"Looting" vs. "Finding" -- Snopes weighs in

[sigma7]

Snopes on the controversial captions. I like the explanation, actually. Of course, I'm still wondering why this is being talked about more than the half-hearted DIY "evacuation" of an urban center where 1 in 6 families doesn't even have a car....

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Re: Another good question

[aardy.livejournal.com]

As long as Bush keeps saying nice things, and Congress reconvenes soon and pushes through a funding bill (whether the money actually ever goes anywhere or not), he'll more than likely keep enough of the country (particularly Red States and those people who don't think past "Hrm. Bad things on TV. President said good things. President's friends said good things. Must mean good things happened") just happy enough that Karl Rove will have the joy of picking the next president, too.

Or maybe he'll just find another country to invade or another government-killing, deficit-raising tax break to give, or another Social Security plan in order to pull everyone's attention away from his problems. He's counting on Americans' chronic miniscule attention spans.