The feds were supposed to take their cues from New Orleans Mayor Nagin, who shredded his own city’s disaster plan and ran for the hills. They were supposed to transcend the laws of time and physics to send in the cavalry the *instant* that the media started showing the worst of the worst — state and federal legal procedures be damned.

It’s simple. Aid workers should have ignored the threat of being shot by organized criminal gangs in NO. Truckers should have ignored the dangers of driving over weakened bridges on blocked secondary roads. National Guard should have been parachuted into Jefferson Parish. Helicopter gunships should have bombed the Superdome and Convention Center with Aquafina.

And Nagin should be considered a “hero” because he finally got off his ass and ordered an evacuation 24+ hours AFTER he was REPEATEDLY advised to do so by his betters. And just never mind that it was Too Effing Late to use the resources he had at his disposal to help the people in his city who needed it most. They were FEMA’s, the National Guard’s and Bush’s responsibility, after all.

In the end, though the heavens fall, we’ll be fed a new meme that the lefty echo chamber in the media will turn into a new ‘reality’: “Bush denied, poor blacks died”.

‘Sensing post’? What’s that?

You know, there is an easy way for you to answer your question. You don’t have to parade your laziness for all to see and admire. Really. And you have the nerve to bitch about other folks being incompetent.

For instance, I went and looked at the Sensing post. There was no refutation except for one person like yourself who had an opinion, but no understanding. In the same thread there were 44 comments, many from folks with experience. Frankly, a mere political stance is pretty damn worthless in the real world. Cheap, that is. No substitute for knowing how to do things. Expertise takes hard work and experience, not talk.

All those apologists were totally rebuted in the threads.

Suuure they were. I suspect your opinion would be the same no matter *what* the facts were. Reality based means never having to deal with reality. It’s a fantasy.

‘You don’t know what’s going on nor do you have any experience in dealing with such things.’ Maybe. I guess JJ has only as much experience in emergency management as Michael Brown. Luckily, he isn’t playing head of FEMA, but just executing his right of free speech here.

You were overreacting. You don’t know what’s going on nor do you have any experience in dealing with such things. All you can do is wonder this, wonder that. Heck, I think my cat can wonder. It’s not much of a talent.

There has been some good discussion out there as to what is involved in such an effort. I think countercolumn has had some of the best comments. Note that he is in the Florida National Guard and *has* been involved in hurricanes, most recently hurricane Dennis. He rants a bit, but he knows what he is talking about. One can learn something reading him.

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