Insight on Closure from Someone Who’s Been There

Blogged by Mathieu as Pointers, Reactions — Mathieu Tue 6 Sep 2005 8:18

TsunamiBrother Greg, who’s been in a major natural disaster, trying to help out, witnessing the media circus and the fecklessness of the authorities, has this insight on getting closure afterwards.

French-bashers will enjoy this, since these are the French authorities we’re talking about. )

For the rest of us, I recommend Tony P’s diatribe against the American public that re-elected Bush in the face of his lies, inadequacies, and total cynicism/disrespect for the ones who voted for him, and the ones who didn’t, since he thinks he owes his seat to his business buddies. Sorry, I hate barfing up like that in the morning, but I just couldn’t hold it down.

Lies have a tendency to do that to me.

Consider it a call to action, a reminder that the electorate is NOT powerless, or an astute analysis of why W is going to get away with it.

Oh, and before we even go there, I agree with Tony, we’ll fire the mayor of NoLa if you’ll agree to fire W.

Last but not least, W’s mother has a ‘let them eat cake‘ moment which just proves how disconnected these people are from the folksy image they so assiduously cultivate :

“What I’m hearing which is sort of scary is that they all want to stay in Texas. Everybody is so overhwlemed by the hospitality. And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway so this (chuckle)–this is working very well for them.”

Just when you thought they couldn’t make you speechless anymore…

6 Comments »

  1. Comment by ava — September 6, 2005 at 12:15

    I can’t believe somebody just said that.

  2. Comment by Mathieu — September 6, 2005 at 12:18

    I know Ava, incredible, in the original meaning of the word…

  3. Comment by Miles — September 7, 2005 at 0:27

    Shame all this had to go down right after W’s August vacation…

  4. Comment by Le Serpent — September 7, 2005 at 21:28

    You’ve been posting some pretty amazing pictures of the NoLa disaster and today you chose a Japanese print to illustrate the tsunami. That doesn’t surprise me. I’ve never seen good pictures of the tsunami or its aftermath. The journalists weren’t there. Maybe because (something I forgot to mention in my post) they arrived on site with the politicians and the medics (D+3), when all we needed was forensics and gasoline.

  5. Comment by Mathieu — September 8, 2005 at 2:37

    Miles, horrible way to start the semester, isn’t it?

    Greg, took me a couple minutes to understand what you really meant about the gasoline… *shivers*

  6. Comment by ozbhoy — September 15, 2005 at 1:00

    At least now we know who dubya inherited his intelligence from.

    Oh and the tawdry lobby comment, hahaha. Thanks for the laugh. )

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