starting later than I planned tonight because i had to catch up with some friends. i did see them at the party labor day but i had about eighty people over. after a month & a 1/2 away, i really needed to reconnect. i'm reconnecting with the readers too. i'm working my way backwards through the e-mails. bear with me on that because there are a lot of e-mails.
i'm also not going to be c.i. bless c.i. but i will not put everything on hold to go through the e-mails, nor will i reduce my nightly sleep to 90 minutes or less to read them. like jim, i believe that what goes up here comes 1st.
i have a wonderful gift from jess. he burned me off a cd of some music he's been working on. he will say 'playing with.' and worry that his mother will get her hopes up. i'm in agreement with his mother. the country has too many reporters (most of whom ...) and jess is so talented. i would pay money for this cd he burned off. he's like jack johnson but a lot deeper.
my plan for tomorrow is just to hang around here, eat some clam chowder, catch democracy now! but otherwise just listen to jess's cd and otis blue while trying to grasp how much this situation, i mean the victims of the hurricane who became victims of the bully boy, is harming our nation.
when we allow one group to be spit on because of race, we're denying our humanity.
i was on the phone with c.i. early this morning and we were talking about how the media portrayals made the victims the others, portraying them as savages that needed a strong hand.
people need a helping hand but this administration doesn't know how to help. they know how to aim guns. they know how to treat people as less than human.
i was out of the country on my vacation and the more violent the nature of the story, such as looting, the more it got play in the media. i'm assuming it was the same here.
i'm also disgusted by the lack of accountability on bully boy's part and the notion that he can't investigate himself. his administration failed. we need an independent investigation.
this is just like 9/11 all over again. he won't take accountability. they keep trotting out that they had no idea. they keep trying to turn our nation into a police state. and their only answer to anything is military.
i'm also really concerned about the rebuilding because, and democracy now! has done a great job covering this, the rebuilding will most likely focus on the wealth and on bringing in money. it won't focus on the people who lost the apartment or the house that they didn't have insurance on. it's as though bloomberg was able to recreate new york city into an all white city.
and now fema's saying no photos of the dead bodies. it's just like hiding the coffins coming here from iraq. there is no accountability, there are only illusions under the bully boy. it's disgusting.
not only do we need to see the bodies, bully boy should have to be on camera, live, watching the bodies be carried off.
make sure you check out kat's review of joan baez's bowery songs. it's a great review and buy the cd because it's a great cd. i've been listening to 'silver daggers' over and over on repeat while i've been writing this. i'll be listening to this tomorrow as well. you would too if you purchased it because it's a great cd.
