American people are rallying behind New Orleans’ poor residents. At least the kind-hearted people are. We’re having a rally here in Hoboken on Saturday, collecting clothes and non-perishables to be sent down to the N.O. folks. Saturday 9am - 6pm at the Hoboken Fire Dept. Museum between 2nd and 3rd on Bloomfield, if anyone reading this is from Hoboken.
A lot of Americans are waking up to the fact that our sitting president is completely incompetent, and all the buddies he appointed in FEMA and other agencies have nothing on their resumes that qualify them other than being Bush campaigners and supporters.
It took having to see dead Americans floating in city streets to wake them up, but at least they are awake. They can’t cover their eyes because these dead citizens are not being flown back from Iraq at night with no media to witness it.
But Bush and Rove are already trying to shirk responsibility. It took several weeks for them to start their “don’t blame us” campaign after no WMD’s were found, and no ties to Al Qaeda were found. But here it is, the disaster is still going on, and they are already diverting their attention to damage control. And they are damn good at it. Look at Iraq. You hardly even hear the word WMD anymore. They’ve managed to make people forget about it.
It is inarguable that the federal government screwed up here. Yet people are trying to argue it. If it was a democratic executive branch, I’d be just as pissed. It’s like when Clinton screwed up and did the Monica thing. We all had to admit that was a mistake. Now Bush has screwed up (for the Nth time) and this time it is painfully obvious to all Americans. Why can’t they just admit it? He shouldn’t be allowed to talk his way out of this! It’s criminal negligence. Thousands of people are dead and they are accountable.
A brief respite from the shitstorm. Cause if you don’t occasionally laugh your brain will explode.
Via Crossroads.net:
The worst English phrasebook in history, English as She is Spoke. This 1883 book is without question the worst phrasebook ever written. The writer, Pedro Carolino, who was Portuguese, did not particularly speak English, nor did he have a Portuguese-English dictionary available. Instead, he worked with a French-English phrasebook and a Portuguese-French dictionary. The results, I’m sure you’ll agree, are staggering.
I have put my stockings outward.
I have croped the candle.
I have mind to vomit.
I will not to sleep on street.
I am catched cold in the brain.
I am pinking me with a pin.
I dead myself in envy to see her.
I take a broth all morning.
I shall not tell you than two woods.
Have you understanded?
Part of a longer letter to the President of the USA, previously found HERE.
The young officer who wrote this post, is, within 24 hours, facing a court martial for expressing her opinion with her name attached.
Your citizens are dying, and I personally hold you responsible for their lives. As the president, you are a public servant, NOT a king. Your job is to serve the people of the United States of America and to uphold the Constitution, not to preach your Biblical beliefs and to play golf. I’m sorry the hurricane disrupted your vacation. It must be awful for you, but I assure you, it’s far worse for the victims.
Today, you addressed the nation, and admitted that you made some mistakes - that everyone involved in the relief effort made some mistakes. That’s not good enough. Apologies won’t bring back the people who died needlessly. As the highest authority in the land, you can’t afford those sorts of mistakes. “Oops!” is not an answer. You were supposed to do something, but you didn’t until it was too late for many of them, and more are going to die. Their blood is on your hands. There are still people living in filth, sleeping in the streets, crowded into crumbling buildings, stranded on rooftops, dehydrated, sick, dying, and desperate for just a bottle of water and a bit of food. These are American citizens - your highest priority… but you are incapable of understanding their suffering because you’ve been so sheltered all your life, you can’t even comprehend the sensations of true hunger, thirst, or desperation. You’ve never had to worry about your next meal, or of having a roof over your head. And when you left New Orleans, after hugging a few people while surrounded by cameras, and you flew back to Washington, DC in the comfort of your helicopter, WHAT DID YOU HAVE FOR DINNER? I’ll bet it was delicious, wasn’t it?
Oh, and by the way, how much money are you going to donate to the victims of the hurricane, Mr. Bush? How much money is going to come out of your personal bank account? You’re independantly wealthy, and could live comfortably on JUST the pension from your presidency for the rest of your life. Children are giving their lunch money. What are you going to give? How much do you really love America?
The American people don’t want your lies, excuses, and apologies anymore. How many mistakes can you make before you stop making them? How many more people have to die for your stupidity? Should we just wait for the next major disaster to strike, just in case you do better next time? We don’t want a “next time”, Mr. Bush. We don’t want your promises of a better tomorrow. We want your resignation.
~Michelle J. d’Entremont
2LT, US Army Reserves
Engineer Corps
(I have no fear of publicly using my name for this. Pass it on. These are my words, and I stand behind them with my name, rank, and convictions. And if it ends up on CNN, with my name, and Bush reads it, even better.)
Notice they use the word “insurgency”. That is not what this is. An insurgency is an organized group of people fighting to overthrow an occupying force or government.
As the National Guard delivered food to the New Orleans convention center yesterday, American Red Cross officials said that federal emergency management authorities would not allow them to do the same.
A vlog requires focus on the video. While this difference is the same as between radio and television, the difference is amplified significantly when the content is “citizen” created.
I understand that this is just an opinion and not a scientific evaluation of video blogs vs. podcasts. That being said, I disagree with the opinion. Read the rest of this entry »
From the BBC:
“They killed a man here last night,” Steve Banka, 28, told the Reuters news agency before he left on Sunday.
Death was everywhere, both inside and outside the Superdome
“A young lady was being raped and stabbed.
“And the sounds of her screaming got to this man and so he ran out into the street to get help from troops, to try to flag down a passing truck of them.
“He jumped up on the truck’s windscreen and they shot him dead,” Mr Banka said.
American people are rallying behind New Orleans’ poor residents. At least the kind-hearted people are. We’re having a rally here in Hoboken on Saturday, collecting clothes and non-perishables to be sent down to the N.O. folks. Saturday 9am - 6pm at the Hoboken Fire Dept. Museum between 2nd and 3rd on Bloomfield, if anyone reading this is from Hoboken.
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