kill 'em abroad, kill 'em at home.

Is anyone else here really pissed off about the US govt's utter and complete negligence with regard to the disaster in New Orleans?! A lot of relief is being prevented by "law enforcement" -- for example, the first couple of paragraphs here.

This is besides the general apathy and blatant RACISM displayed by our elected officials. Bush was actually still on vacation as NOLA flooded! We have satellites! We knew this storm was heading for New Orleans for almost a week. Seriously. This is just horrific negligence!

There are a lot of articles about this on Crooks and Liars.

Check out all the stuff about Michael Brown (head of FEMA) being completely unqualified! No wonder things were messed up in FL after Katrina!

I've been so busy with moving in, and doing stuff for the Center, that I haven't been watching the news or anything. But now I'M FUCKING MAD and I have no one to rant to!

There's tons more out there but I'm done for the night.

Edit for one thing: AMERICAblog.com.

I had no idea John Aravosis was doing a blog. I love this man. The first entry up there at the moment is absolutely inspiring. This entire disaster makes me feel like revolution is both necessary and possible.