No, I have not blogged about Katrina. I have no idea what to say. From Norway, the US looks like a third-world country run by an uncaring, incompetent idiot. This footage from Fox News, which my father described as one of the most moving pieces of jouralism he’s seen, tells you all you need to know. The federal government should be ashamed of itself. Too incompetent to help its own people, and too filled with hubris to allow others to help. I am certainly ashamed to be an American right now.

The Norwegians have a saying “ingenting så ille at det ikke er godt for noe”. It means that nothing’s so bad that it’s not good for something. I hope that this travesty will wake people up, and cause them to realize that the US needs to take care of its own people and infrastructire before trying to remake foreign countries. What’s a country for if not to take care of its own people? But I guess that poor blacks don’t count as people to this adminstration. To quote Respectful of Otters, “small-government conservatives have now seen their vision of how America should operate fulfilled”. Indeed. Is this wake-up call loud enough?

The calcium tablets I bought from the health food store here the other day for 177 kroner cost $5.69 from Amazon. 177 kroner is almost 30 dollars, in case you didn’t know. God, I love this country!