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September 23, 2005
How to Blame Bush for Rita?
Well, if the media can't convince people that President Bush has power over the wind and the rain and is only hitting his home state by mistake, they could always take the approach of blaming the American economic system in general, which Bush has generated so much hostility by personifying in the minds of liberals.
It's true that I'm referring to the economic system that has created the wealthiest nation in the history of the world. But thanks to liberalism, even here you can find people who react to adversity by lying on their backs bawling for the government to come and change their diapers. These folks make for great propaganda, especially when they aren't Caucasian — as demonstrated by a piece on KOMO News stirringly entitled "No Way Out: Tears, Anger As Many Poor Are Stuck", which proclaimed:
For the poor and the disenfranchised, the mighty evacuation orders that preceded Rita were something they could only ignore.
This is supported by the heart-wrenching story of a guy trying to get into a check-cashing store at the last minute:
"All the banks are closed and I just got off work," said Thomas Visor, holding his sweaty paycheck as he, too, tried to get inside the store, where more than 100 people, all of them black or Hispanic, fretted in line. "This is crazy. How are you supposed to evacuate a hurricane if you don't have money? Answer me that?"
Others are apparently being further oppressed by the fact that they are in our country illegally:
On Bellaire Boulevard in southwest Houston, a weeping woman and her young daughter stood on the sidewalk, surrounded by plastic bags full of clothes and blankets. "I'd like to go, but nobody come get me," the woman said in broken English. When asked her name, she looked frightened. "No se, no se," she said: Spanish for "I don't know."
Her daughter, who appeared to be about 9, whispered in English, "We're from Mexico."
But the white man isn't all bad. Here's an uplifting anecdote:
Eddie McKinney, 64, who had no home, no teeth and a torn shirt, stood outside the EZ Pawn shop, drinking a beer under a sign that said, "No Loitering."
"We got no other choice but to stay here. We're homeless and we're broke," he said. "I thought about going to Dallas, but now it's too late. I got no way to get there."
Where will he stay?
"A nice white man gave me a motel room for three days. Just walked up and said, 'Here.' So my buddy and me will stick it out," he said, pointing to another homeless man. "We got a half-gallon of whiskey and a room."
Nice to see that they gave some thought to provisions.
Middle-aged surfer John Benson of Galveston is all set to weather Rita too:
Benson said he planned to use his surfboard as transportation after the hurricane. "The main thing is you have a contingency plan," he said, and thumped his board. "You got buoyancy."
Shamefully, it appears the Federal Government has taken no responsibility for seeing to it that residents are equipped with surfboards.
Thanks to Wiggins for the picture and the tip.
Posted by Van Helsing at September 23, 2005 12:03 PM
Comments
Did you pick up the dumb question to Bush this noon. A reporter asked, actually suggested, that the Presidants entourage may actually get in the way if he goes to Texas. What a bunch of asshats.
Posted by: Debris Trail at September 23, 2005 3:09 PM
It's always "the poor," "the disenfranchised." But do the libs and Dems go try to improve the lives of these folk, really, by giving them hope for advancement, say, beyond minimum wage? Why no, they instead try to crank up the minimum wage to some arbitrary level that's not too low (define low?), but not too high (define high?). They don't consider the notion that perhaps the minimum wage should not be the end-all and be-all for "the poor," "the disenfranchised." Of course, there's the welfare state too.
Katrina "exposed" this underclass in New Orleans. But, who created the underclass in the first place? How long has that city, that state been run by a festering Democrat machine rife with corruption? That's how they stay in power in places like New Orleans. For without "the poor," "the disenfranchised" as an underclass, and an angry one at that, then the Democrats would lose a considerable constituency.
This news story, with all its pandering to liberal heart strings and damning of Republicans and conservative principles in-between the lines, illustrates perfectly what is so utterly wrong with the Democrat party and it's goal of maintaining a liberal social welfare state.
Posted by: The MaryHunter at September 23, 2005 8:22 PM
And don't forget how George managed to produce the heatwave that killed all those plants across France and Eueope in 2003 - causing them to give off greenhouse gases.
Wait a minute! I thought man (led by the evil genius GWB)was supposed to be responsible for global warming?
Have you also noticed how GW stands for Global Warming and...you know who? Spooky, isn't it?
(Now linked!)
Posted by: Peter C Glover at September 24, 2005 4:24 AM
MoveOn.org Says Ready For Rita
Galveston, Texas - As Texas Gulf Coast braced for the worst, activist group MoveOn.org today began moving massive convoys of celebrities, civil rights rights spokesmen, reporters, conspiracy theorists and litigators into the region for the expected weekend landfall of Hurricane Rita.
MoveOn spokesman Peter Maloney said that the organization made painful mistakes during the Hurricane Katrina disaster which they would strive to avoid with Rita.
"Frankly, we were caught flat-footed by the Katrina," said Maloney. "We lost almost six hours before were able to coordinate our blame workers with our complaint teams, let alone set up basic communication links with the European media."
"This time, though, we are locked and loaded," he added, pointing to a detailed pre-Hurricane response plan that includes over 10 satellite uplink trucks, redundant teleprompters, and over 200 pounds of nails to flatten the tires of evacuating residents.
Posted by: V the K at September 24, 2005 6:21 PM
