Good for you Barnes & Noble founder

Glad to see he did that rather than donate a large sum to a university for a bronze nameplate on a building/scholarship in his name. Not saying that's never warranted, but this is tremendously generous.

 

Niiice.

 

Why can't the natives in NOLA figure it out?

 

Dean Singleton could learn a lesson from this.

 

Oh, the Army Corps of Engineers had it figured out, the people of New Orleans figured it and the Times-Picayne had it figured out but none of the numbskulls in power listened.

So when the levees breeched, the best Fredo and his Gang of Morons could come up with was, "Who could have foreseen......?".

But this is the same idiot in chief who said "We don't need planners making decisions for the American people".

Guy is dumber than a bag of hammers.

 

Anyone want to bet that the next retail building to go up in the area will be a Barnes & Noble?

 

The failure of the levees in New Orleans is on all adminstrations for the last 50 years, not just the resident moron-in-chief.

 

I LOVE the "It's George Bush's fault!" argument. And I love it most in reference to New Orleans.

That damn George Bush! I can't believe that a-hole settled a bunch of people in a swamp, made them build homes there, made the Corp build insufficient levees and made a hurricane come! I'm so damn mad at George W. Bush!!!!!

 

Bush gets criticized for this because he couldn't be bothered to end his vacation early while people were dying (yet he could rush back to Washington to sign the Terri Schiavo bill), and because he chose to hire a political crony as the head of FEMA rather than someone who was qualified to deal with disaster preparation.

 

No it's not.

 

What exactly could Bush have done from the White House that he couldn't have done where he was? And it's not like he's the only president ever to hire a political crony to run something.

There are plenty of reasons not to like George Bush. That New Orleans flooded is a stupid one.

 

He didn't do a fucking thing. That's the point. Were you around at the time?

Everybody hires political cronies but Bush may hold the record for hiring the most incompetent ones, hiring decisions based on absolute loyalty and nothing else.

You can start with Brown and you can follow the trail to the dickhead Attorney General Gonzales. Brown may have been the worst--he probably wasn't competent to run a hot dog stand but Gonzales wasn't far behind.