How wonderful the federal government. You can shit on them even while they're helping you, and really their only recourse is to STFU and take it.
| excerpt from New Orleans in chaos, rescue plan under fire, emphasis mine |
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| Also, the U.S. House of Representatives gave final passage to a $10.5 billion emergency-aid bill that Bush was expected to sign later in the day. But thousands of people are feared dead and New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin said he was furious at the lack of help his historic city had received. "I need reinforcements. I need troops, man. I need 500 buses, man," he said in a radio interview. "Now get off your asses and fix this. Let's do something and let's fix the biggest goddamn crisis in the history of this country." |
Up yours, Mayor Ray. WTF, did you think President Bush was just goofing off in Crawford playing Madden 2006 with his daughters? Here are a couple of sayings I picked up in high school from Mr. Benson's sophomore english class...
Proper Prior Planning Prevents Piss-Poor Performance.
Really, you all fucking knew about it. You all fucking knew a big damn hurricane was coming. In California, we all talk about The Big One. And for the first time today, I saw those three words used in reference to the hypothetical scenario in which a big damn hurricane would come and breach your levees. At least you have the luxury of radar and an entire season named after the natural disaster.
you see where this one is going, Mayor Ray? here's another for you to chew on...
A lack of planning on your part does not necessarily constitute an emergency on my part.
Except if you refer back to what i initially said about shitting on the federal government, this does constitute an emergency. And they're supplementing your weak-assed response capabilities-- no, with $10.6 billion, they're replacing your weak-assed response capabilities-- as best as the hulking behemoth that is federal government can.
And "the biggest goddamn crisis in the history of this country" is it now? Now calm down, don't fucking go into conniptions or anything. We know you're mad, but please, STFU already. You're just pissed that this whole situation took a shit on what could've been your shining moment.
Please don't misunderstand, Compassionate SHoPper. We don't hate New Orleaners. We don't have hard-ons for death and destruction. I just have a problem with a lowly civil servant-- whose life doubtless has been devoted to extending the all-pervasive arm of lovely, inefficient government-- inaccurately griping about how we don't give enough of a fuck. Sure I give a fuck. A flying one, at that. I'm not even complaining that my share of the $10.6 billion aid is going towards ingrateful cheesedicks.
I pray for all the dead and missing and blah blah blah. All that good stuff. I don't want to oversaturate the blogosphere with sympathy from California of all places. We all think it, and it's all been blogged within the past few days. Let me do what I do best-- snipe one or two quotes I read in yahoo! news and have brain-diarrhea here on the SHoP. Hopefully to your amusement and enjoyment.
Jihad Jimmy, Minister of War Crimes and Chief Defender of the Faith
ps- When a 8+ hits the bay area on the Hayward Fault and I'm trapped in lovely Oakland with nothing to arm myself w/except for my golf clubs, by all means withhold sympathy if that's what you genuinely interpret me as doing in this current situation
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Found another ornery cuss. See if you can predict the typical Tio Jaime reaction...
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| "Why don't they take care of us?" she said, sitting with two grandchildren and a grandniece in front of the convention center. "They just got out to us yesterday. They dropped things to us out of a helicopter like we were animals" |
Oh, I dunno. Maybe because you're shooting at them?
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