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With all the strains put on our armed forces today- it’s amazing they can get much of anything done outside of trying to rebuild Iraq, rid the world of Al-Qaida, and stay alive.
So someone really needs to tell our planet itself to get off their backs!
To the Dials, the home on New Moon Lane represented safety for Shellie and their six daughters and 10 grandchildren while Billy, a Marine master gunnery sergeant, was deployed in Iraq. And it was where the Dials had planned to retire when Billy finishes his current hitch.
But in minutes last week, the Witch fire burned the Dials’ dream home to the ground. Shellie e-mailed the bad news to her husband in Taqaddum, Iraq, where he is maintenance chief for a helicopter squadron. He is seven weeks into his fourth tour in Iraq.
“I told him I needed him home, but if his Marines needed him more, he should stay in Iraq,” Shellie Dial said.
And it’s not just the guys who are staying put to complete the mission, but those stationed matters of miles away, within the state lines.
Also on Sunday, California National Guard Sgt. Jerrod Dett remained on duty in San Diego, despite the fact his Running Springs home was destroyed by the Arrowhead fire just hours after his unit was mobilized. He could ask for leave but had not.
“We have a mission to do,” said Dett, 36, a food preparation specialist. “I want to concentrate on my job: getting food to the soldiers and to the people in the shelters.”
Well damn Gaia, can we cut these guys some slack? And while we’re at it…
Dozens of construction projects launched by the Army Corps of Engineers to protect the New Orleans region from the most catastrophic floods are behind schedule by an average of nearly eight months, an internal audit shows. Local officials are concerned the completion date will have to be pushed back a second time.
Hey officials- how many destablized regions of the world have you ever tried to fix at the same time?
Nearly 85% of construction contracts for upgrades to the region’s flood-control system are behind schedule by an average of about 230 days, the audit says. About 74% of pre-construction design contracts for other improvements also are lagging, by an average of 122 days, or about four months.
Well you know what that means? Mother Nature is just going to have to realize- we’re fighting over there so we don’t have to fight anything over here. Not poverty, social security, corruption in corporations, public apathy, racial inequality, or terrorists… and certainly not the Planet Earth! So no more floods. Problem solved.
Oh, and we also can’t do anything productive about genocides- so don’t even ask.
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