Pointing Fingers, Kicking Ass, Taking Names

I have not been in the mood to be insightful or funny. I'm transfixed by the news and I am floored by the pathetic display of human suffering, huddled masses already here. In my last few blog entries I thought that it may be best to not blame anyone, to work together, to heal.

I've changed my mind. It's fucking sick and about time someone is accountable. Who to blame? It isn't one entity, person or agency, it is a failure of city/state/federal government and a breakdown in personal responsibility, coupled to the fucking assinine idea of erecting a major metropolis below sea level -- next to the sea. I can now sit and hold ye in judgement, and do so without being a hypocrite, from the comfort and safety of my well-stocked concrete bunker next to the Big Top in North Central Florida. HERE IS WHO TO BLAME-

1. ABLE-BODIED, FINANCIALLY-STABLE, NEW ORLEANSIANS- What part of "mandatory evacuation" don't you understand? If you have (had) a car and time to go but chose to hunker down to "protect the domicile from the lootin' colored folk" you deserve to drown.

2. GLOBAL WARMING- Go ahead Limbaugh. After you explain to me where you got your Ph.D. in meteorology I'd like you to explain why the storms are more numerous and more intense. If hard science EVER demonstrates a formal link between pollution, human activity and heated oceans I want all of the political mouthpieces that fought the facts to be held responsible and be assassinated as the ignorant baby killers they are.

3. LOCAL and STATE GOVERNMNETS- Why is it that a part-time party clown KNEW that New Orleans would not survive a category 3 hurricane, but mayors and governors were not prepared? How could there not be an iron-clad evacuation plan? They needed to have the capacity to move 110% of the elderly, the children, the homeless and the disabled. By analogy,when you are driving 100 mph down the wrong side of the highway you better have a damn seatbelt on.

4. FEDERAL RESPONSE-- It only took the president 7 minutes to put down My Pet Goat to respond to 9-11. He must have been in the middle of Horton Hears a Hoo since it took him four days to wind down his vacation to respond to a national disaster. Why is it that every single news network could get trucks into the area, looters were free to roam, but no federal presence could figure out how to penetrate the area? Why did he only show up after there was criticism? Where's Cheney? Why is Iraq more secure and stable than a major American city?

5. THE ASSHOLES THAT WANT TO REBUILD A CITY BELOW SEA LEVEL- I am going to point my finger into the future. As storms become more frequent and intense it makes sense to remodel the way we think about living in coastal areas. New Orleans should now be flooded and turned into a righteous dive park or America's Venice called "Old Orleans", and they should rebuild the "New and Improved Orleans" above sea level a few miles inland. If they pump it out, and spend billions to rebuild it with insurance and taxpayer money, it will only be a matter of years before it is completely destroyed again. The water ALWAYS wins and you will not beat mother nature, and I don't want to pay for it. You want a place to trade boobs for beads... get a wife and buy her a necklace.

Okay, now that I've vented I feel a little bit better, but the human suffering continues. The most important message is to prepare for disaster before it comes, and heed warnings when they are issued. We saw this coming for 5 days. Imagine when the nuke goes off one morning in NYC or Yourtown, USA. Get ready, feather your nest, buy some extra shotgun shells and make sure your family is in sync with you. Have a plan. Ultimately YOU are in charge of your own well being and the government will NOT be there when the shit hits the fan. Especially when a rich dynasty of assholes is in charge.