This past Tuesday, while people in Louisiana and Mississippi struggled just to stay alive, waiting for food, water, and help of any kind that wasn't even yet on the way, what was president George W. Bush doing?

He was playing guitar. In Colorado. [SOURCE].

Yes, his guitar has a presidential seal on it. How cute. I wonder if he calls it Guitar One? I call it a fucking disgrace.

I want to be shocked by the president's misplaced priorities, but how can I be? After all, this is the same president who was A.W.O.L. on the morning of September 11th, 2001. It's the same George W. Bush who sat and read the story "My Pet Goat" with a classroom full of kids even after his aides informed him that the United States Of America was under attack.

Somehow, he got away with it. He claimed to be setting an example of calmness... and the ignorant masses bought it.

Here we are, four years later. Catastrophe strikes America again. But... what's this? "George? Anybody seen George? Helloooooo....?"

When his country needed him the most, where was the president?

Here's where he was.

...Playing guitar.
...Sharing cake.
...Hanging out at his ranch in Crawford.

Come on people! Don't fall for it twice. After all... what's that thing they say in Texas?

"Fool me once, shame on.... shame on you. Ya fool me, can't get fooled again."

- George W. Bush

[SOURCE]

There's a damn good reason why food, water, and military support is only now just beginning to arrive in New Orleans - four days after Hurricane Katrina struck.

The reason is inept leadership.

In time, we will come to find that thousands of people lost their lives because help didn't arrive in time. The question is: will the majority of the American people fall for excuses again?

With every passing moment, the story of New Orleans just keeps getting worse.

George Bush took us into Iraq with shock and awe. Why aren't we going into New Orleans with even more gusto?

Where is the food?
Where is the water?
Where is the help?
Why were plans not put in place last weekend?
Why hasn't every single available resource already been deployed by now?

Homeland Security my ass.

September first looks an awful lot like September twelfth to me.

AROUND THE REGION

CONSTRUCTION

Halliburton hired for storm cleanup

Halliburton subsidiary KBR will also perform damage assessments at other naval installations in New Orleans as soon as it is safe to do so.

KBR was assigned the work under a "construction capabilities" contract awarded in 2004 after a competitive bidding process. The company is not involved in the Army Corps of Engineers' effort to repair New Orleans' levees.

http://neworleans.indymedia.org/news/2005/09/4126.php

GOVERNMENT MASSACRE IN NEW ORLEANS!!!
by Observer Saturday, Sep. 03, 2005 at 8:37 AM

KING GEORGE LEADS GOVERNMENT MASSACRE OF THE POOR AND STARVING

Bush has declared war on New Orleans. His troops are brainwashed they are fighting an insurgency against a starving, desperate underclass!

GREEN LIGHT - "They have M-16s and they're locked and loaded," Governor Kathleen Blanco said of 300 National Guard troops who landed in New Orleans fresh from duty in Iraq. "These TROOPS KNOW HOW TO SHOOT AND KILL, and they are MORE THAN WILLING TO DO SO, and I expect they will."

RACIST URBAN BATTLE - “This place is going to look like LITTLE SOMALIA,” Brig. Gen. Gary Jones, commander of the Louisiana National Guard’s Joint Task Force told Army Times Friday as hundreds of armed troops under his charge prepared to launch a massive citywide security mission from a staging area outside the Louisiana Superdome. “We’re going to go out and take this city back. This will be a COMBAT OPERATION to get this city under control.”

EXTERMINATE THE STARVING - "While some fight the INSURGENCY in the city, others carry on with rescue and evacuation operations."

SOMALIA?! COMBAT OPERATIONS?! INSURGENCY?!!

WAKE UP GODDAMMIT THIS IS A GOVERNMENT MASSACRE!!!!

Talk about CONTROL this video is a must see. The government was not letting the people cross the bridge to the next city where they have electricity, clean water and food. They locked them in the superdome and when they made them evacuate outdoors they were force to just sit there and wait for days and days without food or water.

http://movies.crooksandliars.com/Hannity-Colmes-Smith-Rivera-freak-in-NO.wmv

slow to open
bunch of great videos here you won't see on the news
scroll down to HORROR with Geraldo Rivera

Among the doctors stymied from helping out are 100 surgeons and paramedics in a state-of-the-art mobile hospital, developed with millions of tax dollars for just such emergencies, marooned in rural Mississippi.

"The bell was rung, the e-mails were sent off. ...We all got off work and deployed," said one of the frustrated surgeons, Dr. Preston "Chip" Rich of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

"We have tried so hard to do the right thing. It took us 30 hours to get here," he said. That government officials can't straighten out the mess and get them assigned to a relief effort now that they're just a few miles away "is just mind-boggling," he said.

While the doctors wait, the first signs of disease began to emerge Saturday: A Mississippi shelter was closed after 20 residents got sick with dysentery, probably from drinking contaminated water.

Many other storm survivors were being treated in the Houston Astrodome and other shelters for an assortment of problems, including chronic health conditions left untreated because people had lost or used up their medicine.

The North Carolina mobile hospital stranded in Mississippi was developed through the Office of Homeland Security after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. With capacity for 113 beds, it is designed to handle disasters and mass casualties.

Equipment includes ultrasound, digital radiology, satellite Internet, and a full pharmacy, enabling doctors to do most types of surgery in the field, including open-chest and abdominal operations.

It travels in a convoy that includes two 53-foot trailers, which as of Sunday afternoon was parked on a gravel lot 70 miles north of New Orleans because Louisiana officials for several days would not let them deploy to the flooded city, Rich said.

Yet plans to use the facility and its 100 health professionals were hatched days before Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast, doctors in the caravan said.

As they talked with Mississippi officials about prospects of helping out there, other doctors complained that their offers of help also were turned away.

A primary care physician from Ohio called and e-mailed the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services after seeing a notice on the American Medical Association's Web site about volunteer doctors being needed.

An e-mail reply told him to watch CNN that night, where U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt was to announce a Web address for doctors to enter their names in a database.

"How crazy is that?" he complained in an e-mail to his daughter.

Dr. Jeffrey Guy, a trauma surgeon at Vanderbilt University who has been in contact with the mobile hospital doctors, told The Associated Press in a telephone interview, "There are entire hospitals that are contacting me, saying, 'We need to take on patients," ' but they can't get through the bureaucracy.

"The crime of this story is, you've got millions of dollars in assets and it's not deployed," he said. "We mount a better response in a Third World country."

Leavitt, U.S. Surgeon General Richard Carmona, and Dr. Julie Gerberding, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, were in Louisiana on Sunday. Gerberding planned to go to Texas, where many evacuees are now housed.

Many other doctors have been able to volunteer, and were arriving in large numbers Sunday in Baton Rouge. Several said they worked it out through Louisiana state officials.

Dr. Bethany Gardiner, a 36-year-old pediatrician who just moved to Santa Barbara, California, from Florida, had been visiting parents in Florida when the hurricane hit.

"I left my kids and just started searching places on the Web" to volunteer, eventually getting an invitation to come to Baton Rouge, she said.

gar fla wrote on 9/5/2005 2:42:25 PM:

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Ah, look who's back. "THE RETURN OF JASON XXIV" Gee Cy. You sound upset. Not seeing your "girlfriend" anymore? What's the matter? Did you break your binoculars?

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Psiquest wrote on 9/5/2005 7:26:42 PM:

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I don't know what isn't so cy, and I sure don't know you are intelligent. Exactly as I said. You don't know what you don't know. Thanks for confirming. Gar, excuse me for intruding but I think he needs Hubble for that... Allen Are you suggesting my girlfriend is in outer space?

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Psiquest wrote on 9/5/2005 8:04:07 PM:

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Al, you're a strange guy. Get out much?

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