One Of Those Times I Want To Die Or Want Others To Die...

Let me state that I was conciously avoiding the "H" word b/c I knew every other blog in the entire world has said something about Hurricane Katrina, and I thought it was bullshit. Same thing with the last hurricane: You people live there, you knew what hurricanes do, just leave, and anyone north of Jackson is just gonna get lots of rain and wind. So, no need for us in Calhoun to get all panicky. I was actually in Booneville Monday until 4, drove back to Bruce, then actually stayed at Andrew's house for about an hour to listen to some of his new stuff, knowing that I had no electricity at home. But that was fine, b/c I knew I could go home and read by candlelight...and assuming no trees would fall into my room, when I woke up Tuesday everything would be fine and it would be life as usual.

BUT....I did not even watch the news until Wednesday night.

I heard stories all day about flooding in New Orleans (caused by the levees failing, NOT the storm per se.) and realized that now one thing has happened that I had always heard about, and it's here. I knew that blah blah blah Biloxi and Gulfport would be in bad shape....yeah you build your city on the coast and that tends to happen. I mean, through thousands of years of civilization, people have adapted to their surroundings...and this is just another thing: Live on coast--big storm--you rebuild--live for another year.

BUT....New Orleans. A city that's below sea level. (Not sure what that means, but everyone says it) Now, I'm only seeing the news on Wed. and Thurs. night, which concerns the evacuation/shitty shape of The Big Easy......and I want to shoot myself, or go down there and start taking people out.

The people that couldn't get out of the city are the ones that had no means to get out. These were the poor, people in the ghetto, people in downtown, people who needed the most help to begin with. Now, the place is absolute chaos b/c no one is helping them. I know 'help is on the way,' but if we've got a fucking FEMA and LEMA and MEMA and Department of Homeland Security, and all we've got is a fucking color-coded chart, we are fucked. We are letting those people die and get sick for whatever reasons......

Now, if I can step across the line....they are fucking themselves. If certain people are so inhumane and worthless that they would actually SHOOT at rescue workers.....I say let 'em crash. Just let those fuckers rot to death if they are not going to be civil. Fuck patience......I know they are without food and water and clean places to take a shit, but those are the times when you NEED organization....whether you have to do it yourselves. But, if you loot a gun store and try to use your newly found power to take over the city....fuck you. Your grandmothers and your babies are dying b/c you won't let people do what little they can to help you.

Now........(as part of the American mind-set) someone is to blame. From what I understand (don't laugh, seriously), New Orleans had at one point requested money from Congress b/c their current levee system could only withstand a Category 3 storm, and needed to renovate the system. However, they were rejected ALOT of money b/c.....anyone? anyone?......President Bush needed that money in.....anyone? anyone?....IRAQ. Now, do you get the picture? But, as much as we want to blame President Creamface, New Orleans itself knew its own dangers. Maybe they tried, who knows?

I won't get to watch the news until late tonight or early Saturday, so hopefully by then some kind of rescue will be going on in New Orleans. I think the National Guard is on it's way.....just so they can get water and food down there to stabilize the sane people until they can be bussed out, and shoot the motherfuckers that make living in the world so unpleasant.

Either way, I STILL don't have internet at my house...and I'm blaming George W. Bush.