Bush has failed

[Koyaanisqatsi]

Originally posted by Koyaanisqatsi
Speaking of chemicals and stuff...

I know the first priority is to pump out the city, and so we can't be all that discriminating, but has there been any commentary on what we're doing to the Mississippi and the gulf by dumping all this contaminated water into the region?

Ask and ye shall receive...or, I shall, at least.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9227493/

Van Heerden and Rodney Mallett, communications director for the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality, say there do not appear to be any choices other than to pump the water into Lake Pontchartrain or the Mississippi River, which flows into the Gulf of Mexico, a key maritime spawning ground.

“I don’t see how we could treat all that water,” Mallett said.

The result could be an second wave of disaster for southern Louisiana, said Harold Zeliger, a Florida-based chemical toxicologist and water quality consultant.

“In effect, it’s going to kill everything in those waters,” he said.

[Chemical Ollie]

Aftonbladet's Peter Kadhammar, walking the streets of New Orleans:

I've seen many wars and conflicts, but I've never seen a place where corpses are left in the middle of people, day after day. Not anywhere have I seen it: not in Iraq, not in Bosnia, not in Croatia.

(Moved from the news thread)

[Q Classic]

FEMA head Brown has to go.

[Patroklos]

Doesn's sound like that guy left the press hotel while visiting those places.

[Edan]

Originally posted by Q Cubed
FEMA head Brown has to go.

...to jail.

At least if he's as incompetent as he seems to be.

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by LiberalAtheist
I wonder, if we had an extensive coastal-wall system (like Japan) could all of this had been prevented in the first place?

How do you build a wall in a swamp?

[Guynemer]

Originally posted by LiberalAtheist
In any event, I'll never get tired of a bush bashing thread.

Well I've already tired of you.

[Guynemer]

Originally posted by Guynemer
Exactly what part of my "demands" are unrealistic, Pat?

Originally posted by Guynemer


...still waiting...

...

[Richelieu]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara
Texas

Backing up your bull****
Texas

[Guynemer]

I posted this on the topped thread, but I feel it fits here as well.



On 26 August (prior to landfall), the White House issued the following statement:

Statement on Federal Emergency Assistance for Louisiana




The President today declared an emergency exists in the State of Louisiana and ordered Federal aid to supplement state and local response efforts in the parishes located in the path of Hurricane Katrina beginning on August 26, 2005, and continuing.

The President's action authorizes the Department of Homeland Security, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), to coordinate all disaster relief efforts which have the purpose of alleviating the hardship and suffering caused by the emergency on the local population, and to provide appropriate assistance for required emergency measures, authorized under Title V of the Stafford Act, to save lives, protect property and public health and safety, or to lessen or avert the threat of a catastrophe in the parishes of Allen, Avoyelles, Beauregard, Bienville, Bossier, Caddo, Caldwell, Claiborne, Catahoula, Concordia, De Soto, East Baton Rouge, East Carroll, East Feliciana, Evangeline, Franklin, Grant, Jackson, LaSalle, Lincoln, Livingston, Madison, Morehouse, Natchitoches, Pointe Coupee, Ouachita, Rapides, Red River, Richland, Sabine, St. Helena, St. Landry, Tensas, Union, Vernon, Webster, West Carroll, West Feliciana, and Winn.

Specifically, FEMA is authorized to identify, mobilize, and provide at its discretion, equipment and resources necessary to alleviate the impacts of the emergency. Debris removal and emergency protective measures, including direct Federal assistance, will be provided at 75 percent Federal funding.

Representing FEMA, Michael D. Brown, Under Secretary for Emergency Preparedness and Response, Department of Homeland Security, named William Lokey as the Federal Coordinating Officer for Federal recovery operations in the affected area.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: FEMA (202) 646-4600.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/08/20050827-1.html

[MrFun]

Here is an interesting link -- sorry if someone posted this earlier:

Federal Government Neglect?

[chequita guevara]

Well, I think the previous two posts pretty much put the cabosh on any defense of the Feds. Not only this, but it makes them look even worse, since they tried to shift the blame to Gov. Blanco.

[MrFun]

But Bush is too virtuous to ever play politics with dead Americans.






(wonders why others are looking strangely at me)

[Whoha]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara


How do you build a wall in a swamp?

They told me I was daft to build a castle in the swamp, but I did anyway. that sank into the swamp. So I built a second one. It also sank into the swamp. I built a third castle. That one burned down, fell over, then sank into the swamp. but the fourth one, that one is still standing!

[Imran Siddiqui]

Originally posted by Whoha
They told me I was daft to build a castle in the swamp, but I did anyway. that sank into the swamp. So I built a second one. It also sank into the swamp. I built a third castle. That one burned down, fell over, then sank into the swamp. but the fourth one, that one is still standing!