Hi all,
You may have noticed I haven’t updated my moron of the day posts in a couple of weeks now. Well basically I had a lot going on and I just didn’t feel up to it, so I took a little vacation from updating the blog. Normally I’d back fill it in with previous days posts, but this time, after two years or so of doing this, I’m just going to call it a little vacation and be done with it and start it up fresh again now.
Basically, while I’ve been away, I got the new issue of Rogue Cinema up and running, and I had a nice little rest playing a lot of Dungeon Siege 2, which I’m almost tired of now. It’s a great game, but I’m almost finished playing it through for the third time and when I finish with that I’ll pretty much be done with it and just uninstall it for a while.
I’m still unemployed, so if anyone can help out an unemployed PC technician with 8 years experience, I’d be grateful. I have been doing some computer work for the business my wife works at off and on, but that’s just kind of a hit and a miss. If I can find some kind of a steady source of income, I plan on buying myself a motorcycle. This one actually… 
Oh, and I had to change my hot water heater on Monday. That basically involved a lot of dust, rust, and a couple trips to the store for my wife to get me things I needed. It actually went really smoothly and now we have a brand new functional hot water heater again. Gas ones are SO much easier to change than electric ones. It’s only when I do stuff like that I realize how really handy I am when I need to be.
Now, on to my Moron of the Day rant…
I say this is a rant rather than a post because I’m actually going to bitch about something that’s been irritating the hell out of me. Actually, rather than bitching, I think I’ll just make some points and leave it at that.
1. There was nothing really wrong on the federal side with the relief efforts in Louisiana. The delay was actually the governor’s fault, not the federal government’s fault. And whatever delay there was…well…
2. Think about it. First the needs have to be assessed, and then you have to locate all the resources and personnel you need to ship down there. Then you have to ship all those resources from wherever they’re being stored in the country all the way to Louisiana and figure out a way to distribute it properly, while at the same time trying to figure out how to get the levees sealed up and get the water pumped out all while figuring out how to deal with looting, murders and rapes as well as the huge humanitarian and health crisis that was going on. The feds were in there within a few days, and considering the massive relief effort that’s going on down there, I don’t think that’s unreasonable.
3. The state and local governments in Louisiana are almost exclusively responsible for the devastation and the level of human suffering reached thereafter due to their own inaction in making sure the levees were built up to sufficient strength to handle a storm of that magnitude and that the pumps were all up to the job of pumping out the city in the event they did get flooded. There was also a complete lack of a decent evacuation plan, which really screwed over everyone who got stuck there. I hear the mayor of New Orleans trying to blame the feds and basically anyone else he can think of for the “lack of response”. Well you moron, maybe if you and the governor had acted in the best interests of the people, none of this would have happened to anywhere near this degree.
4. The “entertainers” who are making a show of going there and helping out and using it as an opportunity to bad mouth the president and his administration should just go home and shut the hell up. When they’re in a position where they have to run an entire country, deal with a war in Iraq, deal with a wider war on terror AND deal with a massive natural disaster, then they can open their moronic mouths. Until then, shut the hell up.
5. Celine Dion was like crying about the poor people looting and saying stuff like, “These people have nothing. Let them touch these things just once.” Yeah, boo freakin’ hoo you idiot. If these poor people would have taken advantage of the education and all the other opportunities offered to them, they could raise themselves up out of poverty and they’d be able to have these things without having to resort to looting after a massive disaster. Anyone caught looting anything other than food and water and maybe clothing and other survival gear should be shot on sight. Now is not the time to be looting televisions and stereos and what not. If Celine Dion is so freakin’ sad about these poor people who’ve never had a nice television…well…she’s rich. Let her go buy them all one. Put your money where your mouth is you bleeding heart idiot.
6. If they even remotely consider spending the money to rebuild that crap hole of a crime ridden city, then they had BETTER build levees that can withstand a category 5 hurricane and come out smellin’ like a rose after. Because I don’t think the American people are going to be so understanding about re-building it a second time if they don’t take steps to insure that this never happens again.
7. All the people who are trying to turn this into a racial issue like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton and that rapper whoever the hell he is can all just shut the hell up. Anyone who uses race baiting to further their own political power or agenda should be taken out somewhere and beaten severely. Especially at a time like this. Same thing for people like Hillary Clinton and Harry Reid and other far left liberals who are trying to use this for their own political gain in attacking the Bush administration. How about we just vote out EVERYONE in washington next time around and vote in all independents and libertarians and see how they do? Because this constant fighting and grandstanding and obstructionism between the democrats and republicans is just screwing us all over big time.
Well, that’s enough bitching for now. I’ve seen so many morons throughout this whole thing that it just makes me sick as hell.
I do want to say one last thing. A buddy of mine and a fellow Rogue, Josh from Varied Celluloid, lives in Sliddell, Louisiana and is stuck in all that mess down there. I just heard from him the other day and he’s doing ok, but he said it’s like living in the 1700’s down there now. Anyway, I just want to send out my best wishes to him even though he won’t even see this. Hang in there buddy.
