85% of All Problems .....

[Hobbs]

Originally Posted by BigV

Hey, tw, you're missin out on some really good raw material here!

[busterb]

Yep "2" as in two. Makes you wonder WTF is going on? Check my maybe not so cheap shot here.
http://cellar.org/showthread.php?p=187470#post187470

[tw]

Originally Posted by BigV

two? for the whole freakin state?

Hey, tw, you're missin out on some really good raw material here!

If the USS Bataan story was not the final straw for impeachment of a president, then what is a little starving of the people for political retaliation? Business as usual? More blame to be spread around? Clearly it must be those evil bureaucrats making mistakes again. Or god's wrath upon those who are not loyal to god's chosen president. Let's not forget, it was god's chosen president who said he believed god had selected him for the job. All yee non-believers in the parishes of Gomorrah hath brought upon yourselves what god has decreed through his chosen disciple. At what point is that the only remaining logical conclusion? After all, George Jr is not a mental midget. Read his lucid autobiography.

Only god's choosen president could have an aircraft carrier capable of housing and feeding tens of thousands - sit off the coast for a week doing nothing - as people were dying due to lack of water, food, and shelter. Do this and no one calls for his impeachment? Clearly this could only be god's will. I will wait for confirmation from the 700 Club. Obviously getting your penis cleaned by an intern is a greater crime against god. Otherwise the people would rise up to impeach Cesar.

Logic clearly has no say in what happens to Katrina victims of George Jr management. The classic MBA management style. It must be the will of god. No one could be told the story of the USS Bataan and not call for his impeachment – if logic prevailed. Therefore it must be god's will. No one would elect a man so mentally deficient to be president of the US. It must be god's will. It must be god's revenge on those parish sinners.

It is the only way so many could suffer and die - and we don't call for impeachment. Hell. Even the fox (George Jr) promises to investigate why all those chickens died. Congress did not even get the joke. Must be god's will.

[tw]

What happens when the top man is an MBA - subordinates are lawyers. Well the blackout two years ago across the Northeast was directly traceable to such people. Now this:

Stumbling Storm-Aid Effort Put Tons of Ice on Trips to Nowhere
Ninety-one thousand tons of ice cubes, that is, intended to cool food, medicine and sweltering victims of the storm. It would cost taxpayers more than $100 million, and most of it would never be delivered.

The somewhat befuddled heroes of the tale will be truckers like Mark Kostinec, who was dropping a load of beef in Canton, Ohio, on Sept. 2 when his dispatcher called with an urgent government job: Pick up 20 tons of ice in Greenville, Pa., and take it to Carthage, Mo., a staging area for the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

Mr. Kostinec, 40, a driver for Universe Truck Lines of Omaha, was happy to help with the crisis. But at Carthage, instead of unloading, he was told to take his 2,000 bags of ice on to Montgomery, Ala.

After a day and a half in Montgomery, he was sent to Camp Shelby, in Mississippi. From there, on Sept. 8, he was waved onward to Selma, Ala. And after two days in Selma he was redirected to Emporia, Va., along with scores of other frustrated drivers who had been following similarly circuitous routes.

At Emporia, Mr. Kostinec sat for an entire week, his trailer burning fuel around the clock to keep the ice frozen, as FEMA officials studied whether supplies originally purchased for Hurricane Katrina might be used for Hurricane Ophelia. But in the end only 3 of about 150 ice trucks were sent to North Carolina, he said. So on Sept. 17, Mr. Kostinec headed to Fremont, Neb., where he unloaded his ice into a government-rented storage freezer the next day.

"I dragged that ice around for 4,100 miles, and it never got used," Mr. Kostinec said. A former mortgage broker and Enron computer technician, he had learned to roll with the punches, and he was pleased to earn $4,500 for the trip, double his usual paycheck. He was perplexed, however, by the government's apparent bungling.
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Over about a week after the storm, FEMA ordered 211 million pounds of ice for Hurricane Katrina, said Rob Holland, a spokesman for the Army Corps of Engineers, which buys the ice that FEMA requests under a contract with IAP Worldwide Services of Cape Canaveral, Fla.

[tw]

From the cover story of The Economist on 29 September 2005 (italics added by me) is this major concession:

What's gone wrong for America's right
The Economist has always had all sorts of ideological disagreements with Mr Bush, but our main problem with his administration has increasingly become incompetence. Katrina now stands besides the shambles overseas in Iraq and Guantanamo Bay as supporting evidence. Mr Bush is a bold decision-maker, but he is also a delegator who too often picks the wrong people and seldom fires them. Both "Rummy" and "Brownie" ... are symptoms of the same problem.

America's system of political appointees always risks putting the well connected, rather than the well qualified, into top jobs. But Mr Bush has abused this more than most. ...

The most important is fiscal profligacy. Mr Bush has increased spending more than any president since Johnson, and cut taxes with the enthusiasm of Ronald Reagan. Second, far too much cash has gone on earmarked pork-barrel projects without economic justification. There is $24 billion-worth of such gunk in the highway bill, including the notorious $231m "bridge to nowhere" in Alaska, put there by the chairman of the House transportation committee. ...

Mr Bush is currently resisting attempts to set up an independent inquiry into what went wrong: he would prefer to have an inquiry led by a White House adviser. This is heinous. A thousand people have died and the tax payer faces a bill of up to $200 billion. If those two things do not merit independent investigation, then what on earth does? ...

[classicman]

I just had to bump this - This is classic tw, and a vintage '05 at that. Great read.

[TheMercenary]

Well Cliton has no part in this I just want to be clear. I must be all BUSH's fault.

Fucking idiots. The picture is much bigger than that.

[regular.joe]

Is it Bush and management, or just science?

New research has led to the discovery of an element which may resolve the current oil crisis. The new element, Governmentium (Gv), has one neutron, 25 assistant neutrons, 88 deputy neutrons, and 198 assistant deputy neutrons, giving it an atomic mass of 312. These 312 particles are held together by forces called morons, which are surrounded by vast quantities of lepton-like particles called peons. Since Governmentium has no electrons, it is inert; however, it can be detected, because it impedes every action with which it comes into contact.

A minute amount of Governmentium can cause a reaction that would normally take less than a second to take from four days to four years to complete. Governmentium has a normal half-life of 2-6 years; it does not decay, but instead undergoes a reorganization in which a portion of the assistant neutrons and deputy neutrons exchange places.

In fact, Governmentium's mass will actually increase over time, since each reorganization will cause more morons to become neutrons, forming isodopes. This characteristic of moron promotion leads some scientists to believe that Governmentium is formed whenever morons reach a critical concentration. This hypothetical quantity is referred to as critical morass.

When catalyzed with money, Governmentium becomes Administratium, an element that radiates just as much energy as Governmentium since it has half as many peons but twice as many morons.

[Crimson Ghost]

Originally Posted by TheMercenary

I must be all BUSH's fault.

How Freudian...