carved angel
2.9.05
people like me
apparently, i'm a big, stupid jerk for being angry about what's happened in new orleans. did i do my share of crying about the tragedy? yeah. i just didn't feel like blogging about myself crying. if you've done, that's fine. i chose to blog about being angry. i think i have a right to be angry. i'm not "politicizing" the disaster. i'm pissed because our government's response to this disaster was absolute shite. but gish, i hear you saying, bush is there now, along with supplies and troops. great. if the food, water, and medicine had shown up a few days earlier, maybe some of the people left to fester in the sun wouldn't have died. i don't give a fuck who the president is. this has nothing to do with politics. if this were clinton, or any other dem, or even a green (har har) i would be just as mad. there is no excuse for this amount of ineptitude. we're one of the richest nations on the planet, and it looks like the goddamn third world out there. none of them should have had to suffer like this, for so many days. and the only reason they were made to suffer is because they're poor. and that just pisses me the fuck off.
so you can say i'm being petty or divisive. that situations like these bring out the worst in "people like me." but i maintain that i have every right to be angry, when i have to watch my poorer countrymen suffer at the hands of not only nature, but an incompetent government.
so you can say i'm being petty or divisive. that situations like these bring out the worst in "people like me." but i maintain that i have every right to be angry, when i have to watch my poorer countrymen suffer at the hands of not only nature, but an incompetent government.
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Gish, I hope that this isn’t in response to the post I made the other night about the stupidity I’d been reading on the internet, because my post sure wasn’t aimed at you. I think you have every right to be angry about what is going on in NO.
I was referring to the two (two!) commentators I read about who said that god destroyed New Orleans because of the gays (to which I have to ask, if god is feeling that pissy about gays, then why hasn’t Canada been wiped out yet?). And the assholes who were asking why people didn’t evacuate when they were told. And the one Canadian blogger who said he had no sympathy for the people of NO because they lived in the richest country in the world and their own government could take care of them. And all the other bloggers who then had to pile on him and call him the most vile names for expressing his opinion. I didn’t care for his opinion in the first place, but I didn’t think it was worth getting worked up over, when there was so much going on.
And if you weren’t replying to me, then I apologize for being paranoid – but you did use some phrases that sounded like direct quotes from my post.
I was referring to the two (two!) commentators I read about who said that god destroyed New Orleans because of the gays (to which I have to ask, if god is feeling that pissy about gays, then why hasn’t Canada been wiped out yet?). And the assholes who were asking why people didn’t evacuate when they were told. And the one Canadian blogger who said he had no sympathy for the people of NO because they lived in the richest country in the world and their own government could take care of them. And all the other bloggers who then had to pile on him and call him the most vile names for expressing his opinion. I didn’t care for his opinion in the first place, but I didn’t think it was worth getting worked up over, when there was so much going on.
And if you weren’t replying to me, then I apologize for being paranoid – but you did use some phrases that sounded like direct quotes from my post.
oops. i didn't know i had quoted your blog at all. sorry. >_<
no, it's mostly in reference to some stupid posts i've been involved in here and there elsewhere on the internets.
it's safe to say that if you're reading this blog, nothing i had to say was aimed at you. ^^;;
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no, it's mostly in reference to some stupid posts i've been involved in here and there elsewhere on the internets.
it's safe to say that if you're reading this blog, nothing i had to say was aimed at you. ^^;;
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