Interesting read, yet again

Vexo · Post by **Vexo** » Wed 28 Sep, 2005 5:53 pm

http://www.thinkprogress.org/katrina-timeline

Angelsheart · Post by **Angelsheart** » Thu 29 Sep, 2005 11:35 pm

wow very interesting culture

heres one for the brits
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,16 ... 62,00.html

Korvaac · Post by **Korvaac** » Fri 30 Sep, 2005 12:59 am

I am not sure if anyone has said this but I must say that the relief efforts of Hurricane Katrina has made me ashamed of calling myself an American (of course there has been MANY times that I have come close to saying that).

Dont get me wrong I love my country and serve it proudly through the good and the dumb things that this country has done. To be honest, no one in the upper government gave a fuk about those people (>>>>>>>> PRES BUSH). I am just glad that it was a low death toll than what they were expecting. I saw that it was estimated to be 10s of thousands that may have died but the count is just over 1000 (still sad). A couple of weekends ago, CNN was doing a 48+ hour campaign to re-unite over 800 straded children who were some how separated from their families. The new story now is that the New Orleans Police were looting and I just found out about the rapes that were happening in the Louisana Superdome.

I have friends and family in Texas and they told me about Hurricane Rita. They told me that over 1.4 million people in and around Houston, TX were evacuated. Now Houston is a 2 hour drive from San Antonio, TX and it took folks over 12hours (with inbound I10E closed down and leading from Houston) to get to San Antonio. That is 6 lanes of traffic and the reason why it took so long, people ran out of gas in the middle of the highway.

I usually do not talk about religion, politics or anything controvertial.
But I looked that the link in this post and just saw RED. Sorry for the rambling folks.

Post by **Thoraf** » Fri 30 Sep, 2005 10:08 am

That said I think that high ranking officials are only as good as their informants. it should have been brought to the corect persons attention a lot earlier than it was.

What really annoys me is the wasting of resources for photo shoots to try and make the president etc look better. fuck looking good. get something DONE.

Angelsheart · Post by **Angelsheart** » Fri 30 Sep, 2005 10:47 am

New Orleans .. well bush reaction to that was just too slow.

As for Houston, even with 6 lanes of traffic, theres still a lot of cars and one breakdown can stop more than 3 lanes of traffic to a crawl. Most likely the bottlenecks are the exits

Turook · Post by **Turook** » Fri 30 Sep, 2005 12:26 pm

Can anyone see Bush getting re-elected, uhuh.

Golgolath · Post by **Golgolath** » Fri 30 Sep, 2005 1:23 pm

Well, considering his second term is up and there's legally no way he could be reelected....sort of doubt it....

Vexo · Post by **Vexo** » Fri 30 Sep, 2005 3:20 pm

Turook, such a funny man

Mazia · Post by **Mazia** » Fri 30 Sep, 2005 3:46 pm

Who is still amazed he got in in the first place? Then again Arnold is the man after all. Or then again Jessy.....

Vexo · Post by **Vexo** » Fri 30 Sep, 2005 4:13 pm

At least the porn star who ran for it, didn't win.

Sandelin · Post by **Sandelin** » Fri 30 Sep, 2005 4:19 pm

OMG don't even get me started.... on either of them... as for Arnold though just goes to show you how fked up Californians are... sad thing is 2 years out and he is already starting his re-election campaign... hopefully California will look to the White House for guidence and see how fked up second terms can turn out...

Okies... done... that was more than I wanted to say...

Golgolath · Post by **Golgolath** » Fri 30 Sep, 2005 4:33 pm

Gol for president

Turook · Post by **Turook** » Fri 30 Sep, 2005 4:42 pm

Presidents don't eat pizza mate.

Sianni · Post by **Sianni** » Fri 30 Sep, 2005 9:14 pm

What on earth makes you think that?

They don't eat pizza EVERY NIGHT though

Melodionxxx · Post by **Melodionxxx** » Mon 03 Oct, 2005 12:26 pm

If Gol became President...

The phrase "that dress" would gain new meaning again.

At least make sure you wash it eh Gol!

MeloxXx

Sandelin · Post by **Sandelin** » Mon 03 Oct, 2005 5:04 pm

And shave your pits

Golgolath · Post by **Golgolath** » Mon 03 Oct, 2005 7:03 pm

I need the traction San

Golgolath · Post by **Golgolath** » Mon 03 Oct, 2005 8:46 pm

Also, gives a nice feel when when bagpiping

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