New Orelans Stuff

Seeing as I spend most of my day in front of a computer screen now, despite not evening having one at home, I'm left to regurgitate links from elsewhere. Here's a not to tactful commentary from Barbara Bush regarding the refugees in New Orleans, and the fact the the poor displaced people of New Orelans are now better off as refugees.. click. And, unfortuantly all the blather for the Live8 stuff seems to have fizzled to nothing. It was bad enough all the attention being drawn from it because of the London bombings. I wouldn't normally be a huge fan of George Monbiot, but he does seem to have a point about it here. What an idiot.. "..Geraldo Rivera arrives in a Fox News truck. An elderly woman with blond hair grips his elbow. She's wearing thick dark glasses and a pink shirt. He carries her small white dog in his arms. He's wearing thigh-high waders unzipped to below his knees. We shake hands. "Her relative called one of our stations," Geraldo tells me, explaining how that call went to another station, and then another, and finally to him. The woman had been stranded in her home for six days. Geraldo picked up the woman and her dog and brought them here. The woman looks frail on his arm, though not as bad perhaps as a lady collapsed on a chair nearby, unable to move. Or a woman in a wheelchair being lifted from the truck, carrying her prosthetic leg on her lap. "That's the second time he brought her here," one of the doctors tells me, nodding toward Geraldo. "What?" "They did two takes. Geraldo made that poor woman walk from the Fox News van to the heliport twice. Both times carrying her dog." "Are you serious?" I ask. He says he is. " Full story here. And I'm finally almost almost finished reading A System of the World. Unfortunatly its been a bit of a slog but I feel some little achievement having finished almost 1500 pages of Baraoque epic.