Laura Bush (and again, what drugs do they have her on?) referred to the hurricane Katrina as “Corinna” twice.

It wouldn’t bother me so much except that:

1) It occurred to me that it was a Freudian slip. Whoopi Goldberg may be the only black person that Laura can think of, and she is assocated with a killer hurricane? What does that imply? Some sort of “they brought it on themselves” idea? Or should we look at the movie itself, a low-key romantic comedy, for the answers? I’d love to hear Whoopi’s opinion on this – she could write a whole routine on this one.

2) When the transcript was put on the web, they corrected her words. Hey, I listened to the clip on Randi Rhodes. She said “Corinna” – twice!

3) The other Bush woman, the mighty Barbara, had also made a very revealing statement: “What I’m hearing, which is sort of scary, is they all want to stay in Texas. Everyone is so overwhelmed by the hospitality,” she said in a radio interview from the Astrodome in Houston, Texas. “And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this — this is working very well for them,” she said – with a laugh. (Crooks and Liars has the audio)

It reminded me of Barbara’s comments before the invastion of Iraq, when she indicated her lack of interest in the potential death toll. “Why should we hear about body bags, and deaths, and how many, what day it’s gonna happen, and how many this or what do you suppose? It’s not relevant. So, why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that?”

Beautiful, beautiful minds there. Sigh. I have a pile of stuff here about FEMA and photo op fakery and some amazingly repulsive quotations, but it looks like it’s all being covered elsewhere in the blogosphere and even on some of the news – so I think I’ll skip it for today.

This afternoon, we’re doing to my nephew’s first year birthday bash. Ben picked out a great present, and we’re going to try to appreciate what we have. It’s a beautiful day in Atlanta – crisp early fall – my favorite time of the year. I’m about to turn off the computer.

After that, I will be requesting that Benevolent Deities, Inc. deliver love and necessities and all-over healing to everyone who is hurting. I’m sure they can do a better job than the government of the USA. Oh – there was a memo – it seems that Big God (of which none greater can be thought) is getting a bit…. I believe the word might be….”miffed.”