http://movies.crooksandliars.com/Anderson-Cooper-Landrieu-Katrina.mov
http://infosthetics.com/
http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/national/2005_HURRICANEKATRINA_GRAPHIC/index.html
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From: Greg Ulmer
Subject: WMD
To: INVENT-L@LISTS.UFL.EDU
I asked Mr. Mentality for his comments on how the Bush administration
would respond to the Hurricane Katrina disaster. Some of his more
relevant remarks follow
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It took me some while to get up to speed. I entered "katrina" in Google
image search and had to sort through quite a few irrelevant pics, plus
getting around the child-filter at the public library etc.
I expect Dick Cheney will test the phrase Weather of Mass Destruction
(WMD) and float a scenario for invading Nigeria or one of the other West
Coast African nations, in order to begin a "weather building" initiative.
The logic is that what worked against terrorism should work equally
well against nature. The links between al Qaeda and the storms originating
in Africa are clear and proven. Meanwhile, the president will use the
occasion to recall the troops from Iraq, to help with the recovery efforts
along the Gulf Coast. His press secretary will insist that we are still
staying the course in the "Gulf".
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From: Craig Saper
Subject: WMD, finger pointing
To: INVENT-L@LISTS.UFL.EDU
Spirit Finger and Angry is Mounting in N.O.
The Bush administration has said now is not the time for finger pointing
(refering perhaps to the fact that Bush cut funding to fix the specific levees
that gave way and reversed a Clinton-era plan to address the general flooding
problems in N.O.). Bush said that no one could have predicted the levees would
break (FEMA said before the storm that it was one of the MOST LIKELY disasters
to occur in the US). Bush has appointed Bill Clinton to handle the situation.
One wonders what Mr. Mentality might say about FINGER POINTING and KEEPING
SPIRITS UP. Mr. Mentality has discussed (predicted) that FINGER POINTING with
spirit hands in football stadiums would play a role.
The Gulf flooding, Gulf wars, Gulfport, and Golfing Vacation may be a grande
syntagmatique.
Keep pointing your fingers.
CS
