Blatherskite

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I am a Children’s Librarian living in the Portland, Oregon area. When I am not Children’s Librianing I like to play with cameras and film. I also like playing the ukulele, knitting, sketching, and hiking.

Tag: Hurricane Katrina

  • Don’t believe it

      When the president shows up in New Orleans a year later, hugging Mayor Nagin, who publically cried and demanded that the federal government “get their asses down here” to help, don’t believe it. When some rich guy drives a fake FEMA truck to D.C. saying that he “wants Bush to be president four more…

  • Hazy days

      I’ve been feeling foggy lately. I don’t know what is wrong with me. I just have not motivation at all. I feel bored. Boring. I want to create. I want to be an artist. I want to write poetry! but I can’t sit down and do anything! I feel blocked. I can’t even bring…

  • it’s been too long

    Bush sends 7,000 troops for Katrina relief – Yahoo! News acknowledging the initial federal relief effort for Hurricane Katrina was unacceptable, said on Saturday he will send 7,000 additional troops to storm-ravaged region. No shit! It took him five days to tour the site! Five days! Five days to get his ass in gear and…

  • This is a good editorial

    A Can’t-Do Government – New York Times Before 9/11 the Federal Emergency Management Agency listed the three most likely catastrophic disasters facing America: a terrorist attack on New York, a major earthquake in San Francisco and a hurricane strike on New Orleans. “The New Orleans hurricane scenario,” The Houston Chronicle wrote in December 2001, “may…

  • so sad

    Bodies, gunfire and chaos in New Orleans’ streets – Yahoo! News Rotting bodies littered the flooded streets of New Orleans on Thursday and escalating violence threatened all-out anarchy as thousands of survivors of Hurricane Katrina pleaded to be evacuated, or even just fed. The historic jazz city has fallen prey to armed looters since Katrina…