American Refugees

Never thought you'd see those 2 words together in a sentence, did you?

See that big-ass blob of clouds heading towards the gulf coast and New Orleans? About 1 or 2 days away from landfall? Please explain to me why we did not have everything in place.Why were we not prepared for this? Why were people dispatched to shelters, only to sit 5 days without food, water and sanitation?

Welcome to something worse than 9/11.....physically, at least. To be totally self-centered......at least there is not this ball of fear at the top of my spine, which I had after 9/11, and was this almost palpable thing sitting in the back of my skull about the size of a tennis ball...because people out there wanted to kill us, or me. I can understand the seeming mean-ness of nature because nature is insensate..what I cannot understand is the meanness of human beings.

The hurricane....This was just nature, egged on by global warming(that doesn't exist, according to die-hard conservatives, even though your president finally admitted it was a problem), an abnormally warm 90 degree Gulf of Mexico, and nothing personal.The link shows temps along the coastline, the picture above has a legend that tells you what the surface temp was in the Gulf. The strength of this hurrican was man made, imo. Everything that has happened since the hurricane is totally man-made. One man's story. Scroll way down to "Broussard". Listen to how un-caring Russert is, as per usual. The whirring sound you hear is a desperate conservative pundit trying to spin this federal failure into a state and local issue.

Dan and I have donated to the American Red Cross, the Humane Society, and have volunteered to relay phone calls and e-mails between displaced family members. I'm trying to reach someone's grandparents right now.

I am a southernor by birth, a yankee by raising....and I am always figthing some kind of war in my head. I hate the south, mostly because of the huge spiders and complete lack of culture and critical thought and cynicism in the small, strange, republican ass-kissing town my parents live in. We'll get that food and water out to you in a few days, bubba, and maybe by then pick up some of the corpses, too. The Department of Homeland Security could not even prepare for a catastrophe that they knew about 3 days ahead of time. What in the hell will they do for us when something un-expected happens? Our stupid president chose to go fund-raising and golfing while the gulf-coast was being razed, then sat on his hands while refugees were dying. Yesterday, he finally appeared to get his shit together. 5, 6, 7 days after the fact. This man is not a leader.

Why did Kristina happen? 9/11? Well..the answers are right here...brought to you by devout christians! Every soldier killed in Iraq is a victory for a vengeful god, who hates America for her toleration for gays and abortions! Can you understand why i think evangelicals should be thrown to the lions, toute de suite?