And one thing about this tragedy (among a list of things) that I simply can not understand, something I simply do not have in me to recognize, is what is motivating the behavior of whatever deranged, subhuman scum is sniping the people attempting to evacuate the hospital.
I simply can not fathom the type of person that does this sort of thing. I just can’t.
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And The Fat Guy and Haley Barbour were right. I was wrong. These deranged bastards did/do need to be dealt with ruthlessly.
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And while this in no way is the equal to the behavior discussed in the rest of this post, I don’t know what makes people think like this:
I’m not going to post the piece I started to write.
My original reaction to the Katrina catastrophe was going to be: “NOT ONE DIME.”
For an hour or so, I contemplated the idea of turning it into a crusade: No-one in the blue states (where the money is) should give one dime of aid to the victims of this hurricane, which devastated Bush-friendly regions.
Why did I flirt with such a callous attitude?
Because it should be obvious to all that this tragedy was not just an act of God. Dubya and his diety conspired to transform mere disaster into an unprecedented mega-catastrophe.
Scientists warn us to expect more Katrinas. Global warming — the existence of which W would prefer to rationalize away — caused the temperature of the sea’s surface to rise in the Gulf of Mexico, thereby transforming what should have been a manageable hurricane into a monster.
The National Guard was off in Iraq stealing oil — and everything else in that nation — all to benefit Haliburton and the oil companies. They could have been in N.O. earlier, building levies, overseeing evacuation.
Bush financially eviscerated the Federal Emergency Management Agency. The money went to his Iraq debacle.
Sure, he didn’t actually write it. Woops- except he did. And the rest ain’t much better. I don’t know how anyone can look at what is happening down there and even THINK like this.
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