Posted on 09/10/2005 2:57:07 AM PDT by M. Espinola
(I hadn't realized that Mississippi's death toll had reach that high)
Add Iowa to the list. We were prepared for 5000. We got 20.
http://www.dmregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050910/NEWS08/509100321/1001&lead=1
Nowhere is there any mention of churches. I'll bet most of the effective relief effort has been extended by churces of various sorts.
Iowa has been added and thank you Granny :)
The "EVIL!!!!!!" Mega-churches, like the Potter's House in Dallas, Lakewood in Houston, and the infamous Saddleback Church in CA, are using the prosperity gospel quite effectively.
Sure don't see the bashers around lately, heehee. Walmart, too, has come up with $35 MIL in a blink of an eye--and...and some of the material goods will be made in China that wallyworld donates. Surely the evacuees will not accept anything made in China /s.
kb2614 ~ I have to admit I've not watched much coverage on TV ~ I cannot bear to listen to those self-serving, hate-peddling, fear-monging lying jerks! They have gone so far beyond simply being biased they have crossed over into being absolutely seditious and I can no longer stomach listening to them.
Many who are far removed from the affected area share your concern.
I sit up here wondering if Louisiana would be so generous to Texans.
We were told that the hospital systems here(upstate SC) were taking in some 1000-2000 patients. I would assume this is seperate from any other evacuees.
Some examples:
Houston mayor may be having 'Giuliani moment'
Northeast Mississippi Churches reach out to aid storm victims
Bahamas Local Salvation Army sets up Katrina Disaster Relief Fund Jewish groups rally to help Katrina victims
$273-Million Given by Major Donors for Hurricane Relief
NY County gears up to find shelter for refugees from Katrina's fury
Thus far Mississippi is reporting the most hurricane related deaths. So many lived on beach front property there. Let's hope the toll does not reach much higher.
Several of the larger churches in our city have converted their gyms into shelters so you know this is most probably going on all over the country. My mom's church in NE Louisiana is also feeding and housing some evacuees.
I'll bet most of the effective relief effort has been extended by churces of various sorts.
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If I was a betting person, I'd put some cash on that bet.
A friend of ours, who is a missionary, said that he had seen the RC take credit for what the church was doing even to the point of taking a picture of the tent used by the church to distribute needed items to leave the impression that it was part of their effort. This is not to say that good isn't done by the RC, but the faith based groups hit the ground running because they aren't hindered by red tape.
Church groups, with rare exceptions, don't toot their own horns to garner praise. They want the glory to go to the Lord. The things they are doing in this relief effort are just a magnification of what they do all of the time to help those in need.
Just WHERE have all the savages gone that created all of the despicable chaos, looting, shooting, raping, and murdering down in NO after the hurricane hit?
I hope none of those animals are in the shelter just up the road from where I live, and where my daughter gets group tennis lessons, and my wife goes to run and play tennis with her friends.
It's not the refugees skin color that bothers me, it is the CULTURE that incited the violent ACTIONS that were perpetrated in BROAD DAYLIGHT and in FRONT OF LIVE TV CAMERAS, by a not too insignificant number of "people" down in NO.
These violent actions result from a welfare/nanny-state "plantation" atmosphere created by democrat politicians over YEARS to help them maintain power, AND from a gangster culture that glorifies violence and instant-gratification (even at the expense, or very LIVES, of others, including, and especially, fellow blacks living in the same culture), and that looks down on achievement and education.
It also results from a culture that would rather look back to certain inequities, and continue to blame others for failure, rather than to look forward and take personal responsibility for whatever happens, success or failure.
As I said, it's not about race, but it IS about a culture of violence.
I agree totally, we are already seeing negative effects, arrests for sexual assault. (not unsubstantiated rumor)
I have to admit I've not watched much coverage on TV ~ I cannot bear to listen to those self-serving, hate-peddling, fear-monging lying jerks! They have gone so far beyond simply being biased they have crossed over into being absolutely seditious and I can no longer stomach listening to them.
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Nor do I...have to mind my blood pressure...can't abide their attitudes, and the obvious, leftist agenda driven slant of their stories. Thank goodness for the "alternative" news sources!
Saw an interesting interview with the mayor of Virginia Beach VA. She said that they did not allow anyone to build right on the coast line, if they build on the beach it was way inland. That was the best idea I heard, she also mentioned all of the evacuation plans and shelters were already in place. I know that if a cat5 hits no matter how far inland you may be you will be hit, but at least if it is a cat3 or less for most part it will be wind damage.
In addition for those that know with a certainty that their coastline or in the case of N.O. are below sea level , or on a faultline, or areas like Laguna Beach and mud slides, if you know the risks and you still build and rebuild taxpayers should not be made to pay again and again.
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