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The cover of Time Magazine
August 8th, 2007 at 05:03 pm by wRitErsbLock in Uncategorized
In case you're having a hard time reading it:
Two years after Katrina, this floodwall is all that stands between New Orleans and the next hurricane. It's pathetic. How a perfect storm of big-money politics, shoddy engineering and environmental ignorance is setting up the city for another catastrophe. By Michael GrunwaldSeriously? That's what your main story is going to be about? I can tell you right now I am not going to waste my valuable toilet time reading that non-sense. I imagine it will read something like, "boo hoo hoo... Bush hates black people... wah wah wah... Bush's Weather Machine... sniffle sniffle... Bush ordered the destruction of the levy to flood the city..." and on and on. Meanwhile, the idiots in New Orleans were too stupid to save themselves and evacuate. They were too stupid to NOT re-elect the mind-bogglingly inept Ray Nagin. If you are that stupid, I don't care if your city endures another catastrophe. We call it survival of the fittest, Darwin's law. If you're too stupid to move above sea level, evacuate when facing the eye of a category five hurricane, save yourself from the flood, and to vote out the elected officials who were too stupid to order an evacuation... well... get in line for your Darwin Award. Always Katrina. Never Charley and the poor people of Punta Gorda, Florida. Do you remember them? The people who had no warning until Charley suddenly and unexpectedly changed course and plowed through their town August 13, 2004. Funny how there were no cries of "George Bush hates Floridians" after Charley, Frances, Jeanne, and Ivan devastated the Sunshine State in 2004. Funny how we have picked up the pieces and recreated our lives without moaning and complaining and trying to blame the government. Funny how we do things for ourselves. Why are the people of New Orleans so helpless?
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Your 2¢
Without a doubt the best post I’ve read today!
“I am not going to waste my valuable toilet time reading that non-sense.”
I’d rather spend the money on something useful like beer, rather than tossing it down that sewer.
That one had me laughing out loud.
I get so frustrated with all the Katrina coverage and poor, poor New Orleans. You never hear about the other cities and towns that were devastated by Katrina; only New Orleans. And all this non-sense coverage of Katrina, yet no mention at all of the 2004 hurricanes that hit Florida.
Can you tell it’s a sore spot for me?
And I stand by my statement about not wasting my valuable toilet time on that crap!
Tragedy and the news. I just don’t get it. Take the Challenger disaster in ’86. I just heard Christa McAuliffe’s name on the radio the other day… over 20 years later. (ouch. did I just say 20 years? I really am getting old!) I mean no disrespect to the astronauts, but how many people die in car accidents EVERY DAY? How many people are murdered in Philadelphia every year? (400 in ’06. Yikes.) But the only people to remember those names are their friends and family. Would people still remember the names of the Challenger crew if they hadn’t died? What makes one person’s death more… memorable? than any other?
As to hurricanes… I don’t know why y’all would want to live that far south anyway!!
WB, they are so helpless because most of them are suckling on the teat of the government and won’t get off their sorry butts to work and work hard for a living. Nope, not as long as you, Brian, Matthew and I keep the $$ rolling their way.
Disgusting is the only word I have for most of those people. The hardest hit parish was St Bernards where there is like 70% white population but you don’t hear them bitching today….Nope, they rebuilt and are moving on with their lives.
Well, without necessarily turning this into a black/white issue, I can say that Floridians have Absolute Moral Authority to speak on this subject.
Floridians have this habit of pulling themselves up and rebuilding.
BTW, I used absolute moral authority in violation of trademark laws. Please don’t turn me in .