The best and worst we have to offer

Posted on September 9, 2005
Filed Under Geeeek Stuff

If you ever want to see the best and worst come out in people, just wait until there is a major disaster in our country. Then, in the weeks that follow you will see the absolute best and absolute worst our country has to offer.

Like everybody else, I’ve been following what’s been going on in New Orleans in the wake of hurricane Katrina. Reading CNN.com and watching the video clips they offer is where I get most of my news. Of course, you are always going to get the big name celebs who immediately offer monitary help, which is awesome. Then, you get stories of local heros who risked their own lives to help out their neighbors. I even read about some college kids who didn’t think the releif efforts were good enough so they drove several hundred miles to pitch in. I loved hearing about the woman who owns katrina.com switched her site to a helpful resource for getting information about the hurricane and it’s survivors. These stories are touching and can sometimes make you temporarily forget that there is another side…

I don’t even know why I was surprised by it… but I was. This morning, while checking cnn.com I saw a link that says "Fake aid Web sites tout Katrina aid". So basically, some guys put up a site that ask for donations that they say are to help the victims but instead it’s just a scam to steal money and probably much more (identity theft, etc..) Again I say, I don’t know why this suprised me… Perhaps I put too much faith in thinking that deep down, when push comes to shove, everybody would lend a hand when it was needed.

Pretty naive, I guess.

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