Sunday, April 13, 2008

What is wrong with this picture?

In Delaware a license plate sold to a collector for $165,000. In Haiti, little children are eating dirt cookies for which their parents pay 5 cents each. The dirt to make 500 cookies costs the Haiti baker $5.

Why are the children eating dirt? Because food prices have sored over 50% in the last year. Why? Partly due to natural causes creating food shortages, but also due to soaring fuel costs which results in soaring costs of producing and transporting food, and also partly due to developed countries diverting food crops to burn as fuel in their vehicles.

In Haiti and most of the poorest nations, people in poverty spend 75% of their income to buy food.

We boast that we are the greatest nation on earth. It is evil, when children eat dirt and we live the way we do.

A kids tail



The kids stayed the night last night. Emmy had found a pet baby rabbit, just a few days old. She wanted to keep it so she had it in a small box. Last night, as we all slept, the baby jumped out of his box and is now hiding somewhere in my house. I had hoped he had expired during the night and had been disposed of by Grandpa, but that is not the case. The girl is crying and the rabbit is hiding. We have searched high and low for the baby, mostly low, but no luck. I think next week my nose will tell me where the rabbit is.

I think I will call the girl's Daddy and tell him to come look for the rabbit. He said we had to keep the rabbit because the girl would not understand anything else and would cry. It is his fault.