Twas the week of Katrina, when all through the South
Not a soldier was stirring, not even to grouse;
The black folks were stuck in the Superdome gloom,
In the hopes that some buses would come for them soon.
The children were hungry, awaiting the feds,
While visions of looter bums danced in their heads;
And mama in her ‘kerchief, and I in my cap,
Had just settled down to watch late News Nite wrap,
When out of the coverage there arose such a ruckus
I sprang from my couch to see what was the muck up.
Away to the laptop I flew like a flash,
Fired up the browser and pulled up the cache.
The loons on the desk of the news-item show
Raved at FEMA and W for things bein’ slow.
When, what to my wondering eyes should appear,
But thousands of blogs, and a story quite queer,
With the little bold bloggers, so lively and quick,
I knew in a moment it must be quite thick.
More rapid than Eagles their discourses came,
And I whistled and shouted and called them by name;
“Now, WIZBANG! now, WHITTLE! now, CAPTAIN and MALKIN!
On, MISHA! on SENSING! on, COX and FORKUM!
To the top of the Page! to the top of them all!
Now bash away! bash away! bash away all!”
As dry leaves that before the wild hurricane fly,
When they meet with an obstacle, blast to the sky,
So up to the news-top the bloggers they flew,
With a spray full of verbs, and some adjectives too.
And then, in a twinkling, I heard on TV
The hemming and hawing of each little proof.
As I drew in my hand, and was flipping around,
Down the cable the new stories came with a bound.
Blanco pressed all too far, with her whine and her hoot,
And her glow got all tarnished when truth came to roost;
A bundle of writs she had flung from her desk,
and spat out like flotsam, washed up with the rest.
Her sneer – how it wrinkled! Her stumbles how sorry!
Her bleats were like poses, her notes quite contrary!
Her droll little pout was drawn up like a “no”,
The word she’d used often, when asked for a “go”.
The Guard, like a right, she held tight in her teeth,
And the power encircled her head like a wreath;
She had a bad case, and one that sounded quite daft,
It shook, when she gaffed, like a armload of graft.
She was chubby and plump, a right ditsy old gov,
But when times called for pulling, she started to shove;
A blink of her eye and a twist of her head,
Things ground to a halt, she abandoned the dead.
She spoke not a word that would unleash the feds,
Nor fill all the stockings, nor get kids to bed;
Not busing her people ahead of the flood,
or giving them food in a city of mud.
She froze in a crisis, and we blew the whistle,
And way late the press too, like a heat-seeking missile.
But I heard her exclaim, ere she spoke out of spite,
“NEW ORLEANS HAS FLOODED,
LAST ONE TURN OUT THE LIGHTS!”
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Should that have been Mr nagan?
ohh first.
September 15th, 2005 at 3:42 amUsing Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows XP
Nice very nicely done
September 15th, 2005 at 5:10 amUsing Mozilla Firefox 1.0.2 on Windows XP
Just a little something you threw together between working on the chain maille riveter and the tennis ball shooter?
September 15th, 2005 at 5:42 amExcellent read first thing in the morn. thanks Sir George!
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Nice!
September 15th, 2005 at 6:11 amUsing Mozilla Firefox 1.0.6 on Windows XP
Really amazing bit of prose!
You are an excellent wordsmith sir George!
September 15th, 2005 at 6:39 amUsing Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows XP
A work of art, Sir George. Do you give lessons on how to write like that?
September 15th, 2005 at 7:52 amUsing Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows 2000
Beautiful.
September 15th, 2005 at 7:55 amUsing Mozilla Firefox 1.0.6 on Windows XP
That rocks. Are you sure you haven’t considered going professional with that?
September 15th, 2005 at 7:58 amUsing Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows XP
Reuters strikes again!
Check out this photograph.
An obviously photoshopped piece of crap!
OMG! Bush has to take a piss! Stop the presses!
Nevermind that the top half of the “note” isn’t Bush’s handwriting. He uses a more “illegible” cursive style as can be seen in the bottom half of the note.
And no, it isn’t Condi’s writing either. She writes in cursive as well.
They must be hitting the crack pipe pretty hard over at Reuter-Rooters to be passing this crap off as “journalism”.
September 15th, 2005 at 10:16 amUsing Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows XP
Excellent!
Check out the cartoon referenced in the first post here
the cartoonist thinks our troops are screw ups
September 15th, 2005 at 10:26 amUsing Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows XP
“…the power encircled her head like a wreath…”
Sir George, you are spellbindingly brilliant.
I am assuming laurel, not myrtle, for the above quoted diadem?
“Dying is easy; it is comedy that is hard.”
September 15th, 2005 at 10:29 am-Edmond Kean
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Sir George, I love your way with words…
September 15th, 2005 at 11:05 amUsing Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows XP
I love it!
September 15th, 2005 at 11:25 amUsing Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows XP
A chuckle in every stanza, George. Great Job!
(I know what you wrote, but I heard…
When out of the coverage there arose such a ruckus;
September 15th, 2005 at 11:48 amWhy even the Anchor was up, off of his tucus!
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Superb!
September 15th, 2005 at 12:32 pmUsing Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows XP
Here’s what old Kanye West may get on a magazine cover…. fuckin wash-up!
September 15th, 2005 at 12:36 pmUsing Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows XP
What a great parody, Sir George. You summarized the whole catastrophe so succinctly.
September 15th, 2005 at 1:20 pmUsing Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows XP
Guys, this may bite us in the butt, but there is proof that President Bush 41 and President Bush 43, do not like black people…..
September 15th, 2005 at 1:26 pmUsing Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows XP
Bush and Rove are behind this, I’m sure.
Here is absolute PROOF that George Bush planned this whole disaster because he hates black people:
GOT CHEESE?
September 15th, 2005 at 1:59 pmUsing Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows 98
Another bow Sir George, please.
September 15th, 2005 at 3:00 pmThe natural catastrophe and ensueing media catastrophe is inspiring all kinds of creative cluebatting,, over at Mr. Snitch they’ve got some Bob Dylan goin’ on.
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Well Done George !!!!
As a former career professional in the Emergency Planning Racket (private industy not govt bureaucrat, but I did interface with FEMITES on a daily basis) the bullshit crossing the airwaves over this situation was nothing less than astonishing. NOBODY with the exception of O’Reilly wanted to do even a little bit of research. Not that research and fact checking are subjects journjizmers are the slightest bit interested in. I predicted the race-card play spot-on to the day. I haven’t had the time or enough Xanax on hand to even weigh in on this issue as the current
deep undercoverspecial assignment gig on midnight shift is taking it’s toll on this middle-aged body. I couldn’t help noticing this nice little tidbit…hat tip to NewsMax…
Louis Farrakhan: Levees Were ‘Blown Up’
September 15th, 2005 at 6:40 pmUsing Mozilla Firefox 1.0.6 on Windows XP
Thanks all!
I could’ve gone for the Paul Revere version
Listen my childen and you shall hear
Of the awful flood that happened here,
On twenty nine August, in two-thousand and five;
Hardly a man is now alive
Who remembers the crazies looting beer.
or maybe Gordon Lightfoot.
The legend lives on in New Orleans old town
Of the big lake they called Ponchatrina
The lake, it is said, ever fills us with dread
When the skies of September turn gloomy.
.. . .. . .
With the surge of a storm – four or five fathoms or more
Than the levees and floodwalls can handle
A good breach or two was a doom to be rued
When the gales of September came early.
The town was the pride of the engineers’ trade
Holding back the high tides and the river
As the big projects go it was bigger than most
With the walls and the levees well seasoned.
Yet breaching some berms with a couple of churns
Water gouged out the ground from the bottom
And later that night when the sirens wailed
Could it be the big breach they’d been fearing.
The wind in the wires made a tattletale sound
And a wave surged staight through the levee
And every man knew, as all engineers do
Twas the end of New Orleans he’s seeing.
The dawn broke clear but the breakfast had to wait.
When the water it just kept on rising.
When afternoon came it was still pouring in
With the ranks of the refugees swelling.
When supper time came the old cook was a wreck
Saying fellows we got naught to feed ya
At 7PM the main crisis ‘came clear
He said fellas it’s been good to know ya.
The mayor wired in he had water coming in
And the big town he knew was in peril
And later that night when no lights were in sight
Came the hell of the Superdome shelter.
Does anyone know where the love of gov goes
When no aid turns the minutes to hours.
The searchers all say they’d have had less delay
If the gov’nor would ignore her minders.
blah blah blah.
It’s a long song to finish.
September 15th, 2005 at 6:56 pmUsing Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows XP
Moron.
September 15th, 2005 at 7:09 pmUsing Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows XP
OK- I give up..how do I get my gravatar back?
I stoopid…..sorry
September 15th, 2005 at 7:58 pmUsing Mozilla Firefox 1.0.6 on Windows XP
Wonderful work there George!!
It’s freaking idiots like this that makes me believe we truely did evolve from monkeys…because this asshat and his race baiting Brutha’s Jackson and Sharpton never got past the screeching, ass scratching and flea picking stage.
September 16th, 2005 at 1:44 amUsing Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows XP
Jackboot, compare the e-mail adress you used to register here to the one you used to register at Gravatar.com
They both have to match exactly.
“case sensitive” errors are the most common mistake.
EXAMPLE:
e-mail used at Gravator.com - MoonbatMauler@yahoo.com
e-mail used at The Rott. - moonbatmauler@yahoo.com
= No Gravatar
Hope that helps.
September 16th, 2005 at 4:22 amUsing Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows XP
Sidenote- Moonbatmauler@yahoo.com is an address I made up to use as an example.
I have no idea if it’s someone’s actual e-mail address.
September 16th, 2005 at 4:25 amUsing Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows XP
Doggerel had best watch his back, I’d say.  He’s got competition now.
September 16th, 2005 at 6:51 amUsing Mozilla Firefox 1.0.6 on Windows XP
Excellent poem!!!
What can we do about this (thanks to American Spectator)?
http://www.spectator.....rt_id=8754
September 16th, 2005 at 7:44 amUsing Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows XP
Should the federal government (us!) pick up the total of the estimated $200 billion to rebuild the hurricane-ravaged Gulf Coast?
September 16th, 2005 at 8:24 amUsing Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows XP
Heh, just as I thought.
Drudge is reporting that Reuter-Rooters admits to “photoshopping” the Bush “I gotta piss” note.
Way to show that “journalistic integrity”…..
September 16th, 2005 at 11:13 amUsing Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows XP
Constitution Day!
Today’s dose of NIF - News, Interesting & Funny … Consitution Day edition
September 16th, 2005 at 10:38 pmBrilliant, as always, Sir GT.
September 17th, 2005 at 2:06 pmUsing Mozilla Firefox 1.0.2 on Windows XP
As far as I am concerned. this N.O. fiasco would have been better handled if the Feds were racists, then they would have assumed the Mayor and the citizens were too irresponsible, ignorant and out of control to deal with it and they would have taken over immediately.
September 17th, 2005 at 3:19 pmUsing Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows XP
Still the little issue of the Constitution to deal with. The locals and state are responsible for 1st response and the people are responsible to elect officials who will provide that response not line their own pockets. Corruption in LA is almost a matter of pride with these people, perhaps they will take their responsibilities more seriously and elect competent people instead of the shitbirds they have in the past.
September 17th, 2005 at 7:55 pmUsing Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows XP
Why would they?
President Milquetoast himself went on record the other night, stating that it was all “rooted in racism” and that all of the rest of us had to pony up and pay the bill.
I found myself wondering if he’d hired Kanye West as a speech writer.
Anyway, as long as there are no consequences to fuckups, don’t expect the fuckups to end, and it’s pretty damn obvious by now that the only consequences to the Nawlins FUBAR of 2005 will be borne by the wallets of you and I.
September 17th, 2005 at 8:42 pmUsing Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows XP