You'll want to click on this image to see it larger.  Somehow, I think this new North Park mural (still being finished today), says a lot about our culture.  I like it very much.  It's large... 10 to 12 feet tall and going at least forty-five to fifty feet along the whole side of a building.  

Like most of the country, I've been glued to the T.V. today watching the storm called Sandy bash the Eastern Seaboard.  Daughter Nancy lives in Rockville, Maryland, Gary and Maria are hunkered down in Ocean City, Maryland; Brother Jim and Bill live in New York, Bill back in Manhattan tonight and Jim out at South Hampton; dozens of friends are scattered all along several states from Alabama up to New England.  We're concerned about all of them.  I couldn't resist looking back on the Internet to find the report of a CNN debate of Republican wanna-Bs.  At one point Mitt Romney made a great point of saying one of the moneysaving moves he would make would be to defund FEMA and let the individual states take care of their own disasters.  Wonder what he's thinking about it today and tonight and tomorrow...

The Report at the time:

During a CNN debate at the height of the GOP primary, Mitt Romney was asked, in the context of the Joplin disaster and FEMA's cash crunch, whether the agency should be shuttered so that states can individually take over responsibility for disaster response.

"Absolutely," he said. "Every time you have an occasion to take something from the federal government and send it back to the states, that's the right direction. And if you can go even further, and send it back to the private sector, that's even better. Instead of thinking, in the federal budget, what we should cut, we should ask the opposite question, what should we keep?"

"Including disaster relief, though?" debate moderator John King asked Romney.

"We cannot -- we cannot afford to do those things without jeopardizing the future for our kids," Romney replied. "It is simply immoral, in my view, for us to continue to rack up larger and larger debts and pass them on to our kids, knowing full well that we'll all be dead and gone before it's paid off. It makes no sense at all."