Nothing like a little righteous anger to wake you up.

[dvandom]

Got home. Tail dragging. Just staying awake long enough to make a quick snack so hunger doesn't keep me from sleeping.

Then I hear a tape of an interview on Headline News. Soledad O'Brien talking to a FEMA guy. Trying to get some answers out of him about why it took FEMA so long to, well, do ANYTHING. It took her three or four tries to break through his steamroller script delivery, and when he finally DID answer the question, he laid the blame squarely on Louisiana. "We depend on the states for information." In other words, everyone at FEMA works in isolated cubicles with televisions and radios utterly forbidden, so no one could find out what everyone else already knew. And what the state officials in Louisiana probably didn't think they had to tell FEMA about, since it was ALL OVER EVERY NEWS CHANNEL.

So much for sleep. I'll try anyway, although now that Dubya's on TV I'm gonna have to turn it off....

Comments

[j-anderson123.livejournal.com]

People are gonna wanttheir personal limemights. Organizations will pass blame. Michael Moore is attention-hogging once again(a man who claims to want to help the people? I see no dime coming from him!) and Cindy Sheenan still continues her personal crusade for glory. Help is arriving late. They KNEW this hurricane was coming. They had every advance warning. You can't tell me they didn't expect massive damage, it's a HURR-I-CANE! Did they expect to be taken to Oz?

Bush will limelight, congressman are thanking each other. Judge Rehnquist died, so the media had to jump all over that because NO isn't news anymore.

And Kanye West had to mouth off. Geez, has Hollywood slapped an "idiot" requirement on becoming a celebrity? I hold little hope of celebs doing good here. For every one that gives from his own pocket, 10 more will do charity benefits that ensure no personal cash is sucked from their pockets. Besides, they're too busy worrying about the plight of the people in some small country no one's ever heard of. The US? So what if we buy their CDs and made them rich in the first place! I'm sure Bono couldn't care less about this. and even those celebs who do care... most won't give.

then Paypal locked up the funds that SomethignAwful.com collected. Almost $30,000. Locked and denied to the Red Cross because Paypal feels like it. Oh, they want the money to go to the United Way instead. Of course, Paypal is tied to the United Way, a shoddy "charity" at best.

[allotheist.livejournal.com]

Michael Moore is attention-hogging once again(a man who claims to want to help the people? I see no dime coming from him!)

If you're his accountant, you probably shouldn't be posting about his personal expenditures.

And if you're not, maybe you shouldn't assume someone hasn't donated to a cause because they haven't flogged under their own name.

[j-anderson123.livejournal.com]

Michael Moore isn't going to donate under an anonymous name. He wants the attention too much. Donating a million bucks would be all over his website. But the guy likes bragging about his wealth.

But he'll be one of many rich people who won't donate a penny. Though I suspect Robert Redford will send me another "Bush is satan, give me your money so I can pad my cause" envelopes like th eone I got earlier in the year, asking me to donate to a charity he likes(yet likely gave a pittance to. Celebs don't like giving up too much cash. It's why the rappers who sing about ghetto life leave when they get rich and never give to the ghetto).