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Waiting for the Ground to Open Up

14 Wednesday Sep 2005

Posted by Solis R. in Uncategorized & Miscellaneous

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It hasn’t happened yet…

Since Massachusettes has legalized Gay marriage over a year ago – nothing’s happened. Well. Not exactly nothing. Over 6100 couples have said their nuptuals, their I do’s, their til death-do-us-parts and beyond that – nothing.

And I’ve been waiting. For something.

There’s been no ground rumbling, indicating a iminent gaping hole in the earth to open up and swallow the state whole. And, I’ve been searching the national weather channel to see if there’s any evidence that severe lightening strikes will smite the state to smithereens. Nope. Not even a hurricane, earthquake, or tornado.

I guess that could mean that the doomsayers might have mis-called this one. I don’t know that straight couples have left thier matrimonial partnership enmass because the meaning of their original commitments no longer exist. I don’t know that the meaning of marriage is any less than it was over a year ago. Perhaps these are questions for long term study.

Or, maybe – some Americans have been bamboozled into the many and sometimes outrageous arguments of anti-love proponents who have convinced us of some the afforementioned horrors.

Now today the Massachusettes state legislature has passed, by a wide margin, to not move forward on the constitutional amendment that would bar marriage in favor of civil unions. Still, Mitt-President-Wannabe-Declare-War-On-His-Own-State-Residents Romney is pushing for an amendment that goes a step further to prevent civil unions or marriage.

Governor. Get a life. Get a clue. Get a realistic ambition. You’re not going to be President. You’re not even likely to sway your state towards hate. Perhaps you should just call it a day, call it a career, and move on. Buh-Bye.

Christopher S.

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Dismantle And Rebuild Simultaneously

06 Tuesday Sep 2005

Posted by Solis R. in Uncategorized & Miscellaneous

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The Department of Homeland Security…

appears to care little about domestic wellbeing. At least in light of the response to Hurricane Katrina. FEMA, under the Department of Homeland Security, has seen its effectiveness reduced to the shameful, inadequate agency which displayed little preparedness or response.

In the press briefing released by the Secretary of Homeland Security, Michael Chertoff, referred to “Louisiana as a city largely underwater.” Therein lies a peek into the importance this region plays to the current administration and our legislators. While Chertoff and others have created the behemoth of a bureacracy devoted to terrorism, focus on agencies such as FEMA have become neglected. Instead of listening incessantly for chatter on the airwaves of faceless threats perhaps they should have listened to the chatter of Americas Army Corps of Engineers that warned of the consequences of inadequate preparation and funding for the New Orelans’ levees. Shouldn’t that kind of chatter incite as much interest? Perhaps the Corps should have conveyed to them that it was rising from an orange condition to a red condition, since that would appear is the only language these folks seem to speak.

On Sunday’s meet the Press Tim Russert pressed Secretary Chertoff on the issue of lack of preparedness. The Secretary insisted the reason that there were no beds, or water or anything at the Convention Center was because it was not to be set up as an evacuation center. City officials and FEMA were encouraging folks to go to the Superdome instead. He explained that folks just showed up at the Convention Center, and that’s why they were ill prepared. Thank goodness Tim Russert had the chutzpah to indicate to the Secretary that there wasn’t any water at the Superdome either!

In the weeks and months, and perhaps years that will follow this devastating event it is guaranteed that the spin-masters will be out to limit the damage of the inadequacies displayed in these days so not to tarnish their images and legacies. But, I call on President Bush to FINALLY do ‘something’ to hold his administration accountable. Secretary Chertoff or FEMA Director Michael Brown (http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/12572391.htm) should be fired. Some of them don’t even know the difference between the STATE of LOUISIANA and the CITY of NEW ORLEANS. These are the people we entrust with the lives of millions of people?

We already learned however in the wake of the largest intellegence failure of history in our continuing search for WMDs, no one paid for that incompetence either. The CIA the Justice Department the State Department all continue with no one ever being called on the carpet for their perfomance – or lack thereof. Perhaps – the President is avoiding presidence. If he doesn’t show that folks should lose their jobs for being inadequate to the task, people will not start to wonder if he falls into that same category as well?

Regardless. Rebuild the Gulf Coast. Dismantle Homeland Security or at least limit this wing of government to the FBI and CIA and let agencies whose mission is humanitarian (FEMA etc.) operate seperately. Their missions are too incompatible to operate as one. Particularly when folks at the helm seem to care little about what they do or how they operate.

Christopher S.

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