Some are more equal than others

Has Katerina blown away USA's rags of decency and left her naked and exposed? In my native tongue there is a great word for it "varaheli"...which means shreds of dirty rags.

The scenes in New Orleans certainly don't look American. And from where I watched the people there felt the same way - they felt they weren't been treated fairly as citizens. I am mystified how a nation that spends billions of dollars on nuclear and space programs has such a scar within it.

USA should clean up its own racism, poverty and misery before it talks shop about other people in other parts of the world. Eye, speck, plank etc for those of us who know our Sermon on the Mount.
Much though I am fascinated about space exploration I cannot ever get my head around the fact that a country's first responsibility is its own people on its own shores - not imaginary microbes on far out planets it cannot reach. And for that matter how ethical is it for them to clean up other people's misdeeds by burning billions of dollars in explosives while ignoring their homegrown poverty? Let's not go into the billions spent on nuclear programs.

A friend of mine was in SanFran recently. And he said that what was shocking was the level of homeless people in the midst of all the riches and skyscraper world. He said it somehow was more obscene to see poverty in the midst of wealth, than poverty in overall poor nations.

There is a worm in the heart of the apple, or in Hamlet's words "there is something rotten in Denmark".