YES AND AFTER SOME COMMENTS I WASN'T GOING TO POST until I had done some tinkering with the appearance of this blog which led to a long tutorial encompassing computer 101,editing Html and et cetera. I am almost there but the fury and the aftermath of the Greensburg tragedy has led me to belie that notion and pen these thoughts....

"Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius said Sunday evening that the state’s response will likely be hampered because much of the equipment usually positioned around the state to respond to emergencies — including tents, trucks and semitrailers — is now in Iraq."Not having the National Guard equipment, which used to be positioned in various parts of the state, to bring in immediately is really going to handicap this effort to rebuild," said Sebelius.Also Monday, Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius said the government’s response to the disaster was undermined by ongoing National Guard deployments to the Middle East."I don’t think there is any question if you are missing trucks, Humvees and helicopters that the response is going to be slower," Sebelius said. "The real victims here will be the residents of Greensburg, because the recovery will be at a slower pace."-MSNBC.Com

Of which has been a consistent theme in my ongoing communications with our Senators and Representatives in Washington. The shades of Katrina have come home to rest here on the plains, with Tornado season just starting and the Madrid fault line in Missouri ever-lurking in the background. It appears my fears were justified as the carnage in Iraq continues unabated, Bin Laden still sucking air,our troops in harm's way still under-equipped and no real end of the insanity in sight.

New Orleans lies in shambles still, its recovery a question mark as the hurricane season looms. I fear the fate of Greensburg will be the same,(if not terminal) for it is a common knowledge out here on the plains that the towns and hamlets that dot it surface are for the most part,just scraping by. These small agriculturally based communities have taken heavy economic and demographic hits as agriculture has less family orientated and more akin to big business. Every year there are less and less reasons for the young to stay and live subsidence lives as opposed to relocating to larger metropolitan areas.The recovery of Greensburg is in real jeopardy due to the above economic factors. I fear that the Iraq war and its 'trickle-down' effect with be the death knell for yet another tiny oasis on the plains.

There is hope and it lies with the communications possible via the web. I was the last of my family to 'go on-line' and even then it took years to realize the awesome power that lies within cyberspace (mostly within the last six months). People, we really need to turn up the heat on our elected Representatives and quell the tyrannical Administration in the White House. We must make it clear to those representing us that WE are the boss, not the GOP, not the pacs.And if they continue to blatantly ignore us, then they will lose their 100 day, 100,000k plus jobs.

Maybe we should look at revoking their pension plans as so many Americans have had done to them in the past ten years.That could pay for a lot of armour,humvees,and big trucks desperately needed across the nation...............