Since his vacation time in Crawford Texas was cut short by Hurricane Katrina, he decided to make up for it down at the Big Easy: BJ
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Since his vacation time in Crawford Texas was cut short by Hurricane Katrina, he decided to make up for it down at the Big Easy: BJ
http://img384.imageshack.us/img384/6006/bushvaca2ga.jpg
Figures.
Yep, that's the place he said he had fun in his younger days. And it appears that Papa Bush caught the fish.
Somebody did a great job in their "re-arranging" of the characters in the pic.
Wonder if those sun glasses GW has on are "government issue". They resemble those I see on some of our [/B]fighting men in Iraq.
Thats our Pres, times get tough, he goes on vacation. :( Sidewinder
You know--we may all be safer if he stayed in Washington because 9/11 found him in St. Petersburg, FL and now Katrina found him, let's see was it in San Diego or was it at some other place speaking and trying to shore up his stature/party or a fund raising speech.
Vacationer--yes; the most "vacated" president of all time.
BTW, we have heard the biblical story of some people asking for ALMS(gifts, food, money; etc.) ALM could stand for Alabama, L=Louisiana and M=Mississippi. These people need our ALMS. Please respond where possible.
Y'know Buf, I might almost agree with you, if only someone in this administration had his/her hand on the tiller. But no one seems to . . . He fired all the ones who did. There's no one home in Washington!!
What an incredible picture. Somehow I missed this one. It sort of fits his attitude.
I wrote a nasty e-mail to the governor of Alaska the other night. He said something like we'd better not give out those $2,000 ATM cards because some people might just want a windfall and not need the money. !!!! These people are, so many of them, old; they are disabled or sick; they are poor; and their skin, by the by, is the wrong color for the Bushies. Now they've lost what little they had, and they had practically nothing to begin with. Where on Earth does a politician (who one presumes managed to get elected) get an attitude like this? I told him God will judge . . .
It's absolutely appalling, all of it. They left those people there to die.
Here's an article that sort of says it all for me:
Seeking Higher Ground
A must-read. Simple but profound.
I used to live in New Orleans and, I have to tell you, I hated it. I always had this terrible sense of doom there. I was in a flood that was only a fraction of this, but it was bad; abandoned my car in three feet of water and walked in hip-deep water to work: at least it was safe. However, this time, of course, the Times-Picayune building (where I worked) is flooded and ruined. It used to be on higher ground; no more.
Shame on Bush and all his minions.
Wendy
I am not being facetious but is that for real? Is that a real picture without any touch-ups?
I can't imagine someone to be that heartless in a time like this.
Well, actually . . .
I suppose not, now that you mention it.
It looked just too good!!
Wendy
Original Fishing PhotoQuote:
I am not being facetious but is that for real? Is that a real picture without any touch-ups?
Thanks for all comments. Not even the Bushies would have the gall to pose for such a picture in such times as these in NO!!!---Would they?!?!
I have visited NO a number of times and found that there were places of great interest to see; including the French Quarter(day and night). Never once thought about the city being flooded. What a sight to see these past 2 weeks and allow my mind to wander back to how it used to be. Kinda doubt that NO will ever be the same again.
Highway US90 from Biloxi to NO was a beautiful drive along the Gulf of Mexico as recently as 15-20 years ago. No more, now I guess.
It is bad enough to think of all the people from Mobile to NO who no longer have any material goods in their lives. And then to have had NO initial help for days.
Sad Sad!! Total recovery may never occur.
And remember today is 4 years since 9/11
The picture found its way to the Glenn Beck website.
http://www.glennbeck.com/page2/index.shtml
I hear ya, Buf. The Gulf Coast is beautiful in the right conditions (or used to be). I've driven Highway 90 myself a couple of times. The danger, though . . . I really preferred Georgia, just my opinion.
FWIW, here's my old N.O. neighborhood now:
First of all, I'd like to ask if anybody really believes that the president of the united states ever gets to completely take a vacation? Just because he was still somewhere other than DC, I don't believe that he wasn't trying to get a grasp on the situation. I don't think that there is anything in his background, or in that of former Presidents Clinton or Carter or Reagan, for that matter, that would suggest that they could jump into the middle of hurricane aftermath and know what to do. Being a good leader doesn't mean you have to have all the answers, it means you have to hire or appoint those who do. Brownie as any kind of supervisor in FEMA was a huge error in judgment. That's what I see as Bush's biggest mistake in this.
Second--I live on the Alabama gulf coast, where we endured Frederic, and last year Ivan. Central Florida took it on the chin three times to our one--last year. This year we got Dennis, who undid the beginnings of Ivan repairs. Katrina did much more damage to the Mississippi coast than she did anywhere in Louisiana, and a little fishing town in southwest Alabama called Bayou LaBatre will be years in the rebuilding; and yes, there will be a rebuilding, because the alternative is unacceptable.
Third--there is plenty of blame to go around, so putting it all on teh third line of defense is pretty short-sighted adn ill-informed. EVERYONE living around the gulf of mexico knows what a hurricane has the potential to do. That's why voluntary evacuations should be as effective as mandatory ones. The fact that they're not is the direct fault of the residents. We don't just hear this in the two days prior to a hurricane, we hear it for six months of hurricane season EVERY YEAR.
Fourth--When a plan is drawn up, as was in New Orleans, by the people in charge of doing so, published and publicized, and not followed by the city officials, somehow the news organizations missed that and Bush still got the blame.
yanqui: a little fishing town in southwest Alabama called Bayou LaBatre . Now there is a name of a town that I had long long forgotten, well almost.
When I was 13-14 years old, I went there with some older buddies. One of them had a car and how I ever "got in with" those guys, I will never know. Long story short--I somehow got left behind on that Saturday night while they drove back to Creighton--a suburb of Mobile, as I recall.
It seems that I was in a house visiting with a girl and her family when my "gang" pulled out for Mobile. I had to spend the night (and the girl's Dad was a retired sailor) but they put me up for the night. What a night it was (and my friends said the girl was not a very friendly person and her Dad was pretty mean--neither was a problem to me and it was an enjoyable weekend.) Not all what you may be thinking. :D
Yep, the guys came back the next day and we had a crab "boil" or whatever it was called.
I couldn't help reminiscing about Bayou LaBatre!!!
There is nothing in the world like fresh gulf shrimp and crab. I haven't gotten the taste for crawfish or oysters, though. The Bayou area is really neat, and the Blessing of the Fleet and the festival that accompanies it are always worth experiencing. Hope the town gets back on its feet soon, lots of good, hardworking families there.
I see the typical sloganeering of the mentally challenged, where President Bush is a racist, blah blah blah. Never mind that so many "people of color" (pardon me while I retch at more sloganeering) have been in New Orleans for generations, that "people of color" chose to remain in the Strike Zone for generations, and as far as looking to protectors, even their very own Mayor, a "people of color" (sic) told the police to go to Vegas on the taxpayers' (re: "people of color") dime during the crisis! "Hey, New Orleans is a party town. Get over it".
What wasn't being chanted was who the true Enemy really was, and still is: Mother Gaia
Glad I could set the record straight.... :rolleyes:
You folks got it all wrong. President Bush wasn't down there on a fishin vacation, he and dear old dad were trying to feed the hungry. You gotta feel for him(and dear old dad)it ain't easy fishin the streets of the Big easy all day long for stripers. :)
Hi all
I really get tired of this left, right, rep., dem. As long as we run the party line like all dems are angels and all reps are evil or vise versa. All the arguing and manipulating by the media. Just tell me the news!!! dont give me spin or the news station or news papers take on a story. Thay kinda add there own lil agendas over tones on a story...Its bad for America. We voted he won! like it or not. Rep. or Dem. I wish thay would do away with the party stuff and we just vote on whos ideas we like the best. Thanks Pie.
Totally Agreed!Quote:
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Media does the most damage.Quote:
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Well Said!!!Quote:
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In my opinion, you got the best reply in this thread.Quote:
Originally Posted by Piesgood
I am not a Republican or a Democrat either. As long as the elected person do the job right. Sometime, they will do good, sometime they will do bad. When you pick one side of anything (Race, Religion, Politics, etc...), you will no longer be objective and it becomes a form of brainwash. Not trying to OFFEND anyone! :cool:
I support Clinton as much as I support Bush and vice versa as long as they do their job.
Separation and Difference are major cause of hatred and weakens the base structure of the root. I totally agreed with you Piesgood. They should do away with the political parties. It cause more damage to our country than good. It is just in the nature of human to cause separation so they can feel special.
Bush made many good decisions but, I think he is an idiot the way he handled the interview with Diane Sawyer after Katrina. He was laughing/smirking in the interview when thousands of people were suffering/dying.
The last two posts struck a chord. It really disturbs me that one cannot be "in the middle" to any degree at all these days. You are either 100% for something or 100% against it and you cannot permit anyone to hold their own opinion, you have to call them names and hate them if they disagree with you. What happened to cililized discussion of issues and actually listening to the other person's point?
On just about every issue I can see two sides. I will be on one side, and may even be strongly "in the camp" of that side, but I can still see that the other side has valid arguements which I can respect. Disagree with, perhaps, but respect.
I can remember when my father and I used to talk politics and sometimes differed. We would argue points and actually be smiling the whole time, and sometimes one of us would persuade the other to his point of view. Because we respected each other and we listened to each other.
It used to be we could say to each other "I'm in this camp for these reasons. I hear the reasons you give me for why you are in your camp, I respect those reasons and I agree with some of them, but my reasons keep me in my camp."
Now when you are in a gathering you had best avoid politics as a topic, or fists will be flying. How did this happen? Why?
Morning Bill, I hate to break it to you but this kinda thing has been going on since I was a child, there is nothing new about it. BJQuote:
Originally Posted by Bill Heffner
I have to disagree. It didn't start with Bush, certainly, but it is relatively new.
Part of it is lobbyists; the "single issue" problem. A lobby runs a huge campaign on a politician on one issue, say gun control, and he stands or falls based on the one issue. Now he may have a lot to offer his constituency on roads, hospitals, schools... But because he voted for a gun control bill the lobby gets him voted out of office.
I have read a number of editorials and aricles about how divisive politics has become and that the split exists not so much in the halls of politics as at the "grass roots" level.
The culprit to a large degree, imho, is all the negative campaigning. Casting the other guy as the "bad guy." Katrina wasn't even down to a breeze yet before politicians were calling each other "bad guys."
This thread was never meant to turn into an in depth political discussion, it was only meant to be some light hearted humor. BJ
Feel free to delete my posts. Didn't mean to be out of line.
Not a problem Bill, just dont want this to be derailed into something that will get people upset as that was not my intention when I originally posted it. BJ
Big John im sorry as well, I prolly had the most to do we it turning this way.
Pie.
I was debating whether to post an honest opinion and view just like anyone else. Big John, you are free to delete my post if you like.
Well, I'm also the kind of man who tires of all the insanity. But a man of conscience can't just sit there while the typical kneejerks throw "racist" around at such a time like this. As distasteful as it may be, you have to balance out all the illogic and propaganda.Quote:
Originally Posted by BIG JOHN
I instantly knew the picture was just a joke, so there's no need to regret it in the least. A pity that others either didn't, or wanted to believe it was real, however.
Off my soapbox.... :D