Michael: It never changes. Someone drops -- we don’t know if he’s dead or alive -- but nobody misses a beat. The thumpa-thumpa goes on. (QAF Episode: 305)
WTF, okay after being bashed by the AP our lazy President W is having a PR moment saying that there isn't enough funding out there and "on its way." Oh nice Mr. W, I think we all get the point, let’s cover up the ugly woman protesting you out at Crawford on your lovely 2nd vacation of this year. Let’s put more fuel on the fire. The fact that we send our troops over to Iraq to fight in a war that is only another Vietnam is disheartening, but we don't send them into our own country to help the less fortunate. Hello, the people New Orleans are dying (and not just from the natural disaster now) and mayhem has ensued. So, let me get this straight, Bush’s war is more important than the lives of people in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Florida? Okay, I can see that! Obviously, let’s play world police and forget about us. Now, as most of you know I agree with helping other nations and giving aid when needed, but just how much are we helping? Andrew Sullivan said it best the other day in the Wednesday, August 24, 2005 article intitled Iraq's Women. I am just sick to death of us helping countries out and then screwing them up, and when it comes to our country not doing all we can. You don’t want to put our troops in danger, you should have thought a lot harder about sending them to Iraq. No, they need to go into New Orleans and help the distressed, the homeless (yes they are people too, in case you forgot), and the suffering. Are we also going to talk about how faggots should get married as your major agenda in this time like when we had just bombed Iraq for the first time? Or maybe, you are avoiding it like your military duty, you aren’t spending enough time on this because you are running for president again, wait, you can’t in case you don’t remember in the law books. I know, I know, it isn’t his fault completely, but it is very easy to blame the highest man on the totem pole.
On top of all this I am feeling that we have lost a great bit of our culture. Me and the E3 were discussing how this is the town the really gave us a huge part of our jazz culture. This is one of the only American art forms that is appreciated world wide as a turning point and advancement of us Americans. The Voodoo culture center is also suffered a blow. Yes I know there are Voodoo practitioners all over, but this is New Orleans, Louisiana. The ghost’s, the pets (thank you catpants), the love, art, history…where will they go? Will it be rebuilt, can we remember, well it’s been 4 years since Sept 11 and I don’t here any talk of a memorial around where I live. How soon will be forget this? I hope for America’s sake we can start to rebuild this vital city. This is one of our cultural centers. Part of the soul of this great country is New Orleans and my thoughts and meditations go out to it rising again. You will.
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