If You Really Loved Me You'd Let Me Eat Your Brain

I'm really getting sick of this lady.  But then again, she keeps making my laugh out loud every few days.

Now she wants the troops out of occupied New Orleans. Yes, New Orleans is occupied by those mean old men and women with guns.  They were late getting there, so damn their hides, and they should go now, so anarchy can rule.  Good call!  (Thank Dog you'll never have this woman calling the shots in your life.)

Sheehan is supposedly a grass roots, groundswell kind of popular voice, eh?  All homespun and angry?  Then why did she sign a deal for speaking fees via the Speaker's Bureau?  Any legitimacy she may have had goes out the window with that calculated act!  Capitalizing on her son's death by gaining fame was in bad taste, but fortune to boot?  She's ruined her life for her liberal PR Svengalis!  Huzzah to her hubby who bailed at the first sign of liberal vacuity.  I'd like to buy that man a drink.

She drones on:

It is a Christ-like principle to feed the hungry, clothe the naked, and shelter the homeless. That's what is happening in Algiers and other places in Louisiana...but by the people of America, not the so-called "Christians" in charge.

So...the Christian ethic is to be applauded unless it's being applied by Christians?  So the kind-hearted people who happen to have a Christian background are to be mistrusted and vilified because they have faith in a God that the liberals can't stand?  It must burn her, and a lot of other liberals, that religious organizations are providing relief to so many people.  That's the job of the government!  So now she's moved on to judging religions.  Good call, that's a way to really win over support with Mr. and Ms. America!

I don't care if a human being is black, brown, white, yellow or pink. I don't care if a human being is Christian, Muslim, Jew, Buddhist, or pagan. I don't care what flag a person salutes: if a human being is hungry, then it is up to another human being to feed him/her.

And her socialist roots are revealed.  No, Cindy, I don't owe you a meal if you're hungry.  That's the kind of thing that makes people like me hold back donations from people who need them!  I'll feed and clothe someone of my own free will, but the second they demand it of me and lay claim to my property and hard work they'll be cut off.

George Bush needs to stop talking, admit the mistakes of his all around failed administration, pull our troops out of occupied New Orleans and Iraq, and excuse his [sic] self from power.

Well, he did accept responsibility for the mistakes of everyone down the chain.  What more do you want?

I suppose it was just a matter of time...news coverage of Katrina drops off and Sheehan's handlers let her out to emote some more of her stream-of-stupidity anti-American nonsense.

"When I left, it thrived, and it grew, and it's because I'm not alone," said the 48-year-old mother of Casey Sheehan, who was killed last year while serving in Iraq. "I'm not the only one who wants answers to these questions."

I don't recall her asking any questions, at least none that were designed to create a constructive debate over Iraq.  I've heard plenty of demands from her, plenty of inane cry-whine-shout-babbling, but no questions anyone in any position of importance would have any reason to address.

Sheehan's main demand was to have Bush come out and talk to her, right?  Then she'd just go home?  Isn't that what she wanted originally?

"If George Bush came out and spoke to me today, and we went home, this wouldn't end," she said. "It will be impossible to put out."

Great.  Could someone please write out her goals on her forehead so she can eventually meet them and go home?

Sheehan said she respects the opinions of those who disagree with her and her belief that the war is "illegal and immoral."

Right. Illegal.  I've never understood how the war is illegal.  I'd be interested in someone tracing this whine back to it's Ur-whine.  It's the liberal/Anti-whatever equivalent of an urban legend.

I caught a little bit of the coverage of Bush's address to the UN today.  This article contains some great one-liners, such as:

The United Nations must be strong and efficient, free of corruption, and accountable to the people it serves. The United Nations must stand for integrity and live by the high standards it sets for others.

Ha!  A UN free of corruption?  Maybe at a high school in your community, but never at the wretched hive of scum and villainy known as the UN.

Hmm, now that I think about the title of this post, maybe a UN run by hot model chicks would be cool.  Yeah, let me retreat into Tomworld to think about this for a while...mmm, slap fights, baby oil wrestling in the security council, late-night pillow fights...yeah.

Should Bush have accepted responsibility for the slow reaction to the damage from Katrina?

On one hand I say no because he's not directly to blame for some of the more outrageous errors, like not using busses to evacuate the poor from New Orleans, or the decision to build a city on a freakin' delta and not build adequate defenses from the angry sea.

On the other hand I say yes because the buck ultimately stops at his desk.  Real leaders make unpopular decisions and stick to their principles, knowing they're doing the right thing despite a lack of immediate popular support.  And real leaders are the only ones left to accept responsibility when the entire chain of command, from parish supervisors to mayors to governors refuse to accept an ounce of blame.  Bush's apology and acceptance of blame disarms the morally-outraged liberals and left-leaning press; He admits it was his fault.  They can hardly attack him for not dealing with the issue head-on or dodging accountability.

Bush's apology will also clear the air of lingering doubt and angst about who to blame.  He accepted responsibility, but if it takes a few days or weeks for the effects to set in we should excuse ourselves for its relative novelty; The previous administration was good at feeling our pain but never accepted responsibility for anything it did.  (Imagine Bush claiming there was "no controlling legal authority" over the levees!) In the end Bush's apology will have the effect of movements like South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission: It focuses a nation's collective guilt and provides a way for individuals to admit they didn't do a perfect job and to ask for forgiveness of everyone involved.  It also gives the victims the chance to forgive and move on.

As the previous President might have emptily gushed: Let the healing begin.

A level-headed assessment of the rapidity of the response to Katrina, with a few swipes at know-nothing morally outraged journalists, can be found here.

LA Governor Blanco: Bush not to blame.  This should end the debate in the media, eh?  I mean, Blanco was a hero to the left in the crisis.  I think not, but if anyone is an authority on being slow to respond it'd be her.  I'll accept her expert opinion on Bush's reaction time.

Headline: Blanco Says Death Toll Acceptable

Well, that's what I'd write if I were a liberal journalist or broadcaster, based on this statement:

We did a massive evacuation, and if we hadn't we would have had thousands of deaths.  Right now, the numbers are minimal when you consider the amount of damage.

 

Of course Gov. Blanco, not Pres. Bush, said the above words.  So I guess she's being responsible and compassionate.  If it were Bush, or any white man, it'd be a wink and a nudge about how "they was all just a bunch of two-dollar Martians (that's my code word for THE N WORD) anyhow."

You know now that I think about it  I never really cared much for Louisiana.  What the UCC isn't good enough for them?  Base your legal system on French traditions of law, will you?  Not that I'd wish widespread tragedy on the supposedly good folks of LA, I just don't feel a terrible sense of loss having New Orleans and a few hundred thousand tar paper shacks washed away.

The last thing I want is a federal bailout for anyone stupid enough to rebuild in a flood plain or, say, a city sinking into the ocean.  Anne told me about a hyperventilating liberal woman she saw on ABC who was all verklempt about why somebody didn't build the levees/walls higher!  Why didn't someone do something to stop this from happening!!?? And the c*nt blathered on.  One wonders how she manages to find the time to hold down a job with her inability to change her own diaper.

All we need to do now is put up a big wall around New Orleans and we'd have 3XHAR's Prison Island.  It sounds like the survivors have been hit with a bit of the old ultraviolence already.

And Bush, releasing oil from the SPR.  How about repealing the Clinton gas tax (the only federal gas tax that wasn't spent on transportation) and doing away with the inane and inefficient gasoline reformulation scheme?  What a waste of time and money.  I don't see why Bush is complaining about gouging.  Hell, why not make all gas free?  If Bush has a magical correct non-gouging price for a gallon of gasoline I'd love to hear about it.  Me, I'll be curtailing long trips (I can literally walk to work) for a few weeks.

You can thank the Clinton-Gore Junta and their anti-progress green wackos for the current high gas prices.  No new refineries in 20 years + a lot of drilling and refining capacity in close proximity + restrictions on offshore drilling + MTBE = high gas prices.