How long until someone on the left connects this bus fire to Bush/Rove/FEMA?

George Bush doesn't care about old people!

I'd been wondering about things like fuel trucks. That had always struck me as one of the big potential problems with evacuations - that vehicles running out of gas just exacerbate the already-huge problem of moving the traffic. Glad to see that smart people have been thinking about this.

The death toll is up to 20.

Best guess is that bus caught fire and O2 tanks on board (via seniors needing them) blew up.

Nasty mess but something like this was bound to happen simply due to laws of probablity.

Bright side is that the US gets more real-life experience on how to evacuate a big city with warning.

So, is Pat Robertson glad these old people are dead, or does he just like to kick crippled children?

My first reaction when I heard the bus story on the way to work was "oh shit, some poor old man, sick of being on that damn bus, lit up a Marlboro around somebody on O2".

Used to have to get on mom's case about that all the time.

I guess it's the ex-smoker in me. Ex-smokers. We can be such bitches sometimes.

Pretty interesting: NPR has tapes of conference calls held by local/state officials (including Nagin and Blanco) in preparation for Katrina. A local emergency manager taped the calls.

The stories critical of government response are important, but they aren't the ONLY story. Stories accentuating acts of kindness and heroism and emphasizing how we "all pull together" in times of crisis are also important. The negative focus on the reaction to these crisises is invidious and I hope it does not signify a sea change in our culture. I also think the positive stories encourage a postive outlook which is especially important during the event. The negative stories encourage negativity.
IMHO

So, what's preventing the replicators from replicating, say, lab-grade cocaine?

Seriously, why the eff was anyone ever hanging out in Whoopi Goldberg's shitty Ramada Inn bar when they could be sitting in their room doing Bolivian pure off some Ensign's unitarded ass?

There goes the realism.

Cheers,
Dave at Garfield Ridge

P.S. Oh, yeah-- hurricanes bad, Blanco & Nagin incompetent, Barbour cool, SAN DIEMAS HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL RULES!

Here in Dallas, it was ALL EXPLODING BUSES ALL THE TIME on talk radio. I got fed up and turned that junk off. I'm disappointed in the coverage so far, because the ratio of calm-adult-distributing-useful-information to hysterical-shrieking-child-panicking-in-the-streets is way too low. I had to go to the NWS website to find out what the weather was expected to be, because the radio (and tv, I'd guess) was telling me about how bad the weather *could* be if everything went wrong (or right? Couldn't quite tell what their angle was).

Actually, the media - at least CNN - is already attacking the response to Hurricane Rita by both the federal and Texas state governments. Jack Cafferty on CNN yesterday was throwing a fit about the gridlocked freeways out of Galveston and Houston, and blaming state and federal officials for a crappy evacuation plan. (Which, you'll note, they didn't do to Blanco and Ray Nagin before Katrina hit.)

Then Cafferty started reading resentful, hateful viewer e-mails that sounded like Daily Kos postings, with declarations along the lines of "I bet Bush will do more to help the people of Texas than he did for New Orleans, where he let all those black people drown because they didn't vote for him." Then Cafferty ranted some more.

Yep, they're all "stuck on stupid..."

Unfair. Biloxi is a great town. There are few parts of it where it's worth your life to drive through; there's gobs of great restaurants; it celebrates Mardi Gras just like N.O., but you're less likely to pick up the hanta virus; the casinos have great shows; the marinas have beautiful boats; you can buy shrimp right off the dock from Vietnemese women in those peaked hats; you don't look up and see water over your head.

In fact, you'll get more bang for your buck at Biloxi than N.O., when both are rebuilt.

We're all wrong about Rove having the weather machine. Its the KGB and Yakuza working in concert. Here's the ummm "proof":

WEATHER WARS

Dude has recently been on the Art Bell show. That's all I needed to hear -- the Yakuza thing is a slam dunk.

Excuse the mental lapse with the link...I got too stuck on stupid from reading the site.

WEATHER WARS

"...1) Biloxi isn't as sexy a town as New Orleans but also 2) Barbour performed well and the media isn't interested in competency at the state level..."

3) Barbour (successful ex-chairman of the Republican Party) is a prominent conservative and high profile Republican.

rcl

Michael Brown said the evacuation of NOLA went well -- before he got the memo that it didn't.

Seriously, 80% got out without the Houston jam. But you still want to talk NOLA buses? Read this new stuff that came out TODAY!

to talk NOLA buses...

*yawn* With 500+ buses just a few miles away, what kind of moron needs to look elsewhere anyway?

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I'm sure you're going to tell us now what franchises have to do with exploding buses.

We wait in rapt anticipation.

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