Digital Cowboy

Why so much about Louisiana and New Orleans? I watch TV news more than most and I can count on one hand the number of times I’ve heard mention of Mississippi or Alabama in the last week.

Go ahead and correct me if I’m wrong about this… but… didn’t the brunt of the hurricane hit Mississippi? Louisiana only really got part of ol’ Kat. I think I even recall a story about a last minute puff of hot air that pushed the worst of the hurrycane away from New Orleans.

We’re hearing about Louisiana and New Orleans because that’s where the really, really incompetent government was concentrated. Governor’s a democrat. Check. Mayor’s a democrat. Check.

Got it now.

I wonder what party holds the governor’s seat in Alabama? More so, Mississippi, since they took the worst of it? If only there was some where that I could look that up.

But of course I’m just being silly! We all know that the devastation in New Orleans is completely the fault of that hellion and hater of black people, George W. Well, and, of course, his appointee, Mike Brown. That’s obvious. I know this because Kanye West and Ted Koppell told me so. (I can’t believe how much those rich, white people hate black people!)

I reckon there must not be any black people in Alabama or Mississippi. That’s why George and Mike saved them states.

Except I did the research and the math. That’ll blow a hole or two in the plausibility of this stupidity.

It seems that when we look at black population, Louisiana (1,452,417), did indeed have slightly more black people than both Alabama (1,1562,456) and Mississippi (1,029,766) in terms of sheer numbers, but Mississippi (36.2) trumps Louisiana (32.5) by a pretty decent margin on both the percentage of black people and the severity of the beating they took from the storm.

You reckon Dubya crunched all those numbers before he made a decision or could it be that the people of Louisiana elected idiots? I mean, we all know Bush hates black people. But would he pick states for a national disaster policy based on the chance of killing just a small portion of 20 percent more of them dirty negroes?

Or is it possible that every person that has ever posited this stupidity is probably too ignorant to follow the math here?

“George Bush doesn’t care about black people.” – Kanye West showing his ass

“Good. I hope not. Jesus doesn’t either.” – Me responding to blatant racism.

I wish I knew what George W. Bush cared about. I don’t. If I had my choice, I’d like to have a president that cares about the Constitution and his job as defined therein. I’m as likely to get that from George W. Bush as Kanye is to get his wish.

I’m a white guy that does not want a president that “cares about” white people. In the perfect world I fantasize about – the one the founding fathers created and The Great Tyrant Lincoln destroyed – a president wouldn’t care about black people or white people or special interest groups, he would only care about upholding the Constitution.

I don’t think of people as black or white or hispanic. I love people individually and judge them individually based on their fruit. It is a very weak person, in my opinion, that needs to associate with a group to find an identity. I’m a member of nothing. When you judge me, you’ll be forced to judge me on my individual merits or lack thereof. That is how I look at others.

Kanye and his defenders, like Sharpton and Jackson, love to try to make this New Orleans fiasco into a racial issue because they’re among the most racist people in this country and they are the ones that make their millions off of racism. It is people like them that keep stirring the pot to keep racism alive. It would’ve died of old age a long time ago if Sharpton, Jackson, et. al. weren’t keeping it on life support.

I’ve got news for you all:

Kanye West, Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson don’t care about black people.

I’m sorry. That’s a bit strong. I should modify that statement.

They care about black people as long as they can ride their poverty ridden backs to get rich.

I won’t say that they hate black people, but only because I can’t defend that statement with evidence. I will say that Sharpton and Jackson love money a whole lot more than they love any black person, including themselves. It’s certainly true of most democrats and I suspect the same is true of young, rich Kanye, but I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt for now.

He may just be stupid.

Go ahead and put the Klan hood on me now. I’m well aware that it’s not permissible to tell the truth in this country anymore.

I just checked the ol’ program guide to see if there’s anything worth watching tonight. I have satellite TV with something like 200 channels and tonight at least 19 of them are playing “Shelter from the Storm,” the benefit concert for victims of incompetent local government Hurrycane Kat.

I say “at least” because I don’t have all of them listed on the program guide. I deleted all the ones that I knew would never show anything I wanted to watch. Ever. I probably should revisit that list because I’m sure it should be longer. But I digress…

I’m sure by now my readers are falling into two categories:

1. “That’s great! Just look at the outpouring of support for those poor people!” (These would be the gullible, emotional, soft types.)
2. “What a crock. A bunch of self-important celebrities and broadcast executives that think poor means you don’t have a chaueffeur, pretending they give a crap!” (These would be the hard, cynical types.)

I fall in neither category, really, though you might have gathered that I tend to have far more in common with the latter group. I just have two thoughts on this.

First, I don’t really mind that 10% of the channels for which I’m paying are showing the exact same show at the exact same time because they’re the 10% that almost never show anything I could be paid to watch anyway. No matter how pathetic this “benefit” might be with the grandstanding, it’ll still likely be better than anything those channels would otherwise be foisting on us.

Second, I find it fascinating that with all those channels showing this same concert, none of them – not one – is a “music” channel.

MTV’s showing about the thirty-fifth re-run of the “2005 VMA’s.” In case you’re not aware, that’s a show that was broadcast live from South Florida, just after the hurricane had passed there and at the very same time that the hurricane was devastating three other states. I really don’t know how many times they’ve already re-run it because I only have 15 fingers and toes to count on.

I’ve probably watched a grand total of 15 minutes of MTV in the last 10 years and even less of MTV2, so, not surprisingly I’ve never even heard of the crap playing on that channel. I don’t know what it is and I don’t care, but I know it’s not the benefit concert.

VH1 is running a marathon of “Tommy Lee Goes to College” and CMT’s running “Insider Special Edition” with the cast of “Dukes of Hazzard.” There’s some priorities!

Thank God for NASCAR, baseball, the PVR and KHYI.

Then I could know what compassion feels like

A friend of mine recently sent me an email containing a copy of some typical leftist garbage from the Washington ComPost. (Requires the blood sacrifice of your firstborn registration. BugMeNot.com is your friend.)

She thought of me because he derisively mentioned “economic libertarianism” in his closing and she seems to think, for some reason, that I have strong feelings about libertarianism. I have no idea where she got that idea, I swear! But she said she was interested in my thoughts. (I think she just misses crazed political ranting in her life since we don’t communicate with each other much anymore.)

In fact, in the column, Meyerson blames Bush’s “libertarianism” for the deaths of “poor and [our] blacks.” But don’t let me put words in his mouth. If you can’t get through the whole mess here’s the money shot to which I’m referring:

The world looks on in stunned amazement, unable to understand how a once great nation has grown so indifferent not just to its poor and its blacks but even to the most rudimentary self-preservation. Some of it is institutional racism, but the primary culprit is the economic libertarianism that the president still espouses whenever he sells his Social Security snake oil. It’s that libertarianism, more than anything else, that has transformed a great city into an immense morgue.

But, hey — stuff happens.

“…a once great nation has grown so indifferent not just to its poor and its blacks but even to the most rudimentary self-preservation.”

What?! Is this guy living on the same planet as me? That’s rhetorical. Of course he isn’t. For one thing, since I’m not an avowed socialist, I would immediately be labeled a racist for even uttering a phrase as ignorant as “it’s poor and its blacks.” I would also like to know exactly how he defines the words “self” and “preservation.” It’s clear he has no idea what they mean when hyphenated together like he did, but I seriously question if he even understands them individually. He also is clearly deranged about the definition of “libertarianism” and what George Bush is. Oh, how I wish Dubya was a libertarian.

This was my response to her (slightly edited for repost here):
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Are ya up for a true challenge?

What makes you feel like you’re safe?

Guns? Money? Your spouse? Your brilliant plan?

I was appalled to discover tonight that money made me feel safe. So I threw it all away. (That was a joke. I command you to laugh.)

If you’re not trustin’ Daddy to get that safe feeling, you’re hurtin’.

There’s great comfort in knowing your Source.