The mighty voice of the capitalist Bottom Line resorts to GOP frat-boy snarkiness while Americans die in an American city. From The Wall Street Journal's online Opinion Journal.com:Crescent Quagmire
The troops were supposed to be home by now, but instead, faced with increasing
violence, political leaders are planning a surge. Iraq? Nah, New Orleans. The Times-Picayune reports from Baton Rouge:They said New Orleans was supposed to be a cakewalk; some neocons even called it "the Big Easy." They sold us a bill of goods, promising the natives would greet us with beads and celebratory parades. Instead we got murder and mayhem. Cindy Sheehan was right: U.S. out of New Orleans!The state will temporarily deploy additional state troopers in the New Orleans area for the Carnival season but will not increase the 360 police
and National Guard troops that have been on duty in the city since a murderous crime wave began last summer, Gov. Kathleen Blanco said Tuesday.Blanco told reporters at an informal news conference after addressing the annual meeting of the Louisiana Association of Business and Industry, the state's largest business lobbying organization, that despite a rash of killings in the city in recent weeks, she will not order a long-term increase in the 60 troopers and 300 Guard troops assigned to New Orleans.
She said that she has asked State Police and National Guard officials to review the security needs of the city, but "right now we are keeping it at the same level. . . . For Mardi Gras, we normally will bulk up; I expect that will be the same this year." . . .
The 300 Guard forces and 60 troopers were supposed to be pulled out of the city by the end of 2006, but city officials asked that they remain and the state extended the tour of duty through June.
The more likely explanation is that the poor man just isn't sharp enough to apprehend the dwindling percentage in kissing increasingly isolated, unpopular Bush Administration arses. Thus, Mr. Taranto chooses to "stay the course" and expose himself as a chickens*** suck-up to chickens*** politicians with blood on their hands, and in the process plays dying Americans in a dying American city for laughs.
Welcome to the post-American era of the United States, in which we find a land where some cities and some states (and some Americans) have more intrinsic value than others. And just about all of them have more value than the poor wretches of New Orleans.
Pity the Crescent City, who "respectable" Americans used to ring up when they wanted to let their ya-yas out (away from prying hometown eyes, of course). Alas, the Capitol Hill and Wall Street boys now have as much use for her as they do a 500-dollar whore who's lost her looks and found a crack pipe.
The Lord said, "Pay attention to what the dishonest judge says.
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Will not God then secure the rights of his chosen ones who call out to him day and night? Will he be slow to answer them?
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I tell you, he will see to it that justice is done for them speedily. But when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth?"
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He then addressed this parable to those who were convinced of their own righteousness and despised everyone else.
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"Two people went up to the temple area to pray; one was a Pharisee and the other was a tax collector.
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The Pharisee took up his position and spoke this prayer to himself, 'O God, I thank you that I am not like the rest of humanity -- greedy, dishonest, adulterous -- or even like this tax collector.
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I fast twice a week, and I pay tithes on my whole income.'
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But the tax collector stood off at a distance and would not even raise his eyes to heaven but beat his breast and prayed, 'O God, be merciful to me a sinner.'
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I tell you, the latter went home justified, not the former; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and the one who humbles himself will be exalted."
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