Alarming News: I like Morgan Freeberg. A lot.
American Digest: And I like this from "The Blog That Nobody Reads", because it is -- mostly -- about me. What can I say? I'm on an ego trip today. It won't last.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: We were following a trackback and thinking "hmmm... this is a bloody excellent post!", and then we realized that it was just part III of, well, three...Damn. I wish I'd written those.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
Mein Blogovault: Make "the Blog that No One Reads" one of your daily reads.
The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
WWJND?
I’ve had very little to say about the Louisiana/Mississippi disaster. That’s because this blog has an informal policy of corking-it when there is little or nothing further to be added to what others have already said. At this point all I’ve got to talk about is 1) I’ve donated $$$ and if you haven’t donated at least that much, you’re scum; 2) There are heap-big problems with priorities — government, or coverage of government.
Well I’m not going to say 1) because I think it’s juvenile and retarded. You’re a Republican, I’m a Democrat, you donated ten dollars and I donated twenty, that makes me right? Stupid. And yet there are people saying that very thing. As far as priorities, I’m sure our government will do what the press tells them to do, like it always does, and I’m sure the press always does what we tell it to do. Right now the instructions from the media to the Bush administration are as follows: “You stink!” — because the people who don’t like the Bush administration, have figured out if they can’t strike a public-relations blow here, they can’t do it ever.
Texas-Air-National-Guard-gate has melted into the ground. Downing-Street-Memo-gate went nowhere. Talk-To-Grieving-Mom-gate has turned out to be a huge embarrassment for all concerned. The whole Iraq thing was doing okay for awhile, but if there’s a national consensus, it turns out to — surprisingly — agree with me. We’re glad Saddam is gone, who gives a rip what the reason was. Some people changed their minds when flag-draped coffins came stateside. People like me, are wondering what kind of rock people like those, live under. War has casualties. We had that argument before March 17, 2003. That there would be casualties, was not concealed from us, as the case was being made.
So the only dry powder they’ve got is the high price of gas, and the FEMA response to the debacle in New Orleans. Okay, fine, use it; that’s politics. But time it adequately. While rescue efforts are underway, and people are basically camping out in the ocean, surrounded by non-potable water, no food, crapping wherever they can, dead bodies floating past ’em — let’s just concentrate on what’s needed to get the help where it is needed.
The Feds could have done this? The local rescue efforts could have done that? Anyone with a lick of common sense is in favor of a post-mortem…some of the things that went on were inexcusable. Save it for when the frost is on the pumpkin. If we look into this the first part of October, that gives, like, six or seven weeks before the holidays start in earnest. That’s plenty enough to slime whoever you want to slime.
Doing it now is essentially What Jesus Would Not Do.
It’s cheap and sleezy. It’s simply allowing political parasites to make use of Phase II of the K�bler-Ross model: the anger. Grieving people are quick to anger. Bush-bashers are making use of this. That is all this is, and we shouldn’t indulge it.
Why point that out? Because let’s get realistic, blame is distracting. Can you guarantee me we can play the blame game, and at the same time, rescue everyone who needs rescuing? You can’t? Okay, then the conversation’s over. Rescue away.
Shoot, the way things have been going with other disasters, we’ll be watching the finger-pointing well into next year if not the year after. There’s time enough for it.
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