Thanks for your post, and sensible comments. Blaming Bush is par for the
course these days from everything else in the world, so why not natural
disasters?
The misguided (and many time flat-out incorrect)statements proported as
"fact" that get thrown about are disgusting. The hatred for Bush apparently
is enough to rob anyone of their intelligence and rely on their anger rather
then facts to get their feelings out. Then again, these are the same people
that picket our men and women at Walter Reade Army Hospital, and still cling
to the notion that the war was "for oil".
I don't know what's more heartbreaking: the situation in NOLA or the
apparent liquification of brain cells among the Bush haters who put their
venemous feelings about the president in front of rational thought.
Truly sad, indeed.
Erik
----- Original Message -----
From: "Captain Bijou" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, September 02, 2005 10:35 AM
Subject: Re: [MOPO] OFF TOPIC - NOT THE TIME FOR POLITICS OR ARCHAIR
QUATERBACKING
Earl Blair (Captain Bijou) -- from Houston, here re: Hurricane Katrina.
I am somewhat surprised that members of this forum would use this moment
of
devastation and misery to opine, point fingers and engage in Monday
morning
quarterbacking while the horror of Hurricane Katrina continues to cause
suffering to hundreds of thousands. There will be plenty of time for the
blame game for years to come.
Instead, I urge all MoPo members to do what they can to help those sick,
displaced and dying. The easiest way to that is click on the below link
and
send your cash contribution to the Houston chapter of the Red Cross:
www.houstonredcross.org
Members from this organization and volunteers from civic groups around the
area are working around the clock. Currently, there are 13,000 Katrina
survivors housed in the Astrodome and another 3,000. Each person is given
medical attention, two hot meals and one cold meal (sandwich) a day, and a
cot on which to sleep. These facilities are near capacity and additional
buses of survivors will be directed to shelters in San Antonio or Dallas.
Churches and shelters throughout the city and surrounding areas are filled
to overflowing. We presently have 20 families in our Church's gymnasium
and
members are taking shifts in order to care for the families and provide
them
with clothing and food.
The Houston Independent School District, the University of Houston and
Texas
State University has waived admission requirements and is admitting
thousands of children to our already overcrowded classrooms. My wife, a
veteran teacher, gets her new students today.
With 30% of the nation's oil supply removed from the marketplace, the
effect
of this disaster will reach every single person in this country, whether
it
is in the form of higher gasoline prices (--or the lack of thereof--),
costlier home heating fuel costs this winter or insufficient supplies of
petroleum to manufacture other goods like fertilizer, plastics and so on.
It
is appropriate that these concerns, too, were addressed to citizens far
removed from the devastation.
The simple truth is that this nation, does not a contingency plan to deal
with any natural or man-made disaster of this magnitude. It is far greater
than the human man can imagine. The threat of a hurricane is a fact of
life
to Gulf Coast. I have lived here most of my life and been through two. The
destruction, death and devastation were enormous, but pale in comparison
to
Katrina. Tropical Storm Allison hit this city in 2002 and left much of the
Houston underwater for days just as New Orleans is today. Again their was
death, destruction and loss of property in the in the hundreds of
millions,
and again it is just a footnote in the epic story of Katrina's horror.
The
endless streams of the homeless and helpless riding hopefully in Houston
have become a regular feature on our local newscasts and will forever be
seared in our minds.
It is the largest catastrophe in this nation's history, and not a
Republican
or Democratic -- Red or Blue State -- issue.
Let's first help end the misery and suffering first, then resolve to make
certain our elected city, state and national leaders -- of whatever
political party -- are adequately prepared to comfort and care for those
affected the next time a disaster occurs.
Earl Blair
Houston TX
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rudy Franchi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, September 02, 2005 7:45 AM
Subject: [MOPO] OFF TOPIC/DAVID
It is fairly obvious to me that when the flood barriers were breached,
Bush's Brain, aka Karl Rove, got out his electoral template which shows
how every state, country, ward and precinct voted in the last two
elections and informed his protege that there was no need for heroic
measures since only a minority of The Minority flooded to near
extinction had voted for him. All national decisions are now made on a
strictly political basis and the non-white population of New Orleans
are not Bush people. As for his leadership, it wasn't so great during
9/11 either. Aside from flying all over the country and hiding out at
military bases the day of the event, how come it took him three days to
show up at Ground Zero when Clinton did it in two ... and he started
from Australia. Reading David's post and watching the right wing
talking heads on TV, it is now obvious how this is being spun. Blame
as much as you can on the local politicians, who are mainly Democrats
and be sure to add the cowardly caveat that of course mistakes were
made at every level. Regards, rudy franchi
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