I'm pissed off
It makes me sick that Bush leaves vacation and deals with the disaster in New Orleans, and rightly so, because as I am watching CNN right now, the entire level of death and destruction is still beyond my scope to comprehend. I sit here and feel helpless, as do probably millions of other Americans, feeling as stunned as I felt on 9/11. What burns me is that he can't take a little bit of time out of his vacation, as he has taken the most time off since Nixon, to talk to one woman. He may not have been able to give her the answers she wanted to hear, but at the very least, he could've stopped the media surge and all of the groups who used her as a sacrificial lamb for their causes, he could've stopped her visit from becoming the situation it did. But no, he hid behind his door and sent out his underlings to talk to her. He'll be busy for the next few months, obviously, making emergency funds available for those three states. He'll now have to deal with the extra surge in gas prices, depending on the state of the refineries in that area, and the accessability and so forth. Now our focus needs to be on our own country and not on someone else's.
posted by The Doombot Express @ 4:23 PM
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Agree, the whole thing is beyond comprehension. As for Bush, I wondered at some point this week if he was reading "My Pet Goat" again. Meanwhile, I bought gas at $3.09 so I could get to work and saw it go to $3.19 the next day. Woohoo! People are buying gas in a panic and causing local shortages simply because they're buying it all at once. Then it's out until the next truck arrives. Totally messed up. But hey, I've got a bike for local stuff if it comes to that. I just need to get to work and that's too far to cycle.
I hit up for gas at 2.99 on Wednesday night (after I had passed by an A-Plus with 2.49 the night before, and, like an idiot, figured it would be that price the next day), so I'm still better off then some. Living in Reading, I can walk to a lot of things...it's safer than biking and I don't own one anyway. My job is about 8 minutes away by car, so it doesn't eat up to much gas going back and forth. I'm sooo glad I'm at my old store again instead of my last locale...20 minutes in the morning and 30 on the way home. That would've put a serious crimp in my wallet.
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