Y'know Buf, I might almost agree with you, if only someone in this administration had his/her hand on the tiller. But no one seems to . . . He fired all the ones who did. There's no one home in Washington!!

What an incredible picture. Somehow I missed this one. It sort of fits his attitude.

I wrote a nasty e-mail to the governor of Alaska the other night. He said something like we'd better not give out those $2,000 ATM cards because some people might just want a windfall and not need the money. !!!! These people are, so many of them, old; they are disabled or sick; they are poor; and their skin, by the by, is the wrong color for the Bushies. Now they've lost what little they had, and they had practically nothing to begin with. Where on Earth does a politician (who one presumes managed to get elected) get an attitude like this? I told him God will judge . . .

It's absolutely appalling, all of it. They left those people there to die.

Here's an article that sort of says it all for me:

Seeking Higher Ground

A must-read. Simple but profound.

I used to live in New Orleans and, I have to tell you, I hated it. I always had this terrible sense of doom there. I was in a flood that was only a fraction of this, but it was bad; abandoned my car in three feet of water and walked in hip-deep water to work: at least it was safe. However, this time, of course, the Times-Picayune building (where I worked) is flooded and ruined. It used to be on higher ground; no more.

Shame on Bush and all his minions.

Wendy