Cheney caught in another lie

If enough people start voting for a third party candidate, it wouldn't be throwing your vote away.

 

No because like everything you post it is without merit and assonine. My sentence structure was a little vague so I can see why you were confused. Of the two stories circulating about Jefferson's trip home one says the national guard would not let him go to his home without an escort of armed Gaurdsmen. Ther other says he requested to be accompanied by armed guardsmen.

Also what could senators are representatives do to aide in this situation. They have no emergecy powers. They can't call out the guard. All they can do is draft legislation. And Louisiana's congressional delegation has been fighting for the moneis to improve the levees to prepare SE Louisiana for a storm like this for 40 years , but jerks from the landlocked states shoot us down at every turn. Sourdough you dont know anything about the situation in Louisiana. You have no idea how much planning went on. The contra flow plan in itself saved 100,000 lives. The state and local government did the best job possible with limited resources. You just want to sit back and point fingers at Democrats. Give it a rest. Shut your trap, back away from your keyboard, and head to a shelter and volunteer if you care so much. When I think about this situation I see 1.3 million people from my home state in desperate need of help. All you see is politics. You have messed up priorities. It is almost as laughable as it is sad.

 

Your first paragraph,
Does it matter which story is correct?
Whats the point?
He should've never went home if he was going to take up valuable resources
that could be used to saving people.

The point is that it doesn't matter which way was correct, he shouldn't
used up resources for his own personnel reasons.
I hope you defend him when he goes to court, you do realize he's under
investigation?

I don't know whats going on?
Let's talk about the Louisiana delegation, do they know that some of the
money that went to maintain the levee was used for other purposes other
than flood prevention?

The state and local governments did all they could with limited resources?
Another awful statement, explain to me why the school buses were flooded
then.
Explain to me why a 17 year old kid was smart enough to take a bus with
no bus license and save 80 lives or so and take them to safety.

About your home state, I didn't realize the name was changed to LSU Supafan's state.

Its too bad we can't have an intelligent conversation without you throwing
insults at me so I will consider the source from anything you write on.

You sir, should get your butt off of tigerforums since you seem more concerned than I, Off your computer and run to the nearest shelter.
No more computer for you. :wink:
Sorry dude, you've lost it! :cry: :dis:

 

Let me make my point absolutely clear.
I've never said that the feds aren't responsible as well as local and state governments.
Most of the people that oppose me here only blame the feds.

I've always said in numerous posts on this here forum that everyone is at fault for this
for 40 years, republican and democrat.
Having said that the state of Louisiana and some or all of their representatives aren't
exactly innocent individuals over the past 40 years.

It cracks me up that some of you won't admit or think the state or locals did anything wrong, I flat feel sorry for you if thats the case!

Everyone in the state of Louisiana is perfect and no one is corrupt?
Some of you have selective post memory or something, you read only what you want!

I also love it how some people accuse me of nothing but politics.
They must be wizards who can cast spells and read minds, never ceases
to amaze me.

Have you accused anyone else here of playing politics?
I doubt it!
I'm not the one putting people's resumes and biographies and commenting.

 

You can't enforce a madatory evacuation of a city of 1.5 million people in 48 hours. It isn't possible. Under any circumstances The man power to go door to door in a 600 sq mile area to get everyone out is more than the state had to commit. You can't have buses ready to roll people out when the storm is over becasue you dont know what parts of the city are going to be flooded. You don't know if any roads will be passable. You don't know how many people remained behind.

Think of the logistics here. There were not enough busses in the city to get the 200,000 people who stayed out before the storm. It took some 40,000 bus loads to get everyone out. The time frame for a full evacuation of the city and low lying areas of Plaqumine and St. Bernard was planned for 72 hours. And thats with all roads outbound. The storm gave us a little over 40. Look how bad the roads were with just cars. Could you imagine throwing about 40,000 buses into that mess. Thats considering you can get all those people in one centralized place from which to move them out. Then where would these busses have taken people? Texas and other areas hadn't set up shelters yet.

Too many poeple are pointing fingers and laying blame, but have never considered the logistics of this situation. This was a nightmare plain and simple. This was not a problem that any degree of planning would have fixed. There were too many unknowns.

On the other hand, the Feds should have been air dropping MREs and water the minute the rain stopped. We had supplies on the ground in Sri Lanka and other Tsunami affected areas within 16 hours, but it took 72 to truck supplies into New Orleans. Something doesn't add up.

So yeah a whole lot of people messed a whole lot up. I personally hold te Feds more responsible because they should be better prepared to handel events like this. Florida got hit four times last year. New Orleans had a first run with this type of thing here. The Feds have dealt with this before.

I learned one lesson, and its this: Horse judges don't make good heads of FEMA.

 

I heard that environmentalists stopped the government from putting flood gates at the
mouth of Lake Ponchatrain about 20 years ago.
If these gates were there, would that have stopped the storm surge from going into
Lake Ponchatrain?

 

I didn't think that would stop a storm surge either.
I've often wondered if we could drop a bomb or something into the eye of
a hurricane and blow it apart over open waters of course.
I was wondering if that would alter the storm or do away with it.

I'm sure we would've tried it by now if it would've worked however.
Any thoughts?