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My blundering, inarticulate attempt to muse about God's nature and mystery re the New Orleans catastrophe enraged some people I really like and respect, and I feel like shit about it. Everyone is feeling horrible about the disaster, and I deeply regret adding in any way to the negativity.
I honestly thought it was a optimistic thought, which shows how utterly clueless I am, and ... never mind, I'll just make it worse. There's no sense in trying to clarify what I think, because I clearly suck at that. The infuriating opinion has been deleted and replaced with an apology, and this is another. Things are bad enough.
On the disaster front, I'm now at the stage where I'm forced to wonder if the administration wants those people to die. That's how furious and paranoid I've become. Does FEMA consider them expendable? Or is the government sort of willing to save them, as long as it doesn't cost too much? Why else the atrocious delay? Was FEMA shopping around for the best deal on buses? The cheapest contractor? It's not like the victims are on the other side of the world, they're in freaking Louisiana, and we have a lot of motherfucking buses in this country. Something stinks, and FEMA heads should roll.
Oh, God. I'm going to take a sedative and watch Spiderman. I promise that if I ever rise on the stepping stones of my dead, mortified, crimson-faced LJ self, I'll post something positive. Pinky swear.
I honestly thought it was a optimistic thought, which shows how utterly clueless I am, and ... never mind, I'll just make it worse. There's no sense in trying to clarify what I think, because I clearly suck at that. The infuriating opinion has been deleted and replaced with an apology, and this is another. Things are bad enough.
On the disaster front, I'm now at the stage where I'm forced to wonder if the administration wants those people to die. That's how furious and paranoid I've become. Does FEMA consider them expendable? Or is the government sort of willing to save them, as long as it doesn't cost too much? Why else the atrocious delay? Was FEMA shopping around for the best deal on buses? The cheapest contractor? It's not like the victims are on the other side of the world, they're in freaking Louisiana, and we have a lot of motherfucking buses in this country. Something stinks, and FEMA heads should roll.
Oh, God. I'm going to take a sedative and watch Spiderman. I promise that if I ever rise on the stepping stones of my dead, mortified, crimson-faced LJ self, I'll post something positive. Pinky swear.
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See, this is what makes me think the black-hearted bastard might also be a little crazy. How can he feign to not know that a lot of people had no means? How? The instant the evac order went out, every story noted that the aged, the infirm and the very poor had no means to leave, and even then people were asking: why not send in trucks, buses, ferries? How can he pretend he didn't hear what every viewer in the US heard? He has to be defective in the head.
Brown was upbeat in his assessment of the relief effort so far, ticking off a list of accomplishments: more than 30,000 National Guard troops will be in the city within three days
*emits first blue cussing streak of the day* That shit. Everybody knows the Guard is there -- but they're NOT HANDING OUT SUPPLIES or EVACUATING WITH ANY KIND OF DISPATCH. They seem to have orders to stop looting and maintain order, no more -- the victims need food, water, and a ride the hell out there. Troops simply being there doesn't mean squat -- but he repeats it, like a god damned parrot, every time he gets his smug, facile, odious self onscreen, which seems to be every five minutes.
I'm writing to my congressman. It may be wasted effort (I don't think much of my congressman) but somebody needs to start clamoring for an investigation and accountability.
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I still have no words. And that's probably good, because they wouldn't be ones my mother would approve of.