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09:01:2005 Entry: "Ann : The Sewer Bowl"
The Sewer Bowl
I have hesitated writing about the tragedy in New Orleans because what could I say that either hasn't been said or that could offer any insight or help? I am sitting here during incredibly beautiful dry northern weather, and almost feel guilty. Wisconsin is in a drought, but if it's any consolation, I guess the drought couldn't have come at a better time because had it been a moist season, what would the farmers do with their harvest anyway? The major ports that export grains out of the country were in the Gulf, and now they're closed. A bounty would simply go to waste. Analogies are thrown about. Monday I thought of Pompeii, and today I heard that reference on the news. I've also heard Atlantis, America's tsunami, and Hiroshima. But as I watched lines of people walking down highways, trying to leave the city by foot, an exodous of poor, homeless refugees, another analogy came to mind. I thought of the Dust Bowl in the 30s. Except this is the Sewer Bowl. In 2001 there was 9/11, the biggest attack on American soil. Now, Katrina is the biggest natural disaster on American soil. And although Nature knows no timeline, or national boundaries, I can't help but think that these events both happened on George Bush's watch. If I were some sort of doomsday Bible nut, or if I had religious leanings of any kind, I would say that these were the signs of the Antichrist, and the Beast was Bush. But I'm not. I just think it's a bit...odd. And I'm pissed that our reserves are fighting some punitive war overseas that I was against from day one while they could be helping and protecting their own countrymen right now, here. Of course, it's not just the President and his politics that disgust me. It's the looters. Not the looters that are getting food, or even shoes so that they won't cut their feet in this mess or towels to dry themselves off. It's the ones that are getting TVs, appliances, jewelry. A hella good a tv will do you in a blackout. Bastards.
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I think I heard that G. B. is the fulfillment of some predictions of the man who starts WW3 and turns the United States of America into a 3rd world nation. I think on these terms he's accomplished a lot so far. It's really interesting how he takes advantage of natrual events to help him accomplish these ends.
Posted by Stan @ 09:01:2005:07:51 PM CST
By Ann @ 08:42 AM CST:09:01:05 ..::Link::..
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