I don't think I have ever sworn so much as I have in the past 3 or 4 days. I am having a total Tourettes moment where every time I see, hear or watch the news coming out of the hurricane zone I open my mouth and only !*&$^#&!!8#&$ comes out. And then I start crying again. What is really getting to me though, what is totally beyond the pale, is the needless suffering of children and babies. They are the most helpless of all and there are so many of them. It is just too fucking much, pardon my french. Every small face I see stabs me in the heart. The woman weeping over her baby suffering from heatstroke, the man clutching a listless three-week old screaming for formula, the distraught kids separated from their parents,- these images will be with me for a long time. The stories about healthy babies who made it throught the storm but have died due to mind-boggling incompetence are too heartbreaking to even think about. God almighty. It makes my brain break down and only rage comes out. And we haven't even seen the worst yet. There are going to be so many dead in New Orleans that could have gotten out if there had been even a half-hearted attempt to assist those without means to evacuate while the sun shined.
At least the media has FINALLY had its come-to-Jesus moment too. They are, for the most part, not letting officials off the hook and a few are doing some incredible reporting. Even CNN. It's shocking.
http://slate.msn.com/id/2125581/
And get out your ice skates, Satan, the ultimate neo-con asskiss is not going to take it anymore:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/04/opinion/04brooks.html
Oh, and just one more thing about that moron Michael Brown of FEMA. He got his job because he was Bush's former campaign manager's college roommate. Really.
http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/12554964.htm
That's it for now. No more rage. Tomorrow there will be a break from the regular programming to bring you all a little chihuahua therapy. It helped me today.
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