Something Has To Change

Today I was distracted and distressed all day...I thought it was because I lost a $600,000 Real Estate deal over the weekend, or maybe the pergola we're planning to build out back just blew my neurotransmitters, or maybe it was a million other details...I know when Sir Hotness asked me a dozen times today if I was okay, I nodded, "Yeah, okay, I'm fine."

But the truth is...
And I know any minute I'll type something that will piss somebody off...

Here we go...
This morning on NPR radio, they mentioned Greensburg, Kansas...and if you haven't heard about what happened on Friday...just watch the video I found on the Weather Channels website...
Here's my problem:
(photo: what used to be Greensburg)
A tornado LEVELED an entire town on Friday and the town has not received any government assistance. According to the talk I heard on NPR radio our National Guard (yeah, those guys who volunteer believing they are signing on to help our country in times of National disaster...) are tied up in Iraq, as are their big trucks (so no supplies coming from there) as are the big emergency tents (so any survivers won't have shelter.)

I am so pissed off about this I can't see straight. I can't even communicate about it with verging on hysteria...so I've kept my mouth shut all day.

Is anyone paying attention out there?

If anything REALLY SERIOUS happens in this country (not that Greensburg isn't serious because my god, yeah, a town was LEVELED) but we as a people are shit out of luck because the people who are supposed to be helping us are stuck in Iraq, not helping, not because they don't want to help...but because they can't.

And that's not all...
I searched using "Kansas" and "tornado" seeking more info this a.m. and came up with nothing. I had to go to the weather channel to find out anything (they found a survivor today)

I searched using "naked" and "mexicans" and I found art.

It seems even Naked Mexicans trump Dead Americans.

And please don't misconstrue that I don't like Mexicans or Iraqians because of this post...I love everybody...I'm just soooooooooo sad because people died in Kansas, people are missing, homes are lost, an entire town gone... and there isn't a damn thing I can do to change the horrible autrosity that is Iraq and the fact that our men are there instead of here.

This is a peek at the tornado, photograppher unknown:

My thoughts and prayers are with the survivors of Greensburg tonight.