••can ye pass the acid test?••

ye who enter here be afraid, but do what ye must -- to defeat your fear ye must defy it.

& defeat it ye must, for only then can we begin to realize liberty & justice for all.

time bomb tick tock? nervous tic talk? war on war?

or just a blog crying in the wilderness, trying to make sense of it all, terror-fried by hate radio and FOX, the number of whose name is 666??? (coincidence?)

Thursday, September 01, 2005

god's judgment: saddam & gomorleans

has jerry falwell chimed in on the devastation of new orleans with one of his righteous pronouncements yet?

clearly he can't "point the finger" at the aclu this time, but it won't surprise me if he tries to blame gays.

nor would i be surprised if bible thumpers find a sodom-gomorrah parallel to n'york and n'orleans, with terrorists and mother nature in place of fire and brimstone. the bible belt has long regarded both cities as large-scale dens of iniquity.

of course, they feel the same way about los angeles, san francisco, paris, amsterdam, rome, all of sweden, and i don't know how many other places, so it'll never end.

on the flip side are all those who insist on repeating the same errors ad infinitum. i've already heard the quasi-defiant promise—i think it was from ted koppel last night (tho i don't know how much his cheerleading counts for along the gulf coast)—that n'orleans "will be back!"

it's not too different from the determination of some new yorkers to thumb their noses at bin laden by erecting a new skyscraper on ground zero.

personally, i think the best tribute to the victims of 9/11 would be to keep the twin beams of light rising—thank you, boss!—into the sky every night, perhaps from a tree-lined plaza.

as for the big easy, i know a lot of folk love the place, but this disaster is far worse than 9/11. i can't see why anybody in their right mind would want to live below sea level [elevation ranges from -4 to +15 feet, but i've heard most is minus], in a place so exposed to 'canes [louisiana got hit in 1856, 1901, '06, '09, '15, '16, '18, '19, '20, '23, '26, '33, '34, '38, '40, '41, '42, '43, '47, '48, '56, '57, '60, '61, '64, '65, '69, '71, '74, '77, '79, '85, '86, '88, '92, '95, '96, '97, '98, maybe more], separated from the vast power of the ocean by what has proven to be an all too fragile embankment [tho it does appear the levee breach is at the lake, not the gulf—but that word might not be final].

1 comment:

  1. Thanks for writing into my site. This posting caught my attention. You might be interested in reading this article in Slate, which would maybe give some reasons why people would want to rebuild the city (just with better levees!). While the "site" of the city is the worst imaginable, the "situation" is extremely good...

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