NOLA levees failing

Posted by bruni on September 20, 2008

At least according to what I”m hearing on CNN & FOX… what a shame, at least most people seem to have been effectively evacuated this time.
I’m hearing breached.

Big difference than "failing".
yea the water is just getting high, thats not exactly failing
They did just make the point that the water will be this high for hours more.

Hope they hold. We just did a benefit at my venue for New Orleans during the DNC. All these legendary New Orleans Jazz and Blues heavy hitters (Don Harrison, Walter Wolfman Washington, Randy Newman playing for hours).
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I am my brother’s keeper…That’s the change we need…"

Posted by bruni on September 09, 2008

That’s the promise of America, the idea that we are responsible for ourselves, but that we also rise or fall as one nation, the fundamental belief that I am my brother’s keeper, I am my sister’s keeper. That’s the promise we need to keep. That’s the change we need right now.

Does this sound like a contradiction?
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China allows you to ‘replace’ your kid that was killed in the quake.

Posted by bruni on August 24, 2008

My God. China is so evil. That government is so bad. I can’t believe how people have sold there souls to the Chinese government.

I mean, what a great bunch of guys. They build the schools so substandard that they fall down in a quake where other shacks are left standing.
Then the government gives you permission to replace your lost valuables (under there one child policy) that you lost in the quake.

That is so fucking wrong.
But I think it paints a pretty accurate picture of how the Chinese government views there citizens. There citizens are commodities. Nothing else.
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