Rmoney's leadership skills save the day, Hurricane Isaac decides to stay away from Tampa

[james&olya 1,121]

Hopefully Louisiana and New Orleans will not ignore FEMA this time and will evacuate

Of course if the don't and it floods again who can they blame. Surely the media will not blame Obama. .

Bush was not blamed for a hurricane hitting New Orleans. He was blamed for the callous and totally inept response of his administration to a major disaster that clearly was beyond the ability of state and local authorities to handle. Obama has hit the right notes with his responses thus far to federal emergencies. FEMA has far more competent leadership than GWB saw fit to appoint during his administration.

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

Fox does have the better graphics. I always check the actual path on NOAA's website to make sure FOX isn't making it up.

Now that's funny right there I don't care which side of the aisle you sit on

Bush was not blamed for a hurricane hitting New Orleans. He was blamed for the callous and totally inept response of his administration to a major disaster that clearly was beyond the ability of state and local authorities to handle. Obama has hit the right notes with his responses thus far to federal emergencies. FEMA has far more competent leadership than GWB saw fit to appoint during his administration.

And if you study the Katrina disaster you will see that the inept part was the local and state government .

[Ban Hammer 13,558]

Fox does have the better graphics. I always check the actual path on NOAA's website to make sure FOX isn't making it up.

trust, but verify. you sound like ronnie reagan.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

And if you study the Katrina disaster you will see that the inept part was the local and state government.

With Craig Fugate, Obama has appointed a competent man to lead FEMA.

[james&olya 1,121]

And if you study the Katrina disaster you will see that the inept part was the local and state government .

Local ineptitude was all the more reason the feds needed to be able to respond in a more timely and adequate manner! The issue is not the local response though. If any of those bozos run for national office I would be right there with my criticism of their demonstrated incompetence. Bush was supposedly competent enough to be leader of the free world. What a pathetic joke!

Edited August 27, 2012 by james&olya

[Karee 4,191]

Here come the "blame Bush" brigade. Tired and old.

[rocks 494]

Bush was not blamed for a hurricane hitting New Orleans. He was blamed for the callous and totally inept response of his administration to a major disaster that clearly was beyond the ability of state and local authorities to handle. Obama has hit the right notes with his responses thus far to federal emergencies. FEMA has far more competent leadership than GWB saw fit to appoint during his administration.

Exactly. Hershel doesn't know anything about Katrina, apart from what he watched from his armchair on Fox.

Obama came here after the gulf oil spill but Bush couldn't visit after the worst hurricane in US history?

your attention is needed in the lower left of the below pic. and yes, i know who noaa is.

Yes, I'm quite aware of where the picture is from. If you had read what I said, you'd see I said they took it from NOAA. It isn't Fox material, it's stolen...

[^_^ 5,021]

Yes, I'm quite aware of where the picture is from. If you had read what I said, you'd see I said they took it from NOAA. It isn't Fox material, it's stolen...

No, not stolen. The NOAA permits media re-use of its images. The NOAA, unlike a private media company, is not in the business of making money. Their only goal is to spread information and save lives.

[james&olya 1,121]

No, not stolen. The NOAA permits media re-use of its images. The NOAA, unlike a private media company, is not in the business of making money. Their only goal is to spread information and save lives.

It seems dishonest if they don't give attribution credits to NOAA. Why would they even want to use it? Isn't one of their mantras something to the effect that the private sector does everything better?

[Penguin_ie 5,996]

*** one personal attack removed. Stay civil. ****

[lostinblue 1,989]

http://www.pbs.org/mormons/themes/humanitarian.html

Can you talk about the remarkable efficiency with which Mormon relief efforts operate?

The efficiency of the Mormon welfare apparatus is really legendary. As early as the beginnings of the 20th century, an American writer said, "The Mormon Church operates with the efficiency of the German Weirmacht." This efficiency is seen at its best in moments of natural disasters such as the Teton Dam disaster of 1976 when over a billion dollars' worth of damage occurred, and almost overnight almost 35,000, 45,000 Latter-day Saints were marshaled into forces and deployed to make order out of chaos and provide emergency relief.

When Hurricane Andrew struck [in Miami-Dade County] in 2002, the stories went around that the Mormon relief trucks were on the way to Florida before the hurricane had even made landfall. In the Hurricane Katrina of 2005 we know that once again the trucks were there before the National Guard was even allowing relief through. So the response is incredibly fast, incredibly efficient.

In recent years especially, those relief efforts have been extended to not just members of the church, but anybody who's in the midst of a disaster or crisis. In the past 20 years alone, the church has responded to over 150 major humanitarian crises around the world. They have provided relief and funds in locations as disparate as Kosovo, North Korea, Mozambique and Zimbabwe. There's hardly a place on the earth where they haven't been seen, providing relief and assistance, and it's often through other, more established channels, like the Red Cross or the Salvation Army, but very often, as was the case in Africa, renting their own helicopters to speed relief to areas that were remote and hard to reach. ...

The lord just might ask Mitt to work the relief trucks if it gets hit again. How would the liberal media handle that.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

The NOAA, unlike a private media company, is not in the business of making money. Their only goal is to spread information and save lives.

What? The NOAA is a federal agency. Hence, it's goal is to waste taxpayer funds. Rmoney / Paul will eliminate NOAA. The gulf states can watch their own god damn hurricanes.

[Ban Hammer 13,558]

Yes, I'm quite aware of where the picture is from. If you had read what I said, you'd see I said they took it from NOAA. It isn't Fox material, it's stolen...

how can they take it from noaa when it doesn't look like the pic from noaa?

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

At the end of the day, God has punked the GOP. They cancelled all events scheduled for today and the weather out there is just fine. A little drizzle and a little breeze but that's all it is.

What God did accomplish is pull the plug on The Donald.

[rocks 494]

how can they take it from noaa when it doesn't look like the pic from noaa?

...

Do you think Fox goes out in planes and measures the wind speeds?

No, not stolen. The NOAA permits media re-use of its images. The NOAA, unlike a private media company, is not in the business of making money. Their only goal is to spread information and save lives.

Obviously. My point was that Fox didn't create this information. Not sure why charles has a bee in his bonnet about this.

And if you study the Katrina disaster you will see that the inept part was the local and state government .

So you admit the republicans were at fault?