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brooklynite Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-04-05 01:07 PM
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daily Kos: A Brush with Bush in NO
A depressing message from a RC volunteer at the Cajundome in Lafayette, LA:

It goes to show how overwhelming things are here right now that I encountered the First Lady yesterday and I almost forgot to put it in this e-mail. It actually couldn't have been a worse experience; a team of us were working to put up a website with directions to every Red Cross shelter in the region when we were evicted from the computer room by the Secret Service. There's only one room in the Cajundome with telephones and internet access for refugees, and Laura Bush shut it down for eight hours (along with the food service rooms to the side and the women's showers). You may have seen it on CNN; apparently seven refugees were allowed back so Laura could help them in front of the cameras. If you saw that footage, that's where I put in half my volunteer hours. Not knowing Bush was still back there later I tried to insist on being allowed back into the room to a "Red Cross" guy who must have been a Secret Service agent undercover. A hint for future Secret Service agents: The real Red Cross guys don't look like they want to break your legs for walking too close to the barricade, because they're too busy passing out food and helping people. They're also less likely to use phrases like "Stand fast, sir!" Now, I know this is the sort of thing that happens whenever a VIP tours a disaster site, and maybe Laura Bush handing out that loaf of bread really will lead to an increase in donations. All I can say is, to have paralyzed a third of a day of operations at this stage of the game, it fucking well better. And I tried to position myself to say this to her in front of the television cameras too, but instead I only got a wave and a smile as she hurried past me. Looks like I'm going to have to become nationally infamous another day.


http://hal-law.dailykos.com/story/2005/9/4/124532/7736
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DoYouEverWonder Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-04-05 01:08 PM
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1. Another Abuse of Power
this time by the Wicked Witch of Texas herself. She sure fits in well with this family.

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leftchick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-04-05 01:11 PM
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2. I somehow doubt bill clinton would have allowed operatons to stop
I think this is unigue to the paranoid now in the WH. They are all about image and security, because they know they are hated. They are sick fucks and pickles would have been more helpful if she had stayed at the whitehouse and double dosed her valium.
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ItsTheMediaStupid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-05-05 09:41 AM
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18. Clinton would have had FEMA there on tuesday
If the levee had broken.

OTOH, without the neglect of BushCo, the levee system might have held.
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karlrschneider Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-04-05 01:11 PM
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3. Pickles: The Red Cross-dresser
:grr:
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fooj Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-04-05 01:11 PM
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4. Please make sure that KO, Randi Rhodes...hell- every media
outlet gets this story, ok?

Peace,
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librechik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-04-05 01:12 PM
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5. Renewed outrage
please god, may these hypocrites be held accountable!
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sniffa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-04-05 01:16 PM
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6. that's cLinton's fauLt
:puke:

get these disgusting stories out to everyone. x(
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Mich Otter Donating Member (887 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-04-05 01:16 PM
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7. Nominate this folks.
The only thing that really matters to the Republicans is getting their photo ops. The only concern they have for people is all lip service.
When you have to attend fundraisers instead of pitching in to help, you have a greedy, sickened mind.
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indepat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-04-05 01:30 PM
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8. It would be unbef**kingly unbelievable if not so totally expected
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glitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-04-05 01:41 PM
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9. Zombies. I wonder what it feels like to be secret service for zombies?
Must be really weird every morning to mentally prepare yourself to give your life for a zombie.
Unless you're a zombie too, then I suppose it's a noble cause.
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Generic Other Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-04-05 01:51 PM
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10. kick
:kick:
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salin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-04-05 02:56 PM
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11. ah Laura Antoinette
preventing food from being distributed.
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GreenPartyVoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-04-05 02:57 PM
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12. Thanks for letting us know about that

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Would Jesus love a liberal? You bet!
http://timeforachange.bluelemur.com/liberalchristians.htm
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young_at_heart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-04-05 03:02 PM
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13. Those Bush photo-ops are really important
Isn't it obvious that photo-ops are just about the top priority for these people. I can hardly stand to look at footage of her, with her Stepford Wife smile.
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NJCher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-04-05 03:03 PM
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14. Laura's finest "Let Them Eat Cake" Moment.
Ever.




Cher
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wryter2000 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-04-05 03:53 PM
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15. Haircut on the tarmac?
Who gives a damn about this? Clinton held up flights while he got a haircut. :sarcasm:
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chomskysright Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-04-05 04:02 PM
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16. "A hundred thousand Bush Men in New Orleans...."
uSE THIS HOWEVER YOU LIKE (AND WE HOPE RANDY NEWMAN DOES NOT MIND):

(paraphrased from Randy Newman's song, Kingfish: Good Ole' Boys: 1974)

NEVER FORGET NEW ORLEANS

There's a hundred-thousand BushMen in New Orelans
In New Orleans there are BushMen everywhere
But your house could fall down
Your baby could drown
Wouldn't none of those BushMen care.

Everybody gather round
Loosen up your suspenders
Hunker down on the ground
I'm a cracker
And you are too
But don't I take good care of you

(HERE WE'D NEED TO SUBSTITUE WHAT BLANCO/ MAYOR NOLA, LANDREAU ARE DOING)

Who built the highway to Baton Rouge?
Who put up the hospital and built you schools?
Who looks after shit-kickers like you?
The Kingfish do.

Who gave a party at the Roosevelt Hotel?
And invited the whole north half of the state down there for free.
The people in the city
Had their eyes bugging out
Cause everyone of you
Looked just like me

Kingfish, Kingfish
Everybody sing
Kingfish, Kingfish
EVERY MAN A KING

Who took on the Standard Oil men
And whipped their ass
Just like he promised he'd do?
Ain't no Stnadard Oil men gonna run this state
Gonna be run by little folks like me and you

Kingfish, Kingfish
Friend of the working man
Kingfish, Kingfish
The Kingfish gonna save this land.



(I think you can substitute 'Bush Men' for 'French Men' here; French Men, meant to imply the upper class in LA, is what Newman was alluding two as re: his research; the King Fish, of course, was Governor Huey P. Long who, in 1928, JUST LIKE BLANCO IS DOING, told the Federales to stick in their pipe and smoke it as they were moving way too slow for him and the people. Later labeled as a 'dictator', he was a populist. A crazy dentist assasinated him about 10 years later in the marble halls of the Louisiana State Capitol. Its a great album all the way through, documenting seminal events in the South).

Below also is the link to a site that Gov. Blanco has set up in order to pull in money for the clean-up and restoration, keeping it out of the hands of BushCo. Look down after the lyrics of Newman's song. Pass this around please.

KICK THEIR ASS BLANCO: KEEP THE SPIRIT OF THE KINGFISH WRAPPED TIGHT AROUND YOU



The Louisiana Disaster Recovery Foundation has been established in order to help provide immediate assistance to our citizens in need through a network of Louisiana charities, non-profit and governmental agencies, including clearinghouses like the Louisiana VOAD (Volunteer Organizations Active in Disaster). The Foundation is also designed to support long-term family restoration and recovery by focusing on education, housing, health care, legal assistance and jobs for Louisiana families whose lives have been altered by Hurricane Katrina.

By postal mail, please make donations payable to Louisiana Disaster Recovery Foundation, Inc. and mail to:

Louisiana Disaster Recovery Foundation, Inc.
Fed. Tax ID No. 20-3399944
c/o Division of Administration
1201 North Third Street, Suite 7-240
P.O. Box 94095
Baton Rouge, LA 70804-9095
Inquiries may be directed to: LouisianaRecovery@la.gov

http://www.katrina.louisiana.gov/donate.htm


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babywatson Donating Member (24 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-04-05 06:52 PM
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17. Laura Bush
is another moron. I heard that she was quoted as saying that the damage really wasn't as bad as what we are seeing on TV.

What a halfwit. Does she really think Secret Service would let her purebred ass anywhere near real disaster? She might get her feet wet.
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