The Pink Flamingo

According to the latest, Mount Redoubt was a global warming, glacier meltin’ machine.  It is now hot enough to melt the glacier on the side of the awakening volcano.  The quakes have yet to reach the frequency that signals an immediate explosion.

“…Unrest at Redoubt Volcano continues. Seismicity has remained relatively constant over the last 24 hours and is still well above background. A vapor plume is intermittently visible in the AVO web camera. It appears to rise no higher than the volcano’s summit.

An observation and gas-measurement flight to the volcano yesterday noted continued vigorous fumarolic activity and runoff of muddy water down the north flank of the volcano. Volcanic gas was detected; data analysis is ongoing to compare these measurements with previously measured gas output. …”

The press has been on Sarah Palin’s case all weekend, trying to make trouble and separate her from her base.  If Mount Redoubt erupts before she arrives back home in Alaska, she’s toast.

“…The governor’s weekend itinerary wasn’t limited to the Alfalfa Club. It included a Friday night dinner at the home of Fred Malek, who headed up McCain’s finance committee. She also was scheduled to meet with her Alaska staff in Washington and attend a luncheon at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

Palin’s limited travel outside of her home state — and the country — was the subject of much criticism when she was a vice presidential candidate. But now, it’s Alaskans who are a little testy about the governor’s absence, even as the state’s legislative session opens. Their suspicions that Palin has ambitions beyond Alaska were only confirmed this week, when the governor announced the formation of her own political action committee.

The committee, called SarahPAC, is not a 2012 presidential exploratory committee, spokeswoman Pam Pryor insisted last week. It’s a way for her to raise money for like-minded candidates as well as pay for travel connected to fundraising or her political activity unconnected to her official duties as the governor of Alaska.

Perhaps because of the scrutiny at home, Palin has kept a low profile on the trip to the nation’s capital. She turned down all requests for interviews, including the other invitations that indicate one’s arrival in Washington: an appearance on the Sunday morning talk shows.

She also didn’t attend any events that could be perceived as partisan, including the winter meeting of the Republican National Committee, also held over the weekend….”

BUT – It doesn’t matter one little bit that Barack Obama is piddling at being President, degrading the Oval Office by not entering it properly attired.  He’s done away with the flurishes of the Marine Band.  One of these days he’s going to do away with a heck of a lot more.

AND – it sure looks like he’s trying to do away with a few Republican Racist Redneck voters in Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, and Missouri by not insisting tha FEMA do it’s thing.  He’s ignored their suffering.  One wonders what he would be doing if his core supporters in one of the northern cities were going through the same thing.

One wonders in awe at the abject duplicity and abject fascination what would be happening if GWB were in office and he were ignoring the very serious suffering in the midwest.  We all know they would destroy him.

But heck – we’re dealing with The One (anointed).  He can do no wrong in his bumbling incompetent, and apparently racist display of abject stupidity the likes of which have not been seen since the days of Jimmy Carter. No wait- we’re talking Marie Antoinette.  While people in Kentucky were going without, he was eating terribly expensive steak, and basking in a 75 degree White House.

The One (anointed)’s abject lack of interest in the suffering people of Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, and Missouri does make one wonder if only people who have voted for The One (anointed) are worthy of being helped.  It also makes you wonder if mercy and FEMA is color-coded.  Yes, I know it’s snarky, but let’s be honest about it.  Like Wizbang says,

“…And start reading a little. FEMA mounted one of the most extensive rescue and relief campaigns in modern history after Hurricane Katrina. You can learn all about it here.

After Katrina, FEMA coordinated with US military and National Guard troops from several surrounding states and managed to move nearly 100,000 personnel into New Orleans a mere 72 hours after the storm hit. I expect that the response to the current ice storm will be no less impressive, once conditions improve enough for them to arrive and begin working.

See, natural disasters commonly create hazardous conditions that prevent outside rescuers from intervening immediately after the disaster takes place. That’s what is happening in Kentucky right now.

And that’s what happened in New Orleans in 2005.

But today, Hollywood and the mainstream media aren’t filling the airwaves with pictures of dead bodies, frozen to death, being hauled out of stalled cars or out of people’s homes. They’re not camped out at every relief shelter. They’re not magnifying the situation to epic proportions. And they are not exploiting any number of ridiculous conspiracy theories.

Maybe my silly little conspiracy theory makes you uncomfortable. Fine. But what I wrote is certainly no less whacked that what Spike Lee, Louis Farrakhan, and others were cooking up after Katrina.

Now that the shoe is on the other foot politically, my advice to liberals is buck up and take it. Because your side raised the bar of responsibility so high, and lowered the bar of common courtesy so low, that you are going to have a very tough time during the next four to eight years — now that everything is, well, your fault….”

On Obama’s newly designed and very tacky hijacking of the White House web site, we read the following:

“…President Obama will keep the broken promises made by President Bush to rebuild New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. He and Vice President Biden will take steps to ensure that the federal government will never again allow such catastrophic failures in emergency planning and response to occur.

President Obama swiftly responded to Hurricane Katrina. Citing the Bush Administration’s “unconscionable ineptitude” in responding to Hurricane Katrina, then-Senator Obama introduced legislation requiring disaster planners to take into account the specific needs of low-income hurricane victims. Obama visited thousands of Hurricane survivors in the Houston Convention Center and later took three more trips to the region. He worked with members of the Congressional Black Caucus to introduce legislation to address the immediate income, employment, business, and housing needs of Gulf Coast communities….”

There is NOT ONE MENTION of the ice storm disaster in Red State America.  Try My Pet Jawa.  But – The One (anointed) did do a great and cheerful interview before the Big Game, which thousands of people in Kentucky were unable to watch because they were still without power.  His daughters, nice and warm and well fed, had friends over on Saturday to play.  Kids in some parts of Kentucky were trying no to freeze to death, were running out of candles, and had no fresh water.

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