Holy Smokes, Bullwinkle!

This should be the MEJ Quote of the Day

"There will be a cloud of smoke above Little Rock soon - of burned food, of anger and of shame that the world's richest nation couldn't organise a piss up in a brewery and lets Americans starve while they arrogantly observe petty regulations."

- anonymous British aid worker

What's got this volunteer so up in arms?

Tons of British aid donated to help Hurricane Katrina victims to be BURNED by Americans

HUNDREDS of tons of British food aid shipped to America for starving Hurricane Katrina survivors is to be burned.

US red tape is stopping it from reaching hungry evacuees.

Instead tons of the badly needed Nato ration packs, the same as those eaten by British troops in Iraq, has been condemned as unfit for human consumption.

The food, which cost British taxpayers millions, is sitting idle in a huge warehouse after the Food and Drug Agency recalled it when it had already left to be distributed.

"The FDA has recalled aid from Britain because it has been condemned as unfit for human consumption, despite the fact that these are Nato approved rations of exactly the same type fed to British soldiers in Iraq.

"Under Nato, American soldiers are also entitled to eat such rations, yet the starving of the American South will see them go up in smoke because of FDA red tape madness."

Sometimes it really takes a Brit to summarize things in America perfectly. We apparently do have an administration that "couldn't organize a piss up in a brewery." For you non-Brit speakers, a "piss up" means getting drunk.

And yet, the right wingnuts will keep on complaining that nobody ever tries to help us but we take care of the world. I know those army rations aren't much to look at, and you probably wouldn't want to serve them at a fancy restaurant, but for people with no food or potable water down in the boondocks of the Gulf Coast, they'd probably look like a feast.