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First, the political one: Barbara Bush, mother of our current president, has proved she has no more class (and perhaps rather less) than her son.
"Everyone is so overwhelmed by the hospitality. And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this, this is working very well for them," Mrs. Bush told American Public Media's "Marketplace" program, before returning to her multi-million dollar Houston home.
You know, losing everything but the clothes on your back is a whole new level of poverty, ma'am, and if you think the efforts being made to help those who aren't dead (did you forget those people, ma'am?) are anything like better than what they lost...well, you're a clueless idiot, but that's not a real surprise.
Grrr.
On the other hand, there was another story that made me cry - in a good way, since it did end up okay.
In the chaos that was Causeway Boulevard, this group of refugees stood out: a 6-year-old boy walking down the road, holding a 5-month-old, surrounded by five toddlers who followed him around as if he were their leader.
They were holding hands. Three of the children were about 2, and one was wearing only diapers. A 3-year-old girl, who wore colorful barrettes on the ends of her braids, had her 14-month-old brother in tow. The 6-year-old spoke for all of them, and he told rescuers his name was Deamonte Love.
"Everyone is so overwhelmed by the hospitality. And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this, this is working very well for them," Mrs. Bush told American Public Media's "Marketplace" program, before returning to her multi-million dollar Houston home.
You know, losing everything but the clothes on your back is a whole new level of poverty, ma'am, and if you think the efforts being made to help those who aren't dead (did you forget those people, ma'am?) are anything like better than what they lost...well, you're a clueless idiot, but that's not a real surprise.
Grrr.
On the other hand, there was another story that made me cry - in a good way, since it did end up okay.
In the chaos that was Causeway Boulevard, this group of refugees stood out: a 6-year-old boy walking down the road, holding a 5-month-old, surrounded by five toddlers who followed him around as if he were their leader.
They were holding hands. Three of the children were about 2, and one was wearing only diapers. A 3-year-old girl, who wore colorful barrettes on the ends of her braids, had her 14-month-old brother in tow. The 6-year-old spoke for all of them, and he told rescuers his name was Deamonte Love.