"California Fires Out of Control as More Than 500,000 Flee"
I don't give a crap about rich white belly-aching, especially when its wall-to-wall on the tv news (like nothing else is happening).
Not when the poor black (and white) of the Gulf Coast are given the shaft!
TWO YEARS of it!
Especially when it's their asshole government's fault.
You guys war-supporters, were ya?
I'm going to quote a blogger on the problem instead:
"I HATE TO SAY I TOLD YOU SO, BUT PRESIDENT BUSH HAS JUST DONE TO SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA WHAT HE DID TO LOUISIANA!
President Bush gambled with the Mississippi river region. He literally bet the safety of all those people living along the Mississippi River and the city of New Orleans itself that he could send the National Guard on his little war in Iraq.
Bush bet he could take all those resources intended to protect New Orleans from a natural disaster and spend them on his war in Iraq, and he LOST that bet, and in the process, he destroyed New Orleans. The damage from Katrina was orders of magnitude worse than it would have been had the levees been properly maintained, and the resources left in place to deal with the catastrophe.
I warned at the bottom of this article that Bush had likely stripped the rest of the nation for not only National Guard but the material resources needed to deal with disasters.
Malibu is sadly proving the point. Most of the California National Guard is in Iraq. along with most of their heavy equipment and supplies. And, just as funding was cut for flood control to pay for the war, federal funding for wildfire prevention was cut, again to fund the war.
So, now we see that Bush has not just gambled New Orleans on his war, he has indeed bet the entire country. Never mind the danger from mythical terrorists, we as a nation are now totally defenseless against real dangers from natural disasters that really do happen and they do not harm us because we are free; they harm us because we are STUPID and unprepared!
The only good news is that this is probably the wake up call for Hollywood that those of us in the film industry that were sounding the warning about Bush 7 years ago weren't just nuts and kooks to be kept off of film crews when Senator McCarthy called and denounced us as communists (or whatever the current incarnation of that dirtiest of dirty tricks is these days). All of you celebrities who stood by Bush, insisted the war was just, believed the obvious lies about WMDs and 9-11; that smoldering ruin which used to be your home is your reward for your loyalty. It isn't just the "dark" neighborhoods in New Orleans that got trashed, now it's the homes of the rich and famous.
And I hope you are as pissed as I am!
If anyone reading this actually lives in the colony please drop me a line. I would love to have you on my radio show this Saturday. -- Mike Rivero, What Really Happened"
[I'm LIVID, sir!!!]
