Speaking of exploitation, I want to “exploit” the current disaster going on around New Orleans due to Hurricane Katrina and defer blame not to nature but to President Bush.
(Yes, I am serious.)
Sidney Blumenthal has a great article on Salon: “‘No one can say they didn’t see it coming'”
My favorite quote:
In early 2001, the Federal Emergency Management Agency issued a report stating that a hurricane striking New Orleans was one of the three most likely disasters in the U.S., including a terrorist attack on New York City. But by 2003 the federal funding for the flood control project essentially dried up as it was drained into the Iraq war. In 2004, the Bush administration cut funding requested by the New Orleans district of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for holding back the waters of Lake Pontchartrain by more than 80 percent. Additional cuts at the beginning of this year (for a total reduction in funding of 44.2 percent since 2001) forced the New Orleans district of the Corps to impose a hiring freeze.
Upon further research, I found out that the third most likely disaster is an earthquake in San Francisco.
In addition to Blumenthal’s reporting, I also found “Katrina Proves Bush is a Failure” over at Swing State Project.
I really don’t think this is “exploiting” the situation, but rather highlighting why we must take as many points of view and ideas into consideration and understand the consequences of our actions.
Interestingly, your readers are mostly, if not all, liberals. I was wondering whether or not there is any republican/right-wing/consertive reading your blog?
Re: Ty says “any consertive readers”
Conservatives. If there were any conservative readers, would it really matter?
They’re obviously too obtuse and myopic to understand any kind of non ego/U.S-centric thinking and long term planning. Bush thinks he’s made our security stronger. Everything he’s done has weakened it. More dependence on oil, more debt, more deaths, more environmental destruction, the list goes on and on. These are direct threats to our national security. Since Bush has directly threatened and compromised our national security, some could argue he is guilty of treason. I would guess it’s closer to something like insanity though, or perhaps a mental disability. Especially since every time he opens his mouth, he can’t put together an intelligently and grammatically correct sentence with non-circular thinking. It’s so pathetic, he makes Reagan and Nixon look mild in comparison. He is the scariest president the world has seen lead this great nation. Will conservatives read this article? What does it matter really? Since they would elect Bush again anyway. They already did.
Try this:
a) visit http://www.google.com, b) key in “failure” without the quotes in the search box, c) click on the “I’m feeling lucky button” instead of the google search, one d) Laugh