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In the news....
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.
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That last story was good. A ray of sunshine in most of the horrible and pathetic stories out there right now.
I am just glad that for the most part, mine and the husband's families are ok and those families of friends who were in the areas hit, are ok.
For now, that is about all I'm concentrating on.
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The last story was...I thought it was going to be sad and unresolved, until I got to the end and it wasn't. I am so glad for that - as you say, most of the news about this is not at all in that vein. I was glad to see that one.
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What could have happened if things had gone otherwise is not good. I'm glad it didn't, in that case. But the questions you raise are important and I wish that I thought anyone was looking at them who had any ability to piece data together - because if it happened once, there are holes and something worse could (probably has) happen another time.
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