@SPAM+++++++++ Re: [Vision2020] Of Deltas and CO2

[Andreas Schou]

On 9/4/05, Pat Kraut <pkraut at moscow.com> wrote: 
> 
> Oh come on Andrea! If Bush had ordered the go ahead you'd be mad that he 
> 'took over'. Face it, you just don't like Bush or anything he does. Nothing 
> he or anyone under him meets your approval! The locals have blown this so 
> badly and its too bad because people have really suffered because of it. 
> 
 Pat --
 I'm not defending Nagin. I'm not defending Blanco. Both screwed up, and 
Louisiana voters can do as they please with them. Katrina, however, was a 
national emergency which demanded a national response, and that response was 
bungled by the people in charge -- FEMA -- to the Nth degree. I expect 
people to be held accountable, especially Chertoff and the serially 
incompetent Browne.
 Also note that I am challenging not reality, which was that the federal 
response was approved on the 26th of August, but the patently false spin 
being peddled by the White House that federal response wasn't asked for by 
Tuesday. Even if that were the case, which it isn't, the response would be 
ridiculous: the White House is expecting us to believe that the federal 
government was forced to sit on its hands because the proper paperwork 
wasn't filed.
 When you appoint people to positions not despite of, but rather because of 
their disdain for the principle that government can be a positive force in 
peoples' lives, this has consequences. Bush did so, and Louisianans and 
Mississippians are now reaping the consequences There are no atheists in 
foxholes, and there are no Libertarians in hurricanes.
 -- ACS
 
 And I do not read posts with foul language in them. 
> PK
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>  ----- Original Message ----- 
> *From:* Andreas Schou <ophite at gmail.com> 
> *To:* vision2020 at moscow.com 
> *Sent:* Sunday, September 04, 2005 11:19 AM
> *Subject:* Re: @SPAM+++++++++ Re: [Vision2020] Of Deltas and CO2
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>  But they are not allowed to engage until authorized by state officials, 
> > which did not happen until 2 days after the storm hit. 
> 
>  Third of all, what you are telling me is that the poor federal 
> government, like some sort of gigantic, bureaucracy-crazed DMV clerk, 
> realized that it couldn't assist in one of its three most likely 
> catastrophic scenarios because /the proper paperwork wasn't signed/? This 
> strains credibility and punches right through logic and out the other side. 
> What the hell were they afraid of -- a lawsuit by the state of Louisiana? 
>  -- ACS
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