Don’t make lite of something you are not seeing for yourself. Transformers are exploding, power lines are down, trees down, sirens all over town, you may think it’s a walk in the park but for those of us sitting in the middle of it it’s not a joke.
Yo, Rocky!
I do not wish to disparage the storm here. I love VA Beach and Hatteras, especially Okracoke. Baltimore’s cool. The others I don’t know well anymore, mostly because I don’t want to. Well, except for DC/Alexandria and the Beltway. I suppose that’s actually a lot of places.
What I do mind is the hysterics. Where were national networks lined up like flights coming into Reagan 1) at Minot; 2) at the levess and dams that broke/were allowed to break along the upper Missouri; 3) in LA days and days after the midwestern floods; 4) in and around the tornados from OK to TN earlier this year; 5) when the ice storm of a couple of years ago left people from WV west in the dark for weeks; 6) in the land made dry by CA regs to ‘save’ a smelt (rather than farm them), thus destroying family farms, 100-year old nut trees, and causing at least 18% unemployment; 7) after the hurricane of last year in TX/Galveston; 8) all over the AZ wildfire like white on rice; and, finally 9) in the CURRENT drought catastrophe in Texas/Oklahoma? Wait a minute. Are most of these states red states? And this means wall-to-wall coverage and heave ho ‘let’s get ‘er done’ help is not worth a dime?
I am furious about this flicking away of the rest of the country so that 0bama ‘can take control’ of Irene. To me, this demonstrates the complete selfishness of East Coast media. Meanwhile, 1) AQ in Iraq has launched scuds into Kuwait; 2) more people have been killed in Iraq (it’s safe now); 3) Egypt is hiring the bedouin to fight AQ in Egypt; 4) Black Africans are being slaughtered in Libya; 5) the #2 AQ guy in Pakistan is now dead, thanks to us; 6) Zero’s EOs give race-based hiring a thumbs up—attempting to make minorities in control of the federal gov’t; 7) The S&P head ‘has resigned’ courtesy of this fascist totalitarian sh!t Administration; 8) Zero’s buddy Mugabe may have Qaddafi; 9) Mexican military’s in the US ‘fighting the cartels;’ and 10) Zero’s approval’s tanking like the Titanic, along with our economy. But hey, Irene’s worthy of legions of newscasters standing in sewage foam and reporting on missing shingles, some flooding, and NC excepted, the worst thing to happen in decades—complete with FEMA personnel moved into local motels, playing cards while waiting to help clean things up, at our expense, of course.
All to boost 0bama’s ratings and attempt to compare a 200+ MPH cat5 hurricane under Bush, complete with DNC complicity and Blanco’s/Nagin’s dereliction of duty to their citizens, complete with ‘collateral damage deaths’ in an effort to trash Bush. Irene is no Katrina. Never was. But it’s worthy of a 3D cone of 1) complicit federally controlled media; 2) ‘assistance’ upcoming (no doubt, a ‘jobs’ effort to ‘rebuild’); and 3) maybe we’ll even see 1930s-style work camps and cook food over campfires communally, so’s the Hamptons and LI residents can recoup their former ‘lifestyle.’ (Sorry. That’s a bit over the top, classist perspective of mine on those with especially inherited wealth).
As to the other things mentioned above, let’s give that a mere mote in our East coast eye. The ‘teabaggers’ being the illiterates they are will never notice. After all, we’re hicks and all related to each other via 2nd if not 1st cousins. And we can see Russia from our houses, even if they’re in Arkansas.
Storm hyped by media; Savage only media man who predicted
(Fox News) Irene was expected to continue weakening as it passes over ..
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