Do words matter anymore? I heard one news anchor say the Mississippi coast looked like a nuclear bomb was dropped and I thought, well things weren't vaporized and the sand isn't fused into glass. I heard someone else say "the phone was literally ringing off the hook" and thought they really meant figuratively.
Bush said this morning, "I don't think anybody anticipated the breech of the levees." Which is just a blatent lie, many anticipated it, that's one of the reasons they evacuated. There were plenty of stories over the weekend that this could be the big one that will destroy New Orleans. Think Progress points out many warnings over the last 4 years.
I guess if you don't anticipate it, and slash funding for prevention you forget that part where you didn't listent to others and gambled. Because of these cuts, in 2004, the Corps essentially stopped major work on the now-breached levee system that had protected New Orleans from flooding. It was the first such stoppage in 37 years, the Times-Picayune reported. Then there's the whole thing of whether FEMA is less effective now that they are part of the Department of Homeland Security.
I thought it was pretty well established that storms get energy from warmer waters. Apparently Harlan L. Watson, the US envoy for negotiations on climate change, denied any link between global warming and the strength of storms. ''Our scientists are telling us right now that there's not a linkage," he said in Geneva.
How is it that these idiots represent and lead us?
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