If You Die, You Die. It Ain't *'s Fault

[politick]

I saw this on freerepublic.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1483069/posts

I don't even know what to make of it. The headline was "The Real Lessons From Katrina," so I thought, heck, let's see what the Way-Right thinks those are. Here's a snippet. (My comments in Bold )

<snip>
First, we need to recognize that officials at all levels, in all areas, are people. They may be educated, highly specialized people holding important positions, but they are still people. They are still fallible. They can and will make mistakes. Don't expect perfection, because despite unreasonable expectations from the media…you aren't going to get it. </snip>

The media, inexplicably, expected he FEMA, the military, and the President to do their jobs. But the media failed to understand that they're just people, and sometimes people don't want to do their jobs, or are just plain no good at them. Ever been to Wendy's on a Sunday afternoon? Then you get my point.

<snip>
Second, depending upon the total swath of destruction, it may take days for help to reach you. Your life is obviously important to you, but there may be hundreds, if not thousands, of others in the same situation as you. Emergency services often move manpower and equipment out of the path of destruction so that it will be available afterwards; otherwise, they risk having it destroyed and completely unavailable once the danger passes. It takes time to move all that equipment and manpower back into place.</snip>

It's gonna take time. A whole lotta precious time. It's gonna take patience and time. To do it right. (Go to Amazon.com to learn more about purchasing this song!)

<snip>
Third, recognizing that it may take days to reach you, you should stock up on provisions. The typical recommended supply is 3 days of food and water; this recommendation should be changed to 5, just to be safe. </snip>

To think, some Bumblebee tuna and Pop Tarts could have averted this whole calamity. I had a feeling...

Make no doubt, friends, that these are the real lessons from Hurrican Katrina. All of which can be found in your Boyscout Handbook.

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. Stupid. they are just so stupid.

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[crispini]

2. Well..

"sometimes people don't want to do their jobs, or are just plain no good at them."

And, when that is the case, it is their MANAGER'S JOB to follow up on that job and make sure that it gets done! And the manager of the entire fscking government is GWB!!!!

What maroons. :eyes:

[politick]

3. I wasn't clear

that the comments in Bold are my own.

Oopsie daisy...

...see, another irresponsible liberal journalist.

[TahitiNut]

4. Designing systems with single points of failure ...

... sounds like it's about the "boy scout" level of maturity. That arrogant moran doesn't know the first thing about systems, procedural or otherwise, where lives are at risk. Parallelism and redundancy are de rigor in such planning.

[Beaverhausen]

5. This guy is comparing minimum wage earners at Wendy's to Bush

sounds about right to me!!!

[thecrow]

11. That's about right... waht were we expecting?

A smart pResident?

If only everyone would subscribe to the point of view that they are all idiots, maybe we wouldn't expect much out of them.

Sound freeper logic!

:crazy:

[defiant1]

6. What a jackass....

First off,

*snip*

"Despite this experience, I am by no means an expert on city-wide evacuations and large scale emergency response planning."

*snip*

That about covers it.

[KT2000]

7. Thinking INSIDE the box

a tiny, shrinking, miniscule box that must be approved by the evil empire.

[kenny blankenship]

8. 100% Correct! Bush didn't make those WMDs not be there.

You die in Iraq for nothing more than the creation of an Islamic Republic with Sharia law in league with Iran, and it won't be Bush's fault.
He didn't make you sign up for the military and he didn't make the WMDs, which could hit us in 45 minutes supposedly, not be there in Iraq.

[Terran]

9. Oh god...some of them will say *anything*

to let Bush off the hook.

The media, inexplicably, expected he FEMA, the military, and the President to do their jobs. But the media failed to understand that they're just people, and sometimes people don't want to do their jobs, or are just plain no good at them. Ever been to Wendy's on a Sunday afternoon? Then you get my point.

I truly cannot believe this guy really means this, because you know if something like this had happened under a democratic administration, well, no freeper would be making up such lame excuses for them.

So ya see, they're NOT stupid--just incredibly two-faced.

[politick]

10. Uh oh

those are my comments, which I intended to be funny, but it seems that most people are misinterpreting it.

NOt that it's any less stupid than they're usual drivel, but I don't want to misrepresent.

[crispini]

12. Here's a hint:

Use the div tag to deliniate the excerpts from the text of the post. So for example, here is my post going along here,

and this is a snip from something else,

and here is my post again. Spiffy ain't it? :evilgrin:

Just format as follows and substitute square brackets for the parenthesis: (div class="excerpt")snip goes here(/div)

[Terran]

13. whoops

I thought you were boldfacing for emphasis. Sorry.