Gluttony

"I'm not too worried, because for every Prius-driving greenie, my thirsty Honda Pilot makes up for their pitiful efforts to save the world. I also eat enough pig to counter at least 20 vegetarians, so I'm doing my part to neutralize all of their efforts. While they abort their children, I'm going to raise my three children to consume at least 6 tons of pork a day. We win."
~Doug TenNapel

Well Doug you are what you eat.

Maher states the obvious.

"Hello...Doug? You down there?"

From Bill Maher. Notice it is factual information not some emotional appeal (which the shamers and blamers always try and make stick). Try disputing the facts.

Now, I kid, but seriously, Mr. President, this job can't be fun for you anymore. There's no more money to spend. You used up all of that. You can't start another war because you also used up the army. And now, darn the luck, the rest of your term has become the Bush family nightmare: helping poor people.

Yeah, listen to your mom. The cupboard's bare, the credit card's maxed out, and no one is speaking to you: mission accomplished! Now it's time to do what you've always done best: lose interest and walk away. Like you did with your military service. And the oil company. And the baseball team. It's time. Time to move on and try the next fantasy job. How about cowboy or spaceman?!

Now, I know what you're saying. You're saying that there's so many other things that you, as president, could involve yourself in...Please don't. I know, I know, there's a lot left to do. There's a war with Venezuela, and eliminating the sales tax on yachts. Turning the space program over to the church. And Social Security to Fannie Mae. Giving embryos the vote. But, sir, none of that is going to happen now. Why? Because you govern like Billy Joel drives. You've performed so poorly I'm surprised you haven't given yourself a medal. You're a catastrophe that walks like a man.

Herbert Hoover was a shitty president, but even he never conceded an entire metropolis to rising water and snakes.

On your watch, we've lost almost all of our allies, the surplus, four airliners, two Trade Centers, a piece of the Pentagon and the City of New Orleans...Maybe you're just not lucky!

I'm not saying you don't love this country. I'm just wondering how much worse it could be if you were on the other side. So, yes, God does speak to you, and what he's saying is, "Take a hint."

Walken in 2008....Means More Cowbell

In the meantime, check out THIS video.

Bush Era an Utter Failure

From the Washington Post on the end of the Bush Era:

The source of Bush's political success was his claim that he could protect Americans. Leadership, strength and security were Bush's calling cards. Over the past two weeks, they were lost in the surging waters of New Orleans.

But the first intimations of the end of the Bush Era came months ago. The president's post-election fixation on privatizing part of Social Security showed how out of touch he was. The more Bush discussed this boutique idea cooked up in conservative think tanks and Wall Street imaginations, the less the public liked it. The situation in Iraq deteriorated. The glorious economy Bush kept touting turned out not to be glorious for many Americans. The Census Bureau's annual economic report, released in the midst of the Gulf disaster, found that an additional 4.1 million Americans had slipped into poverty between 2001 and 2004.

Click here for the whole article.

Katrina Timeline

Fusion? You down there?
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FusionAddict tirades about ...well here is a recap:

Bush attempted to federalize the Louisiana National Guard and take control of the situation on two separate occasions, and was soundly rebuffed by Blanco.

Read the links I posted HERE. They CLEARLY enumerate the responsibilities (and resulting culpability) of each member of the US government.

You have to understand something. THE PRESIDENT HAS NO LEGAL AUTHORITY TO FORCE A GOVERNOR TO ASK FOR HELP. The only way the President can legally take control without the Governor's consent is to have the city of New Orleans declared in revolt. Is that what you wanted to happen?

Here is the actual timeline:

Hurricane Katrina hit on Monday, August 29th. Governor Blanco wrote to President Bush on Saturday, August 27th, when it became obvious that Katrina was going to require resources in excess of the state's ability to provide them.

"Dear Mr. President,

"Under the provisions of Section 501 (a) of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act, 42 U.S.C. 5121-5206 (Stafford Act), and implemented by 44 CFR 206.35, I request that you declare an emergency for the State of Louisiana due to Hurricane Katrina for the time period beginning August 26, 2005, and continuing. The affected areas are all the southeastern parishes including the New Orleans Metropolitan area and the mid state Interstate I-49 corridor and northern parishes along the I-20 corridor that are accepting the thousands of citizens evacuating from the areas expecting to be flooded as a result of Hurricane Katrina.

"Pursuant to 44 CFR 206.35, I have determined that this incident is of such severity and magnitude that effective response is beyond the capabilities of the State and affected local governments, and that supplementary Federal assistance is necessary to save lives, protect property, public health, and safety, or to lessen or avert the threat of a disaster. I am specifically requesting emergency protective measures, direct Federal Assistance, Individual and Household Program (IHP) assistance, Special Needs Program assistance, and debris removal.

"Preliminary estimates of the types and amount of emergency assistance needed under the Stafford Act, and emergency assistance from certain Federal agencies under other statutory authorities are tabulated in Enclosure A."

There is your official request tendered as required by law on the 27TH!

Katrina occurred on Monday, August 29th. The federal troops showed up on Friday, September 2nd. Five days elapsed between the request and direct assistance.

Bush & Co. fucked up big time. A lot of people lost their lives because of the Federal Government's incompetence. For Bush to now insinutate that it was local government's fault is typical and sick. He had the request and failed to act on it.

Hellooo...Catscratch

Like Jerry says so often on Seinfeld, "Hellooo Neumann.." and he ain't happy.

Our beloved hour of Spongebob is now being cut in half by the failing "Catscratch" now slotted in the second half of the hour.

I admit. I rather like the art, I always have. It has a certain over-done quality about it that works in the cartoon world. And I like the Scottish cat.

If only Doug could use his gifted brain for good and not evil... sigh.

Doug is Mr. Blik.

Who would have thunk it?

The 9/11 Commission is another complete waste of time. Who exactly could have predicted that 20 men could take over 4 jets with box-cutters and knock down two sky-scrapers and the Pentagon?! Who is at fault for this? I've talked to the people who think Clinton could have stopped it. Impossible. There is such a thing as an unforeseeable event.

~Doug the Newt

Who would have thunk it?

The 9/11 Commission is another complete waste of time. Who exactly could have predicted that 20 men could take over 4 jets with box-cutters and knock down two sky-scrapers and the Pentagon?! Who is at fault for this? I've talked to the people who think Clinton could have stopped it. Impossible. There is such a thing as an unforeseeable event.

~Doug the Newt

Accurate coverage

This says it all.

What good have they done anyone?

Anywhere?

Oh yeah...the top moneymakers in America got a tax cut.

They gonna pay for this war? They gonna pay for Katrina? They gonna pay for inept Homeland Security?

Nope.

You are.

You safer? Better off? How about your kids and the Deficit? That what you want?

Keep letting these folks play to your fears while they do nothing about them.

Watch what they do, not what they say. What they say is simply Rovespeak.

Rove is Orwell's Napoleon the Pig.

TenNEWTpanel in the Sand, part 1

"Mrugrumpppfffmuffleglum.."
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From the incessant yapper, Doug Tennapel:

The 9/11 Commission is another complete waste of time. Who exactly could have predicted that 20 men could take over 4 jets with box-cutters and knock down two sky-scrapers and the Pentagon?! Who is at fault for this? I've talked to the people who think Clinton could have stopped it. Impossible. There is such a thing as an unforeseeable event.

Bush could not stop one death with Katrina, nor can he stop every terrorist attack that's coming down the pipe nor can he perfectly respond to hurricanes. This is not because people are black, it's because we live in a sequential universe.

It was perhaps unspecified, but the Bush Administration had intelligence on possible terrorist attacks in this way. That is a well know FACT. No emotion. Simple fact.

Living in a "sequential universe" means responding to a natural disaster in a sequential manner.

You are the commander-in-chief and you know two days ahead of time that a potential disaster is mounting. Sequence One. You prepare.

You study the ten years of warnings and make sure FEMA is ready to respond in case (in case) what is predicted happens. Sequence Two. You plan ahead.

When the storm hits and does an unbelievable amount of devastation you move with the resources of the most advances and capable tools ever possessed by any country at any time. And you move NOW. Sequence three.

If your FEMA director only knows how to breed Arabian horses, you turn it over to the military. You make a decision, not sit there on your ranch and vacation another day or so (or blink twice and keep reading a kids book). Sequence Four.

You do not divert much needed military equipment to "look presidential" at press conferences when you could actually "be presidential" instead. Sequence Five.

When you fuck up, or your administration does, you take responsibility and do not blame those who are drowning and fighting for their lives...Especially if you are from the "accountability" administration (that takes responsibility for NOTHING). Sequence Six.

If we live in a "sequential universe" then this administration will be held accountable for its incompetence in due time.

Doug & Co do not want that. They want accountability for everyone else...then cry "oh no blaming!" when it suits them. Sorry boys.

He who lives by the blame dies by the blame.

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More to come!

A Terrible Anniversary

This man is still loose and wanted. He has not been "brought justice".
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This article comes from Len and Dana Willens, eductators who have studied Islam and its facist bent. Thanks to Ernie McPhearson for sending it along on this day of mourning.

Hurricane Katrina: Act of Nature or Act of Allah?
While our Coast Guard is airlifting 10, 000 trapped residents of New Orleans to the safety of dry land, the Islamofascists are praising Allah, the "merciful one" for afflicting the infidels with Katrina. Adherents of "the religion of peace" rejoice in the suffering of millions displaced and disoriented by a horrific act of nature. Operating with their usual vampiric double standard, they fail to see Allah's will in the tsunami unleashed on the Muslim world some months ago. Incidentally, it was the U.S. that came to the rescue of distressed storm survivors, some of whom received our largesse sporting bin Laden T-shirts. These are people who play soccer with heads of dead soldiers and who chant "Allahu Akhbar," (God is Great) while cutting the heads off civilians. While we cannot account for an indifferent nature that unleashes its forces "at will" we can hold accountable those abject members of our species who deliberately target the world for terror. Islamofascism aims to flood the globe until it has washed away the infidel, modernity, liberty, capitalism, human rights, government of law, and decency. Islamofascism aims at global hegemony. Once Sharia, Islamic law, is imposed, we can anticipate the world of Taliban-ruled Afghanistan coming to a theater near you. It will be a landscape without music, without traces of other religions or philosophies, without individuality or free will, without dancing or women treated as equals, without equality before the law or listening to radios, flying kites or playing sports. It will bea totalitarian horizon. We've seen it before, in the Nazi death camps of Europe, in the death marches conducted by the Japanese fascists, in the Soviet communist gulag, in Pol Pot's killing fields and in the Darfur region of the Sudan. Wherever the storm surge of Islamofascism washes over the world, there is misery and murder. The victims of this plague of truly biblical proportions are subjected to forced conversions, conquest, enslavement, and dhimmitude, subjugation as an oppressed minority in a fascist theocracy. Next to the totalitarian world of Islamofascism, Hurricane Katrina pales.

Bin Laden and his boys are planning the next tsunami of terror to coincide with Ramadan. They are calling it the Ramadan Offensive, timed for October to coincide with the Muslim month of fasting. Significantly Muslim soldiers in the field are exempt. Al Qaeda's hunger for the blood of the infidel outweighs even religious prohibitions. How seriously should we take the most recent series of videos featuring second in command Zawahiri and communiqu's from Zarqawi to his commander bin Laden? Chatter, both encrypted and open exceeds the level of the period prior to 9/11. A senior Al Qaeda operative was seized in Pakistan with maps of Italian, German and British cities lodged in his computer. Zarqawi associate al-Jazaeri has been active in Italy where counter-terrorism barricades are being erected around ancient monuments. Western Civilization has been targeted with specific references to airports in the Netherlands and Italy, US and Israeli interests in the Middle East, Western European cities, and, of course, the U.S. itself.

We know, in the aftermath of 9/11, to take the words and deeds of the Islamofascists seriously. The pattern of video releases prior to the attacks on the U.S. consulate in Saudi Arabia and the London bombings reappears in the current round of Zawahiri shorts. He threatens attacks that will eclipse our losses in Vietnam. Jihadists are concluding that the punch delivered by Katrina has weakened us for more decisive blows they plan to deliver. They are anticipating a major loss of life and an overwhelming financial blow. Counterterrorism expert Joseph Bodansky warns that concrete plans for consolidation of "jihad springboards" are underway linking the Balkans, Chechnya and the tri-border area of South America.

Zarqawi stated on August 21st: The mujahideen in Iraq have moved the battle for the ground to the land of the cross. They refer to Muslims attacking Western Europe to get revenge on the "Crusaders" in their own homes. They sight Iraq as the new Afghanistan, hoping for victory to launch a new base of operations against the infidels.

They are hoping the American left will destroy the will of the American people, surrender Iraq and appease them. They are hoping the US will continue to let the invasion of Mexican and Other Than Mexican illegal immigrants inundate our shores. If our levees of law enforcement do not protect our sovereignty we must call on the military the way we did to deal with the hurricane. Our National Guard can do for our borders what they did for our citizens on the Gulf and in New Orleans. One of our cities was submerged. We cannot afford to surrender in Iraq or at home. If we are submerged in a sea of Islamofascism, that might just be a scenario we don't want to survive. Meanwhile, prepare your emergency go-bag, bottled water, food, medicines, all the things needed for evacuation as your way of celebrating Ramadan and the threatened Ramadan Offensive.

Is this overstating the case? There is no way to tell. I certainly disagree about the American left doing anything to destroy the will of the American people. But there are some good points here.

Katrina was an act of nature, not God or caused by some human agency. To suggest so is just plain silly.

Let hope today is a day of quiet mourning and reflection.

Talking Out Both Ends

The cartoon character did not fall far from the tree. Doug TenNapel is Mr. Blik.
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TenNapel in usual form:

Thousands of humans are being killed by this disaster...we actually know about the animals...it's just that we don't care (and should continue not to care).

I saw a bunch of humans trying to rescue a human woman who would not leave if they would not also rescue her damned dog. My suggestion is that rescue workers should immediately shoot these animals in the head so their owners will be free to leave. It's not mean, mean is rescuers wasting their time on animals at the cost of rescuing humans. Resources are tight, and it is immoral to spend them on pets.

Thousands died or will die because of incompetence by the Federal Government. Note that Doug & Co. will join the "blame-game" and blame the victims and not the incompetence of the Bush Administration or FEMA.

In the months to come they will ignore all the facts, the timeline, the real issues as the do again and again. It's self-brainwashing and political narcissism. They cannot tell the truth.

If they did they would collapse like the house of cards they are...all image, bluster, attack-oriented. They put all their energy into the spin and shame cycle.

Nothing comes clean.

And you pay the bill. Now, later, or maybe with your life.

Here is the irony. I think Doug is right that we should be more concerned with human life than pets. But his usual advocacy for violence ("shoot them") is damned funny coming from the creator of "Catscratch", a Nickelodeon show about pets.

Fucking hypocrite. Doesn't mind playing that card when it fills his wallet, or feeds his own family. No, his pets eat just fine.

But shoot them bastard pets down south.

Katrina Disaster

New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagan in happier days.
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It's a heart-rending interview done on CNN with New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagan.

You can listen to it HERE.

Of course, Nagan has committed political suicide, but he has also spoken the truth about the devastation. Some people, from the comfort of their homes and safe places will be critical of his language and his views. They clearly have no idea what is actually happening.

Seasoned interviewer, Garland Robinette, conducts the brutally frank interview and basically loses it at the end. Be prepared. This man is angry and there is privy to the devastating information. There is a sense of fultility as they approach another day and relief has not reached them.

President Bush is supposed to meet with him in New Orleans. More later.

Rolling Stone Review

FusionAddict's post brings a different angle. Note that he presents evidence for his views and does not make personal attacks of any kind. Pleaee note his post in the article below.

In other news, Rolling Stone's Matt Taibbi reports from Crawford on the Cindy Sheehan debacle. It's an insightful report. Here is a brief excerpt:
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There are times when American politics seems like little more than two groups in a fever to prevent each other from trespassing upon their respective soothing versions of unreality. At one point at Camp Casey, an informal poll taken around a campfire revealed that six out of a group of ten protesters, selected at random, believed that the United States government was directly involved in planning the 9/11 bombings. Flabbergasted, I tried to press the issue.

"Do you know how many people would have to be involved in that conspiracy?" I said. "I mean, start with the pilots . . ."

"The planes were flown by remote control," a girl sitting across from me snapped.

But things were no better at Ankarlo's counterdemonstration. Aaron Martin, 31, had never heard the administration say that Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11, but Martin did remember one thing about Iraq that he said he'd heard "prior to 9/11."

"They had a fuselage," he said. "It was like a 747 fuselage that they use for training purposes for terrorism."

Was there any other reason he believed Iraq was connected to 9/11?

"It's just a general feeling," he said.

"There You Go Again..."

Jack, from Lord of the Flies
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Doug's at it again. Bashing Cindy Sheehan and all Liberals.

He cannot help it. He is run by emotion and a darkened world-view filled with fear and loathing.

He claims some level of objectivity because he, and a few others, have come out against Pat Robertson's insane doctrine of assasination. Good for you Doug.

Sheehan, not an accomplished speaker or thinker, has made some misteps to be sure. Those should be noted. Here is a quote given to CBS News where one such gaff is obvious:

"No, because it's not true," Sheehan replied. "You know Iraq was no threat to the United States of America until we invaded. I mean they're not even a threat to the United States of America. Iraq was not involved in 9-11, Iraq was not a terrorist state. But now that we have decimated the country, the borders are open, freedom fighters from other countries are going in, and they [American troops] have created more terrorism by going to an Islamic country, devastating the country and killing innocent people in that country. The terrorism is growing and people who never thought of being car bombers or suicide bombers are now doing it because they want the United States of America out of their country."

It's hard to argue with anything she says until she uses the term "Freedom Fighters". I would also take issue with Irag not being "a terrorist state". If they had had the means (which they obviously did not) the designation would fit. What they did to the Kurds is just one example.

But they did not possess WMD, nor did they take part in the attack on 9/11.

Fact. Deal with it Dougey-boy. No emotion. Fact.

Their initial resistance to invasion was, at times, like throwing dirt clods at tanks. Hmnn...take away the word "like".

There are more terrorists now due to the invasion. They are not "Freedom Fighters'. They are "Terrorists" fuled by religious zeal and rage. How else do you explain the widespread use of suicide bombings? Like all Fundamentalists, these people are deadly earnest.

Anyway, when Sheehan calls them "Freedom Fighters" she is as misguided as Bush & Co were when he stood on the flight deck and declared the war was over. Neither of them understands the terrorist mindset.

This is not about being emotional. Deal with the facts Doug...deal with what is HAPPENING on a daily basis, not your need to feel secure as a Conservative.

More people will die today for no good reason. There is no exit strategy and you will sit on your fat ass and draw comics all day long and whine about the Liberals. At least some of them have the balls to call this war what it is. Wrong.