A little concerned about the state of the nation

I have a hard time believeing in a higher being at the moment. Its not a big shocker that I'm not religious, but, as I may have mentioned, there has to something more. However, between having an idiot in the oval office, who was ON VACATION for a month when one of the worst natural disasters to stikw America took place. And, after putting FEMA under the control of Homeland security, the response to this tremendous hurricane (which was not unexpected or a surprise by any means) was unacceptable, an embarassment. Early evacutation was a wonderful option, and a good choice. But 24% of people in New Orleans alone are below the poverty level, 80% are black, and less than half have cars. How could these people evacuate? A major racial divide, and in my opinion should be a major wake up call about the racial inequality still present in our country. Accomodations could have been made for the less fortunate to be evacuated. If only our government was less conncerned with terrorism, which is a valid concern, but not as urgent as, say the 12 hurricanes and tropical storms that nail our country every year. If we were truly prepared, and homeland security would be something more than a wet dream for war mongers.

Then Chief fucking Justice William Rhenquist or how ever you spell it, dies and now theres not only an opening for a justice on the supreme court, but for the Chief justice as well. And who gets to pick them, George W. Bush. I'm looking foreward to an uber-conservative Supreme Court. Lets overturn Roe vs. Wade, conservatives have been itching for years to take that right away from women. I understand abortion is a very contraversial issue, but I have known several people who made a long well thought out painful decision to terminate a pregnancy, and it was not a flip decision. If you cannot guarentee that you will give your child the best possible life until you die, you are not ready to bring another human into the world. However, if I were to find myself pregnant now, I would have to have the baby. I say that more because my odds of being able to have kids decreases every year, not b/c it would be the right time or anything. That was a tangent.

So I'm feeling like, if anything good at all can come of misused government funds, refugees in my own country, delayed rescue efforts, 40% of our national freaking guard in Iraq instead of helping our own nation, a war we shouldn't be in, a conservative moron picking two of the most important people in our country, then the only thing good it that it takes my mind off of my own messed up mind, but I'll have to talk to my psychiatrist about that one. I want my mind to feel normal, not just a little better. Although I am fortunate, and I have a new begining ahead of me.