Sick and tired of the idiocy!
OMG ... I sweartacrap I have just about HAD it with the insane rantings about how all the death and destruction in the Gulf region is ALL George Bush's fault! Garrr!! It is the most asinine, deranged, uninformed, ignorant load of crap I have heard in a long time! So the hell what if you hate Bush?!? I ain't particularly crazy about a lot of his politics myself, but at least I can see the FACTS and assign what fault there it where is rightfully belongs.UPDATE: You want facts? Here are the facts ... Katrina: Response Timeline. Now STFU and go donate something to a relief fund.
As I was saying ...
Global warming is causing a greater number of stronger hurricanes .... this has been thoroughly debunked by a number of scientific experts. Hurricanes have a 30-40 year cycle in which they will be greater in number and strength, then taper off to mere nuisances for a couple of decades. Take a look at this hurricane tracker. Go to the storm archive, then back to the mid-60s. In 1964, four hurricanes struck the US ... Cleo hit the Keys with 100+ mph winds. Dora hit north Florida with winds of 115 mph. Hilda struck just west of New Orleans and her winds were 115 mph. Isbell landed in southern Florida with winds of 126 mph. In 1965, Betsy followed a very similar path as Katrina, just before hitting west of New Orleans, her winds were 155 mph. In 1967, Beulah arrived in Brownsville, TX with winds at 166 mph. 1969, the year of the infamous Camille, had 13 named storms. Forty years previous, we had four hurricanes make landfall in 1926. Were these all Bush's fault too? Global warming? Not hardly ... get a grip people.
Katrina struck on a Monday. The levees gave way and the floods began Tuesday. That evening, Governer Blanco (finally!) made the formal request for federal intervention. National Guard troops began arriving Wednesday, in massive force on Thursday. WTF was Bush supposed to do? Circumvent the Constitution and laws regarding Posse Comitus and send them in before blubbering Blanco finally made the request? The looney left would be screaming for his head on a pike ... oh wait, they already are. Just the same as their bitching about him being in Utah while Katrina was ravaging the Gulf states, if he had canceled the conference on Social Security, they'd be screaming that he was ignoring the needs of the elderly and poor. Oh wait ... they already are.
Just what the hell do you idiots want? You don't freakin KNOW, do you? You just want to rant about how evil Bush is. You have NO answers, no better solutions, no alternative plans. Ya'll need a nice warm glass of STFU, ya know?
I love ... just love the ranting about Condi Rice shopping for shoes that week. What. The. Hell? Hello, idjits ... she is the Secretary of STATE. She deals with matters relating to OTHER countries, you know, foreigners? Diplomacy and all that? Domestic matters are not her domain. Now if she had made haste to the disaster areas, we be hearing screaming about how she is just getting in the way, can't really do anything to help, needs to get back to Washington, blah, blah, blah ..... STFU already.
This was a racist thing? Oh give me a freakin BREAK already! The population of New Orleans is 80% black. The people in the Superdome were 80% black. Wow ... that boggles the mind. Demographics ... go figure. As has been pointed out elsewhere, those who suffered the most were the poor. New Orleans has a huge population of poor, and I would bet a majority of those have many generations in poverty ... and on the dole. The welfare state ... the welfare state of MIND contributed to the suffering and deaths of the poor more than anything else. Many of those people have become so accustomed to depending on the government for everything, their response to the evacuation orders and the days following the floods fell right in line with this.
There are stories of groups of people stranded in NOLA who took the initiative and control of their situation, found a place to shelter, obtained food and water and cooperated as a group to survive. And survive they did, quite comfortably, given the circumstances, BECAUSE they helped themselves. One fellow described a scene at the Superdome where a woman was whining that she couldn't get any of the water that had been brought in. There weren't enough Red Cross workers available to hand it out. It didn't cross her mind that perhaps she and some others could volunteer to help out and get the water distributed. Nope ... da gum'int always done everything for her, so she just sat there and bitched because they failed to do so then. Pathetic!
Read down a couple posts ... "The Mayor of New Orleans is a blithering idiot" ... you want to screech about incompetence killing people and making them suffer? There ya go. Have at it. Ray "What disaster and evacuation plan?"Nagin has blood on his hands. If it is too un-PC to scream at a black Democrat, you can have at the blubbering Governor "I didn't know I had to call for federal aid" Blanco . No ... that won't work either. She's a woman ... and a Democrat. Can't lay blame where it needs to be else we become racist and/or sexist. Oh, and of course, Democrats can never do any wrong, right? It's always a Republican's fault ... must be.
Here's a homework assignment for you ... get out your history books and look up Hurricanes Andrew, Floyd and Hugo. The question for you is: how long did it take for a federal response after each of these disasters? Now, look up the FEMA guidelines. How many days are local and state governments expected to handle the initial disaster response before they can expect the arrival of federal relief? Have a copy of the Constitution handy? Great ... now tell me, under what circumstances can the President of the United States deploy National Guard troops into a state? When were those circumstances met in the Katrina disaster for a) Louisiana, b) Mississippi and c) Alabama?
Neatness and spelling count. Please pass your papers to the front when you are done. Class dismissed.
Posted by LissaKay on 09/13/05 at 09:42 PM in
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During my training years, it was drilled into us endlessly that the very first question we ask upon arrival on a scene is, Is it Safe? If it ain't safe to go in, don't. If the rescuers get hurt, who is going to do the rescuing? Blanco ordered the LA NG to ignore the looters and focus on search and rescue. *buzzt* Wrong answer, darlin. The looters saw the uniforms and took the offensive. The NG had to retreat because Blanco refused to give the order to allow them to shoot. They couldn't mount an effective S&R effort while dodging bullets, now could they? If they had been allowed to quell the looters and bring order to the streets, they could then have undertaken the S&R more quickly and efficiently.
Triage seems an ugly concept, but it is the only right answer. In MCIs (mass casualty incidents) the dying must be overlooked so that those who have a chance at survival can receive the care they need. The walking wounded come last, no matter how they whine. I noted triage tags in several news segments. I also noted that the ones bitching the loudest were tagged green. STFU and help ... or just STFU.
I was saddened to hear the Bush chose the shoulder all the blame for the cluster fuck in NOLA. For the last four and a half years, Bush has been the whipping boy of the media and the Democrats. He's taken his licks and moved on, with head held high, never flinging accusations back in return, even when justified. I had hoped this time, when the evidence is so strong that the root of the failures in NOLA lies at the feet of Mayor Nagin and Gov Blanco, he would step up and call a spade a spade, or at least tell 'em to STFU. Heh.
I'm thinkin' that DHS, FEMA and all the state EMAs would be much better off if they were managed by a bunch of medics, firefighters and cops. We stare chaos in the eye and laugh. Then we get to work, and git 'er done.
Damn ... this should have been another post. Ah well ... maybe I'll move it tomorrow. I got a sweater to knit.
Posted by LissaKay on 09/15 at 02:28 AM