Religions > Atheism > Re: Why is everyone so furious with George Bush about Katrina?
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12 Sep 2005 09:04:35 PM |
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Re: Why is everyone so furious with George Bush about Katrina? |
<Matt Osborn> wrote in message news:v5tbi1pdn6oghiipmaldbsrhptcfda2hcr@4ax.com...
On Mon, 12 Sep 2005 05:27:00 GMT, "The Tutor" <Tutors@aol.com> wrote:
Why did FEMA chief Michael Brown get the boot then?
Politics is the only reason I could find. FEMA stocked the Superdome
with food and water before the hurricane struck and after the
hurricane struck. Louisiana's contribution was limited to throwing
road blocks into the path of the American Red Cross.
Politics? Which political entity would that be? Where did you find that reason?
Anyone else agree with this?
By all reports, FEMA responded to this disaster than they have to any
other disaster in their history.
All reports? Check the latest Newsweek for just one of many different views.
(If you would like to make a point, it would help to specify HOW you claim
they responded. I'm guessing you wanted to claim faster.)
-- msosborn at msosborn dot com
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12 Sep 2005 09:44:21 PM |
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In <TsqVe.31105$ih4.27955@fe02.lga>, "The Tutor" <Tutors@aol.com> wrote:
<Matt Osborn> wrote in message
news:v5tbi1pdn6oghiipmaldbsrhptcfda2hcr@4ax.com...
On Mon, 12 Sep 2005 05:27:00 GMT, "The Tutor" <Tutors@aol.com> wrote:
Why did FEMA chief Michael Brown get the boot then?
Politics is the only reason I could find. FEMA stocked the Superdome
with food and water before the hurricane struck and after the hurricane
struck. Louisiana's contribution was limited to throwing road blocks
into the path of the American Red Cross.
Politics? Which political entity would that be? Where did you find that
reason? Anyone else agree with this?
Not to mention FEMA apparently stocked the Dome with *invisible supplies
nobody else could see...
--
Mark K. Bilbo
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"We're angry, Mr. President, and we'll be angry long
after our beloved city and surrounding parishes have
been pumped dry. Our people deserved rescuing.
Many who could have been were not. That's to the
government's shame."
http://makeashorterlink.com/?F2D511CBB
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| User: "Matt Osborn" |
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| Title: Re: Why is everyone so furious with George Bush about Katrina? |
12 Sep 2005 10:26:26 PM |
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On Mon, 12 Sep 2005 21:44:21 -0500, "Mark K. Bilbo"
<alt-atheism@org.webmaster> wrote:
In <TsqVe.31105$ih4.27955@fe02.lga>, "The Tutor" <Tutors@aol.com> wrote:
<Matt Osborn> wrote in message
news:v5tbi1pdn6oghiipmaldbsrhptcfda2hcr@4ax.com...
On Mon, 12 Sep 2005 05:27:00 GMT, "The Tutor" <Tutors@aol.com> wrote:
Why did FEMA chief Michael Brown get the boot then?
Politics is the only reason I could find. FEMA stocked the Superdome
with food and water before the hurricane struck and after the hurricane
struck. Louisiana's contribution was limited to throwing road blocks
into the path of the American Red Cross.
Politics? Which political entity would that be? Where did you find that
reason? Anyone else agree with this?
Not to mention FEMA apparently stocked the Dome with *invisible supplies
nobody else could see...
"At the Superdome, city officials reckoned that 9,000 people had
arrived by evening to ride out the storm. FEMA had sent seven trailers
full of food and water -- enough, it estimated, to supply two days of
food for as many as 22,000 people and three days of water for 30,000.
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/10/AR2005091001529_5.html>
"Even so, he said relief crews delivered seven trailers filled with
water and ready-to-eat meals to the Superdome before the storm hit on
Aug. 29, along with another seven trailers on Aug. 30.
<http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/08/politics/08chertoff.html?ei=5090&en=373053edcb4fff05&ex=1283832000&adxnnl=1&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&adxnnlx=1126182417-fXi4vRtafGCy/xuouKwtfw>
When they got hungry, there was not the beer-and-hot dog fare served
up at Saints football games. More than 10,000 refugees from Katrina
dined on the same instant meals as U.S. soldiers in Iraq, fitting
because it was soldiers who were watching over them now."
<http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1479803/posts>
Most refugees are given two 9-ounce bottles of water a day and two
boxed meals: spaghetti, Thai chicken or jambalaya.
<http://www.dailypress.com/la-na-superdome1sep01,0,7150062.story?track=mostemailedlink>
Invisible? Only to those who will not see.
-- msosborn at msosborn dot com
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| User: "JTEM" |
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13 Sep 2005 01:17:45 AM |
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<Matt Osborn> wrote
"At the Superdome, city officials reckoned that 9,000
people had arrived by evening to ride out the storm.
FEMA had sent seven trailers full of food and water
-- enough, it estimated, to supply two days of food
for as many as 22,000 people and three days of water
for 30,000.
Wow. That story is more cooked than even some of
Bush's war & "intel" reports.
AMTRAK said -- way back on the 5th -- that they had
offered FEMA a train and that FEMA had rejected
them. Now we have your story, dated the 10th, and
suddenly the story is different. Yup. Now it's the Mayor
of New Orleans who turned down the train.
Nagin was himself dumbstruck by the suggestion that
AMTRAK had contacted him. He flat out states that
he never once spoke to them on this subject. The story
here makes no mention of this fact, or the fact that
AMTRAK was reporting that it was FEMA they had
talked to, only five days earlier.
The story also claims that Bush was on top of the
situation, and even joined FEMA via video conferencing
on a daily basis for briefs.
If that is true, doesn't that mean Bush is retarded? After
all, the man said that nobody could imagine that the
Levees would fail.
Yet the whole point of the evacuations which he was
being briefed on was to protect people from a levee
failure.
If this story is the least bit accurate, if you take it the
least bit serious, you'd have to conclude that Bush is
a retard.
Honestly. What other explanation fits?
And, heck, even what you quote -- that FEMA sent
all kinds of food & water -- is deceptive. It never
makes the claim that it actually arrived at it's destination,
so it's not technically a lie by Republican standards, but
the fact remains that it didn't. It didn't arrive. They may
have sent it (and I highly doubt that), but it didn't arrive.
And the story also states that National Weather Service
reported the levees breached a little after 8am on
Monday, yet the head of the department of Homeland
Security himself -- "Browny's" boss -- went on TV and
said that he believed the levees were still intact on
Tuesday morning.
Story says levees break on Monday -- Bush administration
woke up Tuesday believing that the levees were intact.
Again, there is no explanation for this other than mental
retardation.
what other reason would the Bush administration have
for going out of it's way, bending over backwards to
make themselves look like criminal incompetents?
Why would Bush and his cabinet members go on TV
and say such blatantly ignorant things, enraging the
American public, if they knew for a fact none of it was
true?
There is one explanation that does fit, other than Bush
and his cabinet all being a drooling bunch of retards.
And that's that the story is cooked, that it's *****, that
it's a whitewashing of events.
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| User: "Mark K. Bilbo" |
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13 Sep 2005 06:53:45 AM |
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In <Sr6dnZ_VJsQ18bveRVn-pA@comcast.com>, "JTEM" <gymraven@hotmail.com>
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And, heck, even what you quote -- that FEMA sent all kinds of food & water
-- is deceptive. It never makes the claim that it actually arrived at it's
destination, so it's not technically a lie by Republican standards, but
the fact remains that it didn't. It didn't arrive. They may have sent it
(and I highly doubt that), but it didn't arrive.
Oh some did. Maybe enough to sustain people through a day or so.
Then FEMA wandered off picking its collective nose and wasn't seen for
days...
--
Mark K. Bilbo
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"We're angry, Mr. President, and we'll be angry long
after our beloved city and surrounding parishes have
been pumped dry. Our people deserved rescuing.
Many who could have been were not. That's to the
government's shame."
http://makeashorterlink.com/?F2D511CBB
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| User: "JTEM" |
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13 Sep 2005 10:35:03 AM |
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"Mark K. Bilbo" <alt-atheism@org.webmaster> wrote
"JTEM" <gymraven@hotmail.com> wrote:
And, heck, even what you quote -- that FEMA sent all kinds
of food & water -- is deceptive. It never makes the claim
that it actually arrived at it's destination, so it's not
technically a lie by Republican standards, but the fact
remains that it didn't. It didn't arrive. They may have sent it
(and I highly doubt that), but it didn't arrive.
Oh some did. Maybe enough to sustain people through a day or so.
It's interesting that there was media at the Superdome from the
begining. John Stewart even had one network news jocky who
had rode things out from inside. And of all the media -- including
Fox "news" -- not one got on the air and reported truckloads of
FEMA aid. Not one pointed this out to the victims. Shepard Smith
barely holding back tears & a fit of anger at the lack of any food
and water? Sure. But did he ever once point to the truckloads of
FEMA aid and suggest people start digging into it?
The story is cooked.
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| User: "Mark K. Bilbo" |
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13 Sep 2005 11:07:44 AM |
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In <UeudnRT7c7yicrveRVn-oA@comcast.com>, "JTEM" <gymraven@hotmail.com>
wrote:
"Mark K. Bilbo" <alt-atheism@org.webmaster> wrote
"JTEM" <gymraven@hotmail.com> wrote:
And, heck, even what you quote -- that FEMA sent all kinds of food &
water -- is deceptive. It never makes the claim that it actually
arrived at it's destination, so it's not technically a lie by
Republican standards, but the fact remains that it didn't. It didn't
arrive. They may have sent it (and I highly doubt that), but it didn't
arrive.
Oh some did. Maybe enough to sustain people through a day or so.
It's interesting that there was media at the Superdome from the begining.
John Stewart even had one network news jocky who had rode things out from
inside. And of all the media -- including Fox "news" -- not one got on the
air and reported truckloads of FEMA aid. Not one pointed this out to the
victims. Shepard Smith barely holding back tears & a fit of anger at the
lack of any food and water? Sure. But did he ever once point to the
truckloads of FEMA aid and suggest people start digging into it?
The story is cooked.
Wouldn't surprise me at all. I know *our National Guard got some food and
water to the Dome. Whether FEMA actually supplied them or not, I can't say.
But you're right. The reporters and their camera crews didn't seem to
be able to see all this "help" FEMA was allegedly supplying.
Interesting thing, the Washington Post story one of the idiots "cited"
contains numerous accounts of FEMA being asked for help and FEMA making
promises but then *nothing* showed up.
I do know in the aftermath of the storm, President Brussard said he saw
*one* person from FEMA. And that was in Baton Rogue. Not in Jeff parish.
Michael "What's a horse look like anyway?" Brown kept issuing press
releases about what was being done. Just nobody actually in the disaster
area *saw any of the things he said were happening.
To this day, I haven't seen FEMA anywhere around here. And the people in
St. Bernard are *still waiting.
Oh and everybody says if you try to call the number FEMA passed out,
nobody answers...
--
Mark K. Bilbo
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"We're angry, Mr. President, and we'll be angry long
after our beloved city and surrounding parishes have
been pumped dry. Our people deserved rescuing.
Many who could have been were not. That's to the
government's shame."
http://makeashorterlink.com/?F2D511CBB
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| User: "Nigel Brooks" |
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13 Sep 2005 11:41:54 AM |
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"Mark K. Bilbo" <alt-atheism@org.webmaster> wrote in message
news:B5adnba4upPJZLvenZ2dnUVZ_smdnZ2d@megapath.net...
To this day, I haven't seen FEMA anywhere around here. And the people in
St. Bernard are *still waiting.
Oh and everybody says if you try to call the number FEMA passed out,
nobody answers...
In that case why don't you provide some assistance to those folks? You
could act as a go-between and register them online seeing as how your
internet service was not disrupted.
http://www.fema.gov/register.shtm
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Nigel Brooks
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| User: "Kate " |
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15 Sep 2005 09:07:02 AM |
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On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 11:07:44 -0500, "Mark K. Bilbo"
<alt-atheism@org.webmaster> wrote:
In <UeudnRT7c7yicrveRVn-oA@comcast.com>, "JTEM" <gymraven@hotmail.com>
wrote:
"Mark K. Bilbo" <alt-atheism@org.webmaster> wrote
"JTEM" <gymraven@hotmail.com> wrote:
And, heck, even what you quote -- that FEMA sent all kinds of food &
water -- is deceptive. It never makes the claim that it actually
arrived at it's destination, so it's not technically a lie by
Republican standards, but the fact remains that it didn't. It didn't
arrive. They may have sent it (and I highly doubt that), but it didn't
arrive.
Oh some did. Maybe enough to sustain people through a day or so.
It's interesting that there was media at the Superdome from the begining.
John Stewart even had one network news jocky who had rode things out from
inside. And of all the media -- including Fox "news" -- not one got on the
air and reported truckloads of FEMA aid. Not one pointed this out to the
victims. Shepard Smith barely holding back tears & a fit of anger at the
lack of any food and water? Sure. But did he ever once point to the
truckloads of FEMA aid and suggest people start digging into it?
The story is cooked.
Wouldn't surprise me at all. I know *our National Guard got some food and
water to the Dome. Whether FEMA actually supplied them or not, I can't say.
But you're right. The reporters and their camera crews didn't seem to
be able to see all this "help" FEMA was allegedly supplying.
Interesting thing, the Washington Post story one of the idiots "cited"
contains numerous accounts of FEMA being asked for help and FEMA making
promises but then *nothing* showed up.
I do know in the aftermath of the storm, President Brussard said he saw
*one* person from FEMA. And that was in Baton Rogue. Not in Jeff parish.
Michael "What's a horse look like anyway?" Brown kept issuing press
releases about what was being done. Just nobody actually in the disaster
area *saw any of the things he said were happening.
To this day, I haven't seen FEMA anywhere around here. And the people in
St. Bernard are *still waiting.
Oh and everybody says if you try to call the number FEMA passed out,
nobody answers...
From what I understand, there's a recording that says everyone there
is busy and then it hangs up on you.
Now there's a tactic sure to calm people and encourage them to have
patience.
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| User: "Mark K. Bilbo" |
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15 Sep 2005 11:22:10 AM |
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In <43887f80.661671718@news-west.newscene.com>, (Kate
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On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 11:07:44 -0500, "Mark K. Bilbo"
<alt-atheism@org.webmaster> wrote:
In <UeudnRT7c7yicrveRVn-oA@comcast.com>, "JTEM" <gymraven@hotmail.com>
wrote:
"Mark K. Bilbo" <alt-atheism@org.webmaster> wrote
"JTEM" <gymraven@hotmail.com> wrote:
And, heck, even what you quote -- that FEMA sent all kinds of food &
water -- is deceptive. It never makes the claim that it actually
arrived at it's destination, so it's not technically a lie by
Republican standards, but the fact remains that it didn't. It didn't
arrive. They may have sent it (and I highly doubt that), but it
didn't arrive.
Oh some did. Maybe enough to sustain people through a day or so.
It's interesting that there was media at the Superdome from the
begining. John Stewart even had one network news jocky who had rode
things out from inside. And of all the media -- including Fox "news" --
not one got on the air and reported truckloads of FEMA aid. Not one
pointed this out to the victims. Shepard Smith barely holding back
tears & a fit of anger at the lack of any food and water? Sure. But did
he ever once point to the truckloads of FEMA aid and suggest people
start digging into it?
The story is cooked.
Wouldn't surprise me at all. I know *our National Guard got some food and
water to the Dome. Whether FEMA actually supplied them or not, I can't
say.
But you're right. The reporters and their camera crews didn't seem to be
able to see all this "help" FEMA was allegedly supplying.
Interesting thing, the Washington Post story one of the idiots "cited"
contains numerous accounts of FEMA being asked for help and FEMA making
promises but then *nothing* showed up.
I do know in the aftermath of the storm, President Brussard said he saw
*one* person from FEMA. And that was in Baton Rogue. Not in Jeff parish.
Michael "What's a horse look like anyway?" Brown kept issuing press
releases about what was being done. Just nobody actually in the disaster
area *saw any of the things he said were happening.
To this day, I haven't seen FEMA anywhere around here. And the people in
St. Bernard are *still waiting.
Oh and everybody says if you try to call the number FEMA passed out,
nobody answers...
From what I understand, there's a recording that says everyone there is
busy and then it hangs up on you.
Now there's a tactic sure to calm people and encourage them to have
patience.
I read one guy tried until 2:30 in the morning. Finally got through. First
thing they wanted was his insurance information.
Like everything else FEMA is doing, they insisted on paperwork.
His house was totally gone by the way. He said he just broke down crying
and gave up.
--
Mark K. Bilbo
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"We're angry, Mr. President, and we'll be angry long
after our beloved city and surrounding parishes have
been pumped dry. Our people deserved rescuing.
Many who could have been were not. That's to the
government's shame."
http://makeashorterlink.com/?F2D511CBB
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| User: "Nigel Brooks" |
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15 Sep 2005 12:47:11 PM |
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"Mark K. Bilbo" <alt-atheism@org.webmaster> wrote in message
news:H7idneEClJEuArTeRVn-rQ@megapath.net...
In <43887f80.661671718@news-west.newscene.com>, (Kate
) wrote:
On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 11:07:44 -0500, "Mark K. Bilbo"
<alt-atheism@org.webmaster> wrote:
In <UeudnRT7c7yicrveRVn-oA@comcast.com>, "JTEM" <gymraven@hotmail.com>
wrote:
"Mark K. Bilbo" <alt-atheism@org.webmaster> wrote
"JTEM" <gymraven@hotmail.com> wrote:
And, heck, even what you quote -- that FEMA sent all kinds of food &
water -- is deceptive. It never makes the claim that it actually
arrived at it's destination, so it's not technically a lie by
Republican standards, but the fact remains that it didn't. It didn't
arrive. They may have sent it (and I highly doubt that), but it
didn't arrive.
Oh some did. Maybe enough to sustain people through a day or so.
It's interesting that there was media at the Superdome from the
begining. John Stewart even had one network news jocky who had rode
things out from inside. And of all the media -- including Fox "news" --
not one got on the air and reported truckloads of FEMA aid. Not one
pointed this out to the victims. Shepard Smith barely holding back
tears & a fit of anger at the lack of any food and water? Sure. But did
he ever once point to the truckloads of FEMA aid and suggest people
start digging into it?
The story is cooked.
Wouldn't surprise me at all. I know *our National Guard got some food and
water to the Dome. Whether FEMA actually supplied them or not, I can't
say.
But you're right. The reporters and their camera crews didn't seem to be
able to see all this "help" FEMA was allegedly supplying.
Interesting thing, the Washington Post story one of the idiots "cited"
contains numerous accounts of FEMA being asked for help and FEMA making
promises but then *nothing* showed up.
I do know in the aftermath of the storm, President Brussard said he saw
*one* person from FEMA. And that was in Baton Rogue. Not in Jeff parish.
Michael "What's a horse look like anyway?" Brown kept issuing press
releases about what was being done. Just nobody actually in the disaster
area *saw any of the things he said were happening.
To this day, I haven't seen FEMA anywhere around here. And the people in
St. Bernard are *still waiting.
Oh and everybody says if you try to call the number FEMA passed out,
nobody answers...
From what I understand, there's a recording that says everyone there is
busy and then it hangs up on you.
Now there's a tactic sure to calm people and encourage them to have
patience.
I read one guy tried until 2:30 in the morning. Finally got through. First
thing they wanted was his insurance information.
The fact that the FEMA phone lines are manned at 2:30 am is pretty
impressive. But I say again - you apparently have internet access - why
don't you volunteer to help by filing for assistance on line for those
folks?
Do you have a problem with FEMA protecting the taxpayer by ensuring that
those who get aid are in fact qualified? Do you have a problem with your
government making sure that no-one double dips and gets reimbursed from the
public purse and gets the same thing from their insurance company?
Like everything else FEMA is doing, they insisted on paperwork.
And if they didn't, and just handed out cash to whoever asked for it, you'd
be screaming for their heads and complaining that folks who already had
insurance were getting money they weren't entitled to.
His house was totally gone by the way. He said he just broke down crying
and gave up.
How about posting the link to what you read?
Mark K. Bilbo
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"We're angry, Mr. President, and we'll be angry long
after our beloved city and surrounding parishes have
been pumped dry. Our people deserved rescuing.
Many who could have been were not. That's to the
government's shame."
But perhaps if the mayor had utilized the municipal and school buses to get
them out it wouldn't have been so bad!!!
Nigel Brooks
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| User: "Matt Osborn" |
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13 Sep 2005 04:35:57 PM |
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On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 02:17:45 -0400, "JTEM" <gymraven@hotmail.com>
wrote:
<Matt Osborn> wrote
"At the Superdome, city officials reckoned that 9,000
people had arrived by evening to ride out the storm.
FEMA had sent seven trailers full of food and water
-- enough, it estimated, to supply two days of food
for as many as 22,000 people and three days of water
for 30,000.
Wow. That story is more cooked than even some of
Bush's war & "intel" reports.
AMTRAK said -- way back on the 5th -- that they had
offered FEMA a train and that FEMA had rejected
them. Now we have your story, dated the 10th, and
suddenly the story is different. Yup. Now it's the Mayor
of New Orleans who turned down the train.
Nagin was himself dumbstruck by the suggestion that
AMTRAK had contacted him. He flat out states that
he never once spoke to them on this subject. The story
here makes no mention of this fact, or the fact that
AMTRAK was reporting that it was FEMA they had
talked to, only five days earlier.
The story also claims that Bush was on top of the
situation, and even joined FEMA via video conferencing
on a daily basis for briefs.
If that is true, doesn't that mean Bush is retarded? After
all, the man said that nobody could imagine that the
Levees would fail.
Yet the whole point of the evacuations which he was
being briefed on was to protect people from a levee
failure.
If this story is the least bit accurate, if you take it the
least bit serious, you'd have to conclude that Bush is
a retard.
Honestly. What other explanation fits?
And, heck, even what you quote -- that FEMA sent
all kinds of food & water -- is deceptive. It never
makes the claim that it actually arrived at it's destination,
so it's not technically a lie by Republican standards, but
the fact remains that it didn't. It didn't arrive. They may
have sent it (and I highly doubt that), but it didn't arrive.
Had you actually opened the links, you would have found the media
describing the MREs and the water that FEMA delivered. I'll post the
links again for your convenience.
"When they got hungry, there was not the beer-and-hot dog fare served
up at Saints football games. More than 10,000 refugees from Katrina
dined on the same instant meals as U.S. soldiers in Iraq, fitting
because it was soldiers who were watching over them now."
<http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1479803/posts>
"Most refugees are given two 9-ounce bottles of water a day and two
boxed meals: spaghetti, Thai chicken or jambalaya."
<http://www.dailypress.com/la-na-superdome1sep01,0,7150062.story?track=mostemailedlink>
And the story also states that National Weather Service
reported the levees breached a little after 8am on
Monday, yet the head of the department of Homeland
Security himself -- "Browny's" boss -- went on TV and
said that he believed the levees were still intact on
Tuesday morning.
Sounds to me as though Louisiana was having a tough time reporting
what was happening. Louisiana didn't report the Convention Center
either.
-- msosborn at msosborn dot com
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| User: "Matt Osborn" |
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12 Sep 2005 11:01:43 PM |
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On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 02:04:35 GMT, "The Tutor" <Tutors@aol.com> wrote:
<Matt Osborn> wrote in message news:v5tbi1pdn6oghiipmaldbsrhptcfda2hcr@4ax.com...
On Mon, 12 Sep 2005 05:27:00 GMT, "The Tutor" <Tutors@aol.com> wrote:
Why did FEMA chief Michael Brown get the boot then?
Politics is the only reason I could find. FEMA stocked the Superdome
with food and water before the hurricane struck and after the
hurricane struck. Louisiana's contribution was limited to throwing
road blocks into the path of the American Red Cross.
Politics? Which political entity would that be? Where did you find that reason?
Anyone else agree with this?
The Republicans canned Brown because he was drawing heat. Just like
Bush and Roberts ran away from the Federalist Society when Roberts
appeared on a member list.
By all reports, FEMA responded to this disaster than they have to any
other disaster in their history.
All reports? Check the latest Newsweek for just one of many different views.
(If you would like to make a point, it would help to specify HOW you claim
they responded. I'm guessing you wanted to claim faster.)
Newsweek is a bit populist rag that appeals to emotions. It's writing
is a bit sensationalist for my taste.
If you wish to learn what the standard is rather than what the media
thinks it should be, read this.
<http://www.dhs.gov/interweb/assetlibrary/NRP_FullText.pdf>
I've quoted Appendix 5 so you don't have to read the whole thing.
Appendix 5
Overview of Initial Federal Involvement Under the Stafford Act
This overview illustrates actions Federal agencies likely will take to
assist State and local governments that are overwhelmed by a major
disaster or emergency. Key operational components that could be
activated include the Interagency Incident Management Group (IIMG),
National Response Coordination Center (NRCC), Regional
Response Coordination Center (RRCC), Emergency Response Team–Advance
Element (ERT-A), National Emergency Response Team (ERT-N), Joint Field
Office (JFO), and Disaster Recovery Center (DRC).
1. The Department of Homeland Security Homeland
Security Operations Center (DHS HSOC)
continually monitors potential major disasters and
emergencies. When advance warning is possible,
DHS may deploy and may request other Federal
agencies to deploy liaison officers and personnel to
a State Emergency Operations Center (EOC) to
assess the emerging situation. An RRCC may be
activated, fully or partially. Facilities, such as
mobilization centers, may be established to
accommodate personnel, equipment, and supplies.
2. Immediately after an incident, local jurisdictions
respond using available resources and notify State
response elements. As information emerges, they
also assess the situation and the need for State
assistance. The State reviews the situation,
mobilizes State resources, and informs the
DHS/EPR/FEMA Regional Office of actions taken.
The Governor activates the State emergency
operations plan, proclaims or declares a state of
emergency, and requests a State/DHS joint
Preliminary Damage Assessment (PDA) to
determine if sufficient damage has occurred to
justify a request for a Presidential declaration of a
major disaster or emergency. Based upon the
results of the PDA, the Governor may request a
Presidential declaration and defines the kind of
Federal assistance needed. At this point, an initial
assessment is also conducted of losses avoided
based on previous mitigation efforts.
3. After the major disaster or emergency declaration, an
RRCC, staffed by regional personnel, coordinates
initial regional and field activities such as deployment
of an ERT-A. The ERT-A assesses the impact of the
event, gauges immediate State needs, and makes
preliminary arrangements to set up operational field
facilities. (If regional resources appear to be
overwhelmed or if the event has potentially significant
consequences, DHS may deploy an ERT-N.)
4. Depending on the scope and impact of the event,
the NRCC, comprised of Emergency Support
Function (ESF) representatives and DHS/EPR/FEMA
support staff, carries out initial activation and
mission assignment operations and supports the
RRCC from DHS/EPR/FEMA.
5. A Federal Coordinating Officer (FCO), appointed by
the Secretary of Homeland Security on behalf of the
President, coordinates Federal support activities. The
FCO works with the State Coordinating Officer
(SCO) to identify requirements. A Principal Federal
Official (PFO) also may be designated as the
Secretary’s representative to coordinate overall
Federal interagency incident management efforts.
6. The ERT works with the affected State and conducts
field operations from the JFO. ESF primary
agencies assess the situation and identify
requirements and help States respond effectively.
Federal agencies provide resources under
DHS/EPR/FEMA mission assignment or their own
authority.
7. The IIMG convenes when needed to provide
strategic-level coordination and frame courses of
action regarding various operational and policy
issues. The HSOC supports the IIMG and
coordinates with the JFO.
8. Teleregistration activates a toll-free telephone
number individuals can call to apply for disaster
assistance. A toll-free disaster helpline is established
to answer common questions. One or more DRCs
may be opened where individuals can obtain
information about disaster assistance, advice, and
counsel. Individual applicants are processed at the
DHS/EPR/FEMA National Processing Center.
Inspectors verify losses and provide documentation
used to determine the types of disaster assistance to
be granted to individuals and families.
-- msosborn at msosborn dot com
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