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is sucking the life out of everything else...I can feel it on this site...
SPOOKY LIGHTS
Went to bed the night before last, woke up and found the closet list on. Then it was off. Nobody else had been upstairs. Last night , lying in bed reading, I saw the light go on, then off, BY ITSELF. Scary.
BUSH WORLD
Bush is a mass murderer who should be tried as a criminal.
This much is clear: He cut funding in his budget for money to repair and rebuild the levees in New Orleans that experts said were likely to falter in a hurricane.
He did nothing to stop the decimation of delta land by developers--in fact, encouraged it--bringing New Orleans closer to the ocean.
With the hurricane headed to New Orleans, no federal response.
The Bush gang was hoping to luck out--and for the first 20 hours it looked like they had. They the dams broke.
THREE DAYS LATER, Air Force planes have finally landed at the NO airport with medics and airlifts of the sick and injured.
National Guard troops finally started moving in.
TOO LITTLE, TOO LATE. Where were they days ago? Why weren't Air Forces planes helping get people out Sun. -- and then again Tues. and Wed.?
People are dying in front of TV cameras from lack of food and water.
Bush was hoping that "private enterprise" and "faith-based organizations" would somehow clean up the disaster on their own. Thursday night it was still calling the worst disaster in U.S. history a "temporary disruption."
Why didn't he send in troops immediately? Because with the war in Iraq already straining out military and reserves, there are few troops to send without abandoning out national defenses totally. So much for Homeland Security and making us safer.
Do you feels safe now, knowing we have essentially no federal government to help in a disaster?
Even most of the staunchest libertarians would agree a federal government should at least be able to protect its people.
But we can't, because of Bush's foreign adventurism.
Already the right wing has prepared its excuses: looters and shooters prevented help from getting in (they wouldn't have if the military and National Guard had been present right away); and the people should have evacuated, so it's their fault if they stayed (impossible with insufficient warning for poor people who have no cars or can't afford gas, for the sick and elderly).
And by the way, while many criminals are running rampant and should be stopped, families helping themselves to jugs of water and diapers from walMart is not looting. WalMart should be distributing such things.
And here's the thing: this is just a preview of what's to come. Global warming, flooded cities as the sea level rises, and a government that doesn't care about protecting its own citizens, that believes charities can do the work it's supposed to do.
There have been many shameful moments for Americans in the last half-century or so--Vietnam, Watergate, Iraq--but this may be the most shameful of all. It is a government-sponsored holocaust of our own citizens.
By the way, the best source of first-hand info on this tragedy
is NOLA.com -- the New orleans Times-Picayune's blog.
is sucking the life out of everything else...I can feel it on this site...
SPOOKY LIGHTS
Went to bed the night before last, woke up and found the closet list on. Then it was off. Nobody else had been upstairs. Last night , lying in bed reading, I saw the light go on, then off, BY ITSELF. Scary.
BUSH WORLD
Bush is a mass murderer who should be tried as a criminal.
This much is clear: He cut funding in his budget for money to repair and rebuild the levees in New Orleans that experts said were likely to falter in a hurricane.
He did nothing to stop the decimation of delta land by developers--in fact, encouraged it--bringing New Orleans closer to the ocean.
With the hurricane headed to New Orleans, no federal response.
The Bush gang was hoping to luck out--and for the first 20 hours it looked like they had. They the dams broke.
THREE DAYS LATER, Air Force planes have finally landed at the NO airport with medics and airlifts of the sick and injured.
National Guard troops finally started moving in.
TOO LITTLE, TOO LATE. Where were they days ago? Why weren't Air Forces planes helping get people out Sun. -- and then again Tues. and Wed.?
People are dying in front of TV cameras from lack of food and water.
Bush was hoping that "private enterprise" and "faith-based organizations" would somehow clean up the disaster on their own. Thursday night it was still calling the worst disaster in U.S. history a "temporary disruption."
Why didn't he send in troops immediately? Because with the war in Iraq already straining out military and reserves, there are few troops to send without abandoning out national defenses totally. So much for Homeland Security and making us safer.
Do you feels safe now, knowing we have essentially no federal government to help in a disaster?
Even most of the staunchest libertarians would agree a federal government should at least be able to protect its people.
But we can't, because of Bush's foreign adventurism.
Already the right wing has prepared its excuses: looters and shooters prevented help from getting in (they wouldn't have if the military and National Guard had been present right away); and the people should have evacuated, so it's their fault if they stayed (impossible with insufficient warning for poor people who have no cars or can't afford gas, for the sick and elderly).
And by the way, while many criminals are running rampant and should be stopped, families helping themselves to jugs of water and diapers from walMart is not looting. WalMart should be distributing such things.
And here's the thing: this is just a preview of what's to come. Global warming, flooded cities as the sea level rises, and a government that doesn't care about protecting its own citizens, that believes charities can do the work it's supposed to do.
There have been many shameful moments for Americans in the last half-century or so--Vietnam, Watergate, Iraq--but this may be the most shameful of all. It is a government-sponsored holocaust of our own citizens.
By the way, the best source of first-hand info on this tragedy
is NOLA.com -- the New orleans Times-Picayune's blog.
hey_mama:
i concur. 
lauren:
Thank you! 