been recently maintained but was only rated for a Cat 3 hurricane because of a cost-benefit analysis performed long ago.

    Only 25% of the LA NG was actually deployed in Iraq and that didn't include
  • 1. New Orleans voted Democratic.

    2. Bush didn't cause Hurricane Katrina. And Dr. Kevorkian didn't cause cancer. But they both have blood on their hands.
  • Ok, so where to start? While I'll start off by agreeing that Bush bears some responsibility for the current situation, really this is a case of fucked up management from the bottom up.
    First off, disaster relief is a good example of where a distributed system will work better. Consider for a moment how you would store and manage supplies. Do you:
    1. Store everything in one central warehouse, and then fly it where it is needed?
    2. Store stuff in lots of places all over the country, and use local stores when sh
  • The campaign of irrational hatred against Bush that tries to blame everything on him is not working:

    "A CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll of 609 adults taken September 5-6 shows:

    Blame Game -- 13% said George W. Bush is "most responsible for the problems in New Orleans after the hurricane"; 18% said "federal agencies"; 25% said "state and local officials"; 38% said "no one is to blame"; 6% had no opinion. -- 29% said that "top officials in the federal agencies responsible for handling emergencies should be fired"

    • Noted. Interesting numbers. I wonder how those numbers would pan out in LA. I think they might be skewed towards blaming locals.
      • Perhaps. When you see your local leaders and what they did (not) do, blaming Bush is like blaming the United Nations.

        I see Howard Dean is playing the race card [breitbart.com] again, trying to drive wedges between Americans under the excuse of Katrina. This man does not like to miss an opportunity to try and create divisions. In his statements, he also used the opportunity to say something that was not true. He spoke of estate tax reductions: "Shall we give that to the wealthiest people in the country". He appears to thi

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