[Vision2020] Immediate Aid to New Orleans

[Carl Westberg]

Holy mackarel, Joan.  You dare mention Michael Moore and Cindy Sheehan in 
the same posting?  You are shameless.  The two people most representing evil 
incarnate, and most likely to invoke outrage among our conservative brothers 
and sisters?  You are brave.  By the way, I've been trying to think of 
something that can bring all of in Moscow together, if only briefly.  From 
last Saturday, I give you this score:  Georgia 48 - Boise State 13.  If that 
doesn't warm your Moscow heart, you don't have one.                          
                                                                             
                                                                             
                                                                             
                        Carl Westberg Jr.


>From: Joan Opyr <joanopyr at earthlink.net>
>To: Vision2020 Moscow <vision2020 at moscow.com>
>Subject: [Vision2020] Immediate Aid to New Orleans
>Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2005 13:29:36 -0700
>
>"War Room" is written by Tim Grieve and published on Salon.com.  I'm 
>forwarding this without permission.  Also, at the risk of being shouted off 
>2020, Michael Moore (www.michaelmoore.com) has an email up today about how 
>to get supplies to New Orleans immediately.  Forget FEMA.  Cindy Sheehan -- 
>remember her? -- has moved Camp Casey from Crawford, Texas to the edge of 
>Lake Pontchartrain in Louisiana.  From there, she and her volunteers are 
>distributing aid directly to the victims of Hurricane Katrina.  Moore has 
>an address on his website for sending supplies to a local food 
>bank/volunteer aid organization, where Sheehan and her crew pick them up 
>for distribution.  You can also donate money to Volunteers for Peace via 
>PayPal, and they'll use it to buy supplies from whatever regional stores 
>are still standing.
>
>What's needed?  Bottled water.  Pedialyte.  Diapers.  Canned vegetables.  
>School supplies.
>
>Joan Opyr/Auntie Establishment
>www.auntie-establishment.com
>
>From Salon:
>
>The "blame game"? You can play along at home
>
>While insisting that now is no time for playing the "blame game," the 
>president's supporters are busy blaming state and local officials for the 
>inadequate response to Hurricane Katrina. They've claimed that Louisiana 
>Gov. Kathleen Blanco didn't declare a state of emergency. She did, on Aug. 
>26, when the president was still on vacation. And they've claimed that 
>Blanco was slow to ask for federal help. In fact, Blanco wrote a letter to 
>the president on Aug. 28 in which she said that an "effective response" to 
>Katrina's destruction would be "beyond the capabilities of the state and 
>affected local governments" and requested federal help to "save lives" and 
>"protect property."
>
>  The president was on vacation then, too.
>
>  But FEMA Director Michael Brown wasn't, and he got right to work. More or 
>less. Internal FEMA documents show that Brown waited five hours after 
>Katrina struck land on Aug. 29 before he asked Homeland Security Secretary 
>Michael Chertoff to send 1,000 department employees to the Gulf Coast. And 
>even then, he suggested that Homeland Security employees should have a 
>couple of days to get themselves in place.
>
>  Once in place, the Homeland Security employees would, among other things, 
>"convey a positive image" of the government's response to the hurricane, 
>Brown told Chertoff.
>
>  -- T.G.
>
>Permalink [09:54 EDT, September 07, 2005]


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