You're Not There

Was listening to Hogue this morning and there just a few people (“Mike in his car”) that were getting a little too legalistic about how people in Narlens (New Orleans) are coping with this disaster. “People should take responsibility for not evacuating when they were ordered to do so.” Legalistically, a very true and accurate statement. Humanity-wise it stinks.

First off, this country has never seen anything like Katrina the Bad in decades, perhaps in over a century when Galveston, Texas was pretty much was wiped from the face of the earth back in the later 1800’s(?) (UPDATE: Galveston got clobbered in 1900 by Hurricane Before-We-Knew-Better-Then-to-Name-Them) I don’t know exactly when other then it was a long time ago, but I vividly remember reading about it in skrool; Reading about an account of some poor guy who obviously lost everything sitting amid the wreckage of his town and life laughing hysterically; Or about looters caught by the sheriff with human fingers in their pockets because they couldn’t get the gold rings off the bloated digits. Katrina was one of the truly evil storms this country will ever encounter and yes there will be horrific stories about the aftermath in Narlens like those Galveston stories. But am I going to sit on my pedestal and cluck about how those people caught in the middle of this disaster should take responsibility for their own actions? Easy for me to say – I’m not there and neither are you, Mike.

Hogue also expressed his displeasure with a web log that was clucking away that looting is looting. If I’m taking baby diapers, shoes, clothing, water, etc. from a Walmart, I believe they’ll understand my desperation to provide for my family in the midst of hell on earth and tell me “Don’t worry yourself about it.” If I have my F350 4-whl pickup truck backed up to a flooded Good Guys and I’m loading it up with a HDTV, Tivo’s, DVD players, etc, I deserve to be shot by the National Guard. This Zero-Tolerance crapola I have to tolerate as a guv-mint employee is maddening enough, but to hear about such pontificating dribble about people trying to survive Katrina the Bad by people who have no earthly clue as to what they are talking about makes me nearly red-faced with rage. YOU’RE NOT THERE!

I’m just waiting for the next religious nut, ala Randall Terry, declares “this was God’s judgment against a sinful city.” Yeah??? “What’s in your wallet” as they say on the tube. Be careful about asking for judgment against anybody or any town for the Lord’s sword “cuts off both the righteous and wicked.” Abraham pleaded with God to spare Sodom for the sake of “10 righteous men,” which the Lord agreed to do. Unfortunately for Sodom, all the Lord’s angels found was Abraham’s damn fool of a nephew, Lot. They chased him out of town before it got sacked – eternally. But just you wait, some idiot who will do nothing except make the rest of us Christians look like insensitive nutballs, will say Narlens got what was coming to it. Yeah???? So will you someday, too, Randall. Shaddup already because: YOU”RE NOT THERE!