Sickening
What is happening in New Orleans right now is sickening. Those who are there have been telling us. Listen to Mayor Nagin talk emotionally about the situation, or Anderson Cooper. Go to CNN and listen, do not read the manuscript, watch it. Download whatever it is that you need to in order to hear their voices and, in the case of Cooper, watch his face wrench at the destruction and the fury about what is not happenning around the country to get these people help. Then get your behind to the red cross or on the phone, or writing a letter, or something and make a contribution.
We have an area of our country where our countrymen, or more importantly human beings, are dying. Right now someone is taking their last breath before going under. Right now a child is dying with no food and disease ridden waters flowing.
Where is the help? Why is their back patting going on already? Why are our medics from the National Guard unable to do anything?
Because they have been sent oversees to defend an oil supply that is inevitably going to cause more severe weather as we cause global warming. This is just the beginning, and our young folks, many are my classmates, are dying for…for I do not know what. Call up a soldier in Iraq, ask them if there is meaning in what they are doing. They will tell you they do not know, they are just trying to get home. Ask someone in New Orleans pulling people out of attics, like Mayor Nagin, if what they are doing has meaning. Or, better yet, ask yourself. They are saving lives. They are heroes. Mayor Nagin is my hero, and i want him running my country.