Hey, did you guys hear about that storm from last year...What was it called? Karen, Kate, no, it was Katrina right? And did you know it hit New Orleans? Yeah. Heard something about it, I think from the same people who told me that John Kerry served in Vietnam...But I can't be sure, my memory ain't so good...I need to hear things a few (million) times before they stick.
UGH! PUHLEEZE! You'd think there had never been (and would never be) another storm as "devastating" and "tragic" as Hurricane Katrina!
I was purposely avoiding posting on the subject, in defense of the poor bloody corpse of a beaten-to-death horse that this story is, but then I read what Pete (a.k.a. Alois) had to say about it. The very fact that someone could make me laugh out loud in my frustration was reason enough to share it here:
AND THAT'S ALL I'VE GOT TO SAY ABOUT THAT: New Orleans, one year after. Since it was my son's former home and a city I knew fairly well, I was tempted to say something.Posted by insomnomaniac at August 31, 2006 3:09 PM | TrackBackFortunately, Michelle Malkin says it for me.
Living right next door to a town that was decimated by a tornado a year ago—a town that got no aid from FEMA because all of that had been diverted to Katrina relief—and a town that, at least on the surface, is almost fully recovered today, I've got very little good to say about the way the city of New Orleans and the state of Louisiana handled the Katrina catastrophe.
As my wife would say, "Let me put it this way": I'm glad my son chose to flee New Orleans. Even if he went to Israel. In wartime..
Thanks for the linkage, Deb--and I'm glad I could make you laff. Michelle pretty well rips 'em a new one, doesn't she?
Mike is fond of pointing out to me that he's many times safer in Jerusalem than he ever was in NOLA. Statistically, of course, that is absolutely true.
BTW my home PC doesn't like me posting to Insomnomaniac, so I'll try to reiterate what I wrote this morning about your fisking of the Dhimmicrats: CLASSIC. Although if your mommy-board members are like most of the liberals I know, they will think you're trying to be "funny"--which means they won't understand what you're saying and will feel like they're being vaguely mocked.
Oh yeah, that's right--that's why you posted it to your blog and not the Mommy Board, right? ;-)
Posted by: Pete (Alois) at August 31, 2006 3:45 PM