so your president has returned home. she's tired. how are you?
i'm listening to pacifica because everyone was talking about pacifica this weekend, ruth was talking about how you could real news and tracey was saying that the 'jerry springer-ization' of air america radio had made her almost give on that network. (she still loves janeane and she and her mother go to ruth's on saturdays to listen to the laura flanders show together and to work on a quilt. ruth's teaching them how to quilt.)
i love janeane too. i just can't take that tone that sam gets. it just irritates me. for awhile, i was just listening on friday when sam was off and janeane had the whole show to herself but then they had thom hartman for the full week and i didn't see the point. that's not a slam at hartman. but if i'm listening to a talk show, i listen for the host. like i'll listen to mike malloy because i like him.
but sam's voice, and fellows don't take offense if you're the same, just rises and rises until he's like a little girl squealing and it really gets on my nerves. i also can't take all of his rants. janeane has rants too, i know. but she's got a deep voice and she will also break it up with humor. but the real thing is, i don't feel like she's grabbing me by the shirt and spitting in my face as she squeals. when sam gets worked up, that's what i feel like. he's the guy made for dockers. you want to tell him to just stop and take a breath.
so i'm hearing about how a prison in new orleans didn't call for help until after the hurricane hit and how all the prisoners aren't accounted for.
i'm sure that some will say, 'well they were in prison.' all being in prison means is that it's our responsibility to protect them. we've locked them away, we need to be responsible for their well being. guilt or innocence isn't the issue once we take control of their lives by locking them away.
the man in charge of the prison, i didn't catch his name, needs to be fired. he failed to protect the people. he's the warden. they are the wards. it's his job to protect them. there's no excuse for it.
it was a lot of fun this weekend. some got really bummed about blogger and i don't blame them for that. i couldn't even log in when i tried to on saturday. but i said, 'you know what, fuck it, focus on the activism' and i think that's what we all ended up doing and the weekend was wonderful.
some guy wrote in and he's using 1 of those dopey screen names so i won't even name it except to say 'try millimeters because there's no way that's inches' but he's just in a tizzy that i haven't written about hurricane rita.
why would i?
i haven't been online or sitting in front of a tv and i'm not in that area.
am i suddenly the weather channel?
i was in d.c. for the protests.
i don't know why the guy expected that i'd be giving bulletins on hurricane rita.
maybe his computer only gets 1 web page and he has to count on little me to provide him with every detail in the world or he misses out?
thursday night, friday morning, elaine and i were helping c.i. go through the e-mails for the indy media posts and 1 e-mailer was upset about an article that she'd seen.
i don't blame her for being upset (and i even wrote her back). this woman had a problem with the fact that people were going to d.c. for the protests. 'what about the victims of hurricane katrina!' she screamed over and over. then she went on to slam codepink and move on for not doing anything for the victims.
she needs to know her facts and that includes that those organizations and others like them had done things prior to the weekend and did do things during the weekend.
look her cause, her only cause, is the victims of hurricane katrina. great cause. hopefully she works hard. but i wouldn't have read something by her talking about how she was there doing relief effort and felt the need to scream, 'why isn't she in d.c.!' that's her cause, her only cause.
but to whine and bitch about the fact that the marches and rallies weren't called off is nonsense. those were planned in advance and, more importantly, there's no reason to call them off.
it was total bullshit from the little princess who wanted to stand up and say 'look at me! look at me!'
get a fucking grip.
she's like those people in the movie twister, chasing after this or that.
problems are interconnected, and read ava and c.i.'s latest tv review for more on that, so it's really silly for some little moron to act like there can only be 1 issue in the nation and that people working to end the war are jerking off.
she didn't mention the environment once in her little pity party. as though global warming had nothing to do with the hurricane, as though the toxic nature of new orleans now is not the result of pollution.
she reminded me of muffy tupperman on square pegs going on and on about some cause as if it were the only 1 on the face of the planet.
so the unnamed visitor should be reading her. i'm sure she'll find something to say about hurricane rita. from what i saw on cnn it looks like the residents of beaumont, texas were hard hit but it doesn't look like it was of the scale that hurricane katrina was.
but who knows? i'm going by what the media told me. and they didn't spend a lot of time telling me about the rallies and marches.
they honestly looked bored on cnn. like they were thinking, 'gee, maybe christian slater will get busted tonight and we can do full coverage on that tomorrow! maybe they'll even be a court case and we can act like this is the most important story in the world!'
want some reality, go read the 101 voices from d.c.
