It’s pretty much the same thing
Posted on August 31st, 2005 by
Things are not good in the Gulf Coast area, but:
After touring the destruction by air, Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour said it is not of case of homes being severely damaged, “they’re simply not there. … I can only imagine that this is what Hiroshima looked like 60 years ago.
Except for the number of dead bodies and stuff:
The nuclear weapon Little Boy, which killed an estimated 80,000 civilians and heavily damaged the city, was the second such device to be detonated, and the first ever used in military action.
Or:
By 1950, another 230,000 Japanese had died from injuries or radiation.
Jesus, the guy’s state has just been destroyed in the last 48 hours. Give him a break. Don’t make him accountable for some breach of historical etiquette.
Yeah, we’ll give ol’ Haley the same kind of break he gave Bill Clinton. Fuck that asshole.
I have much more sympathy for the people who are actually suffering than these vacuous spokespeople (reporters, governors) and their overblown rhetoric.
First it’s their Tsunami, then it’s their 9/11, now it’s Hiroshima. Who wants to start a pool to guess when it becomes the Chicxulub Cretatious-Tertiary Extinction Event.
er…”Cretaceous”…*sigh*
Ditto the guy who said “this is our tsunami.”
Don’t give George ideas about how to clean it up, fast. You know some of his fans are longing to see a mushroom cloud somewhere.
I’ll agree with Tom . . . pretty dickish to go after the guy because of this comment. He may rape gerbils in his basement while worshipping Hitler, whatever — if you want to go after him for that, fine. But c’mon. It’s pretty bad down there.
I think it’s pretty dickish to compare it to Hiroshima.
You know, people who hyperventilate and go all dramatic are never goood in an emergency. They’re the panicky loud-mouths the flight attendent has to slap to get them to shut up when the airplane starts going down.
I lived in the Caribbean for 5 years and had my share of hurricanes, in places with considerably poorer infrastructure than the Gulf states. People falling over each other trying to come up with the most cinematic way of describing the disaster does absolutely nothing but waste breath.
pretty dickish to go after the guy because of this commentThen I guess I’m a dick, because I’ll use any available opening to take a shot at a fascist fuckhead like Haley Barbour.If that makes me a dick, so be it. I can live with that.
You let me know if you need company being a dick.
No hyperbole here!
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050831/ap_on_re_us/katrina_new_orleans
People falling over each other trying to come up with the most cinematic way of describing the disaster does absolutely nothing but waste breath.
Well put. It’s precisely this kind of competitive histrionics that Rudy Giuliani–a total dickhead in all other respects, mind you–didn’t go in for in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, and I’ll always give him props for that.
That’s funny, the Fox NEws spin last night was that the left was all doom and gloom about KAtrina and most of the e-mailers were “keep you head up/just be glad you’re alive/the stuff you lost is just stuff/blah blah” Thanks jetBlue, fo rletting me hear that all night. Funny thing is today it’s all “this is our tsunami”- and Bush just got done saying “this is unprecedented”. This is a horrible, monstrous event, why does it have to also lack perspective. First Fox was trying to spin them as whiners, now it is Amreican Tragedy (TM). Maybe I’m just jet lagged, but I find the coverage to be ah-troshus.
And I’m tempted to tell them to eat it.
I’m glad there are tons of people helping out, these affected people need all of our help. This is a true catastrophe.
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