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Category: Everyday Stories

  • Politics? What politics?

    We’re back and our fish are still alive. My husband’s father has been battling ALS the past five years and landed in the hospital a couple of weeks before we were to set out on a long-planned vacation to the Ioway Fall Encampment in Kansas and then down to see my mother in Cottonwood and…

  • Raise your hands if you saw the pics of all the looted televisions and microwaves piled up at the convention center

    Since Hurricane Katrina I’ve returned several times to look at the Pentagon’s study, published 2003, “An Abrupt Climate Change Scenario and Its Implications for United States National Security”. The paragraphs I’ve been drawn to are the following:

  • We are lousy scientists

    I subscribe to Robert Krampf’s Experiment of the Week newsletter. Today Experiment #442 Melting Ice was the offering. H.o.p. is game for anything to do with water and ice. Perfect. We were instructed to put an ice cube in boiling water and hold one under a stream of cold water. The question was, which would…

  • Thumbs Carllile

    With a nod to Dharma Bums who got me started thinking about it. Rexroth’s Daughter wrote a beautiful post on the how and why she is a collector of handshakes and her passion for it is a beautiful one unsullied by dropping-name ambitions, each handshake opening to the worlds of those others and the people…

  • Hope

    H.o.p. thrusts a paper in front of my face and in his nasal cold sneezy voice says, “Guess what that is?” Blobs with faces. “That’s smoke and that’s pollution. They were the bad things let out of Pandora’s Box.” Yes, indeed the ills of the world released from Pandora’s Box. “Except for hope,” H.o.p. says.…

  • Some dances you decline and move on to another

    Editor and Publisher calls Wednesday’s White House Press Briefing a “wild” one, with McClellan facing tough questioning: Q Scott, does the President retain confidence in his FEMA Director and Secretary of Homeland Security? MR. McCLELLAN: And again, David, see, this is where some people want to look at the blame game issue, and finger-point. We’re…

  • Psychological violence against the survivors

    I began the below post on Saturday but never published it. I’ll publish it now but first this: Plan to Move Astrodome Evacuees on Hold By JIM VERTUNO, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 52 minutes ago (9/6/2005) AUSTIN, Texas – A plan to move some Hurricane Katrina evacuees from the Houston Astrodome to cruise ships…

  • Lady Laura’s multiple choice dilemma

    President George W. Bush (R) and first lady Laura Bush walk across the south lawn of the White House as they return from a day trip to the hurricane-affected areas along the Gulf Coast, in Washington September 5, 2005. Bush, who has faced fierce criticism for slow relief response, visited dozens of Hurricane Katrina victims…

  • FEMA cut emergency communication lines to Jefferson Parish

    Over at Stonebridge, Aaron Broussard, the president of Jefferson Parish, on Meet the Press: Yesterday — yesterday — FEMA comes in and cuts all of our emergency communication lines. They cut them without notice. Our sheriff, Harry Lee, goes back in, he reconnects the line. He posts armed guards and said no one is getting…

  • The supreme violence of the privileged is to close its doors and windows to the truth

    My husband remembers when he was a young boy and Dr. Martin Luther King was going to be going through Jackson, Mississippi in the “Freedom Ride” across the South. He says this is when he realized how crazy people were. People all over the neighborhood, the schools, the church were saying that Dr. King’s buses…

  • Quick, tell me who wasn’t grateful for the water and MRE’s that partnered Bush into New Orleans on Friday

    More Help On The Way For Katrina Victims WBEN Newsroom – Saturday, September 3, 2005 07:51 PM New Orleans, LA (CBS/AP) – Thousands more bedraggled refugees were bused and airlifted to salvation Saturday, leaving the heart of New Orleans to the dead and dying, the elderly and frail stranded too many days without food, water…

  • The president tours the devastation

    Alice is thrown with the force of a hurricane through a glass darkly, steps up to national television cameras and screams for help. She is half a decade into the 21st century, the grotesque, false face of lies selling a compassionate land of opportunity under strong leadership’s hand is torn away and drowning in the…