September 10, 2005
And all the world is a stage
The site has been doing well putting out the conservative viewpoint, and spreading the news especially about General Honore. This is a world wide view of our last 500 visits as of 12:48 PM on September 10th, 2005. Having a world wide audience is a good thing. Thanks people, Thanks!!!!
From http://underthenews.blogspot.com ...
OK, we all agree that the federal response to Katrina was slow, inadequate and managed by a guy [Michael Brown] who probably wasn't up to the job. A few on the Left have blamed President Bush ... well, because that's what they do. If the beating of a butterfly's wings in Sumatra ultimately caused Katrina, in some Left-leaning minds, it's because Bush personally failed to back policies friendly to butterflies. The drumbeat of blame emanates from somewhere off to out Left. It's incessant, irrelevant to the facts, and all-too-predictable.
It would be refreshing for one of the Left's media-savvy spokesmen or -women to step forward and give credit to Bush for dislodging the ineffective Brown, installing kick-ass Cajun Gen. Russell Honore as the military leader in ravaged New Orleans, and generally calming the troubled waters. It's not that Bush is above criticism -- how the hell did a poseur like Brown get an enormously important job like FEMA Director less than four years after Sept. 11? Was disaster money funneled to the would-be quagmire in Iraq? How could Wal-Mart, CNN and Geico be in a better position to deal with Katrina than the Bush Administration?
Those questions -- and many more -- should be answered in the post-mortem [God, what an ugly term in this context.] But at the moment, it'd be rather comforting to see Jesse Jackson, Hillary Clinton, Als Sharpton and Gore, Kanye West, Al Franken, Charles Schumer, even Bill Maher praise the President for quickly righting a wrong and moving forward quickly to save lives and regain modest control of the situation.
They had time in the midst of the crisis to criticize the use of the word "refugees" and to contrive elaborate conspiracy theories that always ended up: Katrina was a way for Bush to help his cronies in Big Oil.
It'd be nice for the Left to admit that, sometimes, it's not about politics. It'd be nice for all ideologues to admit that they occasionally have common enemies and obstacles. They won't ... but wouldn't it be lovely?
Posted by Ron Franscell at September 10, 2005 01:14 PM
Awesome GM.
Posted by Jay at September 10, 2005 05:03 PM
I have been watching and learning from what has been going on in the Gulf and to our country since Hurricain Katrina. While I have been truley inspired by the unfailed generosity and philanthropy of the American people..generoisty that is witnessed daily.... watching the news and reading the political rhetoric has left me with a saddened heart. While the senseless blaming and fingerpointing has elevated my own anger at times I must revert back to my training and education as a clinical social worker. I must remember that blaming and anger are a natural part of the human grief experience. And as all the beareaucrats, political talking heads, and media members are human too, ( at least most media members anyway ) I remind myself that I must be patient with my fellow countrymen and with myself as we as our country moves thru the shock and grief to find necessary resolution around this great tragedy.
But why is it that we did not see such senseless blame in the days shortly after 9/11.. (yes, it came eventually..but not days after when bodies were still being recovered). So why now? Why not after the great Tsunami in Thailand...Why now? Granted, we had a common target for blame after 9/11 so we needed not to blame each other... Granted the Tsunami was thousands of miles a way and as the majority of deaths were not Americans we accepted that such a tragedy was an act of nature ... an act of God that we will never fully understand... Well I hate to break it to Washington, but this was OUR Tsunami..this was an act of God that we will never fully understand either... The winds and the floods did not discriminate between Democrat or Republican (ask Trent Lott) ..it did not discriminate between young and old... it did not discriminate between white or black.... ( I do hate to break that to you, Kanye West)
This great tragedy should not be a Divider but a Uniter...This is a time for healing... This is a time to help each other and lift up one another...So when Capitol Hill conducts all their hearings and commisions to figure out what went wrong...(and like in most weddings and natural disasters, something always does), maybe they will focus on the future...and remember that the world is watching
Posted by Carla at September 10, 2005 06:50 PM
How the heck did you get that map? Great coverage.
Posted by The MaryHunter at September 11, 2005 12:59 PM
Congrats bro.
It is always cool to look at those things. I am amazed at the places where my blog is read. I wonder just how many extreme anti-Americans we PO in some of those places. Tee hee hee
Posted by Squamata at September 11, 2005 11:03 PM
That map is pretty neat George... Is that part of a site tracker?
Posted by Mike's America at September 12, 2005 03:08 AM
