George Bush Kills People in Kansas…But is he Here or There?
“I can ride my bike. All by myself. If I don’t fall off Cheney said I could have a fudgicle.”
“Uhm hi I’m a dead person buried in tornado wreckage in Kansas. Someone wanna lift this stuff off of me. Dude can I borrow your truck?”
- HERE OR THERE
What? Did he say…Bush Kills people..?
Oh thats too far.
Thats just over the line.
Thats just partisan complaining!
Thats just left wing rhetoric.
Oh right! First he had a hurricane machine now he has a tornado machine?!
Why don’t you keep politics out of your life!
Why don’t you mind your own business?
Don’t discuss politics.
Tough! I was just in Kansas last year and it was awesome. The people were great and YES it affects me and you. They lost 95 % of the town. Those people will be poor and bummed out for a while. School will be canceled. Young people will feel more disenfranchised. There will be depression. This will trickle down for months and years. And so I was concerned about the response and rebuilding effort that my government was doing with the taxes I just paid them on April 15th.
So I was checking up on them in the morning news.
This is a quote from the AP and The Governor Of Kansas:
The National Weather Service classified it an F-5, the highest category and the first since the weather service revised its scale this year in an effort to more comprehensively gauge tornadoes’ damage potential, with less emphasis on wind speed. The last tornado classified as an F-5 hit the Oklahoma City area on May 3, 1999, killing 36 people.
The governor said the state’s response was limited by the shifting of emergency equipment, such as tents, trucks and semitrailers, to the war in Iraq.
“Not having the National Guard equipment, which used to be positioned in various parts of the state, to bring in immediately is really going to handicap this effort to rebuild,” Sebelius said.
So what else am I supposed to think after reading that?
If people HERE were not helped because of what we are doing over THERE then …what?
It means a decision was made. Things were examined and someone said there are priorities.
And the money and equipment went THERE…and not HERE because of priorities.
Some would say we have not been attacked by terrorists since we made it a PRIORITY to fight them there.
Which is consistent with the mantra of the US War Machine.
Better to fight them there than over here.
But did these things have to be mutually exclusive?
Most people can do two things at once.
Right now I’m listening to the radio and typing and watching my dogs and listening to a baby monitor.
And now I have an itch…..There…Better. See! I’m a genius!
You are at work multitasking. Reading this. Ignoring your coworkers breath. Watching a call beep on hold. And downloading picture of Sanjaya doing awful things on some web site. See. YOU are a genius!
We can walk and chew gum.
But some children have a hard time doing two things at once.
Some need to be taught about here and there.
Near or Far.
Grover taught me that on sesame street.
I was 4 or so at the time. I’m sure I just held up my hand and said “dis many.”
But our leader made it clear.
One thing at a time.
Bike riding or jogging.
Decider or Commander.
There is a choice.
Freedom lovers or Evil Doers.
With us or against us.
Here or there.
Freedom or terror.
Here or there.
Here or there.
Here or there.
Shut up..Don’t rush me!
I’m thinking and stuff.
HERE OR THERE!?
Crap…Uhm….THERE. I choose there.
I’m the decider.
He chose there.
The troops are there.
The money is there.
Our future is there.
But the tornadoes hit here
and when we called for help…
There
was
nobody
there.
crap. shoulda chose here.
Mary says:
I applaud you!
June 8th, 2007 at 10:31 pm