September 02, 2005
The crazies are all out
Headline: World stunned as US struggles with Katrina
But don't believe for one minute that they won't take this opportunity to be absolute jerks:
"A modern metropolis sinking in water and into anarchy -- it is a really cruel spectacle for a champion of security like Bush," France's left-leaning Liberation newspaper said."(Al Qaeda leader Osama) bin Laden, nice and dry in his hideaway, must be killing himself laughing."
Yes, it's a lack of security that failed to prevent a hurricane from hitting and harming a city that sat below sea level. Oh that Bush, always coming up with new ways to hurt people. But that Osama, what a fun loving, happy guy. Positively giggling.
A female employee at a multinational firm in South Korea said it may have been no accident the U.S. was hit."Maybe it was punishment for what it did to Iraq, which has a man-made disaster, not a natural disaster," said the woman, who did not want to be named as she has an American manager.
"A lot of the people I work with think this way. We spoke about it just the other day," she said.
Well, a lot of people you work with are morons and so are you. If everything is punishment for something else, why did over 1000 Iraqis die in a stampede on a bridge over the Tigris the other day? What was their crime? And congratulations dumb woman who works for a multinational company: you're in good company with Al Qaeda sympathizers who believe the same thing.
Posted by Karol at September 2, 2005 11:42 AM | TrackBackTechnorati Tags: International+opinion+on+Katrina Hurricane+Katrina New+Orleans Katrina Louisiana
Lets just hope Al Queda or Kim Jong Il don't see vulnerabilities and start drooling over a nuclear attack. It is hard not to imagine, with this going on, what would happen if N. Korea lobbed one our way.
Certainly, New York, surrounded by other small urban centers and with much more evacuation ready infrastructure would do better than New Orleans if we had to evacuate. However, what about evacuation with 24 hours warning? What would happen? Where would you go? How would you escape? Would you leave?
I can fit 12 on my home/boat Pearl... accepting applications for pre-reserved spots at a rolling cost ;-)
Awakening: I think, in the coming months, we'll find it is time to get a mass evacuation plan created for every major city in America agreed to by federal authorities and kept in the hands of local authorities with mandated response.
Posted by: toby at September 2, 2005 12:02 PMCrazy and immature. Irrational America hating is reaching all time lows.
Posted by: PAUL at September 2, 2005 12:07 PMCounterpoint: 10 to 12 nations offer aid in wake of Katrina
Posted by: Shawn at September 2, 2005 12:09 PMYesh, Shawn, Germany is coming in big time! It's nice to see. Now if we can only coordinate it to let thme actually bring it.
And here all along I have been listening to W's base tell me the gays were responsible for all of this.
I'm so confused.
Posted by: Henrieta at September 2, 2005 12:55 PMFunny, Henrieta, especially because the most prominent moron to make proclamations like that is a Democrat.
Posted by: Karol at September 2, 2005 01:02 PMWell, not THE GAYS, but I do blame Elton John.
Posted by: Jay at September 2, 2005 01:11 PMActually, it turns out it is more indirect. You see pastor Fred Phelps claims gays are responsible for soldier's deaths in Iraq. http://www.delawareonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050718/NEWS01/507180321/1006
Now, considering we're responsible for that, and apparently the Iraq war is somehow responsible for Katrina -- YES! WE GAYS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR KATRINA!!!
Sigh, Time to kill myself.
Posted by: toby at September 2, 2005 01:13 PM"Funny, Henrieta, especially because the most prominent moron to make proclamations like that is a Democrat."
When did that guy get more prominent than Pat Robertson, Karol ? Robertson once said Orlando would be destroyed by an astroid due to its tolerance of homosexuality. And we remember what he and Fallwell said about 9/11.
But on the other hand, as I am now in Kansas, where we do not teach evolution, I should be safe !
Posted by: Von Bek at September 2, 2005 01:22 PMI'm speechless.
Posted by: Dorian Davis at September 2, 2005 01:23 PMVon Bek said:
"When did that guy get more prominent than Pat Robertson, Karol ? Robertson once said Orlando would be destroyed by an astroid due to its tolerance of homosexuality. And we remember what he and Fallwell said about 9/11."
Congrats Von Bek, you can Cherry-pick a couple of comments made by two individuals that in no way represent mainstream conservatives.
Bravo!! You are an intellectual Giant.
The only reason Karol brought up what lunatic Democrats have been saying was in response to a previous post.
Posted by: the daily missive at September 2, 2005 04:55 PMI think Bush is handling it perfectly. I wouldn't change a thing. I can't recall a more flawlessly executed evacution and rescue plan than this one.
And anyone who dares to disagree with this is obviously an anti-American terrorist.
If you're not with us, you're against us.
Posted by: Downtown Lad at September 2, 2005 05:30 PMwow, DL has really done some of his best work in the aftermath of Katrina.
Posted by: dawn at September 2, 2005 05:48 PMNo need for personal insults, daily missive. As I happen to consider myself a Main Street heartland conservative, I'm a little suprised by your comments. I think Robertson and Fallwell were quite prominent at one point in time and are both more prominent than this fellow. As I'm sure you are, Robertson beat out George H. W. Bush for the silver in Iowa way back in 88.
While their influence is nowhere near what it was, I do not think it should be underestimated either for they (along with others like Dobson, Perkins, Bauer-who is probably more of a hawk than the others-etc.) speak for a number of Americans who are not happy with the country and where it is headed. And if evangelicals did not become the national political force they thought they would be, yet they are a leading part of the nation's leading political party and, I suspect, probably a bit more succesful in local affairs.
What these men are saying is, for better or for worse, deeply rooted in the American political tradition. God punishes us because we have sinned. You can read that in Puritan sermons. You can read that in Lincoln's second inagural. You can read that in Grant's autobiography. You can even read it in FDR's 1936 convention speech. I do not think Christian fatalism, even as repulsive as it often is, should come as a suprise when it comes to understanding the American psyche.
Posted by: Von Bek at September 2, 2005 08:18 PMI didn't mean it as an insult Von Bek, just an observation of your comments.
And even with evangelical Christians Robertson and Fallwell are no longer taken that seriously.
I just get a bit mad when people continue to bring up people like Robertson and Fallwell when there are far more influential people representing not only conservatives, but also evangelicals.
Evangelicals, and I am not one, are still portrayed as these crazy people lead by the likes of Fallwell and Robertson, and this is just not true.
Most Evangelicals believe in a kind God, not one that rains down hell from the sky in the form of a hurricane.
Posted by: the daily missive at September 2, 2005 09:40 PM
The admin warned the Governor, now little lefties whine on...it was your democratic mayor and governor who waited AND allowed hundreds of buses to be destroyed by flood waters. Of course in your little minds it is always GWs fault from your herpes to hurricanes. See:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/03/AR2005090301680.html
