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    Punchline Visits Scene of World's Worst Joke

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    Image of irishflyesq irishflyesq
    03/13/09

    In reply to Punchline Visits Scene of World's Worst Joke
    Who's "we"?
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    Image of SarahHeartburn SarahHeartburn
    03/13/09

    @irishflyesq:The old Lone Ranger/Tonto joke about "what you mean WE, white man.."
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    Image of StonedAndDethroned StonedAndDethroned
    03/13/09

    In reply to Punchline Visits Scene of World's Worst Joke
    Similarly, Larry Craig's earlier Facebook status says, "...In the St Paul-Minneapolis Airport. Last time I was in here I was cruisin' for dick and got arrested."
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    Image of costanza007 costanza007
    03/13/09

    In reply to Punchline Visits Scene of World's Worst Joke
    We all know it was his fault only. Not the mayor, nor the governor, nor the tens of thousands who refused to prepare.


    How did a nation of blamers never learn to multi-cast such blame? Serial blaming is so antiquated.

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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    03/13/09

    @costanza007: Oh, grow up, will you? He bungled it.
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    Image of Colonel Mustard Colonel Mustard
    03/13/09

    @costanza007: Where's all the outrage over the Profumo Affair?! How come no one is accusing Catherine the Great of treason for her role in the coup that deposed Peter III?! Where are all the angry letters to Starbucks over their ridiculously overpriced coffees during this hard economic downturn?! Why aren't people airing grievances tangentially related to the topic at hand?! If we stick to the subject, the terrorists have already won!!
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    Image of costanza007 costanza007
    03/13/09

    @costanza007: now repeat after me: many people with many affiliations screwed up. just because it is vogue to hate only this one guy because of the president who appointed him doesn't make the repeated caws of "blame this one guy" right.


    for instance, FEMA can't activate the national guard and send them into disaster areas. FEMA can't get bus drivers for those unused buses. FEMA can't make you store food and water, or force you to evacuate.


    thanks, everyone who wasn't here in new orleans, for understanding so little about the situation and not realizing how your government will fail you at every level or that personal responsibility could help you prepare for a disaster we all saw coming.

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    Image of Colonel Mustard Colonel Mustard
    03/13/09

    @costanza007: How many people have to screw something up together before they're all allowed a free pass? I want to know, because if there's no point holding people accountable for their individual role in larger proceedings, it would be great to know how many people have to be involved before you don't have to take responsibility for your own actions.
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    Image of costanza007 costanza007
    03/13/09

    @costanza007: nobody gets a free pass in this one. that is the point; mike brown is one of many, not just the one guy who everyone can point at.


    also: thanks, formerly, for showing everyone how enlightened you are by going completely tangental. anyone want to help him get back to the real conversation?

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    Image of southernbitch southernbitch
    03/13/09

    @costanza007: maybe im readin too far into your comments, but it seems like you're implying that you're from new orleans. and im wondering what's the timeline- are you born and raised, were you here for the storm, or did you descend after the storm to make your name rebuilding the city like so many other young white professionals who want to clean it up and make it better and teach all the poors about "personal responsibility" while bragging to your ex-boarding school buddies about scraping out molded houses out in the east or the perenially lamented lower nine? if you're not, pardon my vitriol, but im fucking sick of hearin about personal responsibility, and sure as shit sick of hearing it from upper middle class young kids scolding people in new orleans who got caught in this shitstorm of a mess that primarily was caused by our fucked up relationship with the oil companies and the depletion of the coast and how the levees were scheduled to be upgraded years back but kept getting pushed back and these insurance companies who stacked the deck against everyone who got flooded. there's plenty of fucking "personal responsibility", and i want to make sure that people like michael brown get his fair goddamned share.


    yeah, we can lay a lot of blame on a lot of doorsteps and around a lot of necks that we also want to fucking break. but i hate it so fucking much when people from new orleans start shaming others from our town because we have a big fight ahead of us to claw back and we need to respect each other and mourn for each other.


    and yeah, FUCK micheal brown.

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    03/13/09

    @costanza007: ps- that government will fail you at every level bullshit didn't sound good coming out of jindal's mouth, and it doesn't sound good coming out of yours, either.
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    Image of SarahHeartburn SarahHeartburn
    03/13/09

    @costanza007: He was in charge of a government agency that was supposed to coordinate services in one of the worst natural disasters in US history and behaved like a prep school boy in charge of prom refreshments. He's still clueless, and apparently, not the only one who is.
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    Image of allyzay allyzay
    03/13/09

    @costanza007: heckuva post, brownie!!
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    Image of lobstr lobstr
    03/13/09

    In reply to Punchline Visits Scene of World's Worst Joke
    when's his turn as guest intern at Gawker?

    Make him get you some beignets..
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    Image of FitnessMadeSimple FitnessMadeSimple
    03/13/09

    In reply to Punchline Visits Scene of World's Worst Joke
    Psst. Mike..."Write something..." is just a suggestion. It's not mandatory.
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    Image of SidAndFinancy SidAndFinancy
    03/13/09

    In reply to Punchline Visits Scene of World's Worst Joke
    "Hey look -- Aaron Neville! Aaron, can I get your autogrghhhh%(GJD%EUVDKHJgV20z."
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    Image of SidAndFinancy SidAndFinancy
    03/13/09

    In reply to Punchline Visits Scene of World's Worst Joke
    "Michael D Brown is looking around at New Orleans Intl Airport, listening to side 2 of Zep IV."
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    Image of PrettyNotPretty PrettyNotPretty
    03/13/09

    In reply to Punchline Visits Scene of World's Worst Joke
    Good to know he hasn't bothered to return in well over 3 years. Way to follow up, asshole.
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    Image of rina rina
    03/13/09

    In reply to Punchline Visits Scene of World's Worst Joke
    "we were treating patients and evacuating people"


    Um, no. You were pretty much just standing around, being an asshole.

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    Image of SarahHeartburn SarahHeartburn
    03/13/09

    @rina: and, as I recall, going to dinner so he wasn't available to take phone calls at crucial moments.


    [the-reaction.blogspot.com]

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    Image of Aaron Altman Aaron Altman
    03/13/09

    In reply to Punchline Visits Scene of World's Worst Joke
    Fuck you, Michael Browne.
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    03/13/09

    In reply to Punchline Visits Scene of World's Worst Joke
    Fucking asshole. They should run his ass out of town on a rail. Right into the swamp.
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    Image of fileunder fileunder
    03/13/09

    @BookishLookish: Or on an Arabian horsey.
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    Image of bytememehard bytememehard
    03/13/09

    In reply to Punchline Visits Scene of World's Worst Joke
    It's a heckuva day for New Orleans!

    It's a heckuva day for the United States!
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    Image of Aaron Altman Aaron Altman
    03/13/09

    In reply to Punchline Visits Scene of World's Worst Joke
    "Mmmm, no more scent of dead, rotting corpses!"
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    Image of Aaron Altman Aaron Altman
    03/13/09

    In reply to Punchline Visits Scene of World's Worst Joke
    "Hey, the Superdome don't look so bad no more!"
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    Image of Aaron Altman Aaron Altman
    03/13/09

    @Aaron Altman: "Wow, I ain't gotta wear no waders here!"
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    Image of CaptainFantastic CaptainFantastic
    03/13/09

    In reply to Punchline Visits Scene of World's Worst Joke
    Heckuva get, Pareeney.
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