Oh, dear Lord, please let it end!

We have the fifth anniversary of 9/11, when the Muslim World declared war on the Western World, now called Patriots Day, and today is the anniversary of Katrina, no doubt soon to be called Victims Day.

Please let me go to sleep tonight and wake up on September 12 so I don't have to watch another documentary on Katrina or 9/11. The History Channel, the Discovery Channel and CNN Headline news are in a race to see who can put the most hours for each event on the air.

Stop it.

Please.

Fortress Amerika! - Day Thirty-Three

Federal troops have been called in to help keep control of New Orleans. The police, whose ranks have been thinned by Hurricane Katrina evacuations (But, it is worth pointing out, not from disciplining any officer caught on film looting a Wal-Mart) is down about 500 officers. The city populations is down about 250,000. Over the weekend, there was a bloody shootout, which prompted Ray "Leave the buses in the yards and get out of town" Nagin asked for help.

The National Guard will patrol the damaged areas where no one lives, the State Troopers also sent in will patrol the French Quarter, and the New Orleans police will respond to hotspots.

Now that we're sending the troops somewhere more dangerous than Baghdad, word is that Cindy Sheehan has cut short her visit to Canada, and will fly to New Orleans to demand Bush immediately withdraw the troops and let them go home, just as she did in the aftermath of Katrina.

Even though I haven't brought it up in a while, you can still do one more thing to help out the Katrina's New Orleans homeless: Demand that the Saints be given the Lombardi Trophy for the obstacles they faced. They didn't have a home to play their home games. Thousands of people, according to the media, were murdered in the bathrooms of the Superdome (Even though the press later spun those initial reports as complete fiction, we know the truth, as delivered by Kanye West: Bush sent in Hit Squads to eliminate the hated Blacks!), their owner continually threatened to move the team, and, well, they sucked.

As we try to crush out the meritocracy that is fascist America, we have to destroy the meritocracy in sports--the metaphor of American success! In elementary schools across this land, whenever there is a foot race, all all the participants, not just the winners, get a ribbon so they can all feel the benefits of positive self-esteem. How can we so callously smother that self-esteem in later life when they learn that winning does matter? I say, if it's good enough for kids, it's good enough for the NFL!

Give the Saints the NFL championship so they can regain their self-esteem and begin cleaning the bodies from the Superdome!

Conservatives, call Karl Rove! Liberals, call Hillary! (If she thinks Congress is a plantation, she should look at the NFL!) Centrists, call NFL headquarters!

The heartless, Republicans on the Atlanta Falcons team oppressed the New Orleans Saints by. . .

Aww, who am I kidding? No one in the country is interested in justice and fairness. It's all political posturing.

There are still parts of East Texas without power from Rita. I don't see banners on blogs asking for donations to help those folks; just Rita victims. I hear plaintive appeals to assist the homeless of New Orleans on the Food Network. The homeless of Texas and Mississippi get squat.

Being strident is sooo tiring.