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On the new White House website, the Obama administration has wasted no time instituting the “Blame Bush” policy.

Katrina
President Obama will keep the broken promises made by President Bush to rebuild New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. He and Vice President Biden will take steps to ensure that the federal government will never again allow such catastrophic failures in emergency planning and response to occur.

First of all, this is a huge insult to President Bush.  The statement implies that the Bush administration deliberately sat by and let people suffer after the hurricane.  What I recall is a local government that was inept and unwilling to take proper measures to protect its people. 

I also remember the response from many in communities around the country.  There was an outpouring of support and help from many throughout the country.  Obviously, this was a disaster that our country had never faced before and it took more than the Feds to help those in need.

Aside from the insults, this is a very profound statement.   How can Obama or any President make such a promise that the federal government will never again fail to plan for or respond to an emergency?  Is it not plausible that an emergency may occur in the future in which no one planned for?  Is Obama foolish enough to think that there are  disasters that could delay or paralyze the response by local or federal agencies?  It appears that way.

This statement is an example of Democrat arrogance.  The Dems think the government will never fail in an emergency.  Bit. in life there are no guarantees.  The Obama administration certainly cannot make guarantees in a future no one can predict.

When the government does fail in an emergency under Obama’s watch, I am sure they will find a way to “Blame Bush.”

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The link is at: http://www.whitehouse.gov/agenda/additional/

Here is a screenshot:

In the fourth year of car loan payments for my 1995 Saturn SC2, I was adding a quart of oil a week to keep “old smokey” running.  That car, like many Saturns in those model years were infamous for leaking oil due to an engine design flaw that Saturn never admitted was a problem.  That leaking oil gave me a signature ride that made me a circus attraction at any prolonged stop. 
 
Before the Saturn, I kept a Chevrolet Corsica alive for several years.  The Corsica was a replacement for my fading Chevrolet S-10 that was losing life as it neared the loan payoff date.  Even before that, my Chevrolet Monza was the original “old smokey.”  The Monza made the Saturn look like a cigar smoker.

I am a good red-blooded Southern American that loves American cars.  But, I just can not own any more of them.  At a minimum, I want my car to last until it is paid off.

So, the big American car makers led by GM went before congress and begged like mud-eating pigs for “bailout” money because they are losing money.  I don’t recall anyone offering to bail me out of owning those GM vehicles?  In fact, I had to bail myself out — by buying only Japanese cars for the last several years.   

Judging by the quality of the GM cars I owned, there has been more focus on feeding the unions than building cars.  This is evident more than ever since the CEOs beg for money instead of cutting the appetite of the unions.

Eventually the union power will burn up in smoke just like my GM cars did.  After all they have years of experience making “old smokies.”

Its a good thing that time machine’s are not real.  If they were, I would transport back to my college days and change my major to meteorology/climatology – or to phrase another way – psychic studies.  What better way to generate a considerable income simply speculating about the weather – and be wrong most of the time? 

Because of the advances in computer science, the weather psychics can use statistics and algorithms to assist them in their art of deception.  The cowards can hide behind a computer and blame the “models” for not being correct.  That is spineless – but, a pretty darn good way to make a living.

Since I work in the medical field (and live in a world based on accuracy and logic), I look at the whole science of weather prediction with skepticism.  If I made errors in patient care at the same rates of error as weather psychics, then I would probably be in jail.   

So, why should I believe anything these speculators say about changes to our long term weather – better known as climate change?  If you are wrong about predicting the weather with 100% accuracy over the next few days, then it makes sense to me that I should not believe your predictions about the weather trends in the near and/or distant future.  If I gave you the wrong medicine in the hospital a few times, you would not take any other medicine from me for sure.

What is worse is that human kind is accused of being the cause for these changes.  Because these weather psychics can predict the weather so well, we can trust them to tell us the source of these changes?  Right.  In fact, they are saying humans should have guilt for existing and submit to reducing our quality of life for the planet.  Not a chance, buddy.

As a child I remember the big scares of “a new ice age” being predicted.  Our school teachers spewed that emesis  in our classrooms making us feel guilty for living and causing the ice age.  They said our frozen future was very bleak.  But, I am sure none of those teachers were giving their retirement money to charity in leu of this. 

Nonetheless, after I chiseled my way out of school – the scare became ”global warming.”   Now the weather warnings are going back to the “ice age” predictions again.  To complete the circle of life, my kids are coming home talking of climate change.  It is changing, I tell them.  It is changing so fast no-one can predict it.

When you can predict the weather 100% of the time for the next few years, then maybe you can get some creditability in my eyes.  When your psychic predictions about future weather does not change every ten years, then mabye you can also gain some creditability. 

I should have chose the field of meteorology/climatology as my field of college study.  I could have made a great living making mistakes and scaring people.  But, then again, I would have been a spineless coward.  That is just not me.