I was too mad to post yesterday..and tired to.
I don't know who voted this jackass in in the first place let alone re-elected him. Incompetent boob.. Don't get me started ..makes my blood boil. It's "hard work" dismantling this country, loosing any respect we once had in the global community and ensuring the rich get richer and the poor get poorer, dessimating the balanced federal budget in little over 2 years in office..to creating the hugest deficient in our history.. getting us into a no win middle east nightmare in the name of oil. Yeah oil...No WMD, not to Free the Iraqis from the tyranny of Saddam, Not a 'battle in the war of terrorism"....not because of a "link" to Al Quadda and 911... for oil. How does anyone think you can establish a "democratic government" in an area of the world steeped in religious dogma..it's only a matter oif time before civil war ..where the sunnis kill the muslims who kill the shites.. CAFTA, broken borders... NeoCons.. To **** in a handbasket!
The federal government knew for years that NOs levees needed upgrading and as part of homeland security had petitioned for funds to address it... and what happened? Bush and his cronies denied it and cut that project and downsized the Corp of engineers to boot...
I hung my head in shame at the total breakdown in local, state and federal government's preparation for this disaster and it's inept , slow paltry response to it. and the head of FEMA should be horse drawn throught the muck that was NO and Mississippi.
I took out my frustrations on the backyard weeding pruning and ripping out the most invasive ivy I've ever encountered . Today I will work on the front yard prune the azaleas and shape the hedges.Using garden tools helped to take the edge of my aggression.. and figure out what else I can do as just one person to help in this crisis.
No response needed, I just needed a safe place to rant.
Wow, Shots .. thank you for the concise summary of Bush's terms in office. I was depressed last night from what I was reading in the news that I was afraid of nightmares.
Ah, yes, that was a very nice rant, Schatz. How appropriate that you took out your frustrations by pruning Bushes. I think you're right on the money, but this country apparently wants incompetent, dishonest leadership. Smart sincere people scare them.
We've invited people over to go for a boat ride. Which makes me feel about 100. That's what my parents used to do when they had a boat -- "go for a boat ride." Not that it's a bad thing to do. But these folks have never been to our house, and that means I've got to go clean up.
I was filing junk, Peaches, and I'm not done. Yeah, I know, should throw away junk not file it. It's mostly old school records and newspaper clippings that actually do need to be saved, and stuff like that. Anyway, I have an hour and a half to wash the dishes and vacuum. Ta
Filing puppy nails!!! And polishing? With little bows on the collar? Whennnnn? They look old enough to me.
I broke down crying in church this morning. Three Klennex cry. They (we sang this little lyrical four-line song) that includes "Jesus Jesus Jesus. Let all heaven and earth proclaim. Kings and Kingdoms may all pass away. But there's something about that name." I knew there might be "refugees" amongst us and the kings and kingdoms passing away just went straight to my core.
Whilst I'm waiting for a job to step in front of me, I'm offering my time as a volunteer with the Red Cross assisting these people. They said it would be a long-term. It turns out, I'm proud to say, that we have a lot more people registered in Dogpatch than are staying at the Emergency Shelter. That's because people are taking them into their homes!! Sweet sweet sweet.
Ah thank you for understanding ladies... One never knows how others will react to a rant..
Kiwi: U got me this time on that one! Freudian clips and snips I guess!..I can't wait to get my kayak out on the lakes here..Enjoy your boat ride! I'm with Bagz.. little Greypaw.... I don't think she needs temperment testing.. you can just tell..she is calling out to youuuuuuuu! Or ok, the one in the last photo to the right is saying me me me! WHEN WHEN WHEN will Mrs. Striped Belly tell you which !! We are a very impatient group taren't we? Sug: I'm happy you haven't renounced your American citizenship at this point.. Get better quick darlin'. Bagz: I'm happy Canada hasn't moved to find more decent neighbors Cowpie: I'm so proud of you and your Dogpatch town and so glad you find comfort in your spiritual community.
Me: The front yard has been sheared,pruned,weeded, miracle-growed..Check: the back.. leetle tiny blue spruces attended to...Check: and I am watching a ruby throated hummingbird get whacked out on sugar water at the feeder. Weekly food shopping and laundry - Check: Completed, and my little girls are bathed. ( A horizontal/lateral list completed in Lushies name.) Where the Hoodledoo is Miss Exit 33! Sheesh ... this herd wanders !
Why is it that I was once (like a week ago) enchanted by these Mothra sized Butterflies and now I curse them as Blind bumblers.. 2x today in the garden...and a few times days before, they just DOINK me in the head or are like bloody bats in my hair! And you don't want to know about the prehistoric looking disgusto bugs I came acrossed in the garden..
Alrighty then, must go... start to clean this crack house... then perhaps an epsom salt bath and begin on Book 5 of the Dark Tower..(I ordered used hard covers thru Amazon.. got them in order of 7..6..and 5, figures eh?..but at least they are all in excellent shape as Library copies.. Call me a snob, but I just can't read things in paperback..)
Peachy to the South !Kiwi: to the North.. It's not too late for you to be part of the Northern Underground Railroad Run of us Mericans to Canada.... Bagz ... N E E D housing and political asylum ..Sug, please take up fund drive for us via Strudelroof and shoes. (Wabby, you can just sneak yourself over)
Peaches, You are such a softie! Good for you for volunteering. Very good things will come of it, for everyone. Hankies off to you.
DH and I have been watching movies on Turner Classic Movies tonight. He was watching Mogambo, which I caught the end of, then we watched something I'd never heard of from 1937, The Edge of the World about a Scottish island that was evacuated of its inhabitants when they could no longer make a living there. It was fascinating. Now he's watching Thief of Bagdad [sic] which was made by the same director. It's recording; maybe I'll watch it some other time. DD, as usual, is out at a friend's house. Not making cookies tonight, just hanging out. This guy who has a crush on her invited her over presumably with a bunch of other kids. Hope she isn't in for an unwelcome surprise...
Schatzi, you get more done in one weekend than I have in a decade.... Well, in the yard at least. We are in for another session with the rented wood chipper soon. Well, it's gotta be before snow flies, so we have about 1 month. DH is more than likely going to spend some time on the sailboat this week, so it won't be this week. It had better be next week, because after that I'll have a puppy to occupy my time and DD will be into play practice by then. They are doing A Christmas Carol, the one that was on TV last winter with whatshisname, y'know, Frasier. Oh yeah, Kelsie Grammar. Last I heard, DD wanted to get the part of Christmas Future, because it was an old hag. Isn't that nice?
"For those who were alone in the water, alone on the roof, you might ask 'What did we do to deserve this?"' Rev. Lowell Case told his congregation at St. Francis Xavier Church in Baton Rouge. "A lot of us think being black may have had something to do with it, being poor and black in New Orleans."
and I sort of agree, although I don't think it's racism except in the sense that more poor people are black and more black people are poor in N.O. I mean I don't think people are hesitating to help because the people who need the help are black. What I think is that being poor means you have fewer resources to begin with; you're much closer to financial ruin, homelessness and ill health to begin with, so you are way more likely to be in dire need of help. Let's face it, if everybody had a car and enough money for gas, lodging and food, this crisis would be all over but for the cleaning up. Poor people need more help. Duh! More help takes more time. Duh! Or gee, we could actually take into account that there are poor people who will need help and plan for it. Double Duh!
I watched "The Morning Show" today where they interviewed this president of some parish in Louisana. They've received no federal help YET. He said when people come back they'll look in their neighbor's houses and find the dead. He was white and the parish was mostly white. The Morning Show guy, Harry something I think, said he thought the issue was more complicated than racism. While the black parish was not getting help neither were many others.
What could these people have been thinking about in Washington? Even now they're saying there's no significant disease threat that can result from floating bodies. Are they robots?
I think you're right on the money, but this country apparently wants incompetent, dishonest leadership. Smart sincere people scare them.
Freudian clips and snips I guess!..I can't wait to get my kayak out on the lakes here..Enjoy your boat ride! I'm with Bagz.. little Greypaw.... I don't think she needs temperment testing.. you can just tell..she is calling out to youuuuuuuu! Or ok, the one in the last photo to the right is saying me me me! WHEN WHEN WHEN will Mrs. Striped Belly tell you which !! We are a very impatient group taren't we? 
but I just can't read things in paperback..)
But Bush is still a boob.
Isn't that nice? 
for now
