Katrina One Year Later

September
its coming .... it's an emotional month ... if you let it :P With Katrina, and 9-11 and My wedding anniversary, AND grants birthday. :) I love september :) I get happy, and reflect on the amazing human spirit! The grit of Americans in dark tough days. Its really an amazing month .. if you let it. :)

Today i was watching the news, i HATE NBC news ..so blatently bias, so ridiculous ... :P BUT it's all i get for now except CBS, who isn't that reliable either *lol*
well yesterday i watched a non NBC special on Katrina, and they were talking about hope, how the new FEMA director had turned things around dramatically, proving the other guy ... whatshisname Brown, had mucked it all up in the begining. Ray Nagan was an idiot .. sending away empty trains willing to take people out, turning away busses willing to take people ...... ...BUT NBC? All they talked about was how bush let us down again ... how the government lied. like always, how it shattered our faith in the government even more than the war.They interviewed the incapable EX-FEMA director. They kept talking about how the government said they were acting, but all we saw on TV was chaos and destruction and horrors. WELL HELLO! It was a disaster! How much can you expect?

Does it occur to them, that MAYBE WE were misdirected, maybe there was more to what we didnt see .... maybe WE didnt see things clear ... is it possible that the news sensationalised it all? Is it so far feached to think the media twisted it and only showed the worst cases time after time .... :o Oh no! Who would believe that?? UGH!!!

I'm not downplaying the situation ..... My heart broke for those peple ...I had friends IN it.. i wish i could have helped more, i rejoice with every new house, every family who gets thier feet back under them. But i WONT sit around and talk about "the horror the horror .... the government let us down!" awww shut up :P Those people are the people who dont have enough grit to get up and make a new life, those are the people who won't move out to make life better. If they are gonna be stubborn, and dumb, and obstinant ... then you know what ..... stay in the 9th ward, inhale the mold .... and wait for a miracle!

I hate that New Orleans is so changed, My family is from there. I have roots there, its sad that the culture is changing, but you know ... nothing to stop the world over, we change all the time .. thats how americans got here in the first place isn't it? England was inhospitable to people who wanted choice and free speech and religious freedom ... so they moved .. and here we are. That is what made Frech Creole what it is! The mixing of peoples from different places, so ... thats gonna happen again, and frankly im interested to see what will come of it.
So there's my vent. Yes Katrina was awful, changed the culture and landscape of the south. Well of america. People died, thats horrible ... but now they have moved on, rebuilt, either there, or elsewhere. Done what needs to be done to care for their families, thats what the american spirit is! SURVIVAL!! SURVIVE New Orlenas! Dont sit and mope about how you got done wrong .. get UP! Fix UP! Stand tall rebuild your city, teach your children about "the Old New Olreans" and embrace the new. It's inevitable ..its life :)

And now, im getting coffee :P