A Dispatch From New Orleans
by xinit • 12/18/2005 • life • 1 Comment
Nicely put, Candice; she also has some pictures of coming back to her computer at the office, and some shots of home and the city.
Dear Congress…
You know, I would love to get all pissed off about this whole idiotic “War on Christmas” crap right now. Being mad about something so benign would be wonderful. But I can’t, because I keep driving through a city that has been left to die. A man-made disaster created by the incompetency of the federal government, and they can’t even have the fucking decency to rebuild enough levees and decide on flood zone maps to allow people the stability to rebuild.
Distracting citizens with trivia, and redirect anger that should be more appropriately directed at your government and authorities. It’s something that dictators have long known in socialist countries; control the media and you control public opinion.
Think of Soviet-era Pravda; ??????, or “The Truth”.
From the White House’s official news outlet, Fox News, Bill O’Reilly’s TOP STORY on November 29, 2005; when nothing else more interesting presented itself…
BILL O’REILLY, HOST: Now for the top story tonight, are we overdoing this Christmas deal? With us now, FOX News analyst Ellis “Satan” Henican.
Thanks. I burned out on pictures after that first trip where I talked my way into the city, really – it’s too hard to try to capture the scope of things.