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- Name: sandegaye
- Location: Tellico Plains, Tennessee, United States
I am a spiritual being having a physical experience. I love delving into the inner world & learning all I can about why I'm here & where I'm going. My mother, now transitioned to another plane, was a Cherokee shaman. She taught me the meaning of 'Namaste'.. meaning 'I recognize the God in you', and 'Nokomis'.. meaning 'Walk in Beauty', a Navajo term, that tells us to walk in balance with all of earth. My father, also transitioned, was a fun-loving Irishman who taught me the joy of risktaking, traveling, & living life to its fullest. I have hopefully taken the best of their offerings in forming the 'me' I am today. I am the mother of six, grandmother of five, stepmother of 2 more & step-gram for 6 more. My cup is full & running over..;o) My goal is to live 'juicy'!
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Saturday, March 04, 2006
Govt is squelching Free Speech.. & all I got was this lousy t-shirt!
USA TODAY
Fri Mar 3, 7:57 AM ET
Ridiculing the Federal Emergency Management Agency is high art in the Gulf Coast areas where Hurricane Katrina hit last year.
Many parade floats in New Orleans' Mardi Gras were decorated in themes that skewered the relief agency.
George Barisich, president of the United Commercial Fisherman's Association, has been selling anti-FEMA T-shirts since last fall, a reflection of his frustration with the federal government's response to the storm that left him homeless and unemployed.
But on Feb. 1, when he handed a shirt to a fellow Katrina victim as he was picking up canned goods at a charity's relief tent, Barisich found himself in trouble with the government.
He was cited by a group of Homeland Security officials for selling a T-shirt on federal property - in this case, near a FEMA center in the parking lot of a Wal-Mart in Chalmette, La.
Barisich, 49, says he didn't sell the shirt, which said: "Flooded by Katrina! Forgotten by FEMA! What's Next, Mr. Bush?" He says he gave it away.
The government is sticking to its guns. "If we ignored this violation, you could have potentially 20 to 30 people standing out in front of the (FEMA) center, obstructing things," says Dean Boyd, a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) spokesman. "We've got a duty and a job under the law."
Fri Mar 3, 7:57 AM ET
Ridiculing the Federal Emergency Management Agency is high art in the Gulf Coast areas where Hurricane Katrina hit last year.
Many parade floats in New Orleans' Mardi Gras were decorated in themes that skewered the relief agency.
George Barisich, president of the United Commercial Fisherman's Association, has been selling anti-FEMA T-shirts since last fall, a reflection of his frustration with the federal government's response to the storm that left him homeless and unemployed.
But on Feb. 1, when he handed a shirt to a fellow Katrina victim as he was picking up canned goods at a charity's relief tent, Barisich found himself in trouble with the government.
He was cited by a group of Homeland Security officials for selling a T-shirt on federal property - in this case, near a FEMA center in the parking lot of a Wal-Mart in Chalmette, La.
Barisich, 49, says he didn't sell the shirt, which said: "Flooded by Katrina! Forgotten by FEMA! What's Next, Mr. Bush?" He says he gave it away.
The government is sticking to its guns. "If we ignored this violation, you could have potentially 20 to 30 people standing out in front of the (FEMA) center, obstructing things," says Dean Boyd, a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) spokesman. "We've got a duty and a job under the law."
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I'm back and I have missed my liberal poster.
I will be posting about my misadventures within the next day or two.
I will be posting about my misadventures within the next day or two.
Hasn't there been enough Bush bashing? The official anti-Fema launch came from New Orleans’ foul mouthed mayor, Ray Nagin, who since has repeatedly extolled misperceived federal inefficiency that precluded aid from magically and instantly dropping from the sky a mere 24 hr. after the deluge.
Nagin, of course, failed to cast that same appallingly critical light on his own municipal inability to evacuate his doomed city before the impending deluge even though the national weather advisory gave Nagin and the city ample warning that they were in for a whopper.
Perhaps the mayor should have concentrated more of his post-storm venom on the inability of his own law enforcement to maintain semblance after Katrina did her worst. After all, if you can’t even stop your own citizens from raping one another in the Super Dome you’ve really no business shaking an embittered finger at military helicopters arriving three days later than you had hoped for.
After all, the point is that they, and their cargo of rescue supplies, eventually arrived and continue to arrive daily.
Nagin, of course, failed to cast that same appallingly critical light on his own municipal inability to evacuate his doomed city before the impending deluge even though the national weather advisory gave Nagin and the city ample warning that they were in for a whopper.
Perhaps the mayor should have concentrated more of his post-storm venom on the inability of his own law enforcement to maintain semblance after Katrina did her worst. After all, if you can’t even stop your own citizens from raping one another in the Super Dome you’ve really no business shaking an embittered finger at military helicopters arriving three days later than you had hoped for.
After all, the point is that they, and their cargo of rescue supplies, eventually arrived and continue to arrive daily.
Oh Nickie baby, have you landed on the wrong blogsite! I'm afraid you followed Mapquest or something & got totally lost..
Nothing to see here for you neo-cons.. only bedwetting liberals need apply.. Now move along little Bushie-poodle.
Nothing to see here for you neo-cons.. only bedwetting liberals need apply.. Now move along little Bushie-poodle.
Sorry, Sandi.. I got bushwhacked.. errr.. sidetracked.
Glad that you're back! Can't wait to hear your tales..
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Glad that you're back! Can't wait to hear your tales..
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