DUmmies on Katrina: Bush MIHOP; minorities being oppressed; etc.

Posted Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 6:15 pm
"cthrumatrix" offers us We need "one dot connected for MIHOP" New Orleans disaster & impeachment.

"MIHOP" stands for "made it happen on purpose". The case for MIHOP consists of four points:

1. "Bush received a 2001 national disaster update." One of those concerned NOLA.

2. A 2004 report to Bush covered what a major hurricane would do to NOLA.

3. "Bush cut funding to New Orleans and hurrican planning by 80%"

4. CIA weather control using HAARP and "Tesla technology".

Now, the first three probably happened, even if some of the details are a mite off. But, as proof that not all DUmmies are completely insane, most dismiss #4 as tinfoil hat time.

Returning to slightly more sane race-baiting and victimization territory, the DUmmies offer us "Are Minorities getting the short end of the stick in NO" and "white evacuees/black refugees".

Finally, "CrackpotAmerica" spares no rhetorical florish in "Our Nation Is In Great Danger":
In the wake of this disaster, we are all bearing witness to the competence of our nation’s institutional response. I am afraid that this response is less helpful than it is indicative of the gross incompetence and arrogance of our President’s agenda. Further, those private institutions that have received great benefit over the past six years are serving to remove their facade of charity and compassion by their meager offerings to this devastated landscape.

The immense consequence of the President's quest to cut funding to FEMA coupled with his complete disregard for any tangible plan for emergency preparedness will now be experienced by our entire nation. Yet, there is no mention of it thus far in the mainstream.

The President in his great narcissism has not walked a single yard of this broken soil since the storm has passed. As people scrambled upward in their homes to save their very lives, the President opted to enjoy a sliver of sweetly frosted cake on a sunny tarmac and attend a town hall meeting to discuss matters of no relevance to the immediate crisis.

While the Coast Guard worked to chop holes out of roofs to save men and women in their potential last moments, the President opted to commemorate Japan’s surrender, strumming a guitar with a boyish posture.
In the not too distant past, "liberals" would have concentrated on leading the humanitarian effort. Now, they've simply been reduced to one small step above jabbering street people.

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ConservativeKiller (not verified)

Thu, 09/01/2005 - 05:39

Well, If you cant blame all that "Junk Science"..

Ahem...

Here is a quote from an article originally published on June 8, 2004 in the Times-Picayune:

For the first time in 37 years, federal budget cuts have all but stopped major work on the New Orleans area's east bank hurricane levees, a complex network of concrete walls, metal gates and giant earthen berms that won't be finished for at least another decade.

"I guess people look around and think there's a complete system in place, that we're just out here trying to put icing on the cake," said Mervin Morehiser, who manages the "Lake Pontchartrain and vicinity" levee project for the Army Corps of Engineers. "And we aren't saying that the sky is falling, but people should know that this is a work in progress, and there's more important work yet to do before there is a complete system in place."

...

"I can't tell you exactly what that could mean this hurricane season if we get a major storm," Naomi said. "It would depend on the path and speed of the storm, the angle that it hits us.

"But I can tell you that we would be better off if the levees were raised, . . . and I think it's important and only fair that those people who live behind the levee know the status of these projects."

...

The Bush administration's proposed fiscal 2005 budget includes only $3.9 million for the east bank hurricane project. Congress likely will increase that amount, although last year it bumped up the administration's $3 million proposal only to $5.5 million.

"I needed $11 million this year, and I got $5.5 million," Naomi said. "I need $22.5 million next year to do everything that needs doing, and the first $4.5 million of that will go to pay four contractors who couldn't get paid this year."

And here is an excerpt from May of this year:

In the event of a slow-moving Category 4 or Category 5 hurricane (with winds up to or exceeding 155 miles per hour), it's possible that only those crow's nests would remain above the water level. Such a storm, plowing over the lake, could generate a 20-foot surge that would easily overwhelm the levees of New Orleans, which only protect against a hybrid Category 2 or Category 3 storm (with winds up to about 110 miles per hour and a storm surge up to 12 feet). Soon the geographical "bowl" of the Crescent City would fill up with the waters of the lake, leaving those unable to evacuate with little option but to cluster on rooftops -- terrain they would have to share with hungry rats, fire ants, nutria, snakes, and perhaps alligators. The water itself would become a festering stew of sewage, gasoline, refinery chemicals, and debris.

"I don't think anyone anticipated the breach of the levees." GWB.

Probably true -He doesent know shit.

Quack.