What is it with liberalism now a days? It seems to me that the only thing they have to offer is criticisms of Bush, but no solutions. It's gotten so bad that even liberals have gotten confused in what they are supposed to believe. All they know is they are supposed to criticize Bush. If he doesn't spend enough, criticize him for not spending enough. If he spends too much, criticize him for spending too much. Remember immediately after 9-11? For a month after that, we didn't do nothing, liberals were screaming at the Bush administration for NOT getting us in a war. They were crowing that the Bush administration wasn't going to do nothing about 9-11, and now, they cry that he's doing to much. Confused yet?

They say they support the war on terrorism, just not in the Middle east. Where are we supposed to fight the war at? In Antartica? Terrorist repeat the same things that liberals are saying, yet, liberals aren't on the side of terrorism? They stand side by side with Palestinians, crying that Israel occupies Palestine, but aren't Palestinians the very people that tie bombs to theirself and kill innocent people? They say they aren't for raising taxes, yet are opposed to cutting taxes? They say they are for the constitution, but have they even read it?

They can complain about Bush's response to Katrina, yet have you ever heard a liberal give praise to Bush for any of the previous hurricanes or even the way Rita was handled? Have you ever heard liberals give any praise whatsoever to the Bush administration? How many solutions to our nations problems have you heard liberals give in the entire time that Bush has been President? Saying "Get out of Iraq" or "Impeach Bush" are not solutions, they don't win the war on terror, they don't stop hurricanes, they don't lower gas prices, and they certainly don't give the nation a direction. Liberals do have a solution, but even they are so embarrassed about it, that they are afraid to tell you what they really want to do. I'll get back to that point in a minute.

Fact is that liberals seem to exist to "Hate all Republicans". If this wasn't so, why then elect Howard Dean, who said as much, to lead their party? Every thing George W. Bush does has been, is, and will continue to be criticized. Bush will never be right, even when he agrees with liberals. Everything Bush does it's a catch 22. I am no big fan of Bush, in fact, I'd rank him right around John F. Kennedy in terms of greatness. In other words, he's not a great President, but he isn't terrible either. I welcome criticisims our Presidents. I have personally been critical of Bush, Clinton, and Bush, but does every criticism of President Bush have to sound like it is coming from a resident of a sanitarium?. I know a lot of liberals smoke pot, but do they have to be so obvious about it?

If people are willing to take liberals seriously when they don't openly offer any solutions, then this nation is in serious trouble. What we are witnessing in the Democrat party is radicalism running amuck. There's no direction within the Democrat party and the central theme is "hatred". Now, I have talked politically about Katrina, but I also waited until we turned a corner concerning the disaster. However, Democrats proved just how irrational their hatred for Bush truly was when immediately after Katrina, they were screaming for his head. There were issues that needed to be solved, that I can agree, but immediately afterwards to criticize?

I really don't understand is the liberal view that George W. Bush is a dictator, talk about irrational. But let's examine the view a little further. Let's get back to the liberal solutions to problems. First, it's impossible to be both socialist and pro-freedom. A socialist believes some should have property taken away from them and then given to others, with the government as the so call compassionate arbitrators. The idea that government can take from you and give to others is a form of dictatorship and its supporters have natural selfish interests, otherwise they wouldn't support the idea.

Socialist believe that we are not created equal and that government ought to force their view of equality down the throats of the populace. A person that supports the idea of liberty believes that all are created equal and through the individuals choices and ends up with different results.

The idea that the rich ought to pay a higher tax rate, which liberals support, is dicatatorial. Because you chose a different path from others, the government ought to treat you differently? The inherent selfishness in this is that somebody else ought to be punished more than the person that supports. If we are all created equally, shouldn't that tax rate be the same for all of us? Shouldn't the middle class and poor pay the exact same tax percent as the rich? If we are truly created equal, shouldn't the government treat us all as equal?

Others support it because it means more money in their pocket, others support it because they think it makes them like a caring person, and politicians support it because they can claim to be compassionate because they spent other people's hard earned money.

But liberals support government control over our lives in more ways than our finances. They love to tell us that we have to wear a seatbelt while driving down the street, or that motorcyclist have to wear a helmut and then call it a safety issue. What gives them the right to tell us that we have to be safe?

They want to dictate who can and can't own a gun, how long you have to wait until you buy it, and even went so far as to suggest that gunowners have to have trigger locks on their guns. What you have to do with your property within your property, inside the privacy of your own home.

They want to tell you where you can and can't smoke, and who's lifestyle you have to accept. They want to keep preachers from exercising free speech in government, citing separation of Church and State, yet want government to dictate to what religion can and can't do. Quite frankly, if they don't go to that church, what's it to them how they choose to worship within the walls? I'm not Catholic, why should I tell Catholics how they should worship, or who they should allow as a priest, or if they have to allow homosexual priests? What's it to you if you aren't Catholic? Same goes for Baptist, or Methodist, or Lutherans, what makes it your business to tell those churches how to worship when you aren't even a member of their congregation?

They don't trust parents to teach their kids about sex. No, they insist that schools teach them about sex and distribute condoms to the kids. In just about every aspect of our lives, Government has intruded and dictated to us what we can and can't do, and liberals solution is to broaden the role that Government plays in our lives.

Their alternative view to fighting the war on terrorism? More government at home. More government control over our ports. The common complaint that I heard was that 90% of imports goes unchecked, maybe a terrorist can slip in a bomb through our ports. Excuse me for not taking this seriously but in case you haven't noticed, we haven't been very effective at keeping illegal immigrants out of our country, we haven't had much success keeping marijuana and cocaine from crossing our borders, why on earth do we think terrorist are going to sneak a bomb in through the ports? It's much easier to go through Mexico and up through our borders.

Even if we did keep bombs from coming through our ports, don't you think that terrorist can build their own bombs once they are here? Libs will tell you that Iraq was a bad idea, but their big solution is to put big government in charge of the ports? Excuse me for laughing at their idea but I just think that it's better to fight terrorist within the borders of Iraq, even if our presence attracted them there.

In fact, when it comes to liberals, the only two freedoms that I believe they support is free speech, which means they can insult you or a person can criticize the Republicans. The other freedom is a person's choice to end life. It's funny isn't, they say people shouldn't decide what a woman does with her body, yet support government deciding every aspect of our lives for us.

The most amazing thing is that despite their desire for government involvement in every aspect of our lives, they say they love freedom. They hide behind the Constitution and claim to have an understanding of the Constitution. If they love freedom and the Constitution as much as they insist they do, why not read the thing, study the foundation of this nation. If you appreciate freedom, research the founding of this nation, take the good with the bad. Understand what freedom is, then you'll understand that this nation isn't as bad as you think it is.

Long post made short, the people calling George W. Bush a dictator ought to take a strong look at their self. if you are a liberal, tell me what freedoms you support that can be accomplished without government getting involved.

I haven't done this in quite some time. The first time I did it, I had so many links that it cut off half of my post. So this time I am trying to keep the "ODE TO BLOG II" much simpler. Each word links to a different blog and no two blogs are the same. This is a difficult task because you have to double check your spelling and spacing or the whole thing is useless. Then there is the arduous task of finding blogs and then linking each and every one.

So I present once again...

ODE TO BLOG II

Dedicated to the bloggers for exercising and expanding free speech.

The thorn the side of politicians, the venue that gave extreme nuts a bullhorn, the forum that exposed Dan Rather as a fraud. Yes, the infamous blogosphere, what was once laughed at now has gained influence in the capitol and media. A resented influence in the political arena, if you listen to the media, they'll give you the impression that bloggers are the frauds.

Are bloggers really frauds and kooks? I think not. In fact, I believe bloggers are a bit of constitutionalist, if even unknown to the author. Like everybody, bloggers have a voice, but unlike so many, they use their voice in the form of electronic ink. They exercise a Right that we all hold as a fundamental value, well excluding the McCain-Fiengolds. People, whether sane or demented, obscure or astute, now have a way to express their self with the internet serving as their loudspeaker.

William Shakespeare once wrote that the pen is mightier than the sword and bloggers have shown that one voice can be the most powerful weapon available. They can defeat cold hard cash with their advocacy. They can bring down the major media with watchdog observance, they can deliver messages that we wouldn't otherwise hear on major media.

In the story 'Jack and the Beanstalk', little Jack climbs the absurdly until he gets above the clouds and into the home of the giants. Each time Jack would go up the beanstalk, the giant would say "Fee Fi Foe Fum, I smell the blood of an Englishman." Eventually the giant discovers Jack and chases him down the beanstalk until Jack chops it down and the giant falls to his death.

The story is a fable, but there are inherent truths in the great child stories. In this, giants fall. There's the story of 'David and Goliath' in which David takes a stone and kills giant Goliath.

It happens in sports such as the NFL when the underdogs win. The New York Jets against the Baltimore Colts in Superbowl III and the Denver Broncos agianst the Green Bay Packers in Superbowl XXXII.

It happens in the business world, large corporations make way for smaller, more competent businesses. Amazon was a small company and now is now the big dog in the book world. Wal-mart out foxed the K-marts, AT&T had to make room for cell phones, and IBM was dazzled by Microsoft's technology.

It is happening in the media. It started years before the internet with Ted Ted Turner and his 24 hour news channel CNN. Back then, the big three just scoffed at the idea that the nation was ready for on demand news. Ted Turner made a bold daring move and the press just kept doing what they were doing. 'Fee Fi Foe Fum'.

Then came Fox news and the press began sniffing more, complaining about it, looking, discovering, and realizing that the big bad Murdoch was continuing the change.

When the internet came out, it took awhile before anybody figured out how it can be really useful, remember pets.com? Then came a guy named Matt Drudge, the Godfather of blogs, took a little notice piece off the A.P. wire and sent it to his readers. That story led to the eventual impeachment of a President. That story was the Lewinsky-Clinton affair.

Necessity is the mother of invention, and a broadening of free speech was needed. Drudge was the lone blogger but people eventually wanted to do what he was doing. Stories transferred from one to several via email and ingroup or one on one discussion through chat rooms and bulletin boards. Websites were good but were difficult to keep posting new content Blogs have and continue to change all that.

Today, it isn't just Matt Drudge breaking news stories, it's a blogger here, another there, and tomorrow it will be one you haven't even heard of yet. Emails are still good, but once you send it out, the only response would be from spammers who managed to get your email after it was forwarded several times. Chat rooms were great for live discussion, but once you left there probably wasn't a record of what you said, and bulletin boards were often filled with trolls. A blog gives people a chance to come back and read more without the excessive garbage.

Bloggers are cutting down the beanstalk and rhe big three giant is falling So kudos to the bloggers, participants in a seismic shift in the way we view the world, changing tomorrow's history, today.

Reports are coming in that the city of New Orleans is flooding again. There are two breaches and well, here we go again. Briet Bart has the story.

I had to get inside as hurricane Rita is pounding us right now. I can only imagine what she's doing to an already battered New Orleans. I guess I'll keep posting as Hurricane Rita continues to pass over.

Update 11:29 PM

Well, we are definitely getting more rain than we did with Katrina, and the winds seem to be much heavier. I don't know, maybe I'm just not used to seeing trees bend like that. It's pretty intense here with the winds blowing like they are, I'm not sure how much longer we will have power.

We had a tornado watch earlier but now that the storm is west of us I up the worse has passed us. My concern is that Rita continues to move North and then begin to move Northeast. I know New Orleans is being battered, after all they are closer to the eye of the storm than we are.

Everybody kept talking about Houston-Galveston but the problem is that it crossed over the gulf region, knocking the levees out in New Orleans before 3pm. We get nailed with the northern winds, and now we catch the eastern winds, all of Louisiana this time. What's worse is that it is going up the bayou, possibly keeping strength longer than if it were land.

Anyway, we still have power in Baton Rouge as of 11:37 pm, but I don't expect to wake up in the morning with power.

Update 11:15 AM

We still have power but it's still raining and windy outside. We've been gettin our taste of Rita since about 5pm Thursday. I haven't been out to see the infrastructure to see what kind of damage has occured. I'm still not used to seeing trees bend like that but it's an amazing thing to see. I took a look outside and could see that hurricane Rita is now heading North, which is good news because that means this thing is almost over. Once those clouds are moving East then it'll be over.

The more I see the hurricanes the more I realize just how ludicrous it is to blame a single man for the weather. I don't see President George W. Bush as some man with some sort of diety powers capable of having any impact on the environment.

I can not see mankind with that same extraordinary power of transforming the planet and it's weather.

The problem that I have with the whole movement that mankind creates environmental disasters is that the earth has been dynamic throughout history and events that have happened long before man ever walked the earth dwarf our worst.

Did mankind cause one continent to divide into two? Is it possible that thousands and thousands of hurricanes carved out the Gulf of Mexico? Did the cars that the dinosaurs drove lead to global warming which in turned led to the iceage that led to their extinction? What of Pompeii? Or the hurricane at the beginning of the last century that caused 8,000 deaths?

What caused the creation the Scablands? It was a catastrophe beyond our comprehension. Not only was it one huge catastrophe, but castatrophe upon catastrophe. The earth is dynamic and has always been changing. This is nothing new. Yet, somehow because a handleful of people that want George Bush impeached, we are supposed to believe that he's responsible for global warming.

This makes for a great scare tactic on the the general population but does not explain what caused the catastrophes that happened long before mankind ever walked earth. Are we supposed to believe that George W. Bush is responsible for global warming on Mars? I suppose we could blame Clinton for his Mars expedition as well.

I must confess, I always found it annoying that our Governor could never pronounce her own last name correctly, but now I understand why she calls herself "Blank-Oh". Let's face it, she's stuck on stupid.

Survey USA has Governor Kathleen Blanco sitting at 41% approval rating. Nothing to worry about? Not so, the Guvs numbers dropped nine points since August 15th. The people of Louisiana don't blame Bush, we blame the Governor.

Infact the disappointment in our Governor is so much so, that in the last month two websites popped up seeking her ouster. Many others have suggested she resign and Republicans are giddy about the '07 election.

Let's take the first sign of trouble for the Governor. During the speech, Governor Blanco decided to follow Bush's speech and take credit for the blame. She seemed to have some problems remembering what she was going to say because her finger pointed towards God, then the legislative body, then towards the press or the voters, then her feet, before he finger finally rested on her chest. "I take full responsibility" she said, yet up until that point, she remained the 'invisible Governor'except to show her asterisk in front of the cameras by blaming Bush.

Just prior to that, a website popped up encouraging the impeachment of Governor Blanco. The argument is laid out for impeachment and has received thousands of hits, though last look at the site has Recall Blanco as the header.

And another website has popped up seeking the recall of Governor Blanco and has "had over 20,000 hits in the last week". Now with the release of Blanco's approval numbers, Blanco has found herself in trouble. She now asked for 15,000 federal troops to, as Cindy Sheehan would say, occupy South Louisiana, ordered an evacuation, and finally realizes that New Orleans could be in more trouble. I guess we'll see what's going to happen in the morning as we in Baton Rouge have already gotten our first dose of RITA.

I thought that I would share this letter with you courtesy of RecallGovernorBlanco.com

Dear Editor,

I will never forget the whimpering, clueless, uselessness of Nagin, Blanco, and Landrieu in the first few days of Katrina. They were lost, baffled, and totally ignorant of what to do about what. It was only days later, after people gave them some scripts to read, that they regained any semblance of composure and leadership. If a military commander had acted like such a potted plant he would have been jerked out of the position in minutes.

If Louisiana allows them to get away untouched, we are endorsing the entire debacle they mismanaged and ALL of us will continue to be laughed at by the rest of the nation.

In light of all the findings about what they did, and failed to do, I am calling for the impeachment, or prosecution of Lost-Ray Nagin, Blanko-Blanco and Mystified-Mary Landrieu, for gross incompetence and/or criminal negligence.

Even today, Nagin is on/off/yes/no, in every decision, and a total joke as a leader.

Black Nagin’s negligence puts the deaths of all the black people squarely on his back.

Kathleen’s total "blankoness" about what to do was so obvious in deed and in mentality, that her continued occupancy of that position is incomprehensible. (This was even stupider than her efforts to sell sugar to Cuba.) The silly little abortionist, from New Orleans, Mystified-Mary, was stunned, baffled, and is totally useless as a leader.

For 24 years I have watched Louisianans consistently elect cute, popular, crazy or amusing drunks, criminal lawyers, dingbats, and witches who haven’t got a clue. I can predict the outcome of most elections because 9 out of 10 times, since they always vote for the less competent and honest person. Sometimes I wonder if we know that competent and honest looks like. These "winners" seldom have the business, engineering, financial, or industrial backgrounds that are essential to manage large organizations, and their incompetence is always exposed when there is a problem.

This time a disastrous event nailed them all, and they cannot be allowed to continue to hold office in light of their total uselessness. They are embarrassing roadblocks that need to be put away.

With people like this in charge, is it any wonder we are consistently last/close-to-last in everything?

Thank you for your time.

Patrick R. Hughes P.E. (Ret.)
Lt. Colonel, (Ret.) U.S. Army

And then there was this one....

Dear Citizens:

I just wanted to share a letter with you that I sent out yesterday, September 16, 2005, to numerous Louisiana newspapers and also other media outlets nationally. I'll be interested to see if anyone prints it or responds.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR:

http://recallgovernorblanco.com.

I am writing this letter in an effort to gain support for R.E.C.A.L.L. (Responsible & Effective Citizen Action for Leadership in Louisiana). The main focus of this group is education and action. Our first goal will be to recall Governor Kathleen Blanco. I believe that our Governor has exhibited an inability to lead our State and has shown dereliction of her duties.

I am an American citizen and lifelong resident of the State of Louisiana.

I, along with many other citizens, watched in horror as Hurricane Katrina ripped through the Gulf States, but it was the political aftermath that I found appalling.

I believe our Governor and Mayor Nagin failed miserably to protect our citizens. Not only did they not act to evacuate our citizens, but also afterwards they continued to exhibit an inability to lead. Sadly, this inaction has led to unnecessary loss of life. Are these the same people we want to lead in the reconstruction efforts?

R.E.C.A.L.L. is ready to take action and do what it takes to ensure that public officials are held accountable for their action or inaction in times of crisis. Are you ready to become a part of the solution? I am a firm believer that each and every citizen has the ability and duty to become involved, each in his or her own way. Please become involved. The truth is we are all responsible for the State that we love so much.

Interested citizens can contact us at our website:

Thank you,

Kathy Landry

What is it with the windshield writings? It used to just say 'Just married' but now I see it say all sorts of things, mostly for grieving the loss of a loved one or cheering on their child athletes. Personally I don't get it, but....

Last night I had to pick up a few things so I headed over to Wal-mart. (Wal-mart? What can I say? Just doing my part to piss off the extreme left.) While in the parking lot, I noticed two cars, both with writing on the windshields. The first said,

"Katrina Survivor '05"

and the second really caught my attention, it said

"Rode out Katrina, then ran..."

I had to laugh at that, since Katrina, we haven't had much to smile about around here.

Speakun of Katrina, I was looking for blogs to use in my "Ode to Blogs" that I am working on when I came across Five days of Katrina slide show via A North American Patriot and the Mudville Gazette. It should have been called "Un Nicaraguense y la perra Katrina." but I digress, watch it, it's well worth your time. Those of you who are in the Houston-Galveston area, I suggest that you take a look at this before you ride Rita. And speaking of speaking of people that stayed behind in Nawlins to wait out the storm. I was in the mood for a Chicago Dog from Chicago Als' and ended up having lunch with a Refugee/ Evacuee/Displaced Person and fellow Blogger. He was a cool guy and was very friendly. Even though his blog is not political, I have got to make room on the side for this. Can you believe a blog about eating hotdogs? How in the world does somebody come up with that idea? Wait til he tries their Polish Sausage.

Since the politicization of Katrina, I have been furious, in large part because it should not have been a political issue so quickly. There were legitimate complaints but when there is a problem that requires an immediate solution, it's more important to solve the problem then to sit around and complain about the problem. I am still baffled that people could be so filled with hatred of one man (Bush) that they could not understand a simple concept that some things transcends politics. That being said, I'd rather move on. We'll deal with this issue at the ballot box.

Rita is coming our way and this time is projected to hit Galveston-Houston area. Good news for Louisiana? Not necessarily. Remember that Katrina was NOT a direct hit on New Orleans, which was just west of they eye. Where the hurricane did hit is where the real damage is done.

We heard New Orleans this and that, but the strong side of the storm was on the eastern side. Gulfport, Biloxi and other cities were absolutely ravaged and fortunately for them, this hurricane will miss them. Here on the west side of the Hurricane, damage was done but wasn't that bad.

This time, we will be on the eastern side of Rita and if it makes landfall before the Texas border, could possibly be enough to break the weak points of the levee and flood New Orleans again.

Even if they are projecting the hurricane to hit Houston, doesn't mean that the hurricane will do so. The Hurricane could go further west or it could turn north and hit a more eastern part of the gulf coast. Those levees aren't strong enough.

So while we brace ourselves for that, life continues on. I was sitting in McDonalds today drinking a Powerade and reading the Newspaper when a story caught my attention. Back on July 4th of this year I got into a political debate downtown.

The Discovery Channel was in town with the Catteralls from Topanga, California and swapped homes with the Cambres of Clinton, La for 10 days. The Story has the Catteralls downtown giving out 'The Nation' and I began to talk with them. It turned into a good debate, around 30- 40 minutes, in my estimation but it was so hot that day, who knows maybe it was 10 minutes. Now, I hope they don't cut it up and make it look terrible and unrecognizable from what actually transpired like some fictiomentary directors The Show is scheduled to air November 17th on the Discovery Channel.

Anyway, Hanna and I did most of the debating but during our conversation, I stated that my political beliefs fall somewhere between a "Republican, a Libertarian, and an Anarchist". Why am I bringing this part up?

Well, this evening I come home and I come across this test to see where my political persuasions are. You guessed, somewhere between a "Republican, a Libertarian, and an Anarchist." Actually, it called me a Libertarian, but I was between an Anarchist and a Republican.

It also showed faces of different people throughout history and where they were on political issues, Stalin, Ghandi, George W. Bush, Ronald Reagan, but I proudly found myself on the nose of Thomas Jefferson. Now that I am proud of. Still, I'd rather find myself a little more like John Adams, Ben Franklin, or maybe Thomas Payne, but to be Jeffersonian is a compliment.

You are a Social Liberal (73% permissive) and an... Economic Conservative (86% permissive) You are best described as a: Libertarian Link: The Politics Test on OkCupid Free Online Dating

You exhibit a very well-developed sense of Right and Wrong and believe in economic fairness.

Go Figure But what I really found interesting was that this...

How People Came Down On The Issues

47% pro-choice
30% pro-death penalty
39% for gun control
31% against the War on Drugs
17% for the War on Iraq

Election breakdown:

KERRY: 109,559 BUSH: 57,604

Nearly two out of three people taking this test voted for Kerry, but 53% of test takers considered theirself "Pro-life", 61% against "Gun Control", and 83% against the war on Iraq? That means even though Pro-Life and Gun Control are issues that Democrats often champion, many in their own party are opposed to it, according to this. Also, many Republicans had to be against the war in Iraq.

And one for Dan Rather and his emmy...

"Coooraaahge!"

Soon we won't be talking about Katrina, we'll be talking about a prettier girl called Rita. At least I hope she stays prettier. Forget that former President's comments, although liberals probably will think it's more important that Rita.

Tropical Storm Rita is heading to the Gulf Coast and depending on how much strength she gets, will damage the Katrina affected areas again. Well, what's left of it anyway. I wonder if this is going to change Ray Nagin's plan to get Nawlins up and running in the next couple of weeks.

As you can see from Rita's Path New Orleans could be hit once again by Thursday night. I would think that tomorrow morning, Ray Nagin and Kathleen Blanco will be evacuting the city.

Soon to be former Governor Kathleen Blanco continues her blame game, saying that she takes responsibility "for assuming that help was on the way". Kathleen, that's not the way to take responsibility. What you should have done was move.

Let me put this in a different way, if you saw a house burning down and you could see a child inside, naturally you would call 911, to report the fire. Right? But seeing the child, would you make an attempt to save the child's life, even at the risk of your own? Or would you go in front of the cameras and complain the 911 hasn't got there yet? The response is to do what you can to save the persons life until more help got there.

Kathleen Blanco choose to wait until help got there instead of moving on her own. She was the commander in chief until the feds got there. No ifs, ands, or buts about it.

Wake Up Kathleen! You are still over there blaming Bush for your own incompetency and at the same time, Mayor Ray Nagin, against the advice of environmentalist, FEMA, doctors, et al, continues to invite Nawlins residence back home.

Isn't there a tropical storm named Rita heading towards New Orleans? Hello?

And they want us to impeach the President and replace him with what? Them? Replace Bush with the old white slavemanster mentality? Minorities pay special attention here. This is the way liberals treat you when you dare to think for yourself. According to them, you HAVE to tow the line... no matter what. Not even the loss of your family, the loss of your hometown, and a natural disaster should you ever cross political lines. Never think for yourself. At least, that's the impression I get.

If you are a minority, you must call Bush a racist. Anything short is disobedience to your master, the Democrats. Let's start with this anti free thought person at Daily Kos that says You ready to pay your fair share in taxes Donna? You ready to ask your wonderful President to ask rich folks like you to pay their fair share?

Cuz I think that is where you can help the most. But maybe you have some carpentry skills we don't know about.

Now, I don't think Donna Brazile has openly endorsed every Bush project but I could be wrong. What I do know is that Donna Brazile was missing some family, her hometwon was destroyed, and all of this could have been avoided if the Democrats that controlled her city for years and years would have fixed the levee to begin with. I also don't see the Democrats coming up with their own solutions. What solutions has any Democrat provided whatsoever? What exactly has any elected official or blogging Democrat done to actually help out? All I've seen from liberals is a bunch of finger pointing, calls of racism, and attempted intimidation of minorities that don't fall in line with what the "Masters" want them to think.

Here is a good example...

Warm F*cking Fuzzies

Since Bush still doesn't have a clue, Donna, how are we supposed to stand with you and rebuild?. Um, how about give her a better solution. Bush's solution, by default, is better than yours because you have absolutely nothing. You look at minorities and accuse Republicans of racism, and yet you have absolutely nothing to offer to help them out. What are Nawlins Minorities supposed to think? They have been told all their lives that if the Republicans get elected, they will cut every single program and leave minorities with nothing. Well guess what. Republicans did get elected and nothing is getting cut. Further more, under Democrats control of the city and state, many minorities lost everything. Even if the Republicans were to cut spending from them, what difference does it make now? They have nothing left, thanks to the years and years of Democrat control and their mismanagement of funds that were provided to fix the levee!

Again, I can not stress enough to minorities throughout the nation exactly what the Democrats think about you. They are telling you today what they think about you. Pay attention. Donna Brazille's letter has nothing to do with politics, her beliefs, or even her loyalties. It has everything to do with being a woman that has been separated from her family with no contact, a storm destroying the city she grew up in, and she's a woman that wants a solution. George W. Bush has provided that solution, Democrats haven't.

One thing that really bothers me about this bus situation, crying and blaming Bush for not getting buses down here quick enough. If buses were so badly needed, why didn't the mayor of Baton Rouge and Lafayette volunteer some buses? Mainly Baton Rouge, I don't know what Lafayette was going through but I do know that those buses here could have been used. They didn't need them for the children because the schools here were closed. Mayor Kip Holden is an African American Democrat, I'm sure that he would have been willing to help out. Why didn't he move on this? Why didn't Nagin and Blanco ask him for the buses? No solutions from the Blanco, but we did see plenty of blame from her.

What have we seen from these extremist on the left wing? That they can make a sign that says impeach Bush quicker than they can put of canned food in a box for Katrina Victims? Do you really think that the President having to go to the bathroom is really that big of a deal? Should we really impeach Bush because he has to go to the bathroom sometime during the week that we have a disaster to take care of? I'm really impressed with the extremist on the left, they have lost every ounce of reason and are completely destroying the Democrat party.

Lining them up

Arizona Bull Moose calls Donna a piece of crap.
Frumious Blues call Donna a "Professional Loser"
Says Donna "lost her marbles"








You think this is bad, just wait until these people figure out that George Bush eats food too. They'll be screaming for his impeachment then.

Fantasy Life
Surburban Guerilla
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Kudos go out to Donna Brazile on her comments today. The folks at Protein Wisdom also has comments on it.

Some excerpts with my comments.

On Thursday night President Bush spoke to the nation from my city. I am not a Republican. I did not vote for George W. Bush -- in fact, I worked pretty hard against him in 2000 and 2004. But on Thursday night, after watching him speak from the heart, I could not have been prouder of the president and the plan he outlined to empower those who lost everything and to rebuild the Gulf Coast.

Welcome aboard, Donna.

I know, maybe better than anyone, that there are times when it seems that our nation is too divided ever to heal. There are times when we feel so different from each other that we can hardly believe that we are all part of the same family. But we are one nation. We are a family. And this is what we do. When the president asked us to pitch in Thursday night, he wasn't really asking us to do anything spectacular. He was asking us to be Americans, and to do what Americans always do.

It's a relief to see that not all Democrats are preoccupied with using this as a reason to impeach Bush. This is exactly right, though others would have you believe differently, the fact of the matter for most people,was that this trajedy broke any racial divisions, monetary divisions, or gender divisions. Immediately after Katrina, we all rolled up our sleeves and went to work.

The president has set a national goal and defined a national purpose. This is something I believe with all my heart: When we are united, nothing can stop us. We will not waver, we will not tire, and we will not stop until the streets are clean, every last brick has been replaced and every last family has its home back.

I do believe you speak for most of us...

Mr. President, I am ready for duty. I am ready to stir those old pots again. Let's roll up our sleeves and get to work.

Well said. You can read the entire article here

in other news around the state, the L.A. Times reports that Louisiana officials were already being indicted...

WASHINGTON — Senior officials in Louisiana's emergency planning agency already were awaiting trial over allegations stemming from a federal investigation into waste, mismanagement and missing funds when Hurricane Katrina struck.

And federal auditors are still trying to track as much as $60 million in unaccounted for funds that were funneled to the state from the Federal Emergency Management Agency dating back to 1998.

In March, FEMA demanded that Louisiana repay $30.4 million to the federal government.

Louisiana Democrats keep playing with fire and then they wonder why they get burned. Somehow I'll bet, they'll blame Bush for all this.

Where are the environmentalist now?

Maybe you have heard by now that the water in the Nawlins streets is extremely toxic. You might have heard that they are dumping that water back into Lake Pontchartrain, What I haven't heard, and I don't think you have either, are the environmentally conscience leftist protesting this. Is it because it's okay to poison fish?. I understand that personally there's nothing one can do, but I haven't heard anybody protest the dumping of toxins into lake Ponchartrain. Yes, the water that is being pumped out goes into Lake Pontchartrain. Or as this rare blogger notes "Lake Pontchartrain: Prepare To Die"

And Larry Joubert sent me this email at avman82000 @ yahoo.com, I found it interesting and wanted to share it with you

Politics over duty

This is a post from a fellow over in Merritt Is, FL, a reporter who's been researching what went on before the storm hit the Gulf Coast.

I think all of Mayor Nagin's pomp and posturing is going to bite him hard in the near future as the lies and distortions of his interviews are coming to light.

On Friday night before the storm hit Max Mayfield of the National Hurricane Center took the unprecedented action of calling Nagin (Mayor of New Orleans) and Blanco (Governor of New Orleans) personally to plead with them to begin MANDATORY evacuation of New Orleans and they said they'd take it under consideration. This was after the NOAA buoy 240 miles south had recorded 68 ft waves before it was destroyed.

President Bush spent Friday afternoon and evening in meetings with his advisors and administrators drafting all of the paperwork required for a state to request federal assistance (and not be in violation of the Posse Comitatus Act or having to enact the Insurgency Act). Just before midnight Friday evening the President called Governor Blanco and pleaded with her to sign the request papers so the federal government and the military could legally begin mobilization and call up. He was told that they didn't think it necessary for the federal government to be involved yet. After the President's final call to the governor she held meetings with her staff to discuss the political ramifications of bringing federal forces. It was decided that if they allowed federal assistance it would make it look as if they had failed so it was agreed upon that the feds would not be invited in.

Saturday before the storm hit the President again called Blanco and Nagin requesting they please sign the papers requesting federal assistance, that they declare the state an emergency area, and begin mandatory evacuation. After a personal plea from the President Nagin agreed to order an evacuation, but it would not be a full mandatory evacuation, and the governor still refused to sign the papers requesting and authorizing federal action. In frustration the President declared the area a national disaster area before the state of Louisiana did so he could legally begin some advanced preparations. Rumor has it that the President's legal advisers were looking into the ramifications of using the insurgency act to bypass the Constitutional requirement that a state request federal aid before the federal government can move into state with troops - but that had not been done since 1906 and the Constitutionality of it was called into question to use before the disaster.

Throw in that over half the federal aid of the past decade to NO for levee construction, maintenance, and repair was diverted to fund a marina and support the gambling ships. Toss in the investigation that will look into why the emergency preparedness plan submitted to the federal government for funding and published on the city's website was never implemented and in fact may have been bogus for the purpose of gaining additional federal funding as we now learn that the organizations identified in the plan were never contacted or coordinating into any planning - though the document implies that they were.

The suffering people of NO need to be asking some hard questions as do we all, but they better start with why Blanco refused to even sign the multi-state mutual aid pack activation documents until Wednesday which further delayed the legal deployment of National Guard from adjoining states. Or maybe ask why Nagin keeps harping that the President should have commandeered 500 Greyhound busses to help him when according to his own emergency plan and documents he claimed to have over 500 busses at his disposal to use between the local school busses and the city transportation busses - but he never raised a finger to prepare them or activate them.

This is a sad time for all of us to see that a major city has all but been destroyed and thousands of people have died with hundreds of thousands more suffering, but it's certainly not a time for people to be pointing fingers and trying to find a bigger dog to blame for local corruption and incompetence. Pray to God for the survivors that they can start their lives anew as fast as possible and we learn from all the mistakes to avoid them in the future.

The email was dated September 6th. Other commentors on Donna Brazile.
BlogsforBush rallies for the Prez
Dancing In Tongues is relieved that a Democrat did something positive.
Fred Schoeneman enjoyed the letter.
Decision '08
Blogspot seems to take pleasure in the Demos reaction.
The Fifth Blog seems to be a little upset, what? That kooky extreme 'impeach Bush' crowd still doesn't get it?
The Hutch Report is hoping more Democrats jump on board.
Spatula City extends his thank you to Donna Brazile
Go Blog and Multiply is exactly right about Democrats playing the race card.
Micheal Bowen saw this type of support coming.
Molinillo calls Brazille an idiot.... guess he is so politically blinded that he just can't see that some things transcend political lines. What, I might ask, have the Democrats done to help?
Is Skeptical
Daily KOS suddenly is concerned about tax increases. Wait, did I just say a liberal is concerned about tax increases? I ought to go back and read it. Hmmm, maybe he's concerned about his taxes because he don't like it going to black people? But if it were a white European Nation like Bosnia or Somalia I wonder how he would react.

What Attitude Problem? thinks Donna will be a lone wolf.
History As It Happens is in the early stages of joining the conspiracy crowd.
The View from the Left wants to punish Donna and Clinton with a tax increase.
Medium Cool is red hot that Nawlins Democrats aren't towing his line. Again, a extremist who so caught up in hatred that he just can't see that some things transcends political lines. If you are a Republican, you ought to silently smile that libs like this politicized Katrina.
The Impolitic shows concern for the people that aren't getting food. Um, that problem has been solved. Hey, I got a great idea for him, he ought to use Sean Penn's boat and help out.

Joe's DartBlog understands that this isn't coddling, it's time to be Americans.
Best of Blogs still doesn't even get the simple fact that time after time Nawlins was given the money to fix the levee and the Democrats would mispend the money.... what's another word for somebody who takes money like that... hmmm, crook? Embezzeler? Fraudulent? Oh, those words don't apply to Democrats.

When I tell people that I thought that President Bush's speech was overall better than Governor Blanco's but I was more impressed with the Governors, people seemed to be baffled.

But comparing the two side by side wasn't the same to me. I didn't view the speeches in the same manner. To me, it was comparing the work of a college grad to a seventh grader. I voted for George W. Bush, he represents me to my country, he represents my beliefs. When he was up there, he did not seem to represent my beliefs. I was cringing while listening to his speech. It seemed that he was apologizing without coming out and actually doing so. I thought that he gave the impression that government was supposed to take care of our every little need and I simply don't believe in that.

I believe that people are more than capable of meeting their needs, that people sell short the abilities of others by satisfying basic needs of others. When basic needs are met, one of the key foundations of the desire to succeed disappears. When we put people on welfare, we encourage them never to try achieving success.

So when Bush came out in support of these government programs, it was jaw dropping. Rereading the speech, as I said, came to a much different conclusion. It seemed to lead people one way, yet he actually said something completely different.

I judged President Bush's speech with a higher expectation and as somebody who supposedly shares my views. I already had faith in him and he let me down.

Kathleen Blanco, on the otherhand has been disappointing to me as a Governor. I didn't vote for her but considering that she is supposed to be a 'Conservative Democrat' has been a let down. With her inaction concerning Katrina, my opinion had so dramatically dropped that I was for almost anything to get her out of office. Her impeachment, a Recall, her resignation, any thing. As a Republican it would be terrible for her to leave office early. In my view, her leaving office would most likely put Mitch Landrieu in office and he'd stay there for 10 years. It didn't work to the Republican advantage to remove her.

I as a citizen, did not care about the politics. My first job as a voter is doing right by country, by God, and by myself, screw the party if it goes against that. Kathleen, in my view, was such a disaster when we needed her the most that I had come to the conclusion as a citizen that anybody was better than her, and we needed that better person before another hurricane comes our way. We don't need a Governor that is reminiscent of a seventh grader.

So when Kathleen Blanco approached the podium, I expected a few things. I expected her to blame Bush, she didn't and to my surprise took the blame for failures in state government. I was grateful that she did something as simple as that. I thought it showed she has finally acted like a mature person.

Number 2, I expected her to start crying, pass out, or something unusual. I expected this Governor to find a way to crash and burn. She did not.

Number 3, I expected her to look completely lost, even though she looked distrought, she finally acted like she was in command.

So as a citizen, I was very concerned about her speech and was pleasantly surprised, it was well enough to save her term as Governor.

As a Republican, I was thrilled that she her speech was well enought to deflate people's desire to impeach her. People are not going to forget who let them down after Katrina. As a Republican, I am very confident about our chances concerning Blanco in an election.

Truth of the matter is that I felt more disappointed in Bush, but it was a great relief to see that Kathleen finally had some sense about her. One is a college grad, capable of doing better, the other a seventh grade school girl that exceeded expectations.

What's going on?

"Ed, I'm a black woman and Jesse Jackson does not speak for me" ---a calller on the Ed Buggs radio show September 16th.

"They could get the buses out here on election day to get them to vote for them, but they can't use those buses to save our lives?" --common saying within the African American community.

"His support is waning and fast in the African American community" African American talkshow host Ed Buggs on Jesse Jackson

And it's growing... the funny thing is that liberals thought if they could get the quick jump on this, they'd be able to effectively end Bush's presidency. Instead, they had unintended consequences.

The other day while speaking to an evacuee, I asked him who he blamed the most. He said the President. That being said, there were some very key things the guy was telling me about being down in Nawlins during the flooding.

Evacuee: "Man, there was all kinds of things going on, things they don't want to tell you. You don't know this but they blew up the levee."

LC: "Who blew up the levee?"

Evacuee: "The state, they have dynamite down low, they have it for this very reason. In case they need to blow the levee."

LC: "Why would they blow the levee"

Evacuee: "To save New Orleans. If the levee breaks or New Orleans gets flooded, they blow the levee on the other end to drain it, so the water went into the smaller towns."

This sound familiar to anybody? I have heard talk of the levee being blown up, even a NOPD mentioned something about certain officials blowing up the levee. That's right Farakhan talked about the levee being blown... in order to drown black people.

The problem with Farakhans story and this gentleman's story is that even though they sound the same, the result is completely different.

According to Farakhan, the levee was blown to flood Nawlins- where the black people were. The other version was to blow the levee and spread the water outside Nawlins, where the white people were. It seems more reasonable that if government were to blow a levee, they'd have to do it in a reasonable area that wouldn't risk lives.

Which makes more sense, blowing the levee to save lives, or blowing the levee to cost lives based on the color of ones skin?

"No, none whatsoever, because I feel like our city and our state government should have been there before the federal government was called in.”- Connie London when asked by Dean Reynolds if she harbors "any anger toward the President because of the slow federal response?"

And in the same interview Dean asked London: “And really it wasn't Hurricane Katrina that really tore up the city. It was when they opened the floodgates. It was not the hurricane itself. It was the floodgates, when they opened the floodgates, that's where all the water came.”

Reynolds: “Do you blame anybody for this?”

London: “Yes. I mean, they've been allocated federal funds to fix the levee system, and it never got done. I fault the mayor of our city personally. I really do.”

And according to the Wall Street Journal:

What's interesting about the angry messages is the choice of targets. The majority aren't about President Bush and the slow pace of federal assistance, for instance. Writers seem to be furious chiefly about the performance of local and state officials, specifically Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco and New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin. Messages blasting them for ineptitude during the crisis outnumber those about federal authorities.

It's still going on, people contine to talk about the very people that tried to divide us down here. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton continued to drive a wedge between theirselves and the African American communities. Minorities continue to wake up to liberalism and see that liberals don't want them to succeed. Liberals need to do everything they can to keep racism alive and well, because without it, Democrats have nothing to offer their minority base.

As a matter of fact, what are you liberals going to tell these African Americans during the up coming election? Are you going to tell them that if the Republican gets elected, they'll cut spending on them? Well, after they LOST everything under Democrat leadership, there is nothing to fear in Republican cutting. A plethora of people lost everything and the entire time their personal property was being destroyed, Democrats seemed to use this as an excuse to impeach the President. You Democrats don't understand, while people were kicking in the final barriers of racism, you folks did everything you could to keep racism alive. You folks up there never stopped to consider, these are your voters you risk losing, maybe you actually ought to go help them, instead of sitting around complaining about the guy that actually was doing something to help. That guy was President Bush.