a call for help
Sep. 17th, 2008 12:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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cmpriest is talking about the situation in Texas. Having survived the storm itself, the aftermath is doing even more damage.
Via CNN: The Houston Food Bank is “utterly overwhelmed with people asking for help,” its president, Brian Greene, said Tuesday. The food bank needs 500,000 pounds of food a day for the next six weeks to satisfy the “staggering” needs of Texans who have no food or water after the storm, he said.
“People don’t grasp just how many people live here,” said Greene, who was executive director of New Orleans’ Food Bank when Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast in 2005. He lost his home in Katrina, and lived at the New Orleans food bank for weeks using a garden hose as a shower. Most of the Houston food bank’s volunteers’ homes were damaged and they don’t have power.
“It’s a very similar situation that I saw following Katrina: when the caregivers themselves [are] victims, it just becomes difficult on a far larger scale than you would think,” he said.
She has a list o' links where you can help out, including food banks, and the local ASPCA. What, you were going to invest that $10 in the stock market? Put it to a better use.
meanwhile, from MSNBC: "Alaska's investigation into whether Gov. Sarah Palin abused her power, a potentially damaging distraction for John McCain's presidential campaign, ran into intensified resistance Tuesday when the attorney general said state employees would refuse to honor subpoenas in the case."
Because being a Republican, apparently, means you don't have to answer to the law. Cheeney did it, Palin's doing it...
Does that mean Republican=Anarchist? It would certainly explain the "fkcu you" attitude they seem to be cultivating...
cmpriest is talking about the situation in Texas. Having survived the storm itself, the aftermath is doing even more damage.Via CNN: The Houston Food Bank is “utterly overwhelmed with people asking for help,” its president, Brian Greene, said Tuesday. The food bank needs 500,000 pounds of food a day for the next six weeks to satisfy the “staggering” needs of Texans who have no food or water after the storm, he said.
“People don’t grasp just how many people live here,” said Greene, who was executive director of New Orleans’ Food Bank when Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast in 2005. He lost his home in Katrina, and lived at the New Orleans food bank for weeks using a garden hose as a shower. Most of the Houston food bank’s volunteers’ homes were damaged and they don’t have power.
“It’s a very similar situation that I saw following Katrina: when the caregivers themselves [are] victims, it just becomes difficult on a far larger scale than you would think,” he said.
She has a list o' links where you can help out, including food banks, and the local ASPCA. What, you were going to invest that $10 in the stock market? Put it to a better use.
meanwhile, from MSNBC: "Alaska's investigation into whether Gov. Sarah Palin abused her power, a potentially damaging distraction for John McCain's presidential campaign, ran into intensified resistance Tuesday when the attorney general said state employees would refuse to honor subpoenas in the case."
Because being a Republican, apparently, means you don't have to answer to the law. Cheeney did it, Palin's doing it...
Does that mean Republican=Anarchist? It would certainly explain the "fkcu you" attitude they seem to be cultivating...
