While The King Fiddles ...........

Today I was going to post a notice to my readers that due to illness I would not be updating this blog until probably after September 1st. That is UNTIL I realized what exactly the entire destruction, devastation and death Katrina has caused......and King George's response to it. Now I can't even describe how damn angry I am. While hundreds of people drowned yesterday, where was the President?..... Golfing. Why does the city of New Orleans, even though it avoided a direct hit, now look like a city that will never return much like Atlantis? Ask King George what he did with the money the Army Corps of Engineers requested for hurricane and flood control because they feared this very thing happening. It appears that the money has been moved in the president’s budget to handle homeland security and the war in Iraq, and I suppose that’s the price we pay. Nobody locally is happy that the levees can’t be finished, and we are doing everything we can to make the case that this is a security issue for us. -- Walter Maestri, emergency management chief for Jefferson Parish, Louisiana; New Orleans Times-Picayune, June 8, 2004. His Highness felt the money would be better spent giving his oil buddies tax shelters, and his high falutin' money grubbing friends on snob street tax cuts, not to mention shoving good money after bad in a selected war he KNEW was NOT NECESSARY!!! Where are the National Guard troops from Louisiana and Mississippi that should be doing the job they signed up to do? IN IRAQ being maimed and killed fighting in an unnecessary war and conducting an illegal occupation under orders from this half-wit that occupies the White House. That's not bad enough, but even the equipment that would be normally used to help these people is over in Iraq. The high-water vehicles and even wireless radios normally used are in Iraq for god's sake!!!! God forbid he should show some concern for the victims of probably the worst major natural disaster to hit the United States in history. NO instead he goes golfing yesterday, and spends all of 1 minute and 20 seconds today even mentioning the disaster instead choosing to try and sell his war. with a battleship in the backround in sunny San Diego, California. Then his aides tell us he is cutting his (FIVE WEEK) vacation short to handle the situation. That's strange, since just a couple days ago they were insisting he wasn't on vacation at all but was in Crawford only because remodelling was being done to the West Wing of the WH. And where is he going when he ends his vaction tomorrow? Back to Washington. God help him if he happened to think of maybe at least attempting to show some concern for the disaster victims by at minimum doing a fly-over of the stricken area. Even if it were a false concern (which it most certainly would be) at least he would look as if he cared, and in the process give these people some sense of hope and feeling that their so-called leader cares about them. The Governer of Louisiana Kathleen Blanco stated today that everyone still in the city, now huddled in the Superdome and other rescue centers, needs to be evacuated. FEMA is even considering putting people on cruise ships, in tent cities, mobile home parks, and so-called floating dormitories — boats the agency uses to house its own employees because things are so bad in New Orleans. How can he even live with himself and call himself a Christian. My God man the majority of the people taking shelter in the Superdome are there because they are the poorest of the poor, and couldn't aford the gas money to fill their cars to get out if they even had a car. Does George realize that New Orleans is made up of mostly the poorest of the poor? Or does he think everything is fun and games in that city. A year round festival called Mardi Gras. In the meantime, this miserable bastard who cares about nothing but himself and his fucking millionaire oil buddies, plays golf and goes to the west coast AWAY from any sight of the damage, despair and death to attempt once again to force feed his damn war on a public that is more and more letting him know they are fed up with his crap and his unnecessary war. When Congress returns after Labor Day, they should put its' collective foot down and DEMAND more accountability from this moron and tell him in no uncertain terms IT IS TIME HE START ACTING LIKE A PRESIDENT - get of his ass and impose a freeze on oil and gas prices. Put a "Marshall Plan" of sorts into effect and help these people out. DEMAND he formulate an exit strategy and bring the National Guard Troops he is using as a permanent Armed Forces home to their respective states and do the job they were trained to do. Turn over the money needed to the Corps of Engineers to upgrade these levies that he has let deteriorate to the point where the pumps don't function. And if those in Congress don't demand these things, Republican and Democrat alike, the whole useless bunch should be turfed. As for King George and the rest of the shit-heads in his administration, the whole damn lot of them should be impeached. This man has got to be the worst occupant of the White House in the history of the country.