The last picture in this Aftermath of Hurricane Ike slideshow speaks volumes. (MUST SEE)

[Jamastiene]

The first 17 pictures in the slideshow are of the devastation of people's homes. Wait until you see the last picture of the slide show.


Check it out:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/gallery/2008/sep/15/usa?picture=337617591

:mad:

[Jamastiene]

1. Kicking

:kick:

[Lorien]

2. That's what they care about alright. ALL they care about. n/t

[EmeraldCityGrl]

6. Um...are we winning God's war? You know, the God that spoke directly to

Bush...doesn't look like it.

[mckara]

3. I Agree!

Bush
:mad:

[texpatriot2004]

4. Last pic is infuriating. Pic # 9 of oil and water at High Island is

telling too.

[gristy]

5. Oh, my.

Quite amazing. Kudos to the editor who put those photos together in that order.

[Atman]

7. There are so many things to say about these photos...

I lived on a barrier island, Cocoa Beach, Florida, for sixteen years. Severe storms were standard issue, but we only had a few hurricane blow through the entire time I lived there. I'm amazed anything at all is left standing in Galvaston. It's virtually identical to Cocoa Beach -- much of it barely at sea level, most of it unprotected by seawalls. These places are built on fucking sandbars. Literally, no hyperbole...they're sandbars. It's lunacy to rebuild in these places. I'd be emotionally crushed if Cocoa Beach, my home town, just vanished from the maps. But it's what nature intended...that's why Galvaston and Cocoa Beach are called "barrier islands." They're just barricades, natural seawalls, to the mainland. Building on them is fucking stupid.

.

[uppityperson]

8. k&r for oil pipelines being Important to mrbush

http://static.guim.co.uk/Guardian/world/gallery/2008/sep/15/usa/[e-mail]

Washington: George Bush with a map of Gulf Coast oil pipelines as he speaks to the press after receiving an update on hurricane Ike from officials

[arthritisR_US]

11. that is the picture that blew me away....his fucking greed knows no bounds....

fuck I hate these people!

[uppityperson]

20. I wonder if that is all he knows of the gulf? Seriously.

Me too.

[SammyWinstonJack]

36. Gollum george=My precioussssssss.

:evilgrin:

[bdamomma]

34. that is what he is checking on today, it's never about the people

NEVER.

[underseasurveyor]

9. I have to post this pic from hurricane katrina

This picture, I can't explain it any other way except that it absolutely crushes my heart. It leaves no room for words, only tears of profound sadness, frustration and rage, and it will forever burn in my memory. I L-O-A-T-H this administration.

[magellan]

22. OMG

I hadn't seen that photo before. I made myself sick with grief and fury after Katrina, this brings it all back. Of all the twisted things BushCo have done, this was the most unforgivable act for me.

Thank you for sharing that.

[underseasurveyor]

26. If there is one single photo from katrina that says it all, this one's it for me.

There have been pictures in the past that have been burned into my memory over the 4+ decades of my life, good and bad. And out of the many heartbreaking and devastating pics that came as a result of katrina this is the one I'll not ever forget. That woman's face and expression... say so much:cry:

[bdamomma]

35. someone said to me after the second time bush was re elected

after bush is through you will not recognize the United States, unfortunately they were right. All the more reason why we have to stop another BS'er and warmonger getting into abuse of power.

[ananda]

10. I don't think we're getting the real news about Ike.

Somehow the news on the true destruction and the number
of deaths just isn't getting out.

[gratuitous]

12. Well gee whiz, you libruls!

You don't want George W. Bush to care about the country, you don't don't want George W. Bush to care about people (mostly because you noticed that George W. Bush doesn't care about the country or people), and now you're saying that you don't don't want George W. Bush to care about oil and pipelines! Well, what do you libruls want George W. Bush to care about?! Anyway? Arrest my case!

[Jamastiene]

14. Getting his bags packed and ready to leave the White House. n/t

[XOKCowboy]

25. I'll tell you what he should care about..

War Crimes and prison.

[Liberal_in_LA]

13. You should have given some warning about that last picture. Not for the sensitive! lol

[nichomachus]

16. I don't like looking at picture of turds.

[Liberal_in_LA]

18. me neither

[cui bono]

15. "as he speaks to the press"

What, no birthday to celebrate? No songs to sing?

Fucker.

[gratuitous]

17. Nobody gave him a presidemential gee-tar

"So fuck you all, and even fuck Texas," whines Commander Bunnypants. "Now I'm off to Paraguay!"

[EC]

19. The pipe liness

boy he's full of emphathy...and in the British Isles yet...how embarrassing for them to see this and not our citizens...we're in the dark while they see front and center what an ass he is...I guess he has to check them, but geez...

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

21. I see what you mean...

[Jamastiene]

23. Wow, I knew his real face was horrendous, but still wow. n/t

[malaise]

31. Spitting coffee

:rofl:

:hi:

[XOKCowboy]

24. Once again The Guardian shows what no US media outlet would

Of course Georgie might have just needed a visual aid so he'd know which coast got hit.

[Jamastiene]

29. They probably put the crayons out of camera range

until after they took the picture.

[reggie the dog]

27. flooding in CHICAGO!!!

picture 17 is of the floods in Chicago this weekend, nine inches of rain fell in 48 hours in chicago. A record 6 and a third inches in a 24 hour period, picture 17 is in CHICAGO

[Hubert Flottz]

28. Bush is going down there today and show them how to walk on

the water.

Where are McCain and the Wolfwoman? I can't believe thay aren't down there doing a fundraiser.

[Jamastiene]

30. Kicking for the morning.

:kick:

[Jamastiene]

32. I woke up still pissed off about that picture and the last 8 years.

:kick: one last time before I start my day.

[bdamomma]

33. the Guardian UK is showing these pictures

what about our own sanitized news media, disgusting looks like Katrina all over again.

[Scriptor Ignotus]

37. I hate to break this to DU

and I hate to defend Bush even more, BUT...

maybe paying attention to the oil refineries and pipelines isn't necessarily a bad or "evil" thing to do. Perhaps it's good for the President to be aware of any disruptions in oil output or supply.

Please don't attack me for this, all I am simply saying is that the President should be concerned with relief efforts AS WELL AS infrastructure and energy concerns. If it's Pres. Obama he should be doing the same thing.

Flame away.

[bullwinkle428]

39. When putting it into context with the comments he made

to the Iraqi people on the eve of the invasion ("Do not destroy oil wells!"), it paints an all too clear a picture of the only thing that really matters to him.

[bullwinkle428]

38. "Do not destroy oil wells!"

Psychopathic motherfugger...

[truedelphi]

40. K & R. Where is Noah when you need him?? n/t