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Hurricane Katrina Thread: Any LA Gaffers?

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It's funny cuz the press briefing STATED all the parishes under emergency declarations in word as well, so if it WAS a mistake they would have to repeat it, TWICE. :lol :lol
 
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So the research team at CNN showed up for work!
 
BorkBork said:
More details about Brown's bio

Looks like his less than impressive resume has already been padded. :lol
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TIME said:
Before joining FEMA, his only previous stint in emergency management, according to his bio posted on FEMA's website, was "serving as an assistant city manager with emergency services oversight." The White House press release from 2001 stated that Brown worked for the city of Edmond, Okla., from 1975 to 1978 "overseeing the emergency services division." In fact, according to Claudia Deakins, head of public relations for the city of Edmond, Brown was an "assistant to the city manager" from 1977 to 1980, not a manager himself, and had no authority over other employees.
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Michael Brown = The Office's (US) Dwight Schrute ???
 
Poll: Most want flooded New Orleans moved
National survey also sees blame at all levels of government

WASHINGTON - More than half the Americans surveyed in a national poll say the flooded areas of New Orleans lying below sea level should be abandoned and rebuilt on higher ground.

An AP-Ipsos poll found that 54 percent of Americans want the four-fifths of New Orleans that was flooded by Hurricane Katrina moved to a safer location.

Their skepticism about restoring New Orleans below sea level comes as the public mood has darkened after one of the nation’s worst natural disasters.

Almost two-thirds, 65 percent, say the country is headed in the wrong direction — down from 59 percent last month. President Bush’s job approval was at 39 percent, the lowest point since AP-Ipsos began measuring public approval of Bush in December 2003.

Two-thirds of those surveyed say the federal government was not adequately prepared to respond to the disaster. And about the same number said the state and local governments deserve much of the blame for the slow response.

Despite their gloomy mood, people are donating to hurricane victims at record levels. Almost two-thirds in the poll say they have already given money.

The poll of 1,002 adults was taken Sept. 6-8 and has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.
 
Wall Street Journal's wire news (need subscription)
Rep. Baker of Baton Rouge is overheard telling lobbyists: "We finally cleaned up public housing in New Orleans. We couldn't do it, but God did."

Baker explains later he didn't intend flippancy but has long wanted to improve low-income housing.
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There is no way for that quote to be considered in a good light. The GOP sure attracts some sick fucks without compassion.
 
Dan said:
Wall Street Journal's wire news (need subscription)

There is no way for that quote to be considered in a good light. The GOP sure attracts some sick fucks without compassion.
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Not in a good light no, but I do know that many people from New Orleans have joked 'tongue in cheek':

"Well at least now the federal government won't have an excuse to not build the city new schools on par with the rest of the country"
 
Fair enough, except his quote implies that all the "cleaning up" ever involved was demolishing buildings. He's not referencing any sort of rebuilding. He's saying the job has already been done.
 
DarienA said:
President Bush’s job approval was at 39 percent, the lowest point since AP-Ipsos began measuring public approval of Bush in December 2003.
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Was that sound I heard champagne corks popping?
 
Mike Brown is being removed from hurricane relief and sent back washington.

he will be replaced by a coast guard vice-admiral, i forget his name..i thought it was weird they had the coast guard guy doing interviews the last couple of days and now we know why.
 
G4life98 said:
Mike Brown is being removed from hurricane relief and sent back washington.

he will be replaced by a coast guard vice-admiral, i forget his name..i thought it was weird they had the coast guard guy doing interviews the last couple of days and now we know why.
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..and somewhere in the White House Bush is laughing his ass off.
 
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"I'm from the government, and I am here to fucking rescue your fucking ass! So on the floor you fucking flood victim! NOW!
 
xexex said:
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"I'm from the government, and I am here to fucking rescue your fucking ass! So on the floor you fucking flood victim! NOW!
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To be fair, if that's from the incident I think it's from, the woman they were removing had a gun.
 
G4life98 said:
Mike Brown is being removed from hurricane relief and sent back washington.

he will be replaced by a coast guard vice-admiral, i forget his name..i thought it was weird they had the coast guard guy doing interviews the last couple of days and now we know why.
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Because you're doing a heck of a job, Brownie.
 
Anybody know what happened to New Orleans' anthrax labs? That's the excellent and scary question Defense Tech pal Russ Kick asks over at the Memory Hole.

In and around the Big Easy are a number of Biosafety Level 3 (BSL-3) labs, meant to handle some of the nastier biological agents out there -- stuff like anthrax, plague, and genetically-engineering mousepox. Louisiana State University’s Medical School and the State of Louisiana both ran BSL-3s within the city. Tulane kept 5,000 monkeys for biodefense studies in its "National Primate Research Center," located in nearby Covington.

"What's happened to the infected animals? Are they free and roaming?" Russ wants to know. "Are they dead, with their diseased bodies floating in the flood waters? And what about the cultures and vials of the diseases? Are they still secure? Are they being stolen? Were they washed away, now forming part of the toxic soup that coats the city?"

And not to turn the fear dial up any higher, but, if the national average is any guide, the keepers of the Louisiana labs weren't particularly experienced. 97 percent of the "principal investigators" who got biodefense grants from the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases were newbies to that kind of work.

The government oversight these neophytes get is minimal, at best. Instead, the labs are expected to police themselves, through "Institutional Biosafety Committees." But the records of these committees is, to put it politely, uneven. When the Sunshine Project, a biowatchdog group, "asked for all minutes of all meetings of [Tulane's] IBC since January 1st, 2002, Tulane replied that it has no responsive documents. That is, Tulane University cannot produce a single page of minutes of any Institutional Biosafety Committee meeting for the past two and half years."
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And more and more problems just roll on in. :)
 
A Louisiana paper on the FEMA response: what FEMA response? The Lafayette Daily Advertiser reported that while FEMA offices were being set up in Louisiana, they were practically without resources or meaningful advice to evacuees and the desperately stranded, except, of course, to wait.

The Advertiser said:
Lafayette's first FEMA office opened Friday, but the center had no money or vouchers to give to hundreds of Hurricane Katrina evacuees who came searching for help.

"We're not giving anything," manager Kenneth Swain told the crowd. "We don't have anything yet to give."

The Federal Emergency Management Association's Disaster Response Center is located at Restoration Life Church, 111 Liberty Ave., across from Randol's restaurant on Kaliste Saloom Road. It is open from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. seven days a week, indefinitely.

FEMA has been noticeably absent from Lafayette since the hurricane struck, and people descended on the church looking for answers.

Tonette Oatif, 29, of New Orleans East brought a $2,000 hotel bill. The American Red Cross told her that FEMA would pay for it. Broke and living in a Lafayette church shelter, she was angry to learn she might have to wait days or weeks to be reimbursed.

"They told me to wait a couple more days? I'm tired of waiting. We've waited about two weeks already just for FEMA to show up," she said.

Swain said the center had one line Friday for people to fill out paper applications. Without working computers, he said there was nothing he could do to check on the status of applications already filed. Those who have filed applications should visit the center in a few days to check.
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Early estimates put Katrina's financial toll at more than $300 million.

Although estimates of Hurricane Katrina's staggering toll on the treasury are highly imprecise, costs are certain to climb to $200 billion in the coming weeks. The final accounting could approach the more than $300 billion spent in four years to fight in Afghanistan and Iraq.
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teiresias said:
Has anyone seen this absolutely horrendous display by Mark Williams on CNN's Showbiz show?

http://movies.crooksandliars.com/Showbiz-Mark-Williams.wmv

It's utterly sickening - this is what the right and republican party are now and this is why this country is sinking into a pool of its own incompetence and blathering idiocy. I could only watch the video once and then had to delete it from my harddrive.
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yeah, maybe.
Sholmes @ (09-09-2005 said:
Unreal video of some guttertrash right-wing talkshow host on CNN

http://movies.crooksandliars.com/Showbiz-Mark-Williams.wmv
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CBS Poll Sep 6 - 7

"From what you've seen or heard, was George W. Bush's response to Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath too quick, too slow, or was the timing about right?"

Too Quick 1%
Too Slow 65%
About right 32%
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1% said it was too quick? I honestly cannot get my head around that percentage point...what, did that 1% think more people needed to die before Bush did something? I just cannot think of a single valid or sane reason anyone would think that.
 
bune duggy said:
1% said it was too quick? I honestly cannot get my head around that percentage point...what, did that 1% think more people needed to die before Bush did something? I just cannot think of a single valid or sane reason anyone would think that.
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You'd be surprised. There are people out there that really think this man deserves his 5 week vacations because of the 'hard work' he's doing the rest of the year. Why should his vacation be ruined because some local and state officials fucked up?
 
bune duggy said:
yeah, maybe.;) 1% said it was too quick? I honestly cannot get my head around that percentage point...what, did that 1% think more people needed to die before Bush did something? I just cannot think of a single valid or sane reason anyone would think that.
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Racism. Seriously.. if that's a poll of 5000 people.. 50 fucking people actually responded with 'Too quick'. Horrifying.
 
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