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The photos are unbelievable.  The stories are horrifying.  People having to bust their way out of the attics of their flooded houses.  Tens of thousands trapped in the Superdome, with no water and no working toilets.  Whole neighborhoods washed away.  It’s deemed the worst natural disaster in American history.

    And where was our President?  He flew to California to make some speeches and pose for photos.

It used to be “Let them eat cake.”  Now we can’t even get that much.  (Image from AMERICAblog)

Shouldn’t he be fiddling?  (Image from Pensito Review)

It was reported that Bush was cutting his enviable five week vacation a little short now, to return to Washington and oversee disaster relief.  But now I hear he’s actually flying to back Crawford first, to still spend one last night on holiday.  “But what more can he do?” the Bush aoologists ask.  “He’s just one man.”  I humbly suggest he could at least act like he gives a shit.  I mean, he interrupted his last vacation to make a special flight to Washington just to sign bills for one brain-dead woman he couldn’t help; he can’t do the same for the thousands who are suffering now?!  Or maybe his peabrain can’t comprehend that much at one time.  And I thought he was supposed to be so compassionate.
    Why is Bush flying around the country rather than getting to work?  “He’s desperate to find his Pet Goat book first,” said a White House spokesman close to the President.  “At times like these he craves the comfort that only staring vacantly into its pages for minutes on end can provide.”
    Also, It would be nice if the Louisiana National Guard was actually in Louisiana and in a position to offer assistance, rather than watching it all from Iraq.  His father sent 30,000 National Guard personnel to Florida after Hurricane Andrew.  The best Dubya can do is about 30,000 to cover Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida.
    At least the Army Corps of Engineers can assist in the reconstruction…but no, the government is cutting their funding.  And it’s a shame no one prepared for this disaster…but again no, there was a Southeast Louisiana Urban Flood Control Project, but the President embezzled from it for his misguided and failed Iraq war.
    Now that is some strong and decisive leadership.
    Then again, maybe Bush has simply gotten tired of screwing up just one Gulf.
    George W Bush: A Life of Succeeding in Failure.
    P.S.: you can provide disaster relief of your own by donating to the Red Cross.

Note: I did not see this message at the time.  I am posting it here for my own benefit.  I was not made aware of this bulletin till probably August 30 or 31st, but I’m including it here since this is the time it originated.

URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA
413 PM CDT SUN AUG 28 2005

…EXTREMELY DANGEROUS HURRICANE KATRINA CONTINUES TO APPROACH THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER DELTA…
…DEVASTATING DAMAGE EXPECTED…

MOST OF THE AREA WILL BE UNINHABITABLE FOR WEEKS…PERHAPS LONGER.  AT LEAST ONE HALF OF WELL CONSTRUCTED HOMES WILL HAVE ROOF AND WALL FAILURE.  ALL GABLED ROOFS WILL FAIL…LEAVING THOSE HOMES SEVERELY DAMAGED OR DESTROYED.

THE MAJORITY OF INDUSTRIAL BUILDINGS WILL BECOME NON FUNCTIONAL.  PARTIAL TO COMPLETE WALL AND ROOF FAILURE IS EXPECTED.  ALL WOOD FRAMED LOW RISING APARTMENT BUILDINGS WILL BE DESTROYED. CONCRETE BLOCK LOW RISE APARTMENTS WILL SUSTAIN MAJOR DAMAGE…INCLUDING SOME WALL AND ROOF FAILURE.

HIGH RISE OFFICE AND APARTMENT BUILDINGS WILL SWAY DANGEROUSLY…A FEW TO THE POINT OF TOTAL COLLAPSE. ALL WINDOWS WILL BLOW OUT.

AIRBORNE DEBRIS WILL BE WIDESPREAD…AND MAY INCLUDE HEAVY ITEMS SUCH AS HOUSEHOLD APPLIANCES AND EVEN LIGHT VEHICLES.  SPORT UTILITY VEHICLES AND LIGHT TRUCKS WILL BE MOVED.  THE BLOWN DEBRIS WILL CREATE ADDITIONAL DESTRUCTION. PERSONS…PETS…AND LIVESTOCK EXPOSED TO THE WINDS WILL FACE CERTAIN DEATH IF STRUCK.

POWER OUTAGES WILL LAST FOR WEEKS…AS MOST POWER POLES WILL BE DOWN AND TRANSFORMERS DESTROYED.  WATER SHORTAGES WILL MAKE HUMAN SUFFERING INCREDIBLE BY MODERN STANDARDS.

THE VAST MAJORITY OF NATIVE TREES WILL BE SNAPPED OR UPROOTED.  ONLY THE HEARTIEST WILL REMAIN STANDING…BUT BE TOTALLY DEFOLIATED.  FEW CROPS WILL REMAIN.  LIVESTOCK LEFT EXPOSED TO THE WINDS WILL BE KILLED.

AN INLAND HURRICANE WIND WATCH IS ISSUED WHEN SUSTAINED WINDS NEAR HURRICANE FORCE…OR FREQUENT GUSTS AT OR ABOVE HURRICANE FORCE…ARE POSSIBLE WITHIN THE NEXT 24 TO 36 HOURS.

    ...Now does this look like the kind of bulletin one would ignore?

Today’s forecast calls for dry and crusty…

I had to laugh when I read this at Digg.com.  Digger jon13210 submitted a photo of a smashed up iPod, the end result of his frustration and dissatisfaction with the product.  “My iPod sucked from the beginning,” he writes.  “I paid $400 for this thing that would crash once a week, and wouldn’t even reboot when holding the menu/play buttons.  I had to run the battery down every time.  Finally I got a little angry and beat up my iPod.”  (The above link leads to his photo but I’ve also included it down below, for safe-keeping.) 
    The funny thing is his iPod is clearly a 4^th generation model.  The menu/play reset only works for 3^rd generations and earlier.  What he needed to press was the menu/select buttons.  No wonder it would never reset!  Too bad he didn’t do a little research first, before irrevocably throwing $400 down the toilet!

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