Itaipava
Tuesday, September 6, 2005 • Posted by jcb
The mountain town of Itaipava. Fresh air, clean water, and a strange lookin dog.
Katrina
Monday, September 5, 2005 • Posted by jcb
I’m going to skip the soap box. Surely my fellow bloggers have eloquently covered the obvious failings of the federal government after the events of the past week. However I will add my two cents when it comes to a remedy. As the federal government has sorely failed the good people of New Orleans I think it only right that citizens respond in kind, in the only way they would seem able to …. withhold federal income tax dollars. These people paid the government a fair share of their wages and in return the federal government short changed them. If a grass roots movement is started maybe we can finally have some accountability in Washington as to how and where our tax dollars are spent. Instead of having hurricane resistant levees protecting our most valuable national port we have pork projects in Alaska paying for highways to uninhabited islands in the middle of fucking nowhere!!!
“How soon the labor of men would make a paradise of the whole earth, were it not for misgovernment, and a diversion of all his energies from their proper object — the happiness of man — to the selfish interest of kings, nobles, and priests.”
-Thomas Jefferson, 1825
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