Women of the Storm--easily blown away

By now, most people have probably heard that the Women of the Storm, a group of 129 women from New Orleans, went to Washington, DC Monday to urge members of Congress to visit the areas destroyed by Katrina. One of them, Cecile Tebo, a licensed clinical social worker, says in an editorial in today's Times-Picayune:

Like many of the women on the trip, before Katrina, I lived a very Ozzie and Harriet lifestyle. We worked and raised our families with little interest in politics or the goings-on of the federal government.

According to reports, all 129 of the women who went to Washington are supposedly leaders of some type--in their careers, in community groups, etc. If what Tebo says is true--that most of them lived with no interest in the goings-on of the federal government, that is frightening indeed. This means that they have been paying no attention while their Ozzie and Harriet children are being poisoned by pollutors, their country is being turned into a prime target for terrorists, their teenagers are being taught that girls should be submissive and that condoms are not effective in preventing pregnancy, their veteran parents are getting their benefits slashed, their neighbors are being spied on, and their sons and daughters are being killed in a fake war.

Perhaps they left the deep thinking to Ozzie.