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Wednesday, September 07, 2005
Katrina Miscellany
That Hastert guy sure has vision.
THE LIBERAL FAITH.
We'd love to play the blame game like everyone else, but we put in our two
cents about it while everyone else was still setting up the
gameboard and laying out the pieces. So we'll stand on what we think is
still a winner of a preemptive strike.
Besides, so much is happening, and everyone else is so determined to be dour and depressed that we thought we'd try to concentrate on more positive stories. For example, the U.S. House of Representatives' Video Services Department -- unlike other parts of the federal government -- has moved at lightning speed to produce this dramatization of Dennis Hastert's much ballyhooed redevelopment plan for New Orleans. The Speaker has proposed that while flood waters are still high, U.S. Air Force bombers should release millions of tons of powdered cement over the city. When it joins with the water and hardens, Presto! New Orleans will have brand new streets and plenty of seating space.
Besides, so much is happening, and everyone else is so determined to be dour and depressed that we thought we'd try to concentrate on more positive stories. For example, the U.S. House of Representatives' Video Services Department -- unlike other parts of the federal government -- has moved at lightning speed to produce this dramatization of Dennis Hastert's much ballyhooed redevelopment plan for New Orleans. The Speaker has proposed that while flood waters are still high, U.S. Air Force bombers should release millions of tons of powdered cement over the city. When it joins with the water and hardens, Presto! New Orleans will have brand new streets and plenty of seating space.
That Hastert guy sure has vision.
There's especially good news from the
American Red Cross, which has already taken in more than $200 million
in donations since Katrina struck. Provided giving continues at the
current pace for a few more weeks, the organization is confident it
will be able to fund a six-month cruise around the world for all its
managing directors -- on the glorious new Queen Mary 2.
I'm sure we're
all pulling for them to make their goal.
ALL ABOARD!!! The Red Cross has struck it rich this time!
ALL ABOARD!!! The Red Cross has struck it rich this time!
We're also pleased to report that our
spate of worry about Greta van Susteren is at an end. When the
hurricane pushed every other news story out of the headlines, we feared
that Greta would become as invisible as, say, Chris Matthews at MSNBC.
A sorry fate for such a plucky
wench. We should have had more faith.
Greta has already made the big expedition to Louisiana, where she is
covering an angle no one else seems to have thought of -- the missing white women of New Orleans. There
must be some of those anyway, and if there are, we're certain Greta
will not find hem as surely as she has not found Natalie Holloway.
Look behind you, Greta! Someone's taking a white woman away!
Look behind you, Greta! Someone's taking a white woman away!
And finally, we must admit that apart
from his doomed attempt to make blogs useful
to someone other than charity executives, InstaPunk is still
incommunicado. We did receive this photo via email yesterday, but it
might as easily be one of the Bush
twins touring the scene as InstaPunk.
It COULD be InstaPunk, we suppose.
Until he returns, we will keep on being our callow, unhelpful selves.
UPDATE. Gosh, Michelle Malkin was up early. The blame game has a way of causing insomnia for the guilty and the innocent. Something about that bad taste in the mouth.
It COULD be InstaPunk, we suppose.
Until he returns, we will keep on being our callow, unhelpful selves.
UPDATE. Gosh, Michelle Malkin was up early. The blame game has a way of causing insomnia for the guilty and the innocent. Something about that bad taste in the mouth.
