VIDEO: Katrina Victims Outraged Over Bush Snub
VIDEO: Katrina Victims Outraged Over Bush Snub
President Bush’s State of the Union address did not include a single mention of Katrina or the rebuilding of the Gulf Coast region. (A year ago, Bush promised the federal government would “stay…at it until they’re back on their feet.”)
Last night, CBS News reporter Armen Keteyian traveled to Mount Olive Gardens, a trailer park near Baton Rouge where 200 Katrina victims live, to gauge the reaction to Bush’s speech. “I almost broke my TV, knocked it off the stand,” one resident said. “In places like Mount Olive Gardens,” Keteyian concluded, “words like relief and recovery now seem as empty to them as last night’s presidential address.”
Watch it:
While the residents of Mount Olive Gardens were outraged over the snub, Sen. David Vitter (R-LA) was “more forgiving,” saying he was “mildly disappointed.” “I didn’t necessarily expect [a mention],” Vitter said.
Transcript:
COURIC: In his State of the Union address, President Bush took note of the unrest in Lebanon as well as the suffering in Darfur but there was not one mention of Katrina — though the suffering and hardship continue. The federal government has spent $80 billion on recovery efforts in the Gulf region, but there are still 13,000 people living in FEMA trailers. As chief investigative reporter Armen Keteyian reports, some who lost everything are asking, “What about us?”
DAVIS: I don’t like the way I’m living.
KETEYIAN: It sits on a flat gravel mud-soaked lot. The irony of the name not lost on its residents. Seventeen months after Katrina nearly 200 people uprooted by a hurricane still live in Mount Olive Gardens. Whole families packed into 200 square foot FEMA trailers they now call home.
DAVIS: God can’t let this happen.
KETEYIAN: Chris Davis is one of the displaced from New Orleans now leaving near Baton Rouge. Like many here he watched the president’s speech. His rage rising with every word.
DAVIS: At this time I almost broke my TV, knocked it off the stand, you know.
KETEYIAN: A Vietnam vet, Davis lost a job at a ship builder to Katrina now in a place where crime is a constant worry and children rarely venture outside. He’s long since lost hope.
DAVIS: It gets hopeless and more hopeless everyday.
KETEYIAN: Toni Bankston, a mental health case worker, couldn’t believe what the president wasn’t saying.
BANKSTON: People were already feeling forgotten. And I think this may potentially reinforce that.
KETEYIAN: There are 5,596 words in the president’s speech last night in reaction to the fact that not a single one was either Katrina or Louisiana which felt not here in tiny mount olive gardens but all across the gulf.
BLANCO: The pains of the hurricane are yesterday’s news in Washington.
JETSON: There’s been a lot said, very little done and now we have evolved to the point where there’s very little if nothing being said.
KETEYIAN: To a point where in places like Mount Olive Gardens words like relief and recovery now seem as empty to them as last night’s presidential address. Armen Keteyian, CBS news, Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
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Can we give New Orleans just one week’s worth of Iraq war costs?
January 25th, 2007 at 12:54 pm“After the bloodiest year in Afghanistan since the U.S. invasion,†the Bush administration “will ask Congress for $7 billion to $8 billion in new funds for security, reconstruction and other projects in Afghanistan as part of the upcoming budget package.â€
This administration sucks.
January 25th, 2007 at 1:00 pmAnd this is because neither Bush nor any other neo-con thug give a tinker’s DAMN about anyone who isn’t white, wealthy, or powerful. This is your leader, trolls. Satisfied?
The only thing that could possibly have made this outrageous and racist neglect better would have been to deliver the SOTU on Martin Luther King’s birthday.
January 25th, 2007 at 1:02 pm@ForTruth,
The report points out $80B has been spent on recovery already. What is really needed is not using the Iraq spending model on the Gulf recovery. This is to ask: of the $80B, how much truly went to those in need of help, compared to how much went to line the pockets of “friends of the adminstration”?
January 25th, 2007 at 1:03 pmPresident Bush didn’t concern himself about the people of New Orleans then, why would anyone think he would concern himself about them now over a year since it happened. I think he has a very short attention span and an even shorter or limited ability to truly care about anything on an emotional or human level. It explains his lack of caring, lack of remorse, his ability to lie constantly and so well, his ability to so easily send soldiers to die knowing this whole thing in Iraq was based on a lie and is lost, why he is just crazy enough to bomb Iran before anyone can stop him, etc..
January 25th, 2007 at 1:03 pmI think there is a piece missing in his psyche and I believe he sleeps like a baby at night. I don’t believe he wastes one minute of his day thinking about NOLA.
He is a flawed man and a terrible president.
Someone posted about this at the HUffington Post:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ e-a-hanks/ the-missing-paragraph_b_39469.html
It’s a a little snarky, but at least someone is writing something about it. I can’t believe this isn’t a bigger story.
January 25th, 2007 at 1:04 pmIf people still dont know the most basic concepts behind microwave overns then there is little chance they are going to get much of anything else right about people like Bush… or truelly important and history sensitive issues like war…
http://www.cnn.com/ 2007/ HEALTH/ 01/ 24/ germs.sponges.reut/ index.html
January 25th, 2007 at 1:05 pmvitter forgives his boy king for giving the old back hand to a bunch of poor people, color me shocked. My question is why didn’t they interview landrieu or blanco.
January 25th, 2007 at 1:07 pmMemo 1/17/07
From: Andrew Card
To: POTUS
Re: New Orleans
From the last review of the SOU I have noticed no mention or directive about New Orleans. I suggest we expand our military recruitment offices 10 fold and accomplish two endeavors. We can boost employment and represent action while assisting retention.
January 25th, 2007 at 1:08 pmPicture this:
Down in New Orleans in the flood ravaged wards, a FAT black woman stands up on the roof of a flooded minivan with a sign that reads:
” We Need Adidas and Big Screen TV and carry out chicken, air conditioning too, we also need pontoons to put on our pimped rides so we can cruise the hood like in the cultural old days.
We need more government cheese and canned food with that generic stamp of only ” beans ” on the can.
And if you keep taking care of us and fostering us along with guaranteed monthly government checks and all?. We’ll just keep on voting for you all yo! â€
Hilarious and yet sad at the same time that this country has sunk this low at the hands of you democrats.
And you have done it to them and it is now filtering back to you and you are now reaping your ” race protest ” fruits of the 60`s right here in America today.
40 years to the day later and what have we got to show for the race equality issues of the 1960’s?
A bunch of illiterate, predominantly black populace who knows not how to think or how to work anymore.
It is a generational entitlement mindset these people have come to know and to depend on.
This is merely a MINORITY case. What would happen if democrats spread democracy ” their style ” all over America in every facet of ones life.
Now as we all know people who are desperate,uneducated and hungry will do what you demand of them without question.?
What would happen if democrats spread democracy ” their style ” all over America in every facet of ones life.
CCCP.
History has taught you nothing.
January 25th, 2007 at 1:11 pmPresident Bush took note of the unrest in Lebanon as well as the suffering in Darfur but there was not one mention of Katrina
Well, no, Katie. You see, the Bush administration is fighting unrest and hardship over there so they don’t have to fight them over here.
Plus, the offshore oil rigs were not damaged, so there is no need to spend any money on Louisiana…
Didn’t you get the memo?
January 25th, 2007 at 1:13 pmRacist al Crackker preznit…
…racist al Crackkker state (representation)…
…equals misery for people of color…
January 25th, 2007 at 1:13 pmComment by perfect stranger #10
…May Hell, Satan’s minions, and every curse that can befall a spiritually dead, rotting braindead, walking corpse like you (and your kind)…
…visit themselves upon you and yours…
…VERY soon…
…them guns you think you’ve got…
…can’t protect you…
…from the evil your Karma attracts…
January 25th, 2007 at 1:18 pm#9: I see a racist has entered the fray.
January 25th, 2007 at 1:18 pmI don’t normally endorse this sort of thing, but post #10 is pure hate speech and needs to be removed.
January 25th, 2007 at 1:19 pm(Oops, I mean #10. perfect stranger is an overt racist. crawl back to your hole.)
January 25th, 2007 at 1:19 pmCBS: More of the Liberal Media Bias At work…
January 25th, 2007 at 1:20 pm..
…
…
Oh WOW! Even being Sarcastic, typing that feels so Stupid…
I will never under stand how you folks can be so self serving…our whole county is working on issues that need the President’s attention. Why don’t you all pull yourselves up by the boot straps and get it together. I’d be ashamed to be so dependant on others hard earned money for so long. Plus you voted Looser Nagin in again, go ask him to meet your needs…I’ve given enough of my money. Colorado didn’t ask for a thing…worst snow
January 25th, 2007 at 1:20 pmstorms in history but they united and pulled themselves back together.
The price you pay for being poor black or white in George Bush’s america. Chimp boy doesn’t give a rat ass about these people and never did. K. West say it in a nut shell “George Bush doesn’t CARE about black people. But I think what he should have said was “George Bush doesn’t care about poor people.” Am sure Bush and Cheney are sitting in the White House saying, “These people live in an Olive garden and their compliaing?”
January 25th, 2007 at 1:21 pmRachel is the hater.
January 25th, 2007 at 1:21 pmPerfect Stranger,
You know most Red states, use the highest amount of welfare, the lowest educational levels, highest levels of teen pregnancy, obesity, (Texas being the fattest state), highest crime rates, wow those sure are sum good old fashioned family values.
You’re just an idiotic troll who wouldn’t know a fact if it hit you in the head.
January 25th, 2007 at 1:22 pm#15
January 25th, 2007 at 1:24 pmNot only need this shameful post removed, but the attached person that is obviously an insult to the meaning of ‘human’ needs to be deleted too.
Yes there were a lot of morons in NO who demanded McDonald’s as they got off the busses.
That doesn’t mean they all are. And so what anyway. Do we let Americans rot in their own mess anyway? Rachel.
January 25th, 2007 at 1:26 pmMight be best just to ignore Perfect Stranger. The Troll seems to be lost and doesn’t know how to go home to his Red State Comrades.
January 25th, 2007 at 1:26 pmHey perfect stranger:
Show us your bona fides. Tell us who you are, and how your presence in our great country has benefitted us. How much government cheese have you eaten? Don’t like America? Then I invite you to get your racist ass out.
Punk.
January 25th, 2007 at 1:28 pmAnd you know for a fact that with Aspen being located there that plenty of federal money will flow that direction.
How about the fact that 72% of the US doesn’t want our money going to Iraq anymore. Are we allowed to stop that?
You people are for spending our war for humanitarian purposes in Iraq, but not in the United States. Talk about being unpatriotic.
January 25th, 2007 at 1:28 pmI’ve given enough of my money.
Comment by Patti Eisenhut — January 25, 2007 @ 1:20 pm
Yeah, I’d be in a sour mood too, knowing my hard earned cash, instead of helping the victims, went to the idiots designated by this administration, who in turn rented a ton of porn (gay porn p’haps?)
January 25th, 2007 at 1:29 pmSt.Daryll, how do you feel about that?
Comment by TripMaster Monkey #15
I strongly disagree Trip…
…leave it there like the stinking, rotting corpses of race relations (and Affirmative Actions)…
…this lynch mob CCCP government under Bush has murdered…
…this stranger is the kind of coward who keeps the Bush’s and Cheney’s in power…
…and its up to THEIR own race to purge itself of these virulent strains of vituperative, virulent, cancerous (upon the nation’s soul) racist scum…
…HIDING it…
…won’t HEAL it!
January 25th, 2007 at 1:29 pmIt isnt the government’s job to give hand outs to these people. It is the government’s job to protect them (which the state and local government failed at when they didnt evacuate them before the storm). Either way, I as a tax payer don’t want to pay for new housing in an area that will simply get destroyed again. Besides, buy insurance or roll the dice.
January 25th, 2007 at 1:29 pmHow many people are still suffering from Katrina?
January 25th, 2007 at 1:29 pmWhy don’t we donate money to hire transportation
to get them all to the WH to protest against this
ludicrous administration lead by fascists?
Regular Americans seem to be incapable to pull
off a huge demonstration to remove those bastards.
Cheneys remarks about Iraq being an “Enormous
success” need an immediate reaction: Death penalty.
Patti Eisenhut sez:
Did the snowstorm completely destroy your infrastructure?
Patti, comparing your snowstorm to Hurricane Katrina is like comparing your pet cat to a mountain lion.
January 25th, 2007 at 1:30 pmIt isnt the government’s job to give hand outs to these people. It is the government’s job to protect them (which the state and local government failed at when they didnt evacuate them before the storm).
So all those people that received Federal Aid for Andrew, Hugo, the San Fran earthquake, Mt. St Helens, tornados, etc. shouldn’t have got it? Should they be forced to give it back?
January 25th, 2007 at 1:33 pmPatti is just friken Rachel, the mentally ill one.
January 25th, 2007 at 1:34 pmAll along we have known bull shit bush is the drunk, druggie, pupett…Granted he is evil and non caring but the real big elephant in this merry bunch of war mongers is cheney….After the interview with blitzer yesterday and listening to this bag of crap (cheney ) show his arrogance and determination to do what ever the hell he and his bunch of war profateer’s want no matter what ,I am even more convinced they must be brought to justice and removed…The way thing’s are going in our world are clear…..Many of our own enabelers in the house and senate will also have to go…..
If thing’s continue and everything they want and nothing the rest of our world need’s are addressed we can count on this being a very hot summer and that will be compounded with global warming…..The public is waking up, they are angry and restless, N.O. has been ignored and our people are displaced and on the brink of doing desperate thing’s……A lesson just like Iraq and around the world, when people feel hopeless and think they have nothing more to loose but their freedom they become enraged and revolition’s are started…This personal war of bush’s has cost us much, ignoring N.O. is typical of this administration and their one view of their dictatorship…It is proof posative they do not care about anything but their peronal profits and big business…..The only way to stop this madness is impeaching any and all involved and then putting them in jail and seizing their asset’’s…..Remember there is no statute of limitations on murder of which they are all guilty by plan or neglect…….Blessings, we need them..Peace, demand it..
January 25th, 2007 at 1:36 pmRogerRoger,
that’s right it’s the govt job to give handouts to their rich GOP buddies in Haliburton, Boechtel, Walmart, Exxon, BP… Screw the people right Roger?
January 25th, 2007 at 1:36 pmWhy should they get their money back to help them rebuild their lives, after all we have oil to conquer in Iraq, and people for Haliburton and blackwater to kill everywhere!
It isnt the government’s job to give hand outs to these people.
Comment by Roger_Roger — January 25, 2007 @ 1:29 pm
I guess you felt the same way regarding the 9/11 victims, eh Roger X 2?
It is the government’s job to protect them (which the state and local government failed at when they didnt evacuate them before the storm)
Of course, that is why the governer declared a state of emergency 24 hours before the storm hit, to which then delegates the responsibility to the federal government, which, in turn, took 72 hours to respond, after the fact!
Either way, I as a tax payer don’t want to pay for new housing
Well, that’s mighty Christian of ya, Roger dude.
January 25th, 2007 at 1:36 pmPatti Eisenhut, perfect stranger, Roger_Roger…
…THESE are YOUR family members, your neighbors, your co-workers, your fellow parishioners, your mentors, your friends, your bowling buddies, your pastors, your Representatives and Senators…
…Your President and Vice President…
…they ARE America’s confederate culture….
…shame them, isolate them and if you can’t reach them…
…PURGE them (through exile, or whatever means necessary)…
…to save the dream…
January 25th, 2007 at 1:36 pmHistory has taught you nothing.
January 25th, 2007 at 1:37 pm-perfect stranger
Strangler,
You are an ignorant slut.
If you’re not being paid by Neosluts, why don’t you go hang with your other pathetic losers?
I know, I know, you’re just trying to get a rise out of us rational folk.
But, I’ve always wondered, what kind of messages do you leave on the Rape-publican blogs? Same kind of drivel, or is it just a mutual admiration circle jerk? I ask because I wouldn’t be caught dead reading one.
Regarding trolls:
Einstein would have said (and I help a little bit here ;-)
Two things are infinite:
The stupidity of Bush supporters, enablers and cheerleaders,
and the Universe.
Whereas I am not sure about the latter.
January 25th, 2007 at 1:37 pmColorado didn’t ask for a thing…worst snow
storms in history but they united and pulled themselves back together.
Comment by Patti Eisenhut
Hahaha. That’s funny. I grew up in Buffalo and you think you had a snowstorm….funny. The great thing about snow is that you can go into your home and wait. Have a beer, listen to the radio, build a fire. It eventually stops and then melts. Everything returns to normal. Try to pick something that has returned to normal since Katrina went away.
January 25th, 2007 at 1:38 pmI’ve got a great handle for you Rachel so you won’t have to hide behind different monikers and/or hi-jack names:
FIRESTARTER
You can thank me later.
January 25th, 2007 at 1:38 pmWhy is this surprising? Bush dissed them during the storm, And he will keep on doing so until he is either in jail or out of office.
January 25th, 2007 at 1:39 pmPerfect strangler: “Hilarious and yet sad at the same time that this country has sunk this low at the hands of you democrats.”
Earth to Perfect Strangler, urgent message: Republicans have controlled congress for 12 years, the executive branch for 6 years and now control a large swath of the judiciary branch and the mainstream media. You have evidently been living on Planet Idiot for too long and you need an update!
Roger, what part of “provide for the general welfare” don’t you understand?
January 25th, 2007 at 1:39 pmPerhaps this is all just a big mistake. We all know how very busy George Bush has been, fighting this war. For him to forget about the people on the Gulf that haven’t yet recieved insurance monies for thier destroyed homes and are still living in Fema trailers is a simple oversight. He is a truthful, sincere and very compassionate man who is true to his word. We all know that, don’t we? -heh, heh-
January 25th, 2007 at 1:41 pmRe: #10: Hey, Perfect Stranger,
Your comments are right on. Thank you for painting such an accurate picture. The State of the Union is about current events – not past history.
How do you like this?
The smart man builds his house on rock.
The stupid man builds his house on sand.
The New Orleans man builds his house under water.
Now that’s funny.
For the rest of you…Katrina is done. Get over it.
January 25th, 2007 at 1:43 pmAnd something else.
January 25th, 2007 at 1:45 pmDid I hear about the economy to be doing great in the SOTU of the dictator?
That can only mean the $ 12.7 BILLION LOSS of FORD is
a success! The kind of Cheney’s “Enormous Success”!
Yes is No,
Black is White
Up is Down
Wrong is Right
and
Right is Wrong.
Any more questions?
Study: Teenage brain lacks empathy
Area of brain associated with higher-level thinking underused in youths - and in Conservative Republican’s, who I’ve always accussed of being CHILDLIKE in their thinking!!!!
Scoreboard…
January 25th, 2007 at 1:45 pmExcellent de-bunking of Rachel’s stupid comparison of Katrina to an unnamed snowstorm. I would take a huge snowstorm anyday over my home being washed away. Duh.
Rachel you are stupid.
January 25th, 2007 at 1:47 pmComment by Upyours
I see Rachel is up to the usual antics of conratulating herself.
January 25th, 2007 at 1:48 pmThe sociopathic Bush cultist speaks:
“Now that’s funny.
For the rest of you…Katrina is done. Get over it.”
Unamerican sociopathic cultists don’t speak for America! Why don’t you go back to jacking off over a picture of Bush and STFU!
January 25th, 2007 at 1:49 pmHagel for president.
January 25th, 2007 at 1:50 pmAfter he left the Repiglican possy.
For the rest of you…Katrina is done. Get over it.
Comment by Upyours — January 25, 2007 @ 1:43 pm
Gee Rachel, still talking to yourself?
Here, I’ll help your post. 9/11 is done. Get over it. Now how do you feel about such an asinine post?
Colorado didn’t ask for a thing…worst snow
January 25th, 2007 at 1:52 pmstorms in history but they united and pulled themselves back together.
Comment by Patti Eisenhut — January 25, 2007 @ 1:20 pm
So when Bill Owens declared a state of emergency, where did the additional help and funding come from? Oh that’s right, the Federal government!!! But technically, you’re correct. Bill Owens didn’t ask them as he made a declaration
I guess TP didn’t like my post about #10. I said it, and any other post that uses racial slurs should be deleted. I went on to state the common slurs used against blacks, Latinos, Asians, Jews, Itialians, The Irish, and Whites.
One standard across the board. If you ban one, ban all. If you allow one, allow all.
January 25th, 2007 at 1:52 pmComment by Upyours
I see Rachel is up to the usual antics of conratulating herself.
Comment by ForTruth
It displays the hallmark traits of schizophrenia:
Paranoia, delusion, talking to oneself in public, and dis-connect from reality/facts.
Priceless.
January 25th, 2007 at 1:53 pmDon’t feed the trolls.
They’re obviously not here to debate but to make inflammatory remarks -this is probably the only way they get any sort of human interaction. The gender-bending, name-changing troll (you know who I am talking about) is certainly not mentally stable, and has been posting the same garbage for days now.
There is no point in engaging someone who is under the influence, or has a screw loose. It’s not worth the time or effort.
January 25th, 2007 at 1:56 pmIts just Karma,
Of course it’s doing good.. Middle class jobs are down, - Part time Walmart jobs are up! Just depends on how you look at it. If you’re a CEO, stock holder, etc things are wonderful, if you’re middle class… not so good. The CEO’s are laughing all the way to the bank as they get richer, and the idiot 30% stand behind them cuz it’s the godly thing to do!
Amen!
January 25th, 2007 at 1:58 pmslacker bob,
Go cry to TP in an EMAIL, or find somebody who gives a shit!
Racist scum.
January 25th, 2007 at 1:58 pmThe New Orleans man builds his house under water.
Now that’s funny.
Comment by Upyours(Rachel) — January 25, 2007 @ 1:43 pm
BwaaaHaaaHaaaa! Friggin’ hilarious. I’m sure the children who lost their families are cracking up at that. I’m sure the victims who lost everything, and whose families have been displaced, are ROTFL right now!
Geez, Rach, got any good 9/11 jokes?
January 25th, 2007 at 1:59 pmComment by Upyours #45
…Upyourmother’s first…
January 25th, 2007 at 2:00 pmYou may want to read this:
http://dissidentnews.wordpress.com/ 2007/ 01/ 25/ behind-the-plan-to-bomb-iran/ #more-1209
January 25th, 2007 at 2:01 pmrachel sez:
And how many times did Chimpy reference 9/11?
Does it hurt, being that stupid?
January 25th, 2007 at 2:13 pmNeither did he mention the Millennium Development goals. Ending world hunger only costs $19 billion annually, according to the Borgen Project. Now why haven’t we spent that yet??? We already spent over $300 billion in Iraq so far. World hunger can be eradicated, but when? Make it happen!
January 25th, 2007 at 2:17 pmGregor,
January 25th, 2007 at 2:19 pmof course You are right. It is like getting angry with a person from a mental institution. Who would blame Reagan that he forgot what being a human being is all about?
Those people are truly suffering from a mental disease. Probably caused by the GMO food that the FDA approved. That makes understandable why even people in great distress ask for McDonalds GMO deluxe food. Same thing.
So be compassionate with those mentally ill folks and lets hope none of them joins the political landscape, as there are too many mentally ill people to begin with.
I don’t care whether or not Bush says anything about New Orleans. But he certainly needs to DO SOMETHING to help those people.
January 25th, 2007 at 2:19 pmEnding world hunger only costs $19 billion annually, according to the Borgen Project. Now why haven’t we spent that yet???
January 25th, 2007 at 2:20 pmComment by KatieL — January 25, 2007 @ 2:17 pm
Ummm, let me go out on a limb here. The answer would be, ummmmm, don’t tell me, uhhhhhhh….NO PROFIT???
anyone got any good jokes regarding a deceased child at least not growing up to be a democrat?
January 25th, 2007 at 2:23 pmanyone? Buehler?
Compassionate conservative, my A$$
“For the rest of you…Katrina is done. Get over it. ”
Yeah, well Slavery ended after the Civil War. Get over it.
January 25th, 2007 at 2:26 pmmy post #66 makes no sense because a certain lonley person’s post was deleted. Those who post here frequently will understand
January 25th, 2007 at 2:26 pm“Katrina is done. Get over it. ”
Yeah? Well slavery ended after the Civil War. Get over it.
January 25th, 2007 at 2:28 pmAll the money spent, nonsense, WASTED, went into the military-industrial complex. That’s more important than people starving not only in the world,
but in the USofA as well.
War is good. Let’s have more war. Let’s have another world war that we can sell more weapons, as we are the biggest weapons exporter on the planet. Great achievement. War is great. God wants war. Not like his whimpy son Jesus that walked around telling people about the other cheek.
War. The word alone melts like caramel in the mouth. It’s all about war.
Republicans love war more than their own children, which they obviously only bred for the purpose of going to war and have a great time. War is sweet.
We need more war. Phuck Peace and those pacifists. War is the answer.
Ooops. I got carried away here. Quite dangerous to look into a republican troll’s mind.
Shiver.
January 25th, 2007 at 2:28 pmThey’re obviously not here to debate but to make inflammatory remarks
January 25th, 2007 at 2:32 pmComment by Gregor Samsa — January 25, 2007 @ 1:56 pm
Gregor, in theory I would agree, don’t feed the trolls.
But, due to the fact I witnessed the plight of evacuees of Katrina first hand, I, for one, will not allow an inflammatory remark go unchallenged.
The victims of Katrina deserve better. From us, from the government, from everyone!
The victims of Katrina deserve better.
Comment by DRxJ — January 25, 2007 @ 2:32 pm
Absolutely, I agree. Having said that, there are certain people who post transparent attempts to get a rise out of the rest of us. These are not conservative viewpoints, or even different perspectives -these are simply the rants of an emotionally unstable person (the use of racial slurs is a clear clue).
If anyone absolutely feels compelled to challenge or even knock down some trollish babble, I propose we talk about the offending moron rather than to them. I say this, knowing fully well I sometimes am guilty of feeding the trolls (temptation is great, flesh is weak -bad Gregor, bad Gregor!).
So, how about we start with this: Can you believe certain morally-challenged people have the gall to use racial slurs in reference to Katrina victims? Can you believe they would kick those poor people to the curb and leave them to fend for themselves and call it “personal responsibility”?
Obviously their concern for life begins at conception and stops at birth…
January 25th, 2007 at 2:45 pmGregor, there’s a name for people like that: sociopaths; people without a conscience.
January 25th, 2007 at 2:55 pmThe residents of Louisiana have learned first hand of the value of Bush’s promises. He would not abandon them, he said. He would not forget them, he said. He was sending money, he said. He put Karl Rove in charge — enough said.
January 25th, 2007 at 2:57 pmAstonishing that a person with vile, racist beliefs like #10 are bold enough to put their thoughts in writing, even anonymously.
January 25th, 2007 at 3:00 pmslacker bob,
Go cry to TP in an EMAIL, or find somebody who gives a shit!
Racist scum.
Comment by DieNowForPeace
How is saying that no racism should be tolerated a racist statement? Please, I want to hear this one.
January 25th, 2007 at 3:04 pm#18 Patti
January 25th, 2007 at 3:07 pmI received a few Emails forwarded from so-called “friends” on this very subject, with your very attitude.
Did your blizzard destroy your entire infrastructure of roads, buildings, and services? For weeks, were you unable to get medical help, food, and necessary care? Did the blizzard destroy your house, kill your neighbors, and weeks later are you still searching for bodies? Did you lose everything except the clothes you are wearing and records of your own identity have been lost in the flood?
Get off it, dear, and wake up. Don’t believe all that sh*t that goes around those stupid Emails — think for yourself.
#37 big papa
January 25th, 2007 at 3:14 pmYou’re right — some of my neighbors, friends, family, co-workers, etc. believe as Patti, roger_roger, perfect stranger, et al., and their expressed ignorance pains me to the point of tears at times. To add insult to injury, despite my own often-expressed viewpoint contrary to theirs over the years, they still assume that I will think their jokes are funny and their comments are witty and their perspective is right.
They go to church, they are good family people, but they are blind to their own ignorance. They are to be pitied, but mostly I ‘d like to slap them upside the head.
Roger_Roger, do you feel the same way for thr rich who build on mud slide in California??
January 25th, 2007 at 3:15 pmJust another glaring example of compassionate conservatism. THIS is Dummy’s legacy and while he pursues his failed agendas elsewhere lets be very vocal about the fact that these assholes Hate America and could give two shits about anyone but themselves. The Prick in Chief calls himself a son of the South? He let one of our cultural capitols (aka a United States City) die while he was busy raising money for his republican freinds who got their asses handed to ‘em. Let NOLA be his legacy…or at least part of it. Worst President Ever.
January 25th, 2007 at 3:24 pmWhere did THAT page just go?
http://thinkprogress.org/escalation-house-senate/
January 25th, 2007 at 3:38 pmDoes it hurt, being that stupid?
Comment by TripMaster Monkey
I would guess no. Because the pain would be a great deterrent to stupidity.
January 25th, 2007 at 3:39 pmMy article didn’t make it. That’s very concerning to me.
January 25th, 2007 at 3:51 pmWe truely live in a sick america. A bush america.
January 25th, 2007 at 7:38 pmMarie #78
These are the same people who falsely claim reverse discrimination…
…and cry that Affirmative Action is now unnecessary because THEY are being unfairly punished for the racism of past generations (their forefathers)…
…they are the underground TREASONOUS confederate culture, and only people like yourself can effectively expose them…
…their kind must be politically, economically and socially destroyed…
…if America is to be spared…
January 25th, 2007 at 10:46 pmWhen it comes to domestic issues George Bush “cuts and runs”.
January 25th, 2007 at 11:40 pm“Armen Keteyian traveled to Mount Olive Gardens, a trailer park near Baton Rouge where 200 Katrina victims live”
Are these “victims” paying anything to live there? Who are these “victims”? Why are they still living there a year and a half later? Answers?
January 25th, 2007 at 11:43 pm“Just another glaring example of compassionate conservatism. THIS is Dummy’s legacy and while he pursues his failed agendas elsewhere lets be very vocal about the fact that these assholes Hate America and could give two shits about anyone but themselves. The Prick in Chief calls himself a son of the South? He let one of our cultural capitols (aka a United States City) die while he was busy raising money for his republican freinds who got their asses handed to ‘em. Let NOLA be his legacy…or at least part of it. Worst President Ever”
Wow! What a PERFECT example of liberal RHETORIC! Lots of ridiculous claims, but not ONE example to back anything up! Examples:
failed agendas
these assholes Hate America
He let one of our cultural capitols (aka a United States City) die
he was busy raising money for his republican freinds
Worst President Ever
Liberalism at its BEST!
January 25th, 2007 at 11:52 pmBush isn’t running for re-election.
January 26th, 2007 at 12:34 amNo one holds more contempt for Bush/Lieberman than I do. Nor can anyone question my empathy for those in the Gulf coast who have been condemned by Bush/Lieberman. However, as much as I revel in bashing Bush et al, let’s think through the problem of “rebuilding” New Orleans. This is a city below sea level now and we are facing rapidly rising sea levels in our future due to climate change. Shouldn’t Bush be bashed for ignoring the problems of climate change and for not confronting the futile “rebuilding”?
January 30th, 2007 at 10:55 amIt saddens and sickens me to think of OUR money that has been squandered and wasted on an invasion and occupation, while WE cannot get help when it is more despretly needed now than ever.
What this adminstration has NOT done for Katrina victims and the gulf coast devistation is appalling.
WHO EXACTLY *IS* this administration working for?
THEMSELVES AND THEMSELVES ALONE.
IMPEACH this disgrace to America regime
INVESTIGATE
INDICT
IMPRISON
PELOSI IN ‘07!!!!!!!!!!!!
siri
January 30th, 2007 at 12:22 pmDear Friends,
Rockey’s interview yesterday with Neil Cavuto on FOX News Network went extremely well. Rockey has become the voice of the “average Joe” when it comes to the rebuilding of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast Region. We look forward to finding a home for our film FORGOTTEN ON THE BAYOU: Rockey’s Mission to the White House. We are fortunate to have signed with David Garber and Lantern Lane Entertainment ( http://www.lanternlane.com ) and look forward to showing our film to the world in the near future. We also plan on using the film to pave the way for a potential series for television.
Attached is a short 1 minute clip from Rockey’s interview on FOX.
Best,
Steve
Steven Scaffidi
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