A Canadian Perspective on Katrina

Not everyone north of the border is beyond hope; here’s a Canadian Journalistwith the Ottawa Citizen commenting on Katrina a couple of weeks ago. Here’s my favorite excerpts from the article which covers a lot more than Katrina:

“Almost everything that has worked in the recovery operation along the U.S. Gulf Coast has been military and National Guard. Within a few days, under several commands, finally consolidated under the remarkable Lt. Gen. Russel Honore, it was once again the U.S. military, efficiently cobbling together a recovery operation on a scale beyond the capacity of any other earthly institution.

We hardly have a military up here. We have elected one feckless government after another, who have cut corners until there is nothing substantial left. We don’t have the ability even to transport and equip our few soldiers. Should disaster strike at home, on a big scale, we become a Third World country. At which point, our national smugness is of no avail.”

Hat tip to Paul Corey…

Posted at 05:15 pm by Logipundit

Dem joke of the day…

Gotta admit…this is pretty funny.

Donald Rumsfeld is giving the president his daily briefing. He concludes by saying: “Yesterday, 3 Brazilian soldiers were killed.”

“OH NO!” the President exclaims. “That’s terrible!”

His staff sits stunned at this display of emotion, nervously watching as the President sits, head in hands.

Finally, the President looks up and asks, “How many is a brazillion?”
”

Posted at 04:56 pm by Logipundit

	Posted by RaisingOrleans @ 09/29/2005 05:10 PM PDT
	HA! Love it.

And then again you have this one…

Thursday, September 29, 2005

And then again you have this one…

hat tip to “William E Bodine”

Posted at 05:01 pm by Logipundit

	Posted by John Broussard @ 09/30/2005 07:53 AM PDT
	There are plenty of poor people in Cameron and Vermilion parish. They didn’t need to cart them out in buses beforehand. Even the welfare cases down there knew to get out of town, or had a boat to get out if they needed to, (like some I know.) I get the point but until Houston gets hit dead on by a Katrina, the comparison isn’t fair. The New Orleans picture is bad enough in it’s own right, there’s no need to add extra-partisan view of the situation.

	Posted by BP @ 10/03/2005 10:38 AM PDT
	:o(

	Posted by John Broussard @ 10/03/2005 06:21 PM PDT
	I like how when I click on your name it links back to Logipundit.

FEMA

The interrogation of Mike Brown (which can be found on www.cnn.com) reminds me of the scene in “Office Space” where the efficiency guys ask the guy who’s about to be fired, “Just what, exactly, would you say you do here?” So FEMA doesn’t do law enforcement or evacuations…or pretty much anything but pass out checks two weeks after the storm. That’s what they do. How big is this bureaucracy? Seems like you could use 5-6 temps writing checks after a storm to get this done.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/09/27/katrina.brown/index.html

Posted at 07:12 pm by Johnny B

Democrat or Republican?

I’m sure you guys have seen this before, but it warranted a post I thought:

“Are you a Democrat, Republican or Southern Republican?

Here is a little test that will help you decide.

Question: How do you tell the difference between Democrats, Republicans
and Southern Republicans?

The answer can be found by posing the following question:

You’re walking down a deserted street with your wife and two small
children. suddenly, an Islamic Terrorist with a huge knife comes around
the corner, locks eyes with you, screams obscenities, praises Allah,
raises the knife, and charges at you. You are carrying a Glock cal .40,
and you are an expert shot. You have mere seconds before he reaches you
and your family.

What do you do?
Democrat’s Answer:

Well, that’s not enough information to answer the question!

Does the man look poor! Or oppressed?

Have I ever done anything to him that would inspire him to attack?

Could we run away?

What does my wife think?

What about the kids?

Could I possibly swing the gun like a club and knock the knife out of
his hand?

What does the law say about this situation?

Does the Glock have appropriate safety built into it?

Why am I carrying a loaded gun anyway, and what kind of message does
this send to society and to my children?

Is it possible he’d be happy with just killing me?

Does he definitely want to kill me, or would he be content just to wound
me?

If I were to grab his knees and hold on, could my family get away while
he was stabbing me?

Should I call 9-1-1?

Why is this street so deserted?

We need to raise taxes, have a paint and weed day and make this a
happier, healthier street that would discourage such behavior.

This is all so confusing! I need to debate this with some friends for
few days and try to come to a Consensus.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Republican’s Answer:

BANG!

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Southern Republican’s Answer:

BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG!
BANG! Click…..(sounds of reloading).

BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG!
BANG! Click

Daughter: “Nice grouping, Daddy! Were those the WinchesterSilver Tips or
Hollow Points?”
“

Posted at 07:00 pm by Logipundit

	Posted by john broussard @ 09/26/2005 09:12 PM PDT
	I don’t know any Democrats who are expert shots.

	Posted by Reagan_Gahagan @ 09/26/2005 11:06 PM PDT
	There are a lot of Democrats in New Orleans who are expert shots. We call them looters.

	Posted by John Broussard @ 09/27/2005 07:52 AM PDT
	Touche, Mike. Those guys won’t react the way logipundit suggested, however.

	Posted by Reagan_Gahagan @ 09/27/2005 11:49 AM PDT
	They won’t go “Bang, Bang.” They’ll go “rat-a-tat-tat” and pop a cap in your a$$. Beeeaaaatch!

Rita

We got about three feet of water in our house, which is about 7 miles inland. Anyway, my sister is high and dry a few miles down the road and has some new refugees. Good news is, our dog, a rat terrier named “football”, has now survived two hurricanes. Also, my Mom’s house made it on CNN. Her’s is the wood house with a (quite smart) cow standing on the front porch. I couldn’t find it on the net but someone said they saw it. I hear the water is rushing out so they should be able to check it out tomorrow.

Posted at 08:57 pm by Johnny B

	Posted by Logipundit @ 09/25/2005 11:45 PM PDT
	glad everyone is OK…let us know if there is anything we can do to help.

Re: Rita

It doesn’t look good for the Sagrera clan (My Mom’s side of the family) and the old home place. My folks are all ok, but we really got shook up. No good news here. Check http://www.katc.com or http://www.klfy.com for details, if y’all are interested.

Posted at 11:15 am by Johnny B

"Journey to Liberalism"

Wow…you guys have to read this. What an excellent illustration of what it means to have a mind that is completely sealed from rational thought.

This “journey to liberalism” is the most asinine, patronizing, dishonest and irrelevant post I have ever read. I am so humbled, though, for being mentioned in the post (without being mentioned) that I’m going to rethink my entire political philosophy.

I spend 20 minutes a few days ago posting substantive and constructive comments on a couple of websites (including the one above, honestly and sincerely agreeing with this leftist wacko on a certain issue), and then he comes to my site and very politely leaves some comments. THEN once he realizes that I’m an evil conservative…promptly BLOCKS ME FROM COMMENTING ON HIS SITE. All the while I’m trying to have a rational discussion with him regarding conservative (“token” according to him) African Americans. Then he tells me that he’s A BLACK MAN and that he has spoken and after one more comment let’s me know he’s never going to talk to me again.

THEN I get accused of being an opportunist (?????) What in the name of all that is holy does that mean? This guy thinks I commented on his site to drive his EXTENSIVE readership to my site. LMAO. Does anyone see any ads on this site? Johnny is that check in the mail from Google?

WHAT IN THE HELL IS THIS GUY TALKING ABOUT? I can’t believe I’ve wasted this much time with him.

You know what I should do, though? I should become EVEN MORE conservative now, operating on the assumption that all liberals must be as completely void of rational thought as this “Mirror Ball”. That would be in line with Mervinesque logic.

As Vinny would say…”I’m done with this guy”.

Meanwhile visit “The Dispassionate Lib“…I probably disagree with 85% of what the guy says, but at least he is capable of rational thought.

Posted at 10:32 pm by Logipundit

New Author

Welcome our new author, Mike “Reagan” Gahagan. At first I was going to make fun of the blatant nature of his chosen author name; then I realized that I’m essentially a Reaganite as well and I’m just hiding not too successfully behind some nonsense name like “Logipundit” which is supposed to make me seem sort of “above it all” and intellectually neutral.

LOL…who the hell am I kidding…so thanks Gahagan for being up front and honest about being a…(OH NO!)conservative. OH, on that note, where are our dissenting authors? It’s getting a little dense with true conservatives in here. Rothell, Scottie, and JimGaddy…we miss you, so POST SOMETHING DAMMIT!! Actually come to think of it, I don’t believe that Gaddy or Rothell have posted yet…like…at all.

Meanwhile, all are welcome to comment…especially if the comments are well reasoned, and if they are not, then unbridled fury from heaven and hell will descend upon you in a torrent that will make Katrina look like a spring shower…OK…maybe not, but we WILL say things like…”Do what?!?” and “What the *&%&@” and you will be ashamed.

Sincerest thanks for visiting…come back anytime.

Posted at 09:55 pm by Logipundit

"As a" in the beginning of a sentence

Sorry we are picking on you so much, Mervin, if you are still out there. I’m sure if we all had a cup of coffee we’d enjoy hanging out together. Your comment about Justice Thomas is what prompted me to read his dissent on Kelo, something I’d been meaning to do for a while. That post was for you. Anyway, you might not read this but I’ve got a question with regards to your statement, “I as a BLACK MAN have the right to criticize Jesse Jackson etc.” Does that mean that only black men have the right to criticize other blacks? I think that, as an AMERICAN, you have the right to criticize whomever you please. I don’t think that, as a WHITE MAN, I have any more right to criticize Bill Clinton or George W Bush than you do.

Posted at 04:40 pm by Johnny B