Saturday, November 19, 2005

I lean Democratic… but what do they STAND for, what is there position, if it’s not clear to me, it’s not clear to others… Make it Plain



By Bruce H, Scroggins

I was feeling sort of an unease, ever sense the Republican Iraq sham and shame vote went down yesterday in the House 11/18/2005, seeing all the fake fawning and over the top butt kissing, was strange some how to me, and anti-climatic.

I was waiting on the position of a party out of power, to stand up and make their position plain, so as the main stream, who today are dissatisfied with the present leadership of our country, someone with a clear and cogent plan for true leadership would get the votes of nearly 65% of the American electorate, hands down.

But all that happened was Congressional make-up-sex. But we all know the back stabbers were stealthily lurking with in this mutual love hate fest, it all made we want to take a bath.

And being I lean Democratic, I’ am ready for a true Democratic leader to stand up and say, I’ve done my due diligence, and I have clear plan to lead, and it includes, not just the war, but this Nations direction as well, but it never happened, even the man of the hour, Jack Murtha, or the object of the love, hate fest, that evening even he tried to soften a few of his words. And I quote, and not exactly, “I like Cheney, he was a good secretary of defense,” I held my mouth, I was gonna spew.

And as some of the Democrats have been so found of saying since the Kerry campaign, “we can do better,” well what dose that mean, what is the substance behind this cavalier statement, I ask this question at this time, because at this time, the main stream is looking for some thing better, but neither party seems to get it.

Bush is right, Clinton laid the groundwork for regime change, but the way Bush went about, talking/lying/twisting/sexing up/fixing the details, too America and Congress forgoing to war, it was flawed from the start, and deeply deceptive, and misleading. And Bush went in not just for WMD’s, we all know Bush's focus changed quickly, when it appeared they were not going to be found, and the regime change became the new mantra, along with instituting a democratic style government, he also all along, had plans to make a lot of people richer, all while doing this insertion of Democracy, as a stabilizing government in the Middle East.

Now we know Bush & Cheney have bungled and dragged out reconstruction, and training of the guts of this government, he says, we’ll stand down when they stand up, or some such nonsencial mess, well it’s time to STAND them on their feet, and step back, it’s time for Iraqi’s to take the lead, in fighting terror in Iraq, America has it’s own war on terror, and were not going to keep dying for Iraq’s war on terror.

And America has no strategy; we cannot just cut on Run, or Quit and leave, we need a plan an exit strategy, some thing Bush & Cheney never thought of because they believed this was going to be war for all time until every terrorist was killed or dead, and America should know that’s a plan for a thousand year war.

There is no way to kill every terrorist, that’s like saying your going to kill all of the communist in the world, it’s not going to happen, and that’s why when Bush and Cheney say we’ve got to stay the course in Iraq… no we don’t, we have to have a planned exit from this Iraqi’s war on terror,

War on terror in Iraq, is Iraq's WAR on TERROR, yes America's bungling brought the terrorist into Iraq, and yes they have a foot hold, and yes Bush & Cheney miss-calculated badly, in the planning for the war. But Bush, Cheney, and Congress had no plan,until Murthakick started the talk of the end of this mess. I hear today that General Casey has offered a plan to get the troops out.

And I heard a House Representative say, or ask, whom do you negotiate with? And in war there’s only so many results in war, you can win, or lose, you can retreat or surrender and you can negotiate your why out, but you ask who do you negotiate with, I want to pose an answer he forgot in this conflict… how about negotiating with the Iraqi people, now there’s a thought, how’s about we let them fight for the Democratic government, how’s about Iraq get out front for the Country, and give America a break, there free to choose there course, which way are you going to go, Iraq has got to STAND UP or LAY DOWN, there is no other choices.

And my final word for America, the main stream is in a mood to chose a leader. a plan a course, Congressional leaders must not choose the failed courses of the past, we can not stay the course, we cannot just stop and leave, we are in the choosing mood, so step up and show leadership, or sit down and SHUT UP.

Tuesday, November 08, 2005

Big Energy,

Big Energy,
Natural Gas, OIL & Gasoline, Grids, Plants, Pipelines

By Bruce H, Scroggins

The Oil bandits are making record profits hand over fist, and the American consumer is being gouged at the Gasoline Pump, and America sea’s no relief in sight this winter, and Heating OIL prices are through the average renter, and homeowners budget roof, to think hardworking Americans will be choosing between, mortgages, and rent, and food.

The Pipeline Carpet Baggers, have made the ENRON Fuel shifting practice a main line process, and too think this now revealed practice is not illegal, only slightly UNETHICAL, what is it with People in power, the Republicans get in office and in power and before America’s eye’s ethics are front and center in Congress, and in All big business, from Insurance (HMO’s, workers benefit Insurance,) to government services (FEMA, FTC, FCC, FEC, EPA, NPR, NBR, FBI, CIA, DOD,) and these are just a few of the Bush & Cheney Administration appointed Crony led administration Heads of America’s most important Departments.

Cheney led a behind closed doors cabal to fix energy in America and Cheney has done just what ever he wanted… completely ***INDEPENDENT*** of any Bush… and Bush backed his every move even though Bush has not a clue as to what all Cheney has been up too, but Bush will never throw Cheney overboard because Cheney knows where everything is and Bush doesn’t have a clue and can never admit it.

And here’s the question on ALL America’s LIPS… Bush knows Cheney has a huge amount of POWER, that Bush can never rest from Cheney, not with out an all out fight that will destroy his Presidency.


The Energy Pimps, have wholly controlled the flow of energy, and Profits, and the empirical evidence is in the public view.

The Power Grids are in the worst shape in Americas History, and the Republican controlled Congress, has literally given them US taxpayers money to rebuild, and the Industry has haggled over regulations and continued to refuse to replace and built much the needed infrastructure, and all the while manipulating prices and supplies.

The Plants regulation have been retarded so the environment is now in question, mercury standards relaxed, Environmental scientific studies replaced with industry friendly reports, with the approval of Heads of the EPA, who use to be in charge of the very Industries fighting the agency they now control

The Pipelines, pattern & practice of shifting Fuel from one region to another creating shortages, costing the America consumer BILLIONS, and it’s all just a little UNETHICAL, after every close investigation, cry foul America, cry foul News media.

When will the American public wake up? And when will the News Media stop drinking and feeding the public the KOOL AID? Of miss-direction, allowing SPIN, and Twisting of the truth and FACTS.

FACTS, FACTS, FACTS all around, Facts that lead to LIES, and no one will call a LIE a LIE.

Monday, October 17, 2005

FEMA pays $11,000.000 Million a WEEK, and $11,000.000 a MONTH

By Bruce H, Scroggins


All this money for Americans displaced by Katrina, and Rita and for the FEMA workers.

The total is staggering, and it appears, FEMA and the Bush Administration wanted to just get the people out of shelters, because it made Bush look bad, but the imported workers, are doing work, that the displaced workers could of done, and kept the economy coming back strong with there very displaced labor.

Now Mayor Nagin wanting the people to come back looks like the right move was ignored, and shipping the very talent, and labor force, with a greatest stake in rebuilding, and recovering, and rescuing there neighbors, was called crazy.

Lets look at the people and there talents, the gulf coast has teachers and all the labor to run a school…GONE, Civil administrative workers…GONE, private business workers… GONE, construction worker, of all types…GONE, every kind of talent needed to restore the Hurricane ravaged areas in the entire Gulf Coast. And not just GONE, shipped to the four corners of the country, and remember for reason yet completely unknown to some, these very people were left behind for so long, when it came time to get out, they were so grateful to leave many vowed to never come back to the scene of there nightmare.

And now today 10/17/05 10:48:43 PM, Americas hear on the cable news channels ALL the money being spent in ways that are so egregious as to make no bid contracts, and the out and nout Carpet bagging seem to be planned. America goes deeper into debt, and every firm hired by FEMA, gets filthy rich, and the people get screwed, mortgages, and homeowners, lose everything, renters are out in the cold, and have no voice, not even in elections. And many are paying for homes that have been destroyed.

This is a disaster happening right in front of Americas face, and it’s business as usual for bectel, Haliburton. Not one congressman is saying a word, especially on Bushes side of the congress, all GONE quiet.

$11,000.000 Million a week, and $11,000.000 million a month…
AMERICA wake up, say loudly, and continuously… I’ am not going to take this. It’s time to change course… GONE.

You say there was no way to house the people displaced, right, but you could of told them that you people are the ones who are going to be put to work, recovering your homes, and all the money FEMA, and the STATE, and the CITY is going to spend is to help you recover, and we need your help, in other words, the Authorities should of sent them with a positive proviso, that there leaving was temporary, and there travel was being kept to a minimum, so they labor, talents, and voice will be mandatory, but the only thing they were told was there was am mandatory evacuation… but to where, to what.

Ask the Gulf Coasters, were you told you were needed back in your states, or back in there citys, especially now that the FEMA money is here, we want to pay you, who have are displaced residents, are exactly what is needed to rebuild.

Sunday, October 09, 2005

Smoke Screen to divert attention from Crooks, liars, Thieves



Friday 10/07/2005, end of week news dump


Bush and Cheney, are today standing back and examining there handy work, and a lot has transpired this week in there Administration, and in the three branches of Government, all controlled by the new malefactor in town. Lying has risen once again, too a level of high art, and, Chicanery is at an all time high as well, all this and Fridays news dump.

Lets look at the coming attractions, won’t we, first up, Rove was ask to come before the Grand jury investigating, the Valeria Plame, National Security Treasonous outing affair, for the fourth time, and Tom Delays lawyers, filed in court to quash, the indictment for money laundering and conspiracy, against him in Texas, and Ari Fliecher, and Scott McClellan, both spoke briefly with there Attorneys, in anticipation of indictments for more conspiracy, and Lewis (scooter) Libby, huddled with Cheney, and tried to assure the Vice President, nothing will track back to him, if you remember, Cheney was the catalyst for sending a fact finder (CIA choose Joe Wilson) to Niger, as the word conspiracy is kicked around in these private conversations, and as both Attorneys for Bush Cheney, Libby and Mires, all co-conspirators , worked to get there lies straight.

We include the outright crookery of Bill (I can’t believe, I’ll never be able to run for President) Frist. And we now have a strong group of also rans as well, in Roy (I’ am up to my ears, on K street now,) Blunt, and this man is, mentioned along with several other indicted co-conspirators as well, like Jack (I never met a Congressman, I couldn’t buy) Armhoff, and the wide and rampant cronyism, in all branches, and levels of the federal government, has been off and running for the last five plus years.

The blind obedience of the rank and file Republicans and RNC, all following in lock step behind the Neo-Conservative Christian Moralist, and their toadies in TV News, and Radio, who call themselves news analyst, (liars, prevaricators,) and let us not forget the paid shills, like Armstrong Williams (money to lie).

All to make the rich richer, and the poor, poorer, and what is the end result, America and their controllers are the biggest gorilla’s on the block, and there’s nothing in the world, anyone can do about it, except, theses pesky murdering middle eastern chiefdom.

Ah, the so called terrorist, (murders.) Now this week in the news Homeland security says it was a questionable call, the supposed leaking of a treat to New York Cities Subways, and the Local authorities are falling all over there selves making sure if something happens, be sure to remember, we said air on the side of speaking about it, and we were on top of the situation, and this is just more of the layering of controllable news, liberally applied at the end of the week to cover over the continuing soap opera, that is ALL my BUSHES aka, (news dump,) and all to try an changed the news reporting direction, but many in Bushes own federal branches of the Bush controlled Homeland Security disagree.

Bushes Mires nomination is blowing up in his face, and the news for the Administration these past weeks leading up to the Mires nomination was bad, badder, baddest, and (Oh HELL.) The top leadership of our Nation, and the Emperor has no clothes, and the rough half of America who voted for these clowns, are having remorseful feelings of, what did we do, voting these malefactors into power.

There foundation is corrupt, one might ask, what is their foundation, the Christian Conservative Right, who on this date, are pissed off at Bush, about Mires nomination, and saying so, loudly. The 21st Century Sanhedrin, (the Sanhedrin exerted authority under the watchful eye of the Roman rulers) of the high priest Dobson, Robertson, Farwell, and assorted followers, are praying, and asking god to tell them what to do, what should I say.

These false prophets are caught in their mess, and now want god to bail them out, and that is what these scam artist want prayerfully, but to the world, these ruler of the sacred words of god, want the appearance that, it’s all been god’s doing, purloiners of morals, have made a bed with the Republican Party, they would have America, and there congregations believe, that sleeping with these immoralist, it is of god, and that god wanted them to mix the Gospel, with politics, and there by bringing gods plans to man Horse hockey.

What is left of their best-laid plans of Priest, Prophet men, and Politician? Is what happens when men, label their works, of god… Crooks everywhere, cronyism, conspirators, thieves, liars, all under the umbrella of the Christian Conservative Republican Party, and the Neo-Conservatives are cringing, as their plan for American Hegemony, using Military force, aka; Project for the New American Century (PFTNAC,) all under the moral authority of these modern day Sanhedrins.

The people under the influence of these false prophets, are sheep, and that’s what makes this so horribly bad, if you remember, sheep will sit down when frightened, and won’t get up, not even to save themselves, they become so fear filled, they won’t act, they will sit there until they die. And Congregations all over the USA, are afraid of these TV preachers, and they will sit there Sunday after Sunday, refusing to read there Bible, and refusing to ask GOD, Jehovah, The Author and Finisher of there Faith, The King of Kings, The Way The Truth & The Life, the Lord of Lords, Head of the Church, in prayer, and then meditate, on that self same prayer (that means listen) for your heavenly Fathers leaning.

Here’s one aspect, that needs to be made clear to all Christians, the word God is a generic word, yes that’s right generic, there can be god (s), but there can be no Jesuss adding a (s), to Jesus Holy name, there is no Jehovahs, no lords of lords, no kings of kings.

When certain people, with a plan, tell you… they want to take, “In god we trust” off of the money, and they want to take god out of the class room… ask your self’s, What god are they talking about, because the God Christians know, and they know His name, and just god is not it. So when some one, throws this argument at you, ask them, what god were you talking about, and they say, you know, say to them, no I don’t, tell me clearly what god are you talking about, and what’s His name.

And then you can have a constructive discussion, about the name on money, and the using of the generic word god. You see my brothers and sisters arguing and, downing your fellow man because, they don’t believe in your generic god, is not what I getting at there, what I’ am trying to get us to is:

America we can’t have every true name of God, on our money, or pasted in schools, and court houses, and telling everyone, so now that we are using a generic name “god,” they are not taking god out of the market place, it is just not true, God is in your heart, and if you’re a Christian, no man can take God, or God’s marriage away from your Father, and lets face it, that’s what these scam artist are saying is happening, they say they are taking marriage away from man, and that’s not true, marriage is made by your heavenly Father, man is destroying what man “calls marriage,” not Gays wanting to marries, is destroying god’s marriage, it just doesn’t compute, if liars tell lies, does that mean that man is taking gods law away from God, or is mans lying destroying man law of lying, and man’s cheating. No man can take anything from your heavenly Father, but man can take a manmade thing away from man.

Beloved lets read the word of the Heavenly father.

RECOGNIZING FALSE PROPHETS
By Betty Miller
Prove All Things
1 Thessalonians 5:21: "Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.''
To recognize false prophets we must heed the above verse and "prove all things." One does not arrive at being an overcomer until he first learns the all-important lesson of testing or "proving" the issues of this life. In the hour that we live there are so many things that are false and evil. We must be constantly on guard and "prove" or test things, lest we become ensnared by something that is wicked. Cults are spreading. Eastern idolatrous religions are creeping into our country in very subtle forms, and many Christians are being deceived and have accepted their practices without even being aware of their evil. Some religious groups have existed for years under the guise of Christianity, and yet are far from the teachings of Jesus Christ. The Lord warns us of these false teachers and tells us to beware of them.
Looking at Matthew 7:15-23, we find Jesus gives us the guideline for determining false prophets:
"Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? Even so every good tree bringeth forth-good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth-evil fruit. A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit; neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them. Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father, which is in heaven. Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? And in thy name have cast out devils? And in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity."
http://www.bible.com/answers/afalse.html

I’ am only talking about the God of the Old Testament, were He first revealed Himself to man, in Exodus 6; 3. And (and I’ am not a Jehovah’s witness,) I’ am talking about the Alfa &Omega, of Revelation 22; 13. from the King James 1611 Bibile

Americans please read your Bible, and I ask you too, in prayer, ask the Everlasting Father and He will answer you, and bring you out from under false prophets, and I’ am not talking about leaving your church, but I’ am saying, you need to ask your Pastor, Minister, Priest, about what you’ve read in the scripture, and it says, that I’ am to hate the sin, but love the sinner, and nowhere does it say, I’ am to allies my self, with crooks, cronies, thieves, liars, and when I know they are prevaricators of evil, I am to rebuke them, and then, work to restore them, (walking out my faith, in my life) now lets look at the restoration process, that the Lord our Father, set in place in His love letter to us all.


My beloved in Galatians 6 starting at the first verse, Paul write of restoring one, who has been “overtaken in a fault,” and I ask you what fault? Or faults can a man or women be overtaken in? What sin is common to man? The answer is, All sin is common to man, remember what ever is not faith is sin… Fear, and not reading your Bible, and not asking your heavenly Father for guidance, and clarification of His word, is sinful, especially for saints, and churchgoing, Bible believing men and women, it’s a sin to your Father, when you only listen to men, and never listen to your Father, and I ask you, I put it too you my beloved… Why? Would you worship and praise, and pray to a Father, you won’t listen too, and you won’t believe His word sitting in your lap Sunday after Sunday, and Bible study after Bible study.

Our heavenly Father said I send you out to preach the Gospel, not find some scripture to beat a certain group, or particular pet sinner over the head with your indignation and private condemnation, pillaring them in the news, and on the radio, and at rally after, rally, all for you political gains. How is that advancing the Gospel as I told you to do, it’s not your job to eradicate EVIL, that has never been your job, that’s your Fathers job, I did not tell you fight the War of EVIL, I said hold the ground my son (Jesus the Christ,) won, using the Armour of God, and the Victory is yours, the victory beloved, not the war is yours, we as children of god can’t win the war against EVIL.

The holy Spirit beloved, that we walk in, is founded in our Fathers word, and these traits are the “fruits of the Spirit,” Galatians 5; 22 – 26, and in the last verse, it says “envying one another,” and here’s where prevaricators, get there juice, but won’t admit it, they envy those who seem to them to get away with sin, they won’t admit it, they will say, I’ am just drawing a correlation with the ills of our society, and our country, it’s because “these sinners,” that god is not in the class room, and I (a man) will condemn them, for god, using god’s word, and scriptures.

I beg these lost leaders, and these following congregations to repent, and return to your Heavenly Father, prayerfully, your Father awaits your presence before His Throne, lifting up your supplications, to Him and He will forgive us our sins, and restores us to His side, and shape us for His work of reconciliation.


Bruce H, Scroggins

http://lovethetruth.blogspot.com/

Thursday, September 29, 2005

The Gulf Coast, a Rich Pie, for the Rich

By Bruce H, Scroggins

The rich will get richer in the Golf coast area, and the culture of this Administration is at work, since Bush and the Republicans have been in power, and the carpet baggers, are out in force, every no bid corporation is on the ground with both feet, these Multi National World giants are sucking the US Treasury dry, and there Lobbyist in Washington, DC are paving the way for there money sucking plans.

The plan was to get as many of the people out of the area, by first telling all who could to leave to leave, and leaving the rest until they would be so glad to leave they would go anywhere, far, far away from the scene of there horror, and then deny as long as possible there return, especially the poor, so they can condemn there housing, and there land, and include it in there planned redevelopment, with out the region voters, and their voices at the table, the Mayors constituents.

And the plans are working, first try to switch the focus from the President, and FEMA, and them keep blaming the local authorities, to keep them busy defending them selves, going from one to the other, and try to get the Media’s attention, all over the place, from looking inside to see if they the Media, did something wrong, and it’s the Neo-Conservative, Right wing, Republicans, and it’s who makes up the party, not just the politicians, the very large corporations who were big money supporters, of the Bush grab of power.

Look at who’s stealing the money, and match those Corporations, and the people, in the Republican Party, check there portfolio’s, and there investments, and you’ll see the paper trail of greed, and you’ll also see the people who have been running interference, and miss-direction schemes, at the press, the Democrats, are making money too, but there not included, in the planning.

And the press is falling for it, they’ve looked at themselves, there now looking at the police, and last week, it was the Mayor and Governor, and the looking at them, has been on going, from the start. Stop drinking the Kool Aid, these scam artist are pouring into your camera’s, and microphones, and question, for facts, every word, coming out of there mouths.

Keep your focus on the people, and there return to there homes, no matter what condition there in, it’s there land, and homes, even the renters, had homes, and deserve to be heard. Please don’t let Bush and his cohorts get away with, stealing every penny, and every piece of land they can, and you know they can’t steal the land a hotel was on, but if you can keep the people away long enough, you can condemn there land, and then, redistrict it right out of there, pockets.

There are plans afoot to change, where people live, and the people who should have a VOICE our GONE, and the only one saying anything is the MAYOR.

They already fixed the pay to rebuild, (Davis-Bacon’um,) for reconstruction, and that was among the steps needed to help the carpetbaggers get a foothold.

Stop letting them use the media, they have their own network to do that, the RNC Fox sue do news channel. There going full tilt smearing, and mudding the waters, switching the focus, playing the blame game, on anything Democrat, or Liberal, or any one asking questions, or speaking for the voiceless masses, this Fox channel is playing the “Game.”

That’s right, when these carpets bagging scum-sucking thieves, say or do something, it’s “a game” to them, it’s a game when they accuse someone of being, morally corrupt, or a liberal, they laugh and smirk at the camera, and make as many false statements to try as they might to create an echo chamber in the News, and the Media does all the leg work, carrying the message, and stops seeing the people.

And when it’s a “game” to them, or anyone, we all know how we think of a game, we say after it’s all over, ”well it was all just a game,” this is sport to the Right, it’s a game played hard by every voice on the right. And when the media, see this and stops playing, and stays serious, and on point, questioning every word coming out of mouths… whether Republican, Democrat, Conservative, Christian, Congressperson, Bureaucrat, Civil Servant, General, Solider, Celebrity, Spokesman, and everyone offering and opinion, especially, the paid experts, and consultants, and talking heads, and Pundants.

Focus on the people please, there the stars of these disasters, and there the ones being cut out, don’t let a card with a little money fool you, their problems are greater, and longer termed than, the superficial, surface view, the camera is showing, the problems go very deep, and it’s not pretty, but we must look, and the media must show it, yes it’s ugly, and you want to turn away, but in the valley is where the darkness of life is, and those lost, and those giving up, and without hope, are not on the beach sunning themselves, there in darkness, praying for a light, and remember, the table will be set in the presence of there enemies, and the cups at that table will run over, and on many, and those in darkness will see, and come to the table, but “we,” have to go into the VALLEY.

Step back and take a long look at what going on, just listen to what being said, and what’s not being said, in the market place of words. Be a cup, and let it run over.

Bruce H, Scroggins http://lovethetruth.blogspot.com/

Saturday, September 24, 2005

The BOX Thinking


by Bruce H, Scroggins

I can only watch and think about what’s happening, and as I watch the approaching Hurricanes, I’ve come to a couple of conclusions. First; we are not even close to preparing, or planning, for the eventual, before during, and aftermath, of these natural disasters. Second; the season for hurricanes will end in November, and we need to get at the very least prepared, for the before, during and the after.

Now I know great minds have been thinking, and planning for all three eventualities, all over the world. But as all these think tankers, think and paln, we all can tell were failing badly, and expending obscene amounts of money, trailing late at every attempt to make a difference for our people, of all colors and age, they are all Americans, and our guest, as there caught in these disasters wake.

So lets start to look at what's happening to America, in and another way. The best minds seem to be looking, and planning for the before, as though, they don’t want to get people moving on what may be a false eventual outcome.

The before thinking
, they think, should be because we thought it would never get this bad, but all along, they knew, we had cat 1,2,3,4,5,and 6 and up storms, we can’t build for these, so we threw caution to the wind, and built anyway, right on the beach, and continued form the beach building right on in, and up, with whole communities, all geared around making money, planning for cat 3 protection. Now the only structures built, close to the water should be made of bio-degradable material, nothing should be built that we cannot afford to lose, this is a big change in Americas Capitalistic ways, our profit first thinking and planning has too change… think America, the only thing that doesn’t seem to be lost, but suffers damages, but are reparable, are the OIL and Energy infrastructures.

Thinking this way means, a change in the money pit thinking that’s costing America, and Insurance companies, so much more money, that we are now today borrowing like a Nation full of drunken sailors, and Captains.

The during thinking, America is haunted by our foresight, that is inadequate, to the extremes, we can move fast after, but during a storm, we are ham strung by our before planning, and it constrains us to act, in unison, to help were help is needed, so once it sure we going to be hit, the FEMA organizations should be working hand in hand with the State and Local authorities, before with FEMA subordinate and assisting, but working alone with, at each step of the State, and Local authorities way. Never should the Local, the State, and FEMA be separated from each other, because what's is the focus is America, people firsr, structures second, and the thinking about my turf, and each acting like fiefdoms, in and emergency is absolutely stupid, and a huge wast of resource, and manpower.

It’s because of the thinking we suffer, by not integrating these organizations, not in staying in separate offices before, during, and after a emergency, only coming together when one has to take over from the other, when it’s ability to respond is over whelmed. It called a layered response, each making declarations, as each saw fit, hamstringing the next layer with worthless, decisions that only get in the way of the next layer when it has to take over from the one swept over by the intensity of the emergency.

The After thinking, Now all this thinking,involves gambeling, will it hit, and when to move the people, and planning to spend the least amount of money, each limited in what’s available to get each levels jobs done, based on this box thinking model, the Local, State, and FEMA Authority are all, saving there outside the box thinking for what they didn’t expect to happen, each thinking there planning is the best, only asking for help with the peripherals, until it’s too late, and each waiting on the other to fail, before acting.

When we had bad storms in the past we had smaller populations, and less tecnology and still some of the storms still over ran our abilities to respond. But the lessons, still weren’t learned, it was as if we planned to fail, and then respond, by rushing in to save what's left, and throwing huge sums of money at the problem, and dragging the out come from pork to pork, and arguing all the way through.

The proof of this thinking was the 100,000 people left behind, and forced out of, and sent all over America, literally, snatching the voice of the region, and stealing the voter, scattering the very workforce needed to rebuild, bussing them to the four corners of the Nation, very effective, but a Huge waste of resources, and the very talent necessary to rescue, and recover is now gone, from were it was most needed. It was as if there was a plan to leave them until they would go anywhere, and hating were they were, and saying, just get me out of here.

And when many in America saw this as planned benign neglect, in the highest order, and when the Mayor screamed after having his communications cut, and then being refused to use the cutters communication, and then, the Mayor being, forced to stay close to the Media, as his only communications, was humiliating in the highest degrees, and many in America saw this as planned as well, and the Governor, saw it as well, but was more easily bought off, and remember, the Govenor was very complimentary of FEMA, in the beginning, when she saw the truth in the begining, and screamed as well, remember.

And all this was covered by claims of it’s the mayors fault, and the Governor fault, by Republicans, but the Nation as a whole saw only Michael Brown, and Bush, and then and only then did they jump in with the General first, being gruff, and short with the Media, the General saw the same things that the Governor and the Mayor saw, but was constrained by position, but we in America know the Media’s a Corporate owned lacey of the Republican Party, yes many are Democrats in the Media, but they now know where there bread is buttered, and became as dossal as in the past, since this Administrations take over of all three branches of the Government, five years ago.

The Poor, the Sick, the Elderly, the Young, the Blacks of all ages, were left to die, and suffer, till the great Bush decided to move on there behalf, Bush looked at the Box, and said, we can move now, and I’ll lead the way, but he waited too long, and had to say, “I take responsibility for what happen.”

And it has been business as usual, FEMA, the State, the Local authorities… still looking at the BOX, and in a pinch, they employ thinking outside of the BOX, and some even think they are doing a good job, because there's not too many deaths… America looks at the BOX, and prays, America can never stop praying.


Bruce H, Scroggins http://lovethetruth.blogspot.com/

Thursday, September 15, 2005

Conservatism’s favorite fallacy

by PMCarpenter

September 14, 2005


In the context of weighing racial and class-based factors in the federal government’s woeful response to Katrina, the Washington Post related this succinct portrayal of the president’s political philosophy with respect to combating poverty:
“In the place of traditional poverty programs, Bush has touted faith-based social service programs, calling them more efficient and effective than those run by the government. Many programs of an earlier generation, he says, have served only to perpetuate the plight of the poor.”

Forty years of relentless right-wing campaigning on the fallacy that government programs “have served only to perpetuate the plight of the poor” has convinced a majority of Americans of the fallacy’s truth. But it has taken root among the electorate only because most Americans don’t examine the assertion’s basis any more than our intellectually lazy president has. It is received knowledge, not informed opinion.
At its core, conservatism is a profoundly antigovernment philosophy, not a pro-opportunity philosophy. The idea that proactive government perpetuates poverty, rather than poverty resulting from society’s structural flaws, is merely a cover story for reducing the cost of government to the haves, leaving the have-nots to the wolves. This may seem like an obvious point, too obvious to note even, and to an informed electorate it would be. But millions of Americans, having bought into conservatism’s simplistic solutions, have also bought into the idea that conservatism stands for a positive philosophy of alternative approaches to social betterment rather than a negative philosophy of limiting government at all social costs.
Without going into a dry, detailed history of what government programs have, in fact, done for the poor, consider again what the Post wrote about Mr. Bush’s views - that he “has touted faith-based social service programs, calling them more efficient and effective than those run by the government.”

Really? Are his faith-based programs somehow something new against which we can now evaluate the ineffectiveness of government?
Hardly. For private social-service programs dominated before the New Deal (and later the Great Society) intervened. It was the inadequacy of such nongovernmental assistance that brought about government’s efforts to do what private charities, principally churches, had been unable to do.

The deployment of Bush’s generous private-over-public aid as a national ideology to fight poverty and provide opportunity had plenty of opportunities itself to work. Prior to Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps, housing assistance - need I go on? - those at a socioeconomic disadvantage had little to count on but what private charities had to offer. And it was precious little. The depth of charity’s inability to meet national needs became overwhelmingly apparent during the 1930s, and it was this that launched a fundamental change in approach.

Contrary to the right’s rhetoric and revisionist history, the New Deal wasn’t a manifestation of a bunch of wild-eyed socialists intent on destroying volunteerism and private charity for the sake of erecting big government. The New Deal came about only because private means of assistance had repeatedly failed as society’s principal fallback.
Conservatives love to hark back to a nostalgic America that never existed - to a bygone age when everyone pulled themselves up by their bootstraps, and only when it couldn’t be helped did the struggling ask the local church or community chest for a hand, which was always there for them. It wasn’t, of course, and it was capitalism’s unsparing nature that finally showed the inadequacy of private aid.

Modern conservatism is founded on a deliberately constructed, rose-colored historical myth. What perpetuates poverty is government’s inattentiveness, not its pro-activism. Again, this may seem bloody obvious to you, but far too many Americans have never stopped to consider the basics.

http://pmcarpenter.blogs.com/

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Congressional Oversight


By Bruce H, Scroggins
9/15/05

Rep, Tom Cole R/Oklahoma says, the Democrats, are afraid of the voters of the elected representative, to let them handle there duly elected responsibilities, and Rep. Cuptito/R say it’s by partisan, “according to the balance” in numbers in the Congress, of both houses.

Many, if not the largest American people, want a responsible Independent Commission for the Katrina disaster, and the Republican controlled Congress, who are Republicans, want a few Democrats, and the rest Republicans, and overwhelmingly, and flat out well over 76 % of the AMERICAN people, don’t want the Congress to investigate there selves, the AMERICAN PEOPLE, want and INDEPENDENT Katrina Commission.

Rep. Al C, Hasting/Florida, the American people want no Congress looking into a Republican mirror, and white washing the results.

For the Republicans, it’s simply damage control, and the Republicans, don’t want a fact finding team of the Congress, to go down to the region in question, and gather facts, even the Congressman from the regions, America raise up and tell your Representatives, the Republican controlled Congress, to stop BLOCKING the TRUTH from coming out.

Don’t let the cover-up happen, not this time, not in the 21st century, don’t wait, don’t allow those responsible to gloss over there mistakes, and try to build up some good work, to pad there absolute, malfeasants of Politically Appointed Office.

Oh yes, there Political appointments is what is scurrying around Now that the Light of Katrina, has pulled the covers off there, dumping grounds of FEMA.

Let cut the crap, the Republican controlled Congress has fallen on their collective faces, and have now today rammed through the House a committee to Investigate itself, essentially. America today is seeing full face, what the party controlling all branches of Government, can not do and that is be fair to all Americans, and to assist there larcenous malfeasants, and one of the last bastions of Americans voters bully pall pit have been bought off, and out, the 4th Estate, by Corporate take over, Americans have few voices left, to stand up for the majority of the poor, and the elderly.

Black Americans, Have been bottomed out in Civil Laws, and in Employment, assaulted in lower, and higher Education, advances that took well over a century, are under attach, by the moneyed few, who are not Democrats.

Republican back big Business, has traded unfairly, American jobs for profits, on the international stage, big businesses have trashed the American workers, and there pattern of cutting benefits, year after year, and then asking for wage give backs, and in the end filing for re-organization, and in bankruptcy court finishing of the Union, in what they couldn’t do in the market place, and using the excuse, “we have to compete on the International stage,” when there the very Businesses pushing Congress to sign unfair trade agreements, that gut the American worker.

The Republican majority in both Houses, cares not for the poor, and the elderly, and the sick, and for children, and for black America, and Katrina blow the cover right off there cover-up, that is going on all over America. Congress wants to cut Taxes, Medicaid, Medicare and Education. America is in a costly war, on two fronts, and expending money at enormous clip, and the poorest of America, are just to slow to die, for this Administrations ideology.

The Republican controlled Congress is going to white wash this whole affair, and push there agenda over the Radio, and the News print, and the TV, and before two more weeks past, it will be a Hodge dodge of who don it, and well be so confuse as to who did, or didn’t do what, that when the noise machine is through, every person from the local police, and fireman, and the Mayor, will be at fault, and the president will be strutting around, saying what a good job FEMA doing, but every one from FEMA down will be left holding the bag, for faults. The FOX investigating it’s self, will not show how big a Screw up the Feds really were, Mark my words.

Sunday, September 11, 2005

(I), Devastated, Scattered, Then Davis Baconum!!


9/11/05

by Bruce H, Scroggins

Lets throw in Davis Bacon, “I’ am” the President, and this will be good for my base, big business, and “I’ll” make sure, it’s looks like “I’ am” spending Americas money judicially, and it will, also look like “I” care, about the large sums of money, we are forces to spend, because of Katrina. There is a lot of “ the letter, I”, and not any “those devastated,” and this will be, “what's good for the American people’s, Federal money,” only words, and actions, like “what’s good for the Contractors,” there is no, “what’s good for the children of the lost, and hurting people,” and Bush has not said, the people who have lost all there material goods, there homes, there Jobs, there savings, this will be good for them… when Bush signed, and Executive Order, to suspend, (with no sunset,) the hard earned wage rights, won (by Unions, and Blacks, and the poor in general, ) Bush raped the already underpaid workers, (Avg pay in Region, $7 – 10 per hr.)

Katrina combinationed the State, and knocked many out, from the people to the Governments, (City, State,) and left them bloodies, bruised, and many dead. What Bush did at the behest of 32 Congressman/persons, was too stand up the parents left, and punched them in the stomach, hard.

Bush IS effectively saying to their faces, you can rebuild, but you won’t make, even close to FAIR wage, you’ll barely, make enough to afford food. The people will say to them selves, health care in not affordable, and savings, never again in my lifetime, a car is laughable. And we hoped for hope from our president, and Bush said, I’ am thinking of the people’s money, Oh yeah and the Business people who will hire “you people,” to re-build, and the Federal peoples money.

He didn’t limit what the Halliburton’s of America, and the Bectol’s, the Kellogg, Brown, Root, and every other private business who will pay less for work, and profit more, and only re-build at minimum standards. Bush didn’t require high standards, for the companies who will be, bidding, or no-bidding for work. Bush didn’t make sure the people’s federal money was doled out to minority Contractors, he’ going to rely on existing rules, watered down by his cronies, placed in charge, and of oversight, kind of like, what Bush has done in placing people, or dumping people in FEMA, he trust these people. But what Bush doesn’t trust is for an American worker to be paid a fair wage, in catastrophe. Making sure the worker has at least in the region, he or she lives, a prevailing rate of pay to deal with the economy, that will employ ever-increasing cost of living raises.

Listen, and hear me good America, what did you expect from a Hostile Administration to Unions, and Workers, and helpful, and ALL loving towards, the Energy, Health, Insurance, Banking, Military Industry, check it out for your self, Bushes Domestic agenda is smoke and mirrors, give money to Education, but not enough for the legislation forced through Congress, but more then the past Administrations, then in the out years cut it to the bones, Bush on his watch has seen the Manufacturing Industry, devastated, and the owners, have left in mass, to set up Operations outside the USA, to survive, taking the jobs with them, and there Corporate Home bases as well, and the taxes they use to pay in the USA, well that’s a double whammy, to the country, and the worker.

Bush has done absolutely, nothing for the American workers, Nationally, or Internationally… but buy the MILLIONS, the American worker has VOTED for the very man who is single handedly turning America into a First world, Third world country, by his every act, Bush destroys every hard fought protection he can, at every turn of events.

You see, when they scattered all the 250,000 people devastated by Katrina, all over the nation, those people were the very ones who would of protested in strength, what Bush did, by signing the Executive Order, the very talent, to re-build New Orleans, and the Gulf Cost, was living in the Gulf Cost, and they only needed to be moved out of the Devastated Parishes, and at most a slight distance of about 50 miles away to camps, so they could assist in there own re-building efforts, but now there’s no Voices, and the Republican Conservative Right, in concert with there leader have continued there coup, battering the City’s Leaders, and the State’s leadership, keeping them busy, while the Carpetbaggers move in, to bid on the reshaping of the region, the way the moneyed few want it to be re-build, Bush is slamming the door shut, on the workers in the region, all the way to his brother state… THE LAST THING THE DEVESTATED PEOPLE NEED IS A FAIR WAGE… Bush is saying!!

Commander and, Lead Thief.

Republicans Urge Suspension of Davis-Bacon Wage Act for Katrina Recovery
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2005/9/9/95352.shtml Link to Repubs letter to Bush,
32 signers

Nancy Pelosi
"It's this simple: Hurricane Katrina took away their jobs, now President Bush will take away their wages when they find new jobs. This is a partisan and punitive decision that will make economic recovery much hard for workers and their families.

Congress Vs. Minorities: The New Davis-Bacon Rulesby Scott A. Hodge and Andrew J. CowinExecutive Memorandum #299April 09, 1991 |
The Department of Labor wants to create job opportunities for tens of thousands of American workers, many of whom are minority, poor, or unskilled. The Department plans to do this by expanding the use of helpers on federal construction projects regulated by the 1931 Davis-Bacon Act. Yet Congress is attempting to block these efforts. To protect high-paid union workers at the expense of low income workers, Congress has tacked provisions onto the Persian Gulf emergency spending bill (H.R. 1281), soon to arrive on George Bush's desk for signature, that would prohibit the Labor Department from using funds to relax the regulations now preventing less skilled minority youth from working on federal construction projects.

Saturday, September 10, 2005

Local Authority, First Responders, New Orleans I

by Bruce H, Scroggins

9/10/05


The Questions are coming to the surface now, and Washington is firing back at local authority, Right talk Radio is castigating, the Mayor of New Orleans, Ray J, Nagin, they say everything is his fault, but lets examine the local Authority, and the first Responders.

The Mayor has residents of a City of just under a half Million people, (498,820, ESTM, total) and many of these evacuated before Katrina hit, those who could leave, packed up there loved ones from Nursing homes, and private homes, and businesses, and got out. Now approximately 120,000 people, made an average yearly wages of $8,000.00 dollars per year well under poverty level in the USA, and over 100,000 people had no cars to get out in. even though Ray J, Nagin had issued the proper declarations on time, Joseph R, Matthew, the city’s director of emergency operations, said the city went on alert the afternoon of Friday 8/26/2005, even though a full evacuation was not ordered until Sunday 8/29/2005, and lets remember “Talk Radio Right,” Katrina did not run on anyone’s schedule.

Katrina quickly OVERWHELMED, and at the overwhelmed point, everything Ray J, Nagin did was futile, and every place, that was used as a fallback was overwhelmed as well, (the Super Dome, the Convention Center,) now why? Were these fallbacks used?

The Superdome was a “shelter of last resort,” and the Convention Center was the “overflow,” from the Superdome. Why send people there, (Superdome, Convention Center,) if you don’t have security, and food, and water.

They had minimal Police to send to the “FALLBACK,” and none for the “OVERFLOW,”
Where were the all the Police, some where DEAD, and DYING, some where looking after there families, some were trapped in parts of the city, some were on the job and got trapped, and some, have, to this day not reported, and there whereabouts is unknown. Now this happen to the Fire department just as it did to the Police, and remember Katrina did not care, and was making there jobs of security, and protection, and serving, Impossible, by any stretch of any ones imagination, except, (Talk Right Radio, and the Administrations surrogates,) now the overflow into the Convention Center was a new dilemma for Police, (an on rushing, developing nightmare, worst than the understaffed Superdome, and city proper,) now the out of control in the Super Dome, was crushing the spirits of many who stayed on the job, and had no idea, where there loved ones were.

Where were the buses, good, a very excellent question, who? Drives the city’s buses… men and women who live where? In the city of New Orleans, so many who stayed, they became like the people of New Orleans, when the first order of Alert came on 8/26/05, many drivers were sent home to look after there families, as was management, and many left, as did management, and some stayed and got trapped, and some died, and some were swept up, and couldn’t operate the buses, and were trapped. So where were the Private buses, good question, the city has no power to federalize private property, and even if they could all the Buses were neatly parked, and the drivers, many of them got themselves and there families out of New Orleans, and some came back to help, and got trapped, and some died, and some are now refugee’s like the many others.

Now how is this Ray J, Nagins fault, the Mayor, at a early point, was swept over by Katrina, and his power to do anything, except become homeless, and scream for help, He was reduced to a man with a title, and no power to get anything done, even for himself, except to stay close to the Media, and SCREAM, for HELP.

Ray J, Nagin praised his Police and Fire departments for working long hours under horrific conditions, and two of his officers committed suicide since the hurricane hit. Katrina’s wrath since it came ashore was overpowering for the Mayor, the City, the Police, the Firepersons, and the few National Guard Troops, who were just as swept up, and just as trapped as others, all over the city, remember 80% of the city went under water. How fast was this overflowing water? They say, (and I’ am not sure, of the numbers) but the storm surge was 30 feet in total, and it came in at 10 feet per hour, and in 3 hours, the city was under water, (don’t hold me to these numbers, but close) and hundreds of thousands were trapped, and killed, and Katrina did not care if you were a Policeperson, or a Fireperson, or Young, or Old, or Sick, or a Child, or a Baby, or Black, or White, it just did what a hurricane do… bulldoze everything in it’s path, and it doesn’t, and did not care about your title, as mayor, or Journalist, or Doctor, or Talk Right Radio, or Democrat, or Republican, or even the Governor, or FEMA.

Next I’ll examine the States responsibility.

Friday, September 09, 2005

Scare them with some TRUTH

by Bruce H, Scroggins

Tell them there’s poisons, and broken glass in the streets, even the parts that were untouched and dry, drag some out, or scare them out, but out! someone! wants them out.

I heard a tearful nursing home attendant describe contacting the loved ones of there patience’s, and out of 59 patience, 32 had someone come and get them, and this home was under mandatory evacuation, but the only was they could be evacuation was if someone came and got them.

I know this Tragedy was a perfect storm, and it was one in a million, and the city had issued the declaration for the City’s people to evacuate, it was mandatory. Now the City was up to, and over there heads in responsibilities, and in some of the nursing home across the City there responsibilities, were to protect and care for there patience, so just calling someone, and telling them to come and get them is not the end of there responsibility, and the loved ones who cared for there loved ones in these Institutions, who lived outside, have a responsibility to do all they can for them.

Those loved ones, out side of the nursing homes, were in a tragedy as well, and were pulled in all directions, and many choose to look after those in there immediate charge and made decisions, to get them out, those that had the capability to do so. And those that choose to stay, could get out them selves, and were lost, some of them, died of acts of criminal intent, while trapped in a flooding city, with there local protection stretched, thin and broken, and crushed by the shear weight of numbers, and there own despair, for there loved one, it was a recipe of catastrophic proportions, and it played out… it played out, at the cost of the least of humanity, the Old, and Sick, and extreme Elderly, and predominately black, being able to do, no more than watch their own demise slowly.

Here’s the story, the City ask for buses, and the City Buses did all they could, but where were the Private BUSES, Private Companies BUSES, they, Instructed there driver to go take care of they families, they shut down there businesses, and parked them in neat rows, and there BUSES, went under the FLOOD as well, hundreds of BUSES, around new Orleans, and in total may per haps, thousands of BUSES.

None FACT, the City dose not have the Power to Federalize private property, like the Federal Government dose, (FEMA) has that federal POWER. So there are some screw ups by the City, but not many, so stop trying to play got you TV, on the Police, got the Horses mouth and ask your pointed questions, ASK the Mayor, ask the Governor, ask the Head of FEMA, ask the President.

I’ am sick to death to see you keep asking, the very people who worked their selves to death in some cases, why they didn’t do more, like they started this whole thing, like because of what you think they (the City, State didn’t do the state Q form the City, and didn’t do right, and the FEMA took there Q from the City, and State and followed some pattern set by the lower levels of Government and that’s how all, the leaving BEHIND started and everything is the City, and the States fault.

Listen… all news media… Katrina was like a run away 1 Million Ton Tank, and the City tried to stop it with police, and the State tried to stop it with the State Troopers, and a few National Guard, soon both lower Governments, called the Army, and the Army came but forgot to bring the Anti-Tank Weapons, and just stood and watched, and ignored what was on TV (the Media,) and still they stared like deer in the headlights, at people screaming for help, and for more days than I care to count, they waited until the Tank ran out of gas, and the Sun started to shine, and still waited a day or two, before the fire, of you inept basta_ds, came cra-shinding down from both Party’s in Congress, along with the raised voices of the Media, together it became defining to the President, and Johnny come lately’s started to move in what was needed days ago.

No Longer Invisible


By Eugene Robinson

Friday, September 9, 2005; A25
NEW ORLEANS -- Beside the interstate leading into this abandoned city there's a self-storage warehouse whose flimsy walls were peeled away by the hurricane. The contents are almost undisturbed, stacked neatly in their exposed compartments. You can see all the inconvenient things that people stowed out of sight and out of mind.
That's what this unreal disaster did to New Orleans and the whole country. Things we tried to tuck away and forget about are suddenly out there for the world to see. As a nation we can deal with them or not, but we no longer have the option of pretending they don't exist.
Chief among this inconvenient baggage is poverty. After seeing who escaped the flood and who remained behind, it's impossible to ignore the shocking breadth of the gap between rich and poor. It's as if we don't even see poor people in this country anymore, as if we don't even try to imagine what their lives are like. Think about what just happened -- a record-book hurricane was bearing down on the most vulnerable city in the country, and it didn't dawn on officials at any level that many people didn't have cars in which to flee, money to stay in hotels or upstate friends with enough space to take them in.
To be poor in America was to be invisible, but not after this week, not after those images of the bedraggled masses at the Superdome, convention center and airport. No one can claim that the post-Reagan orthodoxy of low taxes and small government, which does wonders for the extremely rich, also inevitably does wonders for the extremely poor.
What was that about a rising tide lifting all boats? What if you don't have a boat?
The other unavoidable inconvenience is race. In New Orleans, race and class overlapped to such an extent that it was difficult to pry them apart. Were people forgotten or treated with disdain because they were black or because they were poor? Mostly because they were poor, I'd say. Was the African American majority ill-served by an African American mayor? Mayor Ray Nagin clearly loves his city and its people, but at one point bitter crowds at the Superdome were honoring him with the chant "[Expletive] Ray!"
Still, there was a racial component in the way the residents of New Orleans looked at one another in this crisis. When the city broke down into anarchy, some whites began seeing any black man as a robber, looter, carjacker or rapist. Horrible crimes were indeed committed, but there were far more reports of crimes that never took place.
But, yes, some black men were robbing, looting, carjacking and raping. It was like a social explosion, muffled by the enfolding waters -- destruction for destruction's sake, reminiscent of what we saw four decades ago in the Watts riots. Most black New Orleanians had nothing to do with any violence, but I was surprised at how many of them were quick to believe that some nameless, powerful "they" had somehow engineered the levee failures to protect the French Quarter and wealthy parts of the city by surrendering poor black neighborhoods to flooding. Some whites, meanwhile, stayed in the city and joined together in vigilante bands to keep out the unwashed hordes.
I saw myriad examples of whites and blacks working together, helping one another, striving for the common goal of survival. I saw evidence of the unique New Orleans cultural gumbo that is so much a part of the city's self-image. But the instances of mutual suspicion, of quick separation into us vs. them, were too real to ignore.
New Orleans looks ruined and uninhabitable. It sits in an untenable position, wedged between lake and river in a busy corridor for hurricanes; the French founded the city in 1718, and just four years later it was all but wiped out by a storm. But you can bet the city will be rebuilt. In their book "The Resilient City: How Modern Cities Recover From Disaster," scholars Lawrence J. Vale and Thomas J. Campanella point out that destroyed cities almost always rise again.
"The question is, what do we mean by recovery?" said Vale, head of the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT. "Is it getting the hotel occupancy numbers back up in the French Quarter? Or is it fixing low-income schools or working on the worst housing problems? Who is going to set those priorities?"
Now it's time to drain the water, bury the dead and clean away the muck. But for a city and a nation that put poverty and race into a locker and ignored them for 20 years, cleanup is just the beginning.

eugenerobinson@washpost.com

Thursday, September 08, 2005

The Polls say What !!, horse cookies

By Bruce H, Scroggins


I looked at the polls shown and could not believe my eyes, 38% said no one, 69% said no one should be fired.

I watched for days, BLACK faces screaming for help, and descending into madness, and debauchery, 90% of them Black, and I know there were people of all colors, but to see a pole, that says these margins, said what they said, I fine it hard, if not nearly impossible to believe.

I want a pole done of those who where the victims, and ask them what they thought of the FEDS, the STATE, and the CITY, and a pole of the people of color, the ones whose faces America saw on TV night and day.

Ask them if someone should be fired, ask them Lou Dobbs, ask them if they thought they were treated fairly, and as quickly as possible. I dare say, that there is a racist element in these poles you showed on TV, tonight (9/08/2005 3:00Am)… everywhere, I turned, I asked, and people want to know what, or who screwed up, black and white people, I ask… and they want heads to roll, right out of office, and very few of them want a City, County, head to roll out of office, or local powers and police… ask them, the victims, what they think of this mess, they were OH so intimate with this tragedy for days, ask them, and them only ask, and lets hear the results, and ask some black organizations to do the same pole, one to blacks, and one to none colored people, and then on air compare the results.

Ask, them Lou Dobbs, Ask them, come on ASK the victims.

IS ALL OF THE NEWS MEDIA AFFRIAD TO SAY IT, WHY WERE THERE SOME MANY BLACKS SHOWN FOR DAYS, SUFFERING, AND DYING, AND STEALING, AND DYING, AND SCREAMING, AND DYING, AND YOUNG BLACKS, AND OLD BLACKS... AND NO ONE IN THE NEWS, WONDERS WHAT BLACK AMERICA THINKS ABOUT SEEING PEOPLE THAT LOOK LIKE THEM IN SHELTERS TODAY, AND SCATTERED ALL OVER AMERICA, NOT ONE JOURNALLIST WILL TOUCH THE STORY, THAT'S ON THE MINDS OF THE WORLD... THE WHOLE WORLD, THE ENTIRE WORLD.

ARE ALL THE NEWS ORGANIZATIONS SCARED TO TOUCH THE TRUTH, OF WHAT EVERYONE SEEN FOR DAYS, AND DAYS, AND DAYS, AND DAYS ON ,WITHOUT END IT SEEMED, WITH A SMATTERING OF NONE COLORED PEOPLE HERE, AND THERE. AND THE PICTURE TODAY IS MORE BALANCED, BUT WHY IS THAT?

HOW MANY WERE OF WHAT RACES? IS EVERYONE AFFRIAD? TO SPEAK THE TRUTH? OR IS IT EVERYONE IS AFFRIAD TO SPEAK THE TRUTH TO POWER? IS EVERY NEWS JOURNALIST, PROTECTING HIS PILE OF BRICKS, AND DOSEN'T WANT THE POWER ELITES TO CRASH HIS CARRER.

TO WHOM MUCH IS GIVEN MUCH IS REQUIERED.

Talking point, keep saying “Blame Game”

by Bruce H, Scroggins


The Blame Game, all anyone dose is PLAY the BLAME GAME, fixing responsibility is not a GAME, the City, the County, the State, all were calling the Feds, and the storm blew right past the three lower forms of government, the storm was over there heads, and the last line of response is the feds/FEMA, and FEMA is backed up, by the President. FEMA is a Federal Disaster response agency, designed for the national level catastrophes, not for City level, or County level, or State level, responses.

So every person who cannot, or refuses to see that the President on down to the feds, FEMA, blew it, they are not seeing the days, of death and dying, by 99% black faces, but America saw it, clear as day or night, on the 24 hour new cycle.

When the tornados, hit Florida, several of them, the FEMA people, and the President was clued in from before to after, and once again Bush declared and emergency, before the disaster, just like in Louisiana, and Katrina.

But in the Katrina disaster, the FEMA level response, didn’t marshal resources, and didn’t act for days, and America watched in horror, as people died right in from of the camera’s.

When you declare, or make a declaration before a disaster, your response Agency, your head of response teams, are put on notice to start MARSHALLING supplies, and people, to respond as soon as the rain and wind slows down. But that didn’t happen, and all America saw it didn’t happen, not for daaaaayssss… now, the Right winger, want to blame the City, the County, the State heads with negligence… America as a whole is looking, and listening to every statement by these excuse makers, and accusers of the lower levels of Government, and are comparing there lower levels, to Florida, and can see only one thing clearly… no comparison, hands down… none.

Point: all the troops, and the trucks, and jeeps, and helicopters, and plans, and supplies… Question,” do you think they just made that equipment, and they just trained these troops over night, and had to wait to get the food, and water, or was it all MARSHALLED somewhere, with all the FEMA responders, watching days unfold, of Americans dying, day in, and day out.

And the organizations, which on the News, we see prominently, where were they, I know some of them were trying to do some things, before day one. Some one needs to ask these questions, ask the police where were the FEMA people, where were all these troops, and where did all the water, and food suppose to come from, and where was it, before it arrived in the disaster zones, of the Gulf Coast

Was all this in a marshaled areas, just waiting to get the word to go in… waiting just outside the area most needing this supplies, it must have been hard to just sit there day in and day out, eating and sleeping, and watching people die on TV, and wondering, why? Are we not moving in, the FEMA people thought to them selves, the doctors on call, watched on TV, day in and day out, eating and sleeping them selves, and wondering why? why? I can’t go in and save these people from there suffering, it had to be hard to watch Americans descend into Madness, and have loads of help, all around them, and in there hands. But NO CALL TO GO IN AND HELP.

Wednesday, September 07, 2005

The Real Looting is just Getting STARTED

The Real Looting is just getting started

By Bruce H, Scroggins


FEMA, Red Cross, just to name a few, our getting in the way of the private concerns, who have a heart to help, there are people bringing people like, the elderly, who need 24 hour care, and they are being dumped on the Churches door step, and the churches are more than willing to help, there are people Federalizing, shipments sent into Louisiana Churches, to help, and some of the shipments, have been seized.

The Big Institutions, are taking over, and blocking the good works done by those, who all along have shown the heart to get in there, from Day One. The only reason things have bend going well, as of two to three days ago is the MILITARIES, can do attitude, and they are the ones, who have ben flooded in to, jump start the effort, that was suppose to START up, ALL on it’s own, at the City, County, Federal Levels

And if you think, 10.8 Billion was enticing to loot on the big stealers scales, wait till Congress allocates 50 plus Billion to this tragedy. I've heard tree firms sending trucks and crews before Katrina hit to the neighboring States, in anticipation of the great deal of work coming in the Gulf States, smart move yes, but they are small opportunist, compared to the Looting Coming, to your TV screen, and in the News papers, in the not too distant future... just watch listen and see, and remember the truth.

The Red Cross, is a fine organization, but they have been shown to be untrustworthy in the past, especially, with money earmarked, to be GIVEN to those directly affected by the Tragedy, (remember 911, money given,) I said earlier, that the Black Churches, who are well acquitted to deal with the seeming 80 plus percent of black people, they have a cultural affiliations, to the people, and have there most honored Black Institutions, in place to spring into action, the NAACP, and the URBAN LEAGUE. And the truth is coming out, ALL the Churches are ready to help, but the Federal level is blocking, and in some cases, STEALING the GOODS sent by good Americans… yes stealing, looting, all in the name of federalization of needs, and then telling the churches , when they ask for help, a big FAT…NO… you b_____ds.

Congress has to get these Black Institutions involved, and you will see, much better results, with talking to the people, who are intractable, and refuse to leave. These people, many of them don’t trust the people, who our now, issuing orders to leave, even the local police, who lost everything, them selves. Remember for days, the lost people, didn't’ see there own police, and fire, many were on duty, in other parts of the city, and many were seeing to there loved ones, many, were killed, many were overcome, and are today down sick, Physically, and Mentally, but for what ever reason, some good, and some not so good, they weren’t there, to PROTECT & SERVE.

After the huge uproar, and all the Media coverage, and the endless Black faces on the 24 hour News Cycle, has put America into a sour, and angry, and flat out pissed off mood, and America is not in the mood for more bureaucratic B_ll S_it.

Remember, when a crisis gets beyond the ability for the City, and the State to handle it, the FEDS, responsibility kicks in automatically, but for some odd reason, Katrina and those at the FEMA level authority couldn't’ get there feet out of the sand, and there hands out of there pockets, they were paralyzed with fear, and all they could do was look at the book on emergency preparedness.

Tuesday, September 06, 2005

Warnings, Warnings



by Bruce H, Scroggins

The Mayor of New Orleans is calling for everyone to leave New Orleans, The Water, and the Conditions are a toxic soup, of disease, filled with dead bodies, and dead animals, and decaying flesh, and chemicals.

And Water… water, water, and not a drop of it good, except in a sealed bottle… warning staying in this death trap, is not and option.

And the powers that be have spread these infected people to more than a dozen States more, Adults, Children, Old, and the Young, and the Babies, all are walking time bombs and this is a Public health hazard, of immense proportions, for the USA, like they have never seen before.

Now all of those in the know, FEMA, The STATE, the HEALTH Department, the POLICE, the STATE Board of Health, … What, and When did they know this, and …WHY? Did they not tell the people …BEFORE and AFTER?

They left those people in this mess, for days, and days, knowing and never said a word to the people… Oh well the powers that be, said to them selves, no sense in telling them NOW and many descended into madness, and we know many were mad before Katrina, but be that as it may.

Not helping them right after, and leaving them was CRIMINAL, we know this today, and sending them to other States and not telling the PEOPLE, and the STATES, only compounded the tragedy… the still evolving TRAGEDY, each day a new revelation of the absolute, benign neglect of Americans, and it’s tantamount to designed murder, YES I said murder.

It was and is a death trap, and for days, they knew, ask the powers, who ignored the dying people of new Orleans, they who should know, will have to answer, and don’t let parse words, make them answer, with out explanation, don’t let them Obfuscate, the TRUTH, and don’t let them sugar coat it, ask for independent professional answers, so America, whom they don’t want to ask Questions of, and new talking points, Blame game, THIS IS NOT A GAME, THIS IS LIFE & DEATH.

An Emerging Story in Black America



by Bruce H, Scroggins

The big story in a large part of Black America is the Big Media doesn’t respect the Black Organizations, and Black Churches, and big Media is NBC, ABC, CBS, FOX, and all of the 24 hour News Programs on Satellite, and Cable, and by Black Organizations, I am talking about the NAACP, and the URBAN LEAGUE these organizations are the oldest, and the most trusted in the Black communities around America, and it’s glaring to us, that on your News Shows, the Red Cross, and the Salvation Army, are the only one’s prominent, and in repeat at the end, and at the start of each segment, as the only organizations America should give to heavily.

Your show will have to stop reinforcing this, belief by your not placing these honorable strong Black Institutions, in their rightful place, with the ones to date you have shown, adinfiniteum to America, by design.

Believe me, I’ am not against these fine organizations, but I’ am also very proud of these Black Organizations, and they have done a great deal for Black America, and if you don’t listen to them, and in turn respect them, we will see this every day and night, and you’ll lose creditability with Black America.

Remember this present Administration, dose not talk with our leaders of choice, and many see that in the Black community as disrespect.

Remember, the Black community is largely faith filled people, and there faith tells them if you don’t respect the Son, you can’t respect the Father, and there is no way to the Father, except by way of the Son, if you understand, we will see a change, and all America will understand.

Bruce H, Scroggins

God Bless

A View from a Black Americans SKIN

9/6/05 10:12 PM

by Bruce H, Scroggins

It’s the seventh day of our American tragedy, and America is swinging into gear, and it’s heart warming to see but I have some strong views about the response to date.

Administrations Response; Racism, and the wholesale scattering, of the residents; murders, rapes, and firing on those who’ve come to help, are just some of things that deeply concern me, and Black and White America, should be upfront with there collective outrage about the events unfolding right in front of our faces. and lastly cleanup and rebuilding.

Lets jump in with both feet and hands, and a must is, we must keep our eyes, and ears open, and believe what you hear and see. Now the Media is and has always been the ones, with a canvas, and they paint, and some times they like what they paint, and some times, before and after painting, make decisions to change course too, as they believe, and are urged to bring “balance,” to what they report, and the Media, has one of the strongest presences in the “views,” and “view.” the World and America views of Americans at there worst and best in tragedy. I have heard, and viewed, on the News programs, (CNN, MSNBC, and Local coverage’s,) what I call, “changing course, and balancing the story.”

The print Media has as far as I can tell to date a magnificent job covering all aspects of this tragedy, but are not with out fault, but have done a yeomen job, to date.

The visual Media has a Bully pall-pit of a different sort, and can shape the news viewed in a more sustaining way, what with there 24 hour news cycle.

The Administration is averse to dealing with the Black communities strongest supporters, and Leadership, and a large part of the Black communities backbone-foundational-structure. And that is the Black Churches, Bush likes Black churches for his Faith-based Initiatives, but he only wants black pastors who agree with his political stances, those who do this, are given face time with Bush, and he and others take there Q, and literally, tells the Black community, "these are who your leaders should be," and that’s not to say, Black Pastors can’t get money to do Non-profit humanitarians works, if they don’t agree politically, no that’s too easy, and Bush is not that opaque, about the practice, but he is Crystal Clear to many in the Black and White communities of America.

Yes, Louisiana has suffered a tragic lost to its State, but Racism, rape, murder, are one set of extremes that are coming to the surface, and many are asking why?, why? Are they doing that, and, don’t they have basic right and wrong learning? the answers to all is “yes,” and the reality is, how can I explain this, listen if your ass hole, before you lose your things, and lets be clear they lost “things,” you’ll be ass hole without the things, and if you know right and wrong, but choose to be a rapist, and a murder, or were, before the tragedy, you can still be one be after, if you “choose” to be… If you’re a racist before, and choose to continue being a racist after, that is a choice… If you choose to show the truth before, and choose after the facts to change course, you choose this change.

In every instance, men/women made a choice to do what they did, and the catalyst for these acts, have been internal, and external. For those trapped, and stubborn enough to stay, it was, the catalyst of, there was no money to leave, and this little pile of bricks is all I got, and I live check to check, and believe me, PRIDE was active in all of these excuses, and there’s, the elderly, and the sick mixed in, and all are vulnerable, too those who have more strength, and less morals, and no hope for there squalid existence before the Tragedy, struck, and they were living a tragedy day in and day out before the tragedy… so a natural, and unnatural response, would be, my life has been taken away, and what little “pile of bricks,” you have, is gone, and your with out hope, and you see no way out, you descend into madness, the young, the old, the sick, the poor, the men, the women, the children, and all around you see death, in unimaginable proportions, your mind goes into survival mode, you try to save your own “skin.”

Example: some years ago a plane cashes on a mountain, the passengers were soccer players, and after being stranded, lost, with no hope, left they descended into cannibalism, and everyone who heard there story, understood the deft, and dept of there position.

Another thing to remember is, the churches, a bulwark in their neighborhoods are gone, there places of refuge, are gone, and there communities familiar faces, are gone and those who are looking lost, just like you, are not familiar, or friendly looking, because there lost, just like you, and your both wondering, will you hurt me to survive, or will I.

I just watched an irate LT. General Honore on TV MSNBS Live (1:57 Pm, CST), lashing out at the Media for asking questions about there late arrival on the sense, he was over the top, because he doesn’t think he should be ask about, the feeble response from the Federal Authorities, I have one response to him, if you can’t stand the heat get out of the kitchen, because his anger dose me and the people no good, and your an Arrogant man with Authority, is all I heard and seen, and the Media should cut him no slack, He stepped up with Chartoff, to the Hot seat, and got mad at a perfectly pertinent question. And it’s not secure everywhere, and he lied and tried to paint a picture that everything is secure, and it’s not and the Media has been there far longer that LT. General Honore. Truth in fact, and the Media should light his fire, right under, and in his face.

Bush is one of the most smarmy men I know, and I know something of smarminess, having been young, and thinking at some points of my youth, that I was God’s gift to God knows who, (smile.)

Accountability will come up everyday, and indifference and arrogant outburst from Johnny come very, very lately’s of whatever authority, and political stripes, better get ready, and stand up tall, and suck up there smart ass retorts, because Americas, not even close to being in a mood, of wanting to hear his anger.

What's is lost in all that has happened is, where is America’s faith, this is suppose to be a Christian county, well I can’t tell. The people lost in the south, are relying, many of them on their faith, and that faith has served them well, it gives them hope, not to lash out, but to be strong and to hold on to those of faith who stand in the breach, for them everyday and night, and these everyday first responders, have stayed, and rolled up their sleeves, and worked to the bones to be a servant to there fellow man, did everyone hurting, acknowledge them… were they attached, and some killed and hurt, yes… and a painful yes, for them all, but that did not deter them from living out the faith, and in turn inspiring other to hold on to there faith, and let it stand in them and give, when all they had to give was each other.

So give America, give of your time, and your money, and make a point to give to Black churches, if not money time, if not time, food, if not food, clothes, and if not clothes, give of your mind, and believe what you see, and hear from those who have suffered the lost of all things material, but look at America from there faith, and say, I believe someone, I can’t see loves me, and will help me.

Last be not least, Black America, see's many black people being sent out of there home State, I ask why, when they should be housed right in there home State, and are the very ones who should be involved in helping, everyone whose lost, and needs help, who better to help, than those who’ve been helped, and who better to work rebuilding, their homes, and the homes of there fellow lost. Stop scattering them to the four corners of America, they need wholeness, and work, and money, and a home at home, they want to help there fellowman, and the Feds, and the Military, and FEMA needs there help, and they need to help.

A great lost of man power is taking place, and some want to act like there doing so much, and in this mix of the lost, is Teachers, Security Workers, Janitors, Cooks, Construction workers, Air conditioning specialist, system managers, nurses, Highway heavy Workers, Bricklayers, Electricians, Computer Specialist, Nursing home Attendants, Hospital Workers and a veritable cornucopia of every field needed in this tragedy, and scattering them to the four corners of the States, is putting stress on there neighbors. These refugee’s can build housing, and put in the pluming, and can make everything needed for the rebuilding of there State.

So I ask, WHAT are you DOING, why? Can’t the powers that be VIEW/SEE the immense waste of limited resources, on one hand, and the clear as your face answer, on the other.


And if you’d just ask the NAACP, and URBAN LEAGUE they’d tell you the same, in most cases.

Making a Tragedy Worse

by Bruce H, Scroggins

I watch and, listened, and called phone numbers, and ask people, about loved ones, and have spent time looking for lost family, and heard of friends lost, along the way. And my prayers go out to our fellow Americans who have lost so much, and those who are safe, and those who this day are in harms ways.

I look in horror as those most in need, are displaced again over and over again from not only there homes, and neighbor hoods, but from there state, and are to this day completely out of the mix, of the plan for the very land, they own in some instances, and for those who were renting, they have been shoved, and shoehorned into another State. They’ve lost there voice, at a time when those at the table, will set the future for there home, and may tell them about it, only when and if, it becomes necessary.

America watches the TV News Shows, and wonders to them selves, why? Won’t they leave, with all the destruction, and death around them, Americans, say to them selves, “I don’t get it,” well let me relieve your concerns, and inform your minds, and I ask you to open your hearts, just as your faith, and your Pastor, has this past two Sundays. And please I ask you don’t let the criminal acts of a few sway your minds, get you to focused on what is to date a very small part of the problem.

Most of those who refuse to leave know they will not be at the table, and they don’t trust anyone to speak for there interest, in the development of there homes futures, so don’t fall for the side issue of looting, the News Shows, are trying to fill, and be balanced in there reporting, and that’s it. These issues are important issues, but they are still not the most important story.

The people, who are alive, are the story, and America should never forget it. These people, who have been shipped out of there State to another State, are the very people to help those, who are still there, and in distress, the people who lost everything, want a part in there recovery, and let me tell you what a definition, is of recovery, first to recover, you have to know what you lost, and the LOST, and hurting people of Louisiana, know what they lost, and those who remain and refuse to leave know what they have, and will lose if they leave, and they know that many of the voices that they have come to know and have supported them over the years of there life’s, they don't recognize, or trust, and means there voice has been reduced by death, and by displacement.

The talents in those well over 250,000 people shipped out of Louisiana, could have been brought, just outside of town, and the FEMA, and the FEDS, could of spent some money, to and put them to work, after giving them Medical treatment, building the shelters, and then some, could of assisted in New Orleans, in the search and rescue of there fellow neighbors, and these same people could’ve of been made as whole as humanly possible, and would be a catalyst for positive, upward looking, and hopeful outlook on there future, and they would "BE" there when the "TABLE" is set for all Re-development, of where they lived out there life’s.

Now the NAACP, and the URBAN LEAGUE, has the Institutions available to assist in this kind of plan to give the Lost HOPE, it’s a lot simpler, than it sounds. If they can in a hurry, make homes for the Japanese in Arizona, even thought they were woefully inadequate, they can use the very people who have the talent and the blood bought right to be there at the table of there comeback from the lost.

Putting a Face on Responses

by Bruce H, Scroggins

9/6/05 1:47 PM

Today, we hear and see, that Donald Rumsfeld, and the Military are “putting a face on Responses,” they say here’s what we’ve done, so far, and it’s heartening to hear America coming together, but those responsible for the early days catastrophic, woeful responce, through inept coordination, and flat out not knowing need, and an American dying from, a pencil, or a telephone.

Don Rumsfeld knew the storm was coming, and they knew the aftermath, was full of ALL possibilities, and they knew the plans were supposed to be, already be in place, relief and Aid, was suppose to be in place, days before the known storm hit and fell after coming out of Florida.

The Powers that be understood the possible magnitude of this Katrina, during the first strike, and in the after math of the first strikes, they seen the tragedy unfolding, and they completely, and utterly miss the mark, by not moving forward with the PLANS they say were suppose to be ALREADY IN PLACE, people dying in front of cameras, almost instantly, and the Government KNEW they were dying, and did not ACT, and in the case of the New Orleans poor, they were brain locked, and chased there tails in endless moves, with no resoults.

(I' am watshing Don Rumsfelds Press conference)
The Military says, look America, you have to look at the priorities, the helicopters “they had,” first I ask, who is “they,” and the original question was where were the “YOUR,” helicopters, (meaning the MILTARYS helicopters,) now Rumsfeld, is spewing numbers of what they’ve done to close the breeches to date, and the General is saying nothing, blah, blah, blah… Rumsfeld says, anyone who doesn’t understand, is wrong in there questioning, of are responses, that’s what I get from his spewing.

And the General is mixing Iraq, and a pep talk, (close your mouth, and only open it to answer the question, sir) Question; you talk about how the plan was in place, but the reality was not the same as what you’re telling us today (is what I hear, in answer.) And the response is BLAH, BLAH, BLAH… and the Administration chooses, ding, ding, ding… it’s not my responsibility.

And that is the face, today put on responses… I didn’t do it… RIGHT!

This Administration doesn’t want to place blame… RIGHT now, and even Clinton says the same, well, no one was held accountable after the facts of 911, and most of Americans, don’t raise our children this way, and if you screw up on the job, you get relieved from your position, and someone who can get the job done is put in your place, but not with this Administration, it’s… Stop asking whose the blame, and let the people who are the blame, do the job, (let me add) they should of done in the first place… I’ am sorry did that soud like they don't know S__t , because I know it flat out didn’t make sense, and even if you wait to build up all this good work, it will not lessen the FACTS, that they SCREWED UP ON A MASSIVE SCALE, and no heads were chopped off.

Acess right now what didn’t happen, that was in place to happen. Bush say he’ll lead his own Investigation, right now I don’t trust the man were the buck suppose to stopped, he can look and when he seeg his reflection in the investigation, I wonder what he’ll say to him self, this will be, one more moment of truth, and if his past performance is an indicator, he’ll see very little.

And Bush will pep talk his way through and around the whole thing, and tell us, "look at America pulling together"… take a moment, and don’t let Bush get away with not making himself, THE ACCOUNTABLE RESPONSE.

Bruce H, Scroggins

Should they Rebuild New Orleans?

By Bruce H, Scroggins

Only if they destroy everything down to the sewers, and pile it up for land fill, and bring in a little over one third of a mile of dirt, for foundations, and bridges. But they won’t do this the levees, and walls would be 6 to 8 stories high. And these people are scared for their pets, and they’re little pile of bricks, and their corner of the world. Blame game, in you screw up on your job, you lose your position, if not your job, immediately, and if anyone dies, the re is an Investigation immediately, but this Bush Administration, does not hold any of there ADMINASTRATORS accountable, only the opposition is held accountable for saying whose at fault.

Barbara Bush, says their UNDERPRIVILAGED anyway, woo, she’s tuff. Interpretation to me, She just said, anything you give them will be appreciated, (they, them) have never had much… insensitive yes, out of touch with the suffering, of hard working Americans, who lost all of their pile of bricks, yes. Please stop asking the rich, what they think of anything, and if they start talking about anything not ask them, just let them ramble on, and politely turn away, senility about being poor, and sick, and losing all is out of there reach, at least for many.

And last, if your child screws up, do you confront his screw up now, or say a couple of months from now… your answer, and remember, the children are looking and listening to US ADULTS.

The Real World, I mean, the one you and I live IN




By Bruce H, Scroggins

No lets not talk about whose at fault, lets look at a part of the Plan, there is a disaster Declaration, that happens before, and some times after the FACTS, you declare before the Facts, to put everyone on ALERT, whose job it is to spring into ACTION, the moment it time to go.

You see ALL the Trucks, Plans, Food, Helicopters, Medicine, Troops, in abundance, and the Doctors, and skilled people around today, and you do not think they just built all that equipment, or they were waiting for it too be built. All of what you see today was available weeks ago.

Let me say what many already know, If your son was responsible for taking the trash out, even if it’s raining, but if it’s lightening, and hailing, and the winds are 100 plus MPH, you defer, even though the smell is high, but as soon as the weather pasts, that morning. Your son knows to get the trash out of the house, so you the father come home that evening, and the trash is still in the house and the house stinks to high heaven.

So you confront your son, and he says, this not the time for the blame game, I’ll take it out but, don’t get down on me know, I’ve got to disinfect, and mop the area, where the trash can was, and burn some incense, and your son tells you I’ll look into why it didn’t get done, but that can come later.