Can we do a "Prayer Thread...or if you aren't Religious..a "Good Vibe Thread" to Mississippi River

[KoKo]

Dwellers?

These folks are fast becoming "New Orleans II." Will FEMA send them Formaldehyde Fumes Trailers to live in...Deny them Insurance...force them out of their Farms so Agribusiness can take over the Toxic Wastland left behind from the "sewer of toxic spew" left behind by these floods?

When will we AMERICANS RISE UP! These Petitions, Faxes and Phones seem NOT TO BE WORKING! Where are all the Mid-West Senators and House Members who pushed through Archer, Daniels Midlands ETHANOL LEGISLATION that we here in the rest of the US had to pay for with Media Control by them on PBS and the Networks...and them caving into Clinton Impeachment and throughout BUSH?

Where are they? Where are all these Mid-Western (Corn Crop/Ethanol Supporters) on both Dem and Repug Sides in taking care of all those folks who are faced with losing their homes ...just like what was done to those in New Orleans?

Down River the "Mighty Mississippi is threatening to flood the banks of Hannibal, Missouri...birthplace of Mark Twain. They say this is a 200 year flood. And, no Insurance is available for such a catastrophe... There's nothing for these people....

Can we send them all our mighty wishes that they SURVIVE and can REBUILD THEIR LIVES?

((((((VIBES OF GOOD TO ALL OF YOU...OUR PRAYERS AND WISHES ARE WITH YOU!))))))))))))


A little about Mark Twain.....

http://www.marktwainmuseum.org/

[JeffR]

1. K & R

One of the last of those storms that ravaged the area passed over the Great Lakes yesterday, and was still formidable.

If we only had a government that gave a tin shit about American citizens...

[seemslikeadream]

2. Can't keep them down -

http://youtube.com/watch?v=3VRGANguGQE

There's a natural mystic blowing through the air;
If you listen carefully now you will hear.
This could be the first trumpet, might as well be the last:
Many more will have to suffer,
Many more will have to die - don't ask me why.

Things are not the way they used to be,
I won't tell no lie;
One and all have to face reality now.
though Ive tried to find the answer to all the questions they ask.
though I know its impossible to go livin through the past -
Don't tell no lie.

There's a natural mystic blowing through the air -
Can't keep them down -
If you listen carefully now you will hear.

There's a natural mystic blowing through the air.

This could be the first trumpet, might as well be the last:
Many more will have to suffer,
Many more will have to die - dont ask me why.

There's a natural mystic blowing through the air -
I won't tell no lie;
If you listen carefully now you will hear:
Theres a natural mystic blowing through the air.
Such a natural mystic blowing through the air;
There's a natural mystic blowing through the air;
Such a natural mystic blowing through the air;
Such a natural mystic blowing through the air;
Such a natural mystic blowing through the air.

[KoKo]

3. Thank you for this..........

There are so few who care about this, anymore to take the time to post your feelings with a message..

[malaise]

17. Yes indeed

Good vibes to all near Ol Man River

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgQD3p6NyzM

[malaise]

19. Check out this web site with Mississippi river songs

http://www.nps.gov/miss/forteachers/songs-of-the-mississippi-river.htm

and of course the Doobie brothers - Black Water
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xfWBM6wS1U&feature=related

[seemslikeadream]

21. Thank you malaise

[malaise]

22. That is so beautiful

Wow!!

[elocs]

4. This is NOT going to be New Orleans II. I live where there is flooding and I don't see that.

I would love to see somebody who actually lives where it is flooding make a claim that it is like Katrina or that it will be like New Orleans. It will not. Here in SW Wisconsin we had a 100 year flood like this one just last summer. We didn't need the federal government to come in and rescue people and much to many's surprise and maybe disappointment, most people here were well satisfied with the job that FEMA did last summer and this time my own Democratic governor Doyle said he is satisfied with the job that FEMA has been doing. I remember last year that FEMA extended the deadline a couple of times so that all the people who needed help would get it.

I am betting that people from Iowa would agree: this is NOT like New Orleans.

[KoKo]

7. The people who are being affected don't have power to post on DU or any other internet site...they

are "silenced" unless a big media outlet decides to report on their plight....

Glad it worked out for you in Wisconsin...but this is bigger than where you are...it's going down the MIGHTY MISS...and could break levee's all along the way back down to New Orleans.

[elocs]

12. I pretty sure that there are thousands of people in the affected areas that can post on the internet

The state of Iowa is not under water. Even in a city like Des Moines that has a lot of flooding has thousands of people who were not affected. Please check out this:
http://www.desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/frontpage it's the Des Moines paper. Just look through it and see how many people there are saying their flooding or anything related to it is in any way like New Orleans at all. See how many are blaming FEMA or bitching about them. These people are NOT going to be living in trailers. This flooding has had lots of destruction, but it's scope and size is nothing like Katrina and New Orleans. I still would like to hear from some people in or near these areas make that kind of claim because I have not so far.

[KoKo]

15. Are you saying the Media is "Hyping" the flooding? Cedar Rapids, and downstream?

You are saying that this is not true that thousands of people are out of their homes and can't get back into them...and don't have flood insurance because they don't live on "flood plain" but they have enough money to live in a motel until they can rebuild out of their own "pocket funds?"

You are saying there's no problem? :shrug:

[elocs]

18. I am saying simply that this is not of the same scope or size of Katrina.

What exactly is the point of making it bigger than it actually is? Where exactly did I say there was no problem? I am saying simply that this is not like New Orleans although I see many attempting to make it that way (usually people who live a thousand miles away or more). You are not going to see thousands of people living in trailers for months. Both had destruction and both had flooding, but that is where the comparison ends. I am betting that a year from now most people who have been displaced or suffered losses are going to be doing far, far better than what we have seen in New Orleans.

[KoKo]

23. Oh...definitely agree that folks haven't been herded like cattle into a stadium forced to live in

conditions that were obscene. But, on another scale to those people...it's still a loss of everything...so to them ...it's devastating...and we should give them our prayers or (((vibes))) because wherever we live in the US or in the World...the NEXT could be ANY OF US... Just saying... We need to care more for each other. New Orleans was just the beginning. The "wake up call."

[ileus]

5. when the water is gone, these peeps will rebuild have faith.

[KoKo]

8. When the "water is gone these 'peeps?" What the Hell are you talking about?

People who have lost EVERYTHING are "peeps" to you?

[nadinbrzezinski]

6. You know even if it does not reach the Katrina level

to those who think it will not, since we haven't had that number of dead yet (thankfully)

The damage to the economy will be catastrophic...

Good vibes indeed... and lord knows I am all but religious

[RB TexLa]

9. St. Isidore the Farmer

St. Isidore is the patron saint of farmers and rural communities.


Prayer to Saint Isidore the Farmer

Dear Isidore, you know how normal it is to cultivate the land for you were employed as a farm laborer most of your life. Although you received God's help materially through Angels in the field, all farmers are aided spiritually to see the wonders God has strewn on this earth. Encourage all farmers in their labours and help them to feed many people. Amen.


Doesn't ask directly for flooding prevention but in a way does.

[KoKo]

13. Ah...I'll do that...

I'm Episcopalian...but I'll pray to whatever about what's going on in the MidWest......along the Mighty Mississippi.... It's our Country...we need to call together whatever "good forces" we can. It could be us, wherever next and we need to support all our folks who are caught up in what's going on.

Thanks! St. Isidore...!.. we send a few words to you, in prayer, if you are up there! And..given you are a Saint...we need all the help we can get...

[Green Mountain Dem]

10. I Think that we have seen the last....

of people "rising up" and it is so sad! IMO there will never be another million man march or any other type of mass assembly of any type. We have become to complacent in our own "space" and look at Katrina type disasters as just another event for others to deal with, while we take care of our own little issues. I am just as guilty as those I accuse...I sent money to NOLA and felt that was sufficient. I should have been down there in the Ninth Ward protesting my ass off!!

What will it take?? I don't know anymore, and I fear for all of us!

[KoKo]

14. Maybe folks re still in confusion having just been awakened.

Not all folks know what we know here out on the Internets...but Bush's poll numbers are so bad.

I guess it just takes more time to wake folks up than we Cassandra's who sounded the warning bell years ago, would have ever thought it would take.

I just want to send all thoughts to those who didn't know...who will be suffering.

[bonito]

11. Yes n/t

[yellerpup]

16. K&R! n/t

[Theres-a]

20. My thoughts are with them

If my house were underwater,I'd feel a teeny bit better knowing that others were concerned about me. That is my prayer,that they know I am not turning away,but worrying about them and hoping that they are safe and protected.