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Morons: The Gathering

I played Magic The Gathering 12 years ago when it first came out, so these are funnier to me perhaps than to someone who never played... BUT the jokes should work either way...

http://www.brokentoys.org/?p=6849

Bush admits blatantly obvious and sets new precedent

"Katrina exposed serious problems in our response capability at all levels of government and to the extent the federal government didn't fully do its job right, I take responsibility," Bush said...



Comment: There is still no word on when Michael Brown will receive his Presidential Medal of Freedom.

The REAL Bush Twins!

Comment: I love Photoshop. I don't know who did this, but good work!

I wish THIS guy was president

Colin Powell, the former secretary of state seen as a potential leader for Hurricane Katrina recovery efforts, has joined the chorus of Americans criticising the disaster response at all levels of government.

"There have been a lot of failures at a lot of levels -- local, state and federal," Powell said in an ABC interview for the "20/20" program to be broadcast on Friday evening.





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Media provide forums for administration officials and conservatives to spread falsehoods about hurricane relief efforts

...In the past week, Bush administration officials and conservative commentators have repeatedly used the national media to spread misinformation about the federal government's widely criticized response to the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina.



Comment: Unbiased news does not include letting officials lie without comment. That's the job of Fox News.

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Government Launches Recovery Plan

Joe Scarborough does the right thing.

...the bottom line is that despite the fact the president was strapped with two governors who bungled this crisis badly, in the end it is the president who sends in the National Guard and FEMA relief.

The president's suggestion that the size of this storm caught all by surprise just doesn't get it. His administration was 48 hours late sending in the National Guard and poor Americans got raped and killed because of those mistakes.

A painful assessment from a supporter of the president, but also true.



Comment: I NEVER thought I'd see this, but he is actually blaming those who are wrong, EVEN the republicans. Any objective observer can tell that BOTH the local and federal responders to this did a bad job. BUT the reason these folks waited 4 days for water is purely a federal screw up. The local government should have been better prepared, but once the hurricane hit and destroyed VERYTHING, the federal government failed to do their jobs. He actually criticizes Bush. I never thought I'd live to see any republican criticize him. O'Lielly did at first, but now he seems to have gotten the memo about Rove taking his show away and is now ONLY criticizing the local government.




http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6330851/

Drug Addict Hates Welfare!

On the September 1 broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio show, Rush Limbaugh linked the humanitarian disaster in the wake of Hurricane Katrina to "the welfare and entitlement thinking of government." Referencing an entry in the American Thinker weblog by Thomas Lifson, who asserted that New Orleans failed to develop economically due to a history of corrupt and intrusive government, Limbaugh claimed that the urban poverty underlying the current humanitarian crisis is a result of social welfare programs: "If you, as a mayor, or if you, as a city council, run a city based on the welfare and entitlement thinking of government -- bammo! -- you're going to get poor citizens!"

Limbaugh also accused city officials of "passing the buck all over the place and accepting all the money that the government's sending in to you," instead of taking the initiative themselves to fix the levee system that was designed to help protect the city from flooding. He added, "[S]ocialism versus capitalism; entrepreneurialism and self-reliance versus the entitlement mentality -- so much on display here. That's what nobody's got the guts to say."


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Brit Hume Lies? On Fox? NO! I can't believe it!

On the September 5 edition of Fox News' Special Report, host Brit Hume claimed that New Orleans Mayor C. Ray Nagin had ordered a mandatory evacuation of the city on August 28 after President Bush "pleaded" with him. During the same show, Fox News correspondent Brian Wilson repeated the claim, reporting that Nagin had proceeded with the mandatory evacuation "only after President Bush insisted that he do so." But while numerous conservative weblogs had earlier made nearly identical claims, news reports indicate that Bush called Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco -- not Nagin -- on the morning of August 28 to ensure that such precautions would be taken. Moreover, Blanco stated that Bush called "just before" she and Nagin held a press conference to announce the mandatory evacuation, casting doubt over Hume and Wilson's suggestion that Bush's phone call triggered the decision to evacuate.


Comment: I think the story would be if Brit Hume told the truth... THAT would be something! The really sad thing is I am old enough to remember when he was a journalist.


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DeLay proves he is Republican First, American second...

The House majority leader late Tuesday tried to deflect criticism of the federal response to Hurricane Katrina by saying "the emergency response system was set up to work from the bottom up," then announced a short time later that House hearings examining that response had been canceled.

Comment: If Bush was raping children, this guy would STILL be blaming liberals...

http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/09/07/katrina.congress/index.html

Relocation 'working very well' for poor

Barbara Bush, who accompanied the former presidents on a tour of the Astrodome complex Monday, said the relocation to Houston is "working very well" for some of the poor people forced out of New Orleans.

Comment: We shouldn't be too mad at her. She is just clueless, not evil. She simply cannot relate to these folks on any level. A side note: Fox, not surprisingly, did not run this story on their web site at all.



http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/09/06/katrina.presidents.ap/index.html