Day: September 8, 2005

(Yeh, so I interpreted the FEMA site statement to remove the doubletalk. So?)

“FEMA site requires assistance seekers to use Internet Explorer 6”

“The good news: If you’ve survived Hurricane Katrina, the government will let you register for help online. The bad news: But only if the computer you’re using is running Windows.”

So, if you’re using a secure, modern, standards-compliant browser, and need to register for disaster relief with FEMA, its website won’t let you. Actually, that’s not so strange. A feeb agency that’s supposed to deal with emergency/disaster relief requires that people use a disaster-prone browser. I makes sense, in a lame, idiotic sort of way.

“We’re from the government; we’re here to help.”

Riiiiiight…

(Minor apologies for the ripoff and mod of the hook in Woody Guthrie’s “Deportee”)

About the disturbing story linked here recounting the FEMA use of the Falls Creek Baptist Assembly “campgrounds” (outside Davis, Oklahoma) for Katrina refugees.  I cannot (yet) verify the narrative, but the pics are all legit, all definitely Falls Creek, all legit OHP vehicles, etc. And the volunteering of the facilities is a fact.

I have some emails out to folks in Oklahoma who may be able to discover more locally.

The most frightening sentences in the English language may well be, “We’re from the government. We’re here to help.”

h.t. Jerry Pournelle’s Chaos Manor Mail

Minor Update: Corrected the typo in “Davis, OK”. As I said: no confirmation or refutation, yet. Some conflicting emails returned to my inquiries (some didn’t read the question and returned confused repplies). Some churches have planned to take donations down to Falls Creek (it’s always “down to Falls Creek” no matter where one is in the state, it seems 🙂 this weekend—perhaps even today—somaybe I’ll have something definitive by then. My suspicion is that perhaps there are some FEMA folks there throwing their weight around, as petty bureaucrats are wont to do, but that the OWNERS of that property will likely dig their heels in pretty hard if not allowed to serve the folks they have donated their cabins to. Remember: these are Baptists we’re talking about. heh.

Jim Geraghty slaps Anne Rice with a big fat cluebat.

“To my country I want to say this: During this crisis you failed us…” –Anne Rice

Yeh, right.

“We failed you? No, oh brilliant creator of Exit to Eden, you failed. You might not think of it this way, but: Your leaders failed to upgrade the levees. You elected a bunch of weepers and blame-shifters who lost their head in a crisis.”–Jim Geraghty

Just read it all.

Stop the ACLU Blogburst mini-roundup

Understand: this is a very partial mini-roundup, from blogs selected semi-randomly out of the 100 or so blogs that are a part of the Stop the ACLU “family,” so to get more, browse through the Stop the ACLU Blogroll (separate post below) or on my sidebar. (Yeh, some of them post more-or-less on Thursdays, some at other times of the week. Poke around a bit.)

NIF answers hate mail.

GribbitOnline posts a potential victory.

Pirate’s Cove hits us with a Cluebat about what the ACLU Whackjobs are up to now.

Stop the ACLU notes another cozy lil ACLU-Islamofacist terrorist cuddle.

Elephant in my Coffee trips through the blogospheric tulips tracking down Views of the ACLU…Scotland.

Sweet Spirits of Ammonia asks Where Were You, ACLU?

More of course in various of the Stop the ACLU Blogroll blogs.

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Stop the ACLU Blogburst Blogroll

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Hugh Hewitt, shooting fish in a barrel:

“You have to hand it to the Dems, they are nothing if not conbsistent [sic]–consistently hysterical, and consistently wrong.”

As some now nearly forgotten commenter of the blogosphere might say, “Heh. Indeed.”

With all the Katrina (and other) stuff, I’ve gotten a bit behind on the *cough* important news.

Dinosaurs may have been a fluffy lot

THE popular image of Tyrannosaurus rex and other killer dinosaurs may have to be changed as a scientific consensus emerges that many were covered with feathers.

“S/he eats like a bird” is a phrase that may have to, uhm, go the way of the dinosaur.

h.t. Jerry Pournelle’s Chaos Manor Mail (On another note, the same link leads to a first hand report w/photos on Katrina’s aftermath from Lt. Cdr. Phillip Pournelle, Exec of USNS SWIFT)