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Can Extremists Shelve the
Politics
Long Enough to Help the Country?
The Fifth Column/Frank
Salvato, Managing Editor |
September 2, 2003
- For the second time in four years the United States is dealing with a
disaster of unparalleled proportions. The first disaster, generated by the
evils of terrorist heretics on September 11th, 2001, took over 3000 lives.
The latest devastation, caused by an act of God in the form of Hurricane
Katrina, could very well surpass the loss of life that occurred at the hands
of terrorists on September 11th. Once again, the power of nature dwarfs the
powers of men, even evil ones.
Before I address the main topic of this article, I would like to take this
opportunity to urge everyone to do everything and anything that they can to
help those affected by Hurricane Katrina. Log on to
www.fema.gov for a list of
emergency response organizations and directions on how to help. Every dollar
counts, so please don’t hesitate.
In the face of the massive devastation throughout Louisiana, Mississippi,
Alabama and Florida the extreme liberal left has decided that the best way
to help the victims of this catastrophic natural disaster is to politicize
it. One truly has to question whether these people are capable of any
humanity at all.
It wasn’t two hours after initial reports of the destruction that took place
in New Orleans and Gulfport that I received an unsolicited email from a
woman named Darlene. She was forwarding a blog piece that took issue with,
among other things, President Bush’s fiscal policies in the face of the
catastrophe on the Gulf Coast. Darlene’s forwarded article blamed the as of
yet unrealized lack of federal emergency management resources in the wake of
Katrina on the Iraq war budget, the Bush tax cuts, the Democrat-obstructed
energy bill and the big kahuna of enviro-nuts, global warming and President
Bush’s refusal to sign the Kyoto Protocol.
To point a finger at non-existent short-falls in national emergency
preparedness is lunacy enough, but to insist, in hindsight, that the country
shouldn’t have handled its fiscal or national security business as it did is
just plain ignorant.
With regard to global warming, Dennis Avery of the Hudson Institute cites
records showing that almost three times as many major hurricanes hit
Bermuda, Jamaica, and Puerto Rico in the half-century between 1701 and 1850
– during the depths of the Little Ice Age – as in the much warmer
half-century from 1950 to 2000. He further cites records which indicate that
both the Arctic and the Antarctic have been cooling in the last several
decades.
In light of historical evidence to the contrary it is hard to argue that
global warming was in any way the cause of Hurricane Katrina. But that
doesn’t stop the extremists on the left from saying that it still isn’t so.
A piece that ran in the Boston Globe by Ross Gelbspan blamed the ravages of
Hurricane Katrina – as well as every other catastrophic meteorological event
– on global warming, big oil and, you guessed it, President Bush. It didn’t
seem to matter to him that his assertion that "the year began with a
two-foot snowfall in Los Angeles,” is proven inaccurate by the weather
records from that time period. Los Angeles had no snowfall recorded in
January of 2005. In fact, throughout recorded history the record for
snowfall in Los Angeles during the month of January is only 9.6 inches, a
far cry from two-feet, and it didn’t occur in 2005.
Even the Germans, premier platinum-card carrying passengers of the
five-year-long hate-Bush party train that they are, jumped onto the
criticism bandwagon. In an article entitled, Katrina Should Be a Lesson to
US on Global Warming that appeared on August 30th in their publication
Spiegel, it is stated, "Regardless of how one views it, Katrina has not only
devastated parts of Louisiana and Mississippi and killed dozens, it also has
threatened the US and its trading partners with economic instability.”
How very self-serving of the Germans to care so little about those who have
been left homeless and the hundreds, if not thousands, left dead at the hand
of Mother Nature. Then again, they are one of the leaders in the movement to
make every nation but a minute cog in the global community. What are a few
thousand American lives in the grand global scheme of things when economic
opportunism is the order of the day? I will wait with bated breath to see
how much aid Germany sends to the United States in light of this
humanitarian crisis. I will bet that it isn’t nearly as much as the American
people gave to them in the form of the Marshall Plan.
It is absolutely incomprehensible that living, breathing, allegedly caring
human beings would focus their energies on finger-pointing and "The Blame
Game” while so many whose lives have been destroyed desperately need help
and humanity. By kowtowing to the most narcissistic and base political
motives, those who are doing anything but trying to help during this time of
crisis have displayed their truly selfish, ignorant nature.
Those of us who realize the urgency of the current tragedy need to focus our
resources on helping Katrina’s victims. Let’s leave the ignominious
politicizing of tragedies to the not so compassionate liberal left. They
seem to be very good at it.
Related Reading:
Hurricanes not due to Global Warming. Oops.
http://www.hudson.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=publication_details&id=3485
Katrina and the waves
http://www.pnionline.com/dnblog/attytood/archives/002330.html
Katrina's real name
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2005/08/30/katrinas_real_name/
Katrina Should be A Lesson To US on Global Warming
http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/0,1518,372179,00.html
Marshall Plan: An Overview
http://www.answers.com/marshall+plan?gwp=11&ver=1.0.4.128&method=3
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