Well, it took TIME Magazine to finally do the type of extensive background check that should have been done by, gee… I dunno… maybe the FBI, back when Mike Brown first came up before the Senate for confirmation as deputy director of FEMA. And surprise… they’ve found more than a few discrepancies between Brown’s resume and the real world.
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.
Oh… he wasn’t an “assistant city manager”, he was an “assistant to the city manager.” That was just a typo, right? But wait, it gets worse:
“The assistant is more like an intern,” she told TIME. “Department heads did not report to him.”
So he was more of an intern than an assistant…
“He was a student at Central State University,” recalls former city manager Bill Dashner.
… A college intern.
“Mike used to handle a lot of details. Every now and again I’d ask him to write me a speech. He was very loyal. He was always on time. He always had on a suit and a starched white shirt.”
And a starched white shirt. Well, I guess that’s Brown’s qualifications in a nutshell.
And the rest of Browns resume seems just as fictional. He claimed the honor of being named “Outstanding Political Science Professor” at Central State University… where he was never a member of faculty. And he claims to have been a director of the Oklahoma Christian Home since 1983… which came as a surprise to both the administration and the staff.
A veteran employee at the center since 1981 says Brown “was never director here, was never on the board of directors, was never executive director. He was never here in any capacity. I never heard his name mentioned here.”
My god… why would you even make up something as trivial as this? It’s almost like he’s lying for sport. And of course, don’t you think the fact that there is no board of directors at the nursing home should have been a big tip off.. had the FBI actually performed a fucking background check?
This is no longer simply about Brown’s incompetence… it’s about the incompetence and indifference of a president who hired a political hack with a trumped up resume to lead our nation’s disaster relief efforts.
Didn’t Mike Brown lie about his qualifications in his written materials or oral presentation when he was being confirmed for Deputy Director of FEMA and/or FEMA Director/DHS Undersecretary?
If he did, it would be a federal felony. It is perjury to lie under oath — when testifying. But it is also a federal felony to make false statements to federal officials, even if it isn’t under oath.
The general federal law making false statements to federal officials a felony, punishable by up to five years in prison, is 18 USC 1001.
http://www4.law.cornell.edu/us.....-000-.html
There are some exceptions about statements made to the legislative branch. I am not sure whether this statute would apply to false statements made to secure Senate confirmation. (The statute clearly wouldn’t apply, for example, to false statements made regarding proposed legislation or other political speech.)
The statute also doesn’t apply to statements made in judicial proceedings. So a lawyer making false arguments to a federal judge won’t be looking at a federal prison sentence :) (False testimony in court would still be perjury, which is covered by 18 USC 1621.)
Here is Mike Brown’s lawyer profile posted at Findlaw dot com. He just updated it yesterday (Thursday).
http://pview.findlaw.com/view/2507976_1
He claims that he has been “Chairman, Oklahoma Municipal Power Authority, Edmond, OK, 1980 – Present”
Somehow I seriously doubt that.
The Oklahoma Municipal Power Authority wasn’t established by the Oklahoma legislature until June 2, 1981:
http://www.ompa.com/history.htm
Here is the law on the membership of the Oklahoma Municipal Power Authority, Okla. Stat. 11-24-104:
http://www.oscn.net/applicatio.....teID=76090
It is conceivable that Mike Brown could have been Chair of the OMPA at some point in the past. That is IF he was really a member of the Edmond, OK city council. Each city or county that joined the OMPA was able to designate one person to serve on the OMPA election committee. This election committee then elected the OMPA board of directors, which in turn would choose its own Chair. So a lot of things are POSSIBLE.
However, under O.S. 11-24-104(a)(iv), “Members of the Board of Directors of the Authority shall be residents of the State of Oklahoma.”
Mike Brown moved to Colorado sometime around 1991. So obviously he couldn’t have been Chair of the OMPA after this date.
Funny… the Oklahoma Municipal Power Authority annual financial reports for 2003 & 2004 show Charles Lamb as Chairman of the Board of Directors. I haven’t saved any prior year reports, maybe the library will have them.
Here is the link to the PDF copy of the Senate committee hearing transcript for the 2002 nomination of Mike Brown as Deputy Director of FEMA:
http://frwebgate.access.gpo.go.....:81311.pdf
(Goldy provided the link to the text copy of this report several days ago. The text copy doesn’t contain the attachments. But the PDF copy has the entire report, with all attachments.)
Mike Brown’s sworn (notarized) biographical questionnaire is contained on Pages 17-23 of the report, which are Pages 21-27 of the PDF document.
Looks like Mike Brown didn’t tell any obvious lies in his notarized biographical questionnaire — with the possible exception of the “Assistant City Manager” thing.
However, Mike Brown tells some whoppers on his Findlaw dot com profile. It contains a lot of additional “alleged “qualifications” which cannot be found anywhere in the sworn bio questionnaire that he submitted to the U.S. Senate.
Some of these additional qualifications include:
* Outstanding Political Science Professor, Central State University
* National Health Lawyers Association, 1986 – Present
Member
* Oklahoma City University School of Law, 1987 – Present
Adjunct Professor in State and Local Gov’t. Law, Legislation
* Director, Foundation for Enid Education & Economic Develop., 1988 – Present
* Director, Oklahoma Christian Home, Edmond, OK, 1983 – Present
If Mike Brown really had these additional “qualifications”, he was REQUIRED to list them in his notarized biography questionnaire that he filed with the U.S. Senate.
On the other hand, if Mike Brown really didn’t have these other alleged “qualifications”, then he was extremely WISE not to commit PERJURY by falsely claiming them on his U.S. Senate questionnaire.
If Mike Brown wants to falsely claim non-existent “qualifications” on a Findlaw dot com profile, or in talking with the news media, then he would merely be a LIAR and not a PERJURER.
Interesting — on his Findlaw dot com profile, Mike Brown claims that he was admitted to practice law in Oklahoma in 1982, the District of Columbia in 1987, and in Colorado in 1991.
The District of Columbia Bar is a mandatory bar association. All lawyers admitted to practice in the District of Columbia must be members of the District of Columbia Bar. They have a “Find a Member” internet search, which lists all lawyers who have been admitted (including suspended, disbarred and inactive):
http://www.dcbar.org/find_a_member/
Michael D. Brown has NEVER been admitted to the District of Columbia Bar at any point in time.
I emailed the reporters at Time and requested that they do further investigations into the qualifications of other Bush administration officials, starting with Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff. It’s shocking that Congress has not already taken these steps. How could that kind of information about Mike Brown not have come out sooner? This is scary to know people so underqualified are running such important components of our government as FEMA, and who knows what else.
Wow. Well done on the research, Richard Pope. That information needs to get out beyond this blog.
Insomniac that I am, I was up at 2:20 EST, and a FEMA flack (Natalie something), called in to CNN and did a live on-air interview with the overnight anchor.
Spinning in the middle of the night? Unfarkingbelievable.
Oh, and another thing: A couple of people at Atrios have pointed out that any Fed appointee gets background-checked by the FBI. Chuh! I grew up near DC and remember a visit from the FBI when our next-door neighbor was up for a new gig.
So what happened? Why did TIME have to do the FBI’s job for them?
Insomnia does suck. But spinning is a 24/7 job for the Bush administration!
Semms to me…if any of this is true (I pretty buch write everything here off as typical lib spin) that the democrats once again were sleeping on the job while Brown was appointed head of FEMA…
Something I found, not sure if it is too long, also I am curious as to th truth of this (racial overtones to the side). Has anyone heard of this?
America’s cowardly journalists will not air these stories:
Africa in our Midst: Lessons from Katrina
Jared Taylor
In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, which blasted the Gulf Coast on Aug. 29, the entire world has seen images that leave no doubt that what is repeatedly called the sole remaining superpower can be reduced to squalor and chaos nearly as gruesome as anything found in the Third World. The weather—a Category 4 hurricane—certainly had something to do with it, but the most serious damage was done not by nature but by man.
Much has been and will be written about why the levees that are supposed to keep the water out of below-sea-level New Orleans failed. There will be bitter recrimination about whether the federal rescue effort could have been launched sooner. Commissions will be set up to ask questions and lessons will no doubt be learned. But there was another human failing that was far more ominous and intractable. No commissions will be set up to study it, and official America will refuse to learn any lessons from it. In the orgy of finger-pointing that is coming, it will be all but forgotten. That human failing—vastly more significant than the ones the commissions will investigate—is the barbaric behavior of the people of New Orleans.
New Orleans is 67 percent black, and about half the blacks are poor. Of the city’s 480,000 people, all but an estimated 80 to 100 thousand left before the hurricane struck. This meant that aside from patients in hospitals and eccentrics in the French Quarter, most of the people who stayed behind were not just blacks, but lower-class blacks without the means or foresight to leave.
Looters make off with a trunk full of beer.
Katrina hit on the morning of Monday, Aug. 29. Immediately after the winds died down, the first reaction was one of relief. The hurricane had jogged east, and the city was battered but still standing. Then the levees broke—apparently some time on Tuesday—and the city began to flood. Before long, 80 percent of the city was under as much as 20 feet of water, and what had been only a storm became a disaster.
The city’s 70,000-seat football stadium, known as the Superdome, had been officially designated as a public shelter before the hurricane, and several thousand people were already there the night before the storm. It had some food supplies, cots, and medical supplies. But when the waters began to rise, people poured in from all directions, swelling its numbers to an estimated 25,000.
People came because their houses were under water, but also because New Orleans very quickly collapsed in banditry. Looting began even while the storm was still blowing. At first there was sympathetic clucking about the need for food and medicine, but news clips of blacks wading happily through waist-deep water with television sets over their heads dispelled that view.
The day after the hurricane, a reporter caught the atmosphere of high-spirited chaos at a Wal-Mart in the Lower Garden District. People were grabbing things as quickly as they could, smashing open jewelry cabinets and scooping up double-handfuls. One man packed his van so full of electronic equipment he could not close the rear doors. A teenage girl passed out, face down, and people stepped on her. A man stopped to roll her onto her back, and she vomited pink liquid. “This is f***ed up,” he said, and rolled her back on her stomach. An NBC correspondent filmed black, uniformed police strolling through the aisles, filling shopping carts.
At one store, a police officer broke the glass on the DVD case so civilians would not cut themselves trying to break it, but one man was ungrateful. “The police got all the best stuff,” he said. “They’re crookeder than us.” One woman stocking up on makeup was glad to see the officers. “It must be legal,” she said. “The police are here taking stuff, too.”
Violence of all kinds quickly spread through the paralyzed city, where robbery, rape and even murder became routine. There were still thousands of people trapped on rooftops and in attics, but on Sept. 1, Mayor Ray Nagin called the entire police force off of rescue work and ordered it to secure the city. The response form the force? An estimated 200 officers just walked off the job. “They indicated that they had lost everything and didn’t feel that it was worth them going back to take fire from looters and losing their lives,” explained Henry Whitehorn, chief of the Louisiana State Police. Many disappeared without a word. Sherrif Harry Lee of Jefferson Parish in New Orleans also said his men were quitting. “They want to be with their families,” he said. “Well, I want to be with my family too, but you don’t quit in the middle of a crisis.”
One of the few whites at the Convention Center,
with her 11-month-old baby boy.
Two police officers, including the department’s official spokesman Paul Accardo committed suicide by shooting themselves in the head. The London Times estimated that one in five officers refused to work, and some of those who stayed in uniform were useless. When Debbie Durso, a tourist from Washington, Michigan, asked a policeman for help he told her “Go to hell—it’s every man for himself.”
The collapse of security made rescue and relief nearly impossible. “No one anticipated the disintegration or the erosion of the civilian police force in New Orleans,” explained Lieutenant General Steven Blum of the National Guard. He said the city was operating on only one third of its pre-storm strength of 1,500 officers, and that the guard had to switch from rescue to law enforcement: “And that’s when we started flowing military police into the theater.”
New Orleans has had only black mayors since 1978, and has spent decades making the police force as black as possible. It established a city-residency requirement for officers to keep suburban whites from applying for jobs, and lowered recruitment standards so blacks could pass them. Katrina blew away any pretence that the force was competent.
(On September 5, exactly a week after the hurricane, Mayor Ray Nagin offered to pay for the entire police force, firefighters, and city emergency workers to go on five-day vacations—with their families—to Las Vegas or some other destination. He said there were enough National Guard in the city to maintain order, and that his men “have been through a lot.” He brushed off suggestions that this was dereliction of duty. He even asked the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to pay for the vacations, but FEMA refused. “We haven’t turned over control of the city,” a city spokesman explained. “We’re going to leave a skeleton force—about 20 percent of the department—for leadership and liaison with the troops while we get some rest.”)
New Orleans has a high crime rate at the best of times—it is usually in top contention for the American city with the highest murder rate—and looted and stolen firearms spilled into the street. Some blacks fired on any symbol of authority, blazing away at rescue helicopters and Coast Guard vessels. Several days after the hurricane, with desperate people still waving for help from rooftops, FEMA said conditions were too dangerous to attempt rescues.
On Wednesday, along one stretch of Highway 10, hundreds of volunteer firefighters, auxiliary coastguards and citizens with small boats were anxious to reach people, but could not set out because of sniper fire. “We are trying to do our job here but we can’t if they are shooting at us, explained Major Joey Broussard of the Louisiana State Fisheries and Wildlife Division. “We don’t know who and we don’t know why, but we don’t want to get in a situation of having to return fire out there,” he said.
Perhaps the most chilling accounts were from hospitals, where staff desperately tried to move patients up stairs as the water rose, while blacks invaded and looted the floors below. Most hospitals had emergency generators, but these began to fail or run out of fuel. Two days after the hurricane, the city had no running water, and as food ran out, doctors and nurses gave themselves intravenous feedings to keep going.
Corpse left in front of
the Convention Center.
Just outside New Orleans, gunmen held up a supply truck carrying food, water, and medical supplies that were on their way to a 203-bed hospital. Patients in hospitals all across the city eventually had to be taken out, but rescuers met resistance. Coast Guard Lt Cmdr Cheri Ben-Iesan told reporters at an emergency headquarters: “Hospitals are trying to evacuate. At every one of them, there are reports that as the helicopters come in people are shooting at them, saying, ‘You better come get my family.’ “ An effort to evacuate patients and staff from Charity Hospital in downtown New Orleans was stopped by sniper fire. Other hospitals reported gangs of looters attacking and overturning ambulances.
Chris Lawrence, a reporter with CNN, filed a report from the roof of a police station: “Right now it’s the only safe place to be in the city. We were on the street earlier but the police said under no circumstances would you be safe on the street. They said anybody walking in the streets of New Orleans is basically taking their life in their hands… . They directed some of the young women to get off the street immediately.”
What may have been the most shocking headline of the entire crisis was in the September 2 issue of Army Times: “Troops Begin Combat Operations in New Orleans.” The article was about the Louisiana National Guard massing near the Superdome in preparation for a citywide security mission. “This place is going to look like Little Somalia,” Brig. Gen. Gary Jones explained. “We’re going to go out and take this city back. This will be a combat operation to get this city under control.” The amphibious assault ship Bataan was in the area, but kept its helicopters on board after pilots reported sniper fire.
Many soldiers came under gunfire from civilians. “I never thought that as a National Guardsman I would be shot at by other Americans,” said Philip Baccus of the 527th Engineer Battalion. “And I never thought I’d have to carry a rifle when on a hurricane relief mission. This is a disgrace.” Cliff Ferguson of the same battalion added: “You have to think about whether it is worth risking your neck for someone who will turn around and shoot at you. We didn’t come here to fight a war. We came here to help.”
Michael Brown, head of FEMA, said: “We are working under conditions of urban warfare.” Lieutenant-General Steven Blum, of the National Guard, said the 7,000 guardsmen arriving in Louisiana would be dedicated to restoring order to New Orleans. He said half of them had just returned from overseas assignments and were “highly proficient in the use of lethal force.” He promised to deal with thugs “in a quick and efficient manner.”
Shoot-to-kill orders were supposed to have gone out, and Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco boasted that battle-hardened veterans would put down the violence in no time. However, there were few accounts of soldiers firing their weapons. The London Times reported that a New Orleans policeman explained through tears that he had seen bodies riddled with bullets, and one man with the top of his head shot off. He said looters were armed with stolen AK-47 rifles, and that the police were outgunned just like in Somalia. “It’s a war-zone, and they’re [the federal government] not treating it like one,” he said.
Hysterical woman in front of the Convention Center.
We will never know the full extent of the mayhem blacks loosed on their own city. Many victims will not be found for weeks or even months, rotted beyond recognition, their killers never found. Drowned or murdered, the bloated, stinking bodies that turn up by the hundreds will look much the same. In their haste to get cadavers off the streets, the authorities may not worry much about cause of death.
From Hurricane to Jungle
In the two main refugee centers, however—the Superdome and the Convention Center—too many people witnessed the degeneracy for it to be ignored. The first refugees had arrived at the Superdome the day before the hurricane, on Sunday, August 28th. The last finally left the stadium on Saturday, Sept, 3, so some people may have spent nearly a week in what, after the toilets began to overflow, became known as the Sewerdome.
Preparation for refugees was pitifully inadequate. By day, as many as 25,000 people sweltered in temperatures that rose into the 100s. Whatever order had been established soon melted away, and the stadium reverted to the jungle. Young men robbed and raped with impunity. Occasional gunshots panicked the crowd. At least one man committed suicide by sailing off a high deck and splattering onto the playing field. Bodies of the murdered, and of infants and the elderly who died of heat exhaustion began to accumulate. Six babies were born in the stadium. Charles Womack, a 30-year-old roofer, said he saw one man beaten to death, and was, himself beaten with a pipe. Crack addicts—who had brought their most valuable possession with them—smoked openly and fought over drugs.
A group of about 30 British students were among the very small number of whites in the stadium, where they spent four harrowing days. Jamie Trout, 22, an economics major, wrote that the scene “was like something out of Lord of the Flies,” with “people shouting racial abuse about us being white.” One night, word came that the power was failing, and that there was only ten minutes’ worth of gas for the generators. Zoe Smith, 21, from Hull, said they all feared for their lives: “All us girls sat in the middle while the boys sat on the outside, with chairs as protection,” she said. “We were absolutely terrified, the situation had descended into chaos, people were very hostile and the living conditions were horrendous.” She sad that even during the day, “when we offered to help with the cleaning, the locals gave us abuse.”
Mr. Trout said the National Guard finally recognized how dangerous the threat was from blacks, and moved the British under guard to the basketball area, which was safer. “The army warned us to keep our bags close to us and to grip them tight,” he said, as they were escorted out. Twenty-year-old Jane Wheeldon credited one man in particular, Sgt. Garland Ogden, with getting the Britons safely out. “He went against a lot of rules to get us moved,” she said.
Looters with bags of clothing.
Australian tourists stuck in the Superdome had the same experience. Bud Hopes, a 32-year-old man from Kangaroo Point, Brisbane, took control and may have saved many lives. As the stadium reverted to anarchy he realized whites were in danger, and gathered tourists together for safety. “There were 65 of us altogether so we were able to look after each other, especially the girls who were being grabbed and threatened,” said Mr. Hopes. They organized escorts for women who had to go to the toilet or for food, and set up a roster of men to stand guard while others slept. “We sat through the night just watching each other, not knowing if we would be alive in the morning,” Mr. Hopes said. “Ninety-eight percent of the people around the world are good,” he said; “in that place 98 per cent of the people were bad.”
John McNeil of Coorparoo in Brisbane tells what happened to their group, too, heard the lights were about to go out: “I looked at Bud [Hopes] and said, ‘That will be the end of us.’ The gangs had already eyed us off. If the lights had gone out we would have been in deep trouble. We were sitting there praying for a miracle and the lights stayed on.” Mr. Hopes said the Australians owed their lives to a National Guardsman who broke the rules and got whites out to a medical center past seething crowds of blacks.
Peter McNeil of Brisbane told the Australian AP that his son John was one of the 65 who managed to get out. The blacks were reportedly so hostile “they would stab you as soon as look at you.” “He’s never been so scared in his life,” explained Mr. McNeil. “He just said they had to get out of the dark. Otherwise, another night, he said, they would have been gone.” No American newspaper wrote about what these white tourists had gone through.
When guardsmen began to show up in force on Sept. 1 and take control, some blacks met them with cheers, but others shouted obscenities at them. Capt. John Pollard of the Texas Air Force National Guard said 20,000 people were in the dome when the evacuation began, but thousands more appeared from surrounding areas when word got out that there were buses leaving town. Soldiers held their M-16s and grenade-launchers ready, and kept a sharp eye out for snipers.
That same day, when it was time to board buses for Houston, soldiers had trouble controlling the crowd. People at the back of the mob crushed the people in front against barricades the soldiers put up to contain the crowd. Many people continued to yell obscenities whenever they saw a patrol go by. Some were afraid of losing their place in line and defecated where they stood. The Army Times reported that Sgt. 1st Class Ron Dixon of the Oklahoma National Guard had recently come home from Afghanistan. He said he was struck by the fact Afghanis wanted to help themselves, but that the people of New Orleans only wanted others to help them.
Refugees at the Superdome.
By the evening of Sept. 3, the Superdome was finally evacuated, but the state-of-the-art stadium was a reeking cavern of filth, human waste, and an unknown number of corpses. It, too, had been looted of everything not bolted down. Janice Singleton was working at the stadium when the storm hit. She said she was robbed of everything she had, including her shoes. As for the building: “They tore that dome apart,” she said sadly. “They tore it down. They taking everything out of there they can take.”
If anything, conditions were worse at the Convention Center. Although on high ground not far from the stadium, it had not been designated as a shelter. It was, however, beyond reach of the high water, and soon some 20,000 people were huddled in its cavernous halls. There were no supplies or staff, and for several days neither FEMA nor the National Guard seems to have known anyone was there.
Armed gangs took control, and occasional gunshots caused panic. There was no power, and at night the center was plunged into complete darkness. Degeneracy struck almost immediately, with rapes, robbery, and murder. Terrible shrieking tore through the night, but no one could see or dared to move. When Police Chief Eddie Compass heard what was happening, he sent a squad of 88 officers to investigate. They were overwhelmed by superior forces and retreated, leaving thousands to the mercy of criminals.
It was not until Sept. 2—four days after the hurricane—that a force of 1,000 National Guardsmen finally took over from the armed gangs. “Had we gone in with a lesser force we may have been challenged, innocents may have been caught in a fight between the guard and military police and those who did not want to be processed or apprehended,” explained Lieutenant-General Blum.
Sitting with her daughter and other relatives, Trolkyn Joseph, 37, told a reporter that men had wandered the center at night raping and murdering children. She said she found a dead 14-year old girl at 5 a.m. on Friday morning, four hours after the girl went missing. “She was raped for four hours until she was dead,” Miss Joseph said through tears. “Another child, a seven-year old boy, was found raped and murdered in the kitchen freezer last night.”
Africa Brumfield, 32, explained that women were in particular fear: “There is rapes going on here. Women cannot go to the bathroom without men. They are raping them and slitting their throats.” Donald Anderson, 43, was at the convention center with his wife who was six months pregnant: “We circled the chairs like wagons because at night there are stampedes,” he said. “We had to survive.”
The very few whites in the crowd were terrified. Eighty-year-old Selma Valenti, who was with her husband, said blacks threatened to kill them on Thursday, Sept. 1. “They hated us. Four young black men told us the buses were going to come last night and pick up the elderly so they were going to kill us,” she said, sobbing. Presumably, the blacks wanted to take their places on the buses.
The center was not entirely without a form of rough justice. A National Guardsman reported that a man who had raped and killed a young girl in the bathroom was caught by the crowd—which beat him to death.
At one time there were as many as seven or eight corpses in front of the center, some of them with blood streaming from bullet wounds. Inside, there was an emergency morgue, but a National Guardsman refused to let a Reuters photographer in to take pictures. “We’re not letting anyone in there anymore,” he said. “If you want to take pictures of dead bodies, go to Iraq.” By Saturday, Sept. 3, the center was mostly cleared of the living. Refugees pulled shirts over their noses trying to block out the smell as they walked past rotting bodies.
The evacuation begins.
By the weekend, there were an estimated 50,000 soldiers and federal rescue workers in the city, but even the massive presence did not bring calm. On Sunday, Sept. 4, contractors working for the US Army Corps of Engineers came under fire. Their police escort returned fire, in what became a running gun battle. Deputy Police Chief W.J. Riley said police killed four of the attackers.
By Saturday, police had set up a temporary booking and detention center at the New Orleans train station. State Attorney General Charles Foti said there were plans for a temporary court system, but no one knew how they were going to assemble juries or call witnesses. The grim business began of combing the drowning city for corpses and the remaining survivors.
Reactions
The world reacted with astonishment to sights it never expected to see in the United States. “Anarchy in the USA,” read the headline in Britain’s best-selling newspaper, The Sun. “Apocalypse Now,” said Handelsblatt in Germany. Mario de Carvalho, a veteran Portuguese cameraman, who has covered the world’s trouble spots, said he saw the bodies of babies and old people along the highways leading out of New Orleans. “It’s a chaotic situation. It’s terrible. It’s a situation we generally see in other countries, in the Third World,” he said.
The comparison would have been insulting to some Third-Worlders. “I am absolutely disgusted,” said Sajeewa Chinthaka, 36, of the looters. The Sri Lanka native added: “After the tsunami our people, even the ones who lost everything, wanted to help the others who were suffering. Not a single tourist caught in the tsunami was mugged. Now with all this happening in the U.S. we can easily see where the civilized part of the world’s population is.”
In the United States, the stark contrast between endless scenes of appalling behavior by blacks and rescue personnel who were almost all white was greeted with the standard foolishness. Some people accused the “biased” media of suppressing footage of rampaging whites and heroic black helicopter pilots.
Most blacks made excuses for looters. “Desperate people do desperate things,” said U.S. Rep. Diane Watson of California. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., Democrat from Illinois, said we must not judge harshly: “Who are we to say what law and order should be in this unspeakable environment?” Rep. Melvin Watt, North Carolina Democrat and chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus, was perhaps the greatest ass of all: “Whatever is being taken could not be used by anyone else anyway,” he said.
Utility repair trucks on their way to New Orleans.
Many blacks took it for granted that federal relief was slow because the victims were black. Rep. Elijah Cummings said “poverty, age and skin color” determined who lived and who died. Hilary Shelton, director of the NAACP’s Washington bureau, blasted “disparate treatment” of Katrina victims. “Many black people feel that their race, their property conditions and their voting patterns have been a factor in the response,” explained Jesse Jackson, Sr. He said the rubbish outside the Convention Center made the place look “like the hull of a slave ship.” Black activist and reparations-booster Randall Robinson said the relief effort was the “defining watershed moment in America’s racial history.” He said he had “finally come to see my country for what it really is. A monstrous fraud.”
U.S. Rep. Carolyn Kilpatrick said she was “ashamed of America and … of our government.” Mayor of New Orleans, Ray Nagin shouted and wept on local radio, demanding of federal officials: “Get off your asses, and let’s do something,” (and gave city workers a vacation when the feds arrived). There was an undercurrent of fury at a meeting of black leaders in Detroit. One audience member wanted to know whether the slow federal response was “black genocide.” Another shouted, “African Americans built this nation. Descendants of slaves are being allowed to die.”
One black man, observing the chaos from abroad, took a different view. Leighton Levy wrote in the Sept. 2 Jamaica Star: “I am beginning to believe that black people, no matter where in the world they are, are cursed with a genetic predisposition to steal, murder, and create mayhem.” He wanted to know why there was no footage of white looters: “Is it that the media are not showing pictures of them looting and robbing? Or is it that they are too busy trying to stay alive, waiting to be rescued, and hiding from the blacks?”
Most blacks and many whites fell into the usual assumptions about omnipotent white government and helpless Negroes. If black people were suffering it was because whites had not done enough for them. It did not occur to them that it was the responsibility of New Orleans and the state of Louisiana—not the federal government—to prepare for hurricanes. Before the storm hit, Mayor Nagin issued a mandatory evacuation only under pressure from the Bush administration. The mayor then did nothing to enforce the order, leaving hundreds of city buses and school buses to drown rather than use them to offer transportation to people without cars.
Something of the mood of black New Orleans was caught by Fox News film crews as late as Sunday, Sept. 4. White volunteers were trying to persuade a black woman and her small children to leave her flooded house. “You’ve got to get out,” they explained. “The water isn’t going away.” A black man at the top of a multi-story building told a helicopter crew he didn’t need to leave. All he needed was some supplies.
These people could not understand something that was obvious to the whole world: New Orleans had no electricity, no plumbing, no transport, and no food. Blacks refused to leave their flooded homes, even though to stay meant near-certain death.
Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff noted how crazy it was to stay in the wreckage. “That is not a reasonable alternative,” he said. “We are not going to be able to have people sitting in houses in the city of New Orleans for weeks and months while we de-water and clean this city.”
FEMA reported that it had pulled three Carnival Cruise Lines ships from commercial duty to shelter the blacks of New Orleans. Maybe the chance of berth on the Ecstasy, the Sensation or the Holiday would be enough to drag them out of the muck.
Lessons
Ninety-nine percent of the white people left New Orleans when the evacuation order went out. Some 80,000 backs could not or would not leave. Whites did not “leave them behind,” as the editorial-writers keep telling us. No one could have gotten some of them to leave, but if it was anyone’s job to give them the option, it was that of the black-run city government. Of the blacks who stayed, probably only a minority committed crimes, but they were enough to turn the city into a hell hole. Some did unspeakable things: loot hospitals, fire on rescue teams, destroy ambulances. No amount of excuse-making and finger-pointing can paper over degeneracy like that. Black people—and only black people—did these things.
Military helicopter drops supplies.
The Superdome and the Convention Center were certainly unpleasant places to spend three or four days, but 50,000 whites would have behaved completely differently. They would have established rules, organized supplies, cared for the sick and dying. They would have organized games for children. The papers would be full of stories of selflessness and community spirit.
Natural disasters usually bring out the best in people. They help neighbors and strangers alike. For blacks—at least the lower-class blacks of New Orleans—disaster was an excuse to loot, rob, rape and kill.
Our rulers and media executives will try to turn the story of Hurricane Katrina into yet another morality tale of downtrodden blacks and heartless whites, but pandering of this kind fools fewer and fewer people. Many whites will realize—some for the first time—that we have Africa in our midst, that utterly alien Africa of road-side corpses, cruelty, and anarchy that they thought could never wash up on our shores.
Hey, if Mike Brown lied on his resume, I’ll join the chorus. HE MUST GO!!!!! You don’t lie on your resume. You are lying about you own life. The light of God illuminates all things. If all of this is true and Mike Brown is a pathological liar, I’ll give Goldy his due for pursuing this. Doesn’t change my thoughts on the NO mayur-LA guvnur mess though!
Great work Richard Pope. You surely know how to dig it up. Do you want to join the ProudAss and Puddy Internet Research Firm? It would be P Cubed – Internet Researchers!!
Puddy@12
Doesn’t change my mind either. The voters can deal with him and the govenor.
How about Bush though? This IS bad bad cronyism.
What I find really amusing is that the Repubicans and their trolls want us to believe that because the Gov. of LA screwed up, this somehow lets the Feds off the hook! There is plenty of blame to go around. They all need to be held accountable.
Sybil have you been a visitor here lately? I have been saying that all along MOONBAT! But lest you are still uninformed, I refer you to the thread “FEMA’s Brown didn’t know anything about horses, either” by Goldy, 09/07/2005, 5:13 PM. Navigate down below, entry 3. If you think FEMA did better as a cabinet position before the lefty Democrats put FEMA UNDER DHS in 2002, you have another thought coming. Please tell me you do think right sybil?
Jimmy, cronyism has been part of politics since time began. Do I agree with it? Hell no. I said that regarding Reagan Dunn on Sound Politics long ago. I am consistent. People should earn their position. But that being said, how do you think Mary “Moon” Landrieu got where she is today as senator? How do you think Guvnur Blanco got her position. Or Barbara Boxer? Politics is the land of favors and cronyism.
NUFF SAID!!!
Now this is interesting: http://www.newsmax.com/archive.....5113.shtml
Even more interesting: http://www.newsmax.com/archive.....2722.shtml – Yeah make a movie. Start in Florida around Boynton/Pompano Beach area you pompous ass. Start with their misery.
When my boyfriend of many years ago got a job at the FBI AUTO REPAIR FACILITY (!) in South Seattle they investigated him more closely than they did Brown, apparently. They even called my dad to ask if he thought there were any “issues” in regard to loyalty to the U.S. Of course, this was back in the day when we had a professional government.
Goldy-
Time may have done the extensive background check, but you’re still getting your props (about half way down).
Hello Chuck. From the commentary around the article it’s good to see another thoughtful man on this blog. Some many lily white horsesass lefties cause more problems than they claim to solve. Thanks for posting that! 10-4.
I suggest that you paste that on the Daily Kos, Think Progress, Media Matters too. See what bullshit they write about this!!!
Thank you Chuck for putting into perspective what I was saying since last week. But watch and read what asseshorse lefties say here about this article. They will say it ain’t true. Lies, Damnable lies will be said here. There will be calls you are race baiting. Good Job Chuck, I commend you!
Amazing what words get embargoed here on HA. Chuck I commend you when Goldy releases it.
24 – Hi PacMan. Your new friend Chuck just spewed an article from a WHITE-SUPREMACIST.
We need no more evidence of the utter idiocy of the wingnuts who come here to strut their “stuff”.
What kind of a heartless motherfuckers are you “chuck”.
You are a fucking racist bigot. PackMan(sic) you are just ignorant.
You asshole are just disgusting!
You know, “chuck”…I take part of that back. You have every righht to be a racist, bigotted bastard. As much as I find your attitudes expressed through your posts intolerant and reprehensible…you have EVERY RIGHT to express them. Fucker.
Which “rulers and media executives” do you think the author is referring to? The Bush Administration? The Republican Cogress? The media moguls at Fox? I will definitely check this persons credentials as a journalist because the statement I just Quoted sounds like a JBS crazy circa 1964.
re 29 , re 15
Jared Taylor is a pseudo-scientific racist.
An FBI investigation was done, that’s what the press needs to ask to see. Either it wasn’t a very complete check or it was ignored by Bush. I saw the FBI reference in the 104 page Senate document.
Good to see the left wingnuts going about their daily business, comdemning much of what Jared writes and Chuck posted in that article and supporting my people acting bad! Good for you lefties. When will you get it through you thick heads that by giving handouts to minorities it DOES NOT EMPOWER THEM. IT MAKES THEM DEPENDENT UPON YOU! Therefore they continually vote for you because they know they can count on you to give free handouts. They will continue to have fatherless babies by the dozens because they know the liberal white man will continue to give other peoples monies out in WiC, Food Stamps etc., rewarding them for laying in bed making more babies. How can you condemn me when I lived through it and improved my lot. I am the product of a divorced family. Did I cry the blues and say my parents got divorced because of the white man? No. I studied, went to college and the rest is history!
Yes, as black man I saw the article genesis. But unlike you I have friends there in the LA area. And guess what Horsesasses, almost everything Jared wrote and Chuck posted is TRUE. My people acted as savages. My people raped and pillaged. My peoplekilled indiscriminately. My people shot at rescue helicopters forcing FEMA to revise their rescue tactics. My people destroyed the Superdome. Ever been there? I have.
So clueless and rujax decide to come out and decry Jared and Chuck. What are you doing to try and change anything? NOTHING! Allyou do is say GBW screwed up. No FEMA could not do their job for many reasons. Now that you are seeing some of the reasons you want to shoot the messenger. I for one don’t like the messenger but the message I received through back channels and overseas newspapers (read them stupid lefties) supports so of what happened. I haven’t had a chance to verify if the names are really true because I do have a day job. But the looting, rapings and shootings did occur. Many blacks interviewed reported this on MSNBC, NBC CNN, ABC, you know your favorite channels since you all hate Fox News.
So in closing do you want to whitewash that Mayur Nagin dumbed down the police requirements? That’s been known for years. Why do you think the police look the other way when people flash in NO? Public nidity diisplays are normally illegal in many cities. Not NO. Nagin’s predecessor and his cabinet has outstanding indictments on them. You see I look at life through different glasses. As a black man, I have to be purer than the driven snow. Why? Lefties will say I only got this because of affirmative action. Yes it’s not the conservatives who say this to my face it’s the lefties. Also you side will critically look at what I say to see if I know my topic. So I have to be 500% better than my white counterpart in every thing I do, touch or say.
Lefties My comment should be #33 when the sandbox releases it. I have serious work to do. Rujax, no not ignorant. You read my response in #33.
And Loocy, you wasting school time again? Seattle schools have a budget crisis and you are wasting precious time with your BS?
PacMan
I like the fact that they try to dismiss alot of info by RP, definitely not a lefty on this board, as ‘leftist spin’.
Is anyone looking at resume’s of other Bush apointee’s?
Wow the left wing moonbats are out in force. Even Loocy appeared. Amazing how lefties support thuggery of the first kind on this blog site and cry racism when blacks are caught raping, looting, pillaging and shooting on camera or as told by eye witnesses! You all make my day efveryday with these two-faced rants. GBW is at fault for these people’s behavior but the Democrats who controlled LA & NO since the 30s Huey Long are given a pass on keeping these people poor and indigent. Amazing written actions lefties!!!
The Superdome and the Convention Center were certainly unpleasant places to spend three or four days, but 50,000 whites would have behaved completely differently. They would have established rules, organized supplies, cared for the sick and dying. They would have organized games for children. The papers would be full of stories of selflessness and community spirit.
I am so appalled at this utter filth. Let’s shift the emphasis a bit. Let’s look at man-made disasters.
Like WWII and Iraq. Any dark-skinned faces there?
Hey windie: I didn’t dismiss what RPope wrote here. You must be seeing things not visible to others.
Yah, but didn’t Mike do a great job of slashing the tires on the 500 now semi-submerged buses in New Orleans. Isn’t it reasonable to charge Mike with multiple counts of manslaughter for every person who drowned in New Orleans. Mike and Mike alone was responsible for those buses not being used to evacuate at least 50,000 of the poor, elderly and infirm from the New Orleans flood waters.
windie @ 34
‘I like the fact that they try to dismiss alot of info by RP..’
Are you sure that you are reading the comments?
Puddy, nowonder:
In reference to
“Semms to me…if any of this is true (I pretty buch write everything here off as typical lib spin)……”
by your friend the chuckster.
Seems pretty clear to me, ladies!
Spam filtered again!
Isn’t Mike Brown solely responsible for 500 buses not being used to evacuate the poor, elderly and infirm from New Orleans BEFORE the hurricane hit?
#
“Semms to me…if any of this is true (I pretty buch write everything here off as typical lib spin) that the democrats once again were sleeping on the job while Brown was appointed head of FEMA…”
I think he was refering to this Puddy… and Chuck should take that racist shit somewhere else. And if you approve of it you can go with him.
I also really like the double logic (?) in Chucks post above. None of this is true because it is all ‘lib’ spin… lol, remember we are the ‘reality-based’ community. You guys are the ones who make up reality. I’ll grant you, the latter has proven much more effective in elections but lets not confuse facts here.
And then it gets better! If Bush really is guilty of stacking the most important emergency response agency with a bunch of incompetent, unqualified, lying hacks, then it is the Democrats fault! Man, maybe I should try that ‘make-you-own-reality’ thing. Must be some good shit!
Jesus, its BUSSES BUSSES BUSSES with you folks! That all ya got?
Chuck @ 15:
“Something I found, not sure if it is too long, also I am curious as to th truth of this (racial overtones to the side). Has anyone heard of this?”
You give disingenuousness a bad name. It’s a testament to Goldy’s spirit of liberal tolerance that such execrable nonsense can be posted. How can you put “racial overtones to the side”? The whole thing is a vile racist screed worthy of David Duke. I suspect that it’s no accident that no source is given.
windie-
These trolls are like the stupidest dog you ever met. They grab on to a piece of minutia and hang on for dear life, beat it into the ground and finally make any meaning it had irrelevant. From the election trial to now…that is s.o.p. for this bunch of morons.
I ‘d like to say they are the dumbest trolls I see, but the behavior is the same on other blog comments. They ALL come in with points blazing and are taken down and taken apart by a simple recitation of FACT. Which they then refuse to acknowledge.
In the end facts mean nothing in their little fantasy based universe. The world is the way they see it because…well…IT IS!…that’s it…game over…done…Rush said so…Rummy…Bush…Perle…Wolfovitz…Rove…some white supremecist freak…Ward Connerly…Who-the-Fuck-ever flaming wingnut flavor of the week.
I’ve been hearting this crap for 40 years. Same shit, different wrapper. Only now, they OWN it. They have the control they’ve always wanted. They’ve got two branches of government…most of the media…a lot of the courts…and it’s all on them now. And look at how well it’s going. Disaster and incompetance and lies and spin everywhere they go. No big surprise. This bunch will fuck up a wet dream.
Too bad…they are really ruining a great country.
Hey PackAss…fuck you in advance for your “comment”.
In reading it, it follows what all good propaganda has. Kernels of truth, peppered with exaggerated or outright false incidents.
However, would it surprise anyone that there were rapes committed in the Superdome? That murders occurred? That these activities also occurred outside the dome?
The mere fact that the majority of the populace of New Orleans is black has little to do with the thuggery that I’ve heard first hand (I have acquaintances in that area, it makes for some very distressing and sickening phone calls, as they relate what they’ve seen). There does seem to be a disproportionate amount of violence occurring, irrespective of the looting. That the black faces on television are being capitalized on by white supremicists shouldn’t be a shock to anybody. One could say that the economic conditions are a factor, but I never really believed the dumbed down root argument that poor = evil.
I really don’t know what the fuck to make of it. I find it difficult to grasp that this kind of anarchy can occur in the US. There is something very ugly in that city, beyond the mistakes made by an inept Governor, a foolish mayor and the High Retard of FEMA.
Wow, in the effort to support their cause, the wingnuts are down to quoting white supremist.
Back on subject, for those wingnuts who have been quoting the Washington Post:
“But experts inside and out of government said a “brain drain” of experienced disaster hands throughout the agency, hastened in part by the appointment of leaders without backgrounds in emergency management, has weakened the agency’s ability to respond to natural disasters.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/.....rrer=email
Also check out this photo from the post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/.....9-09/5.htm (note, I hand wrote that, so it might not work, the photo is linked in the above story).
And there is this:
“All of which brings us to the bigger problem confronting Mr. Bush: his administration’s shortcomings in preparing for and responding to Katrina. City and state officials have their own sins to answer for, but that doesn’t let the feds off the hook. Some key disaster response personnel, most notably Mr. Brown, were evidently unqualified; the president deserves blame for entrusting them with such key positions. He sought to cut funds for the protection of New Orleans’s levees. The administration’s early response to the disaster was, as Mr. Bush himself said, “unacceptable.””
http://www.washingtonpost.com/.....01943.html
But that is not all, let’s check out USA Today:
“But there’s another side to Bush. He can seem detached and unaware of the messages conveyed by his words and conduct. Bush decided to see Katrina’s destruction for the first time from his jumbo jet and joked on his first trip to the disaster zone about youthful partying in New Orleans. He didn’t cancel his vacation until two days after Katrina struck and didn’t visit the region until four days after the storm. It’s not the first time that side of the president has been visible. He taped a video for a 2004 black-tie dinner showing him hunting under White House furniture for Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction as the death toll there mounted.”
http://www.usatoday.com/news/n.....sion_x.htm
Or this:
“But a deeper review of the agency’s history, the records of its top managers and internal memoranda reveal far deeper problems than a momentary burst of poor decisions. Over the past four years, the Bush administration has replaced competent leaders with people long on political connections but short on disaster management expertise. At the same time, the war on terrorism has drained the agency’s resources and reduced its effectiveness.”
http://www.usatoday.com/printe.....08.art.htm
Not enough, try this little nugget from Scarborough Country:
“We begin with Harry Truman who famously declared that the buck always stops at the president’s desk. For those who now define the term conservative as unwavering support for George W. Bush, even this suggestion is maddening.
But the bottom line is that despite the fact the president was strapped with two governors who bungled this crisis badly, in the end it is the president who sends in the National Guard and FEMA relief.”
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8791344/#050905a
Did Govenors Blanco or Barbur do everything they should have? Surely not. Both could have acted better. However, did either of them run claiming they could keep the country safe, and their opponent could not? I highly doubt it.
Further, whatever incompetence was shown by Govenors Blanco and Barbur, that is an issues for the citizens of their states. The incompetence shown by the President and those he appointed, that is an issue for the rest of us. After all, if and when a disaster hits here, it is not Hailey Barbur that I will be looking to for help.
Jared Taylor is a racist and not a journalist.
While waiting for one post to come through embargo, let’s turn to the good news for the day:
“President Bush’s job approval was at 39 percent, the first time it has dipped below 40 percent since AP-Ipsos began measuring public approval of Bush in December 2003.
Just over half, 52 percent, disapprove of Bush’s handling of hurricane relief.”
http://customwire.ap.org/dynam.....9-09-51-15
So much for that 13% number you wingnuts keep batting around. Heck, I don’t blame Bush for the Hurricane; I do blame him for not caring about Homeland security enough to appoint competent people or to stop his vacation, then again, Nero fiddled….
And, further proof that there is justice:
“A grand jury in Texas indicted yesterday a state political action committee organized by House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) for accepting $120,000 in allegedly illegal corporate campaign contributions shortly before and after the 2002 elections that helped Republicans cement their control of the House of Representatives.”
“http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/08/AR2005090800973.html?referrer=email&referrer=email
So my last comment is in limbo. I guess Goldy will broom it out when he gets a chance.
However, for those who want a little more info on Mr. Taylor, this is a good link.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05023/446341.stm
chuck, lucy et al..
the article seemed well written, who is jared taylor and/or is he the author, and/or why the character assasisination…typical lib ploy when confronted w/ opposing view.
that’s how the word “borked” came about; libs engaging in political/character assasination.
47-
Yeah…like “swiftboating”, asshole.
Windie @ 41
YOU DAMNED RIGHT!
If the IDIOTS in the LA and NO government would have evacuated NO as a precaution as they did in Florida, the death would have been minimal and rather than a humaitarian catashrophe Katrina would have been a property damage disaster.
Your DESPIRATION to blame President Bush is driving you INSANE!
windie @ 39
‘Seems pretty clear to me, ladies!’
You need to read to the end of the sentence:
‘…that the democrats once again were sleeping on the job while Brown was appointed head of FEMA.’
This sounds more like an indictment of Brown, no?
Then I saw Puddybud @ 16
‘Hey, if Mike Brown lied on his resume, I’ll join the chorus. HE MUST GO!!!!!’
So, must you make up stuff?
Read ’em and weep:
(Via Daily Kos)
AP/Ipsos (PDF). 9/6-8. MoE 3% (8/1-3 results)
Overall, do you approve, disapprove or have mixed feelings about the way George W. Bush is handling his job as President?
Strongly Approve 20 (23)
Somewhat Approve 11 (10)
Lean Toward Approval 8 (9)
Lean Toward Disapproval 14 (13)
Somewhat Disapprove 5 (5)
Strongly Disapprove 40 (38)
Total
Approve 39 (42)
Disapprove 59 (55)
JC Bob, hate to tell you this, they did evacuate New Orleans. And if Miami ever got hit as hard as New Orleans did, you would see the same result.
Thankfully, the people aren’t fooled by the wingnuts on this one. The Bushies are one lie over the line on this one:
“The American public is highly critical of President Bush’s handling of Hurricane Katrina relief efforts. Two-in-three Americans (67%) believe he could have done more to speed up relief efforts, while just 28% think he did all he could to get them going quickly. At the same time, Bush’s overall job approval rating has slipped to 40% and his disapproval rating has climbed to 52%, among the highest for his presidency. Uncharacteristically, the president’s ratings have slipped the most among his core constituents Republicans and conservatives. ”
http://people-press.org/report.....portID=255
For a good round up of Bush’s sinking polls, check this out:
http://blatherwatch.blogs.com/
49-
YOUR’RE the one that’s nuts, bubba.
Any one who believes captian codpiece, chickenshit-in-chief anymore is really off their rocker.
Righton,
Follow the link at 26, or look here:
http://www.splcenter.org/intel.....sp?pid=215
to find out more about the charming Mr. Taylor. Neither he nor Bork were subject to character assasination; their own words were damning enough. Looks like Taylor has plenty of bedsheets w/which to hang himself.
Its reaching at BEST, bobby boy. Hindsight is always 20/20, and your striving to say “Not just Bush!” is remarkably transparent. Come back when you want to actually discuss things instead of retyping the messages from your secret masters.
47-
“Your DESPIRATION to blame President Bush is driving you INSANE!”
C’mon now…you have a word misspelled in your rant…try to guess which one and correct, please. Thank you.
See…home schooling is not so good!
43 – rujax – that is a comment for the ages. A cold one on me at the next DL.
47 – wrong one. That article was a grammatically correct piece of racist filth. You are not only a “wrong one”, you are a “dumb one”. Forget about coming to a DL – live in your bubble – you are VERY comfortable there.
Brown has been recalled to Washington, apparently so they can award him the Medal of Freedom.
FtC-
Thx…you’re on.
One down – who’s next?
http://www.breitbart.com/news/.....SA5G0.html
Also, Goldy’s source misquoted their source.
http://www.edmondsun.com/artic...../front.txt
Sorry Bush, not good enough, if he’s still head of FEMA, God, forbid if you have another disaster the imbecile’s still running FEMA.
You have to fact-check every statement by these righties. Even their excuses are lies. ie.: “I’m sorry about the error, but it was because of this erroneous article written by a ‘minority person.’ You ought to like that ,Headless.” This is a from a quote from RIGHTON , the liar. There was no article in the PICAYUNE that said anything resembling what you said it did. So, you lied about when and who declared New Orleans a disaster and when your lie was exposed you lied about the source of the lie. You mislead people into hating the people who want to help them and trusting the people who want to harm them. You are so twisted and sick you make me ill. AND JARED TAYLOR IS AN IGNORANT RACIST AND SO IS ANYONE WHO AGREES WITH HIM.
You know packass, if I was a neeegro in 2005 amerika I’d be sucking up to every right winger I could find. The way they’re handing money out to ANYONE willing to TOM their bullshit…hell, you’ll have major bank in no time. Good goin’.
Smart fella. Who knew?
@14
Nice try at trying to deflect GOP malfeasance, misfeasance, and evilfeasance to Democrats, Chuck, but that dog won’t hunt.
@50
“I really don’t know what the fuck to make of it. I find it difficult to grasp that this kind of anarchy can occur in the US. There is something very ugly in that city, beyond the mistakes made by an inept Governor, a foolish mayor and the High Retard of FEMA.”
It’s simple — when man returns to nature, i.e., when there is no government, man is an animal and behaves like other animals in the wild.
Doesn’t matter if the face is white, black, brown, red, or yellow. Humanity’s nature is the same everywhere.
Civilization, law and order, property rights — these things exist only because of government, and can’t exist without government.
Wrong Again @5
If you think that’s “well written,” you’re saying worlds about yourself, Wrongy.
Oops that should be “55” not “5” — dried strawberry jam is stuck under the 5 key …
Typicaldipshit: You don’t know me. You don’t know what I paths I’ve trod. You have no idea what it is to be black. Screw you dipshit. You are your best enemy!!!
So Wabbit @73, I agree with the post of lowest common denominator. But why does your side give a pass to this behaviour?
PacMan: I don’t care how many facts a filthy racist spews – he’s still a racist and any idiot could see his agenda shining right through that screed.
You don’t get ANY sympathy from me when your first instinct is to cheerlead for the “team” rather than condemn the hateful filth of Jared Taylor which is what you did in 25.
You have a right to be conservative and I have no problem with principled conservatives who put some thought into what they believe in but..
when you act like a fool expect to be called on it.
I think it would be prudent to investigate the resumes of other Bush appointments. I would start with the people who rapidly advanced through the hierarchy from innocuous low level positions. I also believe whoever was in charge of fact checking and vetting the background of Michael Brown should be called on the carpet for their incompetence. It would be good to find out if this non-vetting is endemic to this administration.
how would we go about researching Chertoff, then? I dunno where to start :p
Hey puddybuddy you know the definition of a true buddy is? He a guy who goes out and gets a couple of blowjobs and comes back and gives you one.
Chuck is your name Charles? If so, why the hell would you refer to yourself as Chuck? Wait you’re not one of those poor yokels whose parents gave them a nickname as a given name like Billy or Bob or even worse Billy Bob? Did you know that Charles the proper name for Chuck is rooted in the Old German “Karl” as in Karl Marx. Karl means “free man” of course then the British derivative of Karl is Churl it means “serf”. There are an enormous number of variants of Charles. Carel, Carl, Carlo, Carlos, Carroll, Cary, Chad, Charley, Charlie, Charly, Charlton,
Chas, Chaz, Chic, Chip, Curley, and Cale just to name a few. You chose Chuck like Woodchuck or drill chuck or Hey! chuck that shit over there! Then there is all the Rhyming words like duck, fuck, guck, muck, suck. I don’t know why you would name your self Chuck. I think after reading your posts that the English Churl is more your style as in churlish (chûrlsh)
adj. 1. Of, like, or befitting a churl; boorish or vulgar.
2. Having a bad disposition; surly: “as valiant as the lion, churlish as the bear” (Shakespeare).
3. Difficult to work with, such as soil; intractable
80
yer funy…. ahher ahher… dam yer funi
re 76: You’re not black.
RUJAX @ 48 Well said.
Unfortunately, “They have the control they’ve always wanted. They’ve got two branches of government…most of the media…a lot of the courts…and it’s all on them now”
But no matter what happens, they will still blame it on Clinton. The Best Republican President for the past 50 years.
Gosh packy, I’m just sayin’.
#1
Yeah Pope…like anybody in that administration gives a shit about truth…or consequences.
My nickname is Pete :)