Thursday, September 08, 2005
Well here I am again moaning and groaning about group work in school. Last week in one of my classes the group other than me was missing in action. I did the assignment all by myself, and aced it. the teacher realized that many were not participating and reorganized the groups. Again this week I did the assignment and not one person showed up. Well I'll get my grade but I am really unhappy about it.
Posted at 11:07 pm by
RWO
I was so busy getting caught up on school work that once I managed to get caught up, I just played a few Neopets games and went to bed early.
I guess I only hav one thing on my mind besides school work and that is the blame game going on over the hurricane. First I started out sympathetic and made a donation to the American Red Cross right away. I then went through a period of mourning for the dead and dying. Now after seeing all the stuff that is going on with the politicians and all I am just plain angry. I am also angry at the news media. They aren't reporting on the good things that have happened. They aren't reporting on the folks taken in by the kind folks of the cities and states in the area.
No they are trying to pin the blame on the President and this is just wrong. Facts: The president can not constitutionally send troops into any area of the country without permission from the Governor of that state. The president declared the area a disaster area two days prior to it making landfall. He called the Governor asking her to evacuate her state. She balked, when she could have asked for assistance. This lady should be fired. Then there is the Mayor of New Orleans. He too had to be called and begged to evacuate his people. What did he do, told everyong to evacuate and then knowing that most of the people in the city were too poor to evacuate, he locked up all the busses in an area prone to flooding.
They ran this scenerio 13 months ago and found out that the results of today would happen. After the great failure 13 months ago they did nothing to correct the situation. They just counted on the New Orleans luck to get them by. After all they haven't been hit with the big one in 40 years. Well guess what, you can't avoid things forever.
And then the blamers of the Government. Just to lt you know the local and state folks are the first responders in a situation like this. Of course in New Orleans they are having to offer free vacations to Las Vegas to lure back the 60% that decided to dissappear when the going got tough. The federal government cleans up after the disaster not before or during, and can by law only come in when asked. By the time the Mayor and Governor decided they were in trouble and called in for help, much of it was on it's way to Mississippi and Alabama.
You don't hear the folks in Mississippi or Alabama complaining about lack of help. Why, because they got help fast and news crews were not able to find any Bush bashing stories there. New Orleans on the other hand is full of just what the press wants to show. Shootings, rapes, dead bodies are giving these clowns the visual props to try and persuade the people that the feds are at fault. I guess the feds could have cloud seeded it and changed it's direction? Maybe the could have mounted a big vacuum leaner on the international space station and sucked it out of there. Or maybe if they brought back all the planes from Iraq and Afganistan they could have them all enter the storm and fly against the wind and thus cause it to die down.
But then I did hear the real reason on a local radio show. The reason the government did't do anything was because they wanted it to hit hard so Halyburton could charge more for the cleanup.
Posted at 09:32 am by
RWO
Tuesday, September 06, 2005
Well today was the first day back to work and I had to do a little multitasking to get caught up with school work and keep my eye on my class at the same time. I was really lucky today as all they were doing was operational type labs, meaning operating the equipment, not troubleshooting. I was able to get all my work that was due today done this morning and posted at lunch. I was going to work on some more stuff that is due tomorrow, but everything keeps timing out on the work computer. I guess it is due to all the people on the LAN.
Anyway so I guess I will try to work a little ahead tonight, on the longer assignments that is. I need to relax after the trip. Isn't it wonderful how you take a trip for relaxation and all, and then wind up really tired from the drive home. Anyway my whole trip was pretty much driving from this place to that place and taking lots of pictures that I will post soon. I am having software disagreements with my camera and Windows 2000 Professional and also all the adware blockers, virus protection, and firewall stuff I have on there. The wife says I have to disable it all to get the software to load. She should know. Anyway once I figure it out, I am so computer slow, or get her to fix me up I will post some of the stuff.
Well, Lunchtime is over and it's time to get back to work. Have a great week.
Posted at 12:58 pm by
RWO
Sorry for the lack of blogging. I decided to take a mini vacation, so I went up the coast north of San Francisco, and then traveled down California 1 on the coast just checking out the beautiful countryside. Anyway I am back and as soon as I catch up on school work, I will be back to blogging.
Posted at 05:58 am by
RWO
Friday, September 02, 2005
I am now getting fed up with some of the crap I have been seeing on TV about the Hurricane. There are people blaming Bush, blaming the government for slow responce and some even blaming Bush for the levees breaking.
It is time to clean up the area and get the folks to a safer spot. It is not time to blame folks. Use the energy you are expending toward raising money for aid.
This is the worst disaster that I can remember in my almost 50 years on this planet. Recovery for something like this is going to be slow. I have actually been impressed with the evacuations that have already been completed. While everyone was moaning and groaning about the government doing nothing about it, the Houston Astrodome was filling up with people. With the roads damaged and flooded it took a while for the busses and aid to get there and now what is has started coming in people are bitching that it took so long.
Even with pre-staged supplies you still have to have an open route to get the stuff there. You also have to remember that a lot of our National Guard are currently in Iraq and Afganistan and are not available for service here. And these numbers of people that I am hearing about. I am wondering if anyone bothered to listen to the evacuation order. If I remember correctly when they opened up the Superdome it was called a shelter of last resort.
If this many people had difficulties getting out the City, State and Federal Govenments should have bussed them out before the storm hit, not now after all that has happened. Of course it is easy to be an arm chair quarterback and comment about it after the fact.
If anyone is to blame, I would blame the victims as busses are cheap and if they would have taken the 20 bucks they spend at McDonalds and spent it on a bus ticket they wouldn't be in the position that they are in now. From what I understand the towns and cities that have taken in the people who have gotten out have been very supportive. I am so proud that I live in a country that has a city like Houston, that is doing such a great job taking people in and taking care of them.
I am also disgusted by the behavior of the looters and I am glad to hear that the National Guard has shoot to kill orders. I can see them taking food, but you can not eat TV's nor even use them as there is no electricity to operate them.
Well I guess I have sounded off enough for today. I do have one recommendation for all readers. Watch what you spend and save what you can as prices on everything are going to go way up in the future. Costs for anything that requires shipping are going to go way up. Also things made from petrochemicals are also going to go way up, as oil is going to be short. try and be prepared.
Posted at 01:45 pm by
RWO
