I present to you...
http://www.livejournal.com/community/baaaaabyanimals/
This could get me through a lot of dark times...so glad I found it.
If not, here you go.
I don't like Peeps as a food item (if you can them that), but I find their adventures quite diverting.
Last 24 hours = emotional hell. Mainly animal-related, a bit about people tossed in as well. Every time I turned around, there was some kind of high-level emotional crisis waiting. We're fine, all the stuff happened around us and not to us or any of our pets, but I think I can safely say that we're both completely drained.
It can only go up from here.
I will say that I try to avoid Mom bashing generally, especially since I'm not one myself.
But Ladies and Gents, I believe we do in fact have some additional insight as to why George W. Bush is the way he is.
Think Daddy B's cheerful example of robbing the poor to make things better for the rich made W. the hypocritcal "compassionate conservative" he is today? Well, turns out that may not have been the only factor.
Shudder. Barbara Bush's statements tell us a lot about why her son sees the world as he does.
Has anyone seen the "man" who took Snowball away from his nine-year-old owner while the poor kid was being evacuated from the Superdome in New Orleans?
Because I need to explain some things to this heartless bastard.
Like you don't rip possibly the only thing a child may have left of his former life out of his arms just because of "rules". Stupid fuck.
Where were you when people really needed you? Pulling the wings off flies?
Once upon a time there was a completely unqualified man called Michael D. Brown. He got his job as the Bush-Appointed chief of FEMA largely being frat buddies with Bush's 2000 campaign manager. He has no background in emergency management, and his main previous employment was as a commissioner of horse show judges - a post from which he may or may not have been fired in a swirling cloud of lawsuits because apparently he wasn't qualified for that job either.
Believe it or not...go on, Google away. Prove me wrong.
It does not take a psychic to see that the Bush Administration has successfully located their scapegoat.
Not that the guy doesn't deserve it. It just pisses me off that George W. and his cronies are going to wind up throwing this guy to the wolves to distract from their own culpability in appointing him in the first place. And let's not even mention the resources that were channeled away from the danger point by this pustulating ulcer of a presidential administration, or the insane fortune that the oil guys are making off this disaster, or..
I need to lie down again, and I must avoid any news of this travesty at all costs.
I may never sleep well again. First the Hurricane and its ensuing nightmares, and now George Bush is going to get to name not one, but TWO, Supreme Court Justices. One of whom will be Chief Justice.
And before you remind me that Rehnquist is conservative, just shut up. It's not the same thing. A George Bush conservative Justice is soooo very different from a "normal" conservative Justice that it makes my heart hurt.
It just seems like the world is spiraling out of control, and I'm honestly so ashamed of what the U.S. has become that I'd really consider leaving. Seriously, as opposed to the times we've just casually added up points to see if we could emirate to Canada.
It’s just so strange here right now; I think the callous disregard for the lives of those stranded in Hurricane Katrina. It’s like the government didn't care about these people or what was happening to their own county; notice how the troops and actual help didn't arrive until Bush was making his official strafe over New Orleans?
Do Americans matter so little to the U.S. government? They could have fixed the levees, but instead followed the religious convictions of our "elected" official (don’t' get me started on the Electoral College) and threw money and resources at Iraq. Where Americans are losing their lives and are unable to help the people in their own country when a crisis arises here.
There is nothing at all wrong with being globally philanthropic; I am proud that the U.S. takes a roll in a lot of good things internationally. However, what is becoming increasingly disenchanted with is how little the U.S. government cares for the U.S. people.
I need to stop watching Hurricane coverage and just lie down for a while; it's all just too depressing on top of everything else.
The Mayor of New Orleans is not mincing words regarding his thoughts and feelings about the response time for assistance to his city. There's video, too.
You go, Ray! Would that more our politicians were doing the same.
Some of my nastygrams to the White House, my state senators, and my congresscreatures are going to go out today, demanding accountability for the sorry-ass state of FEMA and the ridiculous mismanagement that is resulting in us turning away aid from a number of sources in addition to simply not apparently being able to pull our administrative heads out of our bureaucratic asses enough to deal with this situation a little more quickly, a little more thoroughly, a little more humanely than it is currently being handled.
Need their addresses? They're right here.
And yes, I do see that some convoys have finally reached New Orleans with relief supplies. It's about goddam time. That does not mean, however, that you shouldn't still write to voice your overall displeasure.
On another note: Wicked tonight. I'm really not up for it and wish I could trade in the tickets for cash and send it to Mercycorps or the various animal rescue groups working to help out. Actually, I really want to go to New Orleans. I feel useless.