Thursday, September 08, 2005

Sean Penn Not Ready For FEMA Director Just Yet Pumping up the Hollywood pimps, like Sean Penn here, the writer of this AFP story missed a fact or two in the story, er, photo op. First, the great mariner launches his boat with the plug out. So it quickly filled up with water before the rescue effort began. He needed rescuing first. Maybe the motor wouldn't start because it went under water upon launch. So with no backup engine, mister Hollywood paddled his way through the city, with his videographer. Where is CNN when you need them? Maybe he has a video of the launch sequence? US actor Sean Penn paddles a boat after the motor failed to .... (AFP/File) - US actor Sean Penn paddles a boat after the motor failed to start as he made an attempt to rescue stranded people in New Orleans. Penn rescued several people from flooded houses in the city on September 4, before his boat sprang a leak.(AFP/File/Nicholas Kamm) By (AFP/File). [Lifestyle Photos - AFP on Yahoo! News Photos] I'll give him credit for at least trying to help, regardless of his reasons for doing so.  But it's gotta be quite a video to witness him bailing out his little boat with his red plastic drinking cup.  Then rowing the boat all by himself to save others.  ROFL   Maybe we are seeing the 'service to my country' part of his resume to someday run for president.   A student of presidential candidate John Kerry perhaps. 1:33:22 PM    comment [] trackback []

Here Here, from PowerLine Blog. Howard Quacks. He's at it again. Howard Dean told the annual meeting of a black church group that racism was to blame for the deaths that resulted from Hurricane Katrina: Democratic Party Chairman Howard Dean has told one of the nation's largest black church groups that racism was a factor in the rising death toll from Hurricane Katrina. Dean told the annual meeting of the National Baptist Convention of America in Miami that the nation must "come to terms with the ugly truth that skin color, age and economics played a deadly role in who survived and who did not." He also said the funds that now support the Iraq war could be used to rebuild New Orleans or to aid the poor and elderly. Note how Dean seamlessly merges age, income and race. Age could have been correlated, to some degree, with the death toll, in that elderly people might have had more trouble obeying the mandatory evacuation order, and the local authorities failed to provide buses or other means of transportation to escape the city before the hurricane struck. Likewise, perhaps, with income. But race? There isn't a scrap of evidence that race had anything to do with it. What is Dean trying to imply? That the Louisiana authorities kicked black people off buses? Barricaded the streets and stopped black people from driving out of town? Is he saying that National Guard helicopters flew over black people on rooftops and rescued white people or Hispanics or Asians instead? I think the nation needs to "come to terms with the ugly truth" that the Democrats are a bunch of race hustlers whose political self-interest always--always--overcomes any regard for truth or fairness. [Power Line] 3:17:20 AM    comment [] trackback []

Where The Red Cross Was The $64,000 Question that was on the mind of the whole world after hurricane Katrina, why were those people on the interstate who were interviewed by the media, not evacuated or given rations? Major Garrett of Fox News was interviewed by Brit Hume Wednesday night who explained that the LA state government's DHS prevented the Red Cross, who had pre-positioned supplies, from going in. They decided that it would have attracted more people to that spot and that would not have been good. I don't doubt the validity of this report because I recall a Red Cross person saying, on Tuesday or Wednesday after Katrina, that there were issues with the state as her explanation to why those people were not getting any help. That's a diplomatic way of saying that someone in the state has their head up their you know what. Now I also recall seeing Shepherd Smith on one of those interstates, explaining how people have not only not received any help but have died. We saw a corpse on the side of the roadway. I remember another story where a wife sat beside her husband who had died waiting to be rescued. To summarize, the state of Louisiana's Department of Homeland Security was the one who refused to help those who fled to the highways, Convention Center, and Superdome, because they feared if they did, then they might have to save even more people. All while knowing that the Red Cross was poised to help immediately. They let people die. How much better the thousands of people we watched on TV would have behaved and been, if they felt their needs were being met, or in the process of being met? To the incredibly incompetent politicians and officials in the good state of Louisiana, you should feel ashamed for giving the world a distorted view of our country and the people of the United States, when what they really saw was a snapshot of Louisiana politics. 3:12:17 AM    comment [] trackback []

Similarities Between Iraq And Vietnam We hear an awful lot from the left about the Vietnam War and alleged similarities to the war in Iraq. There are some similarities that are pretty obvious, ones that anyone can agree with. PETER R. KANN nails it in A Bad Analogy. Mr. Kann, now chairman of Dow Jones, covered the Vietnam War for The Wall Street Journal. A Bad Analogy. The war in Iraq is not another "Vietnam." [OpinionJournal.com] 2:13:58 AM    comment [] trackback []

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