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[GDN01]

<!--EZCODE IMAGE START--><img src="http://winds.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/bushdisaster.jpg" style="border:0;"/><!--EZCODE IMAGE END--><br><br>This has to be the best screen grab ever!<br>(from an email, not sure of orginal source!) <p></p><i></i>

[Starman]

Outstanding Shot!<br><br>Perfectly and truthfully accurate.<br><br>Found this below, detailing how utterly the Pres. (sic) is disconnected from ordinary people and the world, where even an elected Representative couldn't communicate with him an urgent rescue message from a distance of 300 feet -- blocked by lack of 'security' clearance.<br><br>Such awesome contempt is surely evil.<br>Starman<br>***<br>From: <!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://ilx.wh3rd.net/thread.php?showall=true&msgid=6173265#6174829">ilx.wh3rd.net/thread.php?...65#6174829</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>6:26 P.M. - WASHINGTON (AP): Thousands of people stranded in two swamped parishes south of New Orleans are just as desperate for food, water and supplies as those trapped in the city, but they can't get the attention of federal disaster relief officials, Rep. Charlie Melancon, D-La., said Friday.<br><br>And to make matters worse, Melancon said in a telephone interview, he was unable to deliver that message to President Bush during his visit to New Orleans on Friday because the president's security detail couldn't clear him in to meet with Bush on Air Force One.<br>After waiting 90 minutes while a U.S. marshal using a satellite phone repeatedly tried, and failed, to contact Bush's plane -- located just 300 yards away at New Orleans' Armstrong airport -- a disgusted Melancon left.<br><br>"After an hour and a half of that, and two hours to get down there, I am now back on my way, without seeing the president, not accomplishing anything in my mind today. I've wasted time while people are dying in South Louisiana," he said. "It's not personal to the president. It's just that this whole thing has been handled terribly."<br>Melancon said the communications problems that kept him from meeting with Bush are symptomatic of the problems that have plagued the slow-moving federal response to the devastation left behind by Hurricane Katrina.<br><br>It is important not merely to note this but all the similar suffering going on outside NO -- up the MIssissippi coast, over to Alabama. <br><br>-- Ned Raggett (ne...), September 3rd, 2005.<br><br> <p></p><i></i>

[Inanna]

I knew this was coming. All reports of snipers (special ops?) I view as a pretext for removing guns and a move towards getting rid of the second amendment.<br><br>Also, I saw an Alex Jones video which just really bothered me. It shows mock exercises of the military going house to house to confiscate arms. I thought -- no way, but it was corroborated by local law enforcement. I know AJ seems like a kook, but I am watching this unfold before my eyes. I feel like I am playing the stock market. One has to know when to get out, even with no solid evidence, in advance. By the time the next hit occurs, I am afraid it will be too late.<br><br>I've worked a lot to wake people up, and all I encounter is apathy or people looking at me like I am crazy. At some point, I just have to make a plan and think of preserving my life. <p></p><i></i>

[rain]

Great catch GDN.<br><br>let the impact ripple.<br>I certainly laughed.<br>but are they laughing at us?<br><br><br>is that Leland Palmer on the left ?<br> <p></p><i></i>

[Pants Elk]

... even the accidental image crop at the left gives us "KY NEWS LASH" - as explicit a reference to Shrub's penchant for rough anal sex as I've seen anywhere ... <p></p><i></i>

[GDN01]

ok that's a mental image I don't need! Please never use the words "rough anal sex" and "Shrub" in the same sentence! <p></p><i></i>

[DrDebugDU]

Jesse Kornbluth - swami uptown<br>Thought for the Day<br>September 8, 2005 | 6:00 p.m.<br><br>Now, for you people who are saying, 'Well, stop pointing fingers at the president...left-wing...the media's being too hard': No. SHUT THE FUCK UP! This is inarguably--inarguably--a failure of leadership from the top of the federal government. Remember when Bill Clinton went out with Monica Lewinsky? That was inarguably a failure of judgment at the top. Democrats had to come out and risk losing credibility if they did not condemn Bill Clinton for his behavior. I believe Republicans are in the same position right now. And I will say this: Hurricane Katrina is George Bush's Monica Lewinsky. <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>The only difference is that tens of thousands of people weren't stranded in Monica Lewinsky's vagina.</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br>--Jon Stewart, 'The Daily Show'<br><br><!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://www.beliefnet.com/story/145/story_14546_1.html">www.beliefnet.com/story/145/story_14546_1.html</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--> <p></p><i></i>

[vondardenelle]

GDN01- i just laughed out loud at work. i think i'm gonna get canned now. this is a great catch. <p></p><i></i>