Yes, Burning Man was BIG FUN this year but I couldn't allow myself to have a better time because nobody could not stop thinking about New Orleans. One friend of a friend has no idea how her house and dogs spared. Two women from NOLA visited our tiki bar and told us that they lost everything including their pets. :cry:
If listening to these stories weren't bad enough. As soon as I get back to everyday life I see this:
Barbara Bush on those lucky refugeesSomebody asked George H.W. Bush Monday about the criticism of his son's handling of Hurricane Katrina, and the former president said that the critics ought to tell it to his wife -- and that they ought to don a flak jacket before trying. But this morning, it's Barbara Bush herself who might want to think about some protective clothing, at least metaphorically speaking.
The former first lady toured the Astrodome Monday, and along the way she opined that many of the refugees from New Orleans were so poor to begin with that they ought to be pretty happy with their temporary digs in Houston.
"What I’m hearing, which is sort of scary, is they all want to stay in Texas," Barbara Bush said in comments first aired on the public radio program "Marketplace" and reprinted by Editor & Publisher.
"Everyone is so overwhelmed by the hospitality. And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them." In the midst of that last line, you can hear the former first lady chuckling.
http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2005/09/05/barbara/index.html:wtf:
Then I'm hearing that several news outlets are editing the quote to lessen Babs (Livia Soprano) Bush's insensitivity! :mad:
Unbelievable. :nuke:
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