More horror from Katrina

[bill]

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/12/30/131417/53

cross posted from DKos because it's too unbelieveble.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

1. It's hard, hard work protecting the American people, uhuh... this is

hard work at its best..

Golfing

Licking cake frosting off his fingers

Strumming a guitar

Giving a propaganda speech in San Diego comparing Iraq to WWII and himself to FDR

Flying 2,000 feet overhead

Dragging his feet - sitting on his LAZY ASS - for FIVE LONG DAYS, while he and his gov't were in a state of PARALYSIS

Telling that horse's ass, 'Brownie you're doing a heck of a job'

Engaging in a pissing match with the Governor of Louisiana

Playing the Blame Game to try to pin his own inaction and negligence on everyone else

Finally - Taking full responsibility for the federal government failure to save people like Mr Hollingsworth ( Will Mr Bush receive consequences for his deadly inaction ? WILL HE ? )

[AuntiBush]

19. Shopping for Designer Shoes & Taking-In Broadway Shows, too.

Condisleezie nights, which we all know protects Americans oh so much especially during times of major, catastrophic disasters! </sarcasm>

[Jeffersons Ghost]

24. and most of all

Please don't forget that His Royal Majesty announced that he would allocate no federal relief, right after the storm but instead call on the "private sector" to rebuild the Big Easy... You might say, Congress made him a liar but I believe he was a liar already.

[tavalon]

2. Okay, guys, we're heading into a weekend

This post will drop to the bottom of the ocean and be seen by far fewer than it should. Let's get this one on the greatest page.

[EFerrari]

3. kick

[Greyhound]

4. K & R

:kick:

[malaise]

5. Unbelievable

is the only word to use here.

[Hubert Flottz]

6. Conservative "MORALITY" on parade!

Damn!

[Fleshdancer]

7. I would have gone insane

Could you imagine your entire family trying to escape and suddenly your 3 year old just disappears in the water? Or having to collect the bones of your own mother for a proper burial because her body was left on a roof for 4 months? As an American, I've grown up with the arrogance to truly believe something as horrible as the Katrina aftermath could never, would never happen in my country. And yet here we are.

[in_cog_ni_to]

8. Anderson Cooper had the brothers on his show the other night.

What a sad and SHAMEFUL story! They stopped the search of bodies in Oct., Oct. 2nd, I think. Governor Blanco was asked WHO ORDERED THE STOP for body searches and SHE DIDN'T KNOW!!!????? WTF is up with THAT? This is just sickening. This is AMERICA people! You are "officially" on your own should you be involved in a natural disaster. Don't expect a DAMN THING from your fascist fucked up government.

My heart goes out to this family and ALL families who were involved in this horrendous disaster.

[annabanana]

9. After all this time..

and after listening to the blow-drys on TV tell us their fluffy little stories of recovery and rebuilding (with a little heart-felt sniff about how hard it is and that there is "much to be done"), and letting America sink back into it's cotton batten cocoon of la-la-la..

We are jarred back into the bloody reality of what we have allowed to go undone in our name. Hell has no corner vile enough.

[bettyellen]

10. ...

[politicat]

11. I have no words.

Just when I thought I couldn't be stunned or shocked anymore....

[Mabus]

20. All I can muster is tears

Welcome to George Bush's America.

[Nothing Without Hope]

12. Also: this NYT project with about 1/4 of the officially accepted deaths

from Katrina showed that almost all of them DIED AFTER THE HURRICANE, NOT FROM THE STORM ITSELF. Their blood is on Bush's hands.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x5632930
thread title (11/19 GD): NYT reports study of Katrina dead - MOST DIED AFTER THE STORM

And it's crystal clear that the Bush Administration tried to use the hurricanes as an enabling event to seize power and begin martial law:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4790112
thread title (9/16 GD): Missing A KEY POINT in *'s speech: POWER GRAB FOR POTUS AND MILITARY

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x5518358
thread title (12/4 GD): WP:Documents Highlight Bush-Blanco Standoff(Vitter carried Rove's message)

[mirandapriestly]

13. One of the comments sums it up:

"A government (4.00 / 52)

that actively prevents people from carrying out basic civilizing impulses, while it feigns to stand for family and life"


by Miss Devore on Fri Dec 30, 2005 at 11:17:55 AM PDT

[bvar22]

14. Is there an Active Katrina Death Count anywhere?

The Media stopped reporting Katrina Deaths right after the toll topped 1000.
The story at KOS says that family members found the body of their grandmother 4 months after the storm (aug28th), which would put the discovery in late December (now). How many other bodys have been found, and is there an official tally?

If you count the 1000 killed AFTER Katrina with the over 2000 Americans killed in Iraq, the Republicans have killed more Americans than Al-Qaeda!

[Tigress DEM]

21. Isn't the group doing the recovery the one that put bodies in the woods...

for wild pigs to find in Florida so they could keep taking money to bury people?

It was an old post and I don't remember much about it, but I doubt if there will ever be an accurate count.

[Kurovski]

15. K&R

Incredible.

[EuroObserver]

16. This doesn't sound right.

There will surely now have to take place a lengthy and (for the complainants) expensive bureaucratic procedure in the course of which it will be proven, by default and without any reasonable doubt, that there is absolutely no reason to add this casualty to the list of Katrina dead and/or still missing.

So old news.

Happy new year (hitting right now in mainland europe). Ugh.

[earth mom]

17. Thanks for posting this since I never go to KOS these days.

KOS ticked me off when they slurred anyone who wanted to discuss "conspiracy theory" topics. Like the obvious MIHOP/LIHOP of 9/11. Apparently discussing Katrina is okay because we all "saw it on T.V". :eyes: As far as I'm concerned, Katrina = 9/11 and 9/11 = Katrina. Same Same. Interesting how actual news footage and first person accounts about Katrina are believed because people actually saw what was REALLY going on in NOLA/The Gulf for a couple of weeks. Meanwhile everything about 9/11 was and has been swept under the carpet even when people tell THE TRUTH about it! They are slurred and called tinfoil wearers or liars. :grr:

IMNSHO, ALL anyone has to do is look what the BFEE did during Katrina to know beyond a shadow of a doubt that they were somehow responsible for 9/11 too! The BFEE benefited from 9/11 too damn well for it to be anything but something they had their fingers in!

I can never forget what happened during Katrina or 9/11! :cry:

:rant:

[EuroObserver]

18. We will not forget.

Now is the winter of our discontent
Made glorious by this sun of York;
And all the clouds that lour'd upon our house
In the deep bosom of the ocean buried...

[Gemini Cat]

22. kick

[fearnobush]

23. Son finds body in rubble - The Times Picayune

Where is the Outrage?

<http://www.nola.com/neworleans/t-p/index.ssf?/base/news-4/1135926751299960.xml>

Son finds body in rubble
He had watched mother die on roof
Friday, December 30, 2005
By Walt Philbin
Staff writer

A Lower 9th Ward man who saw his mother die on the roof of their home as Hurricane Katrina's floodwaters rose in their neighborhood, returned Thursday and found their house collapsed and her skeletal remains in the rubble, police said.

The body was tentatively identified by police as Joyce Green, after her son found her remains in the debris outside their home about 3:30 p.m. in the 1600 block of Tennessee Street, said officer Juan Barnes, a police spokesman.

Her son, whose name wasn't released by police, told police he and another relative had taken refuge on the roof of the home with his mother after the Industrial Canal levee broke, police said.

He told police his mother died before he and the other relative were rescued and evacuated from New Orleans.

After returning to New Orleans, the son told police that he went to the home Thursday and found his mother's remains. The grieving son said he recognized her body from the clothes she was wearing at the time she died.

An autopsy will be done at the coroner's office at St. Gabriel to obtain a positive identification, Barnes said.

[ninkasi]

25. At this time of year...

when people reflect on the last year, and contemplate the new one, I have something to say. If I only thought of myself, and my own life, I'm doing fine. My husband and I own our home, our car and truck, and our only bills are insurance and utilities. We have insurance coverage, for medical and prescriptions. By all accepted standards, we should be happy and thankful.

I am thankful, believe me, for our good fortune...but IT IS NOT ENOUGH!!!! My fellow Americans don't all own homes, or have paid for trucks and cars, and many have credit card debt. They do NOT have health insurance. They do NOT have the same things my husband and I have.

I can not enjoy the blessings my husband and I have, because so many lack the same things. They do not lack these things because my husband and I are in any way superior to them, or better than them, or are any more deserving of things. We have these things because I worked for over 25 years for a company which was unionized. Fact. Period.

Republicans try to make it about moral superiority, but when I was looking for a job so many, many years ago, there were jobs I might have accepted, had they been offered, but which would not have provided the same benefits. Am I morally superior because the small firms passed me up, and a large company, with a union, hired me? That was the luck of the draw, not any moral superiority on my part.

The ones who are so very,very better than the rest of us now...was it their goodness, and piety that placed them in this position, or just the way fate dealt the cards? Speaking for myself, it was not any of my decisions that put me in the place I am today, but circumstances that at the time dictated my actions. I can be honest, and admit that having health insurance, and the admittedly minimum, but sufficient, standard of living we have, was not of my doing, but of the cards fate dealt me.

So if I, who am at the bottom of the economic ladder, but doing okay because of insurance, can feel so much compassion for the ones who have nothing, how much more should the wealthy "compassionate conservatives", who get more in tax BREAKS than I earn in 8 or 9 years, be doing? Why borrow money to give tax beaks to the ones who need it least?

We saw the effects of Katrina unfold on television. My husband and I watched, in horror, as a major city and it's citizens were abandoned. We watched the Gulf Coast being destroyed, while the so-called leader of our country ate cake, and pretended to play a guitar. If those of us who are vulnerable to major illness, or some other catastrophe to put us out on the streets, or at death's door for lack of medical care...how can any of us enjoy what we have? We are all in this together.

We need to come together, as a nation, to fight Bush, and his cronies, and all the others who will destroy us without a backward glance, in order to amass another penny or two into their own hordes of wealth. Let us come together, America, for the good of us all, not for the good of a select few.

[orleans]

26. i saw the story on cable--can't remember what show

but it was absolutely disgraceful and tragic.