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Well... it is Rutgers.

QUOTE(EvilMonkey @ Sep 3, 2005 -> 08:35 PM) The people deserved better from their local government. What were their emergency plans? Wait for the feds to bail them out? Why wasn't the city evacuated? Why are their pictures of hundreds of school busses sitting in flooded parking lots, when those same busses could have been rented, or otherwise used, by the LOCAL governing bodies to take all the people out who supposedly couldn't get out on thier own? And just a thought, if you are 'too poor to leave', why can't you just walk away? I mean, what would you be leaving behind? I'm not saying you're wrong but the primary responsibility for an evacuation of a federal disaster area lies with FEMA. And being too poor to leave means walking 60 miles in 24 hours to relative safety. Is that something you could have done?

Good news for the White Sox. They won. Hell Yeah! Good new for the Tigers. They're still better than Kansas City. Detroit Tigers: No longer the Ralph Wiggum of baseball.

Just please no Scorpions - "Rock You Like a Hurricane" or Led Zeppelin "When the Levee Breaks." Bad taste. I know its coming, so I wanna put a stop to that right now.

Nice OF hit by Paulie. I heart MLB.TV

1-0 YES!

Gotta have "Louisiana, 1927" by Randy Newman

Stuff in New Jersey seems to have leveled out between 3.089 and 3.399 a gallon.

QUOTE(Kid Gleason @ Sep 2, 2005 -> 03:15 PM) The heck with that dang dog man. He's all bark and no action. Sure, he can take a bite out of the word "crime", but he leads you to believe he can actually do something about the acts themselves. Get me Grimace instead... Scruff McGruff, Chicago Illinois, 6-0-6-1-2.

Nuke, I'm gonna be honest here. I really didn't want to use this hurricane as a reason to get angry at our president. But the fact that it took him days to speak about the disaster compelled me. The fact that FEMA's response was inadequate in the first two days compelled me. The fact that when I saw him talk at first, he look disinterested and more annoyed that he couldn't be at Crawford clearing brush compelled me. The fact that he waited until the middle of the week to send hospital ships which will get there just in time for everyone to die compelled me (and yes, that IS his call). The fact that the people he put in charge told reporters that thousands of people at a convention center "didn't exist because they hadn't heard about them" compelled me (And I heard it with my own ears). The fact that they took a longer time to get enough members of Congress down to pass emergency funding for the hurricane than they did to put the feeding tube back in Terri Schiavo compelled me. For most people Nuke, perception IS reality when it comes to politics. It sure as hell looked like our President didn't give a s*** if these thousands lived or died - and it wasn't until the rest of the country started screaming "wtf are you doing" that help started arriving in New Orleans. Do I think that's the reason help finally got there? No. But it sure seemed to speed things up a bit. I'm pissed off at our President for the slow response of the federal government over this issue. I'm pissed off at Congress for allocating more money to create a bridge going to an uninhabited island in Alaska than protection of the levees that protect 500,000 people in Louisiana. I'm pissed off at the Mayor of New Orleans and Governor of Louisiana for not doing enough to get the 100,000+ people of New Orleans who can't afford a car out of that area. The people who f***ed this up are both democrat and republican. And none of them deserve another day in their posts. QUOTE(NUKE_CLEVELAND @ Sep 3, 2005 -> 06:24 AM) You make it sound soooooo easy APU. You make it seem like George Bush could just snap his fingers and make all the pain go away. You make it seem like its George Bush's fault that the levies all failed. You also make me sick to my stomach. Instead of going to these leftist conspiracy sites, the authors of which are even more blind in their hatred for the President than you are, how about you look at the mainstream media and talk about what they have to say........ Americans should be ashamed of the race-baiters, the leftist demogauges, the supposed black "leaders" like Jesse Jackson and anyone else who would use this disaster as another excuse to bash the government and the President. This is a time when we should be focused on coming together to help people in need. Casting blame, monday morning quarterbacking the relief efforts, race baiting, and all the other nonsense the radical left is engaged in here helps nobody.

Thats hampsterdance.com thanks.

To be honest, I think any discrimination going on here has more to do with wealth than race. And after reading Howard Zinn this summer, it just seems like history repeating in that respect. I'm so glad that New Orleans is finally getting the help it needs today. I'm so ashamed it took five days.

The mayor governor and President deserve equal blame for failing to adequately prepare rescue efforts.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/09/02/katrina.response/index.html

I had a professor that taught a class that I had to take for 10 credits (double normal load) so that I could graduate on time. He didn't even make a syllabus. Then he gave a student a C - after not giving us any expectations or guidelines. She appealed.

Holy crap, I hit 4000 posts today.

Magic Number is 23.

Hell Yeah!

KC's magic number is 69. Fox Sports still calculates it.

QUOTE(56789 @ Sep 1, 2005 -> 07:23 PM) Probably not, I would imagine they have been concentrated on getting people off rooftops and such and arent sitting around watching tv. Not to mention the power is out The head of FEMA is in Washington D.C. Michael Chertoff, the head of Homeland Security, denied the existence of the 15,000+ at the convention center as of 4pm today on NPR.

The sheer desperation of all this is incredible.

Contractors worked on the Levee project for FREE for a whole year without funding because it was so important... and then they stopped because they no longer could get the funds for the supplies necessary to finish the job. Some of the failed levees were actually only 80% complete.

Federal Funding was not axed until 2002 and 2003. Homeland Security, The Iraq War and tax cuts were cited as reasons for the funding cuts.

Anderson Cooper is browbeating Senator Landrieu

10% of our capacity to produce gasoline is out of commission right now. Yet the price of gas has increased by 50%. That doesn't make sense to me.