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Sep. 2nd, 2005
New Orleans is sinking
Sep. 2nd, 2005 04:13 pmI've been slowly easing into reading about New Orleans, because... well, ouch. It's quite horrifying. We watched a bit of CNN at the cottage yesterday, but delayed really immersing ourselves in the news until we were back home. And now that we're unpacked and settling, I find that once again D.C. Simpson has stated my own feelings on the subject matter, over at
http://www.idrewthis.org/index.html
Most apt words I've read so far:
What we keep hearing, from the administration but also from people who should know better, is that this is not the time to "play politics" with the disaster.
Well, first of all, who's playing? I could not possibly be more serious.
And second, why do so many people have this idea that politics are a game? Some sort of popularity contest, unrelated to people's actual lives? I have news for you. Politics are the means by which we select the leaders who will, in turn, make policy. Policy affects your life. At times like these, policy can be the difference between life and death.
( The incompetence of King George, September 1, 2005 )
In Simpson's rant, he links to the following, which kinda chilled me to the bone: ( KEEPING ITS HEAD ABOVE WATER: New Orleans faces doomsday scenario, written in 2001 )
http://www.idrewthis.org/index.html
Most apt words I've read so far:
What we keep hearing, from the administration but also from people who should know better, is that this is not the time to "play politics" with the disaster.
Well, first of all, who's playing? I could not possibly be more serious.
And second, why do so many people have this idea that politics are a game? Some sort of popularity contest, unrelated to people's actual lives? I have news for you. Politics are the means by which we select the leaders who will, in turn, make policy. Policy affects your life. At times like these, policy can be the difference between life and death.
( The incompetence of King George, September 1, 2005 )
In Simpson's rant, he links to the following, which kinda chilled me to the bone: ( KEEPING ITS HEAD ABOVE WATER: New Orleans faces doomsday scenario, written in 2001 )
