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Today we mourn.
(As an aside: Today we mourn Judge Rehnquist. Conservative but fairly so. He died in the judiciary. Much respect to him.)

Today we mourn the victims of government inadequacy with regard to FEMA's inability to handle a crisis situation. Wasn't this one of the 'lessons learned' after 9/11/2001? Weren't we pouring all this money into the coordination of rescue efforts? Weren't we developing evacuation plans and Guard troop movements? We pay an extra 'security tax' on our airfares, not to mention taxes on the middle class are higher than ever, because we all have to do our part when it comes to saving lives. You can't put a price on that. And no, I'm not donating to the Red Cross DRF or any fund of the sort. Mr. President: WHERE IS THE FUCKING MONEY?

Today we mourn civility and common decency. After the looting and shooting I saw live on Foxnews yesterday and today, I no longer have respect for the poor.

Today we mourn common sense. Why is Texas bring this scum into Houston? Time to start setting the burglar alarm. Think about this, I'm being completely serious. You have a neighbour. Your neighbour is a single mother of three. She keeps a clean house, her kids are well-behaved, her lawn is mowed. Life is good. Now she gets into a horrible car wreck caused by a meth-addicted drunk driver. A relative sits with the kids for a month, but she has to go back to school on Monday. The kids' mother gets out of Physical Therapy on Wednesday.

Two scenarios:

The kids were well behaved all month, called their mother every day and visited her on weekends. Do you offer to take them for three days until their mother gets out of PT?

The kids trashed the house, bitched about mom not being home, and stole everything not locked down from the old lady across the street. Now do you offer to take them?

At the risk of sounding like Airplane... I say, let em crash! This Cajun trash is worse than the average Texans I deal with every day, and they're pretty bad.

Get Geraldo off the news. Bring in the hardest of the hardcore motherfucking Marines to fire at will at any looters, suspected looters, or anything that moves after 9pm. And get Bush's monkey mug off the damn TV, he's making me sick.

Restore order, Louisiana...then I'll look after your kids.