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Joe_Love, it pleases me greatly
that you can admire my writing, but disagree with my politics. I am a died in the wool liberal. I see Bushie and his minions as being the worst thing that has happened to this country in my lifetime.
posted by
Cynthia
on September 8, 2005 at 5:26 AM
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Cynthia
This is absolutely the best piece of writing I've read of yours. Wonderful job.
That being said, I do not agree with your position. I personally feel the most tragic part of this entire catastrophe is a small group of people trying to politicize something that is causing soooo many people anguish. Rebuilding New Orleans and taking care of our brothers and sister should be a united effort. Instead, a handful of opportunistic political hawks are trying to divide our country. It's inappropriate and disgusting.
posted by
Joe_Love
on September 7, 2005 at 6:09 PM
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Fw, much appreciated.
It's been awhile since we communicated.
posted by
Cynthia
on September 7, 2005 at 4:30 AM
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Damn - what great writing!
posted by
fwmystic
on September 6, 2005 at 7:49 PM
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Good god really?
Oh so horrid.
posted by
ginnieb
on September 5, 2005 at 10:02 AM
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Telynor, my brains are fried too.
posted by
Cynthia
on September 5, 2005 at 9:08 AM
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Anthony Wiley, you have always
displayed great empathy for people, those close to you and those you don't even know. I could only wish our own president had half the feeling you have.
posted by
Cynthia
on September 5, 2005 at 9:07 AM
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Ainsley_Jo, thanks for the
thoughtful comment, but I think you are taking a rather simplistic view of the situation.
posted by
Cynthia
on September 5, 2005 at 9:05 AM
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Maj, the first line in your comment made it perfectly clear.
posted by
Cynthia
on September 5, 2005 at 9:02 AM
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Ginnieb, the Bush man is going
back to NO today to shore up his crumbling image at the direction of his handlers and Karl Rove. Also, turns out that the food distribution center that he supposedly visited was just a stage set, also arranged by Bushies PR team. As soon as he left, it was dismantled and there was nothing left in that spot. A Television team (ZDF) that our company works with, got it all on tape and televised it throughout Germany and France. We'll never see that footage inside the USA. Land of the free and home of the brave.
posted by
Cynthia
on September 5, 2005 at 9:01 AM
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Great, very moving post. I like how you write about the normalcy of things here, and the hellishness of NO. Our Fearless Leader seems to blithely assume that he can say anything (his continuing his vacation until the outcry really started is what really angers me), and the people are going to buy it. I wonder how many votes his successor for the Republican nomination is going to get in the Gulf area. As for Dr. Rice and her shoe fetish -- oh that is incredible arrogance on her part. Pity we still don't have the guillotine, sometimes I get the feeling we really need to start herding theiving CEO's and other mischief makers up it... Ok, so it's late, and my brains are fried...
posted by
telynor
on September 5, 2005 at 12:22 AM
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Cynthia
You have certainly taken me from the bliss of serenity to the depths of despair with you luv. I too feel the weight of all of our failure, because after all Canada is also North America, and we are not smug islands.
We are humans, and together we have failed thousands upon thousands of our fellow man, and I hang my head with you my dear friend, and my soul also is crying right alongside you.
Perhaps luv, we can fall on our knees at sometime today, in our respective solitude, and simply ask from God forgiveness first, and then the spirit to do those things we can to help.
posted by
WileyJohn
on September 4, 2005 at 8:54 AM
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Cynthia, this was an another evocative post. Even though we know that tomorrow we could be in despair how few of us prepare
posted by
Azur
on September 4, 2005 at 12:04 AM
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My folks went to New Orleans...
...back in February of 1997 to celebrate their Golden Anniversary.
They had honeymooned there in 1947 during Mardi Gras and stayed at what was then called Jung Hotel.
This last time, they stayed in Biloxi and drove over to watch the parade.
Their parade experience was quite a contrast from what it had been fifty years before.
The 1947 parade was more family-friendly, and the people there made up a happy, orderly crowd.
This time, a cop was very protective of my folks, because he was afraid that they would get trampled by people who thought a couple in their seventies (74 and 79) was too poky and needed to get out of the way.
He helped them to get to a place where they could at least halfway see the parade and made sure that they got out of there safely.
They weren't that impressed with the parade, which seemed a lot more crude to them than the one they'd watched in 1947.
George W. Bush wasn't even President then.
He was President when 9-11 took place, and the people of NYC, for the most part, pulled together--nothing happening like the savage behavior taking place in New Orleans.
We can't blame Bush for everything. This cancerous environment that is showing itself so prominently now was something that had been brewing for a long time.
The population of New Orleans has now been cut down, tragically, be senseless deaths.
The survivors are now in the process of leaving the city.
When the time comes that this place is inhabitable again, some will return, but others will be making lives elsewhere.
The people who return to New Orleans will be the people who really want to be there, and these people will work together to make it a nice place to live, as well as to visit!
Peace!
AJ 
Here is a collection of
my thoughts and the
thoughts of others to
try to sort through all
that has taken place
during the past few
days. Go here...
posted by
Ainsley_Jo_Phillips
on September 3, 2005 at 11:19 PM
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"can't always conceive"
posted by
majroj
on September 3, 2005 at 6:48 PM
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We got too big. Too many layers between power and life.
Interpersonal gamesmanship is a better survival attribute for people who buy everything, than physical practicality and teamwork, which helps people striving to survive directly.
People making their living by hoarding knowledge and power and't always conceive that the laws of physics and nature will out-trump them, eventually , every time.
Hence, announcements N'Orleans will be rebuilt....
posted by
majroj
on September 3, 2005 at 6:47 PM
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Cynthia...
...there is such passion in your words but it is so unfortunate that you actually have to write them. It seemed to me that Bush 'appeared' on the scene at just the right time for people to say 'here comes our hero!' It's almost as if he waited the five days and when he started getting bad press he appeared to the people like a god saying 'here I am and now we'll start helping you. Aren't I wonderful to come and hug you, kiss you and pose for photos.' it is a very sad state of affairs that a country such as this, first was not prepared and secondly, had no idea organizational skills to pull aid together. I didnt' know that tidbit about Condoleeza..I can't stand to see her...her and Rummy...they are just as bad as Bush. :(
posted by
ginnieb
on September 3, 2005 at 5:02 PM
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Thanks Dave, sometimes
when the pressure gets so fierce, the only way I can relieve it is to write.
posted by
Cynthia
on September 3, 2005 at 3:00 PM
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Some very sharp writing here, Cynthia. Descriptive power.
posted by
_dave_says_ack_
on September 3, 2005 at 2:40 PM
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Maj-didn't we Americans used to be
the "can do" people? What the F*#k happened?
posted by
Cynthia
on September 3, 2005 at 1:36 PM
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"In a system which stamps out initiative, delay is inevitable".
(I said that).
At every level is a bureaucrat, becuase men and women of action are in action, or backstabbed by the bureaucrats.
No bureaucrat will take initiative because that exposes them to the possibility of criticism (founded or not, and they are very cognizant of the second type); for their carers, this is a lose/lose situation.
So, they wait, either for commands from above, or, if they are only half-bureaucrat, until the "situation on the ground" forces them to act.
They filter and selectively listen to their subordinates, keep it all verbal so there's no paper trail. Later on, then, if it works they proclaim their timely response; if it doesn't work or they are under attack, they proclaim "It wasn't my fault".
And they will not tell the voters the hard truth about needing new levees, housing built under flood levels, etc.
Remember them. Remember every one...
posted by
majroj
on September 3, 2005 at 12:21 PM
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