September is NATIONAL PREPAREDNESS MONTH:

Department of Homeland Security


Friday, November 25, 2005

We're Prepared To Pay The Price Of Freedom, Are You? - Blairwatch

Stand With the FreedomWriters

Let's' give it a name:

Bloggers for Liberty and Independence in American Reporting (BLIAR)


Got it? Publish it forward...publish the Blair/Bush/Al Jezeera memo.

And may freedom define us, each and every one.

We're Prepared To Pay The Price Of Freedom, Are You? - Blairwatch: "http://www.blairwatch.co.uk/trackback/603"

Sunday, September 18, 2005

Avian Flu in Russia may be sensitive to Amantadine

Monday, September 12, 2005

When the Gov't Can't Rely on a Flood in Iran: Pentagon Revises Nuclear Strike Plan

Pentagon Revises Nuclear Strike Plan: "Pentagon Revises Nuclear Strike Plan"

Saturday, September 10, 2005

Coming Home: Louisiana National Guardsmen are briefed on their departure from Iraq.


"Louisiana National Guardsmen are briefed on their departure from Iraq. Officials said most of the brigade will likely help with hurricane relief."

Photo Credit: Pool Photo/by Anja Niedringhaus Via Associated Press Photo

SF Paramedics Were Numbered in Those Desperate Refugees Blocked From Leaving NOLA...and Fired Upon.

Here is their first-person account.

A chilling indictment of the police who blocked the bridge from NOLA to Gretna, LA.

Police made their storm misery worse

Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed for refusing hospitality...

...so what should be the punishment of the mayor and law enforcement of Gretna (bedroom community bridged to NOLA)?

The crime: The Gretna police on orders of the mayor not just blocked the ONLY way to walk out of NOLA to safety, medical care, and aid...but also took away the water given to the NOLA residents trying to escape via that bridge.

BTW: Gretna voted Republican in 2004...NOLA went Democratic. Just a concidence?

United Press International - The Washington Times, America's Newspaper

Friday, September 09, 2005

The Caption Says It All....


Bush: The Disaster (President)

Shame on the Administration

Top Federal Disaster Leaders Lacking Disaster Experience

So, the Department of Homeland Security is Incapable of Vetting the Director of FEMA?

Gosh, I feel safer with DHS in charge...don't you?
TIME.com Print Page: Nation -- How Reliable Is Brown's Resume?

Wednesday, September 07, 2005

CNN.com - Warehouse set up to process bodies - Sep 6, 2005

CNN.com - Warehouse set up to process bodies - Sep 6, 2005: "ST. GABRIEL, Louisiana (Reuters) -- In a long, low, nondescript warehouse in a Louisiana town that used to be a leper colony, Hurricane Katrina's victims will be identified and returned to their families."

The President Says "NO ONE" Could Have "PREDICTED" the Katrina Devistation

Ummm...How about THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE?

Can ANYONE at FEMA read? Should we suggest they start with "The Pet Goat?"

(Although I fear the ending is that we, the people, are the goats....)



Doucheblog: Yikes: "
URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA

413 PM CDT SUN AUG 28 2005

...EXTREMELY DANGEROUS HURRICANE KATRINA CONTINUES TO APPROACH THE
MISSISSIPPI RIVER DELTA...
...DEVASTATING DAMAGE EXPECTED...

MOST OF THE AREA WILL BE UNINHABITABLE FOR WEEKS...PERHAPS LONGER. AT LEAST ONE HALF OF WELL CONSTRUCTED HOMES WILL HAVE ROOF AND WALL FAILURE. ALL GABLED ROOFS WILL FAIL...LEAVING THOSE HOMES SEVERELY DAMAGED OR DESTROYED.

THE MAJORITY OF INDUSTRIAL BUILDINGS WILL BECOME NON FUNCTIONAL. PARTIAL TO COMPLETE WALL AND ROOF FAILURE IS EXPECTED. ALL WOOD FRAMED LOW RISING APARTMENT BUILDINGS WILL BE DESTROYED. CONCRETE BLOCK LOW RISE APARTMENTS WILL SUSTAIN MAJOR DAMAGE...INCLUDING SOME WALL AND ROOF FAILURE.

HIGH RISE OFFICE AND APARTMENT BUILDINGS WILL SWAY DANGEROUSLY...A FEW TO THE POINT OF TOTAL COLLAPSE. ALL WINDOWS WILL BLOW OUT.

AIRBORNE DEBRIS WILL BE WIDESPREAD...AND MAY INCLUDE HEAVY ITEMS SUCH AS HOUSEHOLD APPLIANCES AND EVEN LIGHT VEHICLES. SPORT UTILITY VEHICLES AND LIGHT TRUCKS WILL BE MOVED. THE BLOWN DEBRIS WILL CREATE ADDITIONAL DESTRUCTION. PERSONS...PETS...AND LIVESTOCK EXPOSED TO THE WINDS WILL FACE CERTAIN DEATH IF STRUCK.

POWER OUTAGES WILL LAST FOR WEEKS...AS MOST POWER POLES WILL BE DOWN AND TRANSFORMERS DESTROYED. WATER SHORTAGES WILL MAKE HUMAN SUFFERING INCREDIBLE BY MODERN STANDARDS.

THE VAST MAJORITY OF NATIVE TREES WILL BE SNAPPED OR UPROOTED. ONLY THE HEARTIEST WILL REMAIN STANDING...BUT BE TOTALLY DEFOLIATED. FEW CROPS WILL REMAIN. LIVESTOCK LEFT EXPOSED TO THE WINDS WILL BE KILLED."

On Saturday, Before Katrina Made Landfall, National Hurricane Ctr Warned Bush in Crawford of Danger of Disaster

...so then, of course, Bush continues his vacation in California playing air guitar and eating cake...while Max Mayfield was too concerned to sleep and tried to raise the alarm.

Strike One: 911...Strike Two: NOLA...Strike Three: ???

State: For forecasting chief, no joy in being right: "Saturday night, Mayfield was so worried about Hurricane Katrina that he called the governors of Louisiana and Mississippi and the mayor of New Orleans. On Sunday, he even talked about the force of Katrina during a video conference call to President Bush at his ranch in Crawford, Texas."

'Katrinagate' fury spreads...Even among formerly complacent American journalists

'Katrinagate' fury spreads

"'For God's sake, are you blind?,' a woman shouts at the head of the federal emergency management agency (FEMA), Michael Brown.

'You're patting each other on the back, while people here are dying.'

The woman is not a victim of Hurricane Katrina. She is a reporter with US television network MSNBC who is so affected by the misery she has witnessed she can hold back no longer."

He Ought To Know...

Tuesday, September 06, 2005

Chaos of Katrina Drives Cop to Suicide - New York Times

Boston Phoenix - America's Nero: Bush's Impeachable Failure

New horrors discovered as search-and-recovery effort goes on

22 bodies lashed together around a pole - a desperate, futile attempt to survive the storm.
New horrors discovered as search-and-recovery effort goes on

CNN.com - Deputy chief: New Orleans 'a hazard' - Sep 5, 2005

"We advise people that this city has been destroyed. It has been completely destroyed." - NOLA Police Chief Riley
CNN.com - Deputy chief: New Orleans 'a hazard' - Sep 5, 2005

Unsettling to the extreme, if true...A Mole in Gov Blanco's office reports

Dick Cheney Found! Why...He's Out and About Buying an Estate.

No doubt he's getting a proper jump on spending all that Halliburton money from the NOLA clean-up contract.

Nice guy. And I thought the "Imelda-leeza Rice" Ferragamo-Gate thing was callous.
Where the Rumsfelds Retreat, The Cheneys Soon Could Follow

Meanwhile, at the Other Photo-Op...



Looking comfortable in the role of comforting.

Photo-Op Hell...

sakabatou's GWB Photo-op Captions

I work for the Corps of Engineers...George, you sonofabitch...

SWAT teams getting unnecessarily tough with last holdouts in NOLA

What ever happened to "We're here to help. Evacuation in now manditory. Please come along"...?
City getting tough with last holdouts

INCREDIBLE First Person Katrina Account: NOLA Police Chief Promises Aid, Sends Residents to Bridge Where Gretna Police Fire on Them