Love, Hate, Always at a different rate.

Yeah, I'm a bit miffed. I'm blogging again. I'm back.

Collaborating with the folks at WorldChanging.com and the people behind the SEA EAT blog makes me feel right - not in the way that I feel more right than someone else, but rather the way feeling a piece of a puzzle fits. Yet, in the latest and greatest disaster known to mankind, some very ugly things are coming up.

Architecture for Humanity got this attempt at fraud - nothing short of malicious and selfish. On SEA EAT, a health place advertises a deal - 50% of profits, which seems nice and yet... somehow this doesn't seem 'puzzle piece' right to me.

The Meat Eating Leftist makes some interesting points in 'Using the tsunami for gain'; I do think that India's lack of use of foreign aid is being taken out of context here. After all, they're helping other nations in the region - that does say something.

The Periscope defends the U.S. Aid, instead attempting to pull the U.N. into question. I'd rather have all the funds the U.S. is spending on nuclear arms explained than read a frivolous defense of a paltry sum of $35 million, when WhatReallyHappened.com presently has this on the front page:

SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT

Aid for Tsunami victims $35 million

Bush Inaugural $45 million

Cost for one day of Iraq war $177 million

I'd have to say that this has does show some priorities regarding the United States, but we can't say that Bush is 'priority impaired'. After all, 59 million Americans can't be that completely stupid (so goes the theory). $177 million/day is certainly making the world a safer place, one body bag at a time. Right?

What makes it more interesting is that, apparently, criticism is worth 20 million dollars. I say keep criticizing, then. In the last 4 days, the United States has spent approximately $708 million dollars on installing democracy in a country that is pretty vehement about not having it installed. Never mind that the Weapons of Mass Destruction do not exist, that the invasion was a fraud and that there's absolutely no connection with September 11th other than what the Bush Administration pulled heroically from it's collective back orifice.

Yeah, I'm slightly miffed. I see a lot of volunteers doing things at no cost, helping coordinate out of a sense of duty to their fellow human beings. And while I slam the Bush Administration (which is really easy to do), the American People have stood tall despite the Bush Administration, showing that they have more heart in each person than perhaps the entire U.S. President's staff allude to on Valentine's Day (coming soon).

After all of this is done, a few politicians and 'world leaders' will maybe give out a few pieces of paper conferring hono(u)rs upon these volunteers, and that really doesn't mean anything if these world leaders don't help now - really help. It's just another P.R. 'social networking' whizbang for career gain.

What matters - what always matters - are not these wackos who are running things, but the people on the ground. The person who shares water with someone thirsty, the person who breaks a sandwich in half so that another person won't be as hungry. That's the human spirit we should be celebrating, and it's a sad thing because it's not the human spirit that people choose to represent them.