Comments on: On Third Anniversary Of Katrina, Officials Aren’t Confident New Orleans’ Levees Can ‘Handle’ Gustav

By: Oval12345678 aka James K. Sayre

Oval12345678 aka James K. Sayre — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 17:49:02 +0000

Thank you to earlier commenters for the kind words. Next week, America will be threatened by two hurricanes, the natural one, named Gaustav, coming ashore from the Gulf of Mexico, and the unnatural one, the Republican attack, smear and lie machine, blowing hard out of a Minnesota location (partially disclosed). Batten down the hatches!

By: stateofthedivision

stateofthedivision — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 17:43:10 +0000

Gustav is now a Category 4 storm with 145 mile and hour winds. I don’t wish that on anyone…

By: Keltoi at Night

Keltoi at Night — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 17:19:09 +0000

And here I was just assuming all along that Michael Moore was a Bill Maher style atheist.

“I was just thinking, this Gustav is proof that there is a God in heaven,” Moore said, laughing. “To have it planned at the same time – that it would actually be on its way to New Orleans for day one of the Republican Convention, up in the Twin Cities – at the top of the Mississippi River.”

Natural disasters are pretty damn funny, alrighty.

By: Goldstandard

Goldstandard — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 16:28:23 +0000

As per information just received, whether you live on the Gulf or up in Maine or California, you might just want to top off your cars gas tank and keep some extra food around. Why? A couple of reasons. Gustave will be a cat 3 or 4 storm by the time it his the Louisiana / Texas border where all of the oil refineries are located. If this happens, gas and oil are going to go through the roof and the Bush’s and Clintons know this. Perhpas that is why they got their hands on an illegal 18 billion yesterday and went long oil futures so they could clean up financially. If this storm is as bad as people say it is going to be, if there is a severe shortage of fuel, remember that most food is transported by trucks. At best, the US has only a three day supply of both food and fuel at any one time. For further information on what the Bush’s and Clintons are up to ( an believe me it isn’t looking out for us ) read todays update at http://www.worldreports.org

By: ucsbclassics53

ucsbclassics53 — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 08:30:36 +0000

JK, you ignorant troll, Bush was more interested in his own photo-ops with John McCain and later his administration was more interested in shifting blame to Governor Blanco and Mayor Nagin, because it knew that ignorant trolls like you would gobble it up.

By: fletc3her

fletc3her — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 07:51:02 +0000

What I find incredible is that there is still “debris” in New Orleans. Surely the government would have done the work necessary to clean up after the last storm. It’s only been three years. I understand that rebuilding could take some time, but how long does it take to remove all the destroyed homes?

By: Uncle Fester Lurks

Uncle Fester Lurks — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 05:57:42 +0000

The levees and the rebuilt flood walls are still flawed because whatever the Corp Of Army Engineers rebuilt were rebuilt to only sustain catergory 3 hurricanes. Under congress approval that was part of the origina; deal and it still is today. In order for the levee’s and flood walls to be rebuilt to sustain catergory 4 or 5 hurricanes, the Corp would have to go thru more red tape plus it would be more expensive. So in other words, spending billions and billions of dollars to bomb and rebuild Iraq is fine, spending billions of dollars to correctly and safely rebuild the levee’s in New Orleans is too expensive. What a country we live in. Some how I think if New Orleans was populated by Wallstreet types our government would have built a glass dome lined with gold around New Orleans.

By: Marie

Marie — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 04:17:37 +0000

It’s an election year, folks – Bush will make an attempt to save at least the part of the city that can make a campaign donation.

By: Marie

Marie — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 04:16:18 +0000

Bush&co used the shock that afflicted the victims of N.O. for their personal gain. This was a disaster that – while it could have been prevented – was a gift from the heavens to Bush&CO and their corporate donors. While the residents are stranded, dying, helpless, use that time to let things go unattended, people will either die or move away, eventually, and that will leave the land available for development into commercial interprises that will bring in millions if not billions of dollars to corporate bank accounts. Hire private contractors to help raze the buildings and clear the mess, eventually, but don’t give the residents support to rebuild themselves – hire it out – for corporate profit, at cost/ plus.
It’s like what they did in Iraq – while the people are still stumbling around in shock and incomprehension, they set their forces in place to take it over. It’s all about profit.

Where were Bush and McCain when NO was dying? They were sharing McCain’s birthday cake. No urgency there; only poor and/or black people were suffering. Bush brought his own generators and Kleig lights for his visit there days later – the only lights in the city – and when he left, he took the equipment with him.

Kanye West was right, Bushies don’t care about black people – and it isn’t like they didn’t know of their plight – they really didn’t care.
Barbara Bush – the mother who raised a pack of weasels – thought the stranded survivors living in the dome had it pretty good.

I hope that someone will chase them to McCain’s gates of hell.

By: Xisithrus

Xisithrus — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 03:58:30 +0000

I have been watching the NOAA pics and frankly I dont see a Katrina, lets hope.

By: RUCerious

RUCerious — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 03:38:03 +0000

They are going to do a mandatory evac this time.

Maybe our childrens is learnin.

By: stateofthedivision

stateofthedivision — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 03:34:15 +0000

Let’s see who was on vacation as Katrina spun in the Gulf of Mexico?

It turns out the big dogs were on vacation for Katrina, George Bush, Andrew Card, Condi Rice, and Fran Townsend. The man in charge was Deputy Chief of Staff Joe Hagin, at least Scotty McClellan said so.

MR. McCLELLAN: Well, Joe Hagin has been very involved in it, and Joe Hagin updated the President earlier this morning on the latest in terms of the assessments that are being made and the response efforts. We have search and rescue teams deployed. We have ongoing efforts to make sure assistance is getting to those in need.

But in terms of the White House interagency task force, that’s being led by our domestic policy council. And in terms of — you know, Joe Hagin has really been a point person in terms of overseeing efforts from the White House.

For anyone interested in Homeland Security Adviser, Fran Townsend’s antics that week, click on the link below:

http://stateofthedivision.blogspot.com/2008/04/open-sourcing-unscathed-fran.html

By: jb

jb — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 03:09:36 +0000

Its a sign from GOD. Republicans suck.

By: Doc Rock

Doc Rock — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 03:05:46 +0000

Criminal negligence–multiple counts

By: WaltTheMan

WaltTheMan — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 02:45:43 +0000

So, John Kerry,
They do not have to worry about hurricanes any longer? Did they elect God and Jesus?

By: RandomChaos

RandomChaos — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 02:43:57 +0000

Jacka$$Kerry spewed:
Cleanup on isle JK

Its call FEDERAL EMERGANCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY. I dont recall that there are ANY governors or mayors running that agency.
Gooper

By: Wayne A. Schneider

Wayne A. Schneider — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 02:15:58 +0000

Thanks, RandomChaos,

Other than the occasional severe blizzard, the weird weather we’ve been getting lately has been a fairly recent phenomenon. We used to rarely, if ever, get tornadoes in this part fo the country. Now we get warnings about them all through the summer. It’s not as bad as it is in the Midwest, and nowhere near as frequent, but it’s a lot worse than it was when I was growing up.

By: RandomChaos

RandomChaos — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 02:09:12 +0000

WAS@6
My understanding Wayne is that you get some pretty wierd and severe weather up in your parts, so I think you have room to talk, and I think you said it perfectly.

Cheers

By: Wayne A. Schneider

Wayne A. Schneider — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 02:06:36 +0000

Excellent writing, Mr. Sayre. Well done.

By: RandomChaos

RandomChaos — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 02:04:23 +0000

E2TP@5
Some people dont see it the same way as you do.

I wish the best to anyone that may be in harms way.