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I went to texas and saw the foo fighters and weezer, and briefly Mae. Elaborate on the show? Elaborate on all the crappy things that happened and how bad of a mood I was in a great deal of the trip? Post pictures? No. I don't feel like it.

Telltalegames release Bone: Out from Boneville! Go check it out. I haven't gotten to check it out yet but I'm excited.

Even better than that, they license Sam and Max!!! They're going to release a series of Sam and Max games!

No kidding!

Speaking of good games, and my trip, Kara, the person who I stayed with, has this macabre painting that reminded me of Grimm Fandango. Totally Dia de Los Muertos. I might actually post that. I have been concidently on the verge of passing out for like 5 days straight. I think I might go do that now.

Sugar is bad for your cells.

This time, the federal government:
Waiting for a Leader
Bush Panics over Political Fallout
Barbaric Yawp
Impeach Bush Now

I don't like the titles for those posts, but the information in them is worth reading.

Has Bush portrayed himself as a strong leader in this disaster?

As far as I can tell, Bush has not portrayed himself as a concerned leader, or a strong leader, or a confident leader or a competent leader during this disaster. In fact, he really hasn't shown much leadership at all...at least not what I would expect from any kind of leader.

I still say fault is probably shared by many individuals, but it's hard not to look at the Bush Administration. Cut funding for disaster prevention to one of the most important cities in America? Good one guys.

There will probably be a lot of mud-slinging from democrats as soon all the disaster recovery has died down a little...maybe once New Orleans has been drained in a month or so, but maybe sooner. However, realise that everything you see or hear Bush do or say for a while is probably the Bush administrations own political disaster recovery. They are going to try to restore his "image" so everyone will like him enough that they can continue with their plans. Just keep that in mind.

Hey, this is an open invitation. If any one out there reading this would like help with Linux or would like to try Linux or whatever, I can help you.

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So, Kanye West says the situation in New Orleans is Bush's fault because he doesn't care about blacks. However, this blog seems to claim otherwise. It says that Bush urged the mandatory evacuation, and that mandatory evacuation was unprecedented because they are usually voluntary. It could just be another right-wing-bush-loving blog, but if there's truth in it then less blame should be placed on the president.

Where should the blame be placed? It's probably a combination of factors and a combination of many people so it should be divided. The truth is usually some sort of ballance, and not an extreme(but not always). I'm sure there are many heroes and many villains and many that just fall in between.

However, there were literally hundreds of buses that were owned by the city of New Orleans that were not utilized. You can see some of that here, here, and here. So there is probably a lot of fault in the local government of New Orleans.

Also some fault in the Federal government though:
"Many had been critical of the slow response, with many people (particularly in New Orleans) left without water and food for three to five days (and continuing) after the storm. Among the first to express criticism of the management of the crisis had been The Pentagon, who complained only a day after Katrina hit that beaurocratic red tape from the Bush administration and the FEMA, (newly reorganized under the Homeland Security Department) had caused the delay of a scheduled and authorized military hospital ship from Norfolk, Virginia, among other related and prepared active military crisis response procedures."



Something else:
A town in Missisippi was obliterated.

Awesome 18 or 20(maybe) year old guy guy grabs abandoned bus and saves people. Note that the kid in the picture on that link is not the aforementioned driver. All the news snippets I've seen have said he stole it or looted it and not that he commandeered it or grabbed it or saved it. That is possibly a great deal of what Kanye West was talking about(maybe not, see below). Some of them don't mention it was abandoned and most, if not all, probably don't mention that it would probably be water logged and leaking poison into the water if he didn't get the bus(they also can't seem to agree on his age, but that's beside the point). I need to get a banner for that guy. He deserves one much more than Kanye West, even if Kanye did speak some truth.

Speaking of, there are a lot of posts on the web and other talking heads disgusted by Kanye West, which I guess, is to be expected. Notice, however, than many of them say things like "I never heard of Kane West before this" even though he was in Times as the "smartest man in pop music".

However, Kanye could have been talking about this. A misunderstanding.
Edit: Yahoo's public apology.

Man, that was sweet. He has more balls than I do. I am of course, referring to his outburst on NBC's Concert for Hurricane Relief. I'm not sure how much truth there was in his comment, but I know there is some truth in it even if he wasn't spot on. I got the image from here. Notice at that NBC link that they actually have the footage available. I think that's pretty sweet too but I can't look at it because Windows Media Player is messed up and msNBC wasn't nice enough to create a Real Video stream so you know...everyone else without windows xp can watch it. Edit: good old ifilm.

What I think he was supposed to say...which I think Mike Myers tried to say before they switched over to Chris Tucker was that one of the biggest necessities for all those displace people right now and the people trying to give them releif is cash, because, simply put, cash buys food and water and medical supplies.

To insert your check book go here:




Also, in Fort Smith, AR, there are a bunch of people coming in and supplies for them can be dropped off at "hunt" something in the pheonix village mall. I forgot the name of the place.

Edit: I'm not a big hip hop/rap/r&b fan but you can listen to Kanye's latest cd and watch two of the latest videos on kanyewest.com and it seems pretty good. I dunno how I feel about the lyrics, but I like the music. Pretty funny, Late Registration is about registering late for College. Diamond has a good message, and tells a story I didn't really know. Don't buy conflict diamonds! Jamie Foxx's bleating on Gold Digger is priceless.