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timestamp: 2005.09.06 @ 06:01 UTC
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Clueless

State Rep. Karen Carter was right Friday when she said the city didn’t have but two urgent needs: “Buses! And gas!” Every official at the Federal Emergency Management Agency should be fired, Director Michael Brown especially.

In a nationally televised interview Thursday night, he said his agency hadn’t known until that day that thousands of storm victims were stranded at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center. He gave another nationally televised interview the next morning and said, “We’ve provided food to the people at the Convention Center so that they’ve gotten at least one, if not two meals, every single day.”

Lies don’t get more bald-faced than that, Mr. President.

Yet, when you met with Mr. Brown Friday morning, you told him, “You’re doing a heck of a job.”

That’s unbelievable.

I wish it was unbelievable, but from this administration, it’s routine.

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timestamp: 2005.09.03 @ 22:01 UTC
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…the priorities of the American Ruling Class are exposed (and no, this isn’t some communist, leftist moonbat screed… I despise the aristocracy we have on the left, too, with Gore, the son of a Senator and Clinton, the wife of a President, as major Democratic figures… they are ALL part of the American Ruling Class who are out of touch with reality).

THE PRESIDENT: We’ve got a lot of rebuilding to do. First, we’re going to save lives and stabilize the situation. And then we’re going to help these communities rebuild. The good news is — and it’s hard for some to see it now — that out of this chaos is going to come a fantastic Gulf Coast, like it was before. Out of the rubbles of Trent Lott’s house — he’s lost his entire house — there’s going to be a fantastic house. And I’m looking forward to sitting on the porch.(Laughter.)

GOVERNOR RILEY: He’ll be glad to have you.

It’s nice to know that Trent Lott will get a fantastic house out of this disaster.

Lot’s of yuks there, huh?

So… how about those who died in the Superdome waiting for food and water to arrive?

What will they get?

A nice tombstone, perhaps?

Or just carted off in a body bag to be creamated?

Of course, they don’t count, they’re not powerful, rich white men.

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timestamp: 2005.09.02 @ 19:50 UTC
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Devastation deserved?

So, the radical left-wing weblogs are the only ones making political hay of the disaster?

Really????

Like everything else, if you cherry-pick, you can make a case for anything, including finding quotes in the Christian Holy Bible to justify “negro slavery”, which was done quite frequently in the years leading up to the American Civil War.

Disgusting…

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timestamp: 2005.09.02 @ 19:14 UTC
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Two millennia later

Judgement is being passed by those who are warm, well-fed, and safe upon those in New Orleans.

There is only one response:

Wait to judge until you walk in their shoes.

I grew up in Mississippi, you know, the state that inhabitants of Arkansas wake up every morning saying, “Praise God we’re not in Mississippi!”

In other words, the poorest state in the Union.

I saw poverty, and the poverty I saw (and thankfully did not have to experience first hand) was not the worst that existed in the state.

It is easy to judge when you are well fed, warm, and do not have to worry about waking up with no food, no clean clothing, and no hope tomorrow.

It is easy to judge when you have no imagination and no empathy, only anger.

It is easy to say many things when you have it easy.

I recall an innocent man who was executed around 2000 years ago saying much the same…

And two millennia later, we still have not learned the lesson.

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timestamp: 2005.09.02 @ 18:38 UTC
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Now is only the beginning…

…of the need that will exist for months or even years afterwards.

When the horrific images are no longer being broadcast and posted…

When the outraged statements are no longer being made…

When the shame of the lack of preparedness has faded into dim memory, a fading accelerated by the ADD nature of the modern world…

When the media attention has moved on…

When most have forgotten those who have lost all…

..there will still be people who need help.

Do not forget them.

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timestamp: 2005.09.01 @ 21:37 UTC
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Anarchy, despair, chaos, and death, the companions of disaster

All have been released in New Orleans as the far more fragile than recognized order of civilization breaks down.

The four horsemen are on their way, famine, pestilence, and death will precede war, not an external one but instead the most tragic, an internecine conflict of the have-nots against those representing the haves.

The tragedy is only beginning.

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Clueless

And in one brief moment…

Devastation deserved?

Two millennia later

Now is only the beginning…

Anarchy, despair, chaos, and death, the companions of disaster

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