I went to the gas station near my house a little while ago to get some ice..(my icemaker on the blink)...
and the guy that runs the gas station is Vietnamese...and when I drove up, I noticed that all of the gas pumps had sold out signs on them..
When I went in, I asked how he was doing...he said he wanted to go home..and I said, "Sure, since you have no gas"..and he laughed and said it was "on a slow boat to China".
But, then he said that some customers were really getting mad at HIM for no gas...he has been out for 2 days, won't get any until Monday or Tuesday...
I said---well, just tell them it isn't your fault, it is Katrina and Rita's fault.
He got really SERIOUS, and shook his head and said, "oh, no, don't say such thing..that is Mother Nature..we must respect her"...and he was not joking at all.
I read somewhere that our defense budget exceeds the next ten biggest countries on earth, all put together.
That's probably true, but the powers that turn the planet still laugh at us.
For now.