The Opinionated Bastard

So the Opinionated Wife last week went and helped the National Guard collect stuff for Katrina relief. It was organized by Becky Dagget, who is famous in Flagstaff for her organizing Proposition 100. Proposition 100 was basically the “no WalMart Supercenter in Flagstaff” proposition. She hates WalMart with a passion.

However, the most generous business in town for Hurricane relief was WalMart.

At one point, Becky was talking to them, and they asked her to coordinate with someone at the corporate office, and she assumed that they wanted positive publicity. She told them that she would try, but that wasn't her main priority to get positive publicity for WalMart. They laughed and said that they didn't care about that, but that they had better sources of information then she did, so they could make sure supplies got to where they were best needed.

In fact, the local WalMart donated mostly diapers and such because based on where the local National Guard was going, that's what was most needed.

Meanwhile, one of the women working with my wife asked one of the National Guard guys if he would rather be in New Orleans or Iraq. He said Iraq, because if you shot an Iraqi by accident you could probably talk your way out of it, but if you shot an American citizen, that would follow you around for life.

I don't know what any of that means (I'm sure ernie will have a few choice comments) but I thought I'd pass that along.