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Posted on 08/24/2005 9:50:25 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog
New verse:
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They discovered Vitamins D & E in 1921
'Cause it is? ;-)
Not helping, am I?
Do you have a website with interesting trivia that yer pulling this from?
(I minored in U.S. History but only remember trivia...*sigh*)
I feel sick...
http://www.nola.com/weblogs/nola/
If I find out who was responsible for deciding the software engineering group meeting should be from 3 to 5 on Fridays, I will have snarky things to say. Grr.
Yeah, it's disgusting, but apparently the battle-hardened guys are onthe way in, and they're not going to put up with that crap!
CRASH!
I glanced at that page even a few days ago and couldn't take it. It's just makes one feel too horribly helpless.
You know, I'll admit, I'm one of those people who tends to watch trainwreck type threads on FR, and to an extent that sort of news, too. But when you're dealing with lives, that's another thing entirely. And there are so *many* lives at stake here.
In a lot of ways, this has been tougher than 9/11. Not to diminish that in any way...but at least then, we had people who we could honestly be angry with. This situation is just too complex for that, though there's a lot of blame to go around. And the actual true cause - Katrina - well...you can be angry that a storm happened, but it isn't an entity you can deal with. It's gone. It's passed. We can't hunt it down and get back at it.
But it's truly hard to know that the people who were killed by the storm itself may have been luckier than many left behind. Who knows just how many little pockets of people are trapped on upper floors or in attics, slowly succombing to dehydration or worse? I've been praying for them...it's all I can do...but it doesn't feel like enough.
It's very easy to be angry with those who are doing the rescue work because there are people who aren't being reached; but the sad truth is that no matter how hard they work, no matter how organized they are, no matter how *good* they are...there are perhaps thousands who will slip through the cracks.
I just want to do something!
I guess I could donate blood...it's time and it's really all I've got to offer...
Well, unlike 9/11 when there were no people who needed it, there will be plenty of people who need it this time.
None of us can do anything big right now, and that's the hardest thing of all. But prayer and donating blood are good ideas. You're a good person, 2J!
I think one thing that Catholic Charities could do is arrange places for these people to move to. There are a lot of Parishes that could take in families and get them on their feet again. Our Parish has a house on the Parish grounds that could be used by a family of three or four kids! I'm going to e-mail the head of the Social Justice Committee to suggest it.
This is true.
We waited to donate for 9/11...blood only lasts so long and EVERYONE was giving...there would be a gap in what was available and when donors could donate again...so we waited a few weeks to fill in that gap.
I'll probably wait until 9/11 to donate...it's my tradition (along with the fire station goodies). I'll have Steve donate right away.
Hedgecock interviewed a gentleman from the AR Baptist State Convention about their activities thus far. I was impressed. My household will be supporting Catholic Relief Services. There's lots of ways to help!
Um, blame it all on Canada?
Works for me.
She appears pretty harmless.
Except that now I've got that song hopelessly stuck in my head.
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