New Orleans

I find it necessary to blog about this. I'm very upset so I appologize for the inevitable typos.


While no where near physically effected by the tragedy there, I have been very emotionally affected by it. I have been watching the footage and began seeing the places I spent 10 weeks last summer.

I saw the streets I walked to work on underwater and have been unable to contact the people I worked with there at NOLA. I can't watch anymore. All I do is cry--it is so wrong. This was one of our major cities and with more history than most.
I'm very grateful I did not move there as we talked about, but I still feel a profound sense of loss. The whole city is for all intents and purposes gone. Aside from the death and water, roving bands of hoodlums and criminals are running the streets now. Does anyone else grasp what this means?

There are people praying on people who have just lost everything, and our government is as usual more than a dollar short and day late. People are being robbed, raped, and killed.

A 10 year old girl ( a child people) was raped (they also managed to break both her ankles!) by a gang of men IN the Superdome! The place she was supposed to be safe!!!!

Why did it take a week to get down there, did they get lost on the way? Maybe they took a wrong turn and ended up in Las Vegas? Did they not have maps? Maybe they took a wrong turn and ended up in---oh I don't know another country , continent, maybe -----Iraq?

Should we point out that Cuba was faster to offer a response than our own government? That's a country we have embargos against people. Castro has no reason to offer us help.

We are now the one of the least respected countries in the world. I can't imagine why. We are so quick to help those in other countries that don't need or want our help that we can't take care of our own!

I can't stand listening to Bush "explain". He gave no answer to the questions, just random non-sense. He babbled about Iraq people!!!!!!!!! Why is he talking about that still when thousands of people in his own country (a country he is incharge of) are dying of starvation, disease, and anarchy? Doesn't he understand this just makes him look like he just doesn't care, or maybe he just can't grasp that he has to explain his actions for once.

We are no longer willing (well, some of us never were--but we were out voted) to accept irrelevant drivel as a reasoning for everything from wars to his watching people die when he could easily have had help there the next day.

I heard someone say Bush doesn't care about black people. I think that person is incorrect---Bush just doesn't care about people in general. If they aren't rich enough to contribute to his wealth and position, he doesn't care. I tried thinking of him as an incompetent and not knowing any better, but that just doesn't work. This has just gone too far.

These were and are good people, poor yes (in some cases smelly on a good probably), but they don't deserve to be left to die.

I have to side with the Mayor, the government needs to GET OFF ITS ASS and get down there! What they sent yesterday is not going to be enough.