Well, since I have nothing interesting to say today, I thought people might enjoy this. The following is a copy of Michael Moore's letter to George W. Bush regarding the disaster in New Orleans:
Friday, September 2nd, 2005
Dear Mr. Bush:
Any idea where all our helicopters are? It's Day 5 of Hurricane Katrina and thousands remain stranded in New Orleans and need to be airlifted. Where on earth could you have misplaced all our military choppers? Do you need help finding them? I once lost my car in a Sears parking lot. Man, was that a drag.
Also, any idea where all our national guard soldiers are? We could really use them right now for the type of thing they signed up to do like helping with national disasters. How come they weren't there to begin with?
Last Thursday I was in south Florida and sat outside while the eye of Hurricane Katrina passed over my head. It was only a Category 1 then but it was pretty nasty. Eleven people died and, as of today, there were still homes without power. That night the weatherman said this storm was on its way to New Orleans. That was Thursday! Did anybody tell you? I know you didn't want to interrupt your vacation and I know how you don't like to get bad news. Plus, you had fundraisers to go to and mothers of dead soldiers to ignore and smear. You sure showed her!
I especially like how, the day after the hurricane, instead of flying to Louisiana, you flew to San Diego to party with your business peeps. Don't let people criticize you for this -- after all, the hurricane was over and what the heck could you do, put your finger in the dike?
And don't listen to those who, in the coming days, will reveal how you specifically reduced the Army Corps of Engineers' budget for New Orleans this summer for the third year in a row. You just tell them that even if you hadn't cut the money to fix those levees, there weren't going to be any Army engineers to fix them anyway because you had a much more important construction job for them -- BUILDING DEMOCRACY IN IRAQ!
On Day 3, when you finally left your vacation home, I have to say I was moved by how you had your Air Force One pilot descend from the clouds as you flew over New Orleans so you could catch a quick look of the disaster. Hey, I know you couldn't stop and grab a bullhorn and stand on some rubble and act like a commander in chief. Been there done that.
There will be those who will try to politicize this tragedy and try to use it against you. Just have your people keep pointing that out. Respond to nothing. Even those pesky scientists who predicted this would happen because the water in the Gulf of Mexico is getting hotter and hotter making a storm like this inevitable. Ignore them and all their global warming Chicken Littles. There is nothing unusual about a hurricane that was so wide it would be like having one F-4 tornado that stretched from New York to Cleveland.
No, Mr. Bush, you just stay the course. It's not your fault that 30 percent of New Orleans lives in poverty or that tens of thousands had no transportation to get out of town. C'mon, they're black! I mean, it's not like this happened to Kennebunkport. Can you imagine leaving white people on their roofs for five days? Don't make me laugh! Race has nothing -- NOTHING -- to do with this!
You hang in there, Mr. Bush. Just try to find a few of our Army helicopters and send them there. Pretend the people of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast are near Tikrit.
Yours,
Michael Moore
Our country is so fucked it's not even funny! I'm fighting back the urge to go on a political rant today, because I've had nearly a pot of coffee, I'm in a piss-poor mood today, and I just got a letter from my cousin in Iraq.
Fuck it, why fight it?!?! I'm disgusted with what's happening to my country! I'm disgusted by the fact that I've lost two family members and a good friend to this bullshit war in Iraq! That's right, I said bullshit because that's exactly what it is!! Give me one good reason we are there, just one.. I have yet to hear one!
Fuck oil and sky high gas prices!! The concept of the internal combustion engine has been obsolete for over 50 years!! Don't you think it's about fucking time that our technicaly advanced society came up with a better way and actualy put it into practice?!?!?! Oh wait... I'm sorry.. I forgot, there's nowhere near as much money in doing it another way. After all, that is what it's all about.
Fuck you GW and your whole crooked family, you've shown us where your true loyalties are, time and time again! In a just society, you would be shot on the whitehouse lawn for treason!
And fuck all you bible-thumping, right-wing, religious fanatics who support this president and his bullshit war! What pat of "Thou shalt not commit murder" do you not understand???
When are people going to wake the fuck up and see what's happening to the country they live in??? When are we going to stand up to this bullshit and say enough is enough? We don't even have democracy here in America, why are we pushing it on everyone else?? Anyone who believes that what we have here in this country is democracy needs to turn off their fucking television, take a look at what's going on around them and actually begin to question what they hear!
I believe that this country was great once, but it is far from that now. People tell me I'm not patriotic, I say FUCK YOU! You don't even know what a patriot is! I stand up for what I believe in, unlike some people who just automaticaly believe the bullshit they've been spoon fed since they were old enough to understand the language! You bet your ass I'm a patriot, and I'm fucking disgusted with what's happening to my country!!
If you want to support a worth-while cause, how about standing up for your rights as citizens of this once great nation, how about starting right here at home and making sure that our citizens do not go hungry and homeless! We have more than enough resources to feed, cloth, and shelter every man, woman, and child. Why are we not doing it?!?! How about standing up to those who have taken the concept of democracy and perverted it into what it has become?
With freedom comes great responsibility, the American people seem to have forgotten this truth..
Friday, September 2nd, 2005
Dear Mr. Bush:
Any idea where all our helicopters are? It's Day 5 of Hurricane Katrina and thousands remain stranded in New Orleans and need to be airlifted. Where on earth could you have misplaced all our military choppers? Do you need help finding them? I once lost my car in a Sears parking lot. Man, was that a drag.
Also, any idea where all our national guard soldiers are? We could really use them right now for the type of thing they signed up to do like helping with national disasters. How come they weren't there to begin with?
Last Thursday I was in south Florida and sat outside while the eye of Hurricane Katrina passed over my head. It was only a Category 1 then but it was pretty nasty. Eleven people died and, as of today, there were still homes without power. That night the weatherman said this storm was on its way to New Orleans. That was Thursday! Did anybody tell you? I know you didn't want to interrupt your vacation and I know how you don't like to get bad news. Plus, you had fundraisers to go to and mothers of dead soldiers to ignore and smear. You sure showed her!
I especially like how, the day after the hurricane, instead of flying to Louisiana, you flew to San Diego to party with your business peeps. Don't let people criticize you for this -- after all, the hurricane was over and what the heck could you do, put your finger in the dike?
And don't listen to those who, in the coming days, will reveal how you specifically reduced the Army Corps of Engineers' budget for New Orleans this summer for the third year in a row. You just tell them that even if you hadn't cut the money to fix those levees, there weren't going to be any Army engineers to fix them anyway because you had a much more important construction job for them -- BUILDING DEMOCRACY IN IRAQ!
On Day 3, when you finally left your vacation home, I have to say I was moved by how you had your Air Force One pilot descend from the clouds as you flew over New Orleans so you could catch a quick look of the disaster. Hey, I know you couldn't stop and grab a bullhorn and stand on some rubble and act like a commander in chief. Been there done that.
There will be those who will try to politicize this tragedy and try to use it against you. Just have your people keep pointing that out. Respond to nothing. Even those pesky scientists who predicted this would happen because the water in the Gulf of Mexico is getting hotter and hotter making a storm like this inevitable. Ignore them and all their global warming Chicken Littles. There is nothing unusual about a hurricane that was so wide it would be like having one F-4 tornado that stretched from New York to Cleveland.
No, Mr. Bush, you just stay the course. It's not your fault that 30 percent of New Orleans lives in poverty or that tens of thousands had no transportation to get out of town. C'mon, they're black! I mean, it's not like this happened to Kennebunkport. Can you imagine leaving white people on their roofs for five days? Don't make me laugh! Race has nothing -- NOTHING -- to do with this!
You hang in there, Mr. Bush. Just try to find a few of our Army helicopters and send them there. Pretend the people of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast are near Tikrit.
Yours,
Michael Moore
Our country is so fucked it's not even funny! I'm fighting back the urge to go on a political rant today, because I've had nearly a pot of coffee, I'm in a piss-poor mood today, and I just got a letter from my cousin in Iraq.
Fuck it, why fight it?!?! I'm disgusted with what's happening to my country! I'm disgusted by the fact that I've lost two family members and a good friend to this bullshit war in Iraq! That's right, I said bullshit because that's exactly what it is!! Give me one good reason we are there, just one.. I have yet to hear one!
Fuck oil and sky high gas prices!! The concept of the internal combustion engine has been obsolete for over 50 years!! Don't you think it's about fucking time that our technicaly advanced society came up with a better way and actualy put it into practice?!?!?! Oh wait... I'm sorry.. I forgot, there's nowhere near as much money in doing it another way. After all, that is what it's all about.
Fuck you GW and your whole crooked family, you've shown us where your true loyalties are, time and time again! In a just society, you would be shot on the whitehouse lawn for treason!
And fuck all you bible-thumping, right-wing, religious fanatics who support this president and his bullshit war! What pat of "Thou shalt not commit murder" do you not understand???
When are people going to wake the fuck up and see what's happening to the country they live in??? When are we going to stand up to this bullshit and say enough is enough? We don't even have democracy here in America, why are we pushing it on everyone else?? Anyone who believes that what we have here in this country is democracy needs to turn off their fucking television, take a look at what's going on around them and actually begin to question what they hear!
I believe that this country was great once, but it is far from that now. People tell me I'm not patriotic, I say FUCK YOU! You don't even know what a patriot is! I stand up for what I believe in, unlike some people who just automaticaly believe the bullshit they've been spoon fed since they were old enough to understand the language! You bet your ass I'm a patriot, and I'm fucking disgusted with what's happening to my country!!
If you want to support a worth-while cause, how about standing up for your rights as citizens of this once great nation, how about starting right here at home and making sure that our citizens do not go hungry and homeless! We have more than enough resources to feed, cloth, and shelter every man, woman, and child. Why are we not doing it?!?! How about standing up to those who have taken the concept of democracy and perverted it into what it has become?
With freedom comes great responsibility, the American people seem to have forgotten this truth..
rhys:
aww thank you btw 
