Katrina and Perfect Symbolism

From the Department of Absolutely Perfect Symbolism:

I heard on the radio yesterday (9-Sep-05) that FEMA — the government agency which was supposed to deal with horrors and disasters, but which was disemboweled by the Necons and Bushites so they could pump more pork into their secret police qua scam racket known as Homeland Defense — has a webpage for folks trying to get assistance after Katrina.

The kicker?

As of the date of the report, it would only work with Microsoft software. Anyone running anything else is up a sh*t creek with a CENSORed for a paddle.

So, given a choice between genuine competition plus free enterprise, and a vast de facto monopoly . . . well . . . let’s just say that the Bushite heart (not to mention several other organs) belongs to Big Daddy.

Katrina and Guns

Note to NRA:

Did you notice that now and then helicopters had to abandon rescue efforts in New Orleans when they were shot at? That’s right. Some nutcase thought it would be fun to bring down the aircraft that were trying to save babies and old people, not to mention everyone else.

Tell me, just one more time, about how good unrestricted gun ownership is for America.

Katrina, God, Justice

Okay, the Religious Right has the interesting habit of blaming bad things on God. That is, when something nasty happens to the country, they say, it’s cause the Big Guy In The Sky is punishing us for our sins. Thus, after 9-11, the Rev. Pat Robertson announced that the terrorists were the fruit of Feminism and Liberalism, and then, more recently, Rev. Fred (“Kill a Kweer For Khrist”) Phelps claimed that American war deaths in Iraq were the Lord’s judgment upon us for tolerating homosexuality.

Yet, consider the logic . . .

All of these terrible things happened when the nation was actually voting for conservative Christian figures. The attacks of 9-11, the war in Iraq, and now, the horrific “act of God” known as Katrina all occurred at the precise moment when the nation was ruled by the Religious Right . . . when the most homophobic administration in the recent history is in Washington . . . and when Christian fundamentalists stalk the streets hunting down proponents of Gay marriage, evolution, and stem cell research . . .

Ergo, judging from the all too abundant evidence, the Lord God Almighty hates Republicans and Evangelicals, and sends fire and flood to scourge those nations and peoples who support them.

Katrina 3

I see that the GOP/Necon Junta has released a fuhrer-directive from the bunker warning moderates and liberals not to “play politics” with the human tragedy of Katrina.

Really? Like the way they “played politics” when they spread rumors that the tragic death of Ron Brown was a murder? And the way that they “played politics” when they dragged the country though a useless impeachment of a sitting President? Like the way they “played politics” when they exploited the horrors of 9-11 to invade the wrong country? Like they way they “played politics” when they claimed that anyone who disagreed with them was a traitor?

Gee. Golly. Gosh.

With moral leadership like theirs, how could we fail to follow?

Katrina 2

You do know, of course, that even as I write this, there is . . . somewhere . . . some part of the Necon Junta’s mindfuck machine is gearing up to prove that Katrina is all Clinton’s fault.

Katrina

Katrina . . .

If anyone in the world believes that the Necon Junta and the smirking chimp in the White House really give a damn about the American people, then they should read the following article from the Associated Press, currently available on Yahoo:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050901/ap_on_re_us/hurricane_katrina_52

Smear Boat -- cont.

Turns out, actually, that someone did do a little research into the Swift Boat Vets for Truth. In May, 2004, Joe Conason had a fascinating piece in Salon entitled “Smear Boat Veterans for Bush” (http://www.salon.com/opinion/conason/2004/05/04/swift/index.html )

In the piece, Conason presented extraordinarily compelling evidence that the Swift Boat group was, in fact, the wholly artificial creation of a band of professional ultra-Right dirty tricksters and Bushite operatives (including some of the people who managed to sabotage McCain’s run for the White House).

Yet, did you hear a word about that in national press at the time?

Could someone explain, one more time, about the Liberal Bias in the media? I promise. I’ll take notes.