I was driving through the Mt. Shasta area today on I5 and stopped for some stuff at a gas station. I saw on the front page of the local paper that their little community is expecting about 50 Katrina evacuee families for the area soon. Wow, now that’s a long way to go in a pinch to find food and a roof over your head. The same article was saying that this is predicted to be the largest mass-refugee evacuation in the US since the Civil War.

On NPR they were describing all the cash and emergency services support coming in from countries all over the world. From about $6000 that Bosnia Hertznegovia in kicking down all the way up to billions coming from the good people of Kuwait, not to mention all kinds of oil that courageous little tribal state is pitching in, along with several other Middle Eastern countries.

Maybe the humanitarian aid the US has always been doing all over the world hasn’t been wasted on the ungrateful? Makes me all misty.

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