"I Read The News Today, Oh Boy!"

Today I learned that George Bush is a racist. That Mississippi is waiting for help to show up. That people are eating each other in New Orleans because of the lack of food. That Jerry Lewis will donate half the Labor Day Kitty [ no relation to my wife ] to the Hurricane victims and the other half to "his kids."

I learned too that 27% of the New Orleans population live below the poverty level. That the first 700 people slated to leave the Crescent City were 700 guests and employees of the Hyatt Hotel. That a well-known radio personality in Hotlanta refuted claims by Randall Robinson: "Let's talk a bit more about coming to help those in desperate straights, Mr. Robinson. Helicopters show up at New Orleans hospitals to evacuate patients, and they're fired on by black predators in the streets. People show up to help, and blacks try to murder them. They you have the outrageous audacity to claim that America is doing nothing, that nobody is coming to help."

That Governor Barbour of Miss. squashed the "Kyoto Treaty" and deserves every bad thing that has happened to his state. This courtesy of Robert Kennedy Jr. [ actually I learned this a few days ago ]

I also learned that if a hurricane ravages a white city [ ? ] the federal response would be like "white on rice." [ pun left to the intention of the reader ] Since I'm white I am relieved to know that if disaster hits the Pond, the National Guard/Red Cross/Salvation Army/ and the rest of the militia would be knocking on my door pronto.

I also learned that the head of a Louisiana ambulance service said he had been told of one home in lower St. Bernard's Parish where 80 patients had been found dead and of an apartment home for the blind where the staff had abandoned the residents. The reports could not immediately be confirmed. And how 1000 of New orleans Finest quit the force this week. Adding to the lawlessness.

I learned a good deal. I learned how many Americans are rallying to help the storm-ravaged states. By volunteering their services and by donating much-needed cash.

It seems there was more I learned, but I worked today, and me dogs want to go beddy-bye. Thus, good nite, sleep tight, eh? v.c.

P.S. And to those fukers who want to play Monday Morning Quarterback allowing them to see into the recent past via hindsight, which happens to be 20/20, do me a favor and "shut the fuck up."