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[hellison]

I keep meaning to post Stuff - usual ramblings about eg charlie and teh chocolate factory (mostly loved it, except the ending), Electric Picnic (veering from whee to omg why am i going back to whee) and so on, but then I look at the news again, or other lj reports and the words just leave me.

Even if I get away from Katrina and the horrors in America, there is the chaos and horror in Iraq, people being shot or murdering their babies in UK and we're even doing our own little bit here with rioting and chucking petrol bombs into childrens' bedrooms.

Some people have been mentioning the quote about us being only 3 days away from savagery. I'm not sure we're not much closer than that.

But then what good does staring at bbc news with a Woe Face do?
So I shall go to EP and make the most of the sights, sounds and time with good friends. After all, as the mother is fond of saying, you never know the hour. When its done, I'll tally up what I've spent on fun and frolics and donate as much again as currently I can't think of any other way to help.
In the meantime, I'm going back to my new Happy Place, Neil and the kitten (oh, those hands...)


As it says up there at the top, enjoy yourself, it's later than you think ;)

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[malvino.livejournal.com]

Something about the horror there has been troubling me, we've see pictures from all over the place of disasters for years, and ones that have gone on for much longer, but this is the first to descend into anarchy instead of people sitting tight and waiting for the cavalry.

Which poses all kinds of questions, are there gangs running around out of survival because they don't trust the cavalry to turn up, or are Americans actually different from the rest of the world?

The other thing is, where are the unaffected normal people? When disasters have happened in other first world countries there's been a steady stream of concerned citizens rushing to the devastated area with their cars loaded with essentials to give to the victims. The USA is one large landmass, you can drive anywhere and everyone has cars, why aren't people loading up the caravan and heading down there, and maybe bringing back someone who's lost everything to put them up until they're back on their feet? It really does happen in other places.