ENOUGH FOR EVERYONE At the moment, our newspaper people are writing in abundance concerning the very thing which so many of the general public find to be difficult to discuss: Blame.
We seek something or someone on which we might point to as being the cause of frequent mishaps, sub-normal conditions, or even outright disasters. Bar none, someone is at the bottom of every wrong choice we make. We are responsible for that scheme which worked well, or, at least to be benefit of many - those of us who praise it.
It may seem to be difficult for us to blame individuals for such conditions and events but it is being done daily and it appears with a strong degree of certainty and justification.
Want to know who caused the Katrina Hurricane disaster(s)? Make sure of of your personal political party affiliation, then have at the long list
of possible names: Mayor Nagin, President George W. Bush, The Democratic Governor of Louisiana whatever her name was, the head of FEMA, the Army Corp of Engineer, the Senate, the House, any ward-heeler in the in New Orleans Ninth Ward, any owner of property in the French Village area of the city; black people in general, and government employees at all levels – ward, parish, state, national plus a few international rulers who have not expressed their sorrow for your misfortune in the form of special gifts.
Print out your list of the thing which have gone wrong and you can easily match up certain names who might seem to be, at least, part of the cause for such a thing being allowed to have happened. Establish any such landfall and you can enlarge on your intrusive concept to no end as you please. Truth must, however, must be treated always as an incidental consideration.
Recently Republicans many areas have objected to the showing a movie concerning the 9/11 tragedy. We are approaching the anniversary date of that horrible event as we will be doing each year from now, but many Republicans have objected to the showing of the film because it, in a sense, blames the G.O.P. for laxity Home Defense preparations. Now, this very morning, I find a major newspaper voice raised claiming that the fault for 9/11 rests with former President William Jefferson Clinton who was far more interested and immediately concerned with his rather sordid affair with Monica Lewinsky to be expected to be even aware of any terrorist plans for an attack on the United States.
This bit of gander sauce is thought by some to be sadly out of place, but it will be the rule, I think, for political actions leading up to our next Presidential Election in 2008. Prepare yourself. Get a copy of the best, most-banned “Street Language Dictionary/Thesaurus” you can ferret out. Hang on to it. It'll come in handy, one of these days.
Andrew McCaskey amccsr@adelphia.net 9-7-06 [c497wds]
