Is he &^%$&^% kidding us?

Sorry friends in the US of A, but as much as we have our own problems to worry about up here, we are so very glad we do not have that goofball for our leader.

Last night, pre-empting my CSI show, there was an address by the most powerful man in the world, Dubya (George W. Bush, president, to the rest of you). He was addressing the fact that they supremely dropped the ball and pooched the whole situation down in the Katrina devastated area of Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana. Uhm, we already knew this so tell us something we don't know. Well he did, and this is where I actually started to listen because he really started to piss me off.

Anyone that knows anything about New Orleans knows that it was a great party city but it was a city that was dirty and dangerous; murder and mayhem was everyday life for lots of folks there for as a water city, it had a huge drug running problem. It was one of the murder capitals and poverty capitals of the US. This was well known by everyone in the US. As long as the party kept going, no one cared for these people's plight. No programs were set up, no funds were available, no nothing was going on. Like so many places in the US where the have-nots live, no one cared and no one did anything to change the situation.

When the war on Iraq started, there were satellite images of vehicles leaving the compounds with "something" in them. There were shots of things happening that may be troops mobilizing or gardening or taking a whiz or painting, who knows what. Whatever they were doing though allowed for billions upon billions to be spent and for hundreds of thousands of personnel to be sent to a country to help the citizens there get rid of an ineffective leader that was hurting the citizens more than helping them and to help them rebuild after the devastation. Hmmmm. Why does this sound familiar?

It took the fact that Bush's approval rating dropped to the lowest level ever in order for him to get off his ass and really go see what happened to the city and its people after God tried to make another Ark float in the area. As I remember, when the snowbirds were displaced in old, white, rich areas of Florida, there was a very fast mobilizing of help and troops and disaster relief. Sure, lots of homes were destroyed and families displaced, but let's get a little perspective. Most of those families, traumatized as they were, good hit a Motel 6 and stay a few months. Or they could move. Or they could go on vacation. The fact is, besides the destruction of shittily constructed homes in a hurricane zone (what is with your building codes down there in areas that normally have natural disasters?), most of the area got a very good watering. How does this compare to a poverty filled city, a crime filled city, that is buried in f**king water that reaches most rooflines? How does it compare to an area where flooding forces people onto the highest ramp of a highway to escape the waters? How does it compare to a place where the staff of a senior's home, desperate to save their own lives, leaves all the residents to die in their beds? Yeah, that's right, it does not.

But hey, they really should think about the bright side, as Dubya's mother Barbara says, "Almost everyone IÂ’ve talked to says we're going to move to Houston. What IÂ’m hearing which is sort of scary is they all want to stay in Texas. Everyone is so overwhelmed by the hospitality. And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this--this (she chuckles slightly) is working very well for them." I see. So, getting what little you had (which was probably trash anyhow, right?) washed away by a wave of water, watching one's home flood and sink or drop (which was probably trash anyway, right?) and being displaced to a state that would normally fry you because someone thought they saw your black ass do something wrong (which is probably true, right?) or to a sports arena where others in your situation (who can tell one from the other, right?) is a step up for these folks?

And that folks, in a nutshell, is what is wrong with America today. Oil interests and diamond interests and any interests that MAKE money for America is always looked after before what the American people really want or need. Why does it take a natural disaster and so many deaths before a nation as rich as the US to step up and fork out money for programs to try to help ALL of its people get on an even keel? Where were all of these billions of dollars and manpower when the city was being riddled with bullet holes from drug lords staking out their turf? Where was the money to help the poor (mainly blacks), to help educate them so that they could be productive, have hope and be able to help themselves and grow the community?

See, if you go back to John Singleton's Boyz in the Hood, and listen to Laurence Fishburne's speech, you will understand what some areas (not all of America is racist and stupid) try to do to the unwanted. In essence, he asks why is there a liquor store and gun store on almost every corner in the black neighbourhoods, but you do not see any of that in Beverly Hills or the other predominantly rich white neighbourhoods? That's because they want them to kill themselves off. And stupidly, the blacks in America still do not get that simple truth. Barbara Bush, and that idiot that misspoke on CNN, are simply too stupid to not let out the secret; blacks are still the unwanted in the country. Nothing worse for publicity than the acknowledgement that you don't like the people you are supposed to be helping. And when I thought Dubya could not do anything more last night to piss me off further, he did it.

Bush had the audacity, the pure balls, to mention WMDs during this speech. Weapons of Mass Destruction. Really? Hmm. Well, if you could get a hurricane, a CAT5, to drop on your enemies at will, I would allow you the term. Since you have not found jack shit, I would tell your speech writers to never EVER put those three little letters into a sentence again. Seriously dude, you had to be tripping on something fantastic to think that was going to win you any points. Your only saving grace next election is that you cannot run for a third term. Your ass would so get waxed in a new election that there would be a recount again; this time to confirm how the hell you could have gotten so few votes. Hell, at this point, you behaved so badly, and so did your family and the people who work closely with you, that you may have made it possible for a black president to be elected.

Oooops, sorry, I lost my head. I forgot one important point. It is still America.

Peace.