Turkey With a Dash of Bitters

[DoYouEverWonder]

By JOHN BIGUENET
Published: November 23, 2005

New Orleans

I DON'T recall much about last Thanksgiving. Happy days tend to blur together, I guess. But I'll remember for the rest of my life every detail of the bitter holiday we'll celebrate tomorrow.

The mood here has turned angry in the last month, as we've begun to lose hope we will get the hurricane protection the future of the city depends on. On the street, the sense of betrayal boils over into empty talk of closing our oil and gas pipelines, which supply much of the nation's needs: "They won't build us levees that work? Then let them freeze in the dark."

Even the reliably conservative Times-Picayune ran a heated front-page editorial on Sunday, blasting the federal response to a disaster caused by one of its own agencies. Noting the false assurances we received that our levees would protect us in a Category 3 storm - all that was left of a weakened Hurricane Katrina by the time it sideswiped the city on Aug. 29 - the paper exhorted its readers to flood Washington with demands for protection against Category 5 storms: "Flood them with mail the way we were flooded by Katrina."

Why are we all so angry? An afternoon working beside me would make that clear....

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/23/opinion/23biguenet.html


This whole situation has gotten beyond ridiculous and Bush, the Federal government and the M$M seem to care less. This is what we have come to has a country and I am ashamed.

[central scrutinizer]

1. Marie Antoinette to the poor:

"Let them eat cake"

Bush to the poor: "Eat my shorts."

[DoYouEverWonder]

2. Now watch me make this G chord.

[pitohui]

3. i wonder how empty some of the talk is

i've heard some disturbing talk among the academic class which lost its homes in lakeview, including talk of secession and "a mouse that roared" scenario (for those who don't recall this classic story, it's abt starting a war, intending to lose, in order to get rebuilt like japan and germany after ww2)

the pipelines are quite vulnerable actually and all it takes is for some homeowner who lost everything, maybe even a parent or grandparent, to get together w. a v. few others & you have a timothy mcveigh scenario

i would hope it not come to this but if people have nothing to lose, then some of them are going to snap, and this is a well-armed community