The Hospital-ship "Comfort" yesterday docked in New Orleans. ELEVEN DAYS after Hurricane Katrina struck. Dispatched by the incompetant Bush administration, it now sits idly; with NO defined "mission", ad NO patients to treat.It has gone largely un-noticed, that a U.S. navy "rescue" ship with dozens of helicopters and hundreds of "hospital-beds" was ALREADY stationed in the gulf.....Capable of reaching New Orleans within hours, this ship also had the capability to "de-salinate" and "make-drinkable" tens of thousands of gallons of water!! This ship SAT idled by bureaucratic "red-tape", and and was subsequently not used. (It seems that it could not be "dispatched" without an "express, written order from the president".....You know, the guy who was too busy TAKING A VACATION!!!!) Dick-Head Cheney apeared in orchestrated "photo-ops" along the Mississippi coast; pledging "help" from a compassionate government. One local by-stander was SO outraged, that twice (while Cheney was being recorded) Cheney was told to "Go Fuck yourself!!...This outraged citizen was "censored" by every media outlet, and the story was TOTALLY ignored by nearly every radio and television station and network. Only "Edited" versions have surfaced on Air America Radio, and N.P.R. Can you imagine a victim of a hurricane, who is SO outraged at the government's efforts, that he would tell the Vice President to"Fuck himself"???? Cheney dismissed it, saying that he had not heard such views "directed at him". Odd, since this is VIRTUALLY THE SAME PHRASE CHENEY USED ON THE FLOOR OF THE U.S. SENATE!!!The director of FEMA, was today fired. (about time).... Still; too-little, and too-late. Meanwhile, the "debit-cards" previously purported to be available to "Evacuees" have been stopped. First they were said to be available to "all" "evacuees"; then it was said that "Only those who took shelter in the Super-Dome" were elegible; NOW FEMA and the Bush-idiots are saying that "those who want the $2000.00 assistance must first APPLY for it".... a process, which REQUIRES a "mailing-address" , proof of identity, and ACTUAL "mail-delivery"..... Most of which these people hve NONE!!! It now seems that the bureaucrats have attempted to make it VERY difficult, if not impossible for these "evacuees" to receive assistance. (We musn't call them "refugees", as it SOUND SO "THIRD-WORLD"!!!!!and not "Politically-Correct"!!!..............These incompetant, Bureaucratic-bunglers MAKE ME WANT TO PUKE!!!!!,,,,,,,,,,,,,,Dave
- posted by Dave @ 11:17 PM