Travis, this is probably going to be the first serious post i've had in your live journal. Now let me start by saying that i am in agreement with your insinuations about our nation as a whole. This is, by far, one of the greediest nations in the world. That being said, you know that. Were you honestly expecting any differently in the situations you've laid out? An attack on our nation is viewed as just that. A natural disaster is viewed as a tragedy, but nothing more. There are no feelings of anger that flare up against nature after a hurricane comes through. Weather is an everyday occurrence. Granted, storms of that measure are not, but they are viewed as inevitabilities. Terrorist attacks, although they are realistically just as inevitable, are viewed as something that can be stopped. Something that we can fight. Hence the "war on terror" that our nation has been "heroically" involved in for years now. I put the word heroically in quotes not because i don't think our troops are heroes (and heroines), i feel exactly the
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i don't know you-- but do you honestly believe that what happens in our country doesn't happen in others? if so, you're quite naiive. we're no better than anyone else, as no one is any better than us. all of suck in our own ways-perhaps some to more extremes, but none of us are perfect in any sense. is our country horribly flawed? hell yes! is every other country? of course! i'm mad as hell as to where our country is going, but, honestly, we're quite lucky, despite being the laughing stock of the world. europe sure looks tempting, what with free health care and cheap college... yeah, with the taxes they pay out the ass for. there are flaws and terrible people everywhere
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i just want to know...thekrillstaSeptember 4 2005, 05:06:20 UTC
i'd just like to ask mr. bush where he was and what he was doing when this man died hours after the huricane passed and "relief" was right at hand. but i'm sure you dont care mr. president, after all you diddent know him and neather did i... at least someone cared enough to cover him up shortly after the picture was taken...
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Herbert J. Freeman arrived in a neighbor's boat with his mother, Ethel M. Freeman, 91, frail and sick, but with an active mind. She kept asking him for a doctor, for a nurse, for anyone who could help her. Police told Freeman there was nothing they could do. She died in her wheelchair, next to her son, on Thursday morning
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I think a more than a few people should be fired, including our president. you know he had the power to call up any airforce base he wanted and tell them to start making food and supply drops all over the effected area any time he wanted. He dident even start sending in more things until 24 hours later, and that reaction time makes me sick. at least "daddy" told him to wipe that godamn smirk of his face when he appeared on television.
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