For Obvious Reasons...
...I am postponing the Suburban Tribe Pledge drive. You don't need to be sending money to me when there are 18 month old babies who are dying of dehydration in Louisiana.
Click here to donate to the American Red Cross. No amount is too small.
And you can count me among the growing number of people who are getting angry that there is an entire American city that has not received sufficient aid five days after it was leveled.
Amazing.
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As selfish as this might sound...I'm not even just angry on the behalf of the citizens of New Orleans. This is going to wreak havoc on the job economies of all the cities that refugees are running to, or being taken to. One of them happens to be mine. I'm having trouble finding a job myself...how many more people who already live here are going to be remaining unemployed, and how many refugees are going to be jobless and starving, just because the federal government has yet to even start talking about monetary compensation to those who have just lost their jobs and homes? For God's sake, give them a stipend!
I heard today that some hotels are opening their doors to refugees...at a *discounted* rate. That makes me sick. Do it for free, disaster profiteers.
Somebody wrote yesterday that, for the Bush Administration, the greater danger is that if the federal government were to provie foot, water, medical care and shelter for the displaced and the dying, then someone, somewhere, might somehow get something that he or she didn't deserve. And we can't have that. Especially if the people involved are black.
That's a pretty bitter pill when dead bodies are floating in raw sewage in the Superdome.
I wish I'd stayed in Scandinavia.
What angers me is that no one... NO ONE... has established Priority Number 1 as "Drop water by helicopter to all stranded people" after they've been without it for 6 days now.
And we are the richest country on Earth. Every U.S. citizen should be disturbed by this.
On a lighter note, here is the link to a picture of the Irish Rover in Copenhagen, as promised:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rasselas/38875980/in/set-860423/
Check out this article. Duh.
On the subject of doantions, Lucid, it does not matter if you - or anyone - donates 5 cents or 5,000 dollars. The Red Cross is genuinely grateful for whatever anyone gives, and they will put it to good use.
I am sure that once many of the survivors are relocated, charities will ask for tolietries and home/canned food items as donations as well. Your local church/synagogue will likely organize a drive for these items when the time comes.
Thanks for that pic, Rasselas! We head in to the Irish Rover a couple of time a month and I'm sure the owner would love to put this on his wall!
You're welcome, John. Some of the other pictures in that set, especially of the volcanic highlands in southern Iceland, are pretty good, too, I think, so feel free to check those out.
Bill the Cat! Rock on!
Who's bill the cat ?
Sweet Jesus, please tell me I'm not that old...
Bill The Cat
I've heard of bloom county, but never actually read it, and so my life is a little larger. I don't think it's ever really been published in australia. Never came across it.
As for your age, that's between you and your wife !
Actually, I'm the older one!
If you choose to be disgusted you should be much more disgusted at FEMA's response to Hurricane Hugo in florida years ago. Took them nearly month I believe to get into the area, and that was under the reign of our "first black president" Billy Boy. Anyone who is holding Bush to blame (who I far from a great president) is totally ignorant to the law. The federal government cannot provide aide to any state unless they request it, and the Gov. of Lousianna in her great pride refused it. Blame the poor response on the ignorance of the state and local officials of the state. As to the rioting and looting, thats what happens when you build a welfare state.
Me again,
I'm watching the Relief Concert is that a all over the major music television stations and happen to notice something. MTV, VH1 and CMT are all running the concert, BET is not. Now there could be more to this than I am making out to be (contracts, station ownership, etc.), but maybe those who are accusing many of racism should take a better look at themselves.
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