[ballpark570]

Harking back to the days when LBJ was President and demanded daily body counts from the commanders in the Vietnam theater, we now see Governor Blanco wigging out, hell bent for a high body count to validate her hysterical
panderings at the height of the crisis

[ballpark570]

Governor Blanco, That red blinking light in the corner of your eye, it’s your career
Dissipation light…………

[linskyjack]

The Fact that you read the Drudge Report---a right wing rag sheet reveals quite a bit about you. Fact is, she wants bodies recovered---quiet normal---You spin it into----she wants a body count.

[LuckyStrike]

Originally Posted by linskyjack

The Fact that you read the Drudge Report---a right wing rag sheet reveals quite a bit about you. Fact is, she wants bodies recovered---quiet normal---You spin it into----she wants a body count.

If you go to the drudge report and click on any story, it will redirect you to another source, such as The New York Times, for example. It doesn't make much sense to call the drudge report a right wing rag or left wing rag or anything else when it seldom has original content. It is more of digest of links to a variety of current news stories from a variety of sources. All that you normally see at the drudge report web site is headlines along with a few related pictures.

The fact that you dismiss the drudge report as a right wing rag, reveals quite a bit about you.

[angelize56]

The article....originally from the AP.....she sounds nothing but compassionate to me!

Blanco: Body Recovery Taking Too Long
Sep 13 2:41 PM US/Eastern

NEW ORLEANS

Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco lashed out at FEMA on Tuesday, complaining the agency is moving too slowly in recovering the bodies of those killed by Hurricane Katrina

The dead "deserve more respect than they have received," she said at state police headquarters in Baton Rouge.

She said that the Federal Emergency Management Agency still has not signed a contract with the company hired to handle the removal of the bodies, Houston-based Kenyon International Emergency Services.

Calls to a FEMA spokesman in New Orleans and the Homeland Security Department in Washington were not immediately returned.

http://www.breitbart.com/news/na/D8CJHQPG0.html

[angelize56]

The way a headline is worded can change the whole meaning of a person's words!

Speed of Katrina body recovery criticized

Tuesday, September 13, 2005 5:22 p.m. ET

BATON ROUGE (Reuters) - Louisiana's governor condemned the Federal Emergency Management Agency on Tuesday for moving too slowly to recover the dead from New Orleans and said she has signed a contract directly on behalf of the state with the recovery company originally hired by FEMA.

"I have taken action today to resolve a matter that involves life, death and dignity," Gov. Kathleen Blanco told reporters, adding she expressed her "absolute frustration" with the pace of the recovery to federal authorities to no avail.

"I cannot stand by while this vital operation is not being handled appropriately," she said.

Authorities have confirmed 423 deaths in Louisiana since Hurricane Katrina hit two weeks ago, though fears have begun to abate that New Orleans alone could hold 10,000 dead or more beneath its floodwaters.

Blanco said she signed a contract with Kenyon International Emergency Services after the company threatened to pull out of the state for lack of a formal contract with anyone.

Asked about the issue, FEMA spokesman David Passey said, "From what I understand, Kenyon had some questions about the contract."

He said FEMA had expected Louisiana from the beginning to take the lead in the collection of bodies and FEMA was satisfied that the state had signed a contract with the company.

"I don't know the exact nature of the contract concerns. We made our best effort to engage Kenyon in a contract," he said. The fact that the state had signed a contract with Kenyon would allow federal mortuary teams to "get on with what they do best," the identification of the dead.

Blanco said FEMA's failure to sign a contract with Kenyon had slowed the entire recovery process. She spoke ahead of a meeting with a group of the state's elected officials, including the secretary of state and attorney general.

"The failure to execute a contract for recovery of our citizens has slowed the recovery operations," she said. "We are at the epicenter of a natural disaster of global proportions."

The governor did not give details of the financial arrangements of the state's contract with Kenyon. Representatives of the company declined to comment.

Kenyon said on September 7 it had been hired by FEMA for recovery services. Passey told reporters after a regular FEMA briefing that the two sides had only a verbal agreement and that Kenyon had rejected a written contract offer.

But he added that the state's contract with Kenyon would be eligible for reimbursement under a program to assist disaster-hit states with infrastructure recovery efforts.

FEMA has become the target of strong criticism of the Bush administration's handling of the nation's worst natural disaster, which killed hundreds and displaced 1 million people on the U.S. Gulf Coast.

FEMA director Michael Brown, whose work was initially praised by President George W. Bush, resigned on Monday.

Bush himself took responsibility on Tuesday for failures in the federal response to Hurricane Katrina and acknowledged the storm exposed serious deficiencies at all levels of government four years after the September 11 attacks.

http://wireservice.wired.com/wired/s...toryId=1088208

[linskyjack]

Originally Posted by LuckyStrike

If you go to the drudge report and click on any story, it will redirect you to another source, such as The New York Times, for example. It doesn't make much sense to call the drudge report a right wing rag or left wing rag or anything else when it seldom has original content. It is more of digest of links to a variety of current news stories from a variety of sources. All that you normally see at the drudge report web site is headlines along with a few related pictures.

The fact that you dismiss the drudge report as a right wing rag, reveals quite a bit about you.

Of course it does--go read the headline (which contains the link) which in this case (and in many cases) takes you to a story that has nothing to do with the headline. How you can go from Blanco "wanting a body count" (doesn't say that in the article) to Blanco wanting bodies recovered faster----really shows more about Drudge, and the way he lures right wingers in,then about reality.

[LANMaster]

Blanco (Blank-O) is a hag.
Her statements are 100% politically motivated.
If they weren't, her concerns would have been expressed to those in charge of remains removal rather than to Al Reuters.

[angelize56]

Mike: I guess the following has been practically solved for the governor....soemtimes you get more than you ask for!

A major focus of Governor Blanco's time in office has been the future of the New Orleans Saints, one of two major sports franchises in the state of Louisiana. At one time or another, Governor Blanco has proposed the construction of a new stadium for the team, a renovation of the Louisiana Superdome, and has implied that the state cannot afford to retain the team. This has led to an ongoing impasse between Governor Blanco and Saints owner Tom Benson. In the spring of 2005, Benson halted negotiations between the team and the state until after the 2005 NFL season is over. While Governor Blanco would certainly like to resolve this issue and remain focused on issues such as education, there is little doubt that the outcome of this debate will play a major role in Louisiana's future economic development. It will also affect Blanco's chances for re-election in 2007.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathleen_Blanco