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Originally posted by ironweed
Crazy train indeed. I run into a few of the Air America people from time to time because they gather at my regular gin mill. They're so far out that last summer I was accused of being "part of the problem" for saying Kerry was running a shit campaign and was going to get his ass kicked if he didn't pull it together. Must have been sort of like suggesting that Regan didn't walk on water in Penske's company.
AON, does wondering if, perhaps, the thousands of people still trapped in NO were somewhat less black and somewhat more wealthy the national guard would have commandeered everything that moves in five states to pull them out, like, two days ago, make me a cynical hater of This Great Land Of Ours?
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True believers of any political movement, particularly the fringes of any movement, are as bad as the Hale Bop comet worshippers. Nuts. I don't even talk to them when they start with that "you're with us or you're against us" crap. If I weren't keenly aware of the judgment they would have entered against me in civil court for doing so, I'd slap silly every one of them I meet. Just a slap in the lips; they don't deserve the open fist.
Dude, the rich were out of there days before the storm hit. You're seeing Social Darwinism working its course. Its sad, its wrong, but there's nothhing anyone or any govt can do to stop these things. When the shit comes down like this, those without resources are always the victims, and there's never a cost feasible way to get them out in advance. And even if there were, a lot of them wouldn't have taken the ride. All they had were their homes. How do you run from that? How do you admit to yourself that everything you've got will be gone, and you life's posessions will be nothing more than what you carry on to an emergency evacuation vehicle?
