Katie Doyle, Girl About Town

Wednesday, Sept. 07, 2005 - 8:49 p.m.

So, really glad Sue is found! :) She sent email to a friend, who posted to group, but I didn't get a reply notice and had no idea, so big hugs and thanks to Cannon for telling me. :) She says she and her son are fine, but getting to a computer is difficult and cell phones are now the world's biggest wrist watches. I'm just glad she's okay. :)

I am still marvelling at the cluster that is New Orleans and the surrounding area, as well as Mississippi. Every day I come across some new horror story that amazes me, and I'm really not looking to be amazed, unless it's in a good way. Sadly, the good amazements are not coming all that often.

Note to all of you "outraged" politicians intent on using the word "unacceptable": You keep using that word. I do not think it means what *you* think it means.

See, when the rest of us say "unacceptable," we mean "you'd better god-damned well fix this shit right fucking now, before I put my boot up your ass." When you guys say it, you seem to mean "have your people call my people, and sometime next week, we can meet over lunch to discuss it."

Not quite the universally-understood meaning for "unacceptable". Please adjust your thesaurus accordingly.

I can not believe that fully 56% of Americans are unconcerned at the travesty that is Katrina's aftermath. 35% think George Bush and the feds are doing a great job handling it, while 21% have no opinion one way or another. I suppose because they are apathetic dicks. I can see feeling the feds did great or that they did badly, but having no opinion is just plain lame. It really shows an amazing lack of concern for current events that makes me want to slap people. Maybe it just means they're unsure what to make of the mess, but the phrase "no opinion" (as opposed to "unsure") is really just as apathetic a phrase as I can think of.

It sounds odd to say, but I had such high hopes that people would finally see how screwed up government has gotten here and that we really need to apply some pressure to our political representatives to do things right, for the good of the people instead of their own pockets and the corporations they own stock in. That 56% of the American public is utterly unconcerned about how things are being handled is shocking and appalling to me. I figured it would be more like 30-35% were unconcerned. I don't even know what to do with a population where over half the citizenry not only aren't outraged but really don't care that the government just hung thousands of people out to dry. More and more I find life in this country intolerable. It does not reflect the ideals I was raised with and taught to honor.

The gulf between haves and havenots continues to widen. Barbara Bush's comments this week were a shock along the lines of the Marie-Antoinette "let them eat cake" myth. Only Barbara actually said hers, and said it on public radio. After "touring" Houston relief shelters and the Astrodome, the elder Mrs. Bush told American Public Media's "Marketplace" program:

"And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this--this is working very well for them."

The transcript of the show says: "(she chuckles slightly)" after the second time she says "this".

It is nothing short of astounding to me that the former First Lady of this country is so out of touch with reality and humanity that she thinks because a person is poor, living on a cot in the middle of a crowded sports arena or having to sleep in chairs after losing every possession he/she had is acceptable or a step up. And this is the woman responsible for molding the mindset and person of our current president.

Awesome.

Katie

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