It's about goddamn time.

I've been out of the loop for awhile with writing, but with good reason. First off it's been a busy couple of weeks. What with moving back to London and all, as well as my persistent state of drunkenness.
I've been meaning to put up a few more top 5's, but haven't gotten to them yet. Maybe I never will, who can say.

And although I've been running around like a fool, I have done a great deal of reading on the web about this whole Katrina thing. I've only seen maybe 5 minutes of TV coverage since I don't watch the tube much anymore. But online I've been reading like a motherfuck.

So I guess it's time to regurgitate some of that stuff, mixing my own opinions in a here and there.


First things first, if you want a general timeline of events, click here.


It's somewhat overwhelming to even try to write about this at all. There seems to be countless things to comment on, and I guess I'll just fire away with all things that come to mind.

To begin with, I gotta admit that at first I didn't pay any mind at all to this hurricane. It seemed like just another storm in the lead-up on the weather network, despite the fact that they were calling this the storm of our generation.

But it soon became apparent that this wasn't a small thing. The media were all over the tragedy before the "protectors" of the country even knew that it had devastated the Gulf Coast entirely. The chaos of lootings and shootings took over, mainly in New Orleans. Then you'd hear about gangs taking over buildings and average people robbing stores just to survive (and in many cases people were seen stealing for personal gain.)
For an interesting story that's been seen around the web, check this out... racism in the media.

Then the whole Superdome fiasco exploded. I heard of 7 year old kids being raped and murdered / women having to go to the bathroom in groups of five / kids playing 10 feet from rotting corpses / aborted children being dumped into trash cans / human waste and garbage everywhere / snipers on the prowl / people shooting at the first of the rescuers / etc. etc. etc.

Human nature came out and reared it's ugly head.

Then we get to the finger-pointing game.

Jon Stewart put it best when he said, "When people don't want to play the blame-game... they're to blame." (for the video of Stewart, along with many other videos, check out Crooks and Liars. They did a good job of keeping the video feeds going through the past few weeks.)

And is it any surprise that Bush got alot of the blame? Surely not, and I couldn't be happier. He chose a man to lead FEMA (The Federal Emergency Management Agency) who had absolutely no skills in this field. The guy's credentials include 'running horse shows'. No joke, that's how up-for-the-job he was. What a fucking joke.

Then Michael Chertoff must be examined. He is, afterall, the head of the DHS (Department of Homeland Security). And he's not much better. Considering the DHS is basically a PR scam to bolster support for the flavour of the week and bring us pictures of smiling faces, that should be no surprise. I bet he couldn't defend even himself from an angry three year-old.
If you want to see his incompetence first-hand, consider this quote and watch the video. "Louisiana is a city that is largely underwater"
Again, what a fucking joke.

Then we get to the prez himself. He urges us all to eat cake and play the ol' guitar while the poor black people suffer and die. He did a quick fly-over of N.O. in his jet apromptlytly ran back to Washington to hide under a rock. It's a shame that rock is being lifted (if you're a neo-con, that is). When he emerged, he visited barely-touched areas to show that he cared. But if he'd gone to the worst areas, he'd probably be dead right now. Bill Maher video here.

Barbara Bush was quoted as saying, "And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them." about the people moved to the Houston Astrodome. Classy! And telling... (just imagine if even half of the people there were white. I imagine she'd say something along the lines of 'this is totally unacceptable!')
Fucking Joke!!!

Dick Cheney, while putting on a nice face for the camera, was told to go fuck himself by an average citizen. And apparently this citizen was "a friend of John... nevermind. har dee har har."
All the while he was setting up his buddies to come in and clean up/rebuild the area with contracts that have no profit limits. Sound like Iraq much???
FUCKING JOKE!!!


So now I'm running out of steam and sanity, but I urge you to read Tony Pierce's post. It's by far my favourite in this whole thing. In fact, check out his blog in its entirety. (it takes a few seconds to load up) He does a great job of calling "bullshit" on all the right people. And few people are willing to do that, especially the righties.

All in all, one thing you must consider is this: deep inside you, there is a little man or woman saying "it's about fucking time". It's about time the US is made to pay for its arrogance and warmongering. It's about time GWB is exposed as a completely incompetent FUCKING JOKE of a president. (Even the right cant hide behind gay marriage anymore, and he only has 38% of the pop. vote). It's about time for the world to see that the US is not as all-powerful as they've been preaching.

An it's about time for some change.