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Man, all this talk about Katrina and now Rita, the Bush Administration's failure to respond to the disaster, and ignorance of race... is starting to take it's toll on me. Thank God for Bill O'Reilly. The man actually brought Phil Donahue (spelling?) out onto his show and spoke to him about something other than natural disasters. Now granted it was about the war in Iraq and "supporters of the war want to kill babies and send children to their deaths" as Donahue said. I'm just glad I caught that part of the show. O'Reilly's a great man.
Anyways... I guess I'm going to start using this thing a bit more often. School's back in session on Sept. 26th. Next freakin Monday... ugh... I'm frustrated and thoroughly excited at the same time... so... I must be... frustrited... excustritrated?
o_o;
I might as well join the blog though... everyone I see is talking about it in some aspect.
Justin's opinion of Katrina:
Yeah, a level 5 hurricane hit New Orleans and buried it under several feet of water. People died, people lived, people suffered. The administration is not to blame for the hurricane's arrival. Some aid had arrived less than 24 hours after Katrina struck and died along the gulf coast. Helicopters were air-lifting civilians from hospitals. The administration got no credit for that. Aid came to the victims in the Superdome somewhere between 48-96 hours later. Food, water, and other such necessities arrived and were distributed. To my knowledge, no one died in the Superdome. Sure people were sick and crowded and uncomfortable... but I don't THINK anyone died there. If I can be proved wrong, then do so... but for the love of GOD... show me proof. Yes, I believe aid could've gotten there sooner, then again... it could've gotten there much later. A little discomfort is nothing compared to losing your life by drowning.
Families were split apart in New Orleans as the body count rose. Children were without parents once again, just like in 9-11. The adults will live on, but my heart aches for the children. Black, white, asian, hispanic... no child regardless of color should ever lose their parents. ((UNLESS of course the parents are abusive... then kill 'em and take the child to a family who'll love them.))
I pity the innocent that must suffer, but the guilty... if they still live... I pity more. Now they are capable of doing even more damage to the states and our morality before God sends them to Hell. What we witnessed with Katrina and Rita, was... without a shadow of a doubt... an act of God. He moves in mysterious ways, so I won't say it was to purge New Orleans or Mississippi or Florida of the evils there, nor will I say it was a way to force people to take a good long look at their lives. What I will say... was that it WAS God folks.
End of Justin's Katrina Opinion
September 25 2005, 07:37:57 UTC 6 years ago
my bigoted view on the matter
I think you are right, and I don't think anyone is too blame. The storm was worse than we expected and it kicked us a notch by making roads to the cities affected impassable and sometimes washing away...the road. There was a major interstate bridge in Alabama that was closed because an oil platform slammed into it. This road led to New Orleans and they had to find detour routes around the affected areas. It was a strong storm. We were more prepared for Rita in light Katrina.I also think this issue goes deeper to the local politics in new orleans. In order to preserve the budget, city leaders cut $20B from the levee restoration\expansion and flood control project that was started around 10 years ago.
And as far as President Bush's grasp on the situation. I had doubts at first but when he addressed the nation and claimed responsibility of the federal government's failure (as any leader should) to handle the disaster. He laid out a set of problems, and how we are going to fix them.
I don't even feel sorry for a great deal of New Orleans. There were gun battles, and terrified civilians involved in gang turf wars after the hurricane in the SUPERDOME. People were killed, not to mention they trashed the place. And people are stealing money from that fund, lots of people. Anyone who has a Louisiana drivers license is in line for that fund even if they weren't affected.
By the way: Hurricane Katrina was a category 3 storm when it reached New Orleans. It stayed at a level 5 until the last 24 hours when it was downgraded to a 4.
Anyways, I'm done. I hope you read this far. Peace.
September 26 2005, 04:35:58 UTC 6 years ago
Re: my bigoted view on the matter
Well I DO feel sorry for New Orleans... there were, as you said, innocent people there. The gangs, yeah... wash 'em away... but the innocent people didn't deserve to lose everything.But I suppose, as horrible an event as Katrina was... perhaps this gives people a chance to start over and build a new life. No matter what you lose, never give up hope right?
October 6 2005, 15:11:56 UTC 6 years ago
And, I'll make some probably failed attempt to connect this to the tsunami. These people, of course, really have zero warning about this disaster so I do feel sympathetic. But, think of it this way... a few hours before the tsunami hit, what happened? The tide retracted HUNDREDS of feet further back then usual... and what did these people do? They went and played on their new beach...
Oh and since we all know Justin loves a debate... haha. I don't believe that the hurricane was on act of God, I just believe it was simply an act of nature. In respect to the whole situation it's really not that much of a difference. If you believe God did it then you believe (most likely) that he did it to eliminate some sort of evil, weakness, or corruption from the world. Yet, if you believe it was on act of nature, such like just a natural disaster, then one might possibly believe that it was some sort of form of natural selection. In regards to natural selection everyone cannot live and some people (ie weak) most be weeded out as to not pollute the gene pool further. So even though obviously all the people who died were not weak or corrupt or whatnot in either situation.. it still ends up in the same results... just a different means of getting there.
Oh, and I have a question for you and I am interested in what you will say: Do you believe in genetic altering in order to eliminate diseases, birth defects, etc in the child before it is born?
Hope you have an awesome day! :-P
October 13 2005, 16:02:48 UTC 6 years ago