Katrina started the party a little early this year
Random musings today.
There’s a photo on the front page of the NY Times this morning of a woman pouring water into a dish for her dog as a body floats in the water not twenty feet away.
The damage to our country from this storm, and to our arrogant assertion that we have homeland security, far ourweighs the likely damage that could be caused by anything short of a nuclear bomb in a major city.
How can we transport an army to Iraq, feed and water them, and yet we can’t do the same for the trapped residents of New Orleans? Should we hire Halliburton to do it? Should we hire mercenaries, like we do in Iraq, to guard the Halliburton people?
Imagine a storm the size of Katrina hitting Manhattan. Imagine a 20-foot storm surge taking out Wall Street. Imagine the looting there with no National Guard…because they’re in Iraq.
Did you know that Italy is spending over $20 billion to protect Venice from the encroaching sea, yet we, a far bigger and wealthier nation, cut spending to a mere $20 million to protect New Orleans?
There’s a great story in Texas Monthly this month, written a month before Katrina, about the threat to the Gulf Coast from the sea. It seems, among other things, pumping huge amounts of water and oil out of the ground nearby is causing the coastal areas to sink. Go figure.
Then, of course, there’s the whole global warming thing, that everyone in the world, (except the intelligent design touting idiot in the White House and his buddies in the oil biddness) know is causing the seas to rise around the world.
We notice Bush is touring Mississippi today, but avoiding New Orleans. He’s a coward and a liar. Always has been. Always will be.
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