I'm appalled that the nation isn't in mourning.

That football games and baseball games aren't canceled.

That flags aren't being flown at half-mast.

We're being told that the death toll may be around 10,000 - 15,000 persons.

I think we need this long weekend to pay attention to this horrific disaster without sports and entertainment.

in the Miami Herald.

WTF America?

People are dying of thirst right now. We know it.

Hasn't even called for a moment of silence.
A prayer or nothing....zilch.

But let's not talk about racism or classism.

Nor could the fact that our C&C can't make any war profiteering hay out of this tragedy.

:sarcasm:

The (real) football match in Columbus that cemented our national team's position in the World Cup.

They're going to make another human sacrifice out of 9/11 since it's opening day for the NFL, since that would be patriotic.

The Saints will be playing in New York instead of New Orleans. We'll see what is said during that game.

And yes, it's not right that they haven't had the flags hit half staff, but then again, they should have headed to half staff the day our first soldier was killed over in Iraq.

This is too big. They changed the 9/11 numbers for 6 months.

We know it's in the thousands. Just how many thousands is the sad unknowable. It's enough to know that this is the biggest body blow to the nation's sense of security ever experienced. Because this time we know for a fact that we can't count on our own government to come to our rescue.

I think everyone is feeling "there but by fortune" and it's personally threatening to the psyches of all Americans -- at least all poor and middle class Americans.

At the very least, flags should be at half-mast. At the very least...

My dad is watching the Tennessee game from earlier today and I heard earlier this evening that at the game people were taking up donations and everything to send for relief.

Perhaps enough dead haven't been counted.

ooo, sorry, that was cynical and insensitive.

I'm mourning are you?

I got an email from a dear friend who has played with Preservation Hall Band -- she is in mourning and are all jazz musicians and everyone with a HEART and a soul.

But you are correct -- there should be a National WEEK of mourning. Flags should fly at half mast for a month.

By a disaster for them to stop their bullshit. I mean that quite literally.

I think they are now.

The racist ugly comments I hear coming from the right is very distressing to me, and I am white. I can only imagine how my black brothers and sisters feel.

I am poor, was raised poor, and if I lived in NOLA I would have been stuck there. Were anything like that to happen here, I'd be in dire straits. We have no car, no public transportation, and everything in our house is electric. How would I cook? I don't buy canned goods that much.

http://media.globalfreepress.com

peace

in everyone's heart as they struggle to get thru this. The public mourning will come later - I think it's more private now.

During 9/11 aftermath, everyone had candles in their windows, flags at half-staff - now with so many dead from the storm people aren't seeming to notice it. My street gathered outside tonight ( i live in a heavily republican area ) and noone even mentioned it.

I guess your life isn't worth as much if it isn't an act of "war" that takes it...

But then, we were supposed to be angry about the 9/11 deaths...

For this, we get an endless stream of "it's their own fault, damn looters"...

Here's a thread on the same subject. Not everyone agrees with you & I.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4618279

All these people dead and no national mourning... pathetic. I am ashamed of this country.

9/11 was primarily white middle to upper class folks. NO is primarily black poor folks. The racism is so deep-rooted in America, that most people don't even realize the contrast between the reaction to the two events. It is heart-breaking on top of a heart-break.

He was hoping it would be his triumphal performance at Ground Zero in New York and his Mission Accomplished bravado.

But it's going to be thousands dead in the South because of negligence, incompetence and indifference.

Democrats lost the South with the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Republicans lost the South with the Great Flood of 2005.

:(

is Rove hasn't found a way to spin it to their advantage. Until then, the band plays on.

It's always political with these turds, always.

do Labor Day alone w/o kids and I. I would have been morbid and depressing.

on my blog a few days ago, How is it that one of America's great cities ceased to exist this week, but I can still watch Letterman tonight?

To anyone paying attention, it should be extremely disturbing.

Seriously. For a month at least.

"Don't worry, the gas prices will come back to where they were before."

But her face was bloated with that koolaid smile, so I knew that a response was useless.

Presto. You have two more wishes.

The flag will fly low for Rehnquist.

Oh my God, oh my God, oh my God.

WHY???? WHY aren't we in mourning as a nation?

This is CRAZY! LOCO!!!!

We've been so busy that I haven't really had a chance to talk to them much.

Tonight we were really slow, so during the down times we hung around and talked.

"What do you guys think about this awful hurricane stuff?" I started.

Responses:

"I don't watch that stuff. Too depressing."

"Pisses me off that they're trying to make a racial issue out of it. Always playing the race card!"

"I really haven't heard much about it. What happened?"

"Well, I was just happy that they finally got it all straightened out. Everyone seems ok now. I wonder where the Saints are going to play this year, though?"

And the worst sentiment I heard, from our reasonably intelligent 19-year-old busboy and college sophomore:

"Too many people in the world anyway."

You guys, I'm just shocked. I can't believe it. I've been ringing out my own heart of its tears, and nobody around me gives a flying fuck. Nobody. Seriously, I couldn't find one person who was interested.

I've lost my faith.

welcome home!

I feel so alone right now. So alone in my grief.

:sobbing:

have actual beating hearts.

So, there you have it. In fact, the nation can pretty much thank Cincinnati and its surrounding counties for handing Bush his reelection victory.

It's hard to live here. Harder this week than last week.

with candles and flowers and signs at our Federal buildings and keep vigil for the dead, for the dying and for those still in danger.

We need to do that.

in honor of all the victims.

At least they tell us that. But I will be in mourning all weekend and probably longer. The topic always comes up when I talk to my family members. Sad.

telling them how ashamed we are of this President. Who can't even call a moment of silence for this awful tragedy and loss of human life. But who went golfing just after his visit the other day.

This whole thing makes we want to tear my hair out. I can't sleep. I live in Florida. Is my family next??? Oh... sorry, probably not. We're white, I forgot. I can't believe this is my America. :cry:

I'm trying to get from Denver to Houston, but have a car insurance problem to fix first. Insurance companies have the long weekend off. Ho hum, business as usual, the television lulls them to complacency. :grr:

Some of them even committed crimes!

You may go back to your previously scheduled sports and "reality" shows, and ignore the real reality of people starving and dying of thirst and illness in the streets of one of America's great cities.

I wonder if the casinos are as full as ever.

i keep thinking 'you have to ask?'. *sigh*

because they are black? Their lives don't mean that much?

I am sick over this, and livid at this government.

a 2 minutes silence for the dead and the dying still being denied assistance, right across Western Europe, at least. WWII, its origins and its nature have not been forgotten.