One week to go!

As I write this one Wednesday afternoon, I am staring at one week to go before I exit the country. I am excited but nervous, the place that taryn has moved into and I will be living in in a week is rad though, so that's good. We ought to be in that house for a year.

I am touring through Frankfurt for the day on my way there. Some geocaching and sausages will be accomplished that day.

what the...

I am a bit amazed about the situation in the southern United States this week. It is almost unbelievable. Volunteers are heading in as fast as they can. Things I am certain are tough all around. So time will tell how the whole thing will be remembered. Hopefully political bittering will not prevent things from being worse then they need to be.

Here is a quote from Sri Lanka:

"I am absolutely disgusted. After the tsunami our people, even the ones who lost everything, wanted to help the others who were suffering," said Sajeewa Chinthaka, 36, as he watched a cricket match in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

"Not a single tourist caught in the tsunami was mugged. Now with all this happening in the U.S. we can easily see where the civilized part of the world's population is."

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/09/02/MTFH62797_2005-09-02_14-16-45_BAU248384.html

This is a huge public relations mess for the United States. Hope the relief comes fast and efficiently.



About guns...................................

Are they really that great? The NRA states that americans have the right to bear arms whenever they want. So people are shooting all around New Orleans, is that really the best thing. Would the NRA support people bearing arms there? Well they would argue they are thugs or terrorists or whatever they might argue, but they still carry the guns and the same rights that the organization works towards.

All the people who had the resources to become members of the NRA have fleed the city, so the idea that guns would help people secure their homes and family's. So are guns really that great? In this case they are not and on a day to day basis for police all over the country, they are not.

We need to dispell this notion that it is a human right to carry a gun. It is a human right to not have idiots with guns running around your town, whether you live in the US or a disfunctional , poverty sticken country, whether it is in times of peace, disaster, or civil unrest.

Stop selling guns, and stop selling so many over sees. We are a country of profit making idiots.