Damn

It’s easy for me to get all pent up and vent against the idiots in the Federal Govt., like Brown from FEMA who should be drawn and quartered in a public square for his asinine comments and attitude during this situation like -"to help those who are stranded, who chose not to evacuate, who chose not to leave the city..."

Get with it asshole, some people had no choice because they have no means to travel or a place to go if they could. Lots went to the Superdome where they were supposed to and that has worked out tremendously well!

I say to those "Bush can't control the weather" folks that if someone wants to vent go ahead and bash the shit out of Bush. Bash him without rational rationale or cogent thought. I could give half a rat’s ass if he can’t control the weather. He’s the President of the United States and we have an entire city dying and it’s getting worse by the hour and not better. How could he coordinate efforts better? Fuck if I know but he’s the man who stands up and says “follow the leader” and in this case the leader can’t seem to get food and water to his citizens that are dying on TV, y’know where the five thousand TV reporters are camped out talking to the people that are dying.

To paraphrase Bill Pullman in Aliens -”Game over man, game over…why don’t you put Wolf Blitzer in charge!”

So fuck Bush. Is it fair? Who cares, fair play and placing blame where it’s deserved hasn’t been a priority to him for five years so why should it be to me today?

Mostly though it's just really, really sad. Me and the Mrs. went to New Orleans in June and had a blast but the unbelievable disparity between the haves and the have nots very clearly along racial lines was stunning. The failure of our society to promote some semblance of a cure to generational and institutional poverty is playing out right now in New Orleans. People say “they” should have left, well where were these people supposed to go? What do you do whenyou already have next to nothing and then what little you have is destroyed leaving you with no home, no education and no hope?

A guy they interviewed said, "I just can't help but think I would be better off if I had drowned." How fucking sad and even sadder because he might be right is that?