Oh Katrina!!!
Its been an interesting few days, and although I haven't seen a lot of television, I assume it is filled with images of the aftermath of Katrina and the devastation in New Orleans. I have heard all the arguments and people's angry reactions, and am glad that Dubya is getting a tough time on this.
My observations are as following
1. Gun control
The news of people shooting at rescue choppers, just shows how nice it is to be able to bear arms. You get pissed off and you start shooting. So the governor of Louisiana has given "shoot to kill" orders to the police and other law enforcement agencies, brilliant move that, now we will have gunbattles in the streets.
2. The joys of free capitalism
America's neighbour Cuba gets hit by a lot of hurricanes, the socialist government there evacuates everyone, and the loss of life is minimal. The government of Louisiana tells people to evacuate, and the poor sods who live there have nowhere to go and nothing to take them there either. So they decide to brave it out, which turned out to be a big mistake. A hurricane of Katrina's power was not going to let that happen.
3. Race card
A lot of people are saying that this gross neglect is happening only because the majority of the people effected are black, I don't agree. I think the lines are drawn on purely economic divisions. The rich, whether they are black, pink or yellow, should get more help since they pay more taxes, and there you have it.
4. Scourge of god
This is an interesting one, in many flavours
a. This is happening to America because of Iraq and Afghanistan.
b. New Orleans is home to sinners. etc. etc.
I wish it were that simple, my question to these people would be, why did the tsunami hit Indonesia and killed a hundred thousand?? What did they do wrong?
5. Looting
That never fails to amaze me, when there is a breakdown of law and order, people resort to breaking into other peoples property and stealing what they can lay their hands on. Reminds me of the great New York power breakdown, where the same thing happened. Here we have people, who are in danger of dying of disease etc. and they go around stealing tvs. I just don't get it.
6. Statistics
I was reading somewhere that the number of hurricanes hasn't increased as compared to the last century, and therefore its not the changing environment that is causing this devastation. I am not sure about that, you can always play around with numbers to get the results you want. For example, they say that number of Americans KIA (Killed in Action) in Iraq is 18 hundred something, since all those who died later on in transit through Germany etc. are not being counted. Hmmmm...
7. Blog Surfing
I have been neglecting work and doing a lot of that, saw an interesting counter on one of the blogs, it was counting down the numbers of days, right down to the seconds, that Dubya remains in office. I wish I were that optimistic, replacing him will not change things much.
8. Pakistan and Israel
The foreign ministers meet. And then there is talk of FL meeting with Sharon, and then it hit the fan. Hahaha!!! I think this is a total set up, the government is creating another non-issue for the mullahs to jump on. I love the fact that the Palestinian Authority denied that they were consulted, right after our government spokesman said that "We consulted both Saudi Arabia and Palestine Authority before we arranged the meeting". And thank you so much for consulting Saudi Arabia, maybe while they were at it, they should have sought the permission of the king of Bhutan. What the??
9. Murree
There was a letter in the newspaper by the Director Administration of the said project, who says only 1 percent of the 400,000 trees will be cut down, which means only 4000 trees, and they plan to plant 200,000 trees in the area. I wish I could believe that, does anyone see the conflict of interest here? Why isn't anyone else convinced? We only have the people connected with the project making statements like that, and once they have destroyed this, who will hold them accountable?
Where are the greenpeace? Come on guys, please come and chain yourself against some of our trees. This SOS goes out to you.
I hope for good things.
My observations are as following
1. Gun control
The news of people shooting at rescue choppers, just shows how nice it is to be able to bear arms. You get pissed off and you start shooting. So the governor of Louisiana has given "shoot to kill" orders to the police and other law enforcement agencies, brilliant move that, now we will have gunbattles in the streets.
2. The joys of free capitalism
America's neighbour Cuba gets hit by a lot of hurricanes, the socialist government there evacuates everyone, and the loss of life is minimal. The government of Louisiana tells people to evacuate, and the poor sods who live there have nowhere to go and nothing to take them there either. So they decide to brave it out, which turned out to be a big mistake. A hurricane of Katrina's power was not going to let that happen.
3. Race card
A lot of people are saying that this gross neglect is happening only because the majority of the people effected are black, I don't agree. I think the lines are drawn on purely economic divisions. The rich, whether they are black, pink or yellow, should get more help since they pay more taxes, and there you have it.
4. Scourge of god
This is an interesting one, in many flavours
a. This is happening to America because of Iraq and Afghanistan.
b. New Orleans is home to sinners. etc. etc.
I wish it were that simple, my question to these people would be, why did the tsunami hit Indonesia and killed a hundred thousand?? What did they do wrong?
5. Looting
That never fails to amaze me, when there is a breakdown of law and order, people resort to breaking into other peoples property and stealing what they can lay their hands on. Reminds me of the great New York power breakdown, where the same thing happened. Here we have people, who are in danger of dying of disease etc. and they go around stealing tvs. I just don't get it.
6. Statistics
I was reading somewhere that the number of hurricanes hasn't increased as compared to the last century, and therefore its not the changing environment that is causing this devastation. I am not sure about that, you can always play around with numbers to get the results you want. For example, they say that number of Americans KIA (Killed in Action) in Iraq is 18 hundred something, since all those who died later on in transit through Germany etc. are not being counted. Hmmmm...
7. Blog Surfing
I have been neglecting work and doing a lot of that, saw an interesting counter on one of the blogs, it was counting down the numbers of days, right down to the seconds, that Dubya remains in office. I wish I were that optimistic, replacing him will not change things much.
8. Pakistan and Israel
The foreign ministers meet. And then there is talk of FL meeting with Sharon, and then it hit the fan. Hahaha!!! I think this is a total set up, the government is creating another non-issue for the mullahs to jump on. I love the fact that the Palestinian Authority denied that they were consulted, right after our government spokesman said that "We consulted both Saudi Arabia and Palestine Authority before we arranged the meeting". And thank you so much for consulting Saudi Arabia, maybe while they were at it, they should have sought the permission of the king of Bhutan. What the??
9. Murree
There was a letter in the newspaper by the Director Administration of the said project, who says only 1 percent of the 400,000 trees will be cut down, which means only 4000 trees, and they plan to plant 200,000 trees in the area. I wish I could believe that, does anyone see the conflict of interest here? Why isn't anyone else convinced? We only have the people connected with the project making statements like that, and once they have destroyed this, who will hold them accountable?
Where are the greenpeace? Come on guys, please come and chain yourself against some of our trees. This SOS goes out to you.
I hope for good things.
posted by Xoff at 9/05/2005 05:44:00 AM
1 Comments:
isn't it just amazing how the "wealthiest" nation in the world, can deteriorate into absolute anarchy,and you have to be really blind not to see how blatantly stupid, the pres, of the usa really is?
it scares me that this nation is so powerful in world affairs today.
and the truth is it doesn't really matter who the president of the usa is,
their foreign policy is shocking, and regardless of who's in power, the energy needs of the usa has to be fed.
explain something to me?
why on earth, would those idiots in kuwait, pledge 500million in aid to the usa, surely they are able to weather this storm, being the "wealthiest" nation in the world and all.
and if they weren't squandering man power and financial resourcers in iraq, they could sought out their own internal hazards, or am i missing the point here.
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