One of the reasons for the Big Rock Candy Mountain entry was the sheer despair of the last few weeks news. A very big storm builds in the gulf of Mexico heading for the low lying New Orleans area. A stampede on a bridge in Baghdad and an anniversary for a community torn apart by violence in Beslam. The hurricane is Mother Nature at her most ferocious and she is striking an area which is part of the most powerful country in the world. What causes most of the damage and loss of life is the inability of the man made dams to stand up to the force. The disaster in the main is man made, the ability to avert it was there, the will was lacking, the victims were the poorest. The numbers remain uncounted, the grief still to be felt. The stampede on the bridge came about in a country which is on the edge of a bloody civil war, brought about by forces that have no right to be there. what we saw was the grief and the piles of sandals of the dead. The Beslam carnage, we witnessed the still raw grief etched on the faces of the people still living. One thing unites these tragedies, they are man made and made by men who do not care about their fellow men. Nice place we are creating.