That hurt my eyes to read.
But I guess it was already pretty obvious that was the (non)plan.

...well at least NOW some of them have DVD players at least...

Notice how it's still the Bush administration's fault, somehow. Well I guess when the US finally becomes a military dictatorship under Imperator Carlrovius, Brad De Long won't complain.

After handling the fact that Kruggie apologist DeLong wrote that, I have to admit that the whole concept had me laughing.

A DVD? These people are so piss poor or infirm they can't figure out how to manage a way to WALK out of town, and you're gonna give them a DVD?

Why not buy air time on HBO, you dolts?

Funny thing is, Ace, that Nagin WAS the Republican candidate for mayor in all but name. He pulled a Bloomberg, switching to the Democrats solely because you can't get elected in NO without being one.

So maybe this WAS a Karl Rove Neocon Plot. And a brilliant one at that! Nagin is a double agent we've cut loose! And now that he knows he was being set up to take the fall all along, he's going apeshit!

WE ARE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS HERE, PEOPLE.

Check out the comments on DeLong's blog ... about fifty zillion leftists foaming at the mouth that New Orleans was too poor to have a plan (the city's budget presumably consisting of $79.99 per annum) and that George Bush is responsible for everything that happens in America, including the Oakland A's getting shut out.

Though one guy did attempt to slap some sense into them:

"are you seriously suggesting that the President should, without legislative authority, be allowed to declare an emergency, wrest control of a city and state from their elected governor and mayor respectively, take direct command of the police forces and emergency services, and impose martial law in order to compel compliance with FEMA directives.

George W? The guy who's supposed to be trying to bring fascism to the USA?"

...are you seriously suggesting that the President should...

Ummm...yes. That IS what most of the chattering class seems to be suggesting.

Well. Governor Blanco did ask for assistance from FEMA and the Federal government on August 28th.

AlanB:

Yes, she did. She asked explicitly for two things only. Money from the Federal government, and help clearing out brush and trees blocking the roads.

She did not ask for anything else. No military, no nothing.

She did not relinquish anything, either, like control of any of the Guard.

Joshua Micah Ezekiah Taffington Boutros-Boutros Marshall explains...

Best Ace-ism Ever.

I dinna know which was funnier: the name, or the intimation that Josh Marshall was actually going to, like, you know explain something.

Carry on, genius.

What I want to know is...what happened to this money?

FEMA gave Louisiana over half a million dollars last June to work with a private agency to develop a hurricane evacuation plan for the state.

Some interesting questions here:
- How was the money spent?
- Where is the plan?
- If there was a plan, why wasn't it followed last week?
- Who is responsible for implementing the plan in case of an emergency?
- Does FEMA have adequte follow-up in its grants process?

They needed lighting and makeup for the DVD. That's about $250,000 right there.

Wow. I'd like to see the kickbacks those Avon ladies are getting.

C. Y. A.

Slublog, had to be Mary Kay.

I saw pink caddys abandoned on I-10.

True. Maybe it was the Mary Kay Commandos that Berke Breathed warned us about.

Man, I'm having trouble getting back into things at work. One would think designing a poster asking for hearing aid donations wouldn't be hard, but gack...

and here I thought I was the last guy in America who remembered "The Night of the Mary Kay Commandos".

trivia. Berkely is a UTexas grad. Started the strip in the Daily Texan.

Even their Uzis are pink!

I have a lot of Bloom County books, including the one where he published some strips from the Daily Texan. I was happy to see Steve Dallas didn't mature at all from his earliest incarnation.

What I want to know is...

What I want to know is how a "plan" such as this can cost a half-mil and why creating this plan needs to be outsourced.

I'm in the wrong business, I need to be in the plan business.

Plans, Concrete shoes, cyanide, TNT
Done Dirt Cheap
Plans, Neckties, contracts, high voltage
Done Dirt Cheap