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It's not every day that you come back from vacation and find a major US city in ruins. I started watching CNN last night in a bar on a cruise ship, and I've spent all day reading up on the reports coming out of New Orleans, and I have to say, I'm utterly fucking horrified and pissed off about both the governmental response and what the media's been reporting. So far, the most apt description of how I feel has come from, ironically enough, Something Awful. Who would have thought that the most cogent and articulate response came from a website that is famous for bringing Goatse and FiestaCat to the eyes of the internet.
The guy running the show in New Orleans, the director of FEMA, got shit-canned from his last job running a goddamned HORSE BREEDING organization because of his ineptitude. And he's been entrusted with saving New Orleans.
The federal government is more concerned with the sanctity of private and corporate property than with the lives of the citzenry, ordering the National Guard in to get looters off the streets by whatever means neccesary, yet not allowing any volunteer rescue workers in.
The media is just absolutely fucking abombinable in their coverage. Paula Zahn's making bullshit remarks about "doing the Lord's work" and CNN had an exclusive on what Katrina would do to gas prices. What the fuck? Thousands of people are dead or dying, and Joe Six-Pack's worried about his SUV.
These were taken from Free Republic, the conservative's home on the internet:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1475783/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1475861/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1475829/posts
And people wonder why this country is hated so fucking much.
I leave you with a quote from our fearless leader, President George W. Bush. This came from his press conference earlier in the day:
""We've got a lot of rebuilding to do. First, we're going to save lives and stabilize the situation. And then we're going to help these communities rebuild. The good news is -- and it's hard for some to see it now -- that out of this chaos is going to come a fantastic Gulf Coast, like it was before. Out of the rubbles of Trent Lott's house -- he's lost his entire house -- there's going to be a fantastic house. And I'm looking forward to sitting on the porch."
The guy running the show in New Orleans, the director of FEMA, got shit-canned from his last job running a goddamned HORSE BREEDING organization because of his ineptitude. And he's been entrusted with saving New Orleans.
The federal government is more concerned with the sanctity of private and corporate property than with the lives of the citzenry, ordering the National Guard in to get looters off the streets by whatever means neccesary, yet not allowing any volunteer rescue workers in.
The media is just absolutely fucking abombinable in their coverage. Paula Zahn's making bullshit remarks about "doing the Lord's work" and CNN had an exclusive on what Katrina would do to gas prices. What the fuck? Thousands of people are dead or dying, and Joe Six-Pack's worried about his SUV.
These were taken from Free Republic, the conservative's home on the internet:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1475783/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1475861/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1475829/posts
And people wonder why this country is hated so fucking much.
I leave you with a quote from our fearless leader, President George W. Bush. This came from his press conference earlier in the day:
""We've got a lot of rebuilding to do. First, we're going to save lives and stabilize the situation. And then we're going to help these communities rebuild. The good news is -- and it's hard for some to see it now -- that out of this chaos is going to come a fantastic Gulf Coast, like it was before. Out of the rubbles of Trent Lott's house -- he's lost his entire house -- there's going to be a fantastic house. And I'm looking forward to sitting on the porch."