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Drive by blogging -
Running like hell to catch up. Yes, I AM cleaning out the refrigerator before I go to work this morning, and taking the proceeds to the trash can. Yes, I am. So help me. It's scary in there.
However.
Anyone taking bets on the outrageous claims of who to blame for Katrina - and none of them hitting the mark, anywhere near close - are getting paid. Yes, the nutjobs who wanted to blame abortionists, gays, feminazis, acid rain - they're all out in force and getting airtime.
Uh, guys? Turn the television off. Really. You can do that now.
Quit paying them. No, I mean it. This is how these guys get paid. They're entertaining enough to sell soap at the commercial break.
Does anyone believe this crap anymore? If I hear someone say something that profoundly STOOPID within earshot, you can believe I react. On the national media? Please. Someone's got an agenda, and it's getting pretty thin around the edges these days.
Not by words, by actions. That's how you judge.
And yeah, I found $10 for Katrina relief yesterday. I hope to find more in the next couple of weeks.
I blame the people whose job - whose primary, sworn function - was to operate for the public good and squandered the funding that needed to be put into the infrastructures and services overseas.
Don't tell me it's really impossible to look after this many people. Dude, that was your job and I don't want hear whining about how hard it is. Do a good job, and don't complain about how you weren't allowed to do a half-assed mess of it all and blame it on whatever. Do the job you were paid for. If it takes money, SUR-FUCKING-PRIZE. Make the case and get the funding. I don't want to hear about how hard it is. If you've got time to complain, you aren't working hard enough. Get with it.
*snarksnark*
However.
Anyone taking bets on the outrageous claims of who to blame for Katrina - and none of them hitting the mark, anywhere near close - are getting paid. Yes, the nutjobs who wanted to blame abortionists, gays, feminazis, acid rain - they're all out in force and getting airtime.
Uh, guys? Turn the television off. Really. You can do that now.
Quit paying them. No, I mean it. This is how these guys get paid. They're entertaining enough to sell soap at the commercial break.
Does anyone believe this crap anymore? If I hear someone say something that profoundly STOOPID within earshot, you can believe I react. On the national media? Please. Someone's got an agenda, and it's getting pretty thin around the edges these days.
Not by words, by actions. That's how you judge.
And yeah, I found $10 for Katrina relief yesterday. I hope to find more in the next couple of weeks.
I blame the people whose job - whose primary, sworn function - was to operate for the public good and squandered the funding that needed to be put into the infrastructures and services overseas.
Don't tell me it's really impossible to look after this many people. Dude, that was your job and I don't want hear whining about how hard it is. Do a good job, and don't complain about how you weren't allowed to do a half-assed mess of it all and blame it on whatever. Do the job you were paid for. If it takes money, SUR-FUCKING-PRIZE. Make the case and get the funding. I don't want to hear about how hard it is. If you've got time to complain, you aren't working hard enough. Get with it.
*snarksnark*