Now its a 4. I checked it out myself.

After it stumbles over Cuba it's headed straight for the Gulf Coast (likely Nawleans). :'o(

I was watching an interview of a lady where they actually have the SPCA set up where you can check in your animals and they'll make sure the pets are Air Conditioned and safe and stuff.

Anyway this lady was pissed cuz she was told she had to give her pet up. She couldn't afford to evacuate herself, so fema or some agency does that but they can't take pets with her if you do the fema thing.

I think I'd just be happy for the help. But it must suck nonetheless.

We'll have to see how N.O. LA deals to Gustav with a Republican as Gov. Mississippi with a Republican at the helm during Katrina, dealt with the disaster very well.

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It's now a 5.

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And I think this time Prez Bush can step in and take command of the situation, which he couldn't legally do last time. He should have anyway, imo, but he didn't.

I think its that posse coma tattas law or something.

And I think this time Prez Bush can step in and take command of the situation, which he couldn't legally do last time. He should have anyway, imo, but he didn't.

I think its that posse coma tattas law or something.

Yep. People miss that part. It was really the Gov. of Louisiana who refused to give up power for the sake of thousands of lives. If the military (national Guard, etc) is to storm into a region, then they must be in control of that region... i think. Shit!! Wheres Mxy to sort this crap out????

I know it had something to do with why they just sat around in Florida while people died.

Also, Michael Moore can suck my fuck.

Cat. 3, 115 mph winds.. has it weakened over the Gulf? Let's hope this continues.

Yep. People miss that part. It was really the Gov. of Louisiana who refused to give up power for the sake of thousands of lives. If the military (national Guard, etc) is to storm into a region, then they must be in control of that region... i think. Shit!! Wheres Mxy to sort this crap out????

I know it had something to do with why they just sat around in Florida while people died.

Also, Michael Moore can suck my fuck.

On this 31st day in August, 2 thousand and 8 years, Denny McClain and Tahoe are in agreement. :)

That is until Mxy comes in here and destroys the Unity.

Bush was too busy eating birthday cake with McCain to take control, anyways.

Republicans cancel most stuff on Monday the 1st day of the convention.

Republicans, putting America first!

That's why we try to take care of problems overseas when we have a shit ton at home! Yeahhhrrrr Repubbliccaannss!

We'll have to see how N.O. LA deals to Gustav with a Republican as Gov. Mississippi with a Republican at the helm during Katrina, dealt with the disaster very well.

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Just as long as this doesn't get politicized to the point where McCain makes his RNC acceptance speech via satellite from the gulf coast...um, nevermind.

Yep. People miss that part. It was really the Gov. of Louisiana who refused to give up power for the sake of thousands of lives. If the military (national Guard, etc) is to storm into a region, then they must be in control of that region... i think. Shit!! Wheres Mxy to sort this crap out????

I know it had something to do with why they just sat around in Florida while people died.

Also, Michael Moore can suck my fuck.

On this 31st day in August, 2 thousand and 8 years, Denny McClain and Tahoe are in agreement.

That is until Mxy comes in here and destroys the Unity.
If "unity" consists of Michael Moore sucking off Denny McLain, just call me the unity buster! Let's not feed into Denny's self-abusive tendencies. Clearly, he needs medical help, not online enablers. :)

Seriously, Blanco not waiving Posse Comitatus for Bush at the get-go didn't made a big difference. Remember, during that same time period, Republican governor Barbour in Mississippi also refused to waive Posse Comitatus. Do you think that was wrong? Remember, nothing was coming out of Brownie's FEMA despite promises, after all of the relevant paperwork had been filed in advance of Katrina hitting land by Blanco. So, she should have given more control to federal government and hoped for the best?

There's much Katrina badness that was the fault of the Louisiana political swampland. Even before Katrina, Nagin/Blanco made Kwame/Granholm look chummy. But Posse Comitatus in particular? Not so much.

What incident in Florida are you referring to? Are you talking about an incident more recent than Katrina? I might turn out to be for unity here, if I knew WTF you were talking about. :)

Barbour didn't wave Posse cuman tattas cuz he had his shit together. Granted they didn't have a city flooding like NO, but they had some areas that were DEVASTED. But he had his shit together. So HB was NOT wrong, but Blanco was cuz...well she's a dumbass.

But like I said, I would break the law if I had hyman al waszari or whatever that terrorist is and put his head in vice personally if I thought it would help save American lives if I were Bush, and I also would have broken the law and ORDERED the military to get water to those peeps on those over passes or whatever they are called or something.

The difference in MS and NO was the broken levee and the size of the city. if ms had been subject to levee-created flooding it would have been just as bad off. blanco sucked, nagin sucked, and bush sucked. bush had the most resources to apply to the problem and seemed the least concerned so he got most of the blame. nagin had the least resources and was the most engaged. however, nagin just doesn't strike me as a very bright guy and didn't appear to have much of a clue in dealing with the hurricane.

it is also important to note that the FL response to hurricanes in 2004 conincided with a tight election, and a weak federal response would have been political sucide.

IMO, it is extremely important to develop a strong and knowledgable civil service to deal with natural or terrorist inflicted disasters. If a professional and accountable government arm is engaged, we would be less prone to cyclic changes in politicians who may or may not have any clue about how to respond. bush never appeared to take fema seriously, as evidence by his 'brownie' appointment. as a result the capability of the dept. declined considerably relative to end of the clinton years. i haven't followed recent activities by fema, but it does appear that the new crew is better than the brownie crony brigade. like defense appointments, there is very little room from cronyism or ideology in this department. climate models suggest that hurricanes will become stronger and more frequent due to global warming.

Bush was too busy eating birthday cake with McCain to take control, anyways.
Where is Kwame Brown when you really need him? KWAME VS. CAKE!

Wrapping this thing up, glad the storm wasn't too serious. But what seems somewhat amazing to me was that they actually did evacuate a fairly large city in the US.

I'm not sure why that seems significant to me or why we would need to do that, other than a storm, but for some reason it seems like something that might be needed someday.

attaboy brownie! oops wrong guy.

If it weren't for Katrina, I doubt the evacuation would've been as successful.

Also I doubt it will be as successful if it's another city. Specifically any city that hasn't had it's ass kicked in one way or another in the last 10 or 20 years, which is 98% of America.

I agree with all of that, but at least it was accomplished once successfully. Homeland Security, etc must have learned something through it all....hopefully.