I thought things were getting better. I thought maybe we could see outside ourselves and realize what it is like to be human. Everything has resorted to racism and name-calling and those two things will get us nowhere. Where are you going? Fucking nowhere. What exactly was the Brown hearing? Was anything decided there or did everyone call him an incompetent waste of air and leave it at that? I could have done that, but there are still homeless people in Mississippi. Then I read about the thousands of trailers just sitting at the distribution point and the thousands of people in tents trying to keep the wind and rain from Rita out. Something doesn't seem right about that. Then on top of all the idiocy Homeland Security is accusing FEMA of freezing temporary housing orders.
Red Cross is no different. Now that we are a little further away from the storm, it is getting a little easier, but I knew one out of every ten people were getting through. The only reason we got our application in is because Joel is working for the Hancock County and the Harrison County Emergency Operations Center and turned one in, only for the Red Cross to lose it. So now we have to reapply. I called the donations hotline one day to vent my frustrations, they answered right away:
"Yes, I was just wondering if you were actually helping people with this money you are bringing in? I have been unable to contact the Red Cross help line and have had people tell me they wait in line for five or eight hours at a distribution point only to be turned away."
"I'm sorry, we only take donations on this line."
"I bet you do."
The 'What the Fuck?!?' moment of the day: