At least fully one eighth of Haiti's population is now homeless.
The conditions are more than dire, after being beaten by hurricanes four times, one, two, three, FOUR.
[ In Haiti, rescue groups have no access to many interior villages across the southern region and to hard-hit Gonaives, north of the capital, which was cut off when a bridge collapsed. A Red Cross truck trying to reach Les Cayes on the southern coast had to turn back because of impassable roads.
''The flooding is more extensive than people realize, and it's awful how little relief has been able to get into Gonaives and other areas,'' said Dr. Arthur Fournier, a University of Miami physician who co-founded Project Medishare, a charity that transports medical aid to Haiti.
Thousands of Haitians have been living in hospitals as temporary shelters, Fournier said. ''They are going to be stuck there for a long time,'' he said. ``They don't have homes to go back to.''
Local, national and international groups worry that a secondary disaster could arise from water-borne diseases. Fournier's group is trying to send LifeStraws to Haiti -- hand-held devices that purify water. Humanitarian workers said the most crucial supplies they need is water, sanitation items and food. ]
In other news from Cuba, the progress at restoring the power grid and other infrastructural systems in Pinar del Rio has proceeded at a speed and effectiveness that has even surprised the government.
Of course, Ike has been beating up Cuba via rain and wind for the last two days. But apparantly Havana was spared the worst. Camaguey took a good pasting, and Baracoa was devasted. But Havana is at least not getting pounded by a Cat 3.
At this time it looks as though New Orleans shall again be spared, as Ike seems headed for Corpus, Port Arthur region.
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
Monday, September 8, 2008
Cuba & Gustav
Recall, post the Katrina disasters, Cuba offered substantial medical aid of personnel, who are deeply experienced with both hurricane disasters and performing surgical and medical procedures successfully without electricity. The US regime turned it down.
For the disaster of Gustav this US regime offered the insulting 'aid' of $100, 000 ... to a nation that operates in Euros. Recall the value ratio between the two these days.
The media here is being all up self-righteous and aghast that Cuba isn't broadcasting 24/7 that the regime offered them $100,000 dollars. And, um this part, that the U.S. media IS NOT REPORTING, that the condition was that these magnificent funds be distributed not by the Cuban state or that the state determine where this munificence be spent, but that the money be handed over to a private individual of the regime's own choosing to distribute as the regime determines. Riiiiiiiight.
The Cubans returned that the aid they really need and would appreciate would be the sales of U.S. agricultural products to their nation.
For the disaster of Gustav this US regime offered the insulting 'aid' of $100, 000 ... to a nation that operates in Euros. Recall the value ratio between the two these days.
The media here is being all up self-righteous and aghast that Cuba isn't broadcasting 24/7 that the regime offered them $100,000 dollars. And, um this part, that the U.S. media IS NOT REPORTING, that the condition was that these magnificent funds be distributed not by the Cuban state or that the state determine where this munificence be spent, but that the money be handed over to a private individual of the regime's own choosing to distribute as the regime determines. Riiiiiiiight.
The Cubans returned that the aid they really need and would appreciate would be the sales of U.S. agricultural products to their nation.
Saturday, September 6, 2008
Last Word On This For Awhile
Because it is time to focus on Obama and Biden, who are out there fighting, and fighting smart, and keeping their eyes on all the balls at the same time all the time and they deserve us keeping our eyes on them in support.
Look and listen to Joe Biden in Pennsylvania!
Do not tell me it makes no difference right now who gets to D.C. It matters very much to have Obama and Biden in D.C.,, if only to give us a bit of a slow down and breathing space.
The other 2? They are -- 2 wannabe also rans, running together for the very first time!
He's tried to be POTUS how many often? How often did he crash planes?He wasn't a hero, he was a pow -- not the equivalent at all, because if so, by golly, those guys incarcerated for years of torture and humiliation in Guantánamo are too. She didn't make it as Miss Alaska. She ran to being a gov because she was being recalled as mayor. They both fail upward in the grand reThugzcriminalwelfaremanner.
This is the ticket of the Runners-up, the Wannabes, the Also Rans -- the cowards, the liars, the crybabies.
And now, that off my admirable chest, I'm going to concentrate on the Good Guys, not the runners-up.
I think the outer skirts of Hanna have arrived. It's raining. And blowing. I just came in from outside because of that. I was walking somewhere when it began, so I thought I should go home, as I hadn't taken an umbrella. Nor am I doing laundry per the mayor's advice, even though Vaquero's off to Colombia early next week to play in the Jazz Fest. Argh.
Look and listen to Joe Biden in Pennsylvania!
Do not tell me it makes no difference right now who gets to D.C. It matters very much to have Obama and Biden in D.C.,, if only to give us a bit of a slow down and breathing space.
The other 2? They are -- 2 wannabe also rans, running together for the very first time!
He's tried to be POTUS how many often? How often did he crash planes?He wasn't a hero, he was a pow -- not the equivalent at all, because if so, by golly, those guys incarcerated for years of torture and humiliation in Guantánamo are too. She didn't make it as Miss Alaska. She ran to being a gov because she was being recalled as mayor. They both fail upward in the grand reThugzcriminalwelfaremanner.
This is the ticket of the Runners-up, the Wannabes, the Also Rans -- the cowards, the liars, the crybabies.
And now, that off my admirable chest, I'm going to concentrate on the Good Guys, not the runners-up.
I think the outer skirts of Hanna have arrived. It's raining. And blowing. I just came in from outside because of that. I was walking somewhere when it began, so I thought I should go home, as I hadn't taken an umbrella. Nor am I doing laundry per the mayor's advice, even though Vaquero's off to Colombia early next week to play in the Jazz Fest. Argh.
Friday, September 5, 2008
No Press Questions Or Meetings To Be Allowed
With sp, according to the rnc.
Cowards!
Ooooh, big girl with big gun is afraid of the press.
That's red meat for the press, and you know what happens when the press smells blood.
Sp's so convenient with that great big family -- she's a got a family member to appeal to every special interest: special needs child, son AND nephew going to Iraq (they won't be going into combat if their mom and aunt makes it to D.C. though), adolescent daughter who 'got into trouble,' a sister who started a new biz (which evidently sp had a 25% share in and they went bust or something -- maybe it was a different biz, a car wash that wasn't the gas station sp stated?), husband in the erl biz and total sportsman, they all have guns and shoot them. They just don't have anybody that fits into the LBGT slot. Dang. But the young 'uns have time yet ....
Is that a fair remark? Considering how they've put that family front and center as THE REASON SP IS QUALIFIED FOR THE OVAL OFFICE, why yes, it is fair to itemize how appealing they are to the voters.
Will the American voters not understand what it means that a person who is running a VPOTUS, someone a heartbeat from the presidency of this nation, cannot be asked any questions while campaigning to be that person? Will they not understand that not only is this not democracy this isn't even an election? Will they not realize that this is the divine right of kings, and even stalinism and naziism? Will this not turn around and bite the 'cain campaign in the ass?
Will sp not become the most hated person in the nation, making the hatred of Hillary Clinton look small in comparison?
Cowards!
Ooooh, big girl with big gun is afraid of the press.
That's red meat for the press, and you know what happens when the press smells blood.
Sp's so convenient with that great big family -- she's a got a family member to appeal to every special interest: special needs child, son AND nephew going to Iraq (they won't be going into combat if their mom and aunt makes it to D.C. though), adolescent daughter who 'got into trouble,' a sister who started a new biz (which evidently sp had a 25% share in and they went bust or something -- maybe it was a different biz, a car wash that wasn't the gas station sp stated?), husband in the erl biz and total sportsman, they all have guns and shoot them. They just don't have anybody that fits into the LBGT slot. Dang. But the young 'uns have time yet ....
Is that a fair remark? Considering how they've put that family front and center as THE REASON SP IS QUALIFIED FOR THE OVAL OFFICE, why yes, it is fair to itemize how appealing they are to the voters.
Will the American voters not understand what it means that a person who is running a VPOTUS, someone a heartbeat from the presidency of this nation, cannot be asked any questions while campaigning to be that person? Will they not understand that not only is this not democracy this isn't even an election? Will they not realize that this is the divine right of kings, and even stalinism and naziism? Will this not turn around and bite the 'cain campaign in the ass?
Will sp not become the most hated person in the nation, making the hatred of Hillary Clinton look small in comparison?
Thursday, September 4, 2008
I Am Terrified
They have declared the issues off the table. They have declared they are running on narrative, and their narrative is Sarah Palin and her family.
Thus she and her family cannot and will not be off the table. They have made the decision to put her and her family there, with her full and enthusiastic cooperation.
Her speech was a litany of lies, that the primary media has allowed to lie. They aren't being called on.
So it is the family issues or nothing. Her motherhood allows her to be Mother of Our Nation.
One of the reasons she terrifies me is her out-and-out demagogery. How successful it was, focused to get the crowd's bloodlust up to lynching level. The booing, combined with the howling, is the matrix for group violence.
There was nothing like this at Obama's convention and speeches. People were roused, but they didn't howl and boo, they cheered.
The narrative:
The cain campaign has officially stated that this election is NOT about ISSUES. It's about narrative.
Their narrative is that here are 2 mavericks who are D.C. outsiders coming in to clean up the dem stygian mess of Big Gummit, earmarks and liberal media. They will succeed because it is Gawd's will, and the sign that this is Gawd's Will is because they have the Gawddess of Alaska running, and it is Gawd's Will that the new 'Laska Pipeline Be Built and thus it is also Gawd's Will to drilldrilldrill, especially in the ANWR. And so the Gawdess will Save America by laughing at Climate Change That Isn't Your Fault. Besides since she is a Gawddess she can clean up anything, and if it won't clean she'll shoot it with her great big gun while flashing her (Indiana Delgate Buttons stated this) her Hottest Chick legs. And moreover she's the Madonna with even a surrogate Madonna, her Daughter bearing another child, while she herself is still bearing progeny, and this makes for the happiest families in all the world, which is also, by the way, Gawd's Will, and Gawd has blessed America with His Alaska Gawdess, Who Is Just Like You And Your Family.
They are gleefully spreading the word that dems are scared of sara. Damned betcha. She scares the living daylights out of me. She already makes Thatcher look almost lamb-like, particularly since Thatcher's developed alzheimers.
We're there, in one of those states now that we've read so much about in history and fiction.
The only person out of Her People that doesn't adore SP, is probably Ann Coulter. She's been dethroned and displaced as the sexy water carrier, and by someone who has real power, not loaned power, as part of the ruling establishment, not the court jester. We thought the last 8 years were terrible and frightening and disasterous. They were the Overture to the massive tragedy of Armageddon. They really believe it.
What are we going to do about it? Rational, counter-argument, ticking off one by one the lies and refuting them with facts isn't going to do it. Rational plans to deal with the Issues of which there are so many, and telling them the plans for the economy, the health care crisis, the global environmental catastrophe, the research on the miserable failure of teen marriages, isn't going to do it. What will? How do you deal with the irrational combined drive for power and destruction?
They have aggressively followed a concerted game plan to cut off every avenue of rational thought for individuals and for us a community, as a public commons.
That is where the left has failed since the 70's. We are so offended, so frightened, so baffled by the irrational that we can't even admit or acknowledge to ourselves that this is what we're dealing with.What are we going to do? I wish I had a plan. I don't.
Facts do not play to these people. It isn't about facts or truth or information at all. No matter how often you outline and source your facts, they will still say, "Well, you know my gut tells me there is something not right, something fishy about Obama. I don't think he's really an American." These are the people who want red meat, not information, and sp is giving it to them -- on a barbeque, raw steaming hunks, in their big dark restaurants.
So we're people who live in story all the time. What is our narrative that can override this one of greed, meaness, cruelty, of drill, kill & swill?
Thus she and her family cannot and will not be off the table. They have made the decision to put her and her family there, with her full and enthusiastic cooperation.
Her speech was a litany of lies, that the primary media has allowed to lie. They aren't being called on.
So it is the family issues or nothing. Her motherhood allows her to be Mother of Our Nation.
One of the reasons she terrifies me is her out-and-out demagogery. How successful it was, focused to get the crowd's bloodlust up to lynching level. The booing, combined with the howling, is the matrix for group violence.
There was nothing like this at Obama's convention and speeches. People were roused, but they didn't howl and boo, they cheered.
The narrative:
The cain campaign has officially stated that this election is NOT about ISSUES. It's about narrative.
Their narrative is that here are 2 mavericks who are D.C. outsiders coming in to clean up the dem stygian mess of Big Gummit, earmarks and liberal media. They will succeed because it is Gawd's will, and the sign that this is Gawd's Will is because they have the Gawddess of Alaska running, and it is Gawd's Will that the new 'Laska Pipeline Be Built and thus it is also Gawd's Will to drilldrilldrill, especially in the ANWR. And so the Gawdess will Save America by laughing at Climate Change That Isn't Your Fault. Besides since she is a Gawddess she can clean up anything, and if it won't clean she'll shoot it with her great big gun while flashing her (Indiana Delgate Buttons stated this) her Hottest Chick legs. And moreover she's the Madonna with even a surrogate Madonna, her Daughter bearing another child, while she herself is still bearing progeny, and this makes for the happiest families in all the world, which is also, by the way, Gawd's Will, and Gawd has blessed America with His Alaska Gawdess, Who Is Just Like You And Your Family.
They are gleefully spreading the word that dems are scared of sara. Damned betcha. She scares the living daylights out of me. She already makes Thatcher look almost lamb-like, particularly since Thatcher's developed alzheimers.
We're there, in one of those states now that we've read so much about in history and fiction.
The only person out of Her People that doesn't adore SP, is probably Ann Coulter. She's been dethroned and displaced as the sexy water carrier, and by someone who has real power, not loaned power, as part of the ruling establishment, not the court jester. We thought the last 8 years were terrible and frightening and disasterous. They were the Overture to the massive tragedy of Armageddon. They really believe it.
What are we going to do about it? Rational, counter-argument, ticking off one by one the lies and refuting them with facts isn't going to do it. Rational plans to deal with the Issues of which there are so many, and telling them the plans for the economy, the health care crisis, the global environmental catastrophe, the research on the miserable failure of teen marriages, isn't going to do it. What will? How do you deal with the irrational combined drive for power and destruction?
They have aggressively followed a concerted game plan to cut off every avenue of rational thought for individuals and for us a community, as a public commons.
That is where the left has failed since the 70's. We are so offended, so frightened, so baffled by the irrational that we can't even admit or acknowledge to ourselves that this is what we're dealing with.What are we going to do? I wish I had a plan. I don't.
Facts do not play to these people. It isn't about facts or truth or information at all. No matter how often you outline and source your facts, they will still say, "Well, you know my gut tells me there is something not right, something fishy about Obama. I don't think he's really an American." These are the people who want red meat, not information, and sp is giving it to them -- on a barbeque, raw steaming hunks, in their big dark restaurants.
So we're people who live in story all the time. What is our narrative that can override this one of greed, meaness, cruelty, of drill, kill & swill?
Monday, September 1, 2008
Amy Goodman, #1 Leftist Journalist Arrested at reThugCON
[UPDATE] Heard from Ren -- he's fine!
On YouTube, footage. Her producer, Max Salazar was also arrested in Minneapolis-St. Paul. It's scary to watch. They manhandled this aging woman.
There have been large protests today, and a complete corporate media blackout about them -- and the massive arrests being made.
I know people who planned to do this, like Ren. I hope they're OK.
Democracy Now has good coverage. 10,000 out there in the streets today in St. Paul. Along with some real idiots who give conscientious protesters a bad name.
Glenn Greenwald, who is there, says this city is more locked down than New York post 9/11. The police and military presence make it like Baghdad. He's got great coverage at salondotcom.
I can't believe it. Just got off the phone with a journalist friend of ours from the major Miami paper, the Herald -- she'd never heard of Amy Goodman! How can you call yourself a journalist and not know who Amy Goodman is? In the defense of my friend, she does mostly music and cultural things, but nevertheless, as I told her, that's no excuse.
And what did she call me for, since it wasn't about getting music info, which is the reason she usually calls. Not this time. She wanted to know what this Palin and pregnancy and daughter baby and all that stuff is about. "Who the F*ck is this character?" she asked, "and why is she supposed to be VPOTUS? By the way, this from the woman who USED to be a dancer at the Pyramid Club and all her friends were trannies and TVs. Maybe that's the answer. The whole country has become south Florida. I told her that Palin would be right at home among all the characters she's familiar with in Miami.
On YouTube, footage. Her producer, Max Salazar was also arrested in Minneapolis-St. Paul. It's scary to watch. They manhandled this aging woman.
There have been large protests today, and a complete corporate media blackout about them -- and the massive arrests being made.
I know people who planned to do this, like Ren. I hope they're OK.
Democracy Now has good coverage. 10,000 out there in the streets today in St. Paul. Along with some real idiots who give conscientious protesters a bad name.
Glenn Greenwald, who is there, says this city is more locked down than New York post 9/11. The police and military presence make it like Baghdad. He's got great coverage at salondotcom.
I can't believe it. Just got off the phone with a journalist friend of ours from the major Miami paper, the Herald -- she'd never heard of Amy Goodman! How can you call yourself a journalist and not know who Amy Goodman is? In the defense of my friend, she does mostly music and cultural things, but nevertheless, as I told her, that's no excuse.
And what did she call me for, since it wasn't about getting music info, which is the reason she usually calls. Not this time. She wanted to know what this Palin and pregnancy and daughter baby and all that stuff is about. "Who the F*ck is this character?" she asked, "and why is she supposed to be VPOTUS? By the way, this from the woman who USED to be a dancer at the Pyramid Club and all her friends were trannies and TVs. Maybe that's the answer. The whole country has become south Florida. I told her that Palin would be right at home among all the characters she's familiar with in Miami.
Whew ... I Think ... I Hope
Whew!
Plenty of damage to go around, nevertheless, I am relieved. Maybe we'll be there the week of the 25th for the classes using the Da Book as scheduled.
Whew! I think ....
Thank you, Jesus.
Some may think that last a sneer, coming from me, but it is expressed in the spirit of those who made the documentary of themselves, Trouble the Water, nearly drowning, when the Industrial Canal failed early on during Katrina, flooded their home's district of the upper 9th. It was in danger of doing so again today.
So, it's September, and school has started. By the middle of August then, requests to be guests at various colleges and universities -- and even one very expensive private -- what? prep school? is that what they're called -- started to arrive. As these are paid gigs, they must be accepted. But still, it's an honor to the work of the books.
Meanwhile, Hanna is still coming on, and three more tropical depressions are forming behind her. We're not out of Hurricane Season yet.
Meanwhile, millions of people are homeless in India from flooding. We should help if we can.
Plenty of damage to go around, nevertheless, I am relieved. Maybe we'll be there the week of the 25th for the classes using the Da Book as scheduled.
Whew! I think ....
Thank you, Jesus.
Some may think that last a sneer, coming from me, but it is expressed in the spirit of those who made the documentary of themselves, Trouble the Water, nearly drowning, when the Industrial Canal failed early on during Katrina, flooded their home's district of the upper 9th. It was in danger of doing so again today.
So, it's September, and school has started. By the middle of August then, requests to be guests at various colleges and universities -- and even one very expensive private -- what? prep school? is that what they're called -- started to arrive. As these are paid gigs, they must be accepted. But still, it's an honor to the work of the books.
Meanwhile, Hanna is still coming on, and three more tropical depressions are forming behind her. We're not out of Hurricane Season yet.
Meanwhile, millions of people are homeless in India from flooding. We should help if we can.
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