Surviving Sandy and political rhetoric.

I survived Sandy. (I think. I am still watching for those falling trees) Girlfriend was no joke; she slapped folks around as far South as Jamaica  (pics with this post) and as far North as Connecticut. Most of us were all lucky, this time.

Thankfully I will still be around to speak my mind and piss off folks who have issues with the truth

To all of you sending your best wishes to us folks on the East Coast, that is field Negro behavior on your part. Thank you for keeping us in your thoughts. Mitt, please tell your supporters to keep their canned goods; we lots of food, we need FEMA and the federal government to work with local governments to fix roads and bridges, and to get the mass transit systems running again. Don't think we forgot what you said about FEMA, Mitt. I know you tried to ignore questions about it today, but your words won't go away.

"Mitt Romney refused to answer reporters' questions about how he would handle the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), after a Tuesday "storm relief" event in Ohio for Hurricane Sandy.
From the Romney pool report:

TV pool asked Romney at least five times whether he would eliminate FEMA as president/what he would do with FEMA. He ignored the qs but they are audible on cam. The music stopped at points and the qs would have been audible to him.

A follow-up report noted the specific questions Romney ignored, as he was collecting hurricane supplies following his event:

"Gov are you going to eliminate FEMA?" a print pooler shouted, receiving no response.

Wires reporters asked more questions about FEMA that were ignored.
Romney kept coming over near pool to pick up more water. He ignored these questions:

"Gov are you going to see some storm damage?"
"Gov has [New Jersey Gov.] Chris Christie invited you to come survey storm damage?"

"Gov you've been asked 14 times, why are you refusing to answer the question?"
 

He is refusing to answer the question because he is hoping that, like everything else with his charmed -etch a sketch- campaign, we will forget everything he has said to get to this point. The thing about American poli-tricks is that his supporters -and the Obama haters- are going to vote for him no matter what he says or does, and the members of the press will all fall in line for fear of tipping the balance in the elections and ruining the this is a close election narrative that they have worked so hard to craft.

Chris Christie is not helping that narrative by praising Obama for the job he has done with helping the East Coast governors so far. Obama is even appearing with Christie tomorrow to tour areas of Jersey that was slapped around by Sandy. If you are Mitt this cannot be good. You are probably thinking that you should have picked the guy to be your VP, and not the little work out fiend Eddie Munster look alike from Wisconsin.

Mitt will now tell his volunteers not to send any canned goods to Jersey.

  

The wrath of Sandy.

This storm is real folks. Cranes are hanging in New York, and here in Philly we are preparing for the worst and hoping for the best. The Mayor and all the usual suspects have been on television all day telling the folks here to be safe and to listen to the warnings that are being given. Hopefully my peeps will listen.

The feds have given all the states what they needed so far, and from what I can tell, FEMA (the same agency that Mitt wanted to privatize) has been on their game. The last thing that O needs is a "Brownie you're doing a heck of a job", moment.

I caught O's live news conference as well, and so far so good. One reporter asked him how Sandy would affect the upcoming elections and he didn't bite. I am glad to see that he has his priorities right.

Mitt, as he always does in a moment of crisis, has been trying to play Commander in Chief as well. For his sake I hope that this works out better then his other attempt to meddle in the day to day affairs of the office of president. 

I am going to hurry with this post, because I could lose power any minute now.

If you live on the East Coast please keep yourselves safe and out of harms way.

And, if you can't swim, stay away from the water.  

Victimized twice.

Hello?

Yes, Hi, Mrs. Johnson, this is Bob from ICF International.

IC what?

ICF mam, I am calling from ICF.

Bob, what is ICF?

We are a collections agency mam, we are calling about a debt that you owe us.

A debt? I don't owe any debts. I am 65 years old, and am just now getting back on my feet after the Katrina storms wiped out my home and took my husband from me.

Yes, sorry to hear about that mam, but according to our records you owe us $35,000.

$35,000? Oh Lord how do I owe you that much money? I have to sit down, I feel kind of *weak. I have been really sick ever since I have been living in one of them FEMA trailers.

Well mam, did you receive a grant to help rebuild your home?

Yes I did, the government gave me that grant to get back on my feet after the storm wiped out my home.

Yes mam, but you were overpaid by $35,000, so we will need that amount back.

Overpaid? I used every penny you gave me to try and rebuild my home.

Sorry mam, our records indicate that you received too much.

But nobody told me that...

Didn't you read the forms on your "Road Home" grant mam?

Yes I did, I thought the Governor of Louisiana was giving us this money to help us rebuild?

No mam, when you received the money you signed a form that said you must repay it.

Well sorry, I don't see too well.

Yes mam, I am sorry to hear that. So when can we expect a payment?

Okay, that was a fictional exchange between a bill collector and Katrina survivor. But if you read the latest news about how the poor Katrina victims are being screwed again by the A-merry-can government, you wouldn't think it's so fictional.

Now these poor people, after finally trying to rebuild their lives, have to suffer the indignity of having bill collectors call them to repay a loan that should never have been a loan in the first place. The $11 billion that the feds invested into the "Road Home" program represents a few days in Iraq. And the assholes who run the program stand to earn a cool $912 million. I have an idea; how about you assholes cut $175 million from your contract and and forgive the victims who over paid your sorry asses?

Honestly, I think Kanye West might have been right.

*Thanks woozie ;)

What goes up.....

It sounds like something right out of a sci fi movie, but this is real life.

It seems that a satellite the size of a school bus is about to come crashing down on us any day now. Oh, and let's not forget to throw in some shit called toxic hydrazine which this bad boy happens to be carrying a full tank of for good measure.

Add these things all together and it makes for one dangerous reentry. The scary thing is that our government has no idea where this little piece of monstrosity will land. Oh, did I mention that it's a spy satellite? Yep, it seems this bad boy was sent up by good old Uncle Sam to spy on our enemies. It's called US 193 and they sent it up there back in 2006. Unfortunately, it was acting up from the jump, and we never really got anything out of it. Now I am not as pissed off about it as this blogger, but I do think someone has some "splaining" to do.

This bad boy has folks so worried, that at the urging of the Pentagon, the frat boy has actually ordered the U.S. Navy to blow that sucker right out of space. Three Naval warships will shoot S- M-3 ballistic missile defence interceptor rockets (whatever the hell that is) right at it. Not since parts of the "Sky Lab" fell in the Indian Ocean and parts of Australia, have we had this kind of close encounters with our man made objects that we send to space.

Now the frat boy and the folks at Homeland Security swear up and down that the reason they are doing this is to protect us from the school bus falling to earth, and the deadly fuel that it's carrying. Don't believe it. The real reason they are willing to shoot it down is because it is carrying some secret technology that they are afraid will fall into the wrong hands. It has nothing to do with protecting us. If it did, it would be a first. "Our assessment is that [the satellite] wouldn't be high intel value..the hydrazine is the only reason we are taking extraordinary measures." Yeah right General. And I have an antique bell with slight a crack in it right here in Philly that I would like to sell you. Give me a break!

But you want to know what's really scary? Guess who would be cleaning up if the satellite hits us here in A-merry-ca? If you guessed FEMA please move to the head of the class.

FEMA. I feel better already.

What press conference? We don't need no "stinkin" press conference.

"We can and must do better and apologize for this error in judgement"

So says Mr. Harvey Johnson, who is a Deputy Administrator at F-ake-MA.

Poor Mr. Johnson. He had to utter that statement after it was learned that F-ake-MA actually called a fake press conference to discuss the California fires. Now if this isn't a new low for the frat boy and one of his agencies I don't know what is. Like what the fuck is a fake press conference? I mean in a country that supposedly has a free and open press, how can a government agency get away -or even think they can get away-with staging a fake press conference? And I hope the frat boy and his White House doesn't try to distance themselves from this latest incredibly stupid act. Because, as it turns out, they were aware of it, and they were complicit in yet another incompetent act.

But I guess I can't blame the frat boy's peeps for thinking they can get away with this type of shit. When you have had FOX NOISE and other so called news agencies shilling (not the British coin woozie) for you since day one, it's easy to think that you can hold a fake press conference and get away with it.

Thank goodness for real news organizations like the Washington Post; and real reporters like Al Kaman. Mr. Kaman was able to uncover press gate, and he gave us this little gem:

"He was apparently quite familiar with the reporters — in one case, he appears to say 'Mike' and points to a reporter — and was asked an oddly in-house question about 'what it means to have an emergency declaration as opposed to a major disaster declaration' signed by the president. He once again explained smoothly…

'And so I think what you’re really seeing here is the benefit of experience, the benefit of good leadership and the benefit of good partnership,' Johnson said, 'none of which were present in Katrina.' (Wasn’t Michael Chertoff DHS chief then?) Very smooth, very professional. But something didn’t seem right. The reporters were lobbing too many softballs. No one asked about trailers with formaldehyde for those made homeless by the fires. And the media seemed to be giving Johnson all day to wax on and on about FEMA’s greatness."

And to think we were actually starting to think that F-ake-MA had gotten their act together after Katrina. We should have known better. After all, we are talking about George Bush here. And isn't he a fake President?