Ahhh, that Michael Moore, he's so silly

Friday, September 2nd, 2005
Dear Mr. Bush:

Any idea where all our helicopters are? It's Day 5 of Hurricane Katrina
and thousands remain
stranded in New Orleans and need to be airlifted. Where on earth could you
have misplaced all
our military choppers? Do you need help finding them? I once lost my car
in a Sears parking
lot. Man, was that a drag.

Also, any idea where all our national guard soldiers are? We could really
use them right now
for the type of thing they signed up to do like helping with national
disasters. How come
they weren't there to begin with?

Last Thursday I was in south Florida and sat outside while the eye of
Hurricane Katrina
passed over my head. It was only a Category 1 then but it was pretty
nasty. Eleven people
died and, as of today, there were still homes without power. That night
the weatherman said
this storm was on its way to New Orleans. That was Thursday! Did anybody
tell you? I know you
didn't want to interrupt your vacation and I know how you don't like to
get bad news. Plus,
you had fundraisers to go to and mothers of dead soldiers to ignore and
smear. You sure
showed her!

I especially like how, the day after the hurricane, instead of flying to
Louisiana, you flew
to San Diego to party with your business peeps. Don't let people criticize
you for this --
after all, the hurricane was over and what the heck could you do, put your
finger in the
dike?

And don't listen to those who, in the coming days, will reveal how you
specifically reduced
the Army Corps of Engineers' budget for New Orleans th! is summer for the
third year in a row.
You just tell them that even if you hadn't cut the money to fix those
levees, there weren't
going to be any Army engineers to fix them anyway because you had a much
more important
construction job for them -- BUILDING DEMOCRACY IN IRAQ!

On Day 3, when you finally left your vacation home, I have to say I was
moved by how you
had your Air Force One pilot descend from the clouds as you flew over
New Orleans so you
could catch a quick look of the disaster. Hey, I know you couldn't stop
and grab a bullhorn
and stand on some rubble and act like a commander in chief. Been there
done that.

There will be those who will try to politicize this tragedy and try to
use it against you.
Just have your people keep pointing that out. Respond to nothing. Even
those pesky
scientists who predicted this would happen because the water in the Gulf
of Mexico is
getting hotter and hotter making a stor! m like this inevitable. Ignore
them and all their
global warming Chicken Littles. There is nothing unusual about a
hurricane that was so wide
it would be like having one F-4 tornado that stretched from New York to
Cleveland.

No, Mr. Bush, you just stay the course. It's not your fault that 30
percent of New Orleans
lives in poverty or that tens of thousands had no transportation to get
out of town. C'mon,
they're black! I mean, it's not like this happened to Kennebunkport. Can
you imagine
leaving white people on their roofs for five days? Don't make me laugh!
Race has nothing --
NOTHING -- to do with this!

You hang in there, Mr. Bush. Just try to find a few of our Army
helicopters and send them
there. Pretend the people of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast are near
Tikrit.

Yours,

Michael Moore
MMFlint@aol.com
www.MichaelMoore.com

P.S. That annoying mother, Cindy Sheehan, is no longer at your ranch! .
She and dozens of
other relatives of the Iraqi War dead are now driving across the
country, stopping in many
cities along the way. Maybe you can catch up with them before they get
to DC on September
21st.


just a bit of a segue...but i was just informed that Depeche Mode's new single "Precious" is out...and it's real good. i'm gonna check it out right now. ta.

My Two Cents

Frankly, i am so sickened by the coverage of the whole Katrina tragedy that it really distracts from my sympathy for those who were lost and the lives of the suffering in the hurricane's wake. The true tragedy is the impotence of our government, on both a local and federal level to take the proper steps in preventing or lessening the loss of life. property damage. looting. there is chance of recovery from that. the deaths of all those people could have been less profound, maybe in prevented if we heeded our oracles. our technology affords us the kind of foresight to be proactive in these situations, we have an entire tv channel devoted to the weather for chrissakes!!!!. two words: Doppler Radar. we knew at least 2 weeks in advance that the damn thing was coming?!?!?! even from last year's hurricane season, weather experts extrapolated the kind of damage stronger hurricane's would inflict were one to arise. it's cassandra syndrome at it's worst. is this "Our Tsunami"? "The Next 9/11"? these are tragedies that blindsided everyone, the warning signs not as blatant...the fact is after all the donations from rock stars, corporations, you and me...we hear crickets chirping from the white house. i'm sorry, flying over the damage and photo ops handing out food doesnt count. camel + straw(bush) = camel with sciatica...our beloved president is leaving a legacy of shame and embarrasment for our country...he is our Nero and i'm beginning to smell smoke.

oh yeah, by the way...1000 people in iraq were trampled to death when theats of a supposed suicide bomber loomed...but you wouldn't know that as it was a blip on CNN and other news channels...don't US interests lie there as well? where's the red cross? where's the Bush press conference commenting on the tragedy of our new allies? oh that's right...he can't even act on tragedies in his own country, plus it doesn't involve oil.

i bet that if the areas hit were petrol-rich...bush would have built a giant window so he could close it on really breezy days, and everyone would be safe and sound.

First Day of School

tomorrow will be my first day of school. i am very scared because there will be a lot of new kids who i will meet. i hope that i don't have to play spin the bottle. i am going to hunter college. i have to take physics because mercy college won't accept my physics credit. i hate school. i also have a job because i am old. i will be older if i get to go to mercy to become a physical therapist. i like physical therapists because they are very smart and my girlfriend is one and she is very smart too. my dog cannot come to school with me because he cannot read. yet.

the sexy one that they call nancy and i went to French Roast because she wanted to celebrate the back to school thing. then she got me a Bloc Party tshirt to wear to my first day of school. i am very happy now. i will take her with me to school because she does not want me to make out with college girls. she is very strict about these things.

does anyone have the college physics textbook by GIAMBATTISTA? i am bidding for it on ebay because i do not want to pay 150 dollars for a piece of doody that i will use for one semester. i am tired because i was in class on saturday and sunday. i am stupid because i went to class on saturday and sunday. but now i have a certificate to perform Mulligan upper extremity thingys to you if you have upper extremity pain or restriction in your joints. i have to practice them because i dont want you to die if i do them to you. we have been inside bellevue hospital for 7days plus in a row. that is more than a normal human being should tolerate. my brain thingy is officially fried and i have to go to work...i don't think that is a good ideal, people may get hurt.