I reaaly have to admit that when I saw this headline...

Katrina missteps still haunting Bush

That my first thought was: "It didn't do much good for Blanco, either."

And naturally, the AP writer Jennifer Loven makes sure you know what to think while reading her hit piece article about Federal emergency response.

he White House reacted with what has become a familiar pattern: Bush dropped a few lines of sympathy and promised assistance into an already scheduled speech. Across the administration, aides volunteered as many facts and figures as possible about the federal contribution to the disaster response, a federal emergency to speed relief funding was declared in the middle of the night, and a presidential visit to the affected area was quickly arranged.

The White House's handling of Katrina in the days before it hit the U.S. Gulf Coast in late August 2005 seemed set to follow this model. Bush and his aides issued repeated warnings to worried locals, conferred with officials in the region and promised Washington would do all it could to help.

But once the massive storm blew ashore, smashing Mississippi's coastal communities to sticks and submerging New Orleans in water, the federal response turned dismal.

Locals were left wanting for urgently needed supplies. Bush seemed disengaged from the crisis and then stumbled through initial appearances in the disaster zone aimed at correcting the impression. And some locals feel the White House's level of engagement in the Gulf Coast's continuing misery hasn't improved much in two years.

Katrina was a departure from Bush's handling of previous disasters.

No lady, FEMA handled Katrina like all the other previous disasters. There problem was that they relied on corrupt political hacks to do what competent leaders did in all the other states.

Ok, it's not a pumpkin

But I bet it would look pretty good on your front sidewalk next Wednesday.




UPDATE-- (NSFW pics)
In related ...ummmm...'big' news....
No wonder Ashton Kutcher is hanging with someone 20 years his senior.

man, lookat those num-nums.

A farmer named Clyde

A farmer named Clyde had a car accident. In court, the trucking
company's fancy lawyer was questioning Clyde. Didn't you say, at the
scene of the accident, 'I'm fine,' asked the lawyer? Clyde responded,
"Well, I'll tell you what happened. I had just loaded my favorite mule,
Bessie, into the..." "I didn't ask for any details," the lawyer
interrupted. "Just answer the question. Did you not say, at the scene of
the accident, 'I'm fine!"? Clyde said, "Well, I had just got Bessie into
the trailer and I was driving down the road...." The lawyer interrupted
again and said, "Judge, I am trying to establish the fact that, at the
scene of the accident, this man told the Highway Patrolman on the scene
that he was just fine. Now several weeks after the accident he is trying
to sue my client. I believe he is a fraud. Please tell him to simply
answer the question, yes or no.

" By this time, the Judge was fairly
interested in Clyde's answer and said to the lawyer, "I'd like to hear
what he has to say about his favorite mule, Bessie." Clyde thanked the
Judge and proceeded, "Well like I was saying, I had just loaded Bessie,
my favorite mule, into the trailer and was driving her down the highway
when this huge semi-truck and trailer ran the stop sign and smacked my
truck right in the side. I was thrown into one ditch and Bessie was
thrown into the other." "I was hurting, real bad and didn't want to
move. However, I could hear ole Bessie moaning and groaning. I knew she
was in terrible shape just by her moans." "Shortly after the accident a
Highway Patrolman came on the scene. He could hear Bessie moaning and
groaning so he went over to her. After he looked at her, he took out his
gun and shot her between the eyes. Then the Patrolman came across the
road, gun in hand, looked at me, and said "How are you feeling?" "Now
what the hell would you say?"

And all along, I thought they were Brits...

But they come from the OZ.

Your daily Halloween lead-up

I don't *need* to say anything more, do I?
Oh....that reminds me- Saxet Gun show this week-end at the Colosseum (on E. Houston).

I work by myself

I don't mind, but it gives time to think when I'm not driving.

I was out cutting a 300' trench for some cable and started thinking about the 'Fiddler on the roof' vid I put up yesterday, and how my favorite New Yawk Jooo liked it.

Well my mind kinda wanderd onto Jody calls, and then I wondered about the IDF.

Do they call their cadences Jooody calls?

This extereme pumpkin is *REALLY* scary

Yep.

It's the JACKO- lantern!

Another reason for Libs the little people to vote for Hillary

In light of the 'Dumping Sox' story, I'm reminded of something else that happend around that time.

Hillary for President!...she needs to restock her dinnerware!

For your religious entertainment

UPDATE---
I don't know it I ougtta let a certain Brooklyn Joooooess know that while I was watching that movie, I was slow roasting some country style BBQ pork ribs,,,should I?
Might ruin the whole Kumbia thing, ya know,,,,

Oooops, sorry

I forgot your daily extreme pumpkin last night.
So to make up for it, I'll give you a cosume idea.

A Bender costume.

And "A Christmas story" with a Halloween theme...

"You'll shoot your eye out, kid."

Surprisingly enough

This didn't happen in Bhaahaastin.

FLORENCE -- When she dropped the package off yesterday morning at Florence Township High School, the woman explained to school officials that her son needed the white pellets it contained for his science project.

All was fine until she mentioned that her son had urged her to be careful because the pellets could explode if dropped. Police said that prompted school officials to immediately lock down the school and call out township police, area hazardous materials teams, and the state police's bomb squad.

While the pellets were eventually determined to be harmless, the woman's son -- a 16-year-old whose name authorities are withholding because he is a juvenile -- was arrested and charged with causing false public alarm, disorderly conduct, and causing or risking widespread injury or damage, police said.

Gawd, nobody can take a joke anymore.

Know what this is?

It's my DRIVING WHEEL.
Go ahead, you know you want to.
Click it,,,and be sure your speakers are up.

or would you want to take a slow ride on this?


Yeah, I got my speakers working, why do you ask?

Doncha just hate it when

You start an omlett and the oil isn't hot enough, and the eggs soak up the oil?

Ham and cheese.
Lots of ham.


My weekly egg quota.


...And the eggs are soggy even though you turned up the heat?


Hmmmmmm....


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Ok, it's not bad enough to call in the puppies.



UPDATE

I still haven't got a new pic of me to send to the tribe, so...
Should I send in this one of me loading Karens .22:


or wait until I can get one with the 30-06?

And actually see what I look like now?

Something special for Halloween

Brought to you from Alan.

So, can anyone tell me WHY anyone is wasting any thing worthwhile in Somalia?

Now, the Government is attacking UN food distribution efforts.
Because the wrong people are getting fed.

I know I shouldn't judge all people by the actions of everyone I hear about the vast majority a few bad apples, but nothing I hear has anything positive in it.
We went in to try to make sure food got to where it was supposed to go...the poor and the children. We were attacked incessantly untill Clinton pulled us out.
Their Islamic refugees are trying to enforce their cult on everyone they can here in America with theier cabbies refusing rides and their checkout clerks refusing service.

I bet you can't come up with ONE thing any Somali has done to enhance anything in a positive way. I wouldn't mind kicking every one I meet right in the nards...except I'd get thrown in jail for it.

So, we've got a mini-blogmeet in Lockhart

Kreuz meatmarket, to be exact.
I was going to go with the usual blogmeet type puking pumpkin for todays extreme pumpkin, BUT this is seriosly good eats.

So the puking pumpkin will have to wait while you marvell at the newest extreme pumpkin....
the radioactive pumpkin.

Ladies, this is why you need to pack heat

"We made this man clean up all the mess he made, piles of stuff, he had thrown out of my drawers and cabinets onto the floor," Tiffany McKinnon said.

When police arrived, Bullock complained about being forced to clean the home at gunpoint.

"This man had the nerve to raise sand about us making him clean up the mess he made in my house," she said. "The police officer laughed at him when he complained and said anybody else would have shot him dead."

Nuff said, go put one in your purse now!

This is a definition of trailer park PUMPKIN

I wonder how many Lindsey's that light attracts?

You've seen their faces

Now see the backside of a pumpkin.

What an interesting life

I'm glad I never (yet) had @sshole managers like this guy.
And all because of some juvenile delinquent drinking malt vinigar while he should have been in school.

It's a long read, but entertaining.

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(better than listening to the Bionic slut girl,,,which is on TV now)

The Bionic girl woman,,,whatever HAS to be aimed at women. The dialogue is taken right off the soaps cheatcheet, and the 'action scenes are right out of,,,,ummmm,,,,whoever does the fight scenes in stiletto heels without falling flat on her butt.

Even pumpkins eat their own

Look dude, you're already late

Because of all the OTHER wrecks all over town this morning.
So slow. the. f*ck. down.
All that fast and reckless driving your doing is going to cause another one and you'll be EVEN LATER than you wold have been by driving like a sane person.

We had a little rain this morning and every main road into the city had at least one wreck. 410 NW (my road) was blocked by a broke down Suburban in the left lane, so I got off early and went the other way. That four lane road was blocked by an F-150 who tried
to outrun a red light and another truck that tried the same thing from the opposite side.

After getting my paperwork from the office, I passed another car wreck on the 281 entrance ramp,,,another F-150 with a twisted front end started that one.
Going passed the airport cargo road was another F-150 that shoved a Caddy's trunk into the back seat - this on a road whose speed limit is 40MPH.

Traffic was still messed up when I got done with work.

So here's another driving lesson from Kurt (who doesn't like to dawdle while driving):
Your late, everyone is late and the boss knows it. Go with the flow and try not to cause anymore delays by getting into another wreck. You'll be even later by having to exchange information, or ending up in the hospital.
Not to mention all the other drivers you'll be p*ssing off by making them wait to drag your vehicle off the road.

I noticed something in this article

About Ellen Degeneres and her kerfluffle with a humane society.

No matter what *we* did wrong, us Libs will involk [cue angles siighing] the children[/angles], and take a swipe at 'power'.

See, the dog she got didn't get along with all of her cats, so she gave it to her hairdresser. The contract she signed said it was to go back if anything didn't work out. Now the rescue society took the dog back and unfortunatly, the hairdressers girls are the victims.
I'm sure there's a good reason that the society has those rules (one probably involes adoption fees), but as the good Lib she is Ellen knows best.

THIS is really a pumpkin

It's just an extreme pumkin.

So,,,,,700 people were murdered in LA county this year

So far.
That would equal like,,,What- 3500 since we invaded Iraq? At the 700/year count, actually it's more like 5,000 per year at the annual murder rate.
That's just in Los Angeles COUNTY- not the state of Califonica.

So, when are the Libs in congress going to make a plan for us to cut and run?

I know it won't happen, because Bush didn't have anything to do with it-AND it's pretty much a result of almost 50+ years of Liberal lifestyles.


I guess we need to shovel even more money into social engineering and the schip program....HEY, did you hear what Nan said about that money? Something like 'All the poor childern going without healthcare while all that money is going into Iraq..."

Well Nan, can I call you that Speaker Pelosi?
Anyway, "all that money going into Iraq (or was it wasted in Iraq)" will stop one day,,,YOUR gov't healthcare will. never. stop. As a matter of fact all it will do is grow.

Extreme pumpkins

There are some things that just aren't right

No matter how you look at them, or describe them.

I know that 7mm is just a measurment. Actually it's an abstract name for a certain size based on the location of the one designating the size. This same size could, and probably would have another name in another place.

That being said, there are some things that just don't fit. One of them being a Browning lever action in 7mm caliber. Just like pizza and milk...doesn't work, never will.

Funny, I didn't see anything about driving a Prius

What's your @sshole footprint?

I recognize A LOT of people in that article, me not so much.
It's not that I'm not an @sshole, just that they didn't have any questions that fit me.

It was pretty good all the way up to the @sshole offsets, there they examples of self-congratulatory @ssholism.

I see that my girl said something again

And as usual, the Libs are up in arms about it.

--So cue the Anne Coulter theme song---

And read what it's about this time.

Yeah, Anne had the chuspah to mention Christianity in a positive way. She also said something about Christians being perfected Jews....dunno about that, but I do know and recognize that Christianity is an outgrouth of Judeaism.

I think the 'laws' Anne was talking about were Jewish religious laws that Christ died to relieve ud Christians of.

But anyway we can look at it as yet another example of the usual Liberal hypocracy. Acting offended because a Conservative mentioned what they've been yelling incessantly.

Anne Coulter dissing Jews= hatespeach ..............the MSM and it's Hollywood spokesflacks praising islamic terrorists= normal everyday conversation (actually it shows their compassion to the downtrodden).

Rush Limaugh mentions Phoney soldiers= disloyal hatespeach that needs to be stopped immediatly...........Hillaries "Willing suspension of disbelief" aimed at Gen Petreaus AND the ex-Marine (who happens to be a Senator also) and his accusal of the Haditha Marines being cold blooded killers....................Protected speach, PLUS it's official government policy BECAUSE it was said and recorded in chambers.


Yeah, ratburt- when your side starts cleaning up your side, I'll worry about mine.

Do you have eye control?

As in can you see the difference in two pictures if you cross your eyes?
This site is a variation of the 'spot the difference' game.
It's made to be viewed with crossed eyes.
It does kind of get easier as you learn what to look for...but it's cool anyway.

Of course you could always do it the old fasiond way.
If you want to start over, you may want to delete that cookie to get the original version when you refresh.