random heartless thoughts on natural disasters ...

it didn't take long for all of the lemings to jump right off that huricane cliff. i guess it doesn't suprise me. fuck, it would shock me if people thought for themselves, and a little bit less about themselves.

i don't really know where to start. so i guess that leads to bush -- as all good things do.

i am sure that i am not the only person that could give a fuck less about how many people are floating down the mississippi river into the gulf of mexico, poluting all the water for the backwoods crackers and the like. and i am just as certain that not too many people are going to openly agree with me.

no, right now, it seems to be a little bit more like a contest to see who can pretend like they really give a fuck about homeless people. homeless people who were told to get the fuck out of the area. homeless people that instead chose to take this superdome handout and then complain that not enough was done on their behalf. forgive me if i don't feel too compasionate about it.

in fact, all i can really think of is the way that people have always said that i was stupid for my fondness of earthquakes. guess what ... shit happens. and it happens where ever you go. and in most places, it is a lot worse.

i have seen stupid fuckers on the television saying that we are seeing third-world horrors in the united states. they are wrong, very wrong. if this was the third world, we would be talking about tens of thousands of dead fuckers floating around. this isn't even close to what the rest of the world has to deal with on a regular basis.

and here's some consistency for you: just like i didn't give a fuck about the tsunami, i don't give a fuck about katrina. and if an earthquake were to come and drop this half of the state into the ocean, i wouldn't really give a fuck about that, even as my ass was drowning in the placerville bay.

this shit has been happening for a long time. people have been dying on massive scales. and that really sucks for them. i certainly have some sort of empathy for the matter. but i have the respect for the earth to know that it knows better than i about how the world should work.

what does all of this have to do with bush? nope, it's not that i am going to go on about how he doesn't really care about black people -- though i am sure that mr. west was quite correct. but i don't think that was any suprise.

but i just don't like the way that all of these other people now care. they are now concerned with poor people and how many of them wash away. the fact is that the ones that complain about the slow response to katrina are just complaining about the war -- in a very pathetic passive-aggressive manner.

if you are suprised that george bush is not a very good president, then you really need to no longer vote. and fuck, if you don't understand that ... who fucking cares. the fact is the man is doing the best that he can, if you consider what he is made of. that's right, this is all that he can do.

it's funny to me that more people seem to respond to this than to the war. i would actually be more willing to support the war effort if bush would just come out and say that we are superior to the rest of the world and that it is their for our taking. but no, he just lies and says it is about some archaic notion of democracy and allowing people to think for themselves and forge a way through the world -- as long as they don't do drugs, have pre-marital sex, cuss, fuck someone of the same gender, get an abortion, and on and on.

i guess i am saying that i just see too much hypocracy in the whole thing. and i just don't have the emotional depth to really care about it anyway.

don't get me wrong, i am very glad that the whole world seems to be thinking that the problem was mismanagement and not global warming. i mean, fuck, if we ignore global warming, more shit like this can happen, and we can all find a little bit of roman-esque entertainment, watching the corpses float on down the line.

i do know that we can't afford to pay all of this money for rebuilding. we do need to pull out of iraq right now, or some of that oil money better get filtered right into the fema budget.