A few observations about the Katrina disaster:
I wasn't really paying attention to the news about the hurricane before it struck. Storms happen, all the time. Florida is always being hit with some heavy storm/hurricane. Sometimes it takes a lot before you're in "Oh, shit!" mode.
After 9/11, weren't we suppossed to be a little better prepared for such events? If this had been a terrorist attack, would all those people still be stranded at the superdome? We even had warning that a hurricane was coming with this one. Even without the hypothetical "what if this happened in a predominately rich, white area", it makes me wonder.
Does this take away from one of the rationales for the war, "it's better to fight the terrorist over there than it is to wait and fight them over here"? Maybe we should get our own house in order before we worry about democratizing the whole world.
Kanye West is both getting praise and taking crap for his comments last night. All I'm saying is that the statement he made might not have carried as much weight if Bush hadn't been out playing a fucking round of golf after he got that pesky little photo opp out of the way. (added in later: I've been looking for where I saw this but haven't been able to find out if Bush was playing golf.)
Geraldo Rivera was in tears while holding a 10 month old baby at the superdome. This was the most real thing I've ever seen on Fox news out of one of their "reporters". Shepard Smith yelling at Sean Hannity was a priceless moment, Hannity as always was looking for a way to put a good spin on this for the whitehouse.
While I feel for the family, at least this gets the Natalie Holloway story of of the news. There are more important things in the world than one missing girl.
I wasn't really paying attention to the news about the hurricane before it struck. Storms happen, all the time. Florida is always being hit with some heavy storm/hurricane. Sometimes it takes a lot before you're in "Oh, shit!" mode.
After 9/11, weren't we suppossed to be a little better prepared for such events? If this had been a terrorist attack, would all those people still be stranded at the superdome? We even had warning that a hurricane was coming with this one. Even without the hypothetical "what if this happened in a predominately rich, white area", it makes me wonder.
Does this take away from one of the rationales for the war, "it's better to fight the terrorist over there than it is to wait and fight them over here"? Maybe we should get our own house in order before we worry about democratizing the whole world.
Kanye West is both getting praise and taking crap for his comments last night. All I'm saying is that the statement he made might not have carried as much weight if Bush hadn't been out playing a fucking round of golf after he got that pesky little photo opp out of the way. (added in later: I've been looking for where I saw this but haven't been able to find out if Bush was playing golf.)
Geraldo Rivera was in tears while holding a 10 month old baby at the superdome. This was the most real thing I've ever seen on Fox news out of one of their "reporters". Shepard Smith yelling at Sean Hannity was a priceless moment, Hannity as always was looking for a way to put a good spin on this for the whitehouse.
While I feel for the family, at least this gets the Natalie Holloway story of of the news. There are more important things in the world than one missing girl.
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on the subject of the hurricane, how is it like preparing for a terrorist attack? a force of nature and a bunch of people blowing up a building are two very different things. not that i'm saying the govt. wasn't ill-prepared, but it's a bit different. i mean, the hurricane was supposed to be heading for florida, and they were preparing for that. they didn't know it was going to take a very different course and kill louisiana. that's why the non-preparation. not enough time. not enough warning.
in my overall opinion, i don't care a whole helluva lot about stupid natural disasters in the good ol' U.S. of A. i'm more worried about the millions of people stuck in third world countries that can't even live with enough diginity to want to go on living because they can't feed their children, can barely move because they're so weak with starvation, are dying of the aids epidemic in North Africa, are dying from being caught in the crossfires of guerilla warfare in Sierra Leone, and are being pushed out of their homes and murdered in the jungles of South America so we good ol' boys from the U.S. can cut down their ancient rain forest to make some shit we don't need to further trash and poison the earth and some toilet paper for our hoitey-toitey asses.
yes, i hate the news for capitalizing on such natural disasters. those natural disasters don't count for squat against the suffering of our planet and fellow human beings that we so conveniently forget about every day. i also hate our government for causing more strife in the world instead of using those resources to help people that are dying and suffering every second of every day and are wondering what cruel god brought them into existence in the first place.
now that's what pisses me off.
love,
Me
p.s. who's sean hannity?