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New Yes everybody screwed up
but the Feds have all the practice.

9/11 exposed a problem in command, control, and coordination among the different emergency services. Department of Homeland Security was explicitly formed to fix that problem.

Since then multiple drills and simulations have been run including the mock hurricane Pam and project IMPACT.

Both of these exposed the same problems.

5 mother fucking years later we still have a problem in command, control and coordination among the different emergency services.

Of the 3 screwups - local, state and federal - only one of them has both the actual experience with the problem and the explicit responsibility to solve that problem and it failed miserably. Furthermore, disaster response was pretty much the keystone of the republican platform - its why they got the job. So they'd better fucking do it.

That's what has me and many others pissed off.



"Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect"   --Mark Twain

"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them."   --Albert Einstein

"This is still a dangerous world. It's a world of madmen and uncertainty and potential mental losses."   --George W. Bush
New Here's what the Texas Catholic has to say.
And, not surprisingly, most Catholics voted for Bush. I'd say the bloom is definitely off the rose for GWB with most repubs.

[link|http://www.texascatholic.com/default.asp?IsDev=False&NodeId=928|http://www.texascath...=False&NodeId=928]



TOTAL FAILURE:
The State of Leadership In This Country

9-09-05

WHEN ONE first looked at the devastating impact of Hurricane Katrina on Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama, it seemed like a natural disaster of biblical proportions that no one could have predicted or prevented.

But, as the drama unfolded in CNN\ufffds outstanding minute-by-minute coverage, the reality that looms ever larger in our minds is that the state of leadership in this country is a total failure. The vital needs of the American people in this tragedy and in other woes facing the nation have not been met in Washington and state capitols.

Louisiana\ufffds largest newspaper, The Times\ufffdPicayune publishing from a web site, said editorially Aug. 4 in an open letter to President George W. Bush, \ufffd\ufffdour nation\ufffds bureaucrats spent days after last week\ufffds hurricane wringing their hands, lamenting the fact that they could neither rescue the city\ufffds stranded victims nor bring them food, water and medical supplies.\ufffd

The reality of national leadership failures now looms larger than the glimpses that we have seen since terrorists crashed into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon three years ago on Sept. 11 and our country\ufffds entire intelligence apparatus failed to prevent any part of it despite information available at lower levels.

The reality of Iraq is more evident today and, if anyone fails to understand why there was chaos and looting for weeks after the American invasion or fails to understand why the violence there continues to grow, let them look at leadership failures in New Orleans.

If anyone does not understand what man-made environmental dangers are and the consequences of them, let them watch as a great American city is turned into a ghostly image on television screens.

If there is anyone in this nation who does not understand what rising poverty rates, declining health care coverage or growing inequity between rich and poor means, let them look at our Southland.

If anyone wants to make an assessment of leadership, let them look at record-high energy costs, the national deficit, trade imbalances, sluggish economy, growing inflation, increasing illegal immigration, deteriorating infrastructure of most American cities and declining public schools.

While the federal government has been playing games with color codes at Homeland Security, appointing ineffective political cronies at the Federal Emergency Management Agency, checking library records at the Federal Bureau of Investigation and shipping poorly equipped state militias to Iraq at the Pentagon, many more fateful events lurked in the shadows of ill-begotten decisions.

When there is poor leadership at the top of the nation, it often sinks to the local levels, in our state governments and in our corporations.

Why else has Halliburton been investigated for price gouging in Iraq and the gasoline in the ground in America suddenly goes over $3 per gallon two days after Katrina? Why else do legislatures and governors fail, as they have in Texas, to address major issues like education and equitable taxation? Why else are there investigations of school board and city council members for misuse of federal funds? Corruption and incompetence seem to be rising in all levels of government.

There was no joy on Labor Day for millions of Americans who have to work longer hours, including this holiday, at lower pay with little or no benefits. The growth of good jobs is not keeping up with needs or the rising cost of living for most Americans.

Time will bring needed change as concerned citizens grow more aware and more alarmed, but before corrective political action can be taken apparently many people will have to suffer.

\ufffdBLH


Where is Peace?
Amy

Pray for the survivors of Katrina.
New Peter and Pall
We're all familiar with the [link|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Principle|Peter principle]: "In a Hierarchy Every Employee Tends to Rise to His Level of Incompetence."

Contributor David Lettvin had a [link|http://tabletalk.salon.com/webx?13@@.596c4f56/8477|beautiful addition to this] on one of Salon's TableTalk forums back in June:
I actually subscribe to the notion that every employee sinks to his superior's level of incompetence.

Call it "The Pall Principle".
Have whatever values you have. That's what America is for.
You don't need George Bush for that.
New Unfortunately, those two mean no Merry :-(
jb4
shrub●bish (Am., from shrub + rubbish, after the derisive name for America's 43 president; 2003) n. 1. a form of nonsensical political doubletalk wherein the speaker attempts to defend the indefensible by lying, obfuscation, or otherwise misstating the facts; GIBBERISH. 2. any of a collection of utterances from America's putative 43rd president. cf. BULLSHIT

New TCFW
too clever for words!

/me likes!

Peace,
Amy

Pray for the survivors of Katrina.
New Great summing-up. Thanx Amy, you - -
Shameless Hussy, you.

(D'ya thunk that just maybe..? fewer folks in your parts are goin around sayin 'bout Our Prexy) ~~
He Be sooo ... Masterful!

Hey.. we must Believe!

..that even lemmings can learn, once the casualty-count pile is at eye level?

New Surprisingly
The Texas Catholic has finally taken a harsher stance of late. There is another equally good article on how morally wrong the poverty level is in this country and in the State of Texas. Bronson Havard, the editor, used to toot GWB's horn. Seems that he has seen the "thousand points of light"...and he don't like it!

At last, someone (especially in Texas) is declaring that the Emperor has no clothes.

Piece of humble crow pie, anybody?
Amy

Pray for the survivors of Katrina.
     Actual Timelines - (tuberculosis) - (50)
         Thanks. -NT - (Another Scott)
         Good links. Thanks. - (mmoffitt)
         Major difference - (bepatient) - (44)
             Important to illustrate cabinet members priorities - (tuberculosis) - (42)
                 As opposed to the current spate - (bepatient) - (41)
                     That's true - (Silverlock) - (33)
                         Tone and tenor - (bepatient) - (32)
                             I guess the reason I focus so much on the fed is . . . - (Silverlock) - (30)
                                 No, it's not understandable. - (mmoffitt)
                                 Right. - (bepatient) - (28)
                                     I Imagine he completes the same amount of work at either - (boxley) - (1)
                                         nice nuance there box ;-) -NT - (bepatient)
                                     "Now, watch this drive." Ring any bells? - (mmoffitt) - (24)
                                         Oooh - (bepatient) - (23)
                                             Nice try at re-writing history, again. - (mmoffitt) - (22)
                                                 Yeah...but wasn't that - (bepatient) - (21)
                                                     Funny how they keep throwing Rove in there, isn't it? -NT - (SpiceWare) - (20)
                                                         He seems to be the master of all things - (bepatient) - (12)
                                                             Chief Minister of Propaganda, Anyhow -NT - (tuberculosis) - (10)
                                                                 smacks of "PC" around here -NT - (SpiceWare) - (9)
                                                                     Honest reporting != PC. HTH. -NT - (mmoffitt) - (8)
                                                                         explain this thread then - (SpiceWare) - (5)
                                                                             Switch topics entirely, nice job of misdirection. -NT - (mmoffitt) - (4)
                                                                                 You're the one that brought up Rove - (SpiceWare) - (3)
                                                                                     Context is everything. - (mmoffitt) - (2)
                                                                                         Yeah, right - (SpiceWare) - (1)
                                                                                             And I thought you were playing along at home. - (mmoffitt)
                                                                         ROFLMAO - (bepatient)
                                                                         that gnawing feeling on your right butt cheek - (boxley)
                                                             You mean, he lied to YOU, too?!? ;-) -NT - (jb4)
                                                         Funny how they keep throwing Monica in there, isn't it? - (jb4) - (6)
                                                             We know he did Monica - (SpiceWare) - (3)
                                                                 No, but I probably can find him working **against** it. -NT - (jb4) - (2)
                                                                     So Todd's working for Rove now? - (SpiceWare) - (1)
                                                                         Swing. Miss. - (jb4)
                                                             Not mine? - (bepatient) - (1)
                                                                 :-) -NT - (mmoffitt)
                                     Yes, "on vacation" - (Silverlock)
                             Such as this one - (SpiceWare)
                     Yes everybody screwed up - (tuberculosis) - (6)
                         Here's what the Texas Catholic has to say. - (imqwerky) - (5)
                             Peter and Pall - (GBert) - (2)
                                 Unfortunately, those two mean no Merry :-( -NT - (jb4) - (1)
                                     TCFW - (imqwerky)
                             Great summing-up. Thanx Amy, you - - - (Ashton) - (1)
                                 Surprisingly - (imqwerky)
             The Right also didn't quote Bush.... - (Simon_Jester)
         interesting comparison... - (cforde) - (2)
             exactly what I have been saying -NT - (boxley)
             I love the phrase... - (ben_tilly)

We've got a whole bag of *tsht* with your name on it!
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