Home and Watching Coverage.. Exhausted from people arguing all day over blame game..

Feels so good to take a shower and yet my mind and body still hurt. Holding in probably too much tension.. stress and am mentally exhausted. Yes.. many haven't showered for days in New Orleans. After Andrew .. a day later it rained and we all ran outside and stood there. Will always remember that and the joy we felt at feeling fresh rainwater running over our heads, bodies.. felt good.

I haven't forgotten but still my body aches and have heard people fight all day over who is to blame for the slow response in New Orleans. I just wondered if that was a good term to use and as I typed it... the man on CNN said those exact words. "Slow Response"

Have heard friends who work with military and who are big supporters of President Bush tell me how they have tried. The mechanism was in place and then they got shot at and attacked by people they were trying to help and to protect themselves they had to stop. The fault for them is the people left behind in NOLA who don't seem to be pulling together and the gangs that are running the show like a well oiled machine. Not just out of control chaos by people in desperation but a controlled gang warfare situation.

I have heard many of my friends at work .. who are black.. blame this on white people in power who did not respond fast enough. They insist this is racial and if it was poor white children and old people in the waters crying for help the response would not have been so slow.

I have heard people complain they feel that way and it's not racist and angry that someone would think that.

I have heard more complaints today from people (on both sides) looking for someone to blame.

If I thought yesterday was bad.. on the boards.. I should have known the boards were a microcosm of society and two steps ahead of the populace ..and today would be this way.

You have to understand .. I am one of those people who rarely sees race. I notice it.. usually but I see people. I see male and I see female. I see old and I see young. Often on the reference desk I help someone.. they have a problem.. someone asks me about the person to describe them and I swear to you I cant remember half the time if they were black or spanish or .. ??? well I know they aren't blonde cause a blonde peson in our library would stand out like dayglow pink. I sometimes can't remember unless I remember the accent who I just worked with.. they were young, they were heavy or thin.. maybe they had pretty earrings.. great eyes. I am the last person to judge people on race.

Bothers me that people can believe that the response is slow just based on race.

I am upset with people who make nasty comments about "what can you expect?" with a smirk.

You want to blame someone.. blame the Mayor of NOLA who waited for 24 hours before landfall before making a mandatory evacuation and not working his ass off to make sure that buses from somewhere came down to help evacuate people. I wrote that days ago.. when I wrote God Bless Billy Wagner in the Keys.

You want to blame a President who needed to go down there and see it with his own eyes before he felt as upset as we all have been for days watching it on TV.. go ahead. He may be my President but I am not happy with him and he should have been there days ago.. his father came to Homestead I believe sooner and so did Clinton. You don't have to see it with your own eyes to know the response has not been enough.

You want to blame the State for not having a plan in place to get those people out of their most famous and largest city.. blame them.

Hell .. you can blame the people for not leaving.

You can blame anyone you want.. I don't care.

I don't want to hear about it anymore.

I want ...oh so many things.. so few things.. that I don't have right now. Yes.. that is my response. It is to take a good look at my life and evaluate it and see what is lacking. What I want to change.

I donated money today.. twice.

You can donate at Walgreens. You an donate at Publix. Hell..from what I heard from kids you can donate at Ross.

Donate!

Stop complaining!

Stop looking for someone to blame. There will be so (heard slow response again on TV just now) many investigations on top of investigations when all of this is done.

I have heard interviews with people on TV trapped in NOLA angry at the mobs they are being judged by.

I am very, very impressed with Houston who stepped foward.

It makes you feel good.

Thank God something can make us feel good tonight.

So... going to go into Shabbos and hope that no one argues.. I think the right wingers will be here
while the left wing children aren't going to be here. Good. No conflicts.

Made chicken for dinner and potatoes. Lemon inside the chicken.. dijon mustard sauce on top.
Eggplant.. Chumus.. Babaganush..
Should be nice.. Morrocan Carrots. Wine..Challah. Round Challah.

It's thundering outside. I am going off. I have said all I will or can say right now.

Nothing to add...everyone try not to be so judgemental you are not walking in their shoes... some people don't have shoes.

Donate now.... please.

Thank you ...Bobbi