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Nobody Could Have Foreseen the Need to Take a Potty Break

George Bush at the 2005 World Summit / 60th UN General Assembly

“Uhh, Miss Rice, kihn ah go to th’ bathroom?”

Apparently a real photo — the original is here.

Later, After Having Secured Permission…

“Dang! Which one is th’ fellers’ can?”

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One Month Too Late

From the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s site, Ready.gov:

Graphic: Ready.gov's 'September is National Preparedness Month' headline.

Click the graphic to find out more about National Preparedness Month.

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Great Quips from "The Daily Show"

On pathetically incompetent FEMA director Michael’s former position as

commissioner of the International Arabian Horse Association: “Most Bush appointees are beholden to Arabian people.”


On the administration’s new favourite talking point — “everyone is playing the blame game”: “Those who complain about the blame game? They’re usually to blame.”


A little perspective on the President and Sean Penn (who really is on the verge of turning into his puppet from Team America) “[Bush] took four days, and then he visited Trent Lott’s house, while [Penn] actually got in the sludge and rescued people.”

(I still think that Penn’s bringing along a photographer was a bit much.)

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As Seen on Last Night’s "The Daily Show"

Photo: Still frame from Sept. 6 'Daily Show': Major disasters of the Bush administration.

I find it interesting that for “V”, they went with “Voldemort” and not “Vader, Darth”.

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Nobody’s Gonna Come Out of This One Looking Good…

Not the people of New Orleans:

Trick bikes and firearms: the necessities of life.

Certainly not the cops: [5.6MB, Windows Media video]

Helping themselves to shoes in aisle 3. Click the photo to see the video.

Not the municipal government, who could’ve used these now-useless buses in an evacuation:

Could’a hauled out a lot of people with these…

Not Sean Penn:

Read here for the story.

…and definitely not the federal government.

I’m hoping that the soldiers they sent over do a better job.

This is downtime, kids. I’d have posed for this picture in the exact same way.

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"Claw Hammer" Guy Revealed

Another angle of the strangest photo to emerge from the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina:

“Holy crap! Robert Duvall is Claw Hammer Guy!”

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Which One is the "Nuclear Option"?

The photo below has surpassed my earlier candidate for weirdest photo of the Katrina aftermath:

Photo: Boarded-up rug store in New Orleans with the warning 'Don't try. I am sleeping with a big dog, an ugly woman, two shotguns and a claw hammer'.

“A Big Dog, an Ugly Woman, Two Shotguns and a Claw Hammer”? Sounds like the title for the next Guy Ritchie movie.