You mean like the govenment? No doubt they will be buying up more small towns that sit in the flood plain so that people don’t rebuild there anymore.

Bring it if you’re hard enough, wee lad!

I’d like to smash you in the face with my shillelagh for saying that.

*Iowa versus N.O. – different geography, different disaster, different level of response at different times, so yeah, there’s an awesome analogy for ya.

*Blacks more violent – fuck no … it’s an ugly cliche but it still holds: the most violent are those with CELTIC blood. If you’re going to do something as stoopid as tying violence to race, whitey wins, hands down. Just include wars in that statistic. DUH.

*Big Easy is still a disaster, but Iowa will be just peachy soon – just peachy my ass: a lot of those family farms are now swamps & their owners will be utterly bankrupt with nobody to even sell the land to, unless they can find some swamplovers with money to throw away. Those rural communities weren’t doing so hot even before the flood – ghost towns, dead ahead.
*Looting is Teh Apocalypse – jeez Louise, the crap’s going to waste if it doesn’t get boosted, & we’re talking starving desperate people here. I say we put Adams in the aftermath of a monster storm like Katrina, & see if he’s enough of an asshat to watch perfectly good food rot while he listens to his stomach rumble. My money says it takes all of 6-8 hours before he develops a chronic case of Sticky Fingers.
I won’t say I’m down with the baseball-bat-therapy idea — but I might volunteer to hold the filthy vermin down while someone ELSE puts it into practice. Afraid I’d be too tempted to “miss” & hit a homer off his nuts instead.

“But [sociologists] are silent regarding the thousands of minorities killed at the hands of other minorities annually.”

OneMan, that’s the one that made me scratch my head the most. I mean, if thirty seconds with Google can make you look like this much of a tool, how do you stay employed? How?

sagra: Bodies aren’t property anymore, so they don’t count.

Couldn’t have said it better myself.

But to wingnuts, a black man carrying something that he didn’t pay for is much more horrible sight than dead bodies floating in the streets. Bodies aren’t property anymore, so they don’t count.

How fortunate for Mr. Adams that he is the blissful exception to his own rule.

Some examples:

“I am referring, of course, to the fact that black females are more likely than black males to take advantage of affirmative action”

“In fact, overall differences between blacks and whites…are largely due to the failures of black males relative to everyone else in society”

“Sociologists have, at least to date, failed to grasp what lies behind this problem.”

“They continue to believe, or pretend to believe, that gender differences are merely “socially constructed.””

“A man has as an inherent component of his being a need to be useful in some form of occupation.”

“The violence against another man’s place of work is born of his own sense of worthlessness”

“But [sociologists] are silent regarding the thousands of minorities killed at the hands of other minorities annually.”

And on and on. That’s a whole lotta bullcrap piled onto a foundation of playing cards and every card is the Ace of Spades.

I believe you, grendelkhan, I saw billboards for the same guy west of Columbus, Ohio on I-70 towards Indiana.

My favorite, I think, was one advertising the size of the selection to be had at the dealership, which had the same “Tom Raper” legend at the top of the billboard, and below that, in great big excited letters, “HUGE!”.

I swear, I am not making this up.

Point of information:
- feet have 40+ bones each – small, delicate, hard-to-fix bones that hurt for years
- medical science has gotten pretty good at fixing knees
- it’s not possible to stand or walk without putting lots of weight on feet

Naw, that’s just PR.

A place where Blackwater contractors get to do what they please, of course.

http://www.wcfcourier.com/articles/2008/06/01/news/regional/10378178.txt
http://www.wcfcourier.com/articles/2008/06/17/news/top_story/doc4856bbfea4c5d118219350.txt

Mikey, it’s amazing the difference about 30 seconds and Google News can make. Idiot. At this point I am only dreading the inevitable e-mail forward that pops up comparing every big weather event out here (I’m in Minnesota) to Katrina with all the expected factless racist overtones. I just may bust a cap in several asses today if I do.

I believe that’s called “looting”.

I recall watching a Fox News reporter standing on a bridge in a flooded area of New Orleans just after Katrina. When the first black individual came wading out of the projects the reporter was simply astounded. Like me, the reporter had no idea that folks had been sitting in the projects waiting for someone to come and escort them out of harm’s way.

Mike Adams get his news from Fox? Quelle surprise!

I wonder when this report he was watching aired? Wednesday? Thursday? It is indeed shocking that people expected that the government would help them. I mean, just because the country was in a state of national emergency, just because there were several days warning that this type of storm was coming in, just because it’s basic human decency that makes us try to help those in their thirty, forty, fifty hours of deepest need. Just because things had cleared enough that cable news reporters could broadcast live from inside the flooded city doesn’t mean that there were resources available to help people still stranded on their roofs. The Red Cross made another request to enter the city on Friday. They were told no.

Mike Adams is surprised that people caught by a horrific disaster expected help from their government, probably days after landfall. That he would use this to go on a diatribe about race is deeply offensive, but not surprising. That he believes the ugliest scenes were those of looting despite the fact that over 700 bodies were recovered in New Orleans by October 23, 2005. That he somehow managed to work Jeremiah White into this ridiculous diatribe, well by the halfway point of the article, I was expecting it.

He speaks with the certainty of the righteous and espouses the hateful views he needs to maintain his sense of superiority. He’s better because he’s white, because he’s male. And because he’s better his theory that white males are superior must be correct. But his entire world view is based on these tenets, that the one supports the other supprorts the other. And although his powers of denial and willful obliviousness to anything that might challenge these assumptions are strong, it is my fervent wish that something, anything pierces that recusive fallacious logic armor and forces him to actually look at how he sees the world again. Because if he did, he would probably kill himself.

But then again, I’m probably giving him too much credit, so the baseball bat to the knees is probably a better approach.