This Pic editorial gets to the heart of the matter in the first sentence:
Nobody wants to have to compete for disaster relief.
But that is what Louisianians have had to do in the two years since Hurricane Katrina struck.
Yet, that's exactly what's been happening from pretty much the moment Chimptomaniac yawned and went to bed on August 29, 2005 without so much as a response to Kathleen Blanco's desperate plea for assistance. Indeed, the administration has played this not-so-natural disaster out as if it were a corporation soliciting bids for an assembly line or manufacturing plant, instead of engaging in actions that would be grounds for the largest class-action liability lawsuit in history, that is, if they didn't immunize themselves a priori. Creeps.
Oh, and here's more of the Mississippi non-miracle: larger federal shares per capita aren't exactly going TO the capitas (capati?), but are winding up in fat cat pockets.
And Shrub, like a damn Chimperor expecting tribute, waddles down to play politics.
Well, it's small comfort, but I guess I can hope that one day while the historians scratch their heads in wonderment--how COULD we reach such heights of absuridity?--perhaps the satarists will rub their hands together in recognition that our pain is their laughter...assuming they don't have a Shrub of their own to deal with.
Geez...I hope not: one Shrub, one Poppy, and one Bar is ENOUGH punishment for a millenia or so. That, or proof that god either doesn't exist, or she's pissed as all hell.
But, I digress...
Oh, before I forget, it looks like a number of us got Joshua Clark's email requesting a link to a news/update web site that's awfully good, and to a more personal site promoting his book. You know, I really liked listening to Mr. Clark and his fellow panelists, and consider his request a pretty easy one to act on.
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