On a totally different note -- Polly (the woman over at RCTQ who was AWOL after the hurricane) has posted that there are reports of 600 children who have been separated from their parents. Many of these poor kids are too young to even know WHO their parents are :-(. DH said he heard on the news coming home tonight that the officials are starting to think about running DNA tests on the unclaimed kids so that they can match them to adults who didn't make it through the storm.
Oh lord -- I don't even want to think of that happening. I wonder what sort of bureaucracy will have to be dealt with to get DNA testing done on these kids? Let's hope that the youngest are at least able to gleefully scream Mommy or Daddy when they see their parents after being separated! CiaoMeow >^;;^<
OOOO Sheena, I am so chastened by your scathing repartee. I'm not certain, but I believe the children were in the general GULF STATES region where a recent disastrous storm hit -- maybe you have read about it -- Hurricane Katrina. No specific location was mentioned so they could have been from Chicago. I have no hard data on this and can't prove it with appropriate statistics or studies at this time so I am sure that I am totally wrong. I humbly bow to your superior knowledge and opinions :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) ::-) :-) :-) CiaoMeow >^;;^<
And how about those stupid irresponsible parents who were on CNN, the ones who stupidly and irresponsibly left their newborn in ICU instead of taking him with them when they evacuated? We "know" that they did it just so they could get on TV for their fifteen minutes of fame. (Happy Ending: child was evacuated to a Texas hospital by helicopter and reunited with the parents.)
And all those other stupid women who stupidly chose the day of the hurricane to give birth? They should've just crossed their legs to keep the baby in until they were able to walk to safety. (Oops, can't walk with your legs crossed, can you?)
LOLOLOL! An awful lot of them used to do just that, as I recall! It gave them more of an incentive to make something of themselves. A couple of kids in my class at school, for two - and they had the added disadvantage (as it was in those days) of being Anglo Indian.
Come visit the deep south in the US and get back to me. We have a third world country in most of the deep south. It's called being black. Same goes for the deep south and being white and poor. And I don't speak of poor us can't buy cable tv. I mean no running water, no essentials.
I saw that story too. The mother refused to be evacuated in order to stay with her son (father and older daughter did evacuate). Then the hospital evacuated the babies, but had no room for the mother (who technically wasn't a patient).
Hmm, yeah, there was no advance warning of the hurricane. It simply just dropped out of the sky moments before it hit ground.
Advanced warning doesn't help if you have nothing and no place to go, as has been said many times now. However, current wisdom seems to be, one should blame the victim of poverty for their poverty, after all, it is their fault, isn't it ?
We've learned that from doctors who like to blame the patient for being sick, and from lawyers who like to blame the victim for being raped.
I've gotten umpteen lectures from doctors to stop smoking (I never started), give up fast food (maybe once a month, if that), drinking (maybe once a month, if that), etc., and when I say I don't do that stuff, they accuse me of lying. Apparently, these days no one gets sick because they picked up a virus, your ailments are all your fault.
Besides, blaming the victim saves Society having to look to themselves for the cause. WHY these folks are poor has nothing to do with assigning the most incompetent teachers to the poorer school districts, or the poorer school districts still having encyclopedias saying "someday man will walk on the moon", or that kids who haven't eaten don't learn well. It's all because the kids would rather goof off than study. And then, as adults, it's not because they're hard to employ because they're illiterate because they were short-changed at school, but that they're lazy and don't want to work.
But they are not the typical stories being covered in the media. They are being covered en masse, but aren't the 'personal details' ones being highlighted.
Not that it helps the current victims, but I hope eyes are opened high enough up the chain that maybe future emergency plans will include plans/resources for those less fortunate.
Hmm, yeah, there was advance warning, but if you were a vapid, parasite on the world community, poor as shit, had nothing not even a television set, or better, lived in one of those shanty towns by the river in New Orleans, where do you suggest that parasite to have gone, and with what money should she/he/they have gone with? Would you invite her/him/them to stay with you, or share a hotel room with them?
Oh no you did not mean that! Don't even try that on anyone here. People here are intelligent and are on to that sort of backtrack. You don't give a damn about those parasitic, pregnant darkies.
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