The seer speaketh

[peterbirks]

George W Bush on ABC last night.

"I don't think anyone anticipated a breach of the levees. They did anticipate a serious storm, but those levees got breached".

Birks blog on Sunday, 18 hours before Katrina hit New Orleans.

[New Orleans is] seriously in danger of a kind of flooded and destroyed fucked that we haven't seen in a major US city since San Francisco in 1906. Most of this will be because of flooding (the famous Katrina Waves....) that, if the levees break, will move through a city that for various reasons was built mainly below sea level.

Clearly he has the wrong advisers....

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Although George W doesn't read this blog (but should), it appears sometimes that the rest of the world does. No sooner do I say that I might just spend the month bonus hunting, when Party offers me 30% bonus up to $200, possibly in addition to the regular monthly reload bonus. Bastards.

And then, just when I admit that I am a horrible risk-averse coward when it comes to potentially life-changing decisions, my ex-boss telephones me, tells me that he is going back into business (he sold up his old business to the company for whom I currently work nearly five years ago), and asks me to join him in his "new venture". And I start worrying about reward-to-risk ratios, etc etc. We're having lunch next week, so I'll see what he wants to offer and what he has in mind. But, stick-in-the mud that I am, I can see myself staying here.

Comments

Re: Another Bush gaffe

[pb9617.livejournal.com]

I honestly think that there was at least a large minority who were incapable of leaving. What this storm has exposed is an underbelly of American society that lives in deep poverty, without even 25¢ to make a phone call, let alone the money to own a car. It seems that the entire evacuation plans were predicated on the supposition that everyone owns a car. No extra public transport was laid on and no help was offered to those who would have liked to have left, but had nowhere to go and didn't have the bus fare in any case.

This is BS. The city ran FREE evacuation buses for 48 straight hours before the hurricane hit. The buses were taking people to shelters outside of the city and the superdome. The people that stayed chose not to go. Yes, I understand there were sick people and children, but there were PLENTY of adults that gambled with their lives.