now i'm crying again...


it's just horrendous...the grandmas on tv have been making me cry all week. (the mothers and babies haven't been tho, because i know they'll all kill for their kids--the 2-year-old trampled tho...)

my god, the coverage is so bizarre
when the only thing i can stomach is bush talking
things have gotten to ridiculous extremes

I'm doing better now that I've seen miles and miles of convoys roll into NOLA.

Watching Bush talk was unbearable for me. He looks so damn smug, smirking and disinterested all the time. To be fair, I don't even know him as a human being, but I just always get the same feeling observing him that I do when observing selfish drunken fratboys.

(But last night and yesterday I was crying. I don't do that very often. It's not that I don't care or that I'm not emotional, it just takes a whole lot to get me there and break through the wall. I used to cry a lot as a kid in a difficult childhood, so maybe I got most of it out then, and learned other emotional skills in the process or something. But for the narrow-focus news to make me cry is... saying something.)

I had no idea that Martha Wainwright song would become so relevant.

I really hope America wakes up and never elects someone like that man again.

I'd never heard this song before. Sadly appropriate.

A Pretty Good Day
I slept through the night, I got through to the dawn
I flipped a switch and the light went on
I got out of bed and I put some clothes on
It's a pretty good day so far
I turned the tap, there was cold there was hot
I put on my coat to go to the shop
I stepped outside, and I didn't get shot
It's a pretty good day so far
I didn't hear any sirens or explosions
No murders coming in from those heavy guns
No UN tanks, I didn't see one
It's a pretty good day so far
No snipers in windows, taking a peak
No people panic, running scared through the streets
I didn't see any bodies without arms, legs, or feet
It's a pretty good day
There was plasma bandages and electricity
Food, wood, and water; and the air was smoke free
No camera crews from my TV
It was all such a strange sight to be home
Nobody was frightened, wounded, hungry, or cold
And the children seemed normal, they didn't look old
It's a pretty good day so far
I walked through a park, you would not believe it
There in the park, there were a few trees left
And on some branches, there were a few leaves
I slept through the night, got through to the dawn
I flipped the switch and the light went on
I wrote down my dream, I wrote this song
It's a pretty good day so far

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I had no idea her dad wrote that song!

I wasn't expecting it to be so very very relevant. I'm still a little choked up.

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homeland security director: "the path of the hurricane was unhelpful... mother nature was not being very maternal..."

fuck that simpering bureaucratic piece of monkey shit who fell straight out of bush's ass. we've been lied to (as if you didn't know) for 4 years about all the preparedness, spending and clamping down on the public.

tiny police departments in buttfuck utah now have assault weapons, choppers and camo fatigues with which to conduct raids on teenage raves.

the other day federal and local terrorism officals expended time and effort to interview me because i used the words "weapons of mass destruction" in my email sig, meanwhilewhile innocent people were baking to death in their attics in NO.

today my 50 year old homeowning friend was told by a bank teller that his drivers license was insufficient id to cash his paycheck "since 9/11, you know". he's lived in the neighborhood longer than that particular banking corporation has existed.

i'm sick of this fucking money-worshipping spectacle-hypnotized flock of consumerbot morons masquerading as citizens of a democratic republic i live in the midst of.

At the risk of sounding naive, if the situation in NO doesnt improve, what are the chances for a backlash of civil unrest in the rest of the country, based on the anger and disbelief i've been reading and seeing? I mean, it's becoming less than a refugee camp, in my eyes, more a concentration camp. Why aren't they letting the people out? And why aren't they letting the Red X in? What is the humanitarian aid the administration is talking about?

(Im sorry - this has probably been discussed at length elsewhere, I'm just sounding off - I just watched that Geraldo/Shep report.)

last night when I just thought that this whole hellish situation was too much a thought hit me. Is this how John Titor's civil war in 2005 was started? I'm to outraged that I feel like picking up my rifles and marching on Washington - from way over here in Denmark. I can only guess how US citizens feel and the possible backlash coming.