September 09, 2005

Katrina

There is a lot of things I want to say about Hurricane Katrina and the savage, apocalyptic vision of America that she revealed but I just don't have time to write it all down. I am horrified at the images that I have been seeing on Spanish TV; English TV is too sanitize for me. FEMA has even asked TV networks not to show the dead bodies floating and decomposing in the middle of the road waiting to be picked up.


As for other bodies his group encountered: ``Obviously we are not recovering them. We are just tying them up to banisters, leaving them on the roof.

I often wonder if we treat these dead people the same way if they were White.

Other Katrina news that you might have missed:

1. "We finally cleaned up public housing in New Orleans. We couldn't do it, but God did." from Rep. Richard Baker of Baton Rouge (R). What is wrong with these people?

2. In a TV interview on CNN or FOX first lady Laura Bush referred to Katrina as "Corrina" twice. Seriously, should she of all people know the name of the hurricane that is killing thousands of people.

4. President Bush signed an executive order allowing contractors to pay below prevailing wage in affected areas. Construction workers look for Davis Bacon work because it often pays better but Bush would rather give more profits to corporations like Halliburton then help the poor people of Louisiana.

5. FEMA Director Mike Brown is sooo under-qualified for his job.

6. "he point is if you look at the big picture, it’s a phenomenal accomplishment by everybody involved. It’s unbelievable." Tom DeLay can't stop gushing at how good of a job that is being done down there in Louisiana and Mississippi. Doesn't he watch CNN.

7. Pennsylvania Senator Santorum (R) said that people who do not heed evacuation warnings in the future may need to be penalized. Seriously these people just don't get it. They can't imagine that some people can't just pack up their Range Rover and drive to their summer home.

Posted by rdreyes at September 9, 2005 08:27 AM
Posted to Politics
Comments

can't leave Barbara Bush outta the picture:


What I’m hearing which is sort of
scary is they all want to stay in Texas. Everyone is
so overwhelmed by the hospitality.
And so many of the people in the arena here, you
know, were underprivileged anyway, so this--this (she
chuckles slightly) is working very well for them.

Posted by: eliza at September 9, 2005 10:24 AM

oh, yeah I missed that one.

Posted by: rosa at September 9, 2005 11:40 AM