No MSM comment, either -- and here is where the Lefty in me starts to get his rag on -- ;O) about how the death toll is at the very worstgoing to be mere hundreds of people -- while the death toll you keep on seeing from places like Haiti or Indonesia or Turkey every time there's a hurricane/tsunami or earthquake is often in the thousands.
You would think that for all its supposed Liberalism, that the flacks of the MSM would be all over themselves searching high and low for facts like this, raising all kinds of issues about what such things might mean. Issues such as: Perhaps "overburdensome" safety regulations backed with a less corrupt work after all! or: will the reason that all the death and destruction might be excessive in this particular extreme case be the Louisiana's notorious, rather bipartisan corruption? Or: what role did graft and kickbacks play in the Superdome roof getting torn off by Katrina, and is it similar to the role that graft and kickbacks might have played in the construction of the World Trade Center? (I digress, but: ever read anything about the history of the building of the WTC? Admittedly I've read scant stuff myself, but from what I have read, it sounds like a major reason the twin towers toppled was because corners were cut, so to speak...) Or: what government regulations might prevent further deaths, if not destruction? Just to name a few that come to mind.
But they're obviously not going to do such a thing at all. We shall be hearing "objective" reports that will soon warp into melodramatic tragedy at the Loss Of Life -- but nothing about the minimum of what we as a country or mere society might have done to have prevented such loss.
On a less "political" note: how've you been doing? Not that you should post any such thing soon, but it's been a while since you've talked about your hospitalization. Hope all is well... :-)
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Date: 2005-08-30 09:53 pm (UTC)You would think that for all its supposed Liberalism, that the flacks of the MSM would be all over themselves searching high and low for facts like this, raising all kinds of issues about what such things might mean. Issues such as: Perhaps "overburdensome" safety regulations backed with a less corrupt work after all! or: will the reason that all the death and destruction might be excessive in this particular extreme case be the Louisiana's notorious, rather bipartisan corruption? Or: what role did graft and kickbacks play in the Superdome roof getting torn off by Katrina, and is it similar to the role that graft and kickbacks might have played in the construction of the World Trade Center? (I digress, but: ever read anything about the history of the building of the WTC? Admittedly I've read scant stuff myself, but from what I have read, it sounds like a major reason the twin towers toppled was because corners were cut, so to speak...) Or: what government regulations might prevent further deaths, if not destruction? Just to name a few that come to mind.
But they're obviously not going to do such a thing at all. We shall be hearing "objective" reports that will soon warp into melodramatic tragedy at the Loss Of Life -- but nothing about the minimum of what we as a country or mere society might have done to have prevented such loss.
On a less "political" note: how've you been doing? Not that you should post any such thing soon, but it's been a while since you've talked about your hospitalization. Hope all is well...
:-)