Headlines that make me go "Oh God, please"

Bucky

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Tue Sep-06-05 02:43 PM
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Headlines that make me go "Oh God, please"

Bush to lead inquiry into Katrina

US President George W Bush says he will lead an investigation into how the Hurricane Katrina disaster was handled.

"I'm going to find out over time what went right and what went wrong," he said in reply to criticism that the authorities were too slow to respond.

The US Senate is to hold two inquiries of its own into the disaster which hit the Gulf Coast and New Orleans.

Officials in New Orleans have urged its last residents to leave the swamped city, saying it is now uninhabitable.

It's just like when OJ said he was gonna go catch the real killers. Apparently Nicole Simpson's killers were hiding out on golf courses and conjested Florida intersections. I suppose all the clues about why response to Katrina was so screwed up can be found at Crawford and Kennebunkport.

Actually, now that I think about it, maybe they are...

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elehhhhna

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Tue Sep-06-05 02:45 PM
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1. riiiiiight.

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displacedtexan

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Tue Sep-06-05 02:47 PM
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3. Was that headline from...

Planet OH RIGHT SURE?

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lonestarnot

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Tue Sep-06-05 02:48 PM
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4. Yep.... through the looking glass once again.

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shraby

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Tue Sep-06-05 02:46 PM
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2. The key to Bush's reaction is

"I'm going to find out over time

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jane_pippin

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Tue Sep-06-05 02:52 PM
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5. HA!

I was mulling over posting an OJ joke in another thread on this subject.

Glad I'm not the only one.

Anyhoo, good luck with that George. Should I send you a few black Sharpies now, or do you still have some left over from the 9/11 commission?

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