A Couple of thoughts

I spent one of the last mornings looking at the devastation in New Orleans and our relief efforts there. I also have had to cope with a two and a half day power outage here in Milwaukee. I confess that I rely on electricity for my daily needs. Gee the powers out, no refrigerator, on lights, no computer and no way to recharge my cell phone. Even the gasoline stations could no longer pump gas in my area and I'm on a quarter tank of gas. Fortunately as I drove west out of the city there were stations open and I was able to fill up. The difference was that we didn't get flooded out too. I'm still thinking about buying a small generator, just in case.

The problem is that all this is making me mad as hell. The government knew for years that the levies in and around New Orleans could break causing catastrophic damage. Insteas they ignored it and diverted money and manpower elsewhere. Then what do you know? The inevitable happens. Along came Katrina and destroyed much of the city stranding thousands of poor and needy people in the process. And where is Shrub during all this? Strumming a guitar, that where. Then I ask you, why in the world would anyone in his right mind appoint a bottom feeding lawyer to head Fema? While all this is going on, he's pondering the legal consequences. Is this ridiculous or what?

After reading the Washington Post and New York Times and other newspapers I start to wonder about how prepared we would have been if this were a terrorist attack? Perhaps they are right. We are no safer today than we were four years ago. How true. MoveOn Org. you got that one right. Hit the nail right on the head. All I can say is that this nation needs a drastic change.

Second thought

Shame on you FBI and US Mail for fumbling the ball on the Anthrax thing. Let me make a suggestion. Perhaps we should put a microchip or some sort of identification marker in or on the stamps or envelopes that are mailed so that we can use it to determine the location that those stamps or envelopes came from. It just might make it easier to pin down the origination of the letters that are sent out. There should be a requirement that each post office put a unique identifier on each envelope mailed when it is picked up for delivery and before it gets to the main post office. It will mean that each letter will run through a machine which will print that identifier on it at the pick-up point and before they are sorted for distribution. At least then they will have a specific area to look into making their search easier.