Posted on 09/06/2005 4:26:06 PM PDT by dukeman
Der Blaue Engel (1000+ posts) Tue Jul-05-05 09:10 PM
Original message
Does this place depress the hell out of anybody else? I mean DU.
I feel like I have an addiction to an abusive spouse or something sometimes. I can't stop coming here, but something, every day, makes me feel like ****, whether it's an individual person's nasty post, or an administrative decision that doesn't make sense, or just the general state of the world that I'm confronted with by staying informed.
Is it just me having a downward spiral? Is DU particularly dysfunctional or is it just the way of all things?
I hate it when my safe haven makes me cry.
I can understand this feeling, for the mentally ill and one with no moral rudder.
Rant on/
The MSM has done more to depress and demoralize America and smear our image at home and abroad than Katrina ever could. Nothing from the MSM 24 and 7 but negativity, ineptness and a uncaring federal government for the victims has been forthcoming from them. The MSM & left wing kooks could only not wait until the dead were buried before their sky is falling scream. They could not even wait for living to be rescued and helped or the dead to be found and counted.
The MSM has lost all sense of reality and rational thought. Either they have not grasped, or worse yet, are ignoring, the sheer scope and enormity of this disaster. They would pick out whatever was within their limited camera range and that became "their" world as they saw it. Then inserting their slanted, uinformed, all is bad verbalization, to then be transmitted for viewing around the real world.
It is impossible to seek out each victim, give them individual care, comfort and make their lives right again, within a matter of hours. In a disaster of this magnitude, it takes time, not in hours, but in days, to mobilize and move massive human assets and material resources forward, and then to put those entities into effective action where required.
Governor Blanco of Louisiana, under the constitution, is responsible for recognizing the problems and implementing their in place plans of action. If Bush had told her, go to hell, he was federalizing the operation. The same ones yelling the loudest about inaction, would now be screaming that by taking such action, he had usurped the powers from duly elected LA and NO state & local authorities. Bush was in a MSM catch 22 from the get go, damned if he did, and damned if he didn't.
The chattering class is in a wet cat tither about FEMA for not doing anything soon enough. FEMA does not have armed troops or security forces (those are for the governor to call up) nor helicopters, nor do they have a rescue mission. FEMA exists for arriving on scene after the shti has hit the fan, they can be awaiting in the wings, but they are not first responders. That is the role of the state and local officials to assess and identify problems, then to direct FEMA (national guard and other federal assets) to those most urgent areas where required.
This entire New Orleans nightmare could have been prevented with a firm, no nonsense order, do it now, preventive action evacuation of New Orleans by the state and local authorities, whom did absolutely nothing to take and implement any such action in that regard.
Rant off\
This can't be real...if it is...HAHAHAHAHAHA...
The moonbats are back and they're sick!
"Where's my emotional disaster aid"?
LOL
They LOVE their aches and pains and meds over there.
What a bunch of daisies!
Yeah, we ALL feel bad about this...I'm having bad dreams...
But that's life.
Suck it up or just exit...cuz it only gets worse as you get older.
"I'm 32 and I got shingles
I'm 40 and I lost some off my roof in a bad wind storm once."
LMAO.
But I have some good news... I saved a lot of money on my car insurance...
Yep, it's absolutely real. Nobody could make up stuff so consistently funny as exists on DU! Kinda makes you wonder whether they ever go back and re-read their ravings and try to do better next time.
"Yep, it's absolutely real."
Well, I hate to repeat myself, but, HAHAHAHAHA...
Thanks Dukeman, I was in a bad mood before. Not any longer. :-)
LOL! The DUers' endless symptoms also reminded me of TV drug commercials which tell you how great the product is, but then list side-effects like blurred vision, blood from the ears, dizziness, insomnia, itching, 4-hour erections, B.O., weakness in the arms and legs, loss of hair, etc.....
The problem is, they can vote. On the bright side, they abhor firearms.
If they were dogs someone would have put them down a long time ago.
Hmmm...
They are definitely nuts.
DUmmy Funnies bump
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