That Michele is just a barrel of laughs! NOT!!!

That Michele Bachmann is just thigh-slapping funny.  No, not really.  Over the weekend, she “joked” with Floridians about God sending a message to Americans in the form of earthquakes and hurricanes.

According to the Washington Post:

I don’t know how much God has to do to get the attention of the politicians. We’ve had an earthquake; we’ve had a hurricane. He said, ‘Are you going to start listening to me here?’ Listen to the American people because the American people are roaring right now. They know government is on a morbid obesity diet and we’ve got to rein in the spend.”

I am not so sure that the earthquake or the hurricane was any laughing matter.  Every street in Vermont has been impacted by water.  Billions of dollars have been lost because of the hurricane just in the form of people having to shut down their businesses, especially in seasonal tourist areas.  There is also the cost of property damage which will be in the billions of dollars.  The earthquake damage which probably will be far less costly, still was disruptive and scary.  Entire transit systems have been closed down.

While most people are giving thanks to their maker that things aren’t as bad as they could have been, Bachmann is making jokes.  Folks weren’t even  out of harms way before she turned two natural,  potentially serious events in to a laughing matter, which they weren’t.   That’s a strike out in my book. 

And the sea shall reclaim what is hers…..

 

On Hatteras Island:

The Outer Banks was under-reported.  Obviously this area isn’t the touristy area,  but it is certainly dramatic.

At what point do we just decide that man wasn’t supposed to inhabit this narrow archipelago?  At what point does someone, not sure who, decide that this area is just off limits to building? 

The Oregon Inlet was formed from a breach during a hurricane.  Other parts of the long series of barrier islands have been carved out, reshaped, and reshaped again over the years.  The landscape is fragile and ever-changing. 

Something to think about…  when does man admit he has lost to Mother Nature? 

Most recent from the Town of Duck:

 

Colin Powell calls Cheney’s book “cheap shots”

Former Secretary of State Colin Powell fired back at what he called “cheap shots” made by former Vice President Dick Cheney, in order to sell his new book, due to come out on Tuesday.  Powell contended that Cheney swiped at many in the former Bush Administration and used such allegations to pump up his new book entitled “In My Time.”

Cheney has been stumping all the talk shows championing his new biography and saying it will make some heads explode.   To this, Powell takes exception.  Politico discloses:

Powell said on CBS’s “Face the Nation” that many disclosures seemed to be “cheap shots that he’s taking at me and other members of the administration who served to the best of our ability for President Bush.”

Powell took particular umbrage at Cheney’s claim he felt more comfortable expressing his views to the public than President George W. Bush, as the book brings to the surface bitterness over the 2003 decision to invade Iraq.

“The president knows that I told him what I thought about every issue of the day,” Powell said. “Cheney may forget that I’m the one who said to President Bush, ‘If you break it, you own it.’ And you have got to understand that if we have to go to war in Iraq, we have to be prepared for the whole war, not just the first phase. And Mr. Cheney and many of his colleagues did not prepare for what happened after the fall of Baghdad.”

Powell disputed the claim from the book “In My Time” that Cheney had pushed him out in 2004, saying that’s when he had intended to leave.

The retired Army general, who had also served as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, described the administration as dysfunctional at the time of his departure.

“It was clear by 2004 that the team was not functioning as a team,” Powell said. “And we had different views, and not just views, not views that could be reconciled. And so I said to the president that I would be leaving at the end of the year, after the election, and he ought to take a look at his whole team to try to resolve all these issues.”

Cheney also levels in his book some condescending criticism at Condoleezza Rice, Powell’s successor as secretary of state, and former CIA Director George Tenet, Powell noted.

Colin Powell has a long distinquished military record  that pre-dates his service in the Bush Administration.  He is one of the least partisan of anyone who has served as Secretary of State.  He broke rank with Republicans in 2008 by supporting the candidacy of Barack Obama, a Democrat.   He added he didn’t mind that Cheney revealed that the administration wasn’t always in agreement.  What he found offensive was placing the administration’s disagreements  on par with  tabloid news.  He felt that Cheney had going over the top in his efforts to promote his  own book, often at the expense of those who served in the Bush Administration. 

Who else from the Bush Administration will protest the ” ‘heads will explode”  rhetoric used by Cheney?  Will the former president be embarrassed by Cheney revelations or will the book endear us to George Bush and vilify Cheney?  Did he go too far with his less than flattering depiction of Colin Powell?  Powell seemed to take more offense at what Cheney said about others rather than about himself.