tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5736821.post112620493837256585..comments2023-08-08T04:19:26.974-07:00Comments on THE CALLADUS BLOG: Let's play, "Blame the Victim!"Calladushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17620879847877868166noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5736821.post-1126253426230794512005-09-09T01:10:00.000-07:002005-09-09T01:10:00.000-07:00I apologize for the presence of an obviously infer...I apologize for the presence of an obviously inferior Troll. <BR/>Unless my little blog gains some readership I’m afraid that the quality of Troll hate mail will only continue to be sub-par.<BR/><BR/><BR/><I>Sigh</I> I can only dream of becoming as famous as <A HREF="http://www.normalbobsmith.com/" REL="nofollow">Normal Bob Smith</A>. He’s<BR/>amassed a huge collection of superior quality Trollish hate mail!<BR/><BR/>Me, I’m stuck with <A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_Test" REL="nofollow">Turing test</A> failures.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5736821.post-1126217364215645862005-09-08T15:09:00.000-07:002005-09-08T15:09:00.000-07:00Excellent Links there, Reverend!!Especially the li...Excellent Links there, Reverend!!<BR/><BR/>Especially the link to O'Riley and all of the documented lies he was spouting. Unfortunately, damage has been done in the forms of attacks against the Governor and Mayor in question.<BR/>From Salon.com:<BR/><BR/>"We began to see some of these attacks over the weekend. Sunday's Washington Post cited an anonymous Bush administration official who explained that one reason that the federal government didn't intervene more quickly in Louisiana was because Kathleen Blanco, the state's Democratic governor, failed to declare a state of emergency there, a necessary step for federal help to flow. An article in Newsweek repeats the same claim. <BR/><BR/>But there's a problem with the White House's excuse: It's patently false. As Josh Marshall points out, Blanco declared a state of emergency on Aug. 26 -- a day before Bush declared a federal emergency in Louisiana. (You can see Blanco's official declaration in PDF format here on salon.com; the Washington Post has corrected its article.) On Aug. 28 -- the day before Katrina made landfall -- Blanco followed her declaration with an official letter (PDF) to Bush that requested all manner of emergency supplies her state would need for the aftermath. <BR/><BR/>Haddow says that these requests should have been enough -- more than enough -- to prompt a full-scale federal response."<BR/><BR/>PS- who's the AssHat that doesn't recognize sarcasm??? You're gunna have to go back to writing your commentary on bricks and bashing folks on the head, there, Reverend.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com