| Wednesday, September 07, 2005 |
| Now I Weigh In on...Goos Fra Ba |
Sometimes things in the news and stuff that I run into during the day really ticks me off.
1. Leave it up to our elected representatives to politicize a natural disaster. Hurricane Katrina hits the coasts and drowns Louisiana, Florida, Alabama and Mississippi. According to Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Hurricane Katrina is the fault of Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour. In a column written by RFK, he states that the hurricane was due to global warming caused by the governor's opposition of the Kyoto Protocol.
2. A caller named "Jamie" called a local talk radio station and was worried about the displaced people from Louisiana that were due into Knoxville today. Why? He said that the crime rate will increase because "those kind of people" will bring looting, drugs and alcohol. And more people are worried that their property value will drop when a West Knoxville church puts up temporary housing for evacuees.
3. And I ran into this. Why do we play the blame game? Hind sight is 20/20. And Monday morning quarterbacks are always right.
OK, now I need quiet time.
I leave with this to think on:
The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus (1849-1887)
Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
"Keep ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she
with silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
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