Clik here to view.
Natural and unnatural disasters
Natural disasters come from God or Mother Nature and unnatural disasters are man-made. Katrina, the war in Afghanistan, and the Great Recession of the GW Bush presidency could have been prevented or...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Obama’s FEMA
We are so lucky that FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) is Obama’s FEMA. The current agency is the result of eight years of the Obama administration’s efforts to fix the GW Bush version that...
View ArticleClik here to view.
No water
We live where is there is construction. We were given notice 72 hours in advance that our water would be off for 8 hours yesterday. We have an ample supply of bottled water for drinking and I filled a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Puerto Rico part 4
Episode 6, season 10 of Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown is about Puerto Rico just months before Hurricane Maria destroyed the island. I had a vague understanding of the situation in Puerto Rico before...
View ArticleNatural and unnatural disasters part 3
It is becoming obvious, at least to me, that if you experience damage from a fire, flood or hurricane, that you had better live in a red state, or a red area of a blue state. The Trump administration...
View ArticleWater wars
The American west has a long history of water wars, past, present and future. Wherever demand exceeds supply, there is a struggle for whatever water is available. Drought makes the struggles worse....
View ArticleThe Battle for Paradise
The Battle for Paradise, Puerto Rico Takes on the Disaster Capitalists by Naomi Klein published in 2018. According to Klein, Puerto Rico is at a fork in the road with two ways forward. The Trump...
View ArticlePig shit
Hurricane Florence likely will cause billions in damages in the Carolinas. Largely absent from the news will be information about the damage caused by flooding of animal waste lagoons, mostly pig shit....
View ArticleHurricane Michael
When the Trump administration bungled the Puerto Rico hurricane recovery, I suspected discrimination against poor, brown Democrats. Now that we are witnessing a slow response in Florida in areas that...
View ArticleFEMA unchained
FEMA is the Federal Emergency Management Agency. The following is satire. Visiting the fire damaged state of California, Donald Trump promised the same level of Federal assistance as given to Puerto...
View Article
