Good news this morning, Fats Domino has been located and rescued!
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From: "Frank Parker" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2005 6:59 PM
Subject: Re: Hurricane Katrina / some thoughts
> Fats Domino is missing. A passerby reported his boat was too small to haul
> Fats, last seen on a second story balcony ankle deep...
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Stephen Vincent" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2005 3:23 PM
> Subject: Hurricane Katrina / some thoughts
>
>
> > I - as I suspect like many or most - want to register my deepest
feelings
> of
> > sorrow for those suffering and those lost in the wake of Hurricane
> so-called
> > Katrina.
> > In terms of the United States (a unitary concept which feels more and
more
> > like an oxymoron) this unfolding event - its terror, its hunger, its
> > potential for famine and desperate acts of violence - is beyond
anything
> > most of us could ever imagine. It's like a whole portion of the country
is
> > experiencing another version of the Donner Party - only this time on a
> scale
> > so magnified that the consequence will undoubtedly affect every element
of
> > this country's infrastructure, including its emotional well being.
> > Ironically, since there is no one 'foreign' that can be pointed to in
the
> > manner of Al Queda - but only Nature - the country's collective body is
> > going to have to go way deep inside itself to muster the resolve to
emerge
> > in some kind of forward moving shape. Sadly, given the blind
belligerence
> of
> > its leadership - including its faith based commitment to Intelligent
> Design
> > to the denial of Global Warming - it will be astonishing, but may be
> > possible under the circumstances to imagine a transformation based on
> > pragmatic principles, rather than ones of faith. We can pray for that!
> Yes,
> > to imagine this President wading into the flooded waters of New Orleans,
> and
> > lifting black, white and impoverished children into the air and saying
> some
> > equivalent to one of his previous mantras, "No child left behind" would
be
> a
> > human start on the process. I won't bet on it. But hope.
> >
> > Otherwise this event - which will also be sustained - will be as grim as
> the
> > unrelieved military devastation of parts of Iraq. All ideology (puff
> speech
> > and puff cures) and minimal healing. It will be the ultimate irony of
> this
> > Administration - through a selfish lack of imagination and inaction - to
> > offer us both homeless Iraqi war veterans on the same streets in which
we
> > will find homeless hurricane refugees.
> >
> > I would like to hear what anybody else is feeling or thinking.
> >
> > Big tests to everyone here are obviously coming up.
> >
> > Stephen V
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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