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June 19, 2008 at 11:09:28

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Harkin: "It is a Huge Disaster--We Can't Wait"

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Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) addressed his constituents on Tuesday via video from the Senate Chambers. Harkin expressed the immediacy of the need for aid for Iowa, describing people "who are really hurting," and who have lost cars, homes, businesses and livelihoods.

Harkin encouraged Iowans affected by the disaster to seek help in putting food on their tables while the flood waters recede. The Disaster Food Assistance Program is funded through the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). Harkin is Chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee and a senior appropriator on the Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittee, which funds USDA programs.

Georgianne Nienaber is a writer, author, and investigative journalist. She lives in the world. Her articles have appeared in The Huffington Post, SCOOP New Zealand, Glide Magazine, Rwanda's New Times, India's TerraGreen, COA News, ZNET, OpEdNews, The Journal of the International Primate Protection League, Friends of the Congo, Africa Front, The United Nations Publication, A Civil Society Observer, and Zimbabwe's The Daily Mirror. Her fiction exposé of insurance fraud in the horse industry, Horse Sense, was re-released in early 2006. Gorilla Dreams: The Legacy of Dian Fossey was also released in 2006. Nienaber spent much of 2007 doing research in South Africa, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo. She was in DRC as a MONUC-accredited journalist, and recently spent six weeks in Southern Louisiana investigating hurricane reconstruction. She is currently developing a documentary on the Gulf of Mexico DEAD ZONE.

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Ed Martin is an unindicted curmudgeon. He is not a Democrat, Republican, conservative, liberal, deist, atheist, or a member of any -ism.
Ed MartinEd Martin is an unindicted curmudgeon. He is not a Democrat, Republican, conservative, liberal, deist, atheist, or a member of any -ism.

Harkin's right about something else, too

Senator Harkin's statement, "It's a huge disaster, we can't wait," applies equally as well to another disaster, the Bush administration. From just reading the headline, I honestly thought that was what it was about.

by Ed Martin (120 articles, 0 quicklinks, 33 diaries, 140 comments) on Thursday, June 19, 2008 at 1:29:17 PM

Georgianne Nienaber is a writer, author, and investigative journalist. She lives in the world. Her articles have appeared in The Huffington Post, SCOOP New Zealand, Glide Magazine, Rwanda's New Times, India's TerraGreen, COA News, ZNET, OpEdNews, The Journal of the International Primate Protection League, Friends of the Congo, Africa Front, The United Nations Publication, A Civil Society Observer, and Zimbabwe's The Daily Mirror. Her fiction exposé of insurance fraud in the horse industry, Horse...

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Georgianne NienaberGeorgianne Nienaber is a writer, author, and investigative journalist. She lives in the world. Her articles have appeared in The Huffington Post, SCOOP New Zealand, Glide Magazine, Rwanda's New Times, India's TerraGreen, COA News, ZNET, OpEdNews, The Journal of the International Primate Protection League, Friends of the Congo, Africa Front, The United Nations Publication, A Civil Society Observer, and Zimbabwe's The Daily Mirror. Her fiction exposé of insurance fraud in the horse industry, Horse...

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Waiting for Godot

And the wait is not yet over

by Georgianne Nienaber (145 articles, 46 quicklinks, 13 diaries, 337 comments) on Thursday, June 19, 2008 at 1:34:27 PM

Waiting, trying and failing

Beckett said,

I try. I fail. I fail better.

Beckett didn't know George Bush, but he couldn't have described him better.

Harkin saying that we can't wait is the point made in Waiting for Godot. Godot never came. We've been passively waiting for going on eight years when we shouldn't have been. Godot will not come this time, either.

by Ed Martin (120 articles, 0 quicklinks, 33 diaries, 140 comments) on Friday, June 20, 2008 at 3:06:25 PM