DFA-Link in MO: Leave My Child Alone
At 6:33 PM, Tara posted this guest entry from Bill Monroe:
DFA-Link in MO: Leave My Child Alone
With 18 in attendance at our new (free and very nice) venue at the Temple of Labor on Garth St, our September DFA-Link Meeting was a great success. This was due in large part to the help of Darin Preis, Columbia School Board Member, who took our invitation to discuss School policy regarding Section 9528 of the "No Child Left Behind Act" very seriously. He spoke with the Superintendent of Columbia Public Schools, Dr, Phyllis Chase, who decided to attend the meeting as well. She came well prepared and was able to answer our questions and hear our concerns.
You can find the rest here.
And, for anyone who's interested, here is my rant of the day (continued from what I started writing in the entry below) about Bill Frist and his priorities:
Is Frist *clinically* insane?
Finally, just a reminder that My Vote is My Voice is collecting phone cards for the people who were displaced by Hurricane Katrina.
First are the people of New Orleans who could not leave. And those who wish them well.
ReplyDeleteDepartment of Homeland Security
ReplyDeleteSeptember 1, 2005 Secretary Chertoff:
"And let me tell you, we totally understand what it's like to be sitting on top of a roof or to be sitting in a shelter where it's hot, where you're worried about when you're going to be picked up, where you're thirsty, where you're hungry, where you're afraid for yourself or you're afraid for members of your family. There is no way a catastrophe can be minimized. I mean, this is a personal tragedy for everybody that's involved, those on the scene and the family members who are elsewhere as well."
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Well, let me put this a different way: we totally understand what it's like to be dying.
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SOOOOOOOOOOOO nice not to have to worry about a blog nanny. . . .
In a press conference today, Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff blamed Mother Nature and Governor Kathleen Blanco for what happened this week.
ReplyDeleteChertoff says this was a unique, unpredictable one-two punch -- of a hurricane *and* a flood from a breached levee -- that nobody anticipated.
That's right up there with Bush saying that nobody expected the levees to break.
Chertoff also said that Blanco either failed to order up enough troops or, at the very least, failed to use the proper legal channels for requesting such assistance, which is why it took so long to get enough military personnel into NOLA.
Riiiiigggght.
While the evolving talking point among the GOPers is that "Bush Saved the Day," it turns out that Gov. Blanco sent a letter begging Bush for help--on Sunday, Aug. 28.
Here is Gov. Blanco's letter, which was reported over at Kos.
And since Washington is as Washington does, the AP reports that "New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson offered Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco help from his state's National Guard last Sunday, the day before Hurricane Katrina hit Louisiana. Blanco accepted, but paperwork needed to get the troops en route didn't come from Washington until late Thursday."
Hunter has the details.
corinne ~~ Gag a maggot! Hurricanes equal floods, eh? Oh, wait: that's just fake science, right?
ReplyDeleteThis week I've really really been wishin' for a God of Wrath.
Okay. There's a dude over at the big blog bemoaning that the animals in the Zoo survived due to good planning on the part of the Zoo management.
ReplyDeleteAs if that somehow made it harder on the human beings.
In fact, I'd say the opposite: since Zoos always end up being a worry for Emergency types, the fact that at least one sector is doing its job well, frees the other sectors because that at least is one worry they don't have.
Next thing we'll start hearing is don't worry about the ill, the old, the disabled because their lives are over anyway. Let *them* die, and save the young. . . .