September 04, 2005

Steve's Back

It's been some time but Steve of Norway is back weblogging. All it took was a natural disaster and too many playing the blame game.

It's amazing really, the President could've had 10,000 troops stationed outside of New Orleans; had FEMA ready to go and could've had $50billion earmarked for the initial wave of rebuilding/rescues, but it would not have mattered one iota. This hurricane would've blown through New Orleans and would've still flooded 80% of the city. Lake Pontchartrain still would've blasted through the levees and the looters & shooters still would be causing the havoc that they are. Because a hurricane is a hurricane...it causes an ass-load amount of damage. Is that too simple to grasp? No amount of pre-planning would've saved New Orleans. Kyoto would not have saved New Orleans. The Governor of Louisiana could not have saved New Orleans. Haley Barbour, although being blamed for causing Katrina, could not have stopped it from tearing apart Mississippi. It's mother nature and in the case of the blogosphere, it's natural to bring politics into the mess. And in some cases, call the President names to make themselves feel better about their little lives. Well bravo...bravo.

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