Doing Our Part for Katrina Victims
Posted on August 31, 2005
Soldiers’ Angels Katrina Relief Fund for Soldiers’ Families
Soldiers’ Angels has also began an operation to assist soldiers’ families in Louisiana and Missippi who are currently deployed in Iraq or Afghanistan and cannot be home to help their families.
Soilders’ Angels Katrina Relief Fund for Soldiers’ Families
Another good charity is Mercy Corps
Michelle Malkin has all kinds of info on what you can do to help HERE
She say:
Many folks want to know how they can check out the legitimacy and effectiveness of charities before they donate. I use the Charity Navigator. If you have other suggestions, send them along.
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Jawa Report has a good summary of the global reaction to this catastrophy.
Indepundit is giving his tip jar money to the red cross.
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I offer my prayers. My family prays every night, and we did spend a good deal of time on the hurricane victims. We’ll keep it up.
Worst President Ever!
asleep on 9/11
war based on lies
vacationing during the worst storm in the last 100 years
How much more of this idiot can this country survive?
Impeach Now
Yes, the hurricane is all Bush’s fault.
This is what he most right wing conservative newspaper(they thought Mrs Thatcher when Prime Minister was a liberal!)in the UK is saying about New Orleans and President Bush - I hear your media (just like on Iraq) is not letting you know how the rest of the world sees it. I wont tell you what our Liberal media are saying - you would not like to hear it.
This is what happens when all the media is controlled by super rich very conservative people.
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The humbling of a superpower
By The Daily Mail - UK
09/02/05 “Daily Mail” — – Like some lurid scene from an apocalyptic disaster movie, a world famous city is overwhelmed by the awesome forces of nature.
Familiar landmarks lie half-submerged in a toxic swamp of polluted water. Thousands are feared dead. Images of desperate people smashing through the roofs of their homes to escape the floods fill our TV screens.
But this is no Hollywood blockbuster. This is New Orleans today.
The most exotic, un-American corner of the United States has fallen victim to a cataclysm that almost defies belief.
A city the size of Sheffield will soon be lying completely empty, its residents fled, evacuated, or drowned.
While Washington struggles to respond to the storm that has humbled the most powerful nation on the planet, we should perhaps reflect on how quickly the thin veneer of civilisation can be stripped away.
The city’s mayor has to order 1500 police officers to stop searching for survivors and instead combat looting&a police food lorry is ransacked while its crew is shot at by an armed gang&even a rescue helicopter comes under fire.
Meanwhile, four days after Hurricane Katrina, the federal Government is still struggling to come up with a viable rescue and recovery plan.
Perhaps we shouldn’t be so surprised. George Bush, so decisive when it came to launching an illegal war on Iraq, froze like a rabbit in the headlamps.
It was more than two days after Hurricane Katrina tore through New Orleans before he cut short his month long holiday - as overwhelmed state authorities struggled to cope.
Now back in Washington, the President finds his reckless adventure in Iraq coming back to haunt him.
The National Guard, the part-time soldiers whose prime role is to provide emergency services in natural disasters, have in large part been deployed overseas.
Five thousand members of the Louisiana National Guard who should be spearheading the rescue effort watch the disaster unfold from their HQ - Camp Liberty, west of Baghdad. Equipment that could have been so valuable in the rescue operations is parked in depots there.
The same is happening across all the neighbouring states, leaving Washington bereft of vital manpower as it grapples with the greatest homeland crisis in memory.
Here is a superpower that can crush at will a tinpot dictatorship - but then becomes so bogged down in the grisly aftermath of war that it finds itself unable to respond anything like adequately to the plight of tens of thousands of its own citizens engulfed by a natural calamity.
President Bush, his ratings already in free-fall, could pay a high price indeed for his military folly.
Bush Strafes New Orleans - Where is our Huey Long?
By Greg Palast
09/02/05 “ICH” — – The National Public Radio news anchor was so excited I thought she’d piss on herself: the President of the United had flown his plane down to 1700 feet to get a better look at the flood damage! And there was a photo of our Commander-in-Chief taken looking out the window. He looked very serious and concerned.
That was yesterday. Today he played golf. No kidding.
I’m sure the people of New Orleans would have liked to show their appreciation for the official Presidential photo-strafing, but their surface-to-air missiles were wet.
There is nothing new under the sun. In 1927, a Republican President had his photo taken as the Mississippi rolled over New Orleans. Calvin Coolidge, “a little fat man
with a notebook in his hand,” promised to rebuild the state. He didn’t. Instead, he left to play golf with Ken Lay or the Ken Lay railroad baron equivalent of his day.
In 1927, the Democratic Party had died and was awaiting burial. As depression approached, the coma-Dems, like Franklin Roosevelt, called for balancing the budget.
Then, as the waters rose, one politician finally said, roughly, “Screw this! They’re lying! The President’s lying! The rich fat cats that are drowning you will do it again and again and again. They lead you into imperialist wars for profit, they take away your schools and your hope and when you complain, they blame Blacks and Jews and immigrants. Then they push your kids under. I say, Kick’m in the ass and take your rightful share!”
Huey Long laid out a plan: a progressive income tax, real money for education, public works to rebuild Louisiana and America, an end to wars for empire, and an end to financial oligarchy. The waters receded, the anger did not, and Huey “Kingfish” Long was elected Governor of Louisiana in 1928.
At the time, Louisiana schools were free, but not the textbooks. Governor Long taxed Big Oil to pay for the books. Rockefeller’s oil companies refused pay the textbook tax, so Long ordered the National Guard to seize Standard Oil’s fields in the Delta.
Huey Long was called a “demagogue” and a “dictator.” Of course. Because it was Huey Long who established the concept that a government of the people must protect the people, school, house, and feed them and give every man or woman a job who needs one.
Government, he said, “We The People,” not plutocrats nor Halliburtons, must build bridges and levies to keep the waters from rising over our heads. All we had to do was share the nation’s wealth we created as a nation. But that meant facing down what he called the “concentrations of monopoly power” to finance the needs of the public.
In other words, Huey Long founded the modern Democratic Party. Franklin Roosevelt and the party establishment, scared senseless of Long’s ineluctable march to the White House, adopted his program, called it the New Deal, and later The New Frontier and the Great Society.
America and the party prospered.
America could use a Democratic Party again and there’s a rumor it’s alive — somewhere.
And now is the moment, as it was in ‘27. As the bodies float in the streets of New Orleans, now is not the time for the Democrats to shirk and slink away, bleating they can’t “politicize” this avoidable disaster.
Seventy-six years ago this week, Huey Long was shot down, assassinated at the age of 43. But the legacy of his combat remains, from Social Security to veterans’ mortgage loans.
There is no such thing as a “natural” disaster. Hurricanes happen, but death comes from official neglect, from tax cuts for the rich that cut the heart out of public protection. The corpses in the street are victims of a class war in which only one side has a general.
Where is our Huey Long? America needs just one Kingfish to stand up and say that our nation must rid itself of the scarecrow with the idiot chuckle, who has left America broken and in danger while he plays tinker-toy Napoleon on other continents.
I realize that the middle of rising flood is a hell of a bad time to give Democrats swimming lessons; but it’s act up now or we all go under.
A pedagogical note: As I travel around the USA, I’m just horrified at America’s stubborn historical amnesia. Americans, as Sam Cooke said, don’t know squat about history. We don’t learn the names of a nation’s capitol until the 82d Airborne lands there. And it doesn’t count if you’ve watched a Ken Burns documentary on PBS.
I suggest starting with this: read “Huey Long” by the late historian Harry T. Williams. If you want to ease into it, get the Randy Newman album based on it (Good Old Boys) with the song, “Louisiana 1927.” Listen to part of the song here. Do NOT watch the crappy right-wing agit-prop film, “Huey Long,” by Ken Burns.
Greg Palast is the author of the New York Times bestseller, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy. Subscribe to his commentaries or view his investigative reports for BBC Television at http://www.GregPalast.com.
I’m doing my part by making sure this country doesn’t elect another democrat again… not only do they screw up everything politically, but when disaster strikes the Democratic Governor and Democratic Mayor leave people to die while buses get flooded in parking lots.
Just think, Neil. if you were intelligent enough to have your own blog, you could put your own thoughts and all of this on it, instead of spamming your drivel on sites that are a hell of a lot better informed than you are because you’re not informed enough to defend your own opinion.
Amen to that, Do Your Party! I saw the picture of those buses….it’s astounding that people like RFK assert that Bush is responsible for the hurricane itself! That’s the most far out example of Bush Derangement Syndrome that I’ve ever heard of! bwahahahah! They all sound like little carbon copies of each other and the rhetoric keeps getting more and more outlandish.
That permanent and corrosive dissatisfaction with the world they live in is the main thing that defines people as Leftists. What an unhappy lot. And what’s more is, they clamor for big government to solve all their problems in life, and make it bigger still.
What happened to the local government in New Orleans? The Mayor? The governor? Why is it the federal government’s fault that those levies that the Army Corps of Engineers and others have been warning for decades needed repair–didn’t get it?
Although…there is one moonbat who claims that after 4 days there are people eating bodies. That one takes the cake.
It isn’t the federal government’s job to step in, this is local. This is state and local government’s issues. Just like problems with a highway or streets; it’s not the federal government that foots those bills, so c’mon. Louisiana has the Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness for this kind of thing. Face it: A crap plan, no follow-through but now we all have to play clean up. So many people with Bush Derangement Syndrome are ready to blame the Republicans. But what they really ought to do is take a good look at the state and local governments who wrote the plan, left the holes, and failed to do what the could to stop this from getting out of control.
Stop turning to the federal government as the answer to all your problems! Sheesh! Is this the result of years of ocial programs? People who are totally helpless and turn to government every time a disaster strikes?
I have to wonder what the families on America’s frontier would have done under circumstances such as these. Would the pilgrims or the settlers have called for government to bail them out of a mess like this?
Funny how, while still trying to recover from a natural disaster of nearly unimaginable scope, Democrats are already pushing for more taxes. Note that I didn’t say surprising, just funny.
Kit - hilarious!
/TJ
Neil, you are deranged. The democratic party -in case you haven’t noticed-is in such dire straits that they’ve lost just about everything. It’s not time for democrats to gain control; they’re yesterday’s Vietnam protesters who wore red headbands for Mao and carried Mao’s Little Red Book of Communism. These aren’t people we want in office–these are people we should rid ourselves of.
I’m more inclined to believe we need younger versions of Zell Miller who believe in the Corps Values…or the Reagan Democrats who believed in God, Family, Country. They’re still out there and they’ve jumped ship on the democratic party now that the socialists/communists are in control. Get rid of Nancy Pelosi, Bernie Saunders, Charles Rangel on all the other members of the House Progressive Caucus–and get back to the values this country was founded on.
These days–the only people in the democratic party who are speaking are draft dodgers and flip flopping liars like John Kerry. As long as they are running the show you guys are going to keep losing elections…unless, of course, you have the UN monitors counting the votes.
I don’t get it.
Why in the hell does everyone turn to government for everything? IT’S NOT GOVERNMENT’S RESPONSIBILTY TO FEED YOU. Government is not supposed to protect you from hurricanes! They don’t owe you a damn house. Is there anyone on this entire damn planet that actually takes responsibility for their own damn life? This is getting absolutely insane! RESPONSIBILITY. Has anyone besides me ever heard the word?
GOVERNMENT IS ME. I OWE YOU NOTHING.