FEMA DECLINES HELP FROM:

CHIGACO
SWEDEN
RUSSIA
CUBA
VENEZUELA
A WATER CARAVAN SPONSORED BY WALMART TURNED AWAY
AND IT GOES ON AND ON AND ON....
For more of this bullshit, check this LINK for more insanity than I can begin to relate.
But the biggest spin of all is the racist spin...the growing accusations that this administration (in the words of Kayne West ) doesn't like black people. And it's being spun by the liberal media and most especially air america radio, and this is what I heard on Randi Rhodes show today:
" The moronic apple doesn't fall far from the lynching tree" - a reference to Babara Bush and her son the pResident.
"Bush gave his black butler a half day off on labor day so he could donate blood, because his (Bushes) didn't match, because it was white"
And finally..."I bet Barb would've felt right at home down on the plantation 400 years ago"
Interestingly enough, our local air america affiliate went dead air after these comments. Signal drop? Cloud cover? Or the sense of reason? You decide.
That this administration has failed the gulf states miserably is a painful obvious reality is simply fact. But to throw the race card...fuck that...the race deck, is insanely dangerous, even if it's true.
And there are many salient points that, if taken in the right context to make them true.
Bush has executed 100's of minorities while gub'ner of Texas with what you could describe as cavalier disregard for the judiciary in Texas, who curiously rolled right over for him.
He openly mocked Karla Faye Tucker prior to her execution, and while she was white and female, lends creedence to that lennon song "woman is the nigger of the world" and underlines his backassward ways and narrow mindedness. Now, I'm cool with her execution...she was a sick fuck who brutally murdered some folks that no dosage of jesus could wash away,but he didn't have to mock her. But he did, and that says something less than favorable about his character.
Lott is a racist bastard, I have no proof, but look at this dude...he's got hoods somewhere, in a variety of colors.
For the opposition to raise the race card, and start throwing around words like murder is, in my opinion, irresponsible. Sure, the majority of victims are black, and poor, and couldn't leave even if they wanted to. But the focus needs to stay on mark...not fly off on this racist thing. There are lots of impoverished blacks along the gulf coast that couldn't get away, and the question is where was the relief and rescue?
If we keep asking that question and stay on the mark, the racial thing will answer itself. And while I'm sure the soft bigotry of the republican party will play a part, it still doesn't answer the bigger question...where were they ( FEMA and homeland security) and why were they so invested in declining help from the aforementioned countries and companies ( WALMART???) insisting on doing it themselves in such a pathetic fucking way?
If you want to know my opinion, it's about the rich powerbase intent on culling the herd, regardless of color. It's about greed and pride and control.
Racism may play a role in there somewhere, but for the liberal media to be screaming so loud about it so soon is dangerous and irresponsible.
Let's stay on the mark.
And that mark is incompetence.
And this administration is near hemmoraging on it.