"So NOW who's doing a heck of a job?"Follow

I don't have too much comment on the state of disaster response in California which, from what I've heard, has been pretty good. I just found it funny that Michael Brown came up from under his rock to snap at Bush in a supreme show of schadenfreude.

It's a very different world when you're a former government employee.

I don't have too much comment on the state of disaster response in California which, from what I've heard, has been pretty good.

The wealthy white landowners are getting good government service? I'm shocked, shocked, I say.

You've really never been to Southern California, have you?

Well, he's just pissed that he got rolled under a bus for doing his job the same way the job's always been done, and pointing out that the handling of this emergency from a federal perspective was no better.

And he's basically right (not on the rant, but on the response). Federal response to a declared emergency typically takes 2-4 days from start of declaration until relief actually appears. That's how long it took in New Orleans. That's also how long it took here in San Diego (we didn't start seeing anything from FEMA until Wednesday, nor did we see National Guard until then either).

The reality is that for the first few days of a disaster it's really up to the state and local folks to deal with it until national aid can be mobilized and get there. That's pretty standard. If you want to take anything from the two disasters, it's should be the contrast between a city and state that is prepared and reacts properly with good leadership and strong communication, and one that fails utterly on every level and sits around wallowing until the feds show up.


When they're telling people to stop sending stuff to the evacuation centers because they've got too much already, clearly it's not about whether or when or how much federal assistance arrives.

Asbestos underoos baby!

You've really never been to Southern California, have you?

Do you mean actually mean "San Diego, land of great inferiority complex?" Because I've been there, and also to Southern California, which is North of there.

How many white people in the photo-op with the Governor?

This picture shows a bunch of old white people who evacuated

PROOF!!!




Oops... had to fix that photo tag

Edited, Oct 26th 2007 9:43pm by Jophiel

But I can only assume that Smash is speaking out of some odd sort of white guilt because of where he lives.

let's contrast to a view of folks at Gillette stadium on game day


Maybe he shouldn't assume that because the white folks where he live have all the wealth and apparently keep their colored folks in the poor parts of town where they don't bother them, doesn't mean he should assume that it's that way everywhere else.

lmfao

That was great.

Look at all those priviledged white folk watching the poor negro gladiators fight it out. Do they still kill the victors?

I must be the exception. But then hubby is white (or blank as I like to describe him) so I must not count then.

Edit: Stupid quoting.

Edited, Oct 29th 2007 2:49pm by Thumbelyna