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A search for some missing red silk underpants led me here
- January 1, 2005. How serendipitous, all things
considered. There were several things that amused me on that page
(''I crack me up,'' as Mother Superior is wont to suggest), like Today's Thinking Point, and another, [It begins, II]. Both have to do with ''The Tsunami';'' both were harbingers of things to come. The first, via the New York Slime.
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"President Bush finally roused himself yesterday from his
vacation in Crawford, Tex., [and] .... hurried to put as much distance
as possible between himself and America's initial measly aid offer of
$15 million, and he took issue with an earlier statement by the United
Nations' emergency relief coordinator, Jan Egeland, who had called the
overall aid efforts by rich Western nations "stingy." [Are
We Stingy? Yes - New York Times] |
See what I mean? Let's call it a rehearsal for ''Katrina''. The second ties in with Brendan Miniter's The
Second Term Curse, which portends ".. for Mr. Bush, no matter how open he is ,,, the media will eventually find a scandal that
resonates." Here, George Stephanopoulos interviews Colin Powell - where The Sec/State's answers don't matter, but the questions kick off the public contumelies.
MR. STEPHANOPOULOS: It's [Tsunami death toll] going to continue to climb.
Are you confident that the U.S. aid effort matches the magnitude of
this disaster?
MR. STEPHANOPOULOS: You say you spoke to the
President that Monday. Why did it take so long for him to come out
publicly?
MR. STEPHANOPOULOS: But you remember what the
President's critics have said, they said that this was a missed
opportunity to show compassion.
BLAH BLAH BLAH
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Remarkable. Everybody knows; everybody manages to stay in character. What a country.
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