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To: ThirdEye who wrote (37483)	9/7/2005 7:01:52 PM
From: SiouxPal	Respond to of 360923

Please Drink the Water Jerry and Joe Long 09.07.2005 * Yes George W Bush is a disgrace. Yes his administration is a gaggle of liars, thieves, and apologists. But as Scottie McClellan would say, this is no time to assign blame. Yet before the nation is riveted by the findings of the Collins Lieberman hearings, before W resumes his Rove-made role as a problem solving solver of problems, perhaps W, Dick, Rummy, Chertie, Brownie et al. could do one simple thing...go down to New Orleans and drink a cup of street water. Every member of the cabinet, every member of the White House staff, every deputy undersecretary of every alphabet agency that had any role in this disaster...just go down and have a sip. While you're at it, take along every member of Congress who voted not to fully fund the US Army Corps of Engineers, every local and state pol who sided with developers when it came to protecting the wetlands. All of you, dip a glass into the gunk and swallow what you have sown. * What is the larger obscenity...Michael Brown's job performance, the fact that he got the job, or the fact that Joe Albaugh had the job to give in the first place? You don't expect the media to dissect the patronage and cronyism that goes into every ambassadorship...but this is FEMA! Has anybody checked anything else...for all we know, security at Los Alamos is being overseen by a former treasurer of the Ice Capades. * Inappropriate remarks on any crisis can never be deemed untoppable till the blithered musings from whatever pea of gray matter rattles within the shrunken cranium of Barbara Bush are taken into account. Fortunately for Babs, neither gods nor karma exist. For if they did, she'd be floating, bloated and rat-gnawed, in an unreached attic. * Yes yes right wingers, by no means should we play the blame game. Oh by the way, here's a thought...a bomb goes off in a major city...over scones and an egg white omelet, Michael Chertoff thumbs the Billings Gazette and deduces that a bullet has been dodged due to the minimal damage...then someone thinks to test for radioactivity. How many "message I care" site visits and hugging photo ops should we expect when those results are in? huffingtonpost.com

To: ThirdEye who wrote (37483)	9/7/2005 7:05:45 PM
From: SiouxPal	Respond to of 360923

A Child's View of Katrina Danielle Crittenden 09.07.2005 The tangled heap of naked Barbies and Kens reminded me vaguely of Abu Ghraib--minus a Lyndie England action figure standing over them. “What happened to this one?” I asked, picking out a cheap Asian knock-off Barbie to whose face some child had assiduously applied red marker pen. My three-year-old glanced up from the talking “Bratz” doll we had just found in the cupboard—to her delight and my dismay. She shrugged. “That one got a sunburn.” “How ’bout a make-over girlfriend?” chanted the electronic tart.“Hel-LO.” I deposited Melanoma Barbie in the trash and continued sorting through the toys. Moved by the plight of hundreds of Katrina victims arriving to stay in the Washington, D.C. armory, I’d decided the most useful thing our household could provide—aside from the mandatory check—was toys. The news footage of the armory showed it to be clean and organized, with blankets neatly folded at the foot of every cot. There would be hot meals, beverages, soap, showers, counselors—everything except what anyone who has had to endure more than ten minutes in an airport terminal or similar with children: distractions. Here were all these parents, enduring the most horrific disaster of their lives, not knowing where they were going to live or what they were going to eat—and with all these worries and burdens there would still be infants to soothe, two-year-olds to cajole, whizzing-about six-year-old boys to entertain through the hours and hours of waiting and boredom. When scanning the Red Cross lists of needed supplies, I wondered whether Xboxes and Disney DVDs should not be considered as essential as toiletries. My 11-year-old son, when asked to go through his things for stuff to donate, solemnly presented me with his Nintendo 64, for which he and his elder sister had saved their allowances a couple of years ago. I knew they no longer played with it—in fact, I’m sure any self-respecting young hurricane refugee will turn up his nose at this antiquated bit of game technology (one newspaper report today describes a family that was left with practically nothing—except the XBox the children had the wit to rescue in advance). But if it buys a parent even an hour or two of grudging peace, the gesture will be worth it (less appreciated will be the books my son snuck into the box: the ones with the gold medals pasted to the covers that teachers always recommend—those worthy books with edifying, politically correct heroes and themes). After a couple of hours of sorting—and wrestling with the three-year-old about which toys to give away (alas the Bratz did not make it)—we had a nice Container Store crate ready to be raided by bored armory residents. There was one big problem: The armory didn’t want it. Only as I loaded the box into my car did I think to phone ahead, mainly to find out where was the drop-off location. But I was told by a city official—on the Katrina hotline—that the Red Cross was running the operation, and at this point was only accepting toiletries. This isn’t to say that the armory was already fully supplied with toys—simply that there wasn’t enough manpower to cope with them. Other well-intentioned mothers bearing boxes of toys had already been turned away. I went back to the Internet, and with the help of a friend, found a group that had been organized specifically to send toys to hurricane kids. There was a drop-off near my house. Problem solved. For me, anyway. But not for those stricken parents now stuck in the armory--and for days and days in stadiums in the south—trying to cope with grief and rambunctious children simultaneously. I sure hope they’re running movies on the Astrodome’s Jumbotron. huffingtonpost.com

To: ThirdEye who wrote (37483)	9/7/2005 7:10:14 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 360923

Read my post again, and also my response to SiouxPal Message 21682106 Homeland security spending and spending on anti-terror efforts have greatly increased. I never said we were not spending a lot of money in Iraq, I said "the majority of it isn't in Iraq or Afghanistan or for homeland defense and anti terror efforts." We are spending a lot of money, and a lot of additional money, in those areas, but the increase in the rest of the government spending has been even larger. Not much of an advocate for small government? Then what are the tax cuts for? Even with the tax cuts, or even if we cut enough spending that the budget was balanced. We would hardly have "small government". We have massive and growing government. Small government would require slashing spending and taxes and regulations. Not what we have actually had, which is tax cuts that fall well short of slashing taxes, a greater total number of active pages of government regulation, and a large increase in spending. Tim