What has the US become?
I've been putting off posting for a week or so now. I just didn't have much to say, especially with the devastation in the Gulf. Many things take a back seat when catastrophe's like this occur. Sporting events are put on hold, news organizations take over prime-time TV. The world watches. That's why I'm embarrassed as hell.
You know, a few months ago when the Tsunami hit, the world watched in horror as the devastation piled up. Body counts soared and people were fighting for their lives. The world watched humans floating in flood waters right next to garbage and debris. And the world responded. Every effort was made by people around the world to help. And the people that were hit... the ones that survived... the lived on. They struggled and will continue to struggle to stay alive. They work with each other to fix what once was.
And then we have New Orleans. Thugs swim the flooded streets in packs, looting, pillaging, robbing and... who knows... murder? At least attempted. Jesse Jackson is on his way there, screaming racism. Bad words are flying, accusations are made. Several message boards I've seen have been full of *nigger* this and *nigger* that. This isn't about the color of anyone. The word "nigger" is a term I don't fully understand. I know it is a derogatory term used to describe blacks. I know it is used freely amongst the black community, but its more than taboo for white's to say. So, to me, "nigger" is merely a word that I have no real context for, other than to assume it is like calling someone an asshole. So to me, that word certainly doesn't apply to this situation. The people (be they white or black or latino or asian) causing the problems are, to put it simply, trash. They are scum. They are despicable human beings with no concept of right and wrong. The fact that the majority of the people committing these acts are black is only causing more problems.
And then we have the liberal assholes, holding these fuckers hands, coddling them, telling them they are just a product of their environments. They were brought up poor, no chance to get out. It's not their fault. BULLSHIT. My wife... she was brought up poor also. She had very little in life as she grew up. Her dad was an alcoholic, her mom to caught up in her own life to care about her kids. She had it rough. Just like these fuckers. But you know what? She made something of herself. She went to school, got an education, held down a job. What can't these people? Why can't they? No money? Student loans. I got one. My wife too. No opportunities? Bullshit. There are more and more scholarships offered for "non-whites" than ever before. They are simply lazy. They don't want to work. They don't want to go to school. They only want to leach off the populace in general. Again, this has nothing to do with race. I see plenty of whites and blacks doing this.
To top things off, now I'm reading about how this is Bush's fault. Yep. Blame the president that a hurricane hit. Blame the president that the CITY of New Orleans and the STATE of Louisiana were NOT prepared. Some will say, well President Bush cut federal spending to repair and replace old levies in and around New Orleans. I say New Orleans is a big enough city and has enough casinos and sports franchises to make enough money to fix their own damn levies. Those levies have been SINKING for years, along with the rest of the damn city. So they are pissed the government wasn't paying for them to fix their own levies around a city that was fucking built UNDER SEA LEVEL?
Look, I would never wish any of this destruction upon anyone. The fact is, it happened. There is NO BLAME. And, if there is blame, it is on the city itself for not being prepared. There were no trains, busses, planes, taxi's, car pools... anything... out of town for those that did not have the means. There was the state telling everyone... "hey, ya better get out, we're going to get hit by this hurricane. but, if you can't... well... screw ya. We don't have the time or the patience to help."
So it goes on. The looting, the muggings, the rape (now accounts of rape are coming out of New Orleans), the carjackings (really, stealing a bus from an old-folks home and kicking all the old people off the bus? really???? WHO would do that?)... all surrounded by one of the worst natural catastrophe's ever. It ALMOST feels like one of the seven signs of the apocolypse.
Really, not much else to say. I pray for those innocent people stranded in New Orleans and I pray the military wipes out those fuckheads that are screwing everything up.
You know, a few months ago when the Tsunami hit, the world watched in horror as the devastation piled up. Body counts soared and people were fighting for their lives. The world watched humans floating in flood waters right next to garbage and debris. And the world responded. Every effort was made by people around the world to help. And the people that were hit... the ones that survived... the lived on. They struggled and will continue to struggle to stay alive. They work with each other to fix what once was.
And then we have New Orleans. Thugs swim the flooded streets in packs, looting, pillaging, robbing and... who knows... murder? At least attempted. Jesse Jackson is on his way there, screaming racism. Bad words are flying, accusations are made. Several message boards I've seen have been full of *nigger* this and *nigger* that. This isn't about the color of anyone. The word "nigger" is a term I don't fully understand. I know it is a derogatory term used to describe blacks. I know it is used freely amongst the black community, but its more than taboo for white's to say. So, to me, "nigger" is merely a word that I have no real context for, other than to assume it is like calling someone an asshole. So to me, that word certainly doesn't apply to this situation. The people (be they white or black or latino or asian) causing the problems are, to put it simply, trash. They are scum. They are despicable human beings with no concept of right and wrong. The fact that the majority of the people committing these acts are black is only causing more problems.
And then we have the liberal assholes, holding these fuckers hands, coddling them, telling them they are just a product of their environments. They were brought up poor, no chance to get out. It's not their fault. BULLSHIT. My wife... she was brought up poor also. She had very little in life as she grew up. Her dad was an alcoholic, her mom to caught up in her own life to care about her kids. She had it rough. Just like these fuckers. But you know what? She made something of herself. She went to school, got an education, held down a job. What can't these people? Why can't they? No money? Student loans. I got one. My wife too. No opportunities? Bullshit. There are more and more scholarships offered for "non-whites" than ever before. They are simply lazy. They don't want to work. They don't want to go to school. They only want to leach off the populace in general. Again, this has nothing to do with race. I see plenty of whites and blacks doing this.
To top things off, now I'm reading about how this is Bush's fault. Yep. Blame the president that a hurricane hit. Blame the president that the CITY of New Orleans and the STATE of Louisiana were NOT prepared. Some will say, well President Bush cut federal spending to repair and replace old levies in and around New Orleans. I say New Orleans is a big enough city and has enough casinos and sports franchises to make enough money to fix their own damn levies. Those levies have been SINKING for years, along with the rest of the damn city. So they are pissed the government wasn't paying for them to fix their own levies around a city that was fucking built UNDER SEA LEVEL?
Look, I would never wish any of this destruction upon anyone. The fact is, it happened. There is NO BLAME. And, if there is blame, it is on the city itself for not being prepared. There were no trains, busses, planes, taxi's, car pools... anything... out of town for those that did not have the means. There was the state telling everyone... "hey, ya better get out, we're going to get hit by this hurricane. but, if you can't... well... screw ya. We don't have the time or the patience to help."
So it goes on. The looting, the muggings, the rape (now accounts of rape are coming out of New Orleans), the carjackings (really, stealing a bus from an old-folks home and kicking all the old people off the bus? really???? WHO would do that?)... all surrounded by one of the worst natural catastrophe's ever. It ALMOST feels like one of the seven signs of the apocolypse.
Really, not much else to say. I pray for those innocent people stranded in New Orleans and I pray the military wipes out those fuckheads that are screwing everything up.
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