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Donations at $500 Million, and Climbing
LA Times ^ | 9/7/05 | By Sharon Bernstein and Amanda Covarrubias, Times Staff Writers

Posted on 09/06/2005 11:51:05 PM PDT by BurbankKarl

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1 posted on 09/06/2005 11:51:05 PM PDT by BurbankKarl
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A testament not only to American generosity, but evidence that the Bush recovery is a reality.

Bravo to all who contributed! I hope and pray it will all go to where it can do the most good.

2 posted on 09/06/2005 11:54:19 PM PDT by Prime Choice (E=mc^3. Don't drink and derive.)
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for the new orleans residents)orleans parish), that is about a million bucks a piece. good job.


3 posted on 09/06/2005 11:58:14 PM PDT by rineaux (hardcore)
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now can they donate some wisdom too?


5 posted on 09/06/2005 11:59:30 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (No wonder the Southern Baptist Church threw Greer out: Only one god per church! [Ann Coulter])
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yeehaw, they are gonna want it to flood every year. wouldn't you if you could make a cool million out of it?


6 posted on 09/07/2005 12:00:23 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (No wonder the Southern Baptist Church threw Greer out: Only one god per church! [Ann Coulter])
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To: BurbankKarl

Makes sense to me. We've seen what has been done and we see what needs doing.


7 posted on 09/07/2005 12:02:44 AM PDT by McGavin999 (Global Dumbing far more serious threat than Global Warming)
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Very good news.

Have you seen a list of the Countries that have donated and the amounts donated ? I have looked but can not find one.

8 posted on 09/07/2005 12:02:52 AM PDT by Irish Eyes
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well, I was trying to be nice, but I was thinking the same thing.


9 posted on 09/07/2005 12:03:16 AM PDT by rineaux (hardcore)
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now can they donate some wisdom too?

Wisdom is usually what you get right after you needed it.   ;o)

12 posted on 09/07/2005 12:12:59 AM PDT by Prime Choice (E=mc^3. Don't drink and derive.)
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I can't believe all this money has been donated, I have been told repeatedly over the last few days from the msm, that America is racist.


13 posted on 09/07/2005 12:13:20 AM PDT by Bostton1 (Ted Kennedy's car has killed more people than my guns have!)
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I saw on the news that some Craigslist post turned into 17 tractor trailers worth of diapers, food, detergents, water, and other goods leaving Van Nuys, CA tomorrow morning.

Head to http://kcbs.dayport.com/launcher/8210/?tf=KCALvideo_player.tpl to check it out.

the story was updated tonight .....


14 posted on 09/07/2005 12:15:14 AM PDT by BurbankKarl (u)
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....SELF RESPONSIBILIITY....


words that scare Jesse, Jesse Jr, Sharpton, Hillary and the rest of the dunces that are trying to spin this into a race issues.

Every color died in that storm. Most people lost their homes and businesses. Their lives never to be the same.

To have these so called leaders reduce it to race is an excuse to divert attention to their own failures.

Im sick too. Many of my friends and family are without homes tonight and no one says anything about them.


15 posted on 09/07/2005 12:16:17 AM PDT by rineaux (hardcore)
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To: Prime Choice

now can they donate some wisdom too

can you cash it in at stores for booze, cigs, or bread? Only way they will take it.


16 posted on 09/07/2005 12:18:08 AM PDT by rineaux (hardcore)
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There is going to be updated numbers released today on this...

Help pours in for US from all over the world

India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh are among the fifty countries around the globe that have offered to the United States money and other relief assistance to help deal with the devastation left behind by hurricane Katrina in several southern states.

Tthe oil-rich nation of Kuwait said it will donate 500 million dollars in oil products and other humanitarian aid. Another Gulf Arab state, Qatar, has offered 100-million dollars in assistance.

Sri Lanka, still recovering from a massive tsunami that struck in December 2004, has urged Sri Lanka-born physicians now living in the United States to volunteer to treat hurricane victims.

Bangladesh, a country that has suffered repeated hits from devastating cyclones, has announced it plans to donate one-million dollars. Meanwhile, the European Union says US officials have requested supplies such as blankets, first aid kits, water trucks and food.

More than 50 nations have offered humanitarian aid since Katrina struck the US Gulf of Mexico coast last Monday.

Meanwhile, the United States has expressed its readiness to receive aid, with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice saying that ''no offer than can help alleviate the suffering of the people in the afflicted areas will be refused.''

In a statement she said the US expresses its ''heartfelt thanks'' for the ''warm and passionate'' response from the international community and its offers to help the victims of hurricane Katrina.

UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has said that the United Nations is offering all the assistance it can provide to help the American people recover from the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina.

''The American people -- who have always been the most generous in responding to disasters in other parts of the world -- have now themselves suffered a grievous blow,'' Dr Annan said adding ''I know that I speak for the whole world in offering them my heartfelt sympathy, and any assistance that the United Nations can give.''


18 posted on 09/07/2005 12:23:01 AM PDT by BurbankKarl (u)
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How can they call us racist when we have given so much and so quickly? I gave more this time than I did during 9-11. Granted, I had more to give, but still...

It's way late and I'm way tired and way sick of reading that I am a racist all day. I guess that makes me sick and tired lately.


19 posted on 09/07/2005 1:43:31 AM PDT by publana
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experience is the best teacher
but here's what makes me burn
it's always teaching me the things
i do not care to learn


20 posted on 09/07/2005 1:46:48 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (No wonder the Southern Baptist Church threw Greer out: Only one god per church! [Ann Coulter])
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