george bush hates black people

I had the biggest laugh I've had in a long time while watching the NBC broadcast of a telethon for hurricane relief tonight. We were watching mainly because I'm a fan of Harry Connick Jr. and Wynton Marsalis. Interspersed between the music were pleas from celebrities for contributions to the Red Cross.

At the mid point, Mike Meyers and a rapper I never heard of took the stage. It was obvious that the rapper was nervous and not following the cue cards. Meyers looked nervous.

Before he could be cut off, the rapper proclaimed, with a straight face, "George Bush doesn't care for black people."

They quickly cut away, but we didn't hear a word Chris Tucker said. We were laughing too hard. There hasn't been a funnier moment on Saturday Night Live in 20 years.

Ah, live television.

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Continuing to Underestimate The Problem

From here, safe and dry in Columbus, things look very bad in New Orleans. But I fear that things there are far worse than the authorities have imagined. From stories like these, it's clear to me that there may still be 100,000 or more people stranded there. And uncounted thousands of dead.

CNN.com - Stranded Spain MP describes Katrina chaos - Sep 1, 2005: "The journalist, Montserrat Boix of Spain's state television TVE, said Muoz told her the situation at the center was steadily deteriorating and that authorities were unaware of the magnitude of the problem."

I am not criticizing the selfless people that are trying to help. I'm only pointing out that our civil authorities need to respond with thousands more troops and prepare for a refuge problem of nearly a million people that may be out of their homes for over a year. To wait will mean much more death and suffering.

Wooosh!

Take a moment and watch the Messenger flyby movie (view the large one if you've got the bandwidth).

MESSENGER Earth Flyby

MESSENGER Earth Flyby movie


The stars are our birthright. It's sad and more than a bit depressing that we've wasted 30 years, turned our back after our first brief steps outward.

Ah, but home is so beautiful, alone there in the dark.