Making Baby Jesus Cry

[baltassoc]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
Yeah, but everyone acknowledges Spank and Penske are tiresome on this topic. Will you admit Baltassoc and Ty have also just gone way too far?

I have posted about 10 posts on the subject, most of them clumped around a half hour period, and mostly in response to a particularly asinine postition you insisted on defending. As it was a holiday weekend, I choose to believe you were simply drunk.

This morning, I linked to two documents that seem to be relevant to a discussion of interest to the board, but not particularly to me (i.e. who was more negligent in the early stages of responding to the disaster).

To the extent I have energy to discuss the topic at all, I am much more interested in ongoing, current incompetence (the subject of my multiple posts with you Sunday).

I have nothing more to say on the topic for now. Except that people who don't give money to the Red Cross are chumps.

(Again, with a few exceptions who have disclosed themselves to me directly, I have no idea who has given what. Hank may be cool. Or he may be a chump. I'll leave that to the board to decide.)

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by Penske_Account
Chief Justice Rehnquist was a master at that mission. For that, and for the steadiness of his leadership, I will always remember him with profound gratitude and admiration.


compare and contrast with the classless gutter dwellers like Dershbag-o-shits and Souter. Notwithstanding the general rot on the left, there are beacons of decency, albeit few and far between.

The goose-stepping in front of the Jewish dorms when he was at Stanford was pretty classy.

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by baltassoc
So you mean the whole thing about not being able to take any action until Louisiana requested it formally was just bullshit?

I haven't been hung up on that -- my concern expressed here is that the state, when overwhelmed, threw up its hands and started complaining that the feds weren't doing anything.

I don't actually care too much about legal niceties; just the big picture, which from what I can tell is that La. never developed a plan for what happens if they're overwhelmed beyond sending a request to FEMA. And, because I believe our federal system should have meaning, I don't expect FEMA to have drawn up plans for every contingency without prior input from states and localities, who are (or should be) more familiar with local circumstances.

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Dan Balz in the Washington Post describes Bush's unique success in dividing the country along party lines. But the fact that many of us can no longer abide Bush does not make us partisan, unless the GOP is defined not by its principles but as a cult of personality.

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[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
Growing tiresome?

The discussion of NO has devolved into something like the Peter Thottam tirades about Palestine, and the angry replies some people gave him. The only lesson here is, be warned: The Govt, at any level, will not save your ass anymore. We’re not the rich country we once were, and we’re headed headlong into a 70s energy crisis and recession with a very incompetent man behind the wheel. Bush is no Reagan - he’s a fucking Jimmy Carter.

Rudy in 2008!

[sgtclub]

Originally posted by Shape Shifter
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Oh hogwash. This country was equally divided during the Clinton administration and 9/11 was but a momentary pause in the partisan bickering that has been our history whenever we have a CE that isn't milk toast.

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
The Govt, at any level, will not save your ass anymore.

Rudy in 2008!

That's how it should be.

As for Rudy, what's the campaign slogan: "First 42nd Street; Now Las Vegas and New Orleans"?

[Bad_Rich_Chic]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
The only lesson here is, be warned: The Govt, at any level, will not save your ass anymore.

Anymore?

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by Shape Shifter
The goose-stepping in front of the Jewish dorms when he was at Stanford was pretty classy.

On a serious note, I heard yesterday that Rehnquist and O'Connor dated briefly at Stanford. I had never heard this before. What's up with that?

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by sgtclub
Oh hogwash. This country was equally divided during the Clinton administration and 9/11 was but a momentary pause in the partisan bickering that has been our history whenever we have a CE that isn't milk toast.

Revisionist fuck.

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
Growing tiresome?

Did you appreciate my homage last night? It needed the capper. The new post with no subject line that asked whether anyone on the board could possibly agree with Spanky's position that the school bus shot was The Most Common Picture Associated With The Hurricane and then took some pot shot at Spanky's politics and or personal debating style. Unfortunately the lead up wore me out. He has stamina, I tell you.

But, hey, he raised 20 large for the victims. Who knew he was a Communist fuck?

[sgtclub]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
On a serious note, I heard yesterday that Rehnquist and O'Connor dated briefly at Stanford. I had never heard this before. What's up with that?

This is true - Fucking remarkable. I always wondered if they got it on. O'Connor has talked about it and seems to suggest it was very innocent, but she's a lady (and a cowgirl) and I wouldn't expect her to say anything different.

[Sexual Harassment Panda]

Originally posted by sgtclub
This is true - Fucking remarkable. I always wondered if they got it on. O'Connor has talked about it and seems to suggest it was very innocent, but she's a lady (and a cowgirl) and I wouldn't expect her to say anything different.

He was #1 in his class, she was #3. They were probably in the same study groups.

[Gattigap]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
I was at a Vons in San Diego the other day, and was blown away by all the merlots (and the lack of zinfandels) in the wine section. Do Southern Californians drink a lot of merlot?

No.


(Well, not all of us.)

[Gattigap]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
That's not what I said, and you know it, or should.

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