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		<title>By: Danny</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2005/09/02/hurricane-pam/comment-page-2/#comment-4507012</link>
		<dc:creator>Danny</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Mar 2008 08:48:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Fenton</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2005/09/02/hurricane-pam/comment-page-2/#comment-764782</link>
		<dc:creator>Fenton</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Aug 2006 14:48:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Give me a break...  The Mayor and Governor are to blame.  Where did all the money paid to the state and city go that was to be used for planning and upgrades.  Billions have been wasted by the Mayor of New Orleans and the Governor and they should be held accountable.  The federal government cannnot force the Mayor to activate school busses and evacuate the population. 

If you want to blame the federal government then you would need to truly put them in charge.  A federal police department; a federally sellected mayor, and a federally selected governor.  

Do you really want that?  I don&#039;t think so.  The answer is to elect quialified honest people at the state and local level.   Good luck in Lousiana.   

There is a reason that Mississippi, Florida and Alabama did not have the problems that Lousiana did.  Look at the leadership.

Think</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Give me a break&#8230;  The Mayor and Governor are to blame.  Where did all the money paid to the state and city go that was to be used for planning and upgrades.  Billions have been wasted by the Mayor of New Orleans and the Governor and they should be held accountable.  The federal government cannnot force the Mayor to activate school busses and evacuate the population. </p>
<p>If you want to blame the federal government then you would need to truly put them in charge.  A federal police department; a federally sellected mayor, and a federally selected governor.  </p>
<p>Do you really want that?  I don&#8217;t think so.  The answer is to elect quialified honest people at the state and local level.   Good luck in Lousiana.   </p>
<p>There is a reason that Mississippi, Florida and Alabama did not have the problems that Lousiana did.  Look at the leadership.</p>
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		<title>By: Sue</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2005/09/02/hurricane-pam/comment-page-2/#comment-133408</link>
		<dc:creator>Sue</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2005 21:03:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>George Bush&#039;s statement that he takes responsibility for the sluggish response of the government in coming to the aid of Katrina&#039;s victims strikes me as coming from the mouth of the murderer after he&#039;s been tried and convicted with irrefutable facts. If there is a smoking gun in this tragedy, George Bush is holding it.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>George Bush&#8217;s statement that he takes responsibility for the sluggish response of the government in coming to the aid of Katrina&#8217;s victims strikes me as coming from the mouth of the murderer after he&#8217;s been tried and convicted with irrefutable facts. If there is a smoking gun in this tragedy, George Bush is holding it.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=133408', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: sara</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2005/09/02/hurricane-pam/comment-page-1/#comment-132341</link>
		<dc:creator>sara</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2005 22:05:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I really think that George Bush should be impeached for all tghe pain and suffering he has caused America.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I really think that George Bush should be impeached for all tghe pain and suffering he has caused America.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=132341', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Kayan</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2005/09/02/hurricane-pam/comment-page-1/#comment-130298</link>
		<dc:creator>Kayan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Sep 2005 05:07:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Our government has once again showed its true colors, our very lives mean nothing as long as they get what they want, WAR, MONEY, and POWER OVER US!!! When does it stop, do we need to take things into our own hands and get rid of our so called government! How many more people have to suffer and die before this government takes care of our country and its own soil and people. We the people have become nothing but parisites in our governments eyes, this disastrous event never had to be this bad if the government had taken care of our homelands first and formost.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Our government has once again showed its true colors, our very lives mean nothing as long as they get what they want, WAR, MONEY, and POWER OVER US!!! When does it stop, do we need to take things into our own hands and get rid of our so called government! How many more people have to suffer and die before this government takes care of our country and its own soil and people. We the people have become nothing but parisites in our governments eyes, this disastrous event never had to be this bad if the government had taken care of our homelands first and formost.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=130298', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Sue</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2005/09/02/hurricane-pam/comment-page-1/#comment-130200</link>
		<dc:creator>Sue</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Sep 2005 00:41:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It wonâ€™t matter how many terrorists we flush out of caves in Iraq, and Iran and any other country, if we allow the people that the president is sworn to protect, die in a natural disaster, that could have been minimized, right here at home.

God bless America, God help America.  

As it stands, today, in the eyes of Americans, like me, who watched our Presidentâ€™s response to the total failure of everything we entrusted him with, our motto seems to be - United we stand if you are rich and/or productive citizens, but if you arenâ€™t, and if you are divided from those by economics and race, you are on your own, and â€˜Brownieâ€™ will do a â€œHeck of a jobâ€ in letting you drown.

Amen.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It wonâ€™t matter how many terrorists we flush out of caves in Iraq, and Iran and any other country, if we allow the people that the president is sworn to protect, die in a natural disaster, that could have been minimized, right here at home.</p>
<p>God bless America, God help America.  </p>
<p>As it stands, today, in the eyes of Americans, like me, who watched our Presidentâ€™s response to the total failure of everything we entrusted him with, our motto seems to be &#8211; United we stand if you are rich and/or productive citizens, but if you arenâ€™t, and if you are divided from those by economics and race, you are on your own, and â€˜Brownieâ€™ will do a â€œHeck of a jobâ€ in letting you drown.</p>
<p>Amen.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=130200', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Daniel Dieter Abt</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2005/09/02/hurricane-pam/comment-page-1/#comment-129687</link>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Dieter Abt</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Sep 2005 02:01:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Dear Mrs. Roosevelt,
 
We need you right now. We believe that you would not be of the opinion that the survivors of this recent Hurricane, &quot;...were underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them.&#039;&#039; (Barbara Bush 10/05/05) Despite your privileged upbringing we believe that you would comprehend and thus never consider making such a uncompassionate statement. We need someone, like you, who pioneered equality for all americans without class distinctions. Mrs. Roosevelt if you could put in a good word to Mr. Roosevelt - we sure could use him and his philosophy that, &quot;Government is responsible for the governed.&quot; If we had a government that understood that now many lives could have been saved.

Sincerely,

Daniel Dieter Abt
Tucson, AZ</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dear Mrs. Roosevelt,</p>
<p>We need you right now. We believe that you would not be of the opinion that the survivors of this recent Hurricane, &#8220;&#8230;were underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them.&#8221; (Barbara Bush 10/05/05) Despite your privileged upbringing we believe that you would comprehend and thus never consider making such a uncompassionate statement. We need someone, like you, who pioneered equality for all americans without class distinctions. Mrs. Roosevelt if you could put in a good word to Mr. Roosevelt &#8211; we sure could use him and his philosophy that, &#8220;Government is responsible for the governed.&#8221; If we had a government that understood that now many lives could have been saved.</p>
<p>Sincerely,</p>
<p>Daniel Dieter Abt<br />
Tucson, AZ<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=129687', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Bruiser</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2005/09/02/hurricane-pam/comment-page-1/#comment-129144</link>
		<dc:creator>Bruiser</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2005 17:12:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>From FEMA&#039;s own assessment of the &quot;Hurricane Pam&quot; exercise dated July 23, 2004...

&quot;State resources are adequate to operate shelters for the first 3-5 days. The group planned how federal and other resources will replenish supplies at shelters.&quot;

Obviously, the Governor of LA did not check her e-mail that day, as she was clearly left clueless that it was up to her state&#039;s agencies to care for the displaced persons after a major hurricane for up to 5 days. Besides, anyone who lives in a hurricane zone, and does not know that if one hits that you may be &quot;on your own&quot; for several days is sticking their head in the proverbial sand.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>From FEMA&#8217;s own assessment of the &#8220;Hurricane Pam&#8221; exercise dated July 23, 2004&#8230;</p>
<p>&#8220;State resources are adequate to operate shelters for the first 3-5 days. The group planned how federal and other resources will replenish supplies at shelters.&#8221;</p>
<p>Obviously, the Governor of LA did not check her e-mail that day, as she was clearly left clueless that it was up to her state&#8217;s agencies to care for the displaced persons after a major hurricane for up to 5 days. Besides, anyone who lives in a hurricane zone, and does not know that if one hits that you may be &#8220;on your own&#8221; for several days is sticking their head in the proverbial sand.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=129144', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Robert H. Williams</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2005/09/02/hurricane-pam/comment-page-1/#comment-128057</link>
		<dc:creator>Robert H. Williams</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Sep 2005 23:01:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Sadly, given the extent and depth of the hurricane &#039;PAM&#039; simulation  ---- together with the fact that it was conducted *within* Louisiana ---- we must conclude 
the obvious:  This Is Murder!!

Have A Healthy, Prosperous Day!
---robert</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sadly, given the extent and depth of the hurricane &#8216;PAM&#8217; simulation  &#8212;- together with the fact that it was conducted *within* Louisiana &#8212;- we must conclude<br />
the obvious:  This Is Murder!!</p>
<p>Have A Healthy, Prosperous Day!<br />
&#8212;robert<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=128057', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: David R. Dilley</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2005/09/02/hurricane-pam/comment-page-1/#comment-126622</link>
		<dc:creator>David R. Dilley</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2005 20:29:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Why hasn&#039;t the Hurricane Pam study by FEMA(2004) not been in the TV news or in the press?

Hurricane Katrina largely follows the Pam disaster prediction.

David R. Dilley
East Lansing, Michigan</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Why hasn&#8217;t the Hurricane Pam study by FEMA(2004) not been in the TV news or in the press?</p>
<p>Hurricane Katrina largely follows the Pam disaster prediction.</p>
<p>David R. Dilley<br />
East Lansing, Michigan<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=126622', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Shanna</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2005/09/02/hurricane-pam/comment-page-1/#comment-124960</link>
		<dc:creator>Shanna</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Sep 2005 15:58:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>True, drummer1159, but as Nagin said in his now infamous radio interview, the tsunami victims didn&#039;t need to &quot;request&quot; aid.

Also, Bush declared southeastern Louisiana and southwestern Mississippi disaster areas before the hurricanes even hit, so federal aid would be available - in that light, it was already their responsibility.  They dropped the ball.  I&#039;m not saying Blanco and Nagin aren&#039;t responsible in some ways - I&#039;m pretty Blanco has some heavy responsibility to shoulder in this - but the federal govm&#039;t screwed up big time.  There&#039;s no covering their arses on this one.

I live an hour from New Orleans and I&#039;ve been watching all of this very closely.  All of the administration&#039;s pretty words at this point can&#039;t get the story out of my head of a 10 year-old girl being raped and her throat being cut in the dank, dark bathrooms of the Superdome while she waited for rescue with thousands of others who have similar horror stories.  Our govm&#039;t is responsible for more deaths than Katrina - that is terrifying and unacceptable.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>True, drummer1159, but as Nagin said in his now infamous radio interview, the tsunami victims didn&#8217;t need to &#8220;request&#8221; aid.</p>
<p>Also, Bush declared southeastern Louisiana and southwestern Mississippi disaster areas before the hurricanes even hit, so federal aid would be available &#8211; in that light, it was already their responsibility.  They dropped the ball.  I&#8217;m not saying Blanco and Nagin aren&#8217;t responsible in some ways &#8211; I&#8217;m pretty Blanco has some heavy responsibility to shoulder in this &#8211; but the federal govm&#8217;t screwed up big time.  There&#8217;s no covering their arses on this one.</p>
<p>I live an hour from New Orleans and I&#8217;ve been watching all of this very closely.  All of the administration&#8217;s pretty words at this point can&#8217;t get the story out of my head of a 10 year-old girl being raped and her throat being cut in the dank, dark bathrooms of the Superdome while she waited for rescue with thousands of others who have similar horror stories.  Our govm&#8217;t is responsible for more deaths than Katrina &#8211; that is terrifying and unacceptable.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=124960', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: drummer1159</title>
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		<dc:creator>drummer1159</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Sep 2005 14:39:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Sources inside &quot;The Bridge&quot; (state/federal/military response center) indicate that the ball was dropped by both the Mayor of New Orleans AND mostly by the Governor(es) of Louisiana.  Federal assistance cannot be requested without the State government making the requistion.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sources inside &#8220;The Bridge&#8221; (state/federal/military response center) indicate that the ball was dropped by both the Mayor of New Orleans AND mostly by the Governor(es) of Louisiana.  Federal assistance cannot be requested without the State government making the requistion.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=124901', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Beverly Hall</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2005/09/02/hurricane-pam/comment-page-1/#comment-124021</link>
		<dc:creator>Beverly Hall</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Sep 2005 21:10:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>There is an issue antecedent to the criminal inadequacy of the government&#039;s response in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. That is its failure to avert the catastrophic loss of human life, in numbers which we cannot now know but which in days to come will be revealed to our everlasting horror and shame. The figure of 112,000 households in New Orleans without private transportation was known to FEMA officials as they engaged in the &quot;Hurricane Pam&quot; preparedness exercise of July, 2004. Yet no plan was in place to evacuate those persons ahead of a storm which almost exactly parelled the theoretical &quot;Pam&quot;, except that Katrina was stronger and more menacing. The swirling mass in the Gulf of Mexico took days to reach the gulf coast. It gave FEMA, whose job it is to mitigate damage by action, fair warning of its ferocity. Every corpse under the fetid waters which stand in the streets of New Orleans will haunt the American conscience as silent witness of this administration&#039;s depraved indifference to human life.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There is an issue antecedent to the criminal inadequacy of the government&#8217;s response in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. That is its failure to avert the catastrophic loss of human life, in numbers which we cannot now know but which in days to come will be revealed to our everlasting horror and shame. The figure of 112,000 households in New Orleans without private transportation was known to FEMA officials as they engaged in the &#8220;Hurricane Pam&#8221; preparedness exercise of July, 2004. Yet no plan was in place to evacuate those persons ahead of a storm which almost exactly parelled the theoretical &#8220;Pam&#8221;, except that Katrina was stronger and more menacing. The swirling mass in the Gulf of Mexico took days to reach the gulf coast. It gave FEMA, whose job it is to mitigate damage by action, fair warning of its ferocity. Every corpse under the fetid waters which stand in the streets of New Orleans will haunt the American conscience as silent witness of this administration&#8217;s depraved indifference to human life.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=124021', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: CJ</title>
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		<dc:creator>CJ</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Sep 2005 14:49:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>To the unsung heroes of Hurricane Katrina, those people who are helping in every way imaginable to find and sustain human life in the face of tragedy, we are forever in your debt and stand in awe of the tremendous self-sacrifice that all of you have made in order to help your fellow man.

To those of you in positions of power, who have hesitated and, in doing so, contributed to the devastation throughout Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and who are now working hard to place blame on everyone but yourselves, may I remind you of the following...


&quot;We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. --That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness...But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them ... it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.&quot;

SOMEONE NEEDS TO ANSWER FOR THIS CRIME AGAINST OUR OWN CITIZENS</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>To the unsung heroes of Hurricane Katrina, those people who are helping in every way imaginable to find and sustain human life in the face of tragedy, we are forever in your debt and stand in awe of the tremendous self-sacrifice that all of you have made in order to help your fellow man.</p>
<p>To those of you in positions of power, who have hesitated and, in doing so, contributed to the devastation throughout Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and who are now working hard to place blame on everyone but yourselves, may I remind you of the following&#8230;</p>
<p>&#8220;We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. &#8211;That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, &#8211;That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness&#8230;But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them &#8230; it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.&#8221;</p>
<p>SOMEONE NEEDS TO ANSWER FOR THIS CRIME AGAINST OUR OWN CITIZENS<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=123565', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Mark</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2005/09/02/hurricane-pam/comment-page-1/#comment-121748</link>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Sep 2005 01:56:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Funding for the levee reinforcement and repairs in the Louisiana had been cut over the years.  Funding for the Iraq war in which BushCo gets to share in doing contract works is still increasing. What a shame!!

http://www.latimes.com/media/graphic/2005-09/19282292.gif</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Funding for the levee reinforcement and repairs in the Louisiana had been cut over the years.  Funding for the Iraq war in which BushCo gets to share in doing contract works is still increasing. What a shame!!</p>
<p><a href="http://www.latimes.com/media/graphic/2005-09/19282292.gif" rel="nofollow">http://www.latimes.com/media/graphic/2005-09/19282292.gif</a><a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=121748', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Daniel Abt</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2005/09/02/hurricane-pam/comment-page-1/#comment-121696</link>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Abt</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Sep 2005 00:15:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Is it true that Dick Cheney is still on holiday?
I guess he also needs to,&quot;..get on with my life.&quot;

Here is a link to a timeline of the White House actions from the British press: http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article309938.ece</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Is it true that Dick Cheney is still on holiday?<br />
I guess he also needs to,&#8221;..get on with my life.&#8221;</p>
<p>Here is a link to a timeline of the White House actions from the British press: <a href="http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article309938.ece" rel="nofollow">http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article309938.ece</a><a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=121696', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Daniel Abt</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2005/09/02/hurricane-pam/comment-page-1/#comment-121692</link>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Abt</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Sep 2005 00:04:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>MSNBC Saturday 09.03.05: Rita Crosby interviewed Dr. Van Heerden from L.S.U. regarding the Hurricane Pam FEMA exercise. He said that he gave a disk with all the data to a representive of the White House. We do not, yet, know what happened to the information in the &quot;chain of command&quot;. Dr. Van Heerden said that a woman from FEMA, who did not like the predictions being made by those involved in the exercise, that &quot;Americans don&#039;t sleep in tents.&quot; Rita Crosby asked Dr. Van Heerden what he would say to her now and he responded, &quot;I&#039;de ring her neck.&quot; 

&quot;Government is responsible for the governed.&quot; Franklin Delano Roosevelt

This administration does not know the meaning of the word.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>MSNBC Saturday 09.03.05: Rita Crosby interviewed Dr. Van Heerden from L.S.U. regarding the Hurricane Pam FEMA exercise. He said that he gave a disk with all the data to a representive of the White House. We do not, yet, know what happened to the information in the &#8220;chain of command&#8221;. Dr. Van Heerden said that a woman from FEMA, who did not like the predictions being made by those involved in the exercise, that &#8220;Americans don&#8217;t sleep in tents.&#8221; Rita Crosby asked Dr. Van Heerden what he would say to her now and he responded, &#8220;I&#8217;de ring her neck.&#8221; </p>
<p>&#8220;Government is responsible for the governed.&#8221; Franklin Delano Roosevelt</p>
<p>This administration does not know the meaning of the word.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=121692', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Gilberto</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2005/09/02/hurricane-pam/comment-page-1/#comment-121628</link>
		<dc:creator>Gilberto</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Sep 2005 22:22:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>If you get sick because you didn&#039;t duct tape your windows, well that&#039;s your own damn fault!  You can&#039;t be relying on us to clean up the mess in your neighborhood!  You should&#039;ve left your house in the first place!  We warned you already!  Don&#039;t you watch tv and pay attention to those little color meter things?!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you get sick because you didn&#8217;t duct tape your windows, well that&#8217;s your own damn fault!  You can&#8217;t be relying on us to clean up the mess in your neighborhood!  You should&#8217;ve left your house in the first place!  We warned you already!  Don&#8217;t you watch tv and pay attention to those little color meter things?!<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=121628', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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