Ok last time we had anything on disasters i was very inconsiderate and offended some people.
This time however i really hope that everyone in new orleans, that they are ok and that they are safe and espcially my mom who is over there helping right now(that is not my base reason for being concerned.) if i had anyway to help i would, no money however. so this time i am not a jerk like last time and my prayes go out to see if anyone has any family out there. well good night everyone.
This whole thing has me sick. I feel for all those people so much. I can’t even begin to describe the fear that these people are enduring no to mention the rage that is brooding. President Bush should be ashamed of himself.
Mystic: your last posting there reminds me of a saying in Spanish. “El que no coje consejo, no llega a viejo”
Yeah bush needs other people to tell him what to do.
It sounds really bad, I dont buy cable television but read the newspaper the other day. It sounds horrible.
Rioting, dead bodies laying around…
I hope the House of the Rising Sun isn’t under water.
\m/ (-_-) \m/
I donated my welfare check to the redcross… it’s only about 160 canadian. I have a job off the books so really the welfare check is for me to do what ever I please.
However, science and environmentalists don’t make politics. Politicians do.
It’s a pity what happened to New Orleans. So much trouble could have been prevented. Even more of a pity is what happened after the fact.
And now, I’ve got a hurricane heading my way. And it’s supposed to be big enough to hit this far inland. Now I either have to rough the storm, or head out amidst road-rage traffic. Frankly, I don’t know what’s worse. We’ve already got tons of evacuees from Houston. I was talking to a few this morning.
What pisses me off is that some people aren’t taking it seriously. They are saying that we’ll just get “a little wet” like it was no big deal. Excuse me? A little wet? The last tropical depression was “a little” wet. But this is a freaking Category 5 hurricane. What’s wrong with these people?
Not too long ago there was a movie called Oil Storm that accurately predicted what would happen if Louisiana were hit with a CAT 4 hurricane. I recently watched it again and it sent a chill down my spine because of how accurate the movie was. You could put pictures from the movie next to pictures from news reports and I’ll bet you could not tell which was from the movie and which was from the news. I agree with Mystic, I think they should restore those wet lands because they do help protect people from such disasters.
Anyway, I could go into a hole tirade about how we need to learn to live more in balance with nature, people should stop developing areas where people have no business living etc…
But for now, I just wish all those people the best of luck and I hope they recover from this terrible event.
That movie was frighteningly accurate. It’s actually kind of funny, becuase I started watching it the other day while channel-surfing randomly, and I didn’t even know it was a movie. I thought it was a documentary on the effects of Katrina, and purely non-fiction. It wasn’t until about the half-way mark that I put all the clues together and worked out that it wasn’t real. Which was a relief, because things were getting just a little too crazy by that point. Plus, some of the huge explosions looked incredibly fake towards the end of the movie. But still… it was quite startling.
Well, we didn’t even get any rain. Now everyone is complaining about having to water their lawns, when just last week they were buying carloads of groceries to wait out a storm.
Ah, the irony of life. Rita veered off towards Louisiana. Now is not a good time to be living near the Gulf Coast.
The gouverment are stupid !
But that the way it goes :
When tax relief are so important and the state haven`t got money.
And those maniacs shooting , no offence ,but thats just SO usa !
and they underdestimate the powers in the hurricane.
The scary thing is that i read about that something like this may happen in a magazine about 2 years or more ago , tyhat it didnt ring any bells is clean incompetanse. The first thing i thought of when i heard it was new orleansproblem of lying under water .
I t was like HOLY CRAP!
But hey , my prayes to the people of new orleans , only not the people shooting ,though
Here is a letter from a certain independent reporter that my girlfriend showed me yesterday…
Friday, September 2nd, 2005
Dear Mr. Bush:
Any idea where all our helicopters are? It’s Day 5 of Hurricane Katrina and thousands remain stranded in New Orleans and need to be airlifted. Where on earth could you have misplaced all our military choppers? Do you need help finding them? I once lost my car in a Sears parking lot. Man, was that a drag.
Also, any idea where all our national guard soldiers are? We could really use them right now for the type of thing they signed up to do like helping with national disasters. How come they weren’t there to begin with?
Last Thursday I was in south Florida and sat outside while the eye of Hurricane Katrina passed over my head. It was only a Category 1 then but it was pretty nasty. Eleven people died and, as of today, there were still homes without power. That night the weatherman said this storm was on its way to New Orleans. That was Thursday! Did anybody tell you? I know you didn’t want to interrupt your vacation and I know how you don’t like to get bad news.
Plus, you had fundraisers to go to and mothers of dead soldiers to ignore and smear. You sure showed her!
I especially like how, the day after the hurricane, instead of flying to Louisiana, you flew to San Diego to party with your business peeps. Don’t let people criticize you for this – after all, the hurricane was over and what the heck could you do, put your finger in the dike?
And don’t listen to those who, in the coming days, will reveal how you specifically reduced the Army Corps of Engineers’ budget for New Orleans this summer for the third year in a row. You just tell them that even if you hadn’t cut the money to fix those levees, there weren’t going to be any Army engineers to fix them anyway because you had a much more important construction job for them – BUILDING DEMOCRACY IN IRAQ!
On Day 3, when you finally left your vacation home, I have to say I was moved by how you had your Air Force One pilot descend from the clouds as you flew over New Orleans so you could catch a quick look of the disaster. Hey, I know you couldn’t stop and grab a bullhorn and stand on some rubble and act like a commander in chief. Been there done that.
There will be those who will try to politicize this tragedy and try to use it against you. Just have your people keep pointing that out. Respond to nothing. Even those pesky scientists who predicted this would happen because the water in the Gulf of Mexico is getting hotter and hotter making a storm like this inevitable. Ignore them and all their global warming Chicken Littles. There is nothing unusual about a hurricane that was so wide it would be like having one F-4 tornado that stretched from New York to Cleveland.
No, Mr. Bush, you just stay the course. It’s not your fault that 30 percent of New Orleans lives in poverty or that tens of thousands had no transportation to get out of town. C’mon, they’re black! I mean, it’s not like this happened to Kennebunkport. Can you imagine leaving white people on their roofs for five days? Don’t make me laugh! Race has nothing – NOTHING – to do with this!
You hang in there, Mr. Bush. Just try to find a few of our Army helicopters and send them there. Pretend the people of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast are near Tikrit.
Yours,
Michael Moore
MMFlint@aol.com
www.MichaelMoore.com
…I think this sums it all up quite nicely.
Michael Moore never disappoints me 
