Re: Dr. Strangelo....err...Krauthammers latest

On Fri, 09 Sep 2005 18:55:21 GMT, "Count 1" <omnipitus2002@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

>Like a minty gust of winter air, Charles arrives on the scene and reports
>from reality.
>
>http://www.townhall.com/columnists/charleskrauthammer/ck20050909.shtml
>
>WASHINGTON -- In less enlightened times, there was no catastrophe
>independent of human agency. When the plague or some other natural disaster
>struck, witches were burned, Jews were massacred and all felt better (except
>the witches and Jews).
>
> A few centuries later, our progressive thinkers have progressed not an
>inch. No fall of a sparrow on this planet is not attributed to sin and human
>perfidy. The three current favorites are: (1) global warming, (2) the war in
>Iraq and (3) tax cuts. Katrina hits and the unholy trinity is immediately
>invoked to damn sinner-in-chief George W. Bush.
>
> This kind of stupidity merits no attention whatsoever, but I'll give it
>a paragraph. There is no relationship between global warming and the
>frequency and intensity of Atlantic hurricanes. Period. The problem with the
>evacuation of New Orleans is not that National Guardsmen in Iraq could not
>get to New Orleans, but that National Guardsmen in Louisiana did not get to
>New Orleans. As for the Bush tax cuts, administration budget requests for
>New Orleans flood control during the five Bush years exceed that of the five
>preceding Clinton years. The notion that the allegedly missing revenues
>would have been spent wisely by Congress, targeted precisely to the levees
>of New Orleans, and reconstruction would have been completed in time, is a
>threefold fallacy. The argument ends when you realize that, as The
>Washington Post notes, ``the levees that failed were already completed
>projects."


Still studying his legal options as the hurricane bore down - freakin'
unbelievable. I particularly like this one:

Mayor Nagin has announced that, as bodies are still being found and as
a public health catastrophe descends upon the city, he is sending 60
percent of his cops on city funds for a little R&R, mostly to Vegas
hotels. Asked if it was appropriate to party in these circumstances,
he responded: ``New Orleans is a party town. Get over it.''


He is not only incompetent, imo, he's criminally negligent. He
deserves some jail time.



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