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Mama HillyBeans WebCast 8.14.08 Why the Road? Thanks to Autoextremist.com 7.21.08 Lightning Book - A book about lightning is the scariest read of the year! Not the kind of out of the body experience I want to have! 7.11.08 ALMS and Formula BMW at Lime Rock Park's New Uphill and West Bend 4.30.08 Albert Hofmann Remember April 19 - Bicycle Day 04.47.08 DLMWeb live cam A test of the Ustream.tv More.. |
9.6.05  On Tuesday, as people were drowning, and babies were dying...the compassionate conservative played the fool.
While Bush used the day for a political photo op, this was the scene in Biloxi...many a mile from from Coronado Island. 
Jefferson Parish President Aaron Broussard appeared on Meet the Press and slammed FEMA's response to the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. -- "It's not just Katrina that caused all of these deaths in New Orleans here - bureaucracy has commited murder here in the greater New Orleans area, and bureaucracy needs to stand trial before Congress, now." -- "Walmart delivered 3 trucks of water, FEMA turned them back, said we didn't need them." -- "We had 1000 gallons of diesel fuel on a Coast Guard vessel, the Coast Guard said "come and get the fuel." When we got there with our trucks, they got a word, 'FEMA said don't give you the fuel.'" -- "FEMA comes in and cuts all of our emergency communications lines [without notice]. The Sherriff ... came back in and re-connected them, and posted armed guards on the lines." 
And then with a barking "GET THOSE GODDAMN guns down!!!", the first glimmmer of hope and competence arrives in New Orleans... Lt. Gen. Russel L. Honore is a man who announces his presence with authority. Honoré took charge of coordinating the military’s hurricane response. A Louisiana native with previous experience in flood disasters he already has received high marks from one state official for his efforts. In an interview with local WWL radio, New Orleans Mayor C. Ray Nagin was expressing dismay at the lack of federal help for his city, but said of Honore: “I give the president some credit on this, he sent one John Wayne dude down here that can get some stuff done, and his name is Gen. Honore, and he came off the doggone chopper, and he started cussin’ and people started movin’! “And he’s getting some stuff done,” Nagin said. “They ought to give that guy — if they don’t want to give it to me, give him full authority to get the job done.” Hey, the Cavalry has arrived. Gotta love the way he yanked that weasel Chertoff of his friggin' soapbox at the press conference today. After tearing a "feather merchant" reporter a new one, Honore gives Chertoff a couple of seconds, registers the bullshit quotient of the Secretary's homily, and grabs the microphone hogging incompetent by the sleeve. It is off mike but to paraphase, "I'm goin' and it's NOW, sir", The Secretary of Homeland Insecurity stuck his tail between his legs and hustled off after the ballsy commander. Ever try to hang on to a leash and restrain an energized 150lb Rottweiler? www.notgonnahappen.com. I like this guy...he seems like he knows what the fuck he is doing, almost the first person yet. He is on a mission, and just might be the guy to deliver. 9/6/2005  | ||