Bush's Shrinking Safety Zone

[tw]

Still finding bodies. From the NY Times of 11 Apr 2006:

In Attics and Rubble, More Bodies and Questions
A landlord in the Lakeview section put a "for sale" sign outside a house, unaware that his tenant's body was in the attic. Two weeks ago, searchers in the Lower Ninth Ward found a girl, believed to be about 6, wearing a blue backpack. Nearby, they found part of a man who the authorities believe might have been trying to save her.

I remember George Jr standing on ocean front property while promising that Trent Lott's house would be rebuilt. Meanwhile:

"Because we haven't found our deceased. Being honest with you, in my opinion, they forgot about us."

She continued, "They did not build nothing on 9/11 until they were sure that the damn dust was not human dust; so how you go on and build things in our city?"

In October and November, the special operations team of the New Orleans Fire Department searched the Lower Ninth Ward for remains until they ran out of overtime money.

Half a dozen officials of the Federal Emergency Management Agency rebuffed requests to pay the bill, said Chief Steve Glynn, the team commander. When reporters inquired, FEMA officials said the required paperwork had not been filed.

Heard in a recent game of Password: "Incompetence." "George Bush Jr."

What did George Jr do in his first term when his popularity fell? Issue another Orange Alert. Well that does not work anymore. Better nuke another nation. War always increases the president's popularity ... and stops people from talking about New Orleans.

A competent man, having made so many gross mistakes during Katrina, would go out of his way to make sure no more fubars come from New Orleans. FEMA does not have the paper work? One decree from the president would solve that in 30 seconds. They are still looking for bodies that even remain where they died - 8 months ago. Only an incompetent (religiously selected politician) leader would let this continue – dead bodies unrecovered for eight plus months because of paper work. And again 85% of all problems are directly traceable to top management. They cannot recover bodies for eight months due to paper work? More bull.

George Jr's concern ended with a promise to rebuild Trent Lott's ocean front house. No problem. Fix his popularity by nuking Iran. Don't fool yourself for one minute. That is why the administration's number one guy on New Orleans after 'Brownie' was recalled to Washington was ... Karl Rove. It was a popularity problem - recovering bodies still is only secondary.

[glatt]

tw, you may have covered this before, but where did you find that often cited 85% figure?

[tw]

Originally Posted by glatt

tw, you may have covered this before, but where did you find that often cited 85% figure?

I have long awaited someone to ask. Number comes from teachers of management. Not the types that preach spread sheet analysis. The types that teach real management theory - often called 'Quality' - or what I call 'Product Oriented'. Many experts in quality have noted the trend. But I believe the actual number is cited by William Edward Deming - whose bead experiment, now in the Smithsonian, demonstrates the fact. I can no longer be sure which Deming publication provided the number. It has been many decades and much reading. Deming is so informative because he includes quantitative analysis.

Meanwhile, I provided another number. When top management blames everyone else, then 99% of those problems are directly traceable to top management. This from personal observations that date back to MBAs such as 1970s Henry Ford, Xerox management, the despicable Cannovino of IBM who was therefore always at war with Microsoft, head of Ashton-Tate (the largest software manufacturer in the world at that time), and even a most recent example - Carly Fiorina. I personally witnessed her all but completely lie to stockholders in the Compaq-HP merger meeting.

Eight months after Katrina and still there is no concerted effort to recover the bodies. This because FEMA does not have the paperwork? This because an organization headed by an MBA (George Jr) and a lawyer (Chertoff) need paperwork? Eight months and still no paperwork! Bull. Classic bean counter management. 99% of this problem is directly traceable to a president who went to CA for a fund raiser when Katrina bore down on New Orleans. A president whose lies are based upon the only thing important - George Jr's popularity and his party extremists. Just another example of why those numbers from W E Deming were so accurate. And probably why I saw George Jr for what he really was long before most everyone here.

CycleFrance noted another book called "The Goal". To appreciate where my perspective comes from and why that 85% number is so accurate, then maybe read that book. Once introduced to the concept, then Ayn Rand's books may say something different from what so many first assumed. It's called perspective. "The Goal" demonstrates in 'story book' format why I could long understand George Jr to be what others are finally learning four years later. The number comes from “product oriented” thinking. I believe Deming provided that number. Decades of experience has repeatedly demonstrated why those numbers are so accurate. Bottom line - that number is deeply rooted in so many fundamental principles.

[tw]

And nobody expected the levees would be breeched. Even from MTV of 12 Apr 2006:

Bush's 2003 Claim Of WMDs In Iraq Had Been Proven False Days Before, Report Says
In the months leading up to the launch of the Iraq war in March 2003, the Bush administration built a case for the invasion based on what it called evidence that Saddam Hussein was in possession of weapons of mass destruction. On May 29, 2003, President Bush reacted to the capture of what were described as two mobile "biological laboratories" as proof that "we have found the weapons of mass destruction."

The Washington Post reported Tuesday that even as the administration was touting the capture of those alleged labs, U.S. intelligence officials had already been informed that the information was erroneous.

A secret Pentagon-sponsored fact-finding mission - the existence of which was not made public until Tuesday, according to the Post - had already concluded that the trailers had nothing to do with biological weapons, based on information from a number of unnamed government officials and weapons experts who participated in the mission or had knowledge of it.

Would god's chosen president lie to you? Of course. Normal when religious extremists want to impose their religion on all others. Nobody expected the Spanish Inquisition.

When nearly a million were dying due to an Indian Ocean tsunami, George Jr did as he also did for New Orleans. Virtually nothing. George Jr believed he was god's chosen president. Wonder which god he worships. Teach your kids to be as honest as the president.