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Showing posts with label hurricane katrina. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hurricane katrina. Show all posts

NYT Meets The Clarion Ledger. . .

Seems that a favorite pastime of The New York Times and New York folks such as tax-scoundrel Charles Rangel is to kick Mississippi at any chance given in order to keep things right in the world.

Well NYT, I think the French say it best: touché!

Americans like to say: sucks to be you!

Either way, The Clarion Ledger, our local paper, puts a grand smackdown on the New York Times in rebuttal to Monday's NYT editorial calling out Mississippi for misuse of HUD funds after Hurricane Katrina.

Pot meet kettle.

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Drilling For The Future. . .

Soil samples being taken along the Mississippi Gulf Coast in Waveland, an area more or less wiped away by Hurricane Katrina. Surely, but slowly like a snail, life is being breathed back into the Coast.

drilling dirt
waveland, ms - august 2008

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Deep Breath. . .Deep Breath. . .

In and out. In and out. Breathe deeply.

Oomm. Oooooooomm.

Forgive me folks, I can feel my internal volcano of vulgarity becoming active. Fair warning.

The dilemma surrounding the myth of global warming, now re-described as "climate change", is that no one, not you, not me, not tens of thousands of scientists can agree on whether this "phenomenon" is A) for real and B) caused by man.

What has been proven by fact is that man is contributing to the total carbon output on Earth. But our carbon output, even as large as it seems, is still only a piss dribble part of the whole. Mother Nature creates far more than we and it has been us (life) against her for thousands or millions of years.

And She. Always. Wins.

George Carlin once described this facet of environmentalism as human beings', "self-righteous arrogance of importance." We must realize, however difficult it may be to accept, that we are slightly less important than a tick turd on the butthole of a rabid dog. When the Earth is ready, she will swallow us up and probably burp up a few trillion tons of carbon in the process.

In any given moment on Earth, there are cows farting, oceans evaporating, volcanoes spewing, sulfur pits bubbling, drunks belching, swamp mud decaying, landfills fermenting, forest fires burning and so on and so on. We're simply not that fucking important in the grand scheme of things in terms of our carbon output.

Earth and Mother Nature will aways be our unmerciful handler. And Mother Nature is many things, including a creative and sadistic, cold-blooded bitch who doesn't not care for life or the living. She can make life as easily as she can destroy it. She cares not if you are a Mexican, a Black, a mole, a three-toed sloth, a one-legged unicyclist or an amoeba. She simply doesn't care. And by not caring, it is impossible for her to be a racist. She dislikes on equal basis.

According to the following article, blacks are subjected to the effects of global warming disproportionately more than "non-hispanic" whites, who are also known as the evil crackers who run shit™. Furthermore, a report from the Environmental Justice and Climate Change Initiative says that blacks are "far less responsible" yet "far more vulnerable" to the effects of global warming. Oh really?

The report states that "health, housing, economic well-being, culture and social stability [of blacks] are harmed by such manifestations of climate change as storms, floods and climate variability." Umm, can you say 'dat be muhfuggin bullsheet?"

Yes, "climate variability" is inevitable, but in the real world, where rational and educated people live, climate variability in commonly fucking known as "the weather." Holy fuck! If you live near the ocean, in a city that is basically a bathtub, what the fuck do you think is going to happen when a hurricane rolls in?? Is it gonna drop off some jellied hog jowls, pork ribs and pot of collard greens and fatback? Hell no! Get out your rubber fucking duck asshole, because it's over! Get the hell out! It doesn't take professional genius to realize that holes will fill up with water! And waiting around for your "leadership" to tell you to get out is simply idiotic!

And the cultural and social impact? I must have missed the memo about global warming handing out guns and drugs to blacks and forcing them to create chaos and havoc in their own neighborhoods. Bad, bad global warming! Shame on you.

So the solution according to the report? Aw hell, it's as easy as one, two three.

First, let's not allow the innovators, the investors, to reap the benefit of the risk of technological evolution. Second, let's tax the evil cracker businesses who pollute. And thirdly, let's give our new found windfall to the "consumer" better known as anyone who is not a cracker.

Reparations anyone? Bueller? Bueller?

I suggest that you read the entire report, if you can do it without going insane. Should I continue at the current level of anger, I am sure to spontaneously combust creating evil carbon emissions that will immediately seek out the nearest ghetto and begin affecting the culture and social stability of blacks.

The only racists here are the ones who perpetuate the myth of victimization to retain their own power and status and who continually ignore the REAL problems facing minorities in America.

And for all you disadvantaged people out there? Get an education. The more you know, the more doors you'll know and the more likely those known doors will open for you.

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Oh and the sweet irony. I first found the above referenced article written by Mr. Jeff Poor on the Business and Media Initiative's website who's motto is "Advancing the Culture of Free Enterprise in America."

You just can't make that stuff up.

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Where Is The Outrage?

"Genocide by hurricane."

Anyone remember hearing that after Hurricane Katrina? It was howled from the rooftops by angry blacks displaced by the storm and by needledick liberals on talk shows and news networks.

Well, we have a real case of genocide by weather going on halfway around the world in Burma and where is the goddamned outrage?

20,000 people are dead and more are likely to die without fresh water to drink and food to eat as thousands of dead rot, contaminating the water supply. Disease is inevitable and so is helping the helpless.

Unless you're a fucking worthless piece of shit military junta who won't allow "outsiders" in to prevent a crisis from becoming a catastrophic mega-crisis.

At some point the world, most likely the USA, will have to DO SOMETHING. We can't just sit idly by and watch these people die. We are there to help and if these short-sighted subhuman military twits won't let us in, then I say roll a few Marines in on the beaches. What are these turds gonna do? Fight us?

If I were Bush, I'd send a few B-2 bombers over there, put them in a holding pattern, phone the leader of these douchebags and say "Do you like bombs? I like bombs. Bombs go boom. Get it, dickhead?"

This is a terrible situation and it just burns me up that nobody is doing anything about it.

I dunno. We didn't do anything about Darfur either. Fucking UN.

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George Bush Did It.



Some truth about Katrina recovery spending.

My home state of Mississippi has been blasted for the perception of receiving more money than Louisiana for disaster recovery.

Well, it's about f'n time we were first in SOMETHING, but an analysis of the numbers show reveals a different vein.

From The Sun-Herald:

The U.S. Government Accountability Office says federal hurricane-relief spending to date is about $116 billion.

Mississippi has received about $23.5 billion of that total, including money that went to repair federal facilities here.

Though no one in Louisiana appears to have a firm number on how much has been spent there, it would be reasonable to assume the bulk of the remaining $92.5 billion Mississippi wasn't able to "grab" went to Louisiana.

Conservatively assuming Louisiana received only $75 billion of that spending, that would put Louisiana slightly ahead, per capita, of those who lost their homes, at $366,000 in federal spending for each. Mississippi's total federal spending amounts to $361,000 per devastated homeowner.

And credit is due to Haley Barbour for his diligence and perseverance in beginning the recovery.

Mississippi had a plan when it went to Congress, hat in hand, after Katrina.

"We presented a very specific, reasonable request... ," Barbour said. "We didn't ask for everything we ever dreamed of, multiplied by two."

Louisiana, Barbour noted, "said they should get $250 billion, about two months after the storm." Barbour and others at the time said this request from Louisiana, made by Sen. Mary Landrieu, made it hard to get any additional relief funding from Congress at the time. "Everybody in Washington was offended," Barbour said.

Louisiana's initial request after Katrina included spending for improvements at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge and other projects of dubious relation to Katrina.

During a recent meeting with the Sun Herald, Barbour went off on what he called the "whining" in Louisiana that Mississippi got too large a share.

"One of the things they used was that the number of schools in Mississippi that were still closed by December in 2005 compared to the number of schools that were closed in Louisiana was just a tiny fraction," Barbour said. "Of course it was, because we had all our schools back open. We worked our tails off. We had all our schools back open before New Orleans had one back open."

And though Mississippi schools were open, children were, and are, attending in temporary trailers used as classrooms because their schools were destroyed.

"So what's the idea? Are they supposed to punish us for getting our schools back open quickly? That's their mentality: 'Somebody do this for me,'

" Barbour said. "Down here, people said, 'We're going to do this for ourselves, and we hope you'll help us,' and that's what happened."

From The Chicago Tribune:

Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco and New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin point fingers of blame at each other and at federal bureaucracy for the city's sluggish recovery. But the more time passes since Katrina, the less the hurricane can be used as an all-purpose excuse for inept state and local leadership.

Boo hoo.

That's what 200 years of political corruption will get you in Louisiana, a bunch of whiny, weasley, windbag losers.

Maybe William Jefferson can help you. I hear he's got a bit of extra cash laying around the house.

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It's Too Early. . .

to start my day by getting pissed off, but here I go.

From WorldNetDaily.Com:

Democrats on a legislative committee in California have advanced a plan that would make criminals of any parent who uses "a stick, a rod, [or] a switch" to discipline their misbehaving child, and parents rights' organizations are up in arms.


When I was a kid, it was a standing house rule that we chillens' weren't supposed to play in the street. Our street also doubled as a quarter-mile dragstrip, so for obvious reasons our parental untis didn't want to find Wonk #1, 2 & 3 as little grease stains in the street.

Needless to say, dad caught all three of us out there, right smack dab in the middle of the road. And to quote a famous Bill Cosby anecdote, "Let the beatings begin!!!"

We never played in the street again and my father never laid a hand of me for the rest of my life. From that day on I was living in the fear of God. . .and Dad. . .and his belt.


"This was a bad day for parental rights in California," said Karen England, of Capitol Resource Institute.


Indeed it is.

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Boat for sale. . .


new paint.

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Restaurant for sale. . .



turnkey operation.

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catastrophic. . .


Halfway House
December 16, 2006
Beach Blvd. - Waveland, Mississippi

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The stories it could tell. . .


Old Trunk
Decemeber 16, 2006
Beach Blvd. - Bay St. Louis

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Another boat for sale. . .



needs work.

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Boat for sale. . .cheap!

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