NO is gone, is right.
I think you hit more than a few nails and more than a few idiots on the head.
I hadn't realized that the corruption and violence routinely active in the area was so great in addition to the voodoo and MardiGras spirit; rampant sexual acting out etc.
Reminds me of this thread:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1472056/posts
27 CHRISTIAN PROPHETIC EXCERPTS FROM 1940 UNTIL NOW.
It is beginning to feel like the docs on that thread are a lot more accurate than I ever wanted them to be.
Paul over at Wizbang takes the blogosphere to task for self serving Katrina reporting. He says instead of just blogging about it, do some good and help the victims, of which he is one.
There’ll be plenty of time to show off your 20/20 hindsight next week. For now, accept this for what it is… a natural disaster of biblical proportions.
If you want to do something, quit yer whining and do what blogs and bloggers do best… Use information to change the world.
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Think of the simple things- Thousands of people lost their glasses. Somebody set up a website where they can coordinate donations of (known) prescription glasses from people who no longer need them. Get a freight company to donate the freight. I bet FedEx will give you an account number that will route all the glasses to some agency in New Orleans.
If you do something to help the victims, ping this post… If there is a lot of people helping out, Kevin will set up a post with the links. (I just volunteered him ;)
Think about it for a second from my chair… (I’m not whining but) I’m almost 40 years old…. Here is the sum total of all my worldly possessions: 4 pairs of shorts, 5 shirts, 2 pairs of shoes, 4 pairs of underwear, 1 pair of blue jeans, a box of family pictures, 2 flashlights, a piece of trench art my grandfather brought back from WWI and my father’s hammer. (Hey, it means a lot to me!) That’s it. Everything else is gone. And BTW, I’m unemployed.
I tell you that not to whine but to let you see the tree thru the forest. Multiply my situation by about a million. Stop and think about that… A million people homeless and unemployed.
If you’re a blogger then (by near definition) you’re a self proclaimed talented person. Prove it. They’ll be plenty of time for punditry and pontification next month… In the mean time there is work to be done. Figure out how to help the victims.
BTT
INFO FROM THE SCANNER...
104 Buses (span 2 1/4 miles) lined up on highway shoulder ready to move in (I believe they are on 61 and will exit on I-10 - 400 more are waiting close by - Special need buses have already been sent in. The other buses will be sent in 10 at a time.
This is a huge operation that involves 500+ waiting buses.
Will post more as I hear it