Comments on: I Can’t Be The First To Post This But… http://barker.tnir.org/archives/2005/08/i-cant-be-the-first-to-post-this-but through the barking glass Thu, 04 Dec 2008 06:29:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Himself http://barker.tnir.org/archives/2005/08/i-cant-be-the-first-to-post-this-but#comment-273 Himself Thu, 01 Sep 2005 17:03:13 +0000 http://barker.tnir.org/archives/2005/08/i-cant-be-the-first-to-post-this-but#comment-273 How long until somebody sues the US Weather Service or something for failure to give enough warning? How long until the Christian Taliban blame the disaster on permissiveness in America? "Dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria!" How long until there's pictures of Palestinians dancing in the streets of Gaza at America's catastrophe? And what the fuck is going on? They <i>knew</i> this was coming for decades. People are dying in the Convention Center in New Orleans. People are starving, dehydrating to death in the one of the most important cities of the American South. The President is mouthing null phonemes in Washington and his press secretary is dodging questions by the press corps. CNN is doing an amazing job of covering this, and even asking tough questions of the powers. Miles O'Brian had Hailey Barbour, governor of Mississippi in a corner and the governor was all testy and pissy because basically he couldn't answer the unspoken question behind Miles' words:"Just what the fuck are you suits in power doing?" The mayors of New Orleans and Baton Rouge are good men in bad situations and deserve better. And Jesus Christ, so do the people of New Orleans and the Gulf coast. How long until somebody sues the US Weather Service or something for failure to give enough warning?

How long until the Christian Taliban blame the disaster on permissiveness in America? “Dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria!”

How long until there’s pictures of Palestinians dancing in the streets of Gaza at America’s catastrophe?

And what the fuck is going on? They knew this was coming for decades. People are dying in the Convention Center in New Orleans. People are starving, dehydrating to death in the one of the most important cities of the American South. The President is mouthing null phonemes in Washington and his press secretary is dodging questions by the press corps.

CNN is doing an amazing job of covering this, and even asking tough questions of the powers. Miles O’Brian had Hailey Barbour, governor of Mississippi in a corner and the governor was all testy and pissy because basically he couldn’t answer the unspoken question behind Miles’ words:”Just what the fuck are you suits in power doing?”

The mayors of New Orleans and Baton Rouge are good men in bad situations and deserve better.

And Jesus Christ, so do the people of New Orleans and the Gulf coast.

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