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Sep
17

Ohio Hanging In There

We don’t have “Hang On Sloopy” as a theme song for nuthin’! I have my electricity now, but not all Ohioans are so fortunate. Thanks to God and the hardworking guys employed by AEP we stepped back into the modern age yesterday evening. Lights, wash, running water! It’s bliss I tell you. But as I said not everyone in Ohio is back online with their power. And for them, it is...
Sep
15

Ohio is hit hard

I get to be online for a short time thanks to the generous friend who lent us a generator. A bit too late for much of the refrigerator’s food…which was the first appliance we hooked up for generator power. It makes me appreciate the difficulty of those areas harder hit- like Texas. It was so hot yesterday , and then the storm hit. We had no rain, but the winds started strong and just got...
May
7

Hard To Believe

The numbers coming out on Myanmar’s cyclone crisis are mind...
Sep
12

REbuttals

I hate myself when my dark and twisted humor gets the better of me, but I just could not pass on ( oh the horrid pun of it all) Mark My Words: The new math The new math And to think, I didn’t care for Calculus in college....
Sep
12

Faith in the Land of the Demolished

Locusts and Wild Honey � Church Sunday 11:00 shows pictures of how one congregation is having church on the street… actually on the foundation, which is all that is left of the building, but it is ‘open-air’ church. Church Without Walls.heh. In many ways this title could sum up church for many of us across the nation, while still having buildings and lives intact, much of what we know...
Sep
8

Tellin’ It Like It IS

RazorsKiss.net � How not to comment about Katrina let’s people know what it is like from the inside of the situation. After giving a quick refresher on civics, what part of government is responsible for what, RazorKiss has to collar the “armchair commentator, nowhere close to the scene” and talk a little sense. Sometimes you have to listen to someone who knows whereof they speak…...
Sep
5

Katrina’s Numbers Tell

Katrina’s mounting numbers and anecdotal stories are starting to tell the story, which is a long way yet from it’s end. 220,000 Hurricane refugees believed to be camped out in Texas 80 Percentage of the city of New Orleans underwater $10.5 Billion Amount of disaster aid approved by Congress and President Bush 27.4 Percentage of people below the poverty line in New Orleans before the storm hit...
Sep
3

How It Should Be Done

Evacuees find relief, grapple with worry at Hirsch Evacuees find relief, grapple with worry at Hirsch September 3, 2005 By Alexandyr Kent On an arena floor packed with cots, inflatable beds and donated goods, many of the approximately 1,000 evacuees appear to have settled comfortably but anxiously into life at a shelter. Under the umbrella organization of the Northwest Louisiana chapter of the American...
Sep
3

Through Fire and Water

CNN.com – Fires burn along river; thousands wait to leave – Sep 3, 2005 Fires burn along river; thousands wait to leave …Firefighters told CNN the mall fire started “under suspicious circumstances.”… This is a line of investigation that will surely be pursued in the future. There was also rumor of an explosion prior to the breeching of the levee, but all that could be...
Sep
3

Katrina Connections

Ernie The Attorney records this missive from a friend: “News from St. Bernard A friend of mine sent me this account of her boyfriend’s experience in St. Bernard Parish. I post it here for what it’s worth: “If you’ve noticed, there has been no or very little mension of St. Bernard. That’s because it was really bad there and there was no help. They were not helping anyone...
Sep
3

Aftermath

RazorsKiss.net » WE’RE OKAY. Christian blogger Razorkiss liveblogged from Gulfport and promises to tell some of the stories, gives advice on those who must go back into the area: “if you guys are thinking about going back – don’t, unless you don’t have a choice. If you do – bring supplies with you – LOTS of supplies. Okay?” Others are starting to discuss the...
Sep
3

Class…Class….Cllaaaaaassss!

Thank you. Now listen to what Carl has to say. No Oil for Pacifists: “The loss of life and property was bad enough; Katrina’s third phase is “the blame game.” …It’s all pointless nonsense. Quit squabbling; quit finger-pointing. We need to focus on rescue, relief and rebuilding. Hurricane Katrina was no one’s fault. That’s why they’re called...
Sep
2

High Water In America

I don’t think I have read anything as strongly worded as some of the essays on American Spectator. Hard truths, I’d say. The American Spectator High water risin’, six inches ‘bove my head Coffins droppin’ in the street Like balloons made out of lead Water pourin’ into Vicksburg, don’t know what I’m going to do “Don’t reach out for me,” she...
Sep
2

Katrina Help From Churches

As part of today’s blogburst I offer this link to the The Vineyard | A Community of Churches Assistance for Vineyard churches affected by Katrina We are getting a lot of calls and emails about what the National office is going to do in response to the situation along the Gulf Coast. We do not have the resources at the National office to coordinate a response. I encourage local churches to form...
Sep
1

19th Nervous Breakdown

With New Orleans in Anarchy With Fights, Rapes, it is starting to look like some horrible Mad Max movie. Some alien world where there is no more civilization, nothing of the character we call American. This is a massive breakdown, and it will bear looking at with objective examination when we are some space from it. Keep up the efforts to give. There will be plenty of time to review in the coming months....

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