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30 Aug 2005

Evelyn Turner cries alongside the body of her common-law husband, Xavier Bowie, after he died in New Orleans, Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2005. Bowie and Turner had decided to ride out Katrina when they could not find a way to leave the city. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

President Bush plays a guitar presented to him by Country Singer Mark Wills, right, backstage following his visit to Naval Base Coronado, Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2005. Bush visited the base to deliver remarks on V-J Commemoration Day. (AP Photo/ABC News, Martha Raddatz)

Posted by Dan Dickinson on Tuesday, August 30, 2005 at 9:28 PM | 1 TrackBacks

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Nero fiddled while Rome burned from Tikkabik on September 2, 2005 9:28 AM

And while Hurricane Katrina victims were mourning their dead, Bush was picking the presidential gee-tar. Yee-haw! The wry "Why change horsemen mid-Apocalypse" slogan I saw during the Presidential campaign in 2004 seems less and less like sarcastic comm... Read More

  • Corey Tamas

    Perfect example of one of those things where a picture speaks a thousand words.

  • SeedyV

    The commenting thread is over.



    Sakurina wins.

  • BUSH GOT WAILING BONUS!

  • I guess it is alright for our President to not be in the South right now, while hundreds of people are dead, thousands missing and millions of people are without power. I suppose when the tsunami hit that the leaders of all those other countries were playing for photo ops? Or perhaps he was suggesting that our President, after learning of a second airplane hitting the WTC, read for seven more minutes to a bunch of little kids.

  • Charlie (Colorado)

    And your point would be what, Dan? That Bush didn’t refrain from going to the VJ Day commemoration because there was a hurricane? That he was seen with a guitar?



    … or that any cheap little snipe is good enough to publish?

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Dan Dickinson is a 29 year old living in Jersey City, New Jersey. He works at the strange intersection of collaborative technologies, education, software development, and medicine. His passions include finding unexpected paths and connections, music/rhythm video games, interesting food, and backchannels. This has been his primary (vivid) weblog since February of 2000.

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