After the largest natural disaster to hit the Gulf States in the US's history, FreeRepublic has not let down their base with atrociously insensitive, illogical and immature stories and posts.
Washington Post finally gives a poll, joint with ABC News, that says Bush's approval ratings finally sink below 50% (down to 45%) and disapproval above the halfway point (53%).
Most propaganda machines and agencies are seeing that Bush is a sinking ship with the American people, but these delusional sites and people are stuck in their ways. Worse, the Democrats and Independents in the Senate, and the Governors of the states, are hard to hear speaking up against Bush, his mismanagement of this country and speaking FOR the American people, something the Republicans have not done for a long time.
I suggest that DailyKos's members start up a campaign to point out any candidate, whether Democrat or not, who has the balls to speak up for the American people, call this administration what they are (liars), and help them with any campaign they have. Those who sit back hoping for another reelection because he didn't rock the boat need to be replaced immediately.
Perhaps enough mail, enough phone calls and enough emails will let these elected officials know they work for the American people, the people who are now homeless probably until 2006, the people who are sitting on the roofs of their homes, the last part not submerged, hoping to get rescued from ill-equipped Reservists and an undermanned Coast Guard.
It's time we demand accountability from both sides. It's damned time that Democrats speak for the Democracy, for the truth and for what's right. Clinton, Kerry, everyone, especially Dean, get down to Louisiana and Mississippi, find out what happened (though we mostly know) and then get back to Washington (or with Dean, start pressing Democrats to do so) to propose the necessary legislation to fix what is wrong, to propose what spending and tax raises to the richest need to be done, like with President Clinton in the 90s, to stop the cuts that caused New Orleans to be wiped from the planet.
Anyways, the rant's over for the lack of Democrats with backbones, onto the main theme of the diary:
FreeRepublic, the skin-crawling facet of the internet where no stupidity goes unexplored.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1474005/posts
in this war, you have to give freedom in order to recieve freedom
Posted on 08/31/2005 6:20:53 AM PDT by hoorayforbush
Yes, that's right, we should be less free in order to make Iraq an Islamic federal society where one religion makes the laws and women have little, if any, rights, and causes more civil warring between the three religious sects than under Hussein.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1474000/posts
Bush isn't the only one to blame (BARF!!!)(Kennedy Alert!!)
Posted by chesley
On 08/31/2005 6:15:02 AM PDT · 4 replies · 30+ views
As Hurricane Katrina dismantles Mississippi's Gulf Coast, it's worth recalling the central role that Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour played in derailing the Kyoto Protocol and kiboshing President Bush's iron-clad campaign promise to regulate CO2.http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert
The thread got pulled, probably because it mentions that Bush was wrong?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1473996/posts
Houston Chronicle Exclusive: Superdome Refugees Coming To Astrodome
This one isn't as bad, but it's the comments section . . .
If I found out that there was a PLAN to make me go from one domes stadium to ANOTHER ONE, I would become violent.
Lots of those people have relatives. Many are students or tourists. They need to go HOME, not to another stadium!!
6 posted on 08/31/2005 6:15:18 AM PDT by Miss Marple (Lord, please look after Mozart Lover's son and keep him strong.)
I keep wondering what the sanitation situation must be like in the Superdome. After all, when you flush your toilet, there has to be some place to flush it to. It looks like the whole NO sewer system is rapidly getting flooded, leaving no "to" for the Superdome flushes. Those who get the cleanup contract will really have a mess on their hands.
7 posted on 08/31/2005 6:15:32 AM PDT by libstripper
I'm sure that's what people are thinking about. Turds floating in New Orleans, rather than a friend or relative.
Pretty much. I've gotta believe that the folks there are getting pretty damn sick of stadiums.
10 posted on 08/31/2005 6:17:06 AM PDT by general_re ("Frantic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith, but in doubt." - Reinhold Niebuhr)
I'm sure they're pretty damn sick of losing everything they own because of the President's policies and war, thanks.
Not all of LA is underwater, why don't they move them to another part of the state (they may not leave Houston, once they come). Or set up tent city in another part of the state.
11 posted on 08/31/2005 6:18:43 AM PDT by newfrpr04
#1: Is there anyplace large enough to hold 20,000 people safely for weeks, if not months, in Louisiana, along with the rest of the people left homeless in other parts of the state?
#2: Don't forget that the rains and flooding north of Louisiana fills in the Mississippi River, which will crest and flow south, back through Louisiana and New Orleans. It's not like everything's over with yet.
The 'Stros get 23,000 Louisianans, and New Orleans gets Craig Biggio and a levee to be named later.
13 posted on 08/31/2005 6:19:36 AM PDT by general_re
Funny . . .
Is there a vacated military base that can be used to house these people in the months ahead?
15 posted on 08/31/2005 6:21:13 AM PDT by nuconvert (No More Axis of Evil by Christmas ! TLR) [there's a lot of bad people in the pistachio business])
And the irony doesn't even set in . . .
They will probably let the students and tourists leave once they get to Houston.
19 posted on 08/31/2005 6:25:07 AM PDT by pepperhead (Kennedy's float, Mary Jo's don't!)
Those people were most likely evacuated in the days before Katrina hit the coast.
I thought the Superdome Refugees were going to play in San Antonio...
21 posted on 08/31/2005 6:27:31 AM PDT by FDNYRHEROES (Time for a new tag line...)
Again . . . Funny . . .
oh God, don't bring the looters to houston!
23 posted on 08/31/2005 6:28:12 AM PDT by Texas_Conservative2
When you have a fairly well-versed one in Crawford, why are you worried about the low-level ones in Houston?
Ahhh! (wink)...oh, and wouldn't you just love to work live in Houston area knowing that 400+ buses jammed with...with...er, "ripe" humanity are heading your way?
Dollars to donuts says ammo sales in Houston have started to sky rocket.
24 posted on 08/31/2005 6:28:30 AM PDT by yankeedame ("Oh, I can take it but I'd much rather dish it out.")
Be it ever so humble. There's no place like dome. ;)
25 posted on 08/31/2005 6:29:44 AM PDT by BigCinBigD
I say take em to Massachusetts !
The libs love looters.
27 posted on 08/31/2005 6:30:09 AM PDT by Texas_Conservative2
And on and on and on . . .
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1473993/posts
Delightful `Decadence' (The Gay Mardi Gras won't be happening in New Orleans this year)
Posted by NYer
On 08/31/2005 6:00:01 AM PDT · 14 replies · 339+ views
And to be right in line with the ignorance of FreeRepublic . . .
Not one mention of the catastrophe or suggestion to make a donation to the victims of Hurricane Katrina.
2 posted on 08/31/2005 6:01:25 AM PDT by NYer
And yet, the post before . . .
The planning committee has decided to donate our potential refunds (if any) from our own personal registration fees to the American Red Cross/New Orleans Disaster Relief Fund. All registrants who wish to make this donation are certainly welcome to do so. In a time such as this the planning committee feels it is more important to think of someone that has lost a loved one, their home, or their belongings, rather than thinking of only us.
LOL!
God says to queers, "I don't think so..."
4 posted on 08/31/2005 6:02:39 AM PDT by grobdriver (Let the embeds check the bodies!)
"The planning committee has decided to donate our potential refunds (if any) from our own personal registration fees to the American Red Cross/New Orleans Disaster Relief Fund. All registrants who wish to make this donation are certainly welcome to do so. In a time such as this the planning committee feels it is more important to think of someone that has lost a loved one, their home, or their belongings, rather than thinking of only us."
Wow, this almost makes them seem moral. (/sarcasm)
11 posted on 08/31/2005 6:11:42 AM PDT by TommyDale
And more endless gay-bashing and laughing at the situation in New Orleans. Good God, how low the Freepers go.
There are just so many stories that are typical Freeper mentality, that are just completely sick and twisted, but the latest threads and comments mocking those who died from Bush's mismanagement, the guy they praise as the best damned president ever, is just gross.
I'm off to shower and school now. I don't want to look at Freeperville for a long time after this.