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So they’re rushing to help. Aren’t many of the folk in NO still waiting for help? What a shitty shoddy administration.

From CNN.com:

Bush to Americans: ‘Help the folks down here’

AMERICUS, Georgia (CNN) – President Bush assured tornado victims Saturday that help is on the way as he toured towns in Alabama and Georgia that were among the hardest hit by Thursday’s storms.
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Speaking to reporters on Air Force One en route to Alabama, Federal Emergency Management Agency Director David Paulison said Bush’s visit was indicative of “the new FEMA.”

Before Paulison’s tenure, the agency drew fierce criticism for its handling of the Hurricane Katrina aftermath. Paulison told reporters that in the past FEMA didn’t intervene in disaster recovery until the state and local community became overwhelmed.

That system doesn’t work, Paulison said. After Thursday’s storms, FEMA immediately sent 14 teams armed with food, water, ice, tarps, plastic sheeting and communications equipment.

“We have to go in as partners, so that’s what we’re going to be doing,” Paulison told reporters.

America. Bastion of democracy. A beacon if light against hate and intolerance. People came here by the boat-loads to escape… the very thing we’re rapidly becoming.

I could post about how “We the people” really doesn’t apply to everyone. I could post about how Bush & Co., during their short time in power, have managed to whittle away some of our more cherished, fundamental rights. I could even post about our homeless’ day-to-day battle to remain alive. Or about our American troops, maimed from an unjust, immoral war, sleeping in their own urine in one of our sub-quality’sanctioned VA hospitals.

But I won’t. I’ll just toss in the following two articles instead.

From AMERICAblog:

Ann Coulter calls John Edwards a “faggot” at biggest conservative conference of the year

by John Aravosis (DC) · 3/02/2007 04:53:00 PM ET

Every year this conference showcases the worst of the Republican party. Conservatism at its cruelest, most extreme core. And this year was no different. One of the top conservative pundits calls John Edwards a “faggot.” Nice. And these are the people who make up the core base of the Republican party. Mitt Romney praised Coulter only moments before her public slur. Will Romney now retract his praise? Oh that’s right, the very pro gay Mitt Romney is “now” anti-gay. I forgot.

And, from MSNBC.com:

Cherokees may expel slaves- descendants

Tribe poised to revoke membership of thousands of black A-freedmen-

VINITA, Okla. - J.D. Baldridge, 73, has official government documents showing him to be a descendant of a full-blood Cherokee. He has memories of a youth spent among Cherokee neighbors and kin, at tribal stomp dances and hog fries. He holds on to a fair amount of Cherokee vocabulary. ” Salali,” Baldridge says, his face creasing into a smile at the word. “Squirrel stew. Oh, that was good.”

What Baldridge, a retired Oklahoma county sheriff, also has is at least one black ancestor, a former slave of a Cherokee family. That could get Baldridge cast out of the tribe, along with thousands of others.

The 250,000-member Cherokee Nation will vote in a special election today whether to override a 141-year-old treaty and change the tribal constitution to bar “freedmen,” the descendants of former tribal slaves, from being members of the sovereign nation.

Where the hell are we going???