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since when has this administration admitted responsibility for anything!? black is white! up is down! bush admits fault! something finally has the bastard on his heels.
Bush Takes Responsibility for Blunders


By LARA JAKES JORDAN, Associated Press Writer 44 minutes ago

President Bush for the first time took responsibility Tuesday for federal government mistakes in dealing with Hurricane Katrina and suggested the calamity raised broader questions about the government's ability to handle both natural disasters and terror attacks.

"Katrina exposed serious problems in our response capability at all levels of government," Bush said at a joint White House news conference with Iraqi President Jalal Talabani.

"And to the extent that the federal government didn't fully do its job right, I take responsibility. I want to know what went right and what went wrong," said Bush.

Facing sharp criticism and the lowest approval ratings of his presidency, Bush scheduled a speech to the nation from Louisiana for Thursday evening. It will be his fourth trip to the devastated Gulf Coast since the storm struck two weeks ago.

It was the closest Bush has come to publicly faulting any federal officials involved in the hurricane response, which has been widely criticized as disjointed and slow. Some federal officials have sought to blame state and local officials for being unprepared to cope with the disaster.

Sen. Mary Landrieu (news, bio, voting record), D-La., welcomed Bush's conciliatory remarks. "Accountability at every level is critical, and leadership begins at the top," she said.

Other Democrats were less charitable.

"The season has come for Americans to look homeward ... instead of continuing to spend billions of dollars in Iraq," said Sen. Robert C. Byrd (news, bio, voting record), D-W.Va.

And Louisiana's Democratic governor, Kathleen Blanco, accused the Federal Emergency Management Agency of moving too slowly in recovering the bodies. The dead "deserve more respect than they have received," she said at state police headquarters in Baton Rouge.

Meanwhile, R. David Paulison, in his first full day on the job as acting FEMA director, told reporters in Washington the government would step up its efforts to find more permanent housing for the tens of thousands of Hurricane Katrina survivors now in shelters.

"We're going to get those people out of the shelters, and we're going to move and get them the help they need," Paulison said.

Bush selected him to replace Michael Brown, who resigned on Monday after being recalled as the top onsite disaster-relief coordinator. Brown, a Republican lawyer with little previous disaster-management experience, drew fierce criticism for his handling of the crisis.

Paulison, a career firefighter with 30 years of rescue experience, said he was busy "getting brought up to speed." Bush promised him in a Monday night phone call that he would have "the full support of the federal government," Paulison said.

The storm displaced a million people, destroyed large areas of cities and communities and heavily damaged roads, bridges, canals and oil and natural gas facilities.

Bush's acceptance of responsibility came in response to a reporter's question on whether the United States was capable of handling another terrorist attack, given its halting and widely criticized response to Katrina.

"That's a very important question," Bush said. "And it's in our national interest that we find out exactly what went on — so that we can better respond."

"I'm not going to defend the process going in, but I am going to defend the people who are on the front line of saving lives," he added. "I also want people in America to understand how hard people are working to save lives down there in not only New Orleans, but surrounding parishes and along the Gulf Coast."

Also on Tuesday:

_Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said teams of federal auditors would scrutinize billions of dollars worth of government contracts. "We're going to cut through red tape, but we're not going to cut through laws and rules that govern ethics," he said. Congress has appropriated more than $60 billion for reconstruction. The Democratic National Committee accused the administration on Tuesday of "giving no-bid contracts to Bush's political cronies."

_Farm-state Democrats said they would ask for emergency money for farmers pummeled by Katrina as well as those struggling under high energy prices, drought and other natural disasters. Energy costs alone will shave farm incomes for North Dakota farmers by one-third to one-half, said Sen. Kent Conrad (news, bio, voting record), D-N.D.

_Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said some military aircraft and other equipment may be able to move out of the Gulf Coast soon. "We've got to the point where most if not all of the search and rescue is completed," said Rumsfeld, who is attending a NATO meeting in Berlin. He said nothing will be moved out of the area without the authorization of governors, the military leaders there and the president.

_A group of Democratic senators pressed Congress for a $5 billion upgrade of communications equipment that would make it easier for police, firefighters and other law enforcement authorities to talk to each other during emergencies. A similar measure was rejected in July as part of a homeland security bill. "They must be able to communicate with each other. This is a life and death issue," said Sen. Carl Levin (news, bio, voting record), D-Mich.
 
this is really interesting.

in the wake of the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, National Weather Service analysts have gone back and tried to analyze when the storm advanced from a Level 4 to a Level 5 Hurricane. By subjecting satellite shots of various hurricanes, they were able to discount various crackpot theories that the eye of a large storm looks like an avenging fetus, and discount any obvious connection with the storm attempting to wreak God's revenge on teh gayz.

However...by specially treating the images with various infrared techniques, a startlingly satanic image appeared to be controlling the storm's path!!
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we've already had reports of Houston HS students fighting with NO refugee students, haha. As bad as I feel for these misplaced people, many Houstonians simply do not want them here.

Even our mayor is stressing that these people are here temporarily.

We'll see.....
 
i saw what i think was my first car fully packed with belongings with a southern licensce plate yesterday ... they are making their way up here as well.
 
lurch70 said:
i saw what i think was my first car fully packed with belongings with a southern licensce plate yesterday ... they are making their way up here as well.

yeah feel my fucking pain
 
when i was a kid, i asked my mom why so many people in ohio had these hilljack accents and she told me that when the area around WPAFB was being developed (fairfield and osborn - now fairborn), a lack of school teachers forced local governments to recruit from the hills of west virginia and kentucky. so kids of that day were taught by people with thick hilljack accents. they grew up and moved to the surrounding areas - thus the reason why there are hilljacks in ohio.

disclaimer: hilljacks are everywhere. but it's an interesting and true story.
 
heheh, it's an ohio word. no one here in tennessee has ever heard it either. which is funny because they are all hilljacks.
anyway, yeah they are a close relative of the hillbilly. maybe lizard can post some pics.
 
Well good luck to all Texas residents. Right now it looks like it could easily beat the devastation of Katrina (lets face it, New Orleans was destroyed by levees, not a hurricane).

I-45 in THe WOodlands is bumper to bumper. Don't know where these people are going since the goddamn Louisiana folks already have all the rooms in Huntsville and COnroe.

Me and the wife are going to tough it out at home. If we decide to go, we;ll either stay with her folks in Huntsville or head towards Nacogdoches where I own some acreage and a trailer house.

Godspeed to PJ and E-bortion.
 
J. said:
Well good luck to all Texas residents. Right now it looks like it could easily beat the devastation of Katrina (lets face it, New Orleans was destroyed by levees, not a hurricane).

I-45 in THe WOodlands is bumper to bumper. Don't know where these people are going since the goddamn Louisiana folks already have all the rooms in Huntsville and COnroe.

Me and the wife are going to tough it out at home. If we decide to go, we;ll either stay with her folks in Huntsville or head towards Nacogdoches where I own some acreage and a trailer house.

Godspeed to PJ and E-bortion.

Six hours away, thank fucking satan. The most I should get is some rain and cool temperatures, but thanks for the concern :D
 
It'll be cool to see all the pine trees swaying back and forth. Just hope none of them hit the house. But I've got homeowners insurance and flood insurance, so oh well.
 
hope you do okay, dude(s).

hilljacks are prone to wearing bib overalls, and the female of the species is generally over 200 lbs, and at least 5 feet tall at the shoulder in mature specimens. they are likely to speak in colloquial terms, such as "We wuz goin' over by there...." Pubescent females retain their virginity only as long as they can run faster than their uncles and brothers. Uncles and brothers have been known to take out their sexual frustration on each other.