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Originally posted by Spanky
I just stated facts. The fact that they were unpreprated for this catastrophe is a fact, not an opinion.
You don't want facts. You want evidence of federal screw ups, and will believe anything that is printed that supports the idea that this was the Feds fault and yet you distrust even the most obvious facts that would show that the state and city screwed up.
The reason why you cite Federal screw ups is because Bush is president. You defend the governor and the mayor because they are democrats.
You say that you are not defending the mayor or the governor. Yet you keep asking what they could have done. You say you are not just trying to attack Bush when you keep citing alleged FEMA screwups.
You say you have heard of no evidence showing mayoral or governor incompetance. The Buses have been all over the news. They were on the front cover of the Mercrury news day before yesterday. There were all over the TV (and we live in the same town) They have been the biggest news item. Yet you don't believe Penske's pictures? There have been constant reports of all sorts of city and state screw ups. Telling refugees to go to the wrong place, telling them to leave and then not to leave, not providing any transportation for people that want to evacuate. You would have to plug your ears not to hear of all the screw ups. Yet you have heard of nothing that shows they have screwed up.
Yet even though you don't see any of this you find plenty of articles from all over the place that critisize the feds.
The President asks to take control of the state resources and you immediately assume that Bush is playing politics. No evidence to suport it, you just make that assumption. But you say you need more facts in order to make an opinion. Please.
You are a knee jerk ideologue that does not care about the facts or the truth. If there was any doubt, you sckepticism of Penske's pictures is the irrefutable proof. If there is one thing anyone that has watched the news for two minutes can be sure of, is that those buses caught in the flood were in the city of New Orleans and were municiple buses.
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Look Spanky, kiss my ass. You say the busses were all over the news -- I just said I haven't seen much of the news lately, and have asked about seventeen times for a cite to a story. As I said before, I'm asking because I want to know.
I start with a presumption that the New Orleans municipal government is incompetent. I remain willing to confirm that bias. Maybe you don't know this Penske fellow well enough, but I will never take any picture he posts on this board as proof of anything except his psychological problems.
I have no trouble believing that the state government fucked up, too, though I still don't understand what else they should have done to make a difference.
As I said earlier, the thing that bothers me about this parade of conservatives stomping on Nagin and Blanco is that you all are so self-evidently doing to spare Bush et al. the political damage. They can all share the blame.
Your hostility is to piss me off. Did you wake up on the wrong side of the bed? You keep accusing me of meaning the opposite of what I say, which means either that you are calling me a liar or that you are not bothering to read my posts. I can deal with the former, but for the love of God promise me that you will always read me posts. Without that, all is lost.
