this email was just forwarded to me:

Global warming is real. Yet our brethren in the scarlet zones refused to acknowledge that fact. They voted for a president who preferred fantasy to fact.

Now they come, hands outstretched, to their more prosperous blue state cousins. Not only do they dare to ask us for further handouts, they actually have the audacity to lecture us about our politics.

We Californians and New Yorkers already pay far more to the federal government than we receive -- unlike the folks in Texas and Alabama and Louisiana, who take and take and TAKE. And then they take some more -- even as they lecture us about spending. What sheer gall!

Now those mother- (and sister- and brother-) fucking red state LEECHES want Californians to open their wallets even wider. Those Bush-loving Darwin-hating quasi-retarded brutishly-primitive hillbillies want us to fork over more of our hard-earned money in order to get them out of a deadly fix they brought upon themselves.

Newsflash, y'all: If you want money from us blue-staters, you're also going to have to listen to our words. That's the price.

No, we will not listen to anything you have to say in response. You are leeches. Leeches do not have the right to a response.

You want us to give you a hand-out? Fine, we'll give it to you -- but ONLY if you sit still, hold your bloody tongues (bite 'em until they bleed, if you have to) and let a much-deserved lecture sink in.

No lecture, no hand-out. It's that simple. You have to pay the price; otherwise, get the money from Jesus.

The lecture comes down to this: BUSH CAUSED THIS DISASTER.

And YOU caused this disaster, you southern soft-heads, because you voted for that ape.

Bush caused this disaster by ignoring global warming. He caused it by listening to quack pseudoscientists instead of real scientists.

Bush caused this disaster by un-funding SELA, a program designed to keep levees at proper strength in New Orleans. A simple fact of history: New Orleans -- the one major city in the south with culture and style -- was obliterated by Bush's refusal to fund hurricane and flood protection measures. Unforgivable!

Bush caused this disaster by squashing FEMA. Money was diverted from that agency to Iraq, leaving our emergency services impotent.

Bush caused this disaster by transferring the National Guard to Iraq, where they serve only one purpose: THEFT. Instead of protecting American citizens, our troops now protect Haliburton and other companies, who are carrying out their evil plan to buy up everything worth buying in that country. The money is being siphoned out of Iraq and into the pockets of Cheney, Bush and their greedy cronies.

Bush caused this easily-forecast disaster by not having troops on hand to evacuate citizens.

Bush caused this catastrophe by fiddling -- or GIT-tarring -- while New Orleans drowned.

That's the message you need to hear, you barbaric, Jesus-addled, Limbaugh-tomized red-state hicks.

And you will sit there and listen to it and say NOTHING in response. We blue-staters are sick to death of your arrogant lies and smears and fake science and supernaturalistic yawpings and ludicrous self-deceits.

You literally cannot continue to exist unless we blue-staters give you money. The situation is that simple. You have been leeching off of us for years, and now you depend on our charity for your very lives.

So if you Jesusmaniac simpletons really want that cash, you will just sit there and SHUT UP and not say ONE DAMN WORD in your defense.

BUSH CAUSED THIS DISASTER. YOU CAUSED THIS DISASTER BY VOTING FOR BUSH.

You don't like that message? Then don't take our money!

If I read ONE MORE article in which a science-hating red state pundit attacks progressives, I'm going to take the money I was going to donate to disaster relief and spend it on a nice Thai meal. And I'm going to suggest that all other progressives do likewise.

I'm going to say "DROWN AND DIE, YOU ARROGANT HILLBILLY SOUTHERN-FRIED LEECHES!!"

As Shakespeare said, you did make love to this employment. You inflicted your fate on yourselves -- by inflicting Bush upon the world.

YOU MAKE PEOPLE WHO HATE BUSH LOOK BAD

I am amazed but what you wrote. Think about it, dumbass, you attitude is the most dangerous possible. The middle and lower classes have been screwed under Bush, now you're saying let the poor (mainly-) blacks of N.O. drown.

I hope you reread your idiotic, mindless, hateful post and reevaluate your rhetoric.

The enemy is Bush, and his cronies who MISLED good, hard-working people, that might have voted for him, but didn't vote for his deceit.

Can you really hate people and hope for them to drown merely because they are politically active and voted for a different candidate.

Politicians have a duty to lead us, regardless of what party they are from, direct your anger squarely on the power-mongers, not the suffering poor of N.O.

I feel terribly sorry for those people, but I pity you

Easy killer. He was just posting an email that was forwarded to him and he posted it probably because it's so ludicrous.

heh. i'm hoping you a) are assuming the author will find his way to this message board to see your post, or b) didn't read the first line of my post.

Yo latorre,

READ AGAIN. He clearly wrote at top: Email that was forwarded to him.

Don't start calling him a dumbass when it wasn't him who wrote it.

Sincere apologies to Elephantstone.

I need to read more carefully.

Ironic that the original email sender is so hellbent on not helping the rest of the country... guess that means Oregon, Washington, Idaho and BC should yank their energy supplies when California has rolling blackouts again.

Don't pity him, he didn't write it. He just passed it along for discussion.

And regardless of the tone of the message, when you strip it of emotion, are there supportable facts within?

If so, it definitely bears discussion.

If a similar tragedy had happened in a northern blue state, we can only speculate what insults might be thrown around by the far right and the religious extremists.

The direction of the sentiment was invalid.
The sentiment itself, however, was extremely fucking valid.

Now, i may not be an American, but aren't the people most affected poor and black? You know, people who mostly vote Democrat.

yeah, global warming is ALLLLLLLLL Bush's fault.

yeah, it's idiots like that that make Liberal's look like fucking clowns.

yawn

I wouldnt mind seeing Cali breaking off and floating away either...

Yes. Plus, what that guy wrote is some of the most wrongheaded dumbass shit I've ever heard.

I did not (nor would I ever) vote for George Bush but to blame him for all of this country's problems is stupid and frankly UnAmerican. Especially in a time of national tragedy like this.

By his logic, George Bush and other Republicans would have done nothing to help New York after 911 and would do nothing to help California in the event of a major earthquake?

So, I guess I shouldnt pay my federal taxes now to support all of the illegal aliens that California can't deal with?

People in this country have lowered themselves to the level of absolute ignorance over this shit.

Embarrasing.

wHOA! There there little street teamer. I like your gumption.

Whoever wrote this is an idiot and probably thinks we're still living in 1861. Last I checked we're all in the USA. Stop blaming people and start helping instead, ya cheap bastard.

Wow. Being raised in Texas, that was just one disturbing read.

What an idiot.

A disgrace to the state of CA!

The person who wrote is probably not even from California.

And frdf, fuck you for wishing my state ill will!

yeah, this is retarded on a hundred thousand levels. if Kerry had been elected, we'd still be in the exact same fucking place.

Goes to show you can't separate people into good/bad just by their party affiliation or how far right or left they are.

Assholes like this dude come from all camps.

- Sincerely, Son Of A Quality Jesusfried Hillybilly, Northern Branch

I keep picturing this person eating their Thai meal.