Let Them Eat Peanut Butter, by Gråulf

As I wrote in an earlier article, the Midwest was hit with a huge ice storm from Canada to Texas. Kentucky was hardest hit, and the Governor of Kentucky said, “This is the biggest natural disaster this state has experienced in modern history”. The storm killed dozens of people and endangered the lives and safety of hundred and thousands of others. State officials pleaded for help from the Federal Government for the devastated regions, and FEMA finally responded a week after the ice storm blocked roads with fallen trees, and stranded 1.3 million people in their homes without heat or electricity. Emergency workers needed chainsaws and manpower, but FEMA did send trailer loads of emergency meals to the devastated areas. Now it turns out the emergency meals supplied by FEMA are contaminated with poisonous peanut butter.

While all this was happening, Obama was busy trying to convince Republicans to collude in fleecing America, and hosting a fancy dinner for his A-list people, featuring wagyu steak at a $100 a pound.

The amazing thing about this incident is the thunderous silence of all the major news services. Admittedly, an ice storm is not as photogenic as a hurricane, but to the families of people who died during this storm, or the people who will not have heat, water and power for another week, this ice storm is every bit as significant. Can anyone imagine the media outcry if President bush had hosted a function that served $100 a pound Japanese beef during the Katrina catastrophe? Or the rage that would have ensued if President Bush had then sent emergency meals lazed with botulism to Katrina victims.

Gråuld.