How about the Democrat mayor of New Orleans screwing up royally during and after the hurricane hit? How about the Democratic governor totally farking up, and not responding to Fed requests for hours, even days? Sure FEMA didn't respond as well as they could, but let's remember the first responders in these situations should be the LOCAL AND STATE GOVERNMENTS. And in Louisiana's case, a certain "party of the working people" screwed them over then blamed the Federal Government for it.

Wake up. Please, wake up.

Hey, I hear there was an earthquake in China. I'm sure that's GW Bush's fault. It's raining here today. Damn - just as I figured, GW Bush and the Republicans caused that water to fall from the sky. Damn them to hell!

Conversation similar to the days surrounding Katrina -

Cop: Sir, get off the tracks.
Man: No
Cop: Sir, I really think you should get off the tracks.
Man: Fark you.
Cop: Sir, I really don't think you understand the consequences of sitting on the train tracks.
Man: This is my HOME...I am not leaving my home. Leave me alone.

*******CRASH********

Man: Oh my god, I got hit by a train...You are a cop and you just STOOD there and let me get hit by a train. You are a hateful bastard.

If the Corps of engineers would let the Mississippi take its natural course, it would quickly run into the Atchafalaya River and completely cut off New Orleans as a city necessary for its large port. I suggest we let nature take it's course, let the river move, and build a new port around the mouth of the Atchafalaya/Mississippi. Let the massive shortage of jobs depopulate New Orleans naturally (of course the people that most need to leave don't work anyway, but still).

This idea made a lot more sense when I was drunk last night.

Tat'dGreaser: There are people still in New Orleans?

I wouldn't necessarily call them "people"...

Katrina = "Pure"
Gustav = "Staff of the Gods"

New Orleans = "City of Concentric Red and White Circles"

the1hatman: To balme one side or one person is more than a bit off the mark.

. . . but a whole lot 'o fun.

b>MilesTeg: New Orleans has broken ground on a memorial to Katrina victims. Memorial will be in the form of a statue of George W. Bush giving New Orleans the finger Democrat Mayor Ray Negan playing the violin spinning on turntables"
Fixed this for you.

FTFY
Its the chocolate city, remember?

The only monument fit will be in this shape


just to make sure it survives after Gustav

ed2525: Conversation similar to the days surrounding Katrina -

Cop: Sir, get off the tracks.
Man: No
Cop: Sir, I really think you should get off the tracks.
Man: Fark you.
Cop: Sir, I really don't think you understand the consequences of sitting on the train tracks.
Man: This is my HOME...I am not leaving my home. Leave me alone.

*******CRASH********

Man: Oh my god, I got hit by a train...You are a cop and you just STOOD there and let me get hit by a train. You are a hateful bastard.

This, damnit. THIS!!

Walker: Better hold off on that, you might need to add all the names from Gustav to it. Drudge said it may be a category 5 death storm. OMG OMG OMG!

I hope it is. N.O. is a shiathole.
Atlanta and houston would like to thank the toilet city for the "victims"/gang members that you sent last time around.
They were yummy.

/loves chocolate

I wonder what the memorial in Iowa will be? You know the flood that happened within the last 4 months and caused billions of dollars of damage. The same flood that the entire congress has basically given the middle finger to?

The only memorial here will be a well thought out regional answer to flooding. Will most likely include some new levees and some spillways....probably won't allow people to rebuild in certain areas. And we will most likely send the corrupt to jail rather than elect them to office(assuming we catch them).

"We're playing everything by ear. We'll sit down with a big sigh of relief, whenever and however it's completed," said Minyard. He said obstacles as slight as a day of rain could cause the deadline to be missed.

Pretty typical. We don't know when or how it's going to get done, but we'll get it done eventually. I would think they would have planned this with to allow for a few days of rain during the construction. It sounds like another piss poor job performed by city officials in the chocolate city.

/From Houston
//still pissed off about all the katricians living here farking everthing up from the crime to the traffic.

MCStymie: Milkbeer: Or is it going to be a statue of a group of guys gangraping a 12 year old in a bathroom stall?

Damn...That's cold. It's totally accurate, and the bathroom stall rendering should include graffiti and smeared feces, but that's still cold.
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And as soon as someone finds a credible link to one of those fairy tales you all will stop looking like clowns.

Officials Say Reports of Rape and Murder at Katrina Evacuation Sites Were Exaggerated
By MICHELLE ROBERTS
Associated Press Writer
NEW ORLEANS (AP) _ On Sept. 1, with desperate Hurricane Katrina evacuees crammed into the convention center, Police Chief Eddie Compass reported: ``We have individuals who are getting raped; we have individuals who are getting beaten.''
Five days later, he told Oprah Winfrey that babies were being raped. On the same show, Mayor Ray Nagin warned: ``They have people standing out there, have been in that frickin' Superdome for five days watching dead bodies, watching hooligans killing people, raping people.''
The ugliest reports _ children with slit throats, women dragged off and raped, corpses piling up in the basement _ soon became a searing image of post-Katrina New Orleans.
The stories were told by residents trapped inside the Superdome and convention center and were repeated by public officials. Many news organizations, including The Associated Press, carried the witness accounts and official pronouncements, and in some cases later repeated the claims as fact, without attribution.
But now, a month after the chaos subsided, police are re-examining the reports and finding that many of them have little or no basis in fact.

Milkbeer: Or is it going to be a statue of a group of guys gangraping a 12 year old in a bathroom stall?

No. This is a memorial of Katrina. The other thing happens without the necessity of a hurricane.

FLMountainMan: If the Corps of engineers would let the Mississippi take its natural course, it would quickly run into the Atchafalaya River and completely cut off New Orleans as a city necessary for its large port. I suggest we let nature take it's course, let the river move, and build a new port around the mouth of the Atchafalaya/Mississippi. Let the massive shortage of jobs depopulate New Orleans naturally (of course the people that most need to leave don't work anyway, but still).

This idea made a lot more sense when I was drunk last night.

How the hell did you even say 'Atchafalaya' when you were drunk, you magnificent bastard?

How about a statue of an Iowan, a North Dakotan and a Floridian (yes a Floridian) rebuilding their communities within a couple years of a disaster with the caption "This is how you do it".

DROxINxTHExWIND: But now, a month after the chaos subsided, police are re-examining the reports and finding that many of them have little or no basis in fact.

re-writing the parts of the story that they don't like, in the fine tradition of the old soviet empire.

Are they going to make it out of chocolate?

Anti_illuminati: Whoa whoa whoa. Fark just gave me a pop-up.

What is this crap??

What are these pop-ups you speak of? Do these exist outside of the realm of Firefox?

Why do Conservatives hate poor people so much?

Seriously, what did they ever do for you other than stock the shelves at Wal-Mart?

I'm really curious, did some band of roving hobos BBQ your dog when you were 10?

Or are they actually a reminder that your failed social policies do nothing to decrease crime by offering opportunity?

Here's a tip: DON'T BUILD YOUR SH*T BELOW SEA LEVEL.

/"The meek shall inherit nothing." Except water. And Nutria.

Gustav is sighting in his scope.

/and George Bush controls the weather from the Bush Cave

what_now: However, the personal, local and state fail would never effect us if there was a disaster where we live,

Could you rewrite that so it makes sense please?

ed2525: Conversation similar to the days surrounding Katrina -

Cop: Sir, get off the tracks.
Man: Officer, my foot is stuck
Cop: Sir, I really think you should get off the tracks.
Man: Officer, I would love to get off the tracks, but my foot is lodged. If you could just grab that stick...
Cop: Sir, I really don't think you understand the consequences of sitting on the train tracks.
Man: Mutherfarker, if I could get off the tracks then I would, but on top of being broke. I'm stuck. Where can I go after I leav the tracks with no money?

*******CRASH********

Man: Oh my god, I got hit by a train...Why the fark wouldn't you call for back-up, as a public servant who is paid to protect in crisis? If I can't go to the people who get paid to deal with these things, where do I go? And if you get to bail when I need you, then why the fark are you here at all?


FTFY.

seminole87: Breaking ground just as a category 4 is headed their way ... FAIL

Maybe they can get a "buy one get one deal"

NathanAllen: Why do Conservatives hate poor people so much?

Seriously, what did they ever do for you other than stock the shelves at Wal-Mart?

I'm really curious, did some band of roving hobos BBQ your dog when you were 10?


3/10 for bringing in the element of the dog BBQ, and thus subtly bringing anti-asian stereotypes into the conversation by clever use of code.


Or are they actually a reminder that your failed social policies do nothing to decrease crime by offering opportunity?

SchlingFocker: Anti_illuminati: Whoa whoa whoa. Fark just gave me a pop-up.

What is this crap??

What are these pop-ups you speak of? Do these exist outside of the realm of Firefox?

Unfortunately, yes. :(

/at work

ha-ha-guy: Nice troll subby, do we also get a mural of the City Council and Attractive and Successful Mayor squandering money that should have gone to the levees?

/Been To N.O., when you have to walk uphill to get to the river that is nature's way of suggesting you move
//nature only suggests once

The levees were under the authority of the Army Corps of Engineers. That money didn't go to the local gov't.

And you ignore the response to the disaster. Or the lack thereof.

And as for being below sea level, the Dutch seem to do just fine - they just happen to elect competent national leadership.

Because:

1. Bush stupidly built New Orleans lower than sea level.
2. Bush designed the levees inadequately.
3. Bush told the people of New Orleans to ride out the storm where they were.
4. Etc.

what_now: People, people, people. I think we can ALL agree that there was plenty of fail to go around on a federal, state, local and personal level.

However, the personal, local and state fail would never effect us if there was a disaster where we live, while the federal fail would. This is why we harp on Bush's fail.

I agree with the first part, but
As a fellow Bostonian, who couldn't help but gaze in wonder at the irony of staring at the same "Evacuation Route" sign in my car for 3 hours (of the 8 it took me to get to my home 7 miles from work) during a farking snowstorm (you know, those things we get, being in the north and all?) last winter, I hardly share your optimism about Mumbles and the mob, errrrr local gubmint if a REAL disaster strikes.

Bush still sucks. And he'd be on vacation anyway, so it's moot.

rufus-t-firefly: That money didn't go to the local gov't.

Yes it did.

NathanAllen: Why do Conservatives hate poor people so much?

Seriously, what did they ever do for you other than stock the shelves at Wal-Mart?

I'm really curious, did some band of roving hobos BBQ your dog when you were 10?

Or are they actually a reminder that your failed social policies do nothing to decrease crime by offering opportunity?



and by the way...

leave bush alone!

DROxINxTHExWIND: ed2525: Conversation similar to the days surrounding Katrina -

Cop: Sir, get off the tracks.
Man: Officer, my foot is stuck
Cop: Sir, I really think you should get off the tracks.
Man: Officer, I would love to get off the tracks, but my foot is lodged. If you could just grab that stick...
Cop: Sir, I really don't think you understand the consequences of sitting on the train tracks.
Man: Mutherfarker, if I could get off the tracks then I would, but on top of being broke. I'm stuck. Where can I go after I leav the tracks with no money?

*******CRASH********

Man: Oh my god, I got hit by a train...Why the fark wouldn't you call for back-up, as a public servant who is paid to protect in crisis? If I can't go to the people who get paid to deal with these things, where do I go? And if you get to bail when I need you, then why the fark are you here at all?


FTFY.

Look, the real point is that New Orleans is a lost cause. It was farked up long before Katrina. On a side note, they should consider building the memorial in the form of a strong levee.

Tat'dGreaser: Anti_illuminati: I wouldn't necessarily call them "people"...

Mutants? CHUDS?

Inedible cattle?

/this link fell off the back of a truck!

That memorial had better have lots of space on it for Gustav and his victims; looks like that storm could be stronger than Katrina and it's already forecast to be drawing a bead on NO all over again.

/once is a warning
//twice is for real
///time to get out is now

mandyer: Here's a tip: DON'T BUILD YOUR SH*T BELOW SEA LEVEL.

/"The meek shall inherit nothing." Except water. And Nutria.

You're giving someone shiat about where they live from a computer in North Hurricanolina? Seriously? I'm suprised you all aren't out cashing your Federal disaster checks. The people in the Carolinas get them so often, you all probably think that everyone in the country gets two refunds a year.

oldass31: Look, the real point is that New Orleans is a lost cause. It was farked up long before Katrina. On a side note, they should consider building the memorial in the form of a strong levee.

Stunningly good, and accurate.

New Orleans is poorly cited to put it mildly, and it wouldn't have mattered who was president, just as it won't matter who's president next time it gets flooded by a hurricane. If the people of New Orleans insist on living below sea level in hurricane alley, why should everyone else blubber about it when they end up in the drink?

what_now: Ray Nagin, Kathleen Blanco and the citizens of New Orleans would have nothing to do with my city's attempts to deal with the situation.

Actually, those are the exact people who are supposed to attempt to deal with the situation.

tarditi: /this link fell off the back of a truck!

a turdnip truck.


q: how do you ruin a kickass movie?
a: cast kevin costner

what an ass

If I lived in New Orleans, I'd be buying a canoe right now.

Tat'dGreaser: Anti_illuminati: Inedible cattle?

I marinate my steak in sewage water.

I season mine with dandruff and decapod-crustaceans.

this is taken directly from the 2008 Democratic Party Platform:

"We will partner with the people of the Gulf Coast to assist the victims of Hurricane Katrina and restore the region economically.
We will create jobs and training opportunities for returning and displaced workers and contracting opportunities for local businesses to help create stronger, safer, and more
equitable communities. We will increase funding for affordable housing and home ownership opportunities for returning families, workers, and residents moving out of unsafe trailers. We will reinvest in infrastructure in New Orleans: we will construct
levees that work, fight crime by rebuilding local police departments and courthouses, invest and hospitals and rebuild the public school system."

This is on top of the Billions we have already spent.