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For all you people who say Michael Moore isn't the voice of the DNC

please to be reading this.

Dean: Race Played a Role in Katrina Deaths
Sep 07 7:44 PM US/Eastern


By DENISE KALETTE
Associated Press Writer

MIAMI

Race was a factor in the death toll from Hurricane Katrina, Howard Dean told members of the National Baptist Convention of America on Wednesday at the group's annual meeting.

Dean, chairman of the Democratic party, made the comments to the Baptists' Political and Social Justice Commission. The Baptist Convention, with an estimated 3.5 million members, is one of the largest black religious groups in the country.

"We must ... come to terms with the ugly truth that skin color, age and economics played a deadly role in who survived and who did not," Dean said.

I could spend time challenging what Dean said but he is just so foolish I no longer consider it worth it. Though in Dean's defense his statement isn't -As- Idiotic as Al Press makes it out to be

A Rabbi puts it all in perspective

In New Orleans, beginning Tuesday morning, August 30, I saw men in
helicopters risking their lives to save stranded flood victims from
rooftops. The rescuers were White, the stranded Black. I saw
Caucasians navigating their small, private boats in violent, swirling,
toxic floodwaters to find fellow citizens trapped in their houses.
Those they saved were Black.

I saw Brotherhood. New York Congressman Charlie Rangel saw Racism.

Yes, there are Two Americas. One is the real America, where virtually
every White person I know sends money, food or clothes to those in
need -- now and in other crises -- regardless of color. This America
is colorblind.

The other is the America fantasized and manufactured by Charlie
Rangel, Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, who constantly cry “racism!”
even in situations where it does not exist, even when undeniable
images illustrate love, compassion and concern. These three men,
together with today’s NAACP, want to continue the notion of Racist
America. It is their Mantra, their calling card. Their power, money,
and continued media appearances depend on it.

Read the whole thing

I'm not sure I can say it better

Olde School LJ style

Take the quiz: "WHAT RELIGION BESTS SUITS YOU?"

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You don't fit into any of the above categories, so perhaps before you get angry or confused, check what other religion(s) you scored the highest on. For example, you might be a Christian-Pagan, or a Discordian-Wiccan. Just use a bit of logic. However, according to this test, you're simply 100% YOU. You don't fit into any of the world's boxes.

Note to anyone who wants to attack me in the comment section

Own up to it with an email address and a website of your own -if any- or you will get deleted.

Question for Monster.Com

When I ask for part time jobs, why are you only giving me full time jobs?

more sane voices from the democratic party

Al-Press via another site

Jackson Blasts Bush Over Katrina Aid
Sep 02 3:48 PM US/Eastern


By DOUG SIMPSON
Associated Press Writer

BATON ROUGE, La.

Racism is partly to blame for the deadly aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, the Rev. Jesse Jackson said, calling President Bush's response to the disaster "incompetent."

but this article does have some moments of journalistic quality that are well... unusual for al-press

Jackson questioned why Bush has not named blacks to top positions in the federal response to the disaster, particularly when the majority of victims remaining stranded in New Orleans are black: "How can blacks be locked out of the leadership, and trapped in the suffering?"

and it contrasts jessie jackson being a lunatic with this

U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Russell Honore, head of the military task force overseeing operations in the three states, is black. His task force is providing search and rescue, medical help and sending supplies to the three states in support of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

so... anyone? yes Jesse Jackson proved himself to be an idiot politicizing the event

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so folks I'd take this one seriously.

one of the more disturbing things I have seen on his site

Three days ago, police and national guard troops told citizens to head toward the Crescent City Connection Bridge to await transportation out of the area. The citizens trekked over to the Convention Center and waited for the buses which they were told would take them to Houston or Alabama or somewhere else, out of this area.

It's been 3 days, and the buses have yet to appear.

Although obviously he has no exact count, he estimates more than 10,000 people are packed into and around and outside the convention center still waiting for the buses. They had no food, no water, and no medicine for the last three days, until today, when the National Guard drove over the bridge above them, and tossed out supplies over the side crashing down to the ground below. Much of the supplies were destroyed from the drop. Many people tried to catch the supplies to protect them before they hit the ground. Some offered to walk all the way around up the bridge and bring the supplies down, but any attempt to approach the police or national guard resulted in weapons being aimed at them.

this whole operation down there is really screwed up

Another Democratic party spokesman speaks ( it came from the email box)

Michael Moore

Ideological head of the democratic party... on Bush and the Hurricane

really... the stupidity of Michael Moore and the people who agree with him is really obvious right here.

I think any adults reading this post who may think "well michael moore is ok" should look at this and realize he needs to no longer be considered worthy of adult conversation in this nation and should be ignored.

Dear Mr. Bush:

Any idea where all our helicopters are? It's Day 5 of Hurricane Katrina and thousands remain stranded in New Orleans and need to be airlifted. Where on earth could you have misplaced all our military choppers? Do you need help finding them? I once lost my car in a Sears parking lot. Man, was that a drag.

Also, any idea where all our national guard soldiers are? We could really use them right now for the type of thing they signed up to do like helping with national disasters. How come they weren't there to begin with?

Last Thursday I was in south Florida and sat outside while the eye of Hurricane Katrina passed over my head. It was only a Category 1 then but it was pretty nasty. Eleven people died and, as of today, there were still homes without power. That night the weatherman said this storm was on its way to New Orleans. That was Thursday! Did anybody tell you? I know you didn't want to interrupt your vacation and I know how you don't like to get bad news. Plus, you had fundraisers to go to and mothers of dead soldiers to ignore and smear. You sure showed her!

I especially like how, the day after the hurricane, instead of flying to Louisiana, you flew to San Diego to party with your business peeps. Don't let people criticize you for this -- after all, the hurricane was over and what the heck could you do, put your finger in the dike?

And don't listen to those who, in the coming days, will reveal how you specifically reduced the Army Corps of Engineers' budget for New Orleans this summer for the third year in a row. You just tell them that even if you hadn't cut the money to fix those levees, there weren't going to be any Army engineers to fix them anyway because you had a much more important construction job for them -- BUILDING DEMOCRACY IN IRAQ!

On Day 3, when you finally left your vacation home, I have to say I was moved by how you had your Air Force One pilot descend from the clouds as you flew over New Orleans so you could catch a quick look of the disaster. Hey, I know you couldn't stop and grab a bullhorn and stand on some rubble and act like a commander in chief. Been there done that.

There will be those who will try to politicize this tragedy and try to use it against you. Just have your people keep pointing that out. Respond to nothing. Even those pesky scientists who predicted this would happen because the water in the Gulf of Mexico is getting hotter and hotter making a storm like this inevitable. Ignore them and all their global warming Chicken Littles. There is nothing unusual about a hurricane that was so wide it would be like having one F-4 tornado that stretched from New York to Cleveland.

No, Mr. Bush, you just stay the course. It's not your fault that 30 percent of New Orleans lives in poverty or that tens of thousands had no transportation to get out of town. C'mon, they're black! I mean, it's not like this happened to Kennebunkport. Can you imagine leaving white people on their roofs for five days? Don't make me laugh! Race has nothing -- NOTHING -- to do with this!

You hang in there, Mr. Bush. Just try to find a few of our Army helicopters and send them there. Pretend the people of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast are near Tikrit.

Yours,

Michael Moore
MMFlint@aol.com
www.MichaelMoore.com

P.S. That annoying mother, Cindy Sheehan, is no longer at your ranch. She and dozens of other relatives of the Iraqi War dead are now driving across the country, stopping in many cities along the way. Maybe you can catch up with them before they get to DC on September 21st.

The Round up (Aka free dane cook show)

Ok Student government or some other batch of student do gooders had organized this wee festivities soooo well.

round up 2005

The first major problem: Hey, lets make people stand outside for an hour + in September late afternoon weather. Yes apperently to the planning geniuses at USF not only did this seem like a good idea, but having us stand outside with no water ( but we all got free bbq chicken sandwiches) was an intelligent idea. I probably should have had my danger senses go off but sadly I did not.

various people came out with free stuff... free grad school scholarship oppertunities, a free x-box... etc. the free stuff was good but they forgot that we needed free water and free a/c cause it was muggy and felt like it was 200 degrees.

the second major problem: when they let us in

The purpose of the round up was to expose us to the student organizations. No one out there really seemed to be all to motivated to say "hey join our organization" but i was motivated by my love of free stuff and a sweat influenced delerium. so i collected my free stuff and fumbled with it in my hands until i was about to enter the sun dome proper when... they finally had BAGS. yes they expected us to just carry tons of free stuff in our hands... a highly intelligent matter of facts.

then... the third problem.

I like rap music fine, I do not listen to an hour plus of rap music ( by choice) and I am willing to bet that I was probably not the only person in the 7000+ crowd that was filling up the sundome for this festival. But I did want to get in early and get good seats so I went with it. the down side of the "free food and drink" which they had inside was the free food was a salty hot dog ( standing outside in the hot sun + salty meat...mmmm good times. and this place of free stuff was waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay on the other side of the stadium. their were not multiple locations as we were all herded in one entrance.

the fourth problem;

Student and staff presenters were just horrid. only thing that salvaged it was the fact the USF cheerleaders are exceptionally attractive.

dane cook had a m'eh opener but then he came on stage to a hyped up crowd. The crowd well before the opening comic came out was chanting "we want dane cook" so I think he was going to kill no matter what.

His material is mostly knew from the last batch of his comedy cd's I've heard ( except i take it by some of the shirts I saw fans wearing his closing material) he had a lot of fun with the "for the hearing impared" translator there.

Pet Peeve of the night: The MC of the night ( some one who has a show on XM that I'd never care to listen to) Used the word "hetero-normative" now...sure I'd have not bet money that their were no gay people there but when you use a line "guys you need to learn to be romantic" that does not need to be a non "heteronormative" statement. Yes the context was about a man and a woman but it works in non man/woman situations.

Drinking game moment of the night: Every time some one said the word "multi-cultural" I am willing to bet you could easily get 4 or 5 shots out of it and I was barely paying attention to what they were saying..... cause well extremely attractive cheerleaders.

Is this trip REALLY nessecary?

The old line from the WWII-Depression era and many classic bugs bunny cartoons has become my watchword for the weekend. I will call my mother later ( say sundayish) to determine if i have to scuttle my planned labor day trip or not.

4b......

Well (no surprise) the teacher with the book on how the iraq reconstruction was a failure has a political angle to grind in his class on international conflict.

He also is a russia expert by training ( so i guess he would probably have been a sovietist) so that makes some of where he is coming from more obvious.

the choice plum comment he made was IIRC "We don't even know if the conflict of the Civil War (American) is resolved yet."

yeah.... I think though depending on the read i get from him in the second class i might want to play down my feelings and opinions some

POST # 950

I will post as post #1000 a round up of my best posts but some where in the 990s I will post links to all of my old posts I really like.

What I would like you folks who are reading my blog ( and apperently you still exist) is to make comments on which ones you like best

And to all you oil doomsayers

I have something to say to you right here

The United States has an oil reserve at least three times that of Saudi Arabia locked in oil-shale deposits beneath federal land in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming, according to a study released yesterday.

thats right... price of crude oil goes way up and people are looking at Oil shale seriously

so hippies get ready for a new protest idea since we won't be able to kick around the "dangerous saudi's" much longer

And for those of you who say NY is richer...

Here
Is a weeee challenge to you

The Census Bureau released the median houseland income numbers.The national median is $44,389.New York's median is $44,301 Here are some of the states with higher median incomes than New York:Nevada,Wyoming,Wisconsin,Minnesota,Utah,Colorado,Nebraska,Illinois,Virginia,and New Hampshire.Here's the 85 page report in pdf form.

thanks to Mickey Kaus for the useful link. SO lets stop talking about blue states giving money to red states... because you can find numbers to support both positions

The school "newspaper" at USF

I think when I get home I may fisk a few things....

more on that later

Prove yourself a fool

something about opening your mouth and removing all doubt

Over on Decision 08 (trackback to be coming later...) we get to see this spokesman for the american left show herself to be an utter fool

Well, George and I are leaving Crawford today. George is finished playing golf and telling his fables in San Diego , so he will be heading to Louisiana to see the devastation that his environmental policies and his killing policies have caused. Recovery would be easier and much quicker if almost ½ of the three states involved National Guard were not in Iraq. All of the National Guard’s equipment is in Iraq also. Plus, with the 2 billion dollars a week that the private contractors are siphoning from our treasury, how are we going to pay for helping our own citizens in Louisiana , Mississippi, and Alabama? And, should I dare say “global warming?” and be branded as a “conspiracy theorist” on top of everything else the reich-wingers say about me.

This right here shows why this woman should have never been taken seriously

Hey other Raging RINOS

I am thinking.... maybe we need to come up with a team blog charity ( other then the American Red Cross)

I guess i'll forward this around in a more effective way later

Dear Enviromental Whackaloons

wanna here something funny

The majority of the people trapped in the flooded areas of New Orleans, and probably the majority of the ones who died to -DIDN'T OWN A CAR-

yes yes the life style you guys advocate so much... well take a look at it. when wild fits of nature happen it leads to people dying. Because they couldn't afford a car due to people like you, trying to socially engineer us through abusive regulations and lawsuits.

so go on and hug a tree you hippies

-new student party thingie-

They have a big open house styled get togther for new students today

depending on how my second class goes today, I am probably going to be there.

Dane Cook is performing so.... I'll probably review it or some such like that.

Put down my first honest to jimminie rent check

And thank god I had the cash to make rent. I have thanks to my last SMH pay check eough cash to make rent, feed the credit card demons... and probably make my payment to Lincoln Financial over my loan from them.

I will wait on the lincoln one and some of the others a tad till i get the student loan left over money....

Next time (it came from the email box)

A radical leftist talks about America being a fascist country, or about "social justice" or institutional rascism... I want you to think about the email i got which i will be posting here.

This comes from an Email list i am on which focuses on Iraqi issues. It has had allot of pro-saddam propeganda on it which was why (WAAAAAYYYY beack before the gulf war II) I joined the list.

Now we have seen the utter fits of deranged lunatics trying to find any reason in the world to make their hate for america seem justifiable

so when you hear a liberal-leftist say "don't question our patriotism" tell them that they say stuff which leads to garbage like this

Survivors of Katerina

From: raja chemayel
Date: Wed Aug 31, 2005 11:37 pm
Subject: the survivors of Katerina , of George and of Saddam



Iraq: A War For Israel
The mothers in Iraq who have had Baby-Girls, yesterday,
ought to name them ......... "Katerina"
It is not much of a revenge........ but the similarity between the Gulf of Mexico and Iraq is that the victims are the innocent ones, anyhow......

Nevertheless ,
and if God -Almighty is on our side , I would assume that God was punishing our intruders , our invaders , our robbers............


But unfortunately the floods did not come up to Crawford-Texas ,
probably and because of those brave demonstrators camping there, outside that Notorious-Ranch, where Dracula lives !


One more thing , ( if you are still with me .......)
How come we see on our TV-Screens the survivors of Katerina , almost all of them.......being Black-people ??? ( or at least,poor)
How come ?? did all the white-US-citizens drawn down ??
or were those White-citizens evacuated much in advance ???
and then the Blacks were left behind ?? because they ,probably, can swim better ??
How come I see the (fascist) policemen defending the Supermarkets from looting and not defending the population from the flood ???....should the people rather starve instead of the floods invading the same Supermarkets ??


Consequently , I conclude that, this Greatest-Democracy-on-Earth must have "some " social-injustice or social-discrimination , after all.....it is a Nation built by slaves on stolen lands....!!


I was told by George Bush ,himself, that only President Saddam Hussein were applying social-discrimination among his own people !! ??
I guess that George must have been misinformed on that topic..... as usual !


Anyhow the mother in Iraq ought to call their daughters "Katerina" , today......................
and the White-mothers of Mississippi and Louisiana (who were evacuated) must call their new-born-sons " George"

this email is circulated by the most vile poster named Meso who claims a vast zionist criminal conspiracy is to blame for the poor state of the arab world

he forwarded this so... I am guessing it is from a friend of his

Dear people: Don't be stupid

A whole lot of stupidity is going on right now so lets listen up and try to not be stupid togther Ok?

$.45 Variation over ten miles of road. No I'm sorry thats wrong. You see the marked can't justify a 3.14 and a 2.69... No sorry that is wrong.

a $.15 variation from the same supplier is borderline criminal.

Ok.. Citgo gas Station and 7-11 gas station both are supplied by the same fuel supplier. When looking at two stations in comprable traffic areas their isn't a reason ( since they have the -same- supply) for their to be that $.15 cent variation.

Some gas stations are taking advantage of people's fear and vuneribility

and those people do indeed suck.

But you know who sucks more?

The people who yesterday evening lead to lines around the block for some gas stations ( who now have the cheap stuff bumpin around the three dollar mark) in a tizy over the gas prices.

Their *MIGHT* have been a supply short fall... but now the EPA has made all the regional fuel grades go away. Now every refiner can produce the same gas and ship it anywhere.

their isn't going to be a substantial supply shortfall people so CALM DOWN.

here is a tip.... instead of getting fuel at a quarter of a tank (3/4rs down) try fueling up at a half a tank, or at 3/4rs of a tank... this way you know you won't be stuck without the ability to get gas

unless you become clueless and fill up a tank at near empty and pump in 2 or 3 side tanks to

settle down people... no one is going to be having a mad max styled apocolypse yet.

Newsmedia Settle down more -because you keep promoting "gas at 4 dollars a gallon"- which causes people to become scared pannicy animals

everyone calm down and just relax

The Cindy Sheehan show seems to be canceled

And what did it take for the news media to actually pay attention to stuff that mattered?

thousands dead

death and biblical destruction in a major US city.

God i hate the news media

Day 4 class b coming up

this is the one that has the book on how the US -failed- (past tense) to bring democracy to Iraq (in relation to the removal of sadam... occupation and all that) as a text book.... so I may have a second indoctrination class.

mmmmmm brainwashing