the real issue though, of course, is rising gas prices

[i_like_dying]

so. if hurricane katrina hit the hamptons, would there still be stranded families on rooftops? would evacuees be waiting hours and days with no food or water for busses to get them out? a lot of fucking tv stations are claiming new orleans is an 'abandoned city.' yeah, in more ways than one. this disaster IN NO WAY should be turned into a

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brilliant post.. now tryout for the softball team. well you know my thoughts go deeper than playing softball.. but im too fucking like upset to even talk aboot it.

[bekus]

I totally get the same vibe. The city fell apart and everyone died or is stranded, starving and hopeless. Now they get to sit and wait at the bottom of someone's less-than-systematic to-do list as everything falls apart more. The real atrocity is turning out to be the shocking disregard for the (black?) people down there more than it is the actual hurricane.

Also, you play softball?

[terriblefish]

That's what I've been fucking saying for days now. And I would love to know how the director of FEMA went on CNN yesterday and said, "Oh, we just found out a couple of hours ago that there were any people in the convention center." How the fuck is that even possible? I knew for a couple of days. CNN knew. I knew. But FEMA didn't know. My dad is a political scientist and an asshole republican and we've been having a huge fight over this. He tells me I'm being hysterical, but I think if I'm going to be hysterical over anything, this is a good thing to be hysterical over. Anyway, well said. Let's make babies.