Katrina and the politics thereof

Last night i was surfing knitting sites and was disappointed to find that some of them had strayed to politics and were lying about the President Bush. Now i know that everyone is entitled to their opinion and can believe/write/say whatever they want, but it turned me off that they were so strongly political on their knitting blogs. That's why i have a seperate knitting blog, so no one has to read about my political beliefs when they want to read about knitting.

I was listening to Rush this morning and he said that there was an evacuation plan in place for the people in New Orleans who couldn't get themselves out of the city and that the governor and mayor didn't put it into effect when they should have. With hurricanes over level 3 no one should have been evacuated to sports arenas: they should have all been out of the way hours before the hurricane had landfall. Someone who lives near New Orleans--in another town in the area that's largely conservative--says that where he lives everyone pitched in and no one was caught in the storm because everyone was evacuated as they should have been. This obviously wasn't the case in New Orleans.

I haven't heard about any of this from the regular media, only about the "failure" of New Orleans, and like everyone else have merely been subjected to Democrats droning on and on about how this is all the president's fault. It isn't the federal government's job to rescue you when a storm comes, and it was the local Democrats who failed to act in this case. It makes me sick.

Yesterday morning i was reading Seventeen for the first time in months (my sis' friend had invited us over and had a free subscription). There was a letter where a thirteen year old asked if she and her boyfriend should have sex because they loved each other and it was the next step in their relationship. The response was that it's illegal to have sex before you're sixteen. Now i'm the last one to advocate premarital or teenage sex, but what right does the government have to tell anyone that?!? It's the parents' job to make sure their kids are making the right choices and the government has no business telling anyone what to do sexually ever. This is another case of the government trying to protect people from themselves when it's not their place: they're only supposed to protect us from people who have the intent of hurting others. The government has way too much power right now.