Apparently, Chevy has this contest to make the next Tahoe commercial. A lot of people have been making some that aren’t quite what they were hoping for, I am sure. My husband whipped one up earlier today. Check it out here. They’ll probably take it down at some point. Have fun. Make your own!
And here are some cool Anti SUV bumper stickers from Lekker Politics, since we’re on the subject.
NOLA Hurricane Katrina Survivor’s Story
Watch it. Send it to those you know. The government will more than likely try and clean things up and sweep it under the rug - we cannot let that happen again.
You need to read this: This Is Not Over: Here’s What Gets Me
I only wish I could sum things up as Miss Alli has. I always come off sounding like a cranky redhead ranting.
My problem with Bush — and here, I do indeed address Bush individually, as a guy — is that during the time that the crisis was developing, from Monday to Friday, he never seemed to experience any actual sense of urgency as a result of the simple fact that people were, minute by minute and hour by hour, dying.
Let’s give him the benefit of the doubt that he was being prevented from acting by bureaucracy and the sheer magnitude of the situation. Where are the stories of how he was in his office freaking the fuck out because there were tens of thousands of Americans trapped without food and water? Where’s the story of how he ripped a strip off of somebody, demanding to know what the holy hell the holdup is getting water and food to those people?
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The state has the primary responsibility, you say? Okay, fine. Then I want to hear how Bush offered the governor whatever she wanted on whatever terms he could legally get it to her, because it made absolutely no difference who got credit. I want to hear how he couldn’t concentrate like the rest of us couldn’t concentrate, because he was so consumed by images on television of old women in wheelchairs slowly dying.
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I want him to have been consumed with grief and sorrow at the dying that was ongoing, and he wasn’t. I want him to have felt like a profound failure because an entire segment of the population of one of America’s greatest cities was suffering and was at risk of starvin to death, but he didn’t. I want him to have been embarrassed when the FEMA director gave up the information that FEMA knew less about the convention center than CNN, but he wasn’t. I want him not to have smirked his way through the entire experience, and he did.
No matter whose fault the slow relief effort was, the fact of the matter is that these are Americans, and this is their president, and the fact that they were homeless, starving, dying of thirst, and deprived of medication never once seemed to actually bother him.
My thoughts exactly.
Think Progress » KATRINA TIMELINE For those who still think Bush and company are “compassionate conservatives”…
